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Ken Shirriff's blog
A USB interface to the "Mother of All Demos" keyset In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human...
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In the early 1960s, Douglas Engelbart started investigating how computers could augment human intelligence: "If, in your office, you as an intellectual worker were supplied with a computer display backed up by a computer that was alive for you all day and was instantly...
Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla eats an Apple The rise of Intel Core
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Win Vector LLC
Is There a Difference Between Calculation and Computation? Recently I’ve been producing (for my own amusement) example Curta calculations. One motivation was...
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Recently I’ve been producing (for my own amusement) example Curta calculations. One motivation was arguing if a proposed solution method for Dudeney’s digits problem was something that could in fact have been easily executed in 1924. This got me thinking, is there an actual...
African History...
The Knights of ancient Nubia: horsemen and charioteers from the kingdom of Kush (ca. 1600BC-400CE) Among the groups of foreigners present in the Assyrian capital of Nimrud in 732 BC, was a community...
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Among the groups of foreigners present in the Assyrian capital of Nimrud in 732 BC, was a community of horse experts from the kingdom of Kush led by an official who supplied horses to the armies of Tiglath-Pileser III.
TokyoDev
Reduced Hours and Remote Work Options for Employees with Young Children in Japan Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees...
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Japan already stipulates that employers must offer the option of reduced working hours to employees with children under three. However, the Child Care and Family Care Leave Act was amended in May 2024, with some of the new provisions coming into effect April 1 or October 1,...
UX Collective
Cracking the code of vibe coding Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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ntietz.com blog -...
Big endian and little endian Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does...
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Every time I run into endianness, I have to look it up. Which way do the bytes go, and what does that mean? Something about it breaks my brain, and makes me feel like I can't tell which way is up and down, left and right. This is the blog post I've needed every time I run into...
the singularity is...
The Tragic Case of Intel AI Intel is sitting on a huge amount of card inventory they can’t move, largely because of bad...
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Intel is sitting on a huge amount of card inventory they can’t move, largely because of bad software. Most of this is a summary of the public #intel-hardware channel in the tinygrad discord. Intel currently is sitting on: 15,000 Gaudi 2 cards (with baseboards) 5,100 Intel Data...
journal – Winnie Lim
the art at our home It is just so easy to take things for granted, especially if they surround us every day and we’re so...
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It is just so easy to take things for granted, especially if they surround us every day and we’re so used to experiencing them. My partner started on an art journey shortly...
A Smart Bear
All pretty models are wrong, but some ugly models are useful Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those...
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Identifying useful frameworks for companies, strategy, markets, and organizations, instead of those that just look pretty in PowerPoint.
Daniel Marino
Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
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I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
Overcoming Bias
What Do I Want? It is relatively easy to identify a list of things that we want, in the sense of preferring a life...
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It is relatively easy to identify a list of things that we want, in the sense of preferring a life with more of them to less of them.
One Useful Thing
The Cybernetic Teammate Having an AI on your team can increase performance, provide expertise, and improve your experience
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Inverted Passion
Don’t compete The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations,...
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The Internet is full of people winning all the time. Someone is traveling to exotic locations, someone else is raising funds, and another person is winning awards. Essentially, everyone around you is succeeding while you do spend your days as the nature intended – sleeping,...
Dreams of Space -...
The Spaceman at Home and at School (1958) The Spaceman at Home and at School was a pamphlet for elementary school teacher. It gave them ideas...
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The Spaceman at Home and at School was a pamphlet for elementary school teacher. It gave them ideas about how to teach about space flight in the classroom with vivid examples. It was not about the history of spaceflight but rather how to build on the "Space Race" excitement...
Castles in the Sky
To Discard, To Preserve, To Bury, To Build | Friday Footnotes #2 Friday Footnotes is a weekly newsletter where reflection meets real life.
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SatPost by Trung...
H-Mart Stays Winning How the cult grocer went from a single Korean corner store in Queens, NY to America's largest Asian...
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How the cult grocer went from a single Korean corner store in Queens, NY to America's largest Asian supermarket with $1B+ in sales.
A Collection of...
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part IV: What Siege Equipment? This is the fourth part of our [five? -ish? I, II, III] part series on the Siege of Eregion in...
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This is the fourth part of our [five? -ish? I, II, III] part series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we took the opportunity presented by Adar’s absurd plan to dam a river using catapults to collapse a mountain to discuss the capabilities and...
