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[Renovated] Mathematical analysis explained with Python, blood, and TNT A brief introduction to mathematical analysis with a little SymPy on the side. The page explains how...
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A brief introduction to mathematical analysis with a little SymPy on the side. The page explains how to disassemble a function, and how to assemble it back from the derivatives.
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance? undefined
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Uber Eats drivers in South Africa are unionizing Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are...
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Citing meager wages, no safety gear, and exploitative working conditions, the country’s drivers are organizing to demand better.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - More Beautiful Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It was the only way to save you. Today's News:
a year ago
Inverted Passion
Not everything is physics The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that...
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The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that I re-read it 8 times. As a young boy, the book had made a lasting impression on me, making me fall in love with ideas such as the arrow of time, black holes, entropy,… Read...
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Wish That He’d Arrived Much Sooner' I offended a reader by referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a brilliant windbag junkie.” Let’s...
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a year ago
I offended a reader by referring to Samuel Taylor Coleridge as “a brilliant windbag junkie.” Let’s consider each part of the epithet. “Brilliant”? Without question. He wrote three incontestably good poems but Coleridge is an early specimen of the “public intellectual,” bristling...
Contemporist...
The Black Exterior Of This Home Leads To A Pink Kitchen Inside Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they completed in Wivenhoe, England, for an artist...
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Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they completed in Wivenhoe, England, for an artist who wanted a light-filled interior with room to work and to entertain.
PostHog's RSS Feed
Counterintuitive lessons about our pricing Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a...
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over a year ago
Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a real chance to get you there. Here is a breakdown…
Christopher Butler
The Elements of Good Craft How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft. Attention to Detail The number one...
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How details, focus, time, and taste elevate craft. Attention to Detail The number one distinction among designers who need a lot of direction and designers who do not is their attention to detail. This is because attention to detail is commonly misunderstood. Attention...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 4 Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue...
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Highlights TinyPilot hit $10k in revenue. That’s a record high for me and exceeds my total revenue for all of 2019. I interviewed several IT consultants and business owners about what TinyPilot features would be useful to them. I tested several new marketing channels and realized...
Drew Ex Machina
The Largest Launch Vehicles in Service – 1957 to the Present With the successful launch of NASA’s Artemis I test flight, we now have a new holder of the title...
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With the successful launch of NASA’s Artemis I test flight, we now have a new holder of the title “the largest launch vehicle in service”: the […]
Overcoming Bias
Our Authoritarian Default Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently...
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2 months ago
Many intellectuals, and intellectual wannabes, would, if pressed accept that UFOs seem sufficiently puzzling to justify more careful study.
Rest of World -...
40 companies that are beating the West Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley...
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Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination.
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding the Difference Between Image and Vector File Types If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences...
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over a year ago
If you’re like me, you’ve probably spent some time wondering (and Googling) about the differences between various popular format types commonly used for graphic design applications. So I decided I’d create a resource that’s hopefully a handy reference on the matter of discerning...
ntietz.com blog
My first impressions from a few weeks with Lean and Coq For the last few weeks, some of us have been working through learning about interactive theorem...
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over a year ago
For the last few weeks, some of us have been working through learning about interactive theorem proving together at Recurse Center. I've been curious about proof assistants since undergrad, and finally have the time, space, and peers to dive into it with. It's been an interesting...
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets undefined
10 months ago
Style over Substance
Adding night shading to a Home Assistant mini-graph-card chart One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih....
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One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih. It’s the card running most of the graphs in our smart home‘s dashboard. Surprisingly, mini-graph card is actually not included in Home Assistant by default – honestly, it should be,...
./techtipsy
Cool links This is an unsorted list of links that I find to be cool. slow roads sit back, relax and let the AI...
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This is an unsorted list of links that I find to be cool. slow roads sit back, relax and let the AI do all the driving or don’t, I’m not your dad
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Should we charge for patient messaging? | Out-Of-Pocket guess I'm texting my resident friends
a year ago
Society's Backend
OpenAI's Strawberry May Enhance AI Reasoning, Optimization of Vision Language Models, Info on... Weekly updates and resources 7/15/24
5 months ago
TheCollector
The Musée d’Orsay Held An Immersive Van Gogh Show undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
How Did Libyan Migration Influence Egyptian Religion? undefined
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Moneyness
How is the foreign expansion of Canadian banks going? With the high profile nixing of TD Bank's purchase of First Horizon Bank last month, I thought I'd...
a year ago
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With the high profile nixing of TD Bank's purchase of First Horizon Bank last month, I thought I'd take a step back and try to visualize the last few decades of Canadian bank expansion outside of the country. What I've done is go through the annual reports of the big-5 banks at...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Subprime Intelligence Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this...
