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Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 23-29 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
Daniel Miessler
NO. 358 | NEWS, ANALYSIS & DISCOVERY 🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But...
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🦃 We're doing our second-ever discount on UL Membership starting the day after Thanksgiving. But that's a Friday, so I'm going to enable the discount link earlier. How early, and how much of a discount? You'll have to find out. If the link works before the date, then it's...
TheCollector
What Do We Mean by Aboriginal Languages? undefined
a month ago
brr
Frost Everyday objects, but cold.
a year ago
The History of the...
We’ve been waiting 20 years for this The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been...
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The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been waiting 20 years for this appeared first on The History of the Web.
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Very Basic Form Styling Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I...
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Very Basic Form Styling 2019-11-13 Web forms can be great - I’m borderline obsessed with them. I love tinkering with pre-existing logins / sign up pages and I’ve also open sourced a minimal CSS form-styling plugin: Normform. While simple CSS plugins like these can be helpful, I...
Old Structures...
Visible Success, Invisibly A before and after photo of a recently completed facade stabilization and renovation project in the...
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A before and after photo of a recently completed facade stabilization and renovation project in the West Village. The rowhouse was constructed in 1846, is now in a landmarked district, and has an operating restaurant on the first floor and in the basement. If you look closely at...
Spoon & Tamago
A Glimpse Inside the Whimsical Wooden Miniature Homes of Yukihiro Akama Artist Yukihiro Akama is set to unveil his largest exhibition to date, ‘Basho no Kankaku – A Sense...
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Artist Yukihiro Akama is set to unveil his largest exhibition to date, ‘Basho no Kankaku – A Sense of Place,’ at Yorkshire Sculpture Park (YSP). Related posts: Whimsical Wooden Automata by Kazuaki Harada A Wooden Cabin Constructed Locally in the Mountains of Japan Using a 3D...
Light from Space
The Path to the Pillars of Creation Famously photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, here's my first look at the Pillars of Creation...
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Famously photographed by the Hubble Space Telescope, here's my first look at the Pillars of Creation in the Eagle Nebula (Messier 16). Total exposure time: 16h 5m Shot from my driveway near Tucson, AZ in April & May 2022 Telescope: William Optics RedCat 51 (250mm focal length ƒ
The Marginalian
The Universe and the Soul: Richard Jefferies on Nature as Prayer for Presence How to grow "absorbed into the being or existence of the universe."
a year ago
xkcd.com
1-to-1 Scale
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Kick off the Monaco Grand Prix weekend with these Formula 1-inspired Arduino projects The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the...
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The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the season. While most fans can’t participate directly — except as spectators — they can celebrate their passion through DIY projects. That’s why we’ve scoured the community to find the...
Vitalik Buterin's...
What else could memecoins be?
8 months ago
Old Structures...
Baseball in New York 2 Yesterday’s list of teams was fun to out together, but this is ultimately a blog about the built...
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Yesterday’s list of teams was fun to out together, but this is ultimately a blog about the built environment, so let’s discuss what’s really important: the fields and stadiums where the various teams played. Today: some of the fields in Brooklyn. The Brooklyn Atlantics, played...
diamond geezer
Just hanging around 25% of the 13 minute journey from Whitechapel to Paddington is spent not moving. I tweeted this...
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a year ago
25% of the 13 minute journey from Whitechapel to Paddington is spent not moving. I tweeted this on Thursday, and it currently has 616 likes. » Glad it’s not just me that’s noticed abnormally long dwell times. Very annoying! » The padding is incredible » God forbid a public...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Twitter as Universal Meta-Commentary Layer Musing about how Twitter can enhance your Internet reading experience
over a year ago
The Architectural...
Architects vs. the Public: A Surprising Study Sheds Light on Aesthetic Preferences Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study...
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Do architects have a different taste in buildings compared to the rest of us? A recent Swedish study delves into this question, and the findings are intriguing. In the study “Green City Branding – How People Respond to the Built Environment“, people were asked to rate five...
Stephen Wolfram...
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Quantum Frontiers
Now published: Building Quantum Computers Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and...
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Building Quantum Computers: A Practical Introduction by Shayan Majidy, Christopher Wilson, and Raymond Laflamme has been published by Cambridge University Press and will be released in the US on September 30. The authors invited me to write a Foreword for … Continue reading →
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Four Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sesame Street is to blame. Today's News:
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Amazon Smile gets a frown I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates...
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I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates 5% for referrals. If we pay charities a tenth of that and call it a donation, it’ll be great PR and we’ll also make a profit on every sale because we won’t need to pay a full...