Archinect - Features
“We’ve Matched 120 Community Members So Far” — AIA’s ‘Ask an Architect’ Initiative Reveals... Earlier this month, we covered the launch of the AIA Pasadena & Foothill Chapter’s 'Ask an...
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Earlier this month, we covered the launch of the AIA Pasadena & Foothill Chapter’s 'Ask an Architect' program aimed at helping homeowners impacted by the devastating Los Angeles Fires. The free program under the AIA in California umbrella, which will begin with Eaton Fire victims...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The New Out-Of-Pocket 10 year plan | Out-Of-Pocket It’s time for a new north start for this company
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escape the algorithm
Have you tried unplugging and plugging yourself back in again? A conversation with David Zvi Kalman
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Confessions of a...
Hardware-Aware Coding: CPU Architecture Concepts Every Developer Should Know Write faster code by understanding how it flows through your CPU
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CrimethInc.
Survival : A Story about Anarchists Enduring Mass Raids A work of speculative fiction. In November 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson launched...
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A work of speculative fiction. In November 1919, United States President Woodrow Wilson launched mass raids against the entire anarchist movement in the United States. Police simultaneously arrested thousands of anarchists in many different parts of the country, shutting down...
Tom Blomfield
Vibecoding a production app TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m...
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TL;DR I built and launched a recipe app with about 20 hours of work - recipeninja.ai Background: I’m a startup founder turned investor. I taught myself (bad) PHP in 2000, and picked up Ruby on Rails in 2011. I’d guess 2015 was the last time I wrote a line of Ruby professionally....
Ploum.net
Du désir profond de se faire arnaquer Du désir profond de se faire arnaquer Pour suivre les modes et faire comme tout le monde Stefano...
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Du désir profond de se faire arnaquer Pour suivre les modes et faire comme tout le monde Stefano Marinelli, un administrateur système chevronné, installe principalement des serveurs sous FreeBSD, OpenBSD ou NetBSD pour ses clients. Le plus difficile ? Arriver à convaincre un...
Marcus on AI
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others And they knew perfectly well what they were doing
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Coding Horror
The Road Not Taken is Guaranteed Minimum Income The dream is incomplete until we share it with our fellow Americans.
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Val Sopi
Messy is Perfect I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing...
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I always think that I’ll be happy when everything is running smoothly. When X visitors are flowing in, conversions are steady, the app works flawlessly, and revenue is predictable. But that’s not life. And nor is business. Life is messy. And there’s no such thing as perfect. At...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Best Stargazing Spots and Astronomy Experiences in Tucson
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Proving Binaries Heydon Pickering has an intriguing video dealing with the question: “Why is everything binary?” The...
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Heydon Pickering has an intriguing video dealing with the question: “Why is everything binary?” The gist of the video, to me, distills to this insight: The idea that [everything] belongs to one of two archetypes is seductive in its simplicity, so we base everything that we do and...
The Intimate Mirror
The Sanity Crisis The Ahrimanic Dysfunction at the Heart of Rationalist Culture
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Mind Mine
Great Art is about being seen while remaining invisible when intuition breaks through ego
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Citation Needed
Issue 79 – Mundus sine Caesaribus The crypto industry frees itself from the last remnants of SEC oversight, and Solana tries to appeal...
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The crypto industry frees itself from the last remnants of SEC oversight, and Solana tries to appeal to its target demographic by bashing trans people
GitButler
GitButler's new patch based Code Review (Beta) Introducing Butler Review, a new commit-based, chat centered code review tool, now in beta.
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Quantum Frontiers
The first and second centuries of quantum mechanics At this week’s American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California, John Preskill...
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At this week’s American Physical Society Global Physics Summit in Anaheim, California, John Preskill spoke at an event celebrating 100 years of groundbreaking advances in quantum mechanics. Here are his remarks. Welcome, everyone, to this celebration of 100 years of … Continue...
Uncharted...
Rise Up, Europe! The Five Beliefs That Cripple a Continent
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Construction Physics
Understanding Solar Energy The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as...
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The biggest energy story of the last fifteen years is the rise of solar photovoltaics, also known as solar PV or simply solar panels.
Irrational...
Operational mechanisms for strategy. Even the best policies fail if they aren’t adopted by the teams they’re intended to serve. Can we...