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Please scroll to the bottom for news on my next big project, Better Offline, coming this Wednesday! Last week, Sam Altman debuted OpenAI's "Sora," a text-to-video AI model that turns strings of text into full-blown videos, much like how OpenAI's DALL-E turns text into
Matt Mazur
Preceden’s Spam Problem Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS...
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Around a year ago, I started noticing some spammy timelines being created on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I’m honestly surprised it took spammers so long: Preceden is a freemium product (meaning people can sign up and try it for free), the product makes it very easy to...
TheCollector
What Is Intuition & Can You Trust It? undefined
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Both Are True
Beautiful Disasters “you can’t get addicted to weed.” wanna bet?
a year ago
McMansion Hell
every small city has that one dictator chic house I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking...
a year ago
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I don’t know why, but every city, no matter how big, has some insanely stacked dictator-looking McMansion somewhere outside the city limits. If you sort your Zillow results as Price: High - Low, this house will pop up first. It costs something like $5,000,000. It is 10,000 square...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
How to Make Prairie Dogs Clap Their Hands Prairie dogs can’t clap. Their short arms can’t stretch across their pudgy bodies. When they spot me...
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Prairie dogs can’t clap. Their short arms can’t stretch across their pudgy bodies. When they spot me running through their field they duck into their holes for cover. As I pass they chirp prairie dog profanity at me. They seem to shake their tiny fists, threatening me, telling me...
Arduino Blog
Can remote co-presence keep distant human connections alive? The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social...
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The pandemic made a lot of things obvious, not the least of which is that humans need social interaction to maintain good mental health. Sadly, many of us spend our lives physically separated from our loved ones by great distances or inopportune circumstances. That’s why a team...
Retail Design Blog
Gen Digital Offices by HKS HKS Inc transformed a dormant building into Gen Digital’s vibrant Mountain View office, embodying...
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3 weeks ago
HKS Inc transformed a dormant building into Gen Digital’s vibrant Mountain View office, embodying the company’s mission emphasizing innovation, hospitality,...
NeuroLogica Blog
Giant Eels, Loch Ness, and Probability At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know,...
a year ago
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At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know, logically it is impossible to prove a negative, so if we want to be technical we can say that the probability of a large creature similar to that believed to be Nessie approaches zero....
Open Culture
The Olympics in the 2020s Versus 1912: See Side-by-Side Comparisons of the Athletes’ Performance... The Olympic Games have their origins in antiquity, but their modern revival has also been going on...
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The Olympic Games have their origins in antiquity, but their modern revival has also been going on longer than any of us has been here. Even the fifth Summer Olympics, which took place in Stockholm in 1912, has passed out of living memory. But thanks to the technology of the...
This Space
Notes from overground Seventeen years ago my copy of Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land was delayed in the post and...
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Seventeen years ago my copy of Richard Ford's The Lay of the Land was delayed in the post and arrived long after the novel had been reviewed in all the big newspapers so, instead of riding the wave of publication, I was dragged under by its backwash. I had to answer a question...
Tech + Economics +...
Apple’s LLM gap is real. It might not last much longer. Apple has carved out a prestigious position in the consumer tech market through sleek designs,...
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Apple has carved out a prestigious position in the consumer tech market through sleek designs, user-friendly interfaces, and a robust ecosystem. The data is clear - Apple is the market and perception leader in every category that matters. But developments in Large Language...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Twitter of Inconsequent Vitality' This week I will interview a professor of chemical engineering who is retiring after forty-four...
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This week I will interview a professor of chemical engineering who is retiring after forty-four years on the faculty. He came to the university straight from earning his Ph.D. He’s neither flashy nor hungry for publicity, and I was surprised he agreed to speak with me. He has a...
Max Countryman
Grow In Public There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are...
