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Handprinted - Blog
Jigsaw Block Printing on Fabric Block printing onto fabric is such a fun way to create your own designs. Jigsaw printing allows you...
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Block printing onto fabric is such a fun way to create your own designs. Jigsaw printing allows you to carve just one block to print a multi-coloured design. By cutting our carved block into jigsaw pieces we can ink them up separately and print onto the fabric, knowing they'll...
Computer Things
AI is a gamechanger for TLA+ users New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on...
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New Logic for Programmers Release v0.10 is now available! This is a minor release, mostly focused on logic-based refactoring, with new material on set types and testing refactors are correct. See the full release notes at the changelog page. Due to conference pressure v0.11 will...
Epic Web Dev
The future of react-router just got a lot brighter (tip) Today we go over the recent announcement blog post of react-router where they talk about their open...
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Today we go over the recent announcement blog post of react-router where they talk about their open governance model and what the future will look like
Weighty Thoughts
AI is Overturning the Military World Order Operation Spiderweb, Implications, and Impacts on Deep Tech Investing
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The Gradient
AGI Is Not Multimodal "In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied...
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"In projecting language back as the model for thought, we lose sight of the tacit embodied understanding that undergirds our intelligence." –Terry Winograd The recent successes of generative AI models have convinced some that AGI is imminent. While these models appear to capture...
Cheese and Biscuits
Norbert's, East Dulwich They're like the buses, these rotisserie places. You wait years for a decent, affordable spit-roast...
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They're like the buses, these rotisserie places. You wait years for a decent, affordable spit-roast chicken in the capital, and then two come along at once. one in Holborn closed (where I would go at least once every couple of weeks back in the day), then Kentish Town, then...
Inverted Passion
Life as a physical process It’s always hard to define life. Everyone has their favorite definition – some describe it as a...
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It’s always hard to define life. Everyone has their favorite definition – some describe it as a struggle against entropy, while others describe it as an emergent property of chemicals. Countless books have been written on the topic, yet we’re far from a consensus. Against the...
Archinect - Features
'We’re Inquisitive Generalists': A Conversation With Bay Area Architects Figure In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with James Leng and Jennifer Ly,...
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In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with James Leng and Jennifer Ly, founding partners of Figure. While formally based in San Francisco, the studio enjoys great structural liberty by working mostly remotely — a strategy reflected in the geographic...
Map of the Week
Random Italy Maps I will finish off my series of posts from my recent trip to Italy with a few random maps I saw in my...
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I will finish off my series of posts from my recent trip to Italy with a few random maps I saw in my travels. Hopefully these are interesting beyond my personal whims. I will start with this raised relief map of the Valpolicella wine region hanging on the wall of the Tenuta Santa...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Adding graphics support to DandeGUI <![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output...
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<![CDATA[DandeGUI now does graphics and this is what it looks like. Some text and graphics output windows created with DandeGUI on Medley Interlisp. In addition to the square root table text output demo, I created the other graphics windows with the newly implemented...
Trying to Understand...
After "Victory." How much is enough?
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Global Inequality...
Difficulties with Fanon Observations stimulated by Adam Shatz’s Rebel’s Clinic
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Blog - Practical...
Why are Smokestacks So Tall? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] “The big black stacks of the...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] “The big black stacks of the Illium Works of the Federal Apparatus Corporation spewed acid fumes and soot over the hundreds of men and women who were lined up before the red-brick employment office.” That’s the...
Common Edge
Life Advice: “You’ll Do Fine If You Believe, ‘I Do My Best.’” Author and educator Steven Heller’s commencement address to the School of Visual Arts’ Class of...
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The History of the...
Exploring the web in 1995 By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone. The post Exploring the web...
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By the end of 1995, the web moved outward and into the hands of everyone. The post Exploring the web in 1995 appeared first on The History of the Web.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
What does Innovaccer actually do? A look under the hood | Out-Of-Pocket A conversation about EHRs, who their customers actually are, and building apps
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Is It JavaScript? OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest...
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OH: It’s just JavaScript, right? I know JavaScript. My coworker who will inevitably spend the rest of the day debugging an electron issue — @jonkuperman.com on BlueSky “It’s Just JavaScript!” is probably a phrase you’ve heard before. I’ve used it myself a number of times. It...