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Even the best policies fail if they aren’t adopted by the teams they’re intended to serve. Can we persistently change our company’s behaviors with a one-time announcement? No, probably not. I refer to the art of making policies work as “operations” or “strategy operations.” The...
watchTowr Labs
By Executive Order, We Are Banning Blacklists - Domain-Level RCE in Veeam Backup & Replication... It’s us again! Once again, we hear the collective groans - but we're back and with yet another...
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It’s us again! Once again, we hear the collective groans - but we're back and with yet another merciless pwnage of an inspired and clearly comprehensive RCE solution - no, wait, it's another vuln in yet another backup and replication solution.. While we would
The Convivial...
The Waters of Lethe Flow From Our Digital Streams The Convivial Society: Vol. 6, No. 2
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Krebs on Security
DOGE to Fired CISA Staff: Email Us Your Personal Data A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security...
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A message posted on Monday to the homepage of the U.S. Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the latest exhibit in the Trump administration's continued disregard for basic cybersecurity protections. The message instructed recently-fired CISA employees to get in...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
The future of AI is Ruby on Rails Large language models are very good at generating and editing code. Right now, it’s probably the...
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Large language models are very good at generating and editing code. Right now, it’s probably the “killer app” of AI: the companies actually…
DYNOMIGHT
Rewarding ideas If you were in South America 12,000 years ago and you discovered where a bunch of glyptodonts were...
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If you were in South America 12,000 years ago and you discovered where a bunch of glyptodonts were hiding or you figured out a better glyptodont hunting method, you could tell your tribal band and later they would say, thank you for helping us kill these delicious glyptodonts we...
Moneyness
Canadian banks as U.S. hostages? BMO Financial Center at Market Square in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Donald Trump has said he wants to...
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BMO Financial Center at Market Square in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. Donald Trump has said he wants to use "economic force" against Canada. In my previous post, I worried that one way this force could be wielded was through Canada's dangerous dependence on U.S.-controlled...
Matt Mullenweg
Radiohead It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a...
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It’s so funny that my random re-engagement with Radiohead re-emergence coincides with them doing a new entity that might mean something. I did a poll on Twitter and people preferred OK Computer to Kid A 78%!
Spoon & Tamago
A Chandelier of 28,000 Eggs and Other Scrumptious Delights Reframe our Consumption of Food The Osaka Expo 2025 kicks off on April 13th. And while we’re excited about some pretty niche things...
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The Osaka Expo 2025 kicks off on April 13th. And while we’re excited about some pretty niche things like Hello Kitty algae and attendant uniforms, one of Japan’s signature pavilions, Earth Mart, is shaping up to be delightfully delicious. Located within the expo’s Green World...
The Elysian
US states should have autonomy—like EU countries All we need to change is taxation.
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Adventures In...
Inner Glow Effect for Polygons in ArcGIS Online Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to...
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Sure, there’s a glorious drop shadow effect in the ever-more-capable ArcGIS Online Map Viewer to give features a sweet glow, BUT there’s no inner glow effect. How do we cast that beautiful glow inward? I’ll admit that I’ve been stumped by this one for longer than I care to admit,...
IEEE Spectrum
Squirrels Inspire Leaping Strategy for Salto Robot When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now)...
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When you see a squirrel jump to a branch, you might think (and I myself thought, up until just now) that they’re doing what birds and primates would do to stick the landing: just grabbing the branch and hanging on. But it turns out that squirrels, being squirrels, don’t actually...
lcamtuf’s thing
AI in infosec: the future is now, old man I do my best to keep punditry off this blog, but I don't always succeed.
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Artificial Ignorance
The Self-Made AI Engineer From writing about ChatGPT to becoming a professional AI engineer.
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Probably...
Young Adults Are Having the Children They Want — But They Want Fewer The most recent data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) provides a first look at...
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The most recent data from the National Survey of Family Growth (NSFG) provides a first look at people born in the 2000s as young adults and an updated view of people born in the 1990s at the peak of their child-bearing years. Compared to previous generations at the same ages,...
Map of the Week
Iditarod Course Change Alaska’s famous Iditarod dog sled race concluded last week. Global warming meant the route needed to...
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Alaska’s famous Iditarod dog sled race concluded last week. Global warming meant the route needed to be moved further north to start at Fairbanks instead of Anchorage. -Map via Anchorage Daily News While not the first time the route has run from Fairbanks, this year’s race...