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There's a secret when it comes optimizing growth: it's about doing our work in public. But there are barriers that can make this difficult or even impossible. Here's how we build a culture that enables building in public.
TheCollector
11 Facts About Tintoretto You Should Know undefined
a year ago
The Convivial...
Chats, Notes, and Patrons A brief welcome to the Convivial Society and update about new features
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Beware the leviathans I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for...
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I've been pleading with antitrust authorities around the world to do something about Big Tech for years now. Especially with those awful app store monopolies that have been choking out developers left, right, and center. But now that something finally looks to be happening, I'm...
Build In Public...
Meet Turf Imagine having a Swiss Army Knife for your community use cases
5 months ago
The Ruffian
Rattle Bag Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
a year ago
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Thoughts on the Boris brand, Biden's prospects, why the Brits got so good at pop, and what to read.
CONTEMPORIST
Brass-Lined Arches Connect The Kitchen With The Dining Room Inside This Home Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with...
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Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with the kitchen featuring brass design accents. Their clients, a Toronto couple, has opposite tastes: he is an enthusiast of tenebrous minimalism, and she is a lover of bright French...
Seth's Blog
Overconfidence and AI Human beings are often more effective when we’re a bit self-effacing. “I think,” “Perhaps,” or “I...
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Human beings are often more effective when we’re a bit self-effacing. “I think,” “Perhaps,” or “I might be missing something, but…” are fine ways to give our assertions a chance to be considered. The solar-powered LED calculator we used in school did no such thing. 6 x 7 is 42,...
latest projects -...
Analemmagraph [Concept] Video of a day, one year in every frame
a year ago
Maps Mania
Mapping the Alien Invasion
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Then Came the Barbarians' “Prose poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll kill him or at...
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“Prose poetry” suggests transfusing a patient with a blood type not his own. You’ll kill him or at least make him sick. When I confront a prose poem I run, though sometimes I pause to laugh and then run. The question becomes, which is worse: the poet’s ineptness or his...
The Honest Broker
How to Break Free from Dopamine Culture My quest for a healthier relationship with technology
10 months ago
Inverted Passion
Wealth is not money, it’s the things we use money for As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing....
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As an entrepreneur, money is obviously a massive motivation for why you’re doing what you’re doing. However, it’s essential to understand that money is not wealth. Wealth is stuff we want and by that logic, people can be wealthy even if they don’t have a lot of money. In fact,...
A Weekly Dose of...
From the Mouths of Architects I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts...
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I'm not sure when it happened, but at some point I went from disliking interviews — preferring texts written by architects, much of it in the vein of theory — to gravitating to them. Now I find myself opting to read interviews, be they online or in printed matter, over other...
Old Structures...
Understanding The Underbelly Hardcore bridge geeks will immediately recognize this photo. Everyone else, and hardcore bridge...
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Hardcore bridge geeks will immediately recognize this photo. Everyone else, and hardcore bridge geeks with a sense of modesty, will ask “what is it?” It’s the underside of the deck of the Brooklyn Bridge, on the side span between the Manhattan tower and anchorage. Starting with...
SOCKS
Stage Design as a Narrative Device: Norman Bel Geddes’ Stage Set for The Divine Comedy (1921) American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked...
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American stage and industrial designer, director and producer Norman Bel Geddes (1893-1958) worked on a theatrical staging of Dante Alighieri’s The Divine Comedy to be performed in Madison Square Garden in 1921 on the sexcentenary of Dante’s death. Geddes planned the...
Classical Wisdom
Do You Need Children to Care About the Future? Shady Trees or Empty Branches?
4 months ago
CommitStrip
A radical solution
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Incomplete game coming up Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done -...
over a year ago
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Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done - seriously. I spent far too many hours, even days, figuring out in my mind how the game should be and I started off going for nothing less than just that. But it turned out to be a lot...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Weightier Than All the Gear I’ll Carry' I was a lazy student of Latin in junior high school and gave it up after two years. What I...
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I was a lazy student of Latin in junior high school and gave it up after two years. What I retained was a lasting interest in mythology, Roman history and etymology. I probably learned more English words than Latin – celerity, pulchritude, jocular, spelunker, procrastination,...
Retail Design Blog
Lindt Premium Collection by Derek&Eric Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent...