Musings on Markets
Sovereign Ratings, Default Risk and Markets: The Moody's Downgrade Aftermath! I was on a family vacation in August 2011 when I received an email from a journalist asking me what...
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I was on a family vacation in August 2011 when I received an email from a journalist asking me what I thought about the S&P ratings downgrade for the US. Since I stay blissfully unaware of most news stories and things related to markets when I am on the beach, I had to look up...
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy: Bottling that inspiration before it spoils Over the years, I've learned not to question inspiration. To simply let it drive when it shows up...
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Over the years, I've learned not to question inspiration. To simply let it drive when it shows up with a full tank. Quite often, I don't exactly know where we're going or even why we're going, but it's repeatedly taken me to just the right place at just the right time, so now I...
Strange Loop Canon
What happened in the 2010s? decoding a mystery
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NeuroLogica Blog
Telepathy Tapes Promotes Pseudoscience I was away on vacation the last week, hence no posts, but am now back to my usual schedule. In fact,...
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I was away on vacation the last week, hence no posts, but am now back to my usual schedule. In fact, I hope to be a little more consistent starting this summer because (if you follow me on the SGU you already know this) I am retiring from my day job at Yale at the […] The post...
History Today Feed
‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review ‘America, América’ by Greg Grandin review JamesHoare Mon, 06/02/2025 - 09:07
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Retail Design Blog
MSLAN corner by Devolution We designed a teahouse with a courtyard along the sloping lakeside terrain at CPI Luhu. The platform...
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We designed a teahouse with a courtyard along the sloping lakeside terrain at CPI Luhu. The platform in the courtyard...
Machine Learning for...
ML for SWEs Weekly #10: A New Way for Software Engineers to Learn ML Math An AI reading list curated for software engineers: 6-2-25
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Wuthering...
What I Read in May 2025 – “There’s the store that’s shaped like a duck,” Franca said. First, my poor email subscribers missed some of the installments of my newsletter about Anthony...
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First, my poor email subscribers missed some of the installments of my newsletter about Anthony Powell.  If this keeps happening I will have to think of something or even do something.  Here they are: A skippable piece of throat-clearing about the roman fleuve. What I think...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Two of My Science-Fiction Stories Published in May View this email in your browser A Change of Pace from Astronomy News  As you may know, I have been...
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View this email in your browser A Change of Pace from Astronomy News  As you may know, I have been writing science-fiction stories based on good astronomy as my retirement project.  After a good number of rejections from the finest sci-fi magazines the world over, I am now...
Abort Retry Fail
The Tandy Corporation, Part 2 Trash-80s get Colorful, and Trash-80s get into your pockets
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Kagi Blog
Kagi status update: First three years Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to...
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Three years ago, Kagi officially launched with a splash on popular technology forum Hacker News (to which we are eternally grateful for helping put Kagi on the map).
elementary Blog
The First Pride Was a Riot, and So Are These Updates Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these...
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Questionable puns aside, it’s Pride Month and we’re excited to celebrate by bringing you these updates hand-made by real LGBTQIA+ community members from around the world!—and possibly some straight cis folks too. This rainbow of releases includes some important accessibility...
One Useful Thing
The recent history of AI in 32 otters Three years of progress as shown by marine mammals
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Tony Finch's blog
moka pot notes In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti...
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In hot weather I like to drink my coffee in an iced latte. To make it, I have a very large Bialetti Moka Express. Recently when I got it going again after a winter of disuse, it took me a couple of attempts to get the technique right, so here are some notes as a reminder to my...
nanoscale views
Pushing back on US science cuts: Now is a critical time Every week has brought more news about actions that, either as a collateral effect or a deliberate...
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Every week has brought more news about actions that, either as a collateral effect or a deliberate goal, will deeply damage science and engineering research in the US.  Put aside for a moment the tremendously important issue of student visas (where there seems to be a policy of...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Sony SMC-777C One person, Eight languages. The 8bit.
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journal – Winnie Lim
on inner expectations I am not sure when it started, but I tend to feel like I am wasting my life if I am not doing...
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I am not sure when it started, but I tend to feel like I am wasting my life if I am not doing something creative or enriching. Hence it has been difficult...
Old Vintage...
Harpoom: of course the Apple Network Server can be hacked into running Doom a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead...