Trying to Understand...
The Man Who Nearly Woke Up. Narrative found hidden in an HR Textbook.
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Stat Significant
What's the Perfect Song Length? A Statistical Analysis Investigating the "ideal" song length, and whether such a thing exists.
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The Ruffian
The Surest Way To Make an AI Lie Is To Tell It Not To Lie Shouldn't We Have Learnt This From Humans?
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Wrong Side of...
Disappointment of the diaspora Reflections on ‘Reflections on the Revolution in Europe’, Part Six
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David Heinemeier...
Apple needs a new asshole in charge When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best...
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When things are going well, managers can fool themselves into thinking that people trying their best is all that matters. Poor outcomes are just another opportunity for learning! But that delusion stops working when the wheels finally start coming off — like they have now for...
Atoms vs Bits
The Half Life Of Memory A radioactive model of personal identity
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Astral Codex Ten
Misophonia: Beyond Sensory Sensitivity ...
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Flashbak
Free Cannabis on Speakers Corner, September 2000 “I believe I have the birthright to cultivate and use the cannabis plant for all its uses. I have...
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“I believe I have the birthright to cultivate and use the cannabis plant for all its uses. I have used all the substances listed, with the possible exception of the MDMA (ecstasy), in a shamanic way.” – Mr Free Cannabis, Taunton Crown Court  September 2000   On 28, September,...
Paul Cudenec
Rising to our feet How does it make you feel to know that the same people who five years ago assaulted the world with...
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How does it make you feel to know that the same people who five years ago assaulted the world with their Covid scamdemic are today committing genocide in Palestine?
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #63: A major electric vehicle breakthrough?! Plus why the Democrats lost, the AI camera explosion, and more.
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The Honest Broker
The 30 Most Intriguing Musicians of 2025 (Part 1 of 3) Join my on a voyage of music discovery
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xkcd.com
Square Units
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Fei Fei I’m Fei, a printmaker and designer working in Beijing. I make cards, prints, and run workshops in...
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I’m Fei, a printmaker and designer working in Beijing. I make cards, prints, and run workshops in the city.  I have a day job as a brand designer, and I use my spare time to grow my printmaking practice.  Describe your printmaking process. I start with simple sketches in my head...
mtlynch.io
No Longer My Favorite Git Commit Six years ago, David Thompson wrote a popular blog post called “My favourite Git commit” celebrating...
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Six years ago, David Thompson wrote a popular blog post called “My favourite Git commit” celebrating a whimsically detailed commit message his co-worker wrote. I enjoyed the post at the time and have sent it to several teammates as a model for good commit messages. I recently...
Computer Ads from...
Vote for the March 2025 + Post Topic Time is running out.
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Beautiful Public...
WWII Japanese Mass Incarceration collections Haunting photos and documents document a shameful chapter of America’s history—the forced...
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Haunting photos and documents document a shameful chapter of America’s history—the forced displacement and incarceration of Japanese Americans during WWII.
Naz Hamid
Operating Rules for Email Collaboration Writing, giving, and soliciting feedback via your inbox. For over 25 years, I’ve been using email to...
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Writing, giving, and soliciting feedback via your inbox. For over 25 years, I’ve been using email to collaborate and work with people. Before there were any messaging platforms, project management tools, and hybrid tools like Slack and Discord, phone calls, Skype and email were...
CONTEMPORIST
A Home With A Curved Roof Inspired By The Land Around It Architecture and interiors firm Studio Saxe, has shared photos of a villa they completed in...
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Architecture and interiors firm Studio Saxe, has shared photos of a villa they completed in Tamarindo, Costa Rica, that has an umbrella-like roof that echoes the land’s undulations. The design process commenced with the creation of a robust curved silhouette, with pavilion-like...
Stephen Wolfram...
What Can We Learn about Engineering and Innovation from Half a Century of the Game of Life Cellular... Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow...
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Metaengineering and Laws of Innovation Things are invented. Things are discovered. And somehow there’s an arc of progress that’s formed. But are there what amount to “laws of innovation” that govern that arc of progress? There are some exponential and other laws that purport to...
Passing Time
Losing My Edge But I was there!
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The Pragmatic...
Survey: What’s in your tech stack? We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us...
