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The Elysian
Marginalia: How to run the world, the case against elections, unions championing WFH Notes from the margins of my research.
6 days ago
Quanta Magazine
Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s...
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The quest to find the longest-running simple computer program has identified a new champion. It’s physically impossible to write out the numbers involved using standard mathematical notation. The post Busy Beaver Hunters Reach Numbers That Overwhelm Ordinary Math...
Machine Learning for...
The Strange Reality of AI and SWE Hiring in 2025 Understanding the job market beyond 'the market is bad' is
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Yale E360
Wildfires Burning Less Land but Threatening More People A growing number of people globally are seeing wildfires encroach on their homes. That is not...
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A growing number of people globally are seeing wildfires encroach on their homes. That is not because wildfires are burning more land, however. Over the last two decades, the number of acres burned has dropped. The growing exposure to fires, a new study finds, is driven by the...
Retail Design Blog
Element store by atelier tao+c Multi-brand store Element first opened its doors on Shanghai‘s bustling Yuyuan Lu in 2019. Following...
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Multi-brand store Element first opened its doors on Shanghai‘s bustling Yuyuan Lu in 2019. Following a revamp two years ago,...
Seth's Blog
Centering Conversations and projects usually revolve around an axis. It could be a goal or an urgency or a...
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Conversations and projects usually revolve around an axis. It could be a goal or an urgency or a person. It might be the boss. Wondering what they want, what they need, what sort of mood they’re in, what just happened, what might happen. “What would Jeff do?” It might the clock....
Maps Mania
Using AI to Search Maps
6 days ago
Open Culture
Did Paul McCartney Really Die in 1966? How the Biggest Beatles Conspiracy Theory Spread No pop music can have inspired more scrutiny than that of the Beatles. Of course, intense and...
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No pop music can have inspired more scrutiny than that of the Beatles. Of course, intense and sustained attention has been paid to every aspect of the band’s existence — and, in the case of Paul McCartney, his purported non-existence as well. The theory that he actually died in...
History Today Feed
Basque Identity and French Unity Basque Identity and French Unity JamesHoare Fri, 08/22/2025 - 08:53
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ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The ROI of exercise The math on why exercise is a good deal.
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Londonist
Unbuilt London: Who Remembers These 21st Century Buildings We Were Promised But Never Got? Concorde Museum? Tower of Atheism?
6 days ago
TheCollector
9 Revelations From Viking Runes The Vikings were not prolific writers. They have left behind no written historical treatises,...
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The Vikings were not prolific writers. They have left behind no written historical treatises, religious texts, or even administrative documents. The Norse sagas and mythologies were written down in the post-Viking age, when the spread of Christianity saw Latin script adapted to...
diamond geezer
The Greatest City In The World Yesterday the Mayor of London made a bold claim. And rather than stoking pride, I thought "what a...
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Yesterday the Mayor of London made a bold claim. And rather than stoking pride, I thought "what a load of bolx". » Being "regularly voted #1 city in the world" proves nothing, indeed many cities achieve this accolade depending on what's being voted for and by who. London was...
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Have the Long List of Autodidacts' Robert Penn Warren in Democracy and Poetry (1975):  “The will to change: this is one of the most...
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Robert Penn Warren in Democracy and Poetry (1975):  “The will to change: this is one of the most precious heritages of American democracy. We have the story of the young Washington, who studied surveying and could, by the exercise of his skill, buy ‘Bullskin plantation,’ his...
The American Scholar
The Patient Penelope Fitzgerald Here’s to the English writer who waited until her ninth decade to finally experience fame in...
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Here’s to the English writer who waited until her ninth decade to finally experience fame in America The post The Patient Penelope Fitzgerald appeared first on The American Scholar.
xkcd.com
Coastline Similarity
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.08.22 - 15th Century New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
6 days ago
tomcritchlow.com
Featured on People & Blogs Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of...
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Thanks to Manu for featuring me on his series People & Blogs. I wrote a bit about the history of this blog and how (and why) I write online…
Tech and Tea
Coaching Toolkit: Sitting With the Unknown Practices for navigating uncertainty even when it's uncomfortable
a week ago
The History of the...