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a $10,000+ Apple server running IBM AIX. Of course you can. Well, you can now. Now, let's go ahead and get the grumbling out of the way. No, the ANS is not running Linux or NetBSD. No, this is not a backport of NCommander's AIX Doom, because that runs on AIX 4.3. The Apple...
Citation Needed
OpenAI featured chatbot is pushing extreme surgeries to “subhuman” men OpenAI's featured chatbot recommends $200,000 in surgeries while promoting incel ideology
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Build In Public...
How a rage post with 1M+ views on Reddit became an AI-powered real estate startup Featured: Exclusive interview with CEO of Zown who is turning hidden real estate fees into buyer...
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IEEE Spectrum
This Little Mars Rover Stayed Home Sojourner sent back photos of the Martian surface during the summer of 1997. I was not alone. The...
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Sojourner sent back photos of the Martian surface during the summer of 1997. I was not alone. The servers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab slowed to a crawl when they got more than 47 million hits (a record number!) from people attempting to download those early images of the Red...
Christian Selig
Embedding Godot games in iOS is easy Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really...
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Recently there’s been very exciting developments in the Godot game engine, that have allowed really easy and powerful integration into an existing normal iOS or Mac app. I couldn’t find a lot of documentation or discussion about this, so I wanted to shine some light on why this...
Flashbak
12 Variety Acts by the Wiener Werkstätte, 1907 In 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte art movement produced a set of 12 prints featuring different Variety...
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In 1907, the Wiener Werkstätte art movement produced a set of 12 prints featuring different Variety acts. These Varieténummer – Vaudeville performances – were both madly daring and fanciful. Mac Bull from Philadelphia (Act 11) would drive his car around a rainbow. A. Lucci the...
Construction Physics
Reading List for 05/31/2025 Wind wars, ALARA, power plant water use, grassroots opposition to data centers, and more.
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latest projects -...
Precision Clock Mk IV [Hardware] GPS synchronised, millisecond precision, automatic timezones and more!
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The Ruffian
Postcard From Copenhagen City of Chill
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The Marginalian
Imagine Water Otherwise: Robert Macfarlane on the Personhood of Rivers and the Meaning of Aliveness “Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river,” Borges wrote in his timeless...
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“Time is a river which sweeps me along, but I am the river,” Borges wrote in his timeless “refutation” of time. “No one can build you the bridge on which you, and only you, must cross the river of life,” Nietzsche wrote a century earlier in his directive on how to find yourself....
Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader September 11, 1961 September 11, 1961 So I came across another "stash" of old Weekly Readers that I am going to share...
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September 11, 1961 So I came across another "stash" of old Weekly Readers that I am going to share for the next few weeks. I have written before how these tiny newspaper appeared in our classrooms every week during the school year (and the summer too). I really love how our...
SatPost by Trung...
The Dyson Creep-Up James Dyson is 78 and just launched "the world's thinnest vacuum" in the most dialled-in 8-minute...
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James Dyson is 78 and just launched "the world's thinnest vacuum" in the most dialled-in 8-minute pitch ever. It will look great next to your Dyson fan, air purifier, hair dryer and other vacuum.
The Honest Broker
Substack Has Changed in the Last 30 Days The people who hate us now love us—should we be worried?
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AFAR Media - Travel...
7 Great Places for a Slow Travel Adventure
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A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, May 30, 2025 (On Professional Military Education) Hey all, we’re doing a Fireside this week! For this week’s musing, I thought it might be worthwhile...
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Hey all, we’re doing a Fireside this week! For this week’s musing, I thought it might be worthwhile – this being a frequent space for military history – to offer a brief outline of professional military education (PME) in the United States, which is to say the various stages by...
Marco.org
Retreating to Safety Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on...
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Ten years ago, Apple’s Phil Schiller surprised Apple enthusiasts and developers by walking out on stage at John Gruber’s The Talk Show Live WWDC event and giving an open, human, honest interview to a somewhat jaded community. I wrote this in response: Both Apple and Phil Schiller...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good or Bad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Leave the music and books, though. They were...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 120: DeepSeek's back May 30, 2025.
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Quanta Magazine
How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward. Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After...
