What programming language should you learn?

Udacity created an infographic about different programming languages, showing their popularity over time, their applications, and the average salary one might expect from becoming proficient in one of the languages. Python often appears at the top of the different lists.

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A Neural Network Designs Magic: the Gathering Cards, and It's Hilarious

What happens when you feed the text of every Magic card ever made to a deep neural network and ask it to design its own cards? Part genius, part gibberish—and maybe a little poetry. But mostly, it just makes you laugh your ass off.

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Spice Girls

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WATCH: How Looney Tunes' Chuck Jones evolved as an artist

Each character moves based on that desire, and it's funny to us because we have had similar desires. The other key to Jones' brilliance is discipline, which became clearer over time: each character had a complex set of rules about what they could not or would not do.

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Philips Hue acts like Illumiroom, syncs lighting with Xbox One game

In 2012, Microsoft Research lifted the wraps off its experimental "Illumiroom" project, which promised to extend game and computer imagery far beyond the limits of a TV screen.

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Here's What We Just Learned About Pluto

At a NASA briefing this afternoon, Alan Stern, New Horizon’s principal investigator, answered questions from the media and the public on today’s historic flyby, discussing the team’s latest impressions of Pluto’s surface, how the data is being transmitted back to Earth, and much, much more

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Judge releases video of cops killing suspect despite PD objections

A suburban Los Angeles law enforcement agency fought two years to keep secret the dashcam video of Gardena Police Department officers shooting two suspects, one of whom was fatally wounded. The victims were mistakenly believed to have stolen a bicycle outside a drugstore on June 2, 2013.

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CERN’s Large Hadron Collider confirms newest particle: the pentaquark

If you want to see some funny nerd-runs over the next couple of days, go hang out at your local university’s physics department.

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Making a katana the old traditional Japanese way is so impressive

I think this is the most impressive video that Man At Arms has ever done, and that’s saying a lot since they’ve recreated all the coolest weapons from TV shows and movies in real life.

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Russia bringing back Cold War mini-subs, report says

Russia is reportedly bringing back a fleet of Cold War-era mini-submarines, a move that could ramp up tensions with the West. Moscow is set to bring back the Cold War-era Piranha-class midget subs as part of a $350 million military spending spree, according to the U.K.’s Daily Express.

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Frito Lay CEO mistakes twitter for google search

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Japan accepts America's robot deathmatch challenge

Updated: Suidobashi Heavy Industries has since accepted the challenge by the Megabots team with its own hilariously over the top video. "But my reaction? Come on guys, make it cooler" says SHI founder Kogoro Kurata, "just building something huge and sticking guns on it, it's.... super American.

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What happened when Colorado offered free birth control? Teen birthrate and abortions plummeted.

The state of Colorado has been conducting a massive experiment with birth control over the last 6 years. Teens and low-income women were offered free IUDs and implants that prevent pregnancy for years. Officials wondered if women would sign up for the family planning assistance if it were free.

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