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We want to capture an accurate snapshot of software engineering, today – and need your help! Tell us about your tech stack and get early access to the final report, plus extra analysis
Raptitude.com
The Best Things in Life Don’t Make Themselves Happen You spend your life doing things. Some of the things you do make themselves happen, and some don’t....
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You spend your life doing things. Some of the things you do make themselves happen, and some don’t. Sweeping the floor, even if you don’t love doing it, will eventually make itself happen, because you’ll get annoyed by walking through filth every day. Same with things like...
99% Invisible
Beautiful West Oakland, California When you cross the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland, one of the first things you notice is...
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When you cross the Bay Bridge from San Francisco to Oakland, one of the first things you notice is the massive industrial cranes that line its shores. Those cranes have become a symbol of Oakland – one way the city showcases its importance and connection to the global economy....
Both Are True
surely by now I'd have it figured out? Shirley?! + both are true town hall TODAY at 4p EST
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Society's Backend
If you want to learn machine learning engineering, start here How to get started and make the best use of Society's Backend
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Hidden History
World War One Trench Songs Today, we remember the First World War as a long drawn-out stalemate that resulted in four years of...
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Today, we remember the First World War as a long drawn-out stalemate that resulted in four years of blood but no gains by anybody—and a peace treaty that did nothing but cause another World War twenty years later. But less often remembered is the fact that the war was one of the...
Blog - Practical...
This Bridge’s Bizarre Design Nearly Caused It To Collapse [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Washington Bridge...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Washington Bridge that carries I-195 over the Seekonk River in Providence, Rhode Island… or at least, it was the Washington Bridge. You can see that the westbound span is just about completely gone....
NeuroLogica Blog
Living with Predators For much of human history, wolves and other large carnivores were considered pests. Wolves were...
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For much of human history, wolves and other large carnivores were considered pests. Wolves were actively exterminated on the British Isles, with the last wolf killed in 1680. It is more difficulty to deliberately wipe out a species on a continent than an island, but across Europe...
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #11: America Action Plan OpenAI Tells Us Who They Are
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Common Edge
Our Buildings, Our Selves, Featuring Michael Kimmelman and Kate Wagner Episode 2 of the Common Edge podcast explores the question: The age of the starchitect is over,...
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Scott Jenson
Design for a Small Planet Back in 1971, “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Moore Lappé made it clear the costs of eating...
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Back in 1971, “Diet for a Small Planet” by Frances Moore Lappé made it clear the costs of eating meat were far greater than we had assumed. If we wanted the planet to thrive, we needed to shift to a more resource-efficient way to eat. UX Design is going through its own “you cost...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Start a Sneaky Online Empire from Your Bedroom (In Silence) to Unlock Passive Income Here’s exactly how, thanks to Romeo and Juliet.
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Cheese and Biscuits
Interlude at Leonardslee, Horsham If there's one thing I've learned after nearly twenty years of writing about food in this country,...
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If there's one thing I've learned after nearly twenty years of writing about food in this country, it's that fine dining can happen pretty much anywhere. If Ormskirk, an otherwise unremarkable town in Lancashire previously best known as the childhood home of Marianne Faithful...
Rest of World -...
Tesla looks to India at a moment of crisis The company faces an uncertain future in the world’s third-largest auto market.
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Infinite Scroll
Podcast: Abundance ft. Derek Thompson My other job besides writing here at Infinite Scroll is hosting The New Liberal Podcast, and this...
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My other job besides writing here at Infinite Scroll is hosting The New Liberal Podcast, and this week I’m sharing an episode I recorded with Derek Thompson of The Atlantic.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading to Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 <![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian...
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<![CDATA[I upgraded my Raspberry Pi 400 to 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 based on Debian Bookworm 12.9: The desktop of 64-bit Raspberry Pi OS 2024-11-19 on a Raspberry Pi 400. Since I had no files to preserve the process was surprisingly easy as I went with a full...
Seth's Blog
Predicting the past It’s not unusual to encounter conflicting weather reports. One site says it’s going to rain, the...
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It’s not unusual to encounter conflicting weather reports. One site says it’s going to rain, the other insists it won’t. On the other hand, you don’t need a weatherman to know which way the wind blows. It’s sunny, right now, you can tell. A weather service that said it was...
Maps Mania
Open Access, Open Source: OpenTimes
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Noahpinion
I have written a book! It's called "Weeb Economy". But so far it's only in Japanese.