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Reversible programs run backward as easily as they run forward, saving energy in theory. After decades of research, they may soon power AI. The post How Can AI Researchers Save Energy? By Going Backward. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Arduino Blog
What can you do with Arduino and a new 3D printer? When 3D printing matured from an industrial edge case to a mainstream commercial technology in the...
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When 3D printing matured from an industrial edge case to a mainstream commercial technology in the 2010s, it captured the imaginations of everyone from schoolteachers to fashion designers. But if there’s one group that really, really got excited about 3D printing, it was makers....
Atoms vs Bits
Is This Anything? 4 more thoughts
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The Works in...
The End Kidney Deaths Act Congress should start compensating compassion
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Classical Wisdom
King Croesus Fate, Fortunes, and the Fall of an Empire
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Both Are True
numbers aren't real and other realizations during BATLIVE #002 Mike Sowden is an enemy of the BAT
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Contemporist...
This Home Looks Minimal, But It’s Full of Subtle Emotion Natural light pours across stone, wood, and ceramic in this modern Mediterranean home, where...
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Natural light pours across stone, wood, and ceramic in this modern Mediterranean home, where simplicity is anything but empty. On Spain’s Costa Blanca, interior designer Maria Jose Aunon Cabrera and architect Pasqual Giner explore how geometry, material, and atmosphere can shape...
Neocha – Culture &...
A Life Laid Bare
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Rest of World -...
In a world first, Brazilians will soon be able to sell their digital data Brazil is piloting dWallet, that lets citizens earn money from their data, but experts warn it could...
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Seth's Blog
Paying attention to attention There are people and organizations that are working overtime to redirect and manipulate your...
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There are people and organizations that are working overtime to redirect and manipulate your attention. The question is: Are they more aware and careful in how you spend your attention than you are? The act of focusing on what we focus on pays enormous dividends.
Maps Mania
How the US Arms the Mexican Drug Cartels
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TheCollector
10 Historic Sites in Miami You Should Visit Florida’s history stretches from early Spanish colonization and the Seminole Wars to its role in the...
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Florida’s history stretches from early Spanish colonization and the Seminole Wars to its role in the Civil War and the Cuban exile era. But no city within the state reflects this layered past quite like Miami. Founded in 1896, Miami quickly grew from a swampy frontier town into a...
Open Culture
Harvard Lets You Take 133 Free Online Courses: Explore Courses on Justice, American Government,... Image by Rizka, via Wikimedia Commons In South Korea, where I live, there may be no brand as...
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Image by Rizka, via Wikimedia Commons In South Korea, where I live, there may be no brand as respected as Habodeu. Children dream of it; adults seemingly do anything to play up their own connections to it, however tenuous those connections may be. But what is Habodeu? An...
Noahpinion
Service costs aren't exploding anymore Another common economic narrative that's out of date.
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Yale e360
In California, Hummingbird Beaks Have Been Transformed by Feeders The profusion of hummingbird feeders in California homes has not only allowed some hummingbirds to...
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The profusion of hummingbird feeders in California homes has not only allowed some hummingbirds to expand their range, but has also altered the shape of their beaks. Read more on E360 →
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.30 - Mystery Solved New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Anecdotal Evidence
'When the Heart is Full . . .' “You say truly, that death is only terrible to us as it separates us from those we love, but I...
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“You say truly, that death is only terrible to us as it separates us from those we love, but I really think those have the worst of it who are left by us, if we are true friends. I have felt more (I fancy) in the loss of Mr. Gay, than I shall suffer in the thought of going away...
The American Scholar
The Birthmark The post The Birthmark appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Christopher Butler
PAC – Personal Ambient Computing The next evolution of personal computing won’t replace your phone — it will free computing from any...
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The next evolution of personal computing won’t replace your phone — it will free computing from any single device. Like most technologists of a certain age, many of my expectations for the future of computing were set by Star Trek production designers. It’s quite easy to...
xkcd.com
Check Engine
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diamond geezer
Great West Road 100 One of west London's most important roads is 100 years old today, the Brentford By-Pass or as it's...
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One of west London's most important roads is 100 years old today, the Brentford By-Pass or as it's better known the Great West Road. Hounslow council are making a big thing of it. The new dual carriageway swept through fields and parkland to the north of Brentford and...
pcloadletter
Generative AI will probably make blogs better Generative AI will probably make blogs better. Have you ever searched for something on Google and...