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Lindt Premium Collection – The Art of Chocolate Lindt masters the art of crafting indulgent chocolate, elevating technical skill to...
TheCollector
Why Is Oktoberfest a Vital Part of German Culture? undefined
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TheCollector
The West African Squadron: Hunting Slave Ships on the High Seas undefined
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mime Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really this caption can work for any comic. Today's...
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Four times I have turned the lights out while writing this To live in Belfast in 1972 was to dwell in the heart of a storm, for this was the most violent year...
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To live in Belfast in 1972 was to dwell in the heart of a storm, for this was the most violent year of the Troubles’ three decades—a period of civil unrest marked by sectarian conflict and political upheaval. When she wrote this diary entry in July of that year, Eimear...
The Marginalian
How We Become Ourselves: Erik Erikson’s 8 Stages of Human Development It never ceases to stagger that some stroke of chance in the early history of the universe set into...
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It never ceases to stagger that some stroke of chance in the early history of the universe set into motion the Rube Goldberg machine of events that turned atoms born in the first stars into you — into this temporary clump of borrowed stardust that, for the brief interlude between...
TheCollector
What Is the History and Meaning of Music? undefined
9 months ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue...
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Porting a medium-sized Vue application to Svelte 5 The short version: porting from Vue to Svelte is pretty straightforward and Svelte 5 is nice upgrade to Svelte 4. Why port? I’m working on Edna, a note taking application for developers. It started as a...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
There are no individual contributors in design This term, that I believe comes from software development, is taking hold in other fields too:...
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This term, that I believe comes from software development, is taking hold in other fields too: individual contributor. I don’t...
TheCollector
Is Beirut Safe? Exploring a City Shaped by Tragedy undefined
4 months ago
Overcoming Bias
How Every Empire Falls On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
On the radio yesterday, I heard the soulful song That’s How Every Empire Falls, written by RB Morris sometime before 2005, and performed at various times by Morris, John Prine, and Marianne Faithfull.
TheCollector
4 Key Characteristics of Symbolist Art undefined
a year ago
Maps Mania
Mapping Damage in Gaza
a year ago
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in August 2024 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in August 2024 1) In 2023/24 TfL sold 3,143,828 One Day...
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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in August 2024 1) In 2023/24 TfL sold 3,143,828 One Day Travelcards (down 38% on 2018/19). They also sold 3,849,293 Weekly Travelcards (down 65%), 801,367 Monthly Travelcards (down 67%) and only 15,192 Annual Travelcards (down 80%). 2)...
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Reid Hoffman on AI, Big Tech, & Society Notion was kind enough to host a fireside chat between myself and Reid Hoffman on AI. Transcript and...
a year ago
Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines...
a year ago
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A new paper establishes a long-conjectured bound about the size of the overlap between sets of lines and points. The post Mathematicians Cross the Line to Get to the Point first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 11 On building table-stakes features, and breaking through a plateau.
a year ago
Londonist
London's Smallest Art Gallery Is In A Phone Box Outside The British Museum You can buy the art, too.
a year ago
The Marginalian
Nick Cave on the Two Pillars of a Meaningful Life "Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our...
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"Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world."
Rest of World -...
Chinese EV upstarts to battle Japanese heavyweights for Thailand’s pickup truck market Toyota and Isuzu have long dominated Thailand’s pickup truck market. As they prepare to launch EV...
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Toyota and Isuzu have long dominated Thailand’s pickup truck market. As they prepare to launch EV trucks, they face competition from Chinese firms.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
“Mission-driven” should be more specific | Out-Of-Pocket everything is a set of tradeoffs, let's be honest about that
8 months ago
Mark Manson
Motivation: What It Is, How It Works, and Where to Find It We all want to be motivated. We want to feel energized and excited about the things we do. We want...
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over a year ago
We all want to be motivated. We want to feel energized and excited about the things we do. We want to wake up in the morning with a sense of purpose and drive, ready to tackle the day ahead. But the truth is, motivation is not always easy to come by. We tell ourselves lies about...
Londonist
Tulips In London: When And Where To See Them In And Around The Capital Who needs Amsterdam?
9 months ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The chaotic beauty of street art I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love street art. Walking around Cape Town, whether it be to grab my morning coffee, or to pick up groceries, feels more delightful because of the organic gallery that is my city. Especially when a new piece of art pops up on a previously unremarkable stretch of street. What a...
