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10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens
Question:
Answer:
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Question:
Answer:
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CONTEMPORIST
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One Useful Thing
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99% Invisible
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Construction Physics
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Seeking Wisdom
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What comes after AWS?
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Grumble Bundle
@monkchips
...
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Grumble Bundle
@monkchips
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Quantum Frontiers
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Interdisciplinary Website Maker
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Paul Ford has a great article at Wired about his own experience as an English major working in tech. While I myself am not an English major (more on that below) his desire to be interdisciplinary parallels my own.
I began to realize I was that most horrifying of things:...
Engineers Need Art
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Bright Books! the Perspectives to Our Weak Sights'
April is the
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Think of the
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April is the
kindest and cruelest month.
Think of the
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The Modern House
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NeuroLogica Blog
Indigenous Knowledge
I recently received the following question to the SGU e-mail: “I have had several conversations with...
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alexwlchan
Taking scheduled screenshots of my website
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3 weeks ago
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For example,...
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sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day
focus on your sensory experiences...
3 weeks ago
Part of our 80/20 series
sit on a cushion for 20 mins per day
focus on your sensory experiences (touch, sight, smell, sound). Try to perceive them as accurately as possible [1] [2] [3]
footnotes:
is that really all? on one level, yes -- both in the sense that
Citation Needed
Issue 56 – What are you gonna do, arrest me?
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diamond geezer
BBC2@60
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IEEE Spectrum
Robert Kahn: The Great Interconnector
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Both Are True
anxiety at work!!
hey boss, are you mad at me?
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hey boss, are you mad at me?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nice
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#34)
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Working Theorys
How to Go Direct
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Retail Design Blog
Landevenneg by Studio Boam
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Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how much of it is due to the changes in me or the changes...
The Rational Walk
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diamond geezer
Exiting Noak Hill
I said I wasn't going to make a habit of this, and I'm not, but I've ticked off two more.
The...
4 weeks ago
I said I wasn't going to make a habit of this, and I'm not, but I've ticked off two more.
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Contemporist...
This New House Was Designed To Fit Into A Protected Historic Neighborhood
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Oykun
Designers, charge more $$$ to help yourself and your clients.
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Many designers shy away from increasing their rates, fearing it will scare clients away and put them under pressure to deliver higher-quality work.
Understandable concerns with the common fixed mindset.
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Quanta Magazine
Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness, Experts Declare
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3 weeks ago
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The post Insects and Other Animals Have Consciousness,...
Archinect - Features
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3 weeks ago
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Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions
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Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes.
The post Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The LEGO Star Wars Inception
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+ we're hosting another dinner! and courses ending!
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Noahpinion
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This Space
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Attention to Detail
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African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa
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Seeking Wisdom
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Sam Altman
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There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
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3 days ago
There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight.
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Working Theorys
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UFOs and SGU on John Oliver
The most recent episode of John Oliver, Last Week Tonight, featured a discussion of the UFO...
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Hating Apple goes mainstream
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David Heinemeier...
As we forgive those who trespass against us
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How do immature egg cells maintain genetic quality for decades before they mature? Scientists find unusual safeguards in this quiescent cell that may inform research into fertility.
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A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short...
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A few months ago, OpenAI showed off “Sora,” a product that can generate videos based on a short prompt, much like ChatGPT does for text or DALL-E does for images, and I asked myself a pretty simple question:
"...how can someone actually make something useful out of
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<p>Growing up I was always told to work hard, wait my turn, and good things will happen.</p><p>However, I've been the most successful when I didn't wait.</p><p>The "waiting room" is the worst place to be in. </p><p>You're at the mercy of someone else letting you...
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that's really how my brain spelled passion!!
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Dear Young Designer,
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Dear Young Designer,
Yes, you can already call yourself a “Designer”
Everybody in this world is a designer.
What you want to be is an “Excellent Designer”.
To become that;
Explore!
Do not worry about specialising. You will have time for that.
Take whatever comes your
Rest of World -...
What it takes to raise a $300 million VC fund for Africa
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Tidjane Deme talks about convincing investors to back Africa-focused tech funds amid a global funding slump.
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I could have been happy with Windows
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Unblogged 1984
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AI Starts to Sift Through String Theory’s Near-Endless Possibilities
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Using machine learning, string theorists are finally showing how microscopic configurations of extra dimensions translate into sets of elementary particles — though not yet those of our universe.
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Hiring: Freelance Blog Illustrator
I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one:
An...
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I’m a blogger, and I often commission custom illustrations for my blog posts like this one:
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Anecdotal Evidence
'It Is a Rite of Finitude'
Most of
Richard Wilbur’s poetry I read retrospectively, in books, long after it was
written and...
3 days ago
Most of
Richard Wilbur’s poetry I read retrospectively, in books, long after it was
written and first published in magazines. One exception I remember is “All That Is,” which appeared in the May 13, 1985 issue of The New Yorker. I had mostly stopped reading the magazine by...
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There is an interesting disconnect in our culture recently. About 90% of people claim that they...
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Nothing: The Illustrated Story of How John Cage Revolutionized Music Through Silence
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AI isn't useless. But is it worth it?
AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
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AI can be kind of useful, but I'm not sure that a "kind of useful" tool justifies the harm.
Old Structures...
Possibly
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Vadim Kravcenko
Aging Code
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
8 months ago
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […]
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Computer Things
Problems harder than NP-Complete
People always talk about “P vs NP” like P problems are easy and NP problems are hard. This is a...
a year ago
People always talk about “P vs NP” like P problems are easy and NP problems are hard. This is a useful day-to-day model but also an oversimplification.
Problems can get way, way harder than NP.
(If you want a brief refresher on P and NP, check out my post NP-Complete isn’t...
Mazdak
How Companies Use Transfer Pricing to Avoid Taxes
In the world of finance, there are a myriad of strategies employed by corporations to optimize their...
6 months ago
In the world of finance, there are a myriad of strategies employed by corporations to optimize their tax liabilities. One such method, known as transfer pricing, has become increasingly prevalent in recent years, raising concerns about fairness and equity in the global tax...
Wuthering...
Books I Read in August 2023
As I suspected my energy for writing in August was diverted
to more important things. Plenty of...
8 months ago
As I suspected my energy for writing in August was diverted
to more important things. Plenty of energy
to read, though.
With a respite in September, I should soon be able to write
a bit on the Greek philosophers I have been reading. The Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics work...
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, September 2023
A quasi-monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them...
8 months ago
A quasi-monthly feature. Recent blog posts and news stories are generally omitted; you can find them in my links digests. I’ve been busy helping to choose the first cohort of our blogging fellowship, so my reading has been relatively light. All emphasis in bold in the quotes...
Quanta Magazine
Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference.
New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by...
11 months ago
New experiments show that the brain distinguishes between perceived and imagined mental images by checking whether they cross a “reality threshold.”
The post Is It Real or Imagined? How Your Brain Tells the Difference. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Rest of World -...
19 books to read in 2023
Rest of World's staff favorites, from around the globe to add to your must-read pile.
a year ago
Rest of World's staff favorites, from around the globe to add to your must-read pile.
SatPost by Trung...
8 Lessons from "Curb Your Enthusiasm"
What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
3 months ago
What Larry David's legendary sitcom can teach about creativity and work.
The Pragmatic...
Github Copilot and ChatGPT alternatives
There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other...
a year ago
There are a growing number of AI coding tools that are alternatives to Copilot. A list of other popular, promising options.
Devmoh
How Google Stores 10,000 Petabytes of Data Efficiently
Google Colossus Explained Simply
8 months ago
Google Colossus Explained Simply
The History of the...
AOL Pretends to be the Internet
In 1994, Ted Leonsis was the head of the new media marketing firm he created, Redgate...
8 months ago
In 1994, Ted Leonsis was the head of the new media marketing firm he created, Redgate Communications, spun out six […]
The post AOL Pretends to be the Internet appeared first on The History of the Web.
Tony Dinh's...
Making $22K in 7 days: the story
and other updates from me in Mar 2023
a year ago
and other updates from me in Mar 2023
Tony Dinh's...
May 2023: I sold my 2 years old business for only $128K
Everything about the Black Magic's acquisition + May 2023 updates
11 months ago
Everything about the Black Magic's acquisition + May 2023 updates
Trying to Understand...
A Week Off And A New Language
See you again soon
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
God, living is enormous!
When she wrote the following entry in her journal and imagined fleeing college to venture into the...
11 months ago
When she wrote the following entry in her journal and imagined fleeing college to venture into the unknown, Susan Sontag was a precocious sixteen-year-old studying English at the University of California, Berkeley. By the end of the year she had indeed left—not on a bus to an...
Mark Manson
14 of the Best Nonfiction Books You Should Read
All ye readers, buckle up.
Today, I'm giving you 14 non-fiction books I believe everyone should...
7 months ago
All ye readers, buckle up.
Today, I'm giving you 14 non-fiction books I believe everyone should read.