Wait But Why
The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate Jeez The post The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
5 months ago
PHD Comics
10/22/21 PHD comic: 'Current Status' Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com ...
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "Current Status" - originally published 10/22/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Map of the Week
The Lost Subways of North America A new book by Jake Berman, The Lost Subways of North America explores the history of unbuilt and...
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A new book by Jake Berman, The Lost Subways of North America explores the history of unbuilt and discontinued transit in 23 cities in the United States and Canada. Mexico is not included because "Mexico's urban history is so unlike that of the United States and Canada."  Cities...
Map of the Week
A Blue Map of China This past weekend I finally got to the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library to see...
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This past weekend I finally got to the Leventhal Map Center at the Boston Public Library to see their exhibit, Heaven and Earth: The Blue Maps of China on one of its final days. Yes, I should have visited months ago when I could have encouraged readers to see it but though they...
Nothing Human
Against Positive-Sum Thinking why conflict is necessary
a year ago
Commoncog
Beck’s Measurement Model, or Why It’s So Damn Hard to Measure Software Development A pretty useful lens for when a business activity is easy to measure, and when it is not. Part of...
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A pretty useful lens for when a business activity is easy to measure, and when it is not. Part of the Becoming Data Driven in Business Series.
TheCollector
6 Conceptual Artists You Should Know undefined
2 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Remodeled 1970s Home In Seattle Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel of a 1970s home they...
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Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel of a 1970s home they completed that was originally designed by prominent Seattle Architect, Ralph Anderson. The 3-story home on Seattle’s Mercer Island was renovated and modernized, preserving what the...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIb: Imperium This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the...
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This is the second section of the third part of our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic. Last week we discussed the overall structure of the ‘career path’ for a Roman politician...
Old Structures...
Half Of A Grand Commercial Palace 380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base...
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380 Broadway has architecture above its station. It was built in 1860 with retail space at the base and loft space above, but it’s got that grand marble-veneer facade on the upper floors and some very nice cast iron by Daniel Badger at the first floor. It’s fortunes have followed...
Noahpinion
How homogeneous is Japan really? (repost) It depends on what you mean by "homogeneity".
a year ago
mtlynch.io
What Got Done - Month 3 Highlights I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea. Zestful has...
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Highlights I’m shelving What Got Done, as customers seem uninterested in the idea. Zestful has become my greatest challenge in not sweating the small stuff. Is It Keto continues growing in the background, with a 22% increase in revenue and a 35% rise in traffic. Goal Grades...
ntietz.com blog
What's hidden behind "just implementation details" Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the...
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Something I hear occasionally from some software people1 is something along the lines of: "Well, the hard part is figured out, and the rest is just implementation details." This typically means they've created an algorithm to do something, and the rest of it is all the supporting...
Charles Chen
Need for Speed: LLMs Beyond OpenAI with .NET 8 SSE + Channels, Llama3, and Fireworks.ai If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and...
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If your gen AI use case has a need for speed, then it might be time to move beyond OpenAI GPT and combine that with a backend capable of high-throughput concurrent processing.
Rest of World -...
Chip dreams: Young tech workers are flocking to Taiwan Southeast Asians are heading to Taiwan to train for semiconductor jobs, which is helping to fill a...
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Southeast Asians are heading to Taiwan to train for semiconductor jobs, which is helping to fill a talent gap at the world’s top producer.
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: Securing your phone Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your...
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Two more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about phone security: Securing your phone We take our phones everywhere and trust them with a lot of sensitive information, but have we put enough thought into how to secure them? Liz and Geoffrey discuss different...
TheCollector
What Happened When Vesuvius Erupted in 79 CE? undefined
3 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
9 Things to Do in Richmond
2 months ago
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 10 On re-rearchitecting.
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Giving more tools to software engineers: the reorganization of the factory It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe...
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It's a popular attitude among developers to rant about our tools and how broken things are. Maybe I'm an optimistic person, because my viewpoint is the complete opposite! I had my first job as a software engineer in 1999, and in the last two decades I've seen software engineering...
balajis.com
The Network State Conference Come to Amsterdam on October 30 to build the parallel establishment.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Southwark 25 Silver Jubilee: Southwark Southwark station opened 25 years old today on 20th November 1999. The...
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Silver Jubilee: Southwark Southwark station opened 25 years old today on 20th November 1999. The platforms are much like many of the others on the Jubilee line extension, but the concourse between them is unique. Step through and you enter a long cylindrical space on two...
diamond geezer
Bow Roundabout update #9 The roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue, and have a lot more continuing to go. Bow side of...
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The roadworks at the Bow Roundabout continue, and have a lot more continuing to go. Bow side of the flyover, although new kerbstones are now lined up along the new slightly-wider edge of the roundabout. major roadworks. For the last month one of these two lanes has been...