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Generative AI will probably make blogs better. Have you ever searched for something on Google and found the first one, two, or three blog posts to be utter nonsense? That's because these blog posts have been optimized not for human consumption, but rather to entertain the search...
TokyoDev
A Developer’s Crash Course in Coming to Japan Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to...
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Thinking about moving to Japan? You’re not alone—Japan is a popular destination for those hoping to move abroad. What’s more, Japan actually needs more international developers. But how easy is it to immigrate to and work in Japan? Scores of videos on social media warn that...
The Elysian
Our community round has opened—let's fund this book! + Join our call tonight!
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Twelve Mile Circle –...
Taming the Frontier, Part 2 The drive up to Michigan was something I did for myself, and I visited a number of historical and...
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The drive up to Michigan was something I did for myself, and I visited a number of historical and cultural sites along the way. But I took the trip to drive a kid home for the summer and now I had a passenger for the rest of the ride. So I front-loaded most of the […] The post...
mtlynch.io
Which New Language Should I Learn for Web Development? One of my goals for the year is to learn a new programming language. It’s been a while since I...
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One of my goals for the year is to learn a new programming language. It’s been a while since I learned a new language, and I feel like a lot of the languages I know well (Go, Python, C++) are similar to each other, so I want to try getting out of my comfort zone a bit with a...
ToughSF
The Laser Revolution Part II: Ground, Sea and Grid The revolution continues! Warfare on the ground and sea will be heavily affected by megawatt-class...
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The revolution continues! Warfare on the ground and sea will be heavily affected by megawatt-class lasers in the next two decades or so. And, as we'll see, there are transformative applications in industry, energy generation, transportation and remote sensing. Beams on the...
Probably...
Announcing Think Linear Algebra I’ve been thinking about Think Linear Algebra for more than a decade, and recently I started working...
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I’ve been thinking about Think Linear Algebra for more than a decade, and recently I started working on it in earnest. If you want to get a sense of it, I’ve posted a draft chapter as a Jupyter notebook. In one way, I am glad I waited — I think it will be better, faster [to...
Blog System/5
Beginning 3D printing A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks...
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A brief introduction to 3D printing, following the same steps I have taken over the last two weeks as a complete beginner.
The Elysian
How Silicon Valley got rich And how everyone else can get rich too.
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Escaping Flatland
On the pleasure of reading private notebooks One reason I like this genre is that people censor themselves less when they are writing in private.
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Herman's blog
Nerding out about heaters Keeping warm in the winter
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Adventures In...
Make a cross stitch style map in ArcGIS Pro Yes, yes, maps are spatial communication devices and we can obsess over precision and clarity. But...
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Yes, yes, maps are spatial communication devices and we can obsess over precision and clarity. But it all depends on your map’s purpose. Maps are also designed objects so they can carry within them the power of sentiment. Memory, joy, nostalgia. Or just plain old wonder and...
Patterns in Humanity
Cohort fertility projections Addressing the lag in cohort fertility data
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Quantum Frontiers
I know I am but what are you? Mind and Matter in Quantum Mechanics Nowadays it is best to exercise caution when bringing the words “quantum” and “consciousness”...
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Nowadays it is best to exercise caution when bringing the words “quantum” and “consciousness” anywhere near each other, lest you be suspected of mysticism or quackery. Eugene Wigner did not concern himself with this when he wrote his “Remarks on … Continue reading →
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Desperate Times, Desperate Measures Next year is going to be big. Well, I personally don't think it'll be big, but if you ask the AI...
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Next year is going to be big. Well, I personally don't think it'll be big, but if you ask the AI industry, here's the things that will happen by the end of 2026: According to the Financial Times, OpenAI's Stargate data center
Nat Eliason's...
IT'S TIME! My Sci-Fi Thriller Husk is Now Available Plus some thoughts on this journey
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99% Invisible
Build, Interrupted: A Conversation with Ezra Klein In 2022, a group of developers proposed transforming a Nordstrom parking lot in San Francisco into...
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In 2022, a group of developers proposed transforming a Nordstrom parking lot in San Francisco into nearly 500 apartments, many of them affordable and close to public transit. But before they could even begin the formal approval process, they faced a preliminary review. This step...