For each book, I've provided a brief summary. Now it's up to you to decide if it's worth your time.
Let's dig in.
This book dives deep into the world of trauma, discussing its...
CONTEMPORIST
This Cafe In Austria Has a Cycling Inspired Design
Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design...
a year ago
Architecture and interior design studio Archisphere collaborated with Carbone & Kacerovsky to design a ‘Cyclist’, a modern cafe at the Hotel Andaz am Belvedere Vienna. Archisphere drew inspiration from the movement, freedom, and enjoyment associated with cycling. In addition to...
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
8 months ago
A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
NeuroLogica Blog
How Much Do Couples Share Traits?
Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms,...
8 months ago
Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms, which means that they are commonly offered as generally accepted truths, but also that they may by wrong. People like pithy phrases, so they spread prolifically, but that does not mean...
Steve Blank
Founders Need to Be Ruthless When Chasing Deals
One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a...
a month ago
One of the most exciting things a startup CEO in a business-to-business market can hear from a potential customer is, “We’re excited. When can you come back and show us a prototype?” This can be the beginning of a profitable customer relationship or a disappointing sinkhole of...
Tech and Tea
Ten food hacks to make your life easier
This was almost a post on why millennial motherhood is so challenging, but turned into tactical food...
8 months ago
This was almost a post on why millennial motherhood is so challenging, but turned into tactical food hacks.
The DESK Magazine
People are talking about me, and I started it
People talk about you the way you talk about yourself.
10 months ago
People talk about you the way you talk about yourself.
The Roots of...
What I’ve been reading, June 2023
A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find...
11 months ago
A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find them in my links digests. In all quotes below, any emphasis in bold was added by me.
Books
Thomas S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1830 (1948). A classic in the field,...
brr
Polar Night
Surreal and otherworldly.
12 months ago
Surreal and otherworldly.
99% Invisible
Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out (Again) [EPISODE]
All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts...
8 months ago
All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts you’ve listened to over and over again. And then there’s a category of memorable songs—the ones that we all just kind of know. Songs that somehow, without anyone’s permission, sneak...
A Smart Bear
You can have two Big Things, but not three
No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
a year ago
No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
AFAR Media - Travel...
10 Great All-Inclusive Hyatt Resorts in Mexico & Caribbean
8 months ago
Internal Tech Emails
Instagram cofounder on Mark Zuckerberg
will he go into destroy mode if I say no
10 months ago
will he go into destroy mode if I say no
One Useful Thing
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide
Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
10 months ago
Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
One Useful Thing
A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth)
A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
a year ago
A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
Identity Designed
The Grand Press
Designed by Dixon Baxi, London.
a year ago
Designed by Dixon Baxi, London.
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Luxury Hotels to Book in France in 2023
10 months ago
One Useful Thing
What people ask me most. Also, some answers.
A FAQ of sorts
7 months ago
Noahpinion
Decoupling is just going to happen
Chinese policy and geopolitical risk are doing a lot of the work here.
12 months ago
Chinese policy and geopolitical risk are doing a lot of the work here.
Ralph Ammer
The perfect drawing tool
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. ...
11 months ago
The emotional rollercoaster I experience in art supply stores can be summarised in one word: greed. I want every single pen, every brush, every quill, and a sheet of every paper, ranging from crude cardboard to magnificent handcrafted Japanese washi. And yes, I need papyrus. And...
Nelson's Weblog
Cronometer is a good food diary
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it.
It’s a huge...
8 months ago
Recently I switched to a new calorie counting app, Cronometer. I’m quite happy with it.
It’s a huge improvement over MyFitnessPal (MFP) or Lose It and is not exploitative
like Noom.
The key improvement with Cronometer is accuracy,
particularly good data
sources for nutrition...
Quanta Magazine
Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking
Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but...
8 months ago
Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms.
The post Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking first appeared on Quanta Magazine
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool
AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
8 months ago
AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
Dominik Sobe's...
The reason I got hooked on being an Indiehacker
8 months ago
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Peter Mick
Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
12 months ago
Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
Noahpinion
All the arguments against EVs are wrong
EVs are just going to win.
a year ago
EVs are just going to win.
Commoncog
When Action Beats Prediction
One of the great paradoxes of business is that management is prediction, but entrepreneurship ......
11 months ago
One of the great paradoxes of business is that management is prediction, but entrepreneurship ... isn't. What a theory of expertise in entrepreneurship tells us about creating new things in business.
Stephen Wolfram...
Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
a year ago
This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
Contemporist...
A Glass-Enclosed Library And Home Office Creates A Separate Space Inside This Apartment
Canadian design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a loft apartment located in a building that...
a year ago
Canadian design firm Level Studio has shared photos of a loft apartment located in a building that was once home to offices but has been converted into residential apartments.
One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
12 months ago
There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
mtlynch.io
Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business
Jason Cohen’s 2013 Microconf talk, Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen, is...
a year ago
Jason Cohen’s 2013 Microconf talk, Designing the Ideal Bootstrapped Business with Jason Cohen, is one of the most valuable resources I’ve found for bootstrapped founders. I watched it for the first time in 2020, and I’ve revisited it repeatedly since then.
If you’re new to the...
One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖
And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
11 months ago
And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
Common Edge
Ugly Buildings Are Not Simply a Matter of Aesthetics
Bad architecture must come from some underlying ethos.
11 months ago
Bad architecture must come from some underlying ethos.
symmetry magazine
A different way of thinking
Neurodivergent physicists face barriers in STEM, but there are also benefits to being who they are.
11 months ago
Neurodivergent physicists face barriers in STEM, but there are also benefits to being who they are.
Tony Dinh's...
My solopreneur story: zero to $45K/mo in 2 years
Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
7 months ago
Today is exactly 2 years since I quit my job and become a full-time indie hacker.
Platformer
Why I'm having trouble covering AI
If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?
a year ago
If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Efficient
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If heroes would just check the betting markets...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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If heroes would just check the betting markets before fighting they could make much better choices.
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CONTEMPORIST
This Little Laneway House In Toronto Has An Upstairs Bedroom Overlooking The Street
Creative Union Network Inc. has designed a small laneway house in Toronto, Canada, that was...
12 months ago
Creative Union Network Inc. has designed a small laneway house in Toronto, Canada, that was originally built as a garage. The building occupied a prominent location on the corner of the lane and main street. The original structure, although rundown, was a well-loved structure...
McMansion Hell
dome sweet dome
As some of you may know, I have been going to language school for the last few months in order to...
a year ago
As some of you may know, I have been going to language school for the last few months in order to learn the world’s most widely spoken and useful language: Slovenian. At this point, my Slovenian is about as coherent as, well, a McMansion. In order to feel better about myself, I...
journal – Winnie Lim
co-existing with my broken mind
I’ve been feeling more down these days. I am not sure if it is pms, covid, both, or just responding...
12 months ago
I’ve been feeling more down these days. I am not sure if it is pms, covid, both, or just responding to reality in general. I don’t really get why people are not...
Diaries of Note
I no longer love the sun or the flowers
It was only a year after first meeting, in 1895, that Marie and Pierre Curie became husband and...
a year ago
It was only a year after first meeting, in 1895, that Marie and Pierre Curie became husband and wife. Together, they made groundbreaking contributions to science, not least the discovery of two new elements, polonium and radium, and in 1903 they were jointly awarded the Nobel...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Well Known URL For Your Personal Avatar
Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog.
And now I’m...
12 months ago
Well-known URLs are pretty neat. I’ve even dared propose one before here on my blog.
And now I’m here to propose another:
.well-known/avatar
The idea is: anybody that owns a domain can put their avatar in a well-known location.
I’ve already implemented this for my own site[1]....
Diaries of Note
The reign of beasts has begun
The world was plunged into darkness on 1st September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, an act of...
8 months ago
The world was plunged into darkness on 1st September 1939 when Germany invaded Poland, an act of aggression that led France and the United Kingdom to declare war. Amidst this global turmoil, a young Albert Camus, then a journalist for socialist newspaper Alger-Républicain, found...
Noahpinion
Is it time for the Revenge of the Normies?
An optimistic take on technology and inequality.
8 months ago
An optimistic take on technology and inequality.
Christopher Butler...
object – Yoto
This is the best media player for children.
In the month before the pandemic shut everything...
a year ago
This is the best media player for children.
In the month before the pandemic shut everything down, I was in the midst of some research on how designers — and other kinds of creative experts and consultants — can best communicate results. I was looking at a variety of case...
Spoon & Tamago
Gaku Yamazaki has Documented Thousands of Unusual Road Signs Across Japan
all images courtesy Gaku Yamazaki Gaku Yamazaki, a 21-year old college senior, spends his spare time...
11 months ago
all images courtesy Gaku Yamazaki Gaku Yamazaki, a 21-year old college senior, spends his spare time traversing Japan in search of what he has dubbed ikei-yajirushi, or ‘unusual arrows.’ There are thousands of these abnormal road signs dotted across Japan and while drivers might...