Map of the Week
Nova Scotia Map Mural I’m in Nova Scotia this week in places with poor internet so I was not planning on posting anything....
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I’m in Nova Scotia this week in places with poor internet so I was not planning on posting anything. Then I saw this fantastic mural on the side of a building in Annapolis Royal so I just had to share it. Enjoy!
Maps Mania
The Journey of a Vampire
6 months ago
Passing Time
Why Write? Other than the egotism, of course…
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Welcoming Harper As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah...
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As announced by Automattic and covered by TechCrunch, I want to take a moment to welcome Elijah Potter and Harper to join Automattic. Harper is a super-fast (way faster than LanguageTool and Grammarly), local English grammar checker. The technology is nascent, but I’m very...
Build In Public...
Metal detector for hidden revenue 💰👀🔎 Meet Lasso, an AI-driven sales prospecting tool that'll help you find the B2B prospects your sales...
a month ago
charity.wtf
How to Throw A Company Offsite In A “Post-COVID” World Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since...
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Earlier this month we had our first Honeycomb all-hands offsite in three years … our first one since February of 2020, before the plague. It was wonderful and glorious and silly and energizing and so, so SO much fun. It was a potent reminder of the reality that no virtual...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The default state of a startup is failure If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to...
over a year ago
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If you are starting a company and wondering why nothing good seems to happen unless you force it to happen, that’s because the world wants…
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 21 Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months...
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Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months and $32k over budget on a website redesign. I launched PicoShare, and it’s the fastest-growing project I’ve ever published. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what...
TheCollector
Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S. undefined
9 months ago
Liz Denys
Revised icebreakers for nicer New Yorkers You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You go to a friend's party, attend a work event, or just find yourself out and about. You meet someone new, and you're inevitably asking and being asked three questions: Where do you work? Where do you live? How much is your rent? Okay, you don't always encounter that last one,...
Making software...
This Site is Now a Shinobi Website This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My...
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This Site is Now a Shinobi Website 2022-05-13 Update 2023: this website is now built with barf My personal website is now an RSS-focused blog, generated from a collection of plain text files. But before we get into greater details about the switch, let me first introduce the...
Flashbak
Take Your Best Shot: Vintage Fairground Shooting Gallery Photos During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of...
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During their first participation in Paris-Photo in 2006, Lumiere des Roses shared a series of fairground photos of men with guns at the shooting gallery. These snapshots were taken mostly in the 1920s and 1930s. Many looks remarkably fresh.   When I was just a baby my mama told...
Stat Significant
How Streaming Elevated (and Ruined) Documentaries: A Statistical Analysis Unpacking streaming's embrace and erosion of non-fiction storytelling.
2 months ago
Seth's Blog
The hubris of creativity Where’s your permit? Who said you could try to solve this problem? I don’t get it… That’s too...
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Where’s your permit? Who said you could try to solve this problem? I don’t get it… That’s too original. It’s not original enough. You missed a comma. That’s not funny. That’s been done before. That’s never been done before. It’s not your best work. None of us are authorized to...
Posts on Made of...
Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had...
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Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index. By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I...
TheCollector
A (Brief) History of the IRA undefined
a month ago
Christopher Butler
Periodical 18 – A Personal Web I am building a personal web. My name is Chris and I am a data hoarder personal...
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I am building a personal web. My name is Chris and I am a data hoarder personal archivist. Current status of my “_archive” volume: 741,637,054,464 bytes (741.64 GB on disk) Audio: 267,269,859,244 bytes (267.29 GB on disk) for 8,902 items Images: 24,176,297,844 bytes...
Open Culture
William S. Burroughs’ Scathing “Thanksgiving Prayer,” Shot by Gus Van Sant “Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986” first appeared in print in Tornado Alley, a chapbook published by...
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“Thanksgiving Day, Nov. 28, 1986” first appeared in print in Tornado Alley, a chapbook published by William S. Burroughs in 1989. Two years later, Gus Van Sant (Good Will Hunting, My Own Private Idaho, Milk) shot a montage that brought the poem to film, making it at least the...
Londonist
A Map Of Women's History In London From Boudicca to Rachel Whiteread.
9 months ago
Londonist
"The Tube Is Ripe For Comedy - So I Wrote A Play About It" Chances are you'll recognise some of the characters in Cockfosters.
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Favourable Enough for a Writer' Jules Renard writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:  “I am in no great hurry to see the...