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History Today Feed
The Library of Ashurbanipal The Library of Ashurbanipal JamesHoare Tue, 03/18/2025 - 07:02
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Jorge Arango
AI is Probabilistic – That’s Why It Needs Constraints For as long as we’ve had computers, they’ve produced predictable outputs. But AI – in the form of...
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For as long as we’ve had computers, they’ve produced predictable outputs. But AI – in the form of large language models – represents a new kind of unpredictable computing. The key to implementing useful AI solutions is making the most of both paradigms. One of the oldest known...
Open Culture
A 6‑Hour Time-Stretched Version of Brian Eno’s Music For Airports: Meditate, Relax, Study Writing in his 1995 diary about his seminal ambient album Music for Airports, Eno remembered his...
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Writing in his 1995 diary about his seminal ambient album Music for Airports, Eno remembered his initial thoughts going into it: “I want to make a kind of music that prepares you for dying–that doesn’t get all bright and cheerful and pretend you’re not a little apprehensive, but...
diamond geezer
Reduced admission for older people Many London attractions offer cheaper tickets to older people. Reduced admission at age 60 33% off...
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Many London attractions offer cheaper tickets to older people. Reduced admission at age 60 33% off Cartoon Museum (£12 → £8) 26% off Museum of Brands (£11.50 → £8.50) 19% off Lord's Cricket Ground Tour (£31.95 → £25.95) 16% off Charles Dickens Museum (£12.50 → £10.50) 13% off...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Very Empire of Connotation' “[T]he partisan of parsimony sees prose as a vehicle for meaning and nothing more, even if...
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“[T]he partisan of parsimony sees prose as a vehicle for meaning and nothing more, even if their feigned rhetoric-of-no-rhetoric is in reality one of the oldest rhetorical gambits there is.”  I have a taste for two seemingly mutually exclusive schools of prose that may not be all...
nanoscale views
March Meeting 2025, Day 1 The APS Global Physics Summit is an intimate affair, with a mere 14,000 attendees, all apparently...
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The APS Global Physics Summit is an intimate affair, with a mere 14,000 attendees, all apparently vying for lunch capacity for about 2,000 people.   The first day of the meeting was the usual controlled chaos of people trying to learn the layout of the convention center while...
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How the Ambanis became the richest family in Asia. This is the third case on the rise of a tycoon, and the last one before we start talking about the core pattern in all of these Asian Tycoon’s lives. Part 6 in the Asian Conglomerate Series.
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Yellowhammer’s Nest” by John Clare appeared first on The American Scholar.
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"It is a vocation to become fully awake, even more than the common somnolence permits one to be, with its arbitrary selection of approved dreams, mixed with a few really valid and fruitful conceptions."
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Soundtrack: EL-P (ft. Aesop Rock) - Run The Numbers In my years writing this newsletter I have come across few companies as rotten as CoreWeave — an "AI cloud provider" that sells GPU compute to AI companies looking to run or train their models.  CoreWeave had intended
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The Chaos Monkeys are so masterful at distracting and confusing us with sensory-digital overload, we're not even aware of the game until the extortion begins. Chaos Monkeys excel at distraction and extortion. They appear suddenly, leaping about in disorienting mayhem,...
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Five years ago, there was precious little to look forward to. And then, all of a sudden, out of nowhere, Donald Glover released his fourth album as Childish Gambino, 3.15.20.  It was surprising, because Donald’s best known for his rollouts. Because the Internet’s rollout was...
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It’s been difficult to find important questions that quantum computers can answer faster than classical machines, but a new algorithm appears to do it for some critical optimization tasks. The post Quantum Speedup Found for Huge Class of Hard Problems first appeared...
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 39, down from 42 last month. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good. Builder Confidence Falls on Cost Uncertainty Economic...
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Ike Saul is the founder of Tangle, an independent political newsletter that aims to tell you the news from both sides of the political spectrum.
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Pauline is a French bootstrapper who has had a lot of success with her AI real estate SaaS. IACrea now makes over €10k monthly recurring revenue.
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I bought the Fairphone Fairbuds XL with my own money at a recent sale for 186.75 EUR, plus 15 EUR for shipping to Estonia. The normal price for these headphones is 239 EUR. This post is not sponsored. I admire what Fairphone wants to achieve, even going as far as getting the...
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