Rest of World -...
This renewable energy startup helps companies decarbonize across the Pacific
Bor Hung Chong from Nefin Group discusses green energy solutions beyond solar panels.
a year ago
Bor Hung Chong from Nefin Group discusses green energy solutions beyond solar panels.
99% Invisible
Breaking Down The Power Broker [EPISODE]
In 1974, two very significant things happened, if you are a fan of 99% invisible. Number one is that...
5 months ago
In 1974, two very significant things happened, if you are a fan of 99% invisible. Number one is that 99pi host Roman Mars was born. And number two, The Power Broker by Robert Caro was published. Roman learned about the power broker when he first started to cover cities and...
Mark Manson
Why You Should Have Fewer Opinions
https://youtu.be/qJ8aRl1UNgw
I'm on an old man rant today.
The world's a shitfest, and something...
11 months ago
https://youtu.be/qJ8aRl1UNgw
I'm on an old man rant today.
The world's a shitfest, and something needs to be said: Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one, and most are full of shit.
So, here's my argument: people need to have fewer fucking opinions.
The problem is that...
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My New Startup Checklist
some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet,...
a year ago
some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet, but I did want to capture some notes on logistical stuff I have had to ramp up on as a first time founder. hopefully this helps somebody out there.
Spoon & Tamago
Cafe Fang: An Oasis of Books and Coffee in Kyoto
If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of touristy Kyoto, head to this newly opened oasis of...
a year ago
If you want to escape the hustle and bustle of touristy Kyoto, head to this newly opened oasis of books and coffee. Located slightly north of central Kyoto is the Donkou Kissa Fang, a serene cafe and private book collection built inside immaculately crafted townhouse and garden....
Commoncog
Mental Strength in Judo; Mental Strength in Life
Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about...
a year ago
Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about deliberate practice but instead learnt a ton about my mental shortcomings."
👋 Hello, I'm...
Want to save your nation? Get rid of poor people!
8 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Things to Know Before Seeing a Broadway Show in New York City
6 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
First impressions of the MoErgo Glove80 ergonomic keyboard
How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my...
6 months ago
How does the Glove80 stack up against similar keyboards like the Moonlander and Ergodox? I share my impressions after the first few weeks of use.
Quanta Magazine
How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics
In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques...
a year ago
In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques known as “resurgence” points toward an escape.
The post How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Res Obscura
Simulating History with ChatGPT
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
8 months ago
The Case for LLMs as Hallucination Engines
The Honest Broker
The Most Dangerous Thing in Culture Right Now is Beauty
You think I’m crazy, but just wait and see....
7 months ago
You think I’m crazy, but just wait and see....
Quanta Magazine
Are There Reasons to Believe in a Multiverse?
Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural...
a year ago
Several areas of physics suggest reasons to think that unobservable universes with different natural laws could lie beyond ours. The theoretical physicist David Kaplan talks with Steven Strogatz about the mysteries that a multiverse would solve.
The post Are There...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gifted
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People on patreon seemed to be traumatized by this,...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
People on patreon seemed to be traumatized by this, and I guess what I'm saying is for a couple bucks a month, you could've been traumatized a day early.
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One Useful Thing
AI is not good software. It is pretty good people.
A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI
a year ago
A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI
Farnam Street
The Winner’s Edge
A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do anything. They are paralyzed...
a year ago
A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do anything. They are paralyzed by risks that don’t exist and greatly exaggerate them where they do, preventing them from being one of the best. Consider this lightly edited excerpt from a conversation between...
Spoon & Tamago
Not a Hotel: A Unique Timeshare Concept Redefining Luxury Travel
All images © Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office “Buy a vacation home that doubles as a...
a year ago
All images © Kenta Hasegawa courtesy Suppose Design Office “Buy a vacation home that doubles as a hotel.” That’s the tagline for ‘Not A Hotel,’ a real estate start-up founded by Shinji Hamazu. The company challenges the traditional hotel model by treating it as a timeshare and...
Daniel Bourke
Apple M3 Machine Learning Speed Test
I put my M1 Pro against Apple's new M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max, a NVIDIA GPU and Google Colab.
4 months ago
I put my M1 Pro against Apple's new M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max, a NVIDIA GPU and Google Colab.
Commoncog
The Skill of Capital
What, exactly, is the skill of capital? What does it consist of? How do you recognise it? We walk...
10 months ago
What, exactly, is the skill of capital? What does it consist of? How do you recognise it? We walk through three stories, and then talk about the shape of the skill in practice.
Stoic Simple
Stoicism Simplified: an Easy Overview of What Stoics Believe
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism...
a year ago
by Enda Harte For me, there are six important first steps that I prioritized for practicing Stoicism (referenced in the diagram above), and I wanted to use this opportunity to go over each of these in a little more detail. Hopefully you’ll get an understanding of what they mean,...
Classical Wisdom
Should We Follow Silly Laws?
And what happens when we don’t?
12 months ago
And what happens when we don’t?
Blog - Practical...
Do Droughts Make Floods Worse?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Do you remember the summer of...
8 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
Do you remember the summer of 2022 when a record drought had gripped not only a large part of the United States, but most of Europe too? Reservoirs were empty, wildfires spread, crop yields dropped, and rivers...
Quanta Magazine
Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t
Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept...
a year ago
Today’s language models are more sophisticated than ever, but they still struggle with the concept of negation. That’s unlikely to change anytime soon.
The post Chatbots Don’t Know What Stuff Isn’t first appeared on Quanta Magazine
CONTEMPORIST
A Garage Transformed Into An Apartment With A Home Office
YR Architecture + Design has shared photos of a modern 575 square foot (53 sqm) live/work studio in...
11 months ago
YR Architecture + Design has shared photos of a modern 575 square foot (53 sqm) live/work studio in Columbus, OH, that was once a 2-car garage. The homeowners were determined for their two-car garage to be an asset, with the couple seeking to maximize their property, and at the...
CONTEMPORIST
Before And After – A Respectful Remodel For A Mid-Century Modern Home
Interior design firm Wise Design, together with General Contractor and Architect Owen Gabbert...
8 months ago
Interior design firm Wise Design, together with General Contractor and Architect Owen Gabbert (formerly Clarkbuilt), has transformed a dated 1954 mid-century modern home in Portland, Oregon. Before – The ExteriorThe original home has a brown exterior with original windows and...
Seth's Blog
New decisions based on new information
More than ever, we’re pushed to have certainty. Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed....
a year ago
More than ever, we’re pushed to have certainty. Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed. And then, when reality intervenes, it can be stressful. The software stack, business model, career, candidate, policy, or even the social network habits that we had as part of our...
Rest of World -...
How Indians are watching Succession after HBO ditched Disney
With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of...
a year ago
With HBO walking away from Disney+ Hotstar, shows like Succession, The Last of Us, and Game of Thrones can no longer be streamed in the country.
devonzuegel.com
To rent or to sell, that is the question
As a real estate developer, one of the big decisions you need to make is whether you will rent or...
8 months ago
As a real estate developer, one of the big decisions you need to make is whether you will rent or sell the buildings you've built.
Income from rentals flows in steadily over years, while income from sales hits all at once. This essential difference is simple but has many...
Rest of World -...
Four predictions for 2024
It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
4 months ago
It’s going to be a bumpy ride.
Common Edge
What’s to Become of the Mess That Is Penn Station?
A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New...
8 months ago
A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New York’s most conflicted transportation-entertainment site.
The Convivial...
Why An Easier Life Is Not Necessarily Happier
Remembering Albert Borgmann (1937-2023)
a year ago
Remembering Albert Borgmann (1937-2023)
Seth's Blog
Digital shortcuts and cognitive load
I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my...
8 months ago
I used to drive 200 miles to Boston once a week or so. After a few trips on the highway, my subconscious figured out that getting behind a few trucks for the entire ride enabled me to spend four hours without using much conscious effort on driving. Every day, we make decisions....
Castles in the Sky
The Bookseller's Register #3
Two Customer Encounters
8 months ago
FIRE v London
The richest person you know
What’s it like to be in the top 1%? According to the statistics, most of the readers of my blog are...
11 months ago
What’s it like to be in the top 1%? According to the statistics, most of the readers of my blog are among the highest earning and/or richest people in the UK. I bet however that not many of you feel that way. Let’s start with income To be in the top 1% of earnings in… Continue...
Quanta Magazine
How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed
After decades of frustration, researchers have finally determined how an airborne scent molecule...
a year ago
After decades of frustration, researchers have finally determined how an airborne scent molecule links to a human smell receptor.
The post How a Human Smell Receptor Works Is Finally Revealed first appeared on Quanta Magazine
99% Invisible
The Fever Tree Hunt [EPISODE]
“Most heists target gold, jewels or cash. This one targeted illegal seeds. As the British...