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Jules Renard writing in his journal on November 22, 1906:  “I am in no great hurry to see the society of the future – our own favourable enough for a writer. By its absurdities, its injustices, its vices, its stupidities, it nourishes a writer’s observations. The more men...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Shadow Cabinet of Writers' “All of us, probably, have some favorite unfashionable author. Occasionally a minority taste can be...
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“All of us, probably, have some favorite unfashionable author. Occasionally a minority taste can be powerful enough to make for some isolated masterpiece a small niche in literary history -- Henry Green’s Loving and Sylvia Townsend Warner’s Mr. Fortune's Maggot have both...
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
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...
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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.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Contrast Is Clarifying Which is best? Generalist or specialist? Native or web? Web site or web app? JavaScript or...
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Which is best? Generalist or specialist? Native or web? Web site or web app? JavaScript or Typescript? Framework or library? Server side or client side? Photoshop or Sketch or Figma? Designing in a tool or design in the browser? Skueomorphic or flat? Mac or PC or Linux? This list...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Calculus Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hope you're getting a good laugh, cybo-people of...
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 8 Most Popular Churches in Venice? undefined
9 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Using Pearl Ex Metallic Pigments to Enhance Screen Prints Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics,...
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Pearl Ex Powdered Pigments are metallic pigments that can be mixed into printing inks, acrylics, oils, encaustics and loads more. As printmakers we were keen to see how they could be used in various printmaking applications. We've tested them for relief printing and had some...
RhysTranter.com
Vivid Expression From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a...
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From distant Paris, Fr Huvelin offers spiritual advice to St Charles de Foucauld as he works as a gardener in Nazareth
diamond geezer
Anorak corner (rail edition) Anorak Corner [National Rail edition] passenger data from across Britain's railway network, this...
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Anorak Corner [National Rail edition] passenger data from across Britain's railway network, this batch covering the period April 2023 to March 2024. The UK's ten busiest National Rail stations (2023/24) (with changes since 2022/23) 1) -- Liverpool Street (95m) 2) -- Paddington...
High Signal
Black Friday 2023 deals for entrepreneurs Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page...
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Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page contains affiliate links. Courses Grow and Monetize your Newsletter - 60% off Monetize Your Newsletter - 60% off Grow Your Newsletter - 60% off WesBos - Beginner JavaScript -...
fast.ai
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
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a year ago
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
RhysTranter.com
The Letters of Thomas Merton I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books....
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I have recently finished re-reading Merton’s The Seven Storey Mountain, one of my favourite books. Now, I am dipping into the multi-volume edition of his letters...
Blog - Practical...
How the Hawaiian Power Grid Works [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In January of 2024, right on...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In January of 2024, right on the heels of a serious drought across the state, a major storm slammed into the Hawaiian islands of Oahu and Kauai. Severe winds caused damage to buildings, and heavy rain flooded...
Jonas Hietala
2022 in review A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice...
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A bit late, but it’s time for my yearly review. It’s something I like doing for myself and it’s nice to see that despite a tough year I’ve done some good things. 2022 Non-Geek Achievements We got our third child! This time we got a girl to complement our two boys, and I love them...
Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
a year ago
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
The Wandering...
Mapping “Buffalo Days and Nights” by Peter Erasmus The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920,...
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The Maps for Books collection has a new page: Peter Erasmus’s Buffalo Days and Nights. In 1920, Henry Thompson, an Alberta newspaperman, began interviewing 87-year-old Peter Erasmus, who lived near him in the area of Whitefish Lake, Alberta. Erasmus, who had been born in 1833 in...
The Modern House
A hotel with staying power overlooking the Atlantic in the Outer Hebrides of Scotland
a year ago
Unpacked
Tech's Pledge To Fight AI Election Interference & Twillio’s woes with Segment | EP 6 Last week, 20 tech companies across Big Tech, social networks and AI providers signed a voluntary...
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Last week, 20 tech companies across Big Tech, social networks and AI providers signed a voluntary pledge to fight election interference from AI-generated content going through 2024. We dive into the timing of the announcement (2024 is a big election year across the globe), some...
Commoncog
Lee Walker and the Dell Growth Plateau How Lee Walker overcame Dell's biggest growth plateau in 1986. A story about capital, imagination,...
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How Lee Walker overcame Dell's biggest growth plateau in 1986. A story about capital, imagination, and creative deal-making.
Archinect - Features
How to Get a Job at Workshop/APD Established by founding principals Andrew Kotchen and Matt Berman in 1999, New York City-based firm...
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Established by founding principals Andrew Kotchen and Matt Berman in 1999, New York City-based firm Workshop/APD has grown into a design force whose reach far exceeds the American Northeast with completed projects also in the Rocky Mountains, South Florida, California, Europe,...
abdz.do - Have you...
Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around ...
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Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around abduzeedo0212—23 Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love and remind us that it is all around us. This year, instead of buying generic gifts, why...
Jonas Hietala
Failed mime type for Krita I thought Krita worked fine… Until I tried to save. Krita crashed whenever I tried to save (or open)...
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over a year ago
I thought Krita worked fine… Until I tried to save. Krita crashed whenever I tried to save (or open) a file and gave the error: Could not find mime type "application/x-krita" Turns out if you reinstall the package shared-mime-info which comes natively with Slackware the...
Engineers Need Art
Adam74 The Adam74 is a small ASCII-based terminal designed for the 8-bit hobbyist.
over a year ago
diamond geezer
Summer Olympics of my lifetime Summer Olympics of my lifetime 10th October 1964: Tokyo Tokyo Melody by Helmut Zacharias - and...
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Summer Olympics of my lifetime 10th October 1964: Tokyo Tokyo Melody by Helmut Zacharias - and helped propel it to number 9 in the singles chart. As one of a limited number of 7-inches in our record box while I was growing up it got a lot of plays, and I still subliminally love...
TheCollector
5 Facts About Perun, the Slavic God of Thunder undefined
2 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
LLMs and Naming Things In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard...
a year ago
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In Simon’s talk around practical use of LLMs, he quotes the famous saying about there being two hard problems in computer science: 1) cache invalidation and 2) naming things. Then he unapologetically says the “naming things” problem is solved with LLMs. Here’s Simon: [When asking...
Flashbak
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Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
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This post is hard to write in a lot of ways. It's more personal than most I've written. This is presumptively a tech blog, and this piece is about so much more than technology. But it's important. Making things, software or otherwise, is ultimately about people. One of the ways I...
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A pet peeve of more than one of us at Old Structures is seeing buildings that are “faking” something that makes no sense. Examples abound, like weep holes in solid masonry walls. I noticed this building while on the train recently, with the star anchors that one often sees on...
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The nature of consciousness remains a contentious subject out there. I’m a physicalist myself — as I explain in The Big Picture and elsewhere, I think consciousness is best understood as weakly-emergent from the ordinary physical behavior of matter, without requiring any special...
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Externalizing Some Simple Topos Statements Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done...
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Hey all! It’s been a minute. I’ve been super busy with the UC strike and honestly I haven’t done math in any serious capacity for almost the past month. It’s been a lot of hard work trying to get fair contracts out of the UC, but I had a lot of travel plans this December to...
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Technology allows companies to collect more data and with more detail about their users than ever before. Sometimes that data is sold to…
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Why would you care about homogeneous coordinates, whatever they are? Well, if you work with geometry: 3D-graphics, image processing, physical simulation, — the answer is obvious. Knowing the mathematics behind your framework enables you to write more efficient code. But even if...
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A Concrete Ceiling Floats Above This Round Hotel Bar Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project...
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Portuguese architecture office Openbook has designed the Ritz Pool Bar as part of an overall project to renovate the terrace and galleries of the Ritz Four Seasons Hotel Lisbon. The bar has an organic design and total openness to the terrace, with walls of glass allowing the...
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Anecdotal Evidence
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With Tom Disch’s suicide in 2008 we lost not only one of our best poets, a fine writer of short stories and of one novel, Camp Concentration, but perhaps the most entertaining of our critics. His only recent rivals have been Turner Cassity and R.S. Gwynn. “Entertainment” and...
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Cocoa brownies are pretty magical, i.e. particularly good at staying soft and gooey, and Alice Medrich's ingredient list is nearly flawless. (Okay, okay, I can never truly stick to a recipe as written. Here, I prefer a little more vanilla extract and like to put a pinch of flaky...
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In my previous entry I wrote about constructing a four-point egg, using curcular arcs that join where their tangents are at 45°. I wondered if I could do something similar with ellipses. As before, I made an interactive ellipse workbench to experiment with the problem. I got...
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We may be in the early stages of a banking crisis: why, what we're doing to avoid it, and what we may not get about it.
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Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a...
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nanoscale views
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Over the holiday weekend, we had a paper come out in which we report the results of measuring charge shot noise (see here also) in a strange metal.   Other write-ups of the work (here and especially this nice article in Quanta here) do a good job of explaining what we saw, but I...
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A Black Interior Gives This Apartment A Dark And Dramatic Appearance Architecture and interior design firm RA!, has shared photos of an apartment they recently completed...
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Architecture and interior design firm RA!, has shared photos of an apartment they recently completed in Mexico that features a monochromatic interior. The 861 square foot (80m2) apartment heavily features black and grey throughout its interior, with the walls showcasing a mixture...