Do blogs need to be so lonely? If the web is participatory, and I really think it is, then how come blogging can feel so...
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If the web is participatory, and I really think it is, then how come blogging can feel so lonely? The post Do blogs need to be so lonely? appeared first on The History of the Web.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Pixel Tracking, Healthcare Advertising, And HIPAA | Out-Of-Pocket And what Ours Privacy does here
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Archinect - Features
Archinect City Guide: Visit Mexico City with Michel Rojkind Ready to explore Mexico City? With a population of well over 22 million, this bustling metropolis...
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Ready to explore Mexico City? With a population of well over 22 million, this bustling metropolis has A LOT to offer. So we asked award-winning Mexican architect and educator Michel Rojkind to host this Archinect City Guide and share a few select locations that architecture and...
Archinect - Features
'Running a Practice Means Becoming Fluent in Everything': A Conversation With Bolt Design... In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with Matt Dennis, founder of Bolt...
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In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with Matt Dennis, founder of Bolt Design Group. Based in Greenpoint, Brooklyn, the high-end multidisciplinary design and build firm specializes in large-scale hospitality, commercial, and residential spaces. The...
Blog - Practical...
California’s Tallest Bridge Has Nothing Underneath [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Foresthill Bridge soars across...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Foresthill Bridge soars across the valley of the North Fork of the American River just outside Auburn, California. At more than 700 feet or 200 meters above the canyon floor, it’s the fourth-tallest bridge in...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Why Radiology AI Didn’t Work and What Comes Next | Out-Of-Pocket FDA Approvals, PACS Pain, Selling Point Solutions, and Why Radiology AI Needed a Rethink
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Electronics etc…
Power Switch and Battery Replacement of an SR620 Universal Time Interval Counter Introduction The SR620 Repairing the SR620 Replacing the Backup 3V Lithium Battery Switching to an...
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Introduction The SR620 Repairing the SR620 Replacing the Backup 3V Lithium Battery Switching to an External Reference Clock Running Auto-Calibration Oscilloscope Display Mode References Footnotes Introduction A little over a year ago, I found a Stanford Research Systems SR620...
Dr Alun Withey
Jolted and Jumbled: Riding in a Sedan Chair in the 18th Century If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is...
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If there is one form of transport that perhaps typifies the 18th century more than any other, it is a sedan chair.  Recently I have been doing some work on stage coaches, and the experience of what it was actually like to travel in one. This is already turning up some interesting...
Farza's Newsletter
making tiktoks with the lads and eating chicken tandoori Tidbit has 3-weeks left to live.
a week ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Belzan, Liverpool This was actually my second visit to Belzan. The first, according to my iPhone photo history, was on...
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This was actually my second visit to Belzan. The first, according to my iPhone photo history, was on 8th May 2020, but was a little bit tricky to review as the building was operating as an improvised deli, with boxes of fruit and veg arranged amongst the booths and benches that...
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Those cheap AliExpress 18650 Li-ion cell power bank enclosures suck, actually I had a few old ThinkPad batteries lying around. They were big, bulky and not holding much of a...
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I had a few old ThinkPad batteries lying around. They were big, bulky and not holding much of a charge. Inside those were standard 18650 Li-ion battery cells. I have two TOMO M4 power banks around, and they are fantastic for reusing these old 18650 battery cells inside them. You...
Kagi Blog
The many benefits of paying for search “Wait, you PAY for search?” We get this reaction a lot about Kagi.
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ntietz.com blog -...
Visualizing distributions with pepperoni pizza (and javascript) There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a...
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There's a pizza shop near me that serves a normal pizza. I mean, they distribute the toppings in a normal way. They're not uniform at all. The toppings are random, but not the way I want. The colloquial understanding of "random" is kind of the Platonic ideal of a pizza: slightly...
Abort Retry Fail
Upgrading a Macintosh Classic II Some fun on a Sunday
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Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 25: you can just build things You *can* just build things.
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Spoon & Tamago
The T.K.G. Handkerchief from Chikazawa Lace We are absolutely in love with this T.K.G. (tamago kake gohan) handkerchief from Chikazawa Lace....