6 months ago
“Most heists target gold, jewels or cash. This one targeted illegal seeds. As the British established their sprawling empire across the subcontinent and beyond, they encountered a formidable adversary — malaria. There was a cure — the bark of the Andean cinchona tree. The only...
Rest of World -...
Apple suppliers are scrambling to fill over 40,000 jobs in Vietnam
Foxconn and Luxshare slashed workers. But under pressure to expand away from China, they suddenly...
8 months ago
Foxconn and Luxshare slashed workers. But under pressure to expand away from China, they suddenly need them back.
Rest of World -...
Global TikTok creators depend on U.S. viewers. A TikTok ban would be devastating
Without Americans on the app, advertising dollars are at risk.
a year ago
Without Americans on the app, advertising dollars are at risk.
Stoic Simple
Unleash Your Inner Sage: 5 Powerful Mindsets Fostered by Stoicism
By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A...
11 months ago
By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A person who overcame all of their personal defects to achieve a life of complete tranquility and goodness. The perfect Stoic, if you will. They referred to this person as the Stoic...
One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe
We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
a year ago
We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
Seth's Blog
The freedom loop
We spend almost no time teaching toddlers about freedom. Instead, the lessons we teach (and learn)...
a year ago
We spend almost no time teaching toddlers about freedom. Instead, the lessons we teach (and learn) for our entire lives are about responsibility. It’s easy to teach freedom, but important to teach responsibility. Because if you get the responsibility taken care of, often the...
The Pragmatic...
Layoffs push down scores on Glassdoor: this is how companies respond
Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives....
11 months ago
Several tech companies face a fresh problem after cutting jobs: their rating on Glassdoor nosedives. But there’s a way they can fix this. I show what companies are doing - and why.
Mark Manson
5 Best Personal Traits for Life
https://youtu.be/kDqQGogavmY
What if I told you there's a hidden treasure trove of personal traits...
10 months ago
https://youtu.be/kDqQGogavmY
What if I told you there's a hidden treasure trove of personal traits that could turn your life around?
Are you curious?
Are you dying to know what they are?
Are you wondering why I'm asking so many questions instead of getting to the point?
OK,...
Trying to Understand...
The Rise of Extractive Politics
It's about having small expectations.
11 months ago
It's about having small expectations.
Vadim Kravcenko
Database Migrations
I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software...
7 months ago
I consider database migrations one of the most annoying problems to deal with during a software engineer’s life. Not only […]
The post Database Migrations appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Seeking Wisdom
Make Every Day Count
It was a 2012 evening, and I was driving home from the office. I was worried about finishing a big...
6 months ago
It was a 2012 evening, and I was driving home from the office. I was worried about finishing a big project at work on time. I’d made the journey from the office to my home so many times, my car almost seemed to know the way by itself. My hands were on the wheel, but…
Computer Things
Time zones are hard because people are hard
Greetings from Australia!1 It's the morning of September 5th for me and the night of September 4th...
8 months ago
Greetings from Australia!1 It's the morning of September 5th for me and the night of September 4th in the US. In two weeks when I fly back, I will leave Sydney at 9 AM and arrive in Los Angeles at 6 AM, that same day.
Timezones are annoying enough for regular people, but us...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cosmo
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a year ago
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Also, in this model, everything is flat and it's the same everywhere and eventually all the stars are dead!
Today's News:
Wuthering...
Books I Read in May 2023
I had a good time.
GREEK PHILOSOPHY
The Nicomachean Ethics (4th C. BCE), Aristotle - a post,...
11 months ago
I had a good time.
GREEK PHILOSOPHY
The Nicomachean Ethics (4th C. BCE), Aristotle - a post, however shallow, should appear soon.
FICTION
Joseph in Egypt (1936), Thomas Mann
The Long Valley (1938)
&
The Grapes of Wrath (1939), John Steinbeck - I last read this probably...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Partner
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Humans are the only social animal that is creating...
a year ago
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Humans are the only social animal that is creating fake partners so they don't have to be social anymore.
Today's News:
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
8 months ago
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […]
The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
journal – Winnie Lim
being creative is not just about making things
I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my...
10 months ago
I place a lot of value on creativity in my life, and this has been pretty consistent throughout my various life stages. For a long time it was tied to my identity...
The Modern House
Five things to do and see this April
The clocks have sprung forward and the spring chicks are chirping: yes, April has arrived. But it’s...
a year ago
The clocks have sprung forward and the spring chicks are chirping: yes, April has arrived. But it’s not only those longer, lighter evenings luring us out of the house; this month’s brilliant list of cultural and culinary must-dos and -sees is equally tempting – even […]
Computer Things
Repurposing Hotel Keycards
Hi everyone!
My April Cools piece is up! It’s about really weird stuff you can buy online. Now I...
a year ago
Hi everyone!
My April Cools piece is up! It’s about really weird stuff you can buy online. Now I know that’s standard SEO farm stuff, but I promise I put a lot of time into researching why people actually want to buy these things. If you ever wanted to know where carnivals buy...
Musings on Maps
“He Could Easily Destroy Us”
Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter led him to celebrate it as the last preserve of free speech. But...
a year ago
Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter led him to celebrate it as the last preserve of free speech. But his relation to speech was long slippery, best reflected on the heuristic display of the 2016 electoral map that was the logo of the pundit's nightly show's and its guiding...
Dan Quach Blog
Accurate Predictions
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air....
11 months ago
In November 2020, I read the book Apollo’s Arrow after hearing Dr Christakis on NPR’s Fresh Air. Somewhere midway through this book, this paragraph stood out to me: “Either way, until 2022, Americans will live in an acutely changed world—they will be wearing masks, for example,...
journal – Winnie Lim
daring to be ugly
I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of...
11 months ago
I was quite vain when I was younger due to a low self-esteem which led to a high level of insecurity. That insecurity made me feel ugly and that I was never...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Fight over Education
There is an ongoing culture war, and not just in the US, over the content of childhood education,...
12 months ago
There is an ongoing culture war, and not just in the US, over the content of childhood education, both public and private. This seems to be flaring up recently, but is never truly gone. Republicans in the US have recently escalated this war by banning over 500 books in several...
Left To Write
№ 66: Why Do We Brush Our Teeth?
The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to...
8 months ago
The opposite of a good idea - Finding the real reason behind brushing our teeth - Let's not jump to conclusions
Commoncog
Dell's Capital Expertise
We trace Michael Dell's skill at the art of capital in business, and use it to examine how skill at...
10 months ago
We trace Michael Dell's skill at the art of capital in business, and use it to examine how skill at capital allows you to make moves that aren't available to a novice business operator.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Private-ish GitHub repos
This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was
briefly exposed in a public...
a year ago
This week, we discovered that GitHub.com’s RSA SSH private key was
briefly exposed in a public GitHub repository.
– GitHub’s
“We updated our RSA SSH host key” blog, 2023-03-23
Once you git push, nothing is private.
Private info in git only stays private on your laptop. But once...
The Marginalian
The Paradox of Free Will
The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws.
a year ago
The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws.
Rest of World -...
Apple’s biggest competition in India? Used iPhone sellers
“We give them the same phone, in the same brand-new condition,” says one seller.
11 months ago
“We give them the same phone, in the same brand-new condition,” says one seller.
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Chartjunk: What I've learned about data visualization
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think
about statistical charts is...
12 months ago
For many people the first word that comes to mind when they think
about statistical charts is “lie.”
– Edward R. Tufte, The Visual Display of Quantitative Information
I wish we could all agree: pie charts should die.
I know this is unreasonable. And pie charts are only part of...
99% Invisible
The Big Dig [EPISODE]
Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive...
7 months ago
Over its more than 40 year journey from conception to completion, Boston’s Big Dig massive infrastructure project, which rerouted the central highway in the heart of the city, encountered every hurdle imaginable: ruthless politics, engineering challenges, secretive contractors,...
Artificial Ignorance
10 AI predictions for 2024
Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
4 months ago
Hey Siri, set a reminder for 365 days.
Noahpinion
How not to be fooled by viral charts
Part 1: How to spot misinformation, mistakes, and meaningless data
8 months ago
Part 1: How to spot misinformation, mistakes, and meaningless data
Christopher Butler...
4 Levels of Grids for Web Designers
Grids are very, very useful.
I just published an essay on how anchoring the most important...
11 months ago
Grids are very, very useful.
I just published an essay on how anchoring the most important information on a web page to the Y-axis will help viewer’s focus on it and pay closer attention. It’s a pretty basic idea, really, but somehow I found myself writing over 1,000 words to...
Making software...
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World
2023-09-26
The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
7 months ago
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World
2023-09-26
The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you're wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
TheCollector
Authoritarian vs. Democratic Socialism: What’s the Difference?
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7 months ago
The Rational Walk
Dollar General: Value or Value Trap?
I spent Labor Day weekend reading about this beaten down retailer. This article provides some...
8 months ago
I spent Labor Day weekend reading about this beaten down retailer. This article provides some initial thoughts about the company as well as the overall retail landscape.