Quanta Magazine
Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of...
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John Conway’s Game of Life, a famous cellular automaton, has been found to have periodic patterns of every possible length. The post Math’s ‘Game of Life’ Reveals Long-Sought Repeating Patterns first appeared on Quanta Magazine
xkcd.com
Exclusion Principle
a week ago
Blog - Mac Pierce
The Opt-Out Cap, detailed assembly with photos. How to assemble the Opt-Out Cap, a tool for facial recognition obfuscation.
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
Here's My Mission Impossible Article—But I Refuse to Talk About the Movie I just care about the theme song
a year ago
Old Structures...
Caught In The Act This October 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Aerial view of Manhattan” but it most obviously...
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8 months ago
This October 1952 photo by Angelo Rizzuto is titled “Aerial view of Manhattan” but it most obviously shows the Brooklyn and Manhattan bridges. Like a lot of Rizzuto’s photos, it catches the East River waterfront and adjacent areas in the process of changing, even if it was not...
TheCollector
The Last Great Pharaoh? The Story of Ramesses III undefined
9 months ago
Seeking Wisdom
Few thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset I’ve been writing my thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset for some time. I’ve considered...
a year ago
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I’ve been writing my thoughts on life, psychology, and mindset for some time. I’ve considered transferring some of these writings from Notion into this post. In physics, three laws can explain 99% of observations. However, in life, psychology, and mindset, 99 laws can barely...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Away Just Updated its Classic Suitcases With a New Design
a year ago
The Modern House
Old meets new at a masterfully renovated 400-year-old farmhouse in the South Downs
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Defining Property
over a year ago
Essays - Benedict...
Metaverse! Metaverse? Metaverse!! ‘Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
‘Metaverse’ is the buzzword of the moment, yet it doesn’t really exist as more than a label on a whiteboard, and many of the ideas it tries to combine might not happen, or not like that. This might be the new ‘information highway.’ But however it works, some kind of...
Seth's Blog
Chores They’re essential. The house begins to stink if we don’t take out the garbage. But at work, while...
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a year ago
They’re essential. The house begins to stink if we don’t take out the garbage. But at work, while they might be essential, they may not be important. At least, not important enough for us to spend a lot of focus on. Chores are: The bills have to get paid. But they might not have...
Common Edge
Finding Inspiration in Histories of Indian Families With Powerful Architectural Legacies The stories found in Architectural Inheritance and Evolution in India rekindled the fire for the...
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The paradox of points Points aren’t just for games. Points are how we keep score and decide what to do next. Pick your...
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Points aren’t just for games. Points are how we keep score and decide what to do next. Pick your scorekeeping wisely. Too much focus on the score can bend us or break us, pushing us to engage with too much focus and without regard for balance. And our attachment to obvious points...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hungers Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written in a state of harnger. Today's News:
3 months ago
The Roots of...
Event, Feb 29: “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” in Boston and on Zoom On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New...
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On Thursday, February 29, I’ll be giving my talk “Towards a New Philosophy of Progress” to the New England Legal Foundation, for their Economic Liberty Speaker Series. The talk will be held over breakfast at NELF’s offices in Boston, and will also be livestreamed over Zoom. See...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Question from a reader I’ve gotten some emails recently from readers of this blog with questions about early stage...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve gotten some emails recently from readers of this blog with questions about early stage startups.  I’m sorry if I haven’t responded to…
Blog System/5
SSH agent forwarding and tmux done right The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy...
a year ago
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a year ago
The SSH agent is a little daemon that holds your private keys in memory. This is particularly handy when your keys are protected by a passphrase: you can unlock and add your keys to the agent once and, from then on, any SSH client such as ssh(1) can interact with the keys without...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Borgin hard or hardly borgin? Today's News:
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Achieving overnight success: Kevin Systrom * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Frequently startups pop up and take over the press, framed as an “overnight success” taking just a year or two to reach some incredible milestone. For some time I’ve had a slight intuition that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Creative Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean really when was the last time you met a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I mean really when was the last time you met a self-cloning species that tries to learn to play guitar? Today's News: OK, so we sold out of signed Bea Wolfs, but I ran down to Telegraph to sign a few more. Available whilst they...