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We are absolutely in love with this T.K.G. (tamago kake gohan) handkerchief from Chikazawa Lace. It’s part of their 2025 Autumn & Winter collection that’s slowly releasing right now. The handkerchief, which will become available in September, features a bowl and chopsticks...
the jsomers.net blog
The McPhee method When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting”...
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When I first started writing professionally, for the Atlantic’s website, I taught myself “reporting” with a simple self-made curriculum unfolding over six or seven articles. The first two pieces I wrote from my head, with reference to things I already knew or to books I’d read....
FIRE v London
July ’25: New high watermark There wasn’t a huge amount to report from July. Politically/economically I fear the most important...
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There wasn’t a huge amount to report from July. Politically/economically I fear the most important event in the UK was the Labour government’s failure to enact its intended welfare reforms. This leaves the government a) unable to control spending b) unable to nudge the economy...
Global Inequality...
Gramsci and Lenin on transcending “parliamentarianism” and on direct democracy Century-old writings and today's politics
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Dreams of Space -...
Jimmy and The Spaceship (1949) To continue my obscure "space fiction" I have Jimmy and the Spaceship to share with you. This was a...
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To continue my obscure "space fiction" I have Jimmy and the Spaceship to share with you. This was a very small "pocket book" of a comic strip. There were other "Jimmy and the...." books but I really enjoyed reading this one. It reads like the typical space story but has its own...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
The future of large files in Git is Git .title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} If Git had a nemesis, it’d...
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.title {text-wrap:balance;} #content > p:first-child {text-wrap:balance;} If Git had a nemesis, it’d be large files. Large files bloat Git’s storage, slow down git clone, and wreak havoc on Git forges. In 2015, GitHub released Git LFS—a Git extension that hacked around problems...
Confessions of a...
How to Leverage the CPU’s Micro-Op Cache for Faster Loops Measuring, analyzing, and optimizing loops using Linux perf, Top-Down Microarchitectural Analysis,...
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Global Inequality...
How to learn about politics from two Democratic-leaning women in New York Tonight I went rather late (around 9 pm) to a rather expensive New York restaurant; not super...
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Tonight I went rather late (around 9 pm) to a rather expensive New York restaurant; not super expensive where the millionaires from the East Sude meet but one in West Village where mostly successful young (and not so young as the story will soon reveal) people gather to dine and...
Articles - Alex...
Marketing’s misleading metric Perverse incentives, and the unintended consequences that flow from them, can be found on every...
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Perverse incentives, and the unintended consequences that flow from them, can be found on every continent, in every time, and in every industry. And marketing is no different. This article argues that a malevolent metric sits at the heart of many marketing discussions and...
Laetitia@Work
4 Reasons why too few of us will work in the future Laetitia@Work #84
2 weeks ago
Bits about Money
Open Banking and payments competition Why the banks really hate fintechs that allow businesses to learn your account number easily.
2 weeks ago
Res Obscura
All Souls exam questions and the limits of machine reasoning The world's most eccentric exam is newly relevant in the age of AI
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Archinect - Features
AI Wrote a Better Cover Letter Than Me; I Don't Care As AI adoption in the job application process surges, I pit myself against four leading AI tools to...
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As AI adoption in the job application process surges, I pit myself against four leading AI tools to craft a cover letter for a fictional architecture job. After a 'spot the human' challenge among Archinect's editors and our readers, I share my thoughts on both the experience of...
Passing Time
As Wild as It Gets Wilderness is a resource which can shrink but not grow.
2 weeks ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How Should We Evaluate Healthcare AI? Some Thoughts | Out-Of-Pocket Maybe we’re thinking about all of these papers the wrong way
2 weeks ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Nou Bar del Poble, Peratellada There's a part of me knows, deep down inside, that it probably is possible, if you try really,...
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There's a part of me knows, deep down inside, that it probably is possible, if you try really, really, really hard, to have a bad meal in Spain. Burger King exist there, for a start, and although they sell alcohol as a concession to their European location I somewhat doubt they...