CONTEMPORIST
This Home Hidden In The Forest Appears Like A Stack Of Illuminated Boxes
William / Kaven Architecture has sent us photos of a home they completed in Portland, Oregon, that’s...
6 months ago
William / Kaven Architecture has sent us photos of a home they completed in Portland, Oregon, that’s part of a collection of private residences perched on several steeply sloped sites within Forest Park, a 5,000-acre woodland. A simple material palette of dark steel, concrete,...
Seth's Blog
The rear view mirror
It’s almost impossible to safely drive a car while only looking in the rear view mirror. Only seeing...
a year ago
It’s almost impossible to safely drive a car while only looking in the rear view mirror. Only seeing where you’ve been is a terrible way to figure out where to go. But it’s really unsafe to go forward with no idea of what came before. AI plods along into the future, using machine...
The Pragmatic...
How Games Typically Get Built
The differences between games development and more “standard” software engineering, roles, and how...
8 months ago
The differences between games development and more “standard” software engineering, roles, and how games are typically built.
IEEE Spectrum
The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper
“Clap on! Clap off! Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget...
4 months ago
“Clap on! Clap off! Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. If you watched any amount of American television back then, you probably saw the...
Platformer
The AI is eating itself
Early notes on how generative AI is affecting the internet
10 months ago
Early notes on how generative AI is affecting the internet
Spoon & Tamago
Exploring Tokyo’s Hidden Shrines
According to statistics, Tokyo is home to over 1800 Shinto shrines. You have your major shrines like...
11 months ago
According to statistics, Tokyo is home to over 1800 Shinto shrines. You have your major shrines like Meiji-Jingu and Hie Shrine but there are many other tiny shrines, often unstaffed and nestled in the depths of back streets and behind buildings. Tearing down a shrine would be...
Quanta Magazine
Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media
In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never...
12 months ago
In steganography, an ordinary message masks the presence of a secret communication. Humans can never do it perfectly, but a new study shows it’s possible for machines.
The post Secret Messages Can Hide in AI-Generated Media first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
Stephen Wolfram...
Remembering Doug Lenat (1950–2023) and His Quest to Capture the World with Logic
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on...
8 months ago
Logic, Math and AI In many ways the great quest of Doug Lenat’s life was an attempt to follow on directly from the work of Aristotle and Leibniz. For what Doug was fundamentally trying to do over the forty years he spent developing his CYC system was to use the framework of...
Vadim Kravcenko
Networking as an introvert CTO
There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like...
7 months ago
There I was, standing in the middle of a buzzing tech event that our company organized, feeling like a fish […]
The post Networking as an introvert CTO appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Christopher Butler...
How to Turn Good Design Direction into a Good System
The discipline of design is the commitment to structuring and systematizing good ideas.
Ideas...
a year ago
The discipline of design is the commitment to structuring and systematizing good ideas.
Ideas don’t stand on their own. When a good idea turns into a good thing, it’s because structure and systems — ones that existed before the idea — made it happen.
There’s this myth in...
Common Edge
Consider the 15 mph City
It’s time to expand our vision to include slower, more human-scaled speeds of transportation.
a year ago
It’s time to expand our vision to include slower, more human-scaled speeds of transportation.
nanoscale views
Anyons, simulation, and "real" systems
Quanta magazine this week published an article about two very recent papers, in which different...
a year ago
Quanta magazine this week published an article about two very recent papers, in which different groups performed quantum simulations of anyons, objects that do not follow Bose-Einstein or Fermi-Dirac statistics when they are exchanged. For so-called Abelian anyons (which I wrote...
Max Countryman
Breaking Free from Results-Oriented Thinking
Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable...
a year ago
Magic: The Gathering, poker, and business strategy all have something in common: they're vulnerable to a cognitive bias known as results-oriented thinking. But to optimize for success, we should avoid this bias and strive to replace it with sound strategy.
Stoic Simple
Using Stoicism to Live a Balanced Life
Maintaining balance and achieving personal contentment has been a pressing concern for people...
12 months ago
Maintaining balance and achieving personal contentment has been a pressing concern for people throughout history. From ancient Greek philosophers to modern-day wellness coaches, experts have offered diverse approaches to balance the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual...
FIRE v London
Feeling broke
My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is...
6 months ago
My psychology around money has changed significantly over the last two years. While some of that is captured in my monthly portfolio updates, I thought it was worth recording some of my emotions while they are still fresh. Two years ago Turning the clock back, my financial...
Mark Manson
How to Make Friends as an Adult
Romantic relationships get all the attention, but I'd argue that friendships are just as...
a year ago
Romantic relationships get all the attention, but I'd argue that friendships are just as important—if not more so—for our health and happiness.
Just like with romantic relationships, creating fulfilling, lasting friendships as an adult can be really hard.
But… Why?
I mean, sure,...
99% Invisible
The Frankfurt Kitchen [EPISODE]
After World War I, in Frankfurt, Germany, the city government was taking on a big project. A lot of...
11 months ago
After World War I, in Frankfurt, Germany, the city government was taking on a big project. A lot of residents were in dire straits, and in the second half of the 1920s, the city built over 10,000 public housing units. It was some of the earliest modern architecture — simple,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Top 10 Family-Friendly Luxury Resorts in the U.S.
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Suffering
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a year ago
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Please consult yesterday's comments (we have comments now) for the excellent post by Hans Rickheit.
Today's News:
We have them, like it's the 90s again! Please don't be a dick - I would like to keep moderation light. Also, if you...
The Modern House
How Mabel Law and Andrew Tam transformed a modest flat into a space-maximising maisonette in...
12 months ago
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Bicycle
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling...
a year ago
There is something delightful about riding a bicycle. Once mastered, the simple action of pedaling to move forward and turning the handlebars to steer makes bike riding an effortless activity. In the demonstration below, you can guide the rider with the slider, and you can also...
Alex MacCaw
Captain's Log #2
On projects, side-projects, AI, and existential dread.
8 months ago
On projects, side-projects, AI, and existential dread.
Commoncog
Operational Excellence is the Pursuit of ‘Knowledge’
It turns out that operational excellence results from the pursuit of a certain form of knowledge....
a year ago
It turns out that operational excellence results from the pursuit of a certain form of knowledge. This is Part 3 of the Becoming Data Driven series, and the result of a deep dive into the field of statistical process control.
Irrational...
Poking around OpenAI.
I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs,
and decided to spend some time doing...
a year ago
I haven’t spent much time playing around with the latest LLMs,
and decided to spend some time doing so. I was particularly curious
about the usecase of using embeddings to supplement user prompts
with additional, relevant data (e.g. supply the current status of their
recent...
TheCollector
What Makes Citizen Kane the Greatest Film of All Time?
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5 months ago
Computer Things
GPT4 should be part of your toolkit
On March 24 I wrote GPT is revolutionary. On March 27 I got access to GPT4.1 Now that I’ve used it...
a year ago
On March 24 I wrote GPT is revolutionary. On March 27 I got access to GPT4.1 Now that I’ve used it for a month, I’m firmly in the “this is the greatest thing ever” camp. And, much like my experience at Burning Man, I’m finding a not-insignificant number of my fellow campers run...
Common Edge
Is AI Really the Next Big Thing in Architecture?
There are good reasons to be skeptical about its ultimate utility.
11 months ago
There are good reasons to be skeptical about its ultimate utility.
Darek Kay
Building a photography website
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
6 months ago
Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey.
Table of...
David Heinemeier...
The open source gift exchange
I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The...
7 months ago
I love writing and sharing code as open source, but it's not an abstract act of pure altruism. The first recipients of these programming gifts are almost always myself and my company. It's an intentionally selfish drive first, then a broader benefit second. But, ironically, this...
NeuroLogica Blog
Have Current AI Reached Their Limit?
We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications,...
11 months ago
We are still very much in the hype phase of the latest crop of artificial intelligence applications, specifically the large language models and so-called “transformers” like Chat GPT. Transformers are a deep learning model that use self-attention to differentially weight the...
Internal Tech Emails
"I just need to decide if we're going to buy Instagram"
We have this big issue right now because gaming is shifting from us to mobile platforms.
8 months ago
We have this big issue right now because gaming is shifting from us to mobile platforms.
Irrational...
Slides for Measuring an engineering organization.
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco
about...
12 months ago
Last week, I gave a 30 minute talk to a group of CTOs and VP Engineerings in San Francisco
about measuring engineering organizations.
This talk was essentially this blog post,
and here are the slides.
A few topics worth highlighting:
Measurement educates you, and your audience,...
Rest of World -...
The winners of Rest of World’s first photography contest
From images of solar cooking to snake radio telemetry, we received 548 entries from around the...
a year ago
From images of solar cooking to snake radio telemetry, we received 548 entries from around the world.