Anecdotal Evidence
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I know several industrious readers who read nothing but novels, not even short stories and certainly not biographies, poetry or other forms of nonfiction. Some are devoted to genre fiction – mysteries, science fiction – and at least one sticks to the “classics” -- Austen and...
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[Lots of links in this post… US offer is here, international is here.] Ideas travel horizontally. Not from the creator to the audience as much as from one person to another. It’s easy to misunderstand the insight of Kevin Kelly’s 1,000 True Fans. Decades ago he argued that the...
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Talking to the press is an inevitable part of marketing a game or software. To make the journalist’s job easier, it’s a good idea to put together a press kit. The press kit should contain all the information someone could want to write an article about your product, as well as...
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Why are so many famous YouTubers quitting? A legendary essay by Václav Havel — a Czech playwright and former President — helps to explain this trend.
Open Culture
A Bicycle Trip: Watch an Animation of The World’s First LSD Trip in 1943 On August 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthesizing a new compound called lysergic...
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On August 16, 1943, Swiss chemist Albert Hofmann was synthesizing a new compound called lysergic acid diethylamide-25 when he got a couple of drops on his finger. The chemical, later known worldwide as LSD, absorbed into his system, and, soon after, he experienced an intense...
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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.
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Introduction Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation Misc Introduction While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article, written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
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I recently migrated my blog to Jekyll and wanted to use the s3_website gem to deploy it. Everything worked out-of-the-box extremely well until I wanted to actually run the s3_website push command to deploy my site to the live S3 bucket. The command would hang for a really long...
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The DESK Magazine
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Stop reading right now if you’re looking for feel-good advice. This is not going to be that kind of article.
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Push Your Luck New campaign to make your Tube journey cheaper The Off Peak Fridays trial ends this Friday, after...
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New campaign to make your Tube journey cheaper The Off Peak Fridays trial ends this Friday, after which pay as you go single fares will return to their original peak values every weekday. But cheaper travel for deserving Londoners remains one of the key mission goals of the...
African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo. In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
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In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Christopher Butler
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For any luxury brand, it’s a prerequisite to have a retail presence in Hong Kong, and that has certainly been...
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Planned closures An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's...
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An extraordinary number of Underground lines are closed this morning. By my calculations that's 67 stations with no train service of any kind, or 25% of the entire tube network. What's more only 23 of these are getting a replacement bus service. Residents of Stanmore, Turnham...
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Recurse Center Day 8: B Tree Fill Factor (Part 2) I found out the answer to B tree fill factor
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Introducing Data Management for PostHog PostHog is growing fast. In just the last year we've measured ~36.5B total events ingested in...
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The CEO helping thousands of women in Latin America launch successful online businesses Zach Oschin is the founder of Elenas, an app used by women to digitize their catalog sales.
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Five months ago I gloriously declared that “my book was done”. Since then I’ve been working hard to finish the book. Sorry that’s a bit of a lie, I’ve had a nice long vacation where I didn’t work on the book and I’m also on part-time parental leave. And believe me there’s not a...
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a small life A few weeks ago my host emailed me that for some reason google bot was hitting my site so much that...
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A few weeks ago my host emailed me that for some reason google bot was hitting my site so much that it slowed down the entire server – since it was affecting...
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My friend Cory Zue has been publishing his live coding sessions, so I decided to watch one and record my notes. My background vs. Cory’s I’ve read a lot of Cory’s blog. We’re both Python developers, but he specializes in Django, whereas I’ve always worked with thinner frameworks...
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In-depth: ClickHouse vs PostgreSQL Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are...
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Honestly, it is a bit ridiculous to compare Postgres and ClickHouse. The two database solutions are as similar as grapes and grapefruit. ClickHouse…
bt RSS Feed
Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to...
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Setup Jekyll from Scratch on a New Linux System 2022-09-19 Special Note: Credit needs to be given to user Achraf JEDAY for putting these instructions together on Stack Overflow (although his comments were targeting an older version of Ruby). This post is more for my own personal...
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Urban researcher Alan Mallach on the global phenomenon of shrinking—and “thinning”—cities and countries.
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The importance of asking people questions Andy Weissman’s blog has the tagline “Maximizing the serendipity around you.”  It’s a good...
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Andy Weissman’s blog has the tagline “Maximizing the serendipity around you.”  It’s a good philosophy.  I think one of the simplest ways to…
The Marginalian
bell hooks on Love "We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until...
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"We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening."
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I have never once had a popular platonism joke but I WILL NOT STOP Today's News:
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43 Hours on the Amtrak Southwest Chief In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips,...