TheCollector
Is Divorce in Christianity Really Allowed? undefined
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nanoscale views
Getting light out of plasmonic tunnel junctions - the sequel A couple of years ago I wrote about our work on "above threshold" light emission in planar metal...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about our work on "above threshold" light emission in planar metal tunnel junctions.  In that work, we showed that in a planar tunnel junction, you can apply a bias voltage \(V\) and get lots of photons out at energies quite a bit greater than...
Marian's Blog
Adversarial Generation of Continuous Implicit Shape Representations This article provides an overview of the paper "Adversarial Generation of Continuous Implicit Shape...
over a year ago
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This article provides an overview of the paper "Adversarial Generation of Continuous Implicit Shape Representations", which I co-authored with Matthias Fey. While the paper focuses on the theoretical aspects, I'll provide a higher level explanation and and some visualizations...
The Gradient
Do text embeddings perfectly encode text? 'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus...
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'Vec2text' can serve as a solution for accurately reverting embeddings back into text, thus highlighting the urgent need for revisiting security protocols around embedded data.
Retail Design Blog
Lucida Restaurant and Bar by Shahira Fahmy Architects The nature of this project is retained to the entertainment industry and located/(anchored in) on a...
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The nature of this project is retained to the entertainment industry and located/(anchored in) on a rooftop of a rectangular...
Chris Grossack's...
Life in Johnstone's Topological Topos 3 -- Bonus Axioms In the first post of the series, we talked about what the topological topos is, and how we can...
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In the first post of the series, we talked about what the topological topos is, and how we can think about its objects (and, importantly, how we can relate computations in the topos $\mathcal{T}$ to computations with topological spaces in “the real world”). In part two, we...
Josh Thompson
Success is not support We did a high-level “Customer Success” overview yesterday. Today, lets contrast customer support and...
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We did a high-level “Customer Success” overview yesterday. Today, lets contrast customer support and customer success. Support vs. Success First, what’s the difference between “customer support” and “customer success”? Lincoln Murphey says: Customer Success is proactively working...
On Test Automation
Dialing down on LinkedIn Aahh… LinkedIn. I’ve been struggling with the platform for years. One the one hand, I’ve made some...
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Aahh… LinkedIn. I’ve been struggling with the platform for years. One the one hand, I’ve made some great connections on there, and it has helped me tremendously in increasing my visibility, or, as I sometimes put it, as a platform for shameless self-promotion. On the other hand,...
Common Edge
Why Mass Transit in America Disappeared A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric...
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A talk with the author of The Great American Transit Disaster: A Century of Austerity, Auto-Centric Planning, and White Flight.
Joel Gascoigne
Expert of nothing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most interesting and simultaneously challenging realizations I’ve had is that as a founder, especially the CEO, you essentially have chosen to never become an expert of anything. Oh,...
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Asheville Restaurants Refining Appalachian Culinary Traditions
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Rest of World -...
AI’s “tech tsunami” is coming for call center workers The Philippines’ 1.6 million outsourced workers fear they may soon be automated out of a job.
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diamond geezer
National Gallery 200 The National Gallery first threw open its doors 200 years ago today. It wasn't in Trafalgar Square...
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The National Gallery first threw open its doors 200 years ago today. It wasn't in Trafalgar Square at the time, that hadn't been built yet, but at 100 Pall Mall in a dead banker's townhouse. Here John Julius Angerstein's small collection of Old Masters was displayed, slowly...
TheCollector
What Five Philosophers Have to Say About Physical Exercise undefined
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Companionable Room' I had a minor problem with the university library’s catalog. When I requested two books stored...
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11 months ago
I had a minor problem with the university library’s catalog. When I requested two books stored off-site in the Library Service Center I got this message: “No items can fulfill the submitted request.” That made no sense and I couldn’t figure out a way around the roadblock, so I...
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Svelte as an Eleventy Template Engine Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend...
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Svelte is a really nice authoring format for HTML components. I wanted to explore if I could extend Eleventy to use it.
Flashbak
Magnifying The Moment: Joni Sternbach’s Pictures of NYC Subway Passengers 1976–1981 “Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage....
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“Part of the reason I was drawn to the Subway was that it was a perfect unchoreographed