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Lisa Jones and Ruby Kean
11 months ago
Transit Maps
Official Map: Newark International Airport Regional Rail Connections, 2023
Every so often, I come across a transit map that is just so unfit for purpose that all I can do is...
a year ago
Every so often, I come across a transit map that is just so unfit for purpose that all I can do is scratch my head and ponder, “Just why?” This is one of those maps. Produced by (or on behalf of) Newark International Airport, it purports to show regional rail services that you...
Computer Things
Programming Language Perversity
Harold Abelson once said that code should be written for humans to read and only incidentally for...
10 months ago
Harold Abelson once said that code should be written for humans to read and only incidentally for computers to write. It follows that, like any form of communication, code can carry emotions. Programming perversity, then, is code that conveys morbid fascination, the kind of...
Unpacked
IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying
Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending...
6 months ago
Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending two decades of Intuit's regulatory capture of the tax software market
The Pragmatic...
Behind the Scenes with Two New Salary Transparency Websites
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have...
a year ago
On the back of US salary transparency regulations, two new salary transparency websites have launched, built by the creators of Levels.fyi and Layoffs.fyi. I talked to both teams to learn how they were developed.
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Louis Pereira
Lessons from building AudioPen to 600+ paid users to clinching #1 on Product Hunt
a year ago
Lessons from building AudioPen to 600+ paid users to clinching #1 on Product Hunt
99% Invisible
Courtroom Sketch [EPISODE]
Earlier this year, the city of New York closed off several blocks around the Manhattan Criminal...
11 months ago
Earlier this year, the city of New York closed off several blocks around the Manhattan Criminal Courthouse. Instead of early morning commuters, the sidewalks around the building were flooded with reporters, photographers, and camera people. They were there to capture the...
Construction Physics
The Story of Titanium
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By...
10 months ago
The earth contains a lot of titanium - it’s the ninth most abundant element in the earth’s crust. By mass, there’s more titanium in the earth’s crust than carbon by a factor of nearly 30, and more titanium than copper by a factor of nearly 100. But despite its abundance, it's...
Seth's Blog
The good china
Once you use your plates every day, they cease to be the good china. Of course, the plates didn’t...
a year ago
Once you use your plates every day, they cease to be the good china. Of course, the plates didn’t change. Your story did. The way you treat them did. The same goes for the red carpet. If you roll it out for every visitor or every customer, it ceases to be red.
The Marginalian
May Sarton on the Art of Living Alone
"The people we love are built into us."
a year ago
"The people we love are built into us."
Quanta Magazine
A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence
By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly —...
a year ago
By imbuing enormous vectors with semantic meaning, we can get machines to reason more abstractly — and efficiently — than before.
The post A New Approach to Computation Reimagines Artificial Intelligence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Works in...
Degrowth and the monkey's paw
Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was...
a year ago
Fifteen years ago, when I worked in the “social innovation” field, there was a world-view that was very popular among my colleagues about what was wrong with society and how to fix it. The idea was that people and governments needed to stop seeing economic growth as a good thing,...
CONTEMPORIST
The Surrounding Desert Was Blended Into This Modern Home
Photography by Stetson Ybarra Multi-disciplinary design studio Daniel Joseph Chenin, Ltd. has shared...
10 months ago
Photography by Stetson Ybarra Multi-disciplinary design studio Daniel Joseph Chenin, Ltd. has shared photos of a modern home they completed on the edge of the Las Vegas Valley that has views of Red Rock Canyon. Photography by Stetson Ybarra Commissioned for a family embracing an...
Daniel Bourke
30 years old
I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool.
Being 9 years old and...
8 months ago
I remember sitting in the car on the way to drop my brother to preschool.
Being 9 years old and telling my mum how excited I was to turn ten.
Double digits!
I feel the same way about 29 to 30.
I hardly even got used to saying I’
Construction Physics
The Birth of the Grid
The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of...
11 months ago
The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
Maps Mania
The World's Most Impressive Mountain
11 months ago
TheCollector
Explore Ancient Rome by Visiting These 6 Sites
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4 months ago
The Convivial...
Eye to Eye
"Is This Anything?"
11 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
July 2023: $6K MRR – getting back on recurring revenue
small updates from me in July 2023
9 months ago
small updates from me in July 2023
Commoncog
Process Behaviour Charts: More Than You Need To Know
The process behaviour chart is the easiest way to differentiate between routine and exceptional...
a year ago
The process behaviour chart is the easiest way to differentiate between routine and exceptional variation. This is everything you need to know to use it well.
Steve Blank
Profound Beliefs
This post previously appeared in EIX. In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the...
8 months ago
This post previously appeared in EIX. In the early stages of a startup your hypotheses about all the parts of your business model are your profound beliefs. Think of profound beliefs as “strong opinions loosely held.” You can’t be an effective founder or in the C-suite of a...
Stoic Simple
What Is Stoicism, Basically? A Comprehensive Overview
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks...
a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for over two thousand years. The ancient Greeks developed it as a way to live a good life, free from the distractions of emotions, desires, and material possessions. Stoicism has been embraced by many people throughout history,...
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 32
Weight Loss, Civilization, and Good Reading
12 months ago
Weight Loss, Civilization, and Good Reading
Construction Physics
How Washington DC Got Its Metro
There have been two main periods of subway (or “metro”) building in the US. The first was during the...
7 months ago
There have been two main periods of subway (or “metro”) building in the US. The first was during the late 19th century and early 20th century, when Boston, New York, and Philadelphia all built subway systems
Blog - Practical...
How Flood Tunnels Work
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is Waterloo Park in...
11 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is Waterloo Park in downtown Austin, Texas, just a couple of blocks away from the state capitol building. It’s got walking trails, an ampitheater, Waller Creek runs right through the center, and it has...
Alex Meub
Hotel Guest User Agent Data
I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country....
over a year ago
I wrote a script that exposes browser and software platform data from hotels across the country. This data is very different from say: StatCounter or NetApplications estimates because they rely on getting their data from trackers on specific websites.
The data I pulled comes...
The Pragmatic...
An educational side project
What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand...
11 months ago
What does a great side project look like, which helps learn new technologies, but also helps stand out when looking for a new job? Analysis of an Uber simulation app, built from scratch.
Transit Maps
New Official Map: Los Angeles Metro with Regional Connector, 2023
Just dropped on the LA Metro Twitter account, here’s a first look at their new system map once the...
11 months ago
Just dropped on the LA Metro Twitter account, here’s a first look at their new system map once the Regional Connector opens at noon, this Friday June 16. First off, one prediction I made in my previous review [October 2022] has been proven true: this map marks the end of the old...
Nelson's Weblog
Noom is exploitative
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy
program. The app is more like CBT...
a year ago
I tried out Noom, the weight loss and cognitive behavioral therapy
program. The app is more like CBT for upselling customers than CBT for
weight loss. Now I’m hoping they’ll delete my sensitive medical data and
refund the $3 they tricked me out of. (They did, quickly in...
Patterns in Humanity
Out-of-Europe: History of Migrations to the United States
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid...
11 months ago
Following the Renaissance period, a transition started occurring in West Europe, with rapid advancements in science and technology happening in the 1400s. With improvements in cartography, ship and other maritime technology, and an increased desire to understand and discover...
Ralph Ammer
David Hume — Why we change our mind
How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole...
a year ago
How do we know which food is best for us? We might start a low-carb diet. Then we switch to whole grains, or even go fully vegan—only to return to a low-carb diet yet again. We constantly change our minds. Even scientists keep revising their perspectives. Why is it so difficult...
Classical Wisdom
Do We Need Dress Codes?
Are standards elevating or elitist?
7 months ago
Are standards elevating or elitist?
Beautiful Public...
Mapping Volcano Eruptions With Drones
Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous...
11 months ago
Drones have become an essential tool to map, measure and observe the extremely dangerous environments surrounding volcanic eruptions.
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
5 months ago
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
Platformer
How you want me to cover artificial intelligence
Seven principles for journalism in the age of AI
a year ago
Seven principles for journalism in the age of AI
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
RSS in HTML
I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML?
I can’t find any...
4 months ago
I have a question: has anyone ever tried to standardize an RSS feed in HTML?
I can’t find any discussion around it — but I’d love to read more about the idea because it intrigues me.
The OG RSS was an XML feed.
Later we got JSON feeds.
So why not an HTML feed standard? (I know,...
A Smart Bear
Excuse me, is there a problem?
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that...
a year ago
Many startups fail despite identifying a real problem and building a product that solves that problem. This explains why, so you can avoid their fate.
TheCollector
Caravaggio: The Scandalous Crimes of a Baroque Artist
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4 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
The $650m+ Spirit Halloween business
Spirit Halloween has over 1,450 pop-up shops and makes all its money in only 2 months (September,...
7 months ago
Spirit Halloween has over 1,450 pop-up shops and makes all its money in only 2 months (September, October)
Artificial Ignorance
How to fine-tune ChatGPT
No GPU cluster required.
6 months ago
Elad Blog
Transcript & Video: Claire Hughes Johnson Fireside Chat on Scaling People
I interview Claire about her new book "Scaling People". Thanks to Stripe for hosting.
