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Make Python scripts smarter with regex: 5 practical RE examples

If you work with strings in your Python scripts and you're writing obscure logic to process them, then you need to look into ...

Tim McGarry on his love for Cliftonville FC, SLF and The Producers, and why personalised number plates and coleslaw should be banned

Hole in The Wall Gang leader Tim McGarry shares his likes, loves and loathes with David Roy ahead of the annual Give My Head Peace Live ...

Python swim party: Hunters observe possible new Burmese python behavior

Professional python hunters spotted something strange happening in a South Florida pond. They soon realized they might be the ...

The 30 best comedy series on HBO Max to watch for a hearty chuckle

Here are the 30 best comedy shows to stream on HBO Max. Mindy Tucker/HBO Jessica Williams and Phoebe Robinson as themselves ...
Smithsonian Magazine

How a Sudden Winter Storm in 1617 Sparked the Deadliest Witchcraft Trials in Norwegian History

During the 17th-century Finnmark witch trials, 91 people were executed in Norway's northernmost region, mainly by burning at the stake ...
Archaeology

The World's Oldest Writing

SCRIBE STATUE. FOUND: Lagash, Iraq. CULTURE: Sumerian. DATE: ca. 2400 B.C. LANGUAGE: Sumerian. In early 2016, hundreds of media outlets around the world reported that a set of recently deciphered ...
eLife

Pupil dilation offers a time-window on prediction error

Pupil dilation provides a physiological readout of information gain during the brain's internal process of belief updating in the context of associative learning.