Tech & Science & Business stories
Stories about tech & scientific endeavours, as well as business ones. People who have done stuff, whether they succeeded or not. Also, tech culture reflections.
Collection by Martina Pugliese
The New Yorker
Why Pi Matters
4 min · · Yes, Pi Day is again upon us. And not just any Pi Day. They’re calling this the Pi Day of the century: 3.14.15. Pi to five digits. · Shared by 76, including Joe Filcik, passingafternoon, Dominik Grolimund, Philippe Gauvin, Martina Pugliese, Bilal Aslam, ¯\_(ツ)_/¯🕶, Jacob Jarnvall, Chung, Eric L. Barnes 🏝️, kp, Liliane Ferrari ™, Trae Blain
Paul Graham
How to Make Wealth
20+ min · · May 2004 (This essay was originally published in Hackers & Painters.) If you wanted to get rich, how would you do it? I think your best bet would be to start or join a startup. That's been a reliable… · Shared by 63, including Nico Müller 🇺🇦, 0xTatooine, Joona Tuunanen 🇫🇮, David Perell, justin, Martina Pugliese, Zack Kanter
Aeon+Psyche
A fetish for falsification and observation holds back science
13+ min · · Demanding that a theory is falsifiable or observable, without any subtlety, will hold science back. We need madcap ideas · Shared by 62, including Alain, Ward Plunet, Digital Ideation, Martina Pugliese
Bloomberg Graphics
Why Making More Chips Is So Hard
· To continue, please click the box below to let us know you're not a robot. · Shared by 55, including Elena Neira, Martina Pugliese, Nathan Benaich, Phillip Murphy, Luca M. Sergio, Ha Duong, 🇺🇦Evan Kirstel #B2B #TechFluencer, Michael (मुकेश)
Nautilus Magazine
Does Theranos Mark the Peak of the Silicon Valley Bubble?
11+ min · · Silicon Valley has a term for startups that reach the $1 billion valuation mark: unicorns. The term is instructive. It suggests not… · Shared by 47, including Chris Schultz✌️ & ❤️, Thomas Power, Martina Pugliese, DHH, Dominik Grolimund, Glyn Britton
nature
Thousands of scientists publish a paper every five days
12+ min · · To highlight uncertain norms in authorship, John P. A. Ioannidis, Richard Klavans and Kevin W. Boyack identified the most prolific scientists of recent years. · Shared by 36, including APS Physics, Meghan Duffy, Martina Pugliese, Kevin Mitchell @WiringtheBrain@ mstdn .social
Nautilus Magazine
How Darknet Sellers Build Trust
8 min · · Trust used to be a very personal thing: You went on the recommendations of your friends or friends of friends. By finding ways to… · Shared by 29, including Rezha Julio, Paddy Zab, Martina Pugliese
medium.com
Quasi Experimentation at Netflix
4 min · · Colin McFarland, Michael Pow, Jeremy Glick · Shared by 18, including Dominik Grolimund, Martina Pugliese, Scott Brinker
Ars Technica
Scientific computing’s future: Can any coding language top a 1950s behemoth?
19+ min · · Cutting-edge research still universally involves Fortran; a trio of challengers wants in. · Shared by 16, including Martina Pugliese, Esther Schindler
The StartUp
Let your customers do the work
6 min · · How we built a (free) sales team from thousands of happy users. · Shared by 15, including Martina Pugliese
medium.com
Product Integration Testing at the Speed of Netflix
8 min · · it is imperative to have a vigilant and knowledgeable Integration Test team · Shared by 6, including Martina Pugliese
twitter.com
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· We’ve detected that JavaScript is disabled in this browser. Please enable JavaScript or switch to a supported browser to continue using twitter.com. You can see a list of supported browsers in our… · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
MIT Press
Data Science in Times of Pan(dem)ic
· What are the priorities for data science in tackling COVID-19, and in which ways can big data analysis inform and support responses to the outbreak? It is imperative for data scientists to spend time… · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
linkedin.com
(1) My 10 Biggest Mistakes As BrewDog's CEO
· Since Martin and I set up BrewDog in 2007 as 2 wide-eyed 24 year olds, it has been one hell of a ride. The business we set up in a garage now employs over 2,000 team members, has over 100 bars all over the planet, we are the most valuable independent beer brand on the planet and we are embarking on · Shared by 5, including Martina Pugliese
giovanniorgantini.wordpress.com
Il caso AstraZeneca
3 min · · Da qualche giorno è in corso un’isterica reazione alle “notizie” secondo le quali si sarebbero verificate alcune morti “sospette” dopo l’inoculazione del vaccino… · Shared by 4, including Martina Pugliese