11 months ago
I interview Claire about her new book "Scaling People". Thanks to Stripe for hosting.
Seth's Blog
On to the next thing
Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all...
a year ago
Vitally important, rarely taught, easily messed up. In order to go onto the next thing, which we all do (unless you’re still wearing pajamas with feet and taking ballet lessons), we need to walk away from the last thing. Wrap it up, learn from it, leave it in good hands. And we...
alexwlchan
Creating a Python dictionary with multiple, equivalent keys
In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times...
a year ago
In my previous post, I was creating groups of students, and I wanted to track how many times students had worked together.
I created a nested dictionary to track the pairs:
pairs = {
'Alice': {'Bryony': 3, 'Caroline': 1, 'Danielle': 0, …},
'Bryony': {'Alice': 3, 'Caroline':...
Mark Manson
Pain Is Part of the Process
https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c
You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski.
He was a...
11 months ago
https://youtu.be/c3uoyCNIa5c
You've probably never heard of Kazimierz Dąbrowski.
He was a psychologist from the 1940s with a fascinating background. He studied with Freud's contemporaries in Vienna, worked with mentally ill patients, participated in the Polish resistance during...
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
7 months ago
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF
TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
Rest of World -...
Japan’s sleepy tech scene is ready for a comeback
After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some...
a year ago
After decades of slumber, the country that brought us bullet trains and Nintendo has mustered some momentum.
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830)
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
Dan Quach Blog
Data Engineering Low Code Tools
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our...
a year ago
In the data engineering space we have seen quite a few low code and no code tools pass through our radar. Low code tools have their own nuances as you will get to operationalize quicker, but the minute you need to customize something outside of the toolbox, you may run into...
Common Edge
Why Mass Transit in America Disappeared
A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric...
12 months ago
A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight.
Maps Mania
Mapping the Brussels Terrorist Attack
6 months ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Distraction-free writing: a failed experiment
This 2000-era word processor is the ultimate distraction-free writing
device.
Maybe that’s why I...
a year ago
This 2000-era word processor is the ultimate distraction-free writing
device.
Maybe that’s why I never use it.
AlphaSmart3000 in its Bondi-blue
glory
Before the term “distraction-free” made sense, there was AlphaSmart.
Oozing with early-aughts Apple aesthetics, the...
Mark Manson
Why I Quit Drinking Alcohol
After more than two decades of drinking, last summer, I decided to stop drinking alcohol for good....
11 months ago
After more than two decades of drinking, last summer, I decided to stop drinking alcohol for good. There were a lot of reasons for this, and obviously, there were benefits—I lost some weight, slept better at night, and no more ungodly hangovers.
But also some life changes...
Left To Write
StorySelling
How to skip the brain, bypass reason and head straight for the heart to sell
10 months ago
How to skip the brain, bypass reason and head straight for the heart to sell
Platformer
Bluesky's big moment
A new Twitter clone is surging in popularity. Could it have legs?
a year ago
A new Twitter clone is surging in popularity. Could it have legs?
Diaries of Note
Nothing can be less beautiful than the first sight of London
Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with...
12 months ago
Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with intellectual curiosity. Born in Suffolk, England in 1819, her now-celebrated journal contains not just her intricate observations of the natural world, but also thoughtful reflections...
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
7 months ago
We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
AVC
The Freedom To Innovate
Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over...
11 months ago
Back in 2014, USV got subpoenaed by the New York State Department of Financial Services (DFS) over our web3 investing activities. We hired a law firm, answered the subpoena, and that ultimately landed me in public testimony in front of the DFS staff. In my testimony, I explained...
Essays - Benedict...
Leaving Twitter
I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on
it, and I won’t be...
6 months ago
I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on
it, and I won’t be posting at all for the foreseeable future
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q2
When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market...
a year ago
When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market segmentation. In particular, you might be able to think about it in four segments Small Data – This refers to scenarios where companies have data problems (organization, modeling,...
The Roots of...
What if they gave an Industrial Revolution and nobody came?
Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You...
a year ago
Imagine you could go back in time to the ancient world to jump-start the Industrial Revolution. You carry with you plans for a steam engine, and you present them to the emperor, explaining how the machine could be used to drain water out of mines, pump bellows for blast furnaces,...
High Signal
How to make a $200k a year business - Mike Cardona interview
Mike Cardona is a solo founder who has managed to build a $200k online business by specialising in...
7 months ago
Mike Cardona is a solo founder who has managed to build a $200k online business by specialising in automation content and consulting
Daniel Bourke
Those days when nothing gets done
A lie.
9 months ago
The Marginalian
What It Takes to Grow: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on the Key to Self-Realization
"Self-knowledge... is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous...
a year ago
"Self-knowledge... is not an aim in itself, but a means of liberating the forces of spontaneous growth. In this sense, to work at ourselves becomes not only the prime moral obligation, but... the prime moral privilege."
The Marginalian
The Courage to Be Yourself: Virginia Woolf on How to Hear Your Soul
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
8 months ago
"Beyond the difficulty of communicating oneself, there is the supreme difficulty of being oneself."
Mark Manson
Why We Do Things We Hate
Many of us harbor a deep-seated desire to adopt a particular identity, often picturing ourselves as...
7 months ago
Many of us harbor a deep-seated desire to adopt a particular identity, often picturing ourselves as something that we are not.
For example, I've longed to be a surfer for years. The idea fascinated me so much that I even booked several weeks of surf lessons in Costa Rica.
Surfing...
The Convivial...
The One Best Way Is a Trap
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
12 months ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 9
The Pragmatic...
Uber’s engineering level changes
Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time...
a year ago
Uber revamped its engineering levels in 2022. How did the levels evolve over time, why was it time to change, and what were they? I’ve collected details.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Twin
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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The cape cost three dollars, but it's an investment.
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alexwlchan
Finding the biggest items in my Photos Library
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos...
7 months ago
I’m approaching the limit of my current iCloud storage tier, and most of that is my Photos Library.
I don’t really want to pay for the next iCloud storage tier – I’d be tripling my bill, but I’d barely use the extra space.
(My library grows pretty slowly – I’ve only added ~6GB of...
Maps Mania
Germany - the Dirty Man of Europe
11 months ago
This Space
Literature likes to hide
Last December I was fortunate enough to borrow a copy of The Unmediated Vision, Geoffrey Hartman's...
a year ago
Last December I was fortunate enough to borrow a copy of The Unmediated Vision, Geoffrey Hartman's first book, published in 1954. It is difficult to find a copy now but you can download a digital version of the book via the link. The opening chapter is a 50-page study of "Tintern...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Social Anxiety: Ask Marcus Aurelius
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
11 months ago
Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Beautiful Public...
Wild Horses
The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has...
7 months ago
The Bureau of Land Management wants to pay you $1,000 to adopt a wild horse. But the program has been criticized by animal rights advocates and subject to scrutiny by Congress.
Rest of World -...
Sierra Leone’s first lady hopes going viral on TikTok will secure Saturday’s elections
Amid economic turmoil, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election in Sierra Leone. His wife,...
10 months ago
Amid economic turmoil, President Julius Maada Bio is seeking re-election in Sierra Leone. His wife, Fatima, is dancing to a crowd of over 200,000 on TikTok to drum up votes.
somethingaboutmaps
On the Practice of Wobbling
We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools....
6 months ago
We live in an era in which maps (and plenty of other graphics) are made with digital tools. Workflows vary, but the end result is that a lot of us base our cartography entirely on clean vector shapes and neat raster grids. For example, I talked earlier this year about a map I...
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
6 months ago
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get
some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it.
And then the cycle repeats.
I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
Left To Write
№ 76: RIP Charlie Munger (1924-2023)
The investing legend, the goat of common sense and wisdom, and the Vice Chairman of Berkshire...
5 months ago
The investing legend, the goat of common sense and wisdom, and the Vice Chairman of Berkshire Hathaway
Commoncog
Lesley Sim on Skill Acceleration in Ultimate
Cedric talks to Lesley Sim about her experience coaching the Singaporean Ultimate Women's World...
a year ago
Cedric talks to Lesley Sim about her experience coaching the Singaporean Ultimate Women's World Championship Team in 2020, her approach to skill acceleration, and why a teaching technique designed for dogs and dolphins works just as well on humans!
Platformer
Elon's war on Substack
How Twitter is breaking — and its CEO is accelerating its fall
a year ago
How Twitter is breaking — and its CEO is accelerating its fall
Atoms vs Bits
I Have Opinions About The Production Of Pizza
The low-hanging fruit of pizza happiness, possibly
8 months ago
The low-hanging fruit of pizza happiness, possibly
detreville
The IBM 701
"IBM's first computer"
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
6 months ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! #1 💡 It's cool that smartphones have become all-in-one devices. But at...
Christopher Butler...
The Rhythm of Your Screen
Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is.