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In September 2022, after watching many YouTube videos of other people on long-distance Amtrak trips, I finally embarked on a journey of my own. I took the Amtrak Southwest Chief train from Chicago to Los Angeles. Continue reading to learn more about it and why I'll do it again on...
Oykun
Designers, charge more $$$ to help yourself and your clients. By charging more $$$, you are lifting up the quality of the outcome and satisfaction.
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You don't need JavaScript for that by Kilian Valkhof Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want...
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by Kilian Valkhof Hello, my dear friend of RSS! This post contains interactive demos. You may want to read it on the website. Please don't feel antagonised by the title of this article. I don't hate JavaScript, I love it. I write bucketloads of it every single day. But I also...
Seán Barry
Using snippets in sublime text to speed up your development How to leverage tools like snippets to speed up the development process and increase your...
over a year ago
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Things I learned last year 2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers...
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2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers across our range of products (!) 800% increase in…
diamond geezer
Cheam Charter Fair Every year on May 15th the people of Cheam hold a charter fair. Also much of the above may not be...
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Every year on May 15th the people of Cheam hold a charter fair. Also much of the above may not be true. Firstly there is no evidence that Henry III granted a charter to Cheam in 1259 or in any other year. Tradition says he did but no historical records exist to confirm this,...
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I am writing a book I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you...
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I have released the first chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems ! "Wait, what? Weren't you working on a video class?" - I hear you…
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Silver Line Extension The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority opened its eleven mile Silver Line extension on...
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The Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority opened its eleven mile Silver Line extension on November 15, 2022. I couldn’t be there on opening day but I still wanted to check out the new stations while they were relatively “new.” So I checked in with my frequent travel...
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Edit is the hyper-seasonal Hackney restaurant making the case for low waste
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The Deceptive Grandeur of City Skylines Empty office towers are likely to remain that way for years.
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The hot round fallacy I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on Feb 16. Here's a fun...
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I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on Feb 16. Here's a fun little paradox in fundraising: Founders and the media love to talk about how quickly funding rounds happen these days—think about the big, rapid-fire raises...
History Today Feed
‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review ‘Outposts of Diplomacy’ by G. R. Berridge review JamesHoare Wed, 09/04/2024 - 09:04
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Indonesia has more than 700 languages. Can AI save them? Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian...
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Most LLMs such as GPT, Llama, and Gemini are trained largely in English, but several Southeast Asian firms are focusing on Bahasa Indonesia and other regional languages.
Classical Wisdom
What makes a good friend? 'Birds of a feather’? Or 'the proverbial potters'?
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Setup While I was doing the Advent of Code 2022, I stumbled upon a pattern that should be expressible in safe Rust, but is beyond the understanding of the borrow checker. Although its use cases are probably rather niche, I still found it potentially useful. Anyway, it’s a good...
Scarlet Ink
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What type of leader do you want to be? One core identifying feature of admired leaders is how many people follow them to their next role. And trust is the core tool to improve that metric.
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High Signal
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Cory Zue has built a living making Django SaaS boilerplates for founders. It means you can get started with your SaaS much quicker
Open Culture
When Leonard Cohen Guest Starred on Miami Vice (1986) Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who...
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Leonard Cohen was Canada’s answer to Bob Dylan. While best known perhaps as a singer-songwriter who penned the tune “Hallelujah” — which was covered by Jeff Buckley, John Cale and just about everyone else under the sun — he was also at varying points in his colorful life a poet,...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kicking myself for not having AI balloons in the SMBC store right this second. Today's News:
sbensu
Default blind In a software business, it is hard to even know what is going on.
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Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of...
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By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data. The post Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Computer Things
How to argue for something without any scientific evidence Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of...
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Last week I got this interesting question: I want to write a book about automated testing. Much of the book would be me explaining the best practices I’ve learned. I know these are good practices; I’ve seen them work over and over again. But have no [scientific] data at all to...
Noahpinion
Bank weakness is how our economy cools off Not polycrisis, but stabilization.
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Probably...
Superbolts Probably Overthinking It is available to predorder now. You can get a 30% discount if you order from...
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Probably Overthinking It is available to predorder now. You can get a 30% discount if you order from the publisher and use the code UCPNEW. You can also order from Amazon or, if you want to support independent bookstores, from Bookshop.org. Recently I read a Scientific American...
macwright.com
Work hard and take everything really seriously Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or...
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Every few months on Twitter, there’s some dustup about work-life balance and whether it’s a good or bad idea to work hard when you’re young. Like most of these recurring debates, it has generated two opposite archetypes: The anti-capitalist tells the young worker not to trust HR...
Seth's Blog
A new cooperative workshop My colleague Ava Morris is running her Song of Significance Workshop on Friday, October 6. It’s...
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My colleague Ava Morris is running her Song of Significance Workshop on Friday, October 6. It’s powerful, effective and personal. It runs worldwide, in Zoom, and it’s completely interactive–every participant participates. This will be the third session… the first two got rave...
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John Zukowksy, a retired but still active historian, recently sent me a bizarre clipping from the Chicago Tribune about a plane semi-faking bombing lower Manhattan in 1916. The short version of the story: DeLloyd Thompson, an early aviator of some note, took off from the airfield...
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Sometimes while out and about I see something intriguing, take a photo and research it when I get home. Here are three of this week's serendipitous discoveries. North: Gilpin's Bell Where: Fore Street, Edmonton, N18 What I thought: Hmm, what's that lump of concrete in the...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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Edwin Arlington Robinson, not the sunniest of poets, writes to his friend Harry de Forest Smith on May 13, 1896:  “If printed lines are good for anything, they are bound to be picked up some time; and then, if some poor devil of a man or woman feels any better or any stronger...
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Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking to exploit them for backlinks and the alleged SEO benefits (although this is debatable given updates to the Google algorithm). I've previously discussed this in a post, detailing...
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Our flying has been quite slow lately because of the Covid-19 situation. I have, however, recently done several maintenance and test flights from our home airstrip, which as you can see, is about half underwater from the high levels of Lake Victoria. In fact, this is better than...
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A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen to start with London's oldest unchanged bus route, the 24's north/south run from Hampstead down to Pimlico. Rest assured I won't be writing a full travelogue because I did that...
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Apple just launched its new AI features with much fanfare, but are they truly intelligent or just a bunch of glowing gradients and sparkle icons?
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Early in my career, I navigated most decisions by simple hill climbing: if it was a more prestigious opportunity and paid more, I took it. As I got further, and my personal obligations grew, I started to think about navigating a 40-year career, where a given job might value pace...
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This will be the last issue of Writemas ‘23. It’s been tough juggling this, Bloomstory and other projects, but it’s been a lot of fun producing these short emails. As we enter the last week of the year, I’m trying to let the dust of 2023 settle so that I can regain
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If, as you read this post, it feels like you have read it or a close variant before, it is because you have. Each year, ahead of teaching my classes at NYU's Stern School of Business in the spring, I invite readers to accompany me on my journey, and this year is no different....
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I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was, as expected, informative and interesting. Obviously, that’s not what I’m going to write about here. The conference was at Convene (a place where you can rent space for conferences)...
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The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers. That is just mind boggling scale to me. It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in. They are paying a lot of engineers. Some of them do very...
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Design practice firm JK-AR has shared photos of a riverside pavilion in Gyeongsangnam-do, South Korea, which they recently completed that aims to reinvent East Asian timber architecture. Before the city was urbanized, the riverside was surrounded by bamboo forests. Inspired by...
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When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and obituaries mentioned that he was a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and quite a few also included mention of the Pritzker Prize in the headline. Although the Pritzker has long...
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Audible even over the squeal of an HVAC blower with a suffering belt, the whine of small, high velocity fans pervades the grocery side of this Walgreens. Were they always this loud? I'm not sure; some of the fans sound distinctly unhealthy. Still, it's a familiar kind of noise to...
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First, from a 1940s Sunday newspaper strip of Miss Fury, a realistic view down the facade of a fancy New York apartment house to the street: Second, from a modern Captain America comic, “the City of Manhattan”. Where’s that, Kansas? It’s been “New York” since 1664, “Nieuw...
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Creating mascots goes beyond just putting iPencil to iPad. It’s a long, confusing, and sometimes frustrating process which requires a lot of patience…
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.title {text-wrap:balance;} GIT - the stupid content tracker “git” can mean anything, depending on your mood. – Linus Torvalds, Initial revision of “git”, the information manager from hell Like most git features, gitcredentials(7) are obscure, byzantine, and incredibly...
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When we moved back to our childhood community and bought a house I had one pretty big requirement: I had to have a home office as I need to work remote. There simply isn’t any software development work for me here. So the later part of 2018 and early 2019 we’ve renovated an old...
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Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric design guru, give a talk online at an Islamic art conference, and I noticed that behind him they were projecting an interesting pattern on the scrim. I froze the video and grabbed a...
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over a year ago
Summary: Read about my efforts to solve the game of Ultimate Tic Tac Toe. It’s been a fun journey into interesting algorithms and high-performance parallel programming in Rust. Backstory Starting around the beginning of the COVID-19 lockdown, I’ve gotten myself deeply nerdsniped...