It’s 2023 and I’m still frequently asked by...
12 months ago
Length is not the problem; lack of rhythm is.
It’s 2023 and I’m still frequently asked by clients about scrolling. I understand why.
Every design comes with assumptions about how much content will be seen by people because the space in which people access our designs is...
Classical Wisdom
Can We Choose NOT to Be Harmed?
How can we train Resilience?
a year ago
How can we train Resilience?
Rest of World -...
Doctor-influencers are going viral in China, provoking authorities
Fueled by the pandemic, medical professionals have cashed in on Douyin, dispensing advice and...
12 months ago
Fueled by the pandemic, medical professionals have cashed in on Douyin, dispensing advice and endorsements.
Blog - Practical...
Why There's a Legal Price for a Human Life
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
One of the very first...
7 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
One of the very first documented engineering disasters happened in 27 AD in the early days of the Roman Empire. A freed slave named Atilius built a wooden amphitheater in a town called Fidenae outside of Rome....
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Power of Fast Feedback Cycles
I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position...
a year ago
I was hyperlinked to this comment where Rich Harris stopped by Hacker News to clarify his position on the (controversial?) steps Svelte is taking to move off Typescript in favor of types-via-JSDoc comments.
First off, I love how Rich prefaces his comments by basically saying,...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Get You Some Practical Accessibility
Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for...
12 months ago
Sara has been working on a new course titled Practical Accessibility and it is available for pre-order right now.
I’ve never met Sara in person, but have been an online follower for some time. She is one of those people who has the discipline and eye to make everything they...
A Smart Bear
In its emptiness, there is the function of a startup
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage...
11 months ago
Everything about a startup changes over time. The few things that don't, are its essence. The voyage is meaningless, unless you decide what those things are.
Trying to Understand...
Things Are Falling Apart ...
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
11 months ago
And the centre's not looking too good, either.
Passing Time
Full of Eternity
Home is a place where you have never been.
8 months ago
Home is a place where you have never been.
Quanta Magazine
A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory
Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property...
a year ago
Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property describing unavoidable structure in graphs.
The post A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Internal Tech Emails
"I don't want to create a paper trail"
I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can...
11 months ago
I would prefer that Omid do it verbally since I don't want to create a paper trail over which we can be sued later? Not sure about this.. thanks Eric
Diaries of Note
Color and I are one
In 1914, everything changed for Paul Klee. Whilst sampling the delights of Tunisia on a twelve-day...
a year ago
In 1914, everything changed for Paul Klee. Whilst sampling the delights of Tunisia on a twelve-day trip with fellow artists Louis Moilliet and Auguste Macke, he found himself profoundly affected by the light and colours of North Africa—an intense experience that inspired him to...
symmetry magazine
Spacetime: All the universe’s a stage
In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to...
7 months ago
In the 1900s, Albert Einstein unified the concepts of space and time, giving us a useful new way to picture the universe.
Castles in the Sky
Small Oven Syndrome
A New Name for an Old Problem
11 months ago
A New Name for an Old Problem
Diaries of Note
Why have children or plant trees?
M.F.K. Fisher was an accomplished author and gastronome who brought the art of food writing into the...
11 months ago
M.F.K. Fisher was an accomplished author and gastronome who brought the art of food writing into the realm of literature. From the age of nineteen she kept a journal, and this entry comes thirteen years down the line as she cared for her beloved husband, the writer and artist...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 6 (South Korea: Seoul)
I didn’t get much time to wander around Seoul like I did in Tokyo. Every day was a work day and it...
a year ago
I didn’t get much time to wander around Seoul like I did in Tokyo. Every day was a work day and it was a brief stop. So I was confined mostly to what I could see from the windshield as we drove through the city or from the hotel. However, this was my first trip […]
The post...
Seldo.com
On AI, ML, LLMs and the future of software
8 months ago
Laetitia@Work
The Worry Gap: why women worry so much more
Laetitia@Work #62
7 months ago
nanoscale views
What is a glass?
I want to write about a recently published paper, but to do so on an accessible level, I should...
12 months ago
I want to write about a recently published paper, but to do so on an accessible level, I should really lay some ground work first.
At the primary school level, typically people are taught that there are three states of matter: solid, liquid, and gas. (Plasma may be introduced...
Quanta Magazine
Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact
Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite...
8 months ago
Number theorist Andrew Granville on what mathematics really is — and why objectivity is never quite within reach.
The post Why Mathematical Proof Is a Social Compact first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
a year ago
I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Platformer
Elon Musk's creep show
Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's...
9 months ago
Caught in a series of lies about his willingness to fight Mark Zuckerberg, the billionaire's disturbing spiral accelerates
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stop
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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Today's News:
Seeking Wisdom
Few thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset
I’ve been writing my thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset for some time. I’ve considered...
8 months ago
I’ve been writing my thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset for some time. I’ve considered transferring some of these writings from Notion into this post. In physics, three laws can explain 99% of observations. However, in life, psychology, and mindset, 99 laws can barely...
The Marginalian
Some Thoughts about the Ocean and the Universe
How to bear the gravity of being.
11 months ago
How to bear the gravity of being.
Rest of World -...
The company teaching influencers how to get rich without going viral
Hotmart is quietly turning even micro-influencers into millionaires.
11 months ago
Hotmart is quietly turning even micro-influencers into millionaires.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Determined
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8 months ago
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Fortunately they were just drawings and not people.
Today's News:
The Marginalian
What We Look for When We Are Looking: John Steinbeck on Wonder and the Relational Nature of the...
Searching for "that principle which keys us deeply into the pattern of all life."
a year ago
Searching for "that principle which keys us deeply into the pattern of all life."
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - BAH!
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6 months ago
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Trying to Understand...
Into the Waste Land
Nothing connects.
a year ago
Quantum Frontiers
Winners of the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest
During the past seven months, I’ve steamed across the Atlantic, sailed in a flying castle,...
a year ago
During the past seven months, I’ve steamed across the Atlantic, sailed in a flying castle, teleported across the globe, and shuttled forward and backward in time. Literarily, not literally—the Quantum-Steampunk Short-Story Contest began welcoming submissions in October 2022. We...
The Marginalian
The Remedy for Creative Block and Existential Stuckness
"Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender... Only...
a year ago
"Faithfulness to the moment and to the present circumstance entails continuous surrender... Only unconditional surrender leads to real emptiness, and from that place of emptiness I can be prolific and free."
Quanta Magazine
Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering
Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting our perceptions of...
a year ago
Memories may affect how well the brain will learn about future events by shifting our perceptions of the world.
The post Memories Help Brains Recognize New Events Worth Remembering first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Neil Panchal
Eternal Robustness
"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take...
8 months ago
"Look, you can trust us. We can be depended upon. We are serious about our products and we take great care to provide you with excellence year after year. Your involvement with us will be predictable and stable."
The Convivial...
Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 8
a year ago
The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 8
Platformer
Google goes to court
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
8 months ago
On the eve of a major antitrust trial — and its 25th birthday — the company is bracing for a fight
Both Are True
switching to a "dumb" phone made me feel pretty dang smart
the Light Phone diaries
5 months ago
Seth's Blog
“But what if it doesn’t work?”
The best way to win a short-term game is to bet it all on one strategy. Someone is going to get...
a year ago
The best way to win a short-term game is to bet it all on one strategy. Someone is going to get lucky and it might be you. But we rarely thrive in the long run if we persist in playing a series of short-term games. Instead, organizations, individuals and teams do better when they...
99% Invisible
Player Piano [EPISODE]
The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of...
10 months ago
The Last Archive is a history show. Our evidence is the evidence of history, the evidence of archives. Manuscripts, photographs, letters and diaries, government documents. Facebook posts, Youtube videos, DVDs. Oral histories. This stuff is known as the “historical record,” but of...
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
11 months ago
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Date and Time with a Static Site Generator
Do you have a static site generator?
If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts...
12 months ago
Do you have a static site generator?
If so, how do you handle the date and time for when your posts are published?
For me, I record the publish date once: in the filename (e.g. 2023-05-16-my-slug.md). That YYYY-MM-DD string in the filename is the canonical location for my posts’...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Browser Defaults We Throw Away
Stefan Judis on Twitter:
I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a...
11 months ago
Stefan Judis on Twitter:
I'm diving into @remix_run and I strongly agree with the sentiment that a JS approach that includes writing event.preventDefault all the time is kinda off.
The browser defaults are great, and yet we're rollin' our own for years now. 🤔
I’ve been thinking...
Noahpinion
Here...comes...INDIA!!!
The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.
a year ago
The world has a new largest country, and it's on the move.
Contemporist...
This Park Design Was Inspired By A Volcano And Its Lava Flow
100 Architects has shared photos of one of their latest projects, a stimulating urban park in a...
a year ago
100 Architects has shared photos of one of their latest projects, a stimulating urban park in a newly built commercial and residential area in the port city of Ningbo, the second-most populous city in Zhejiang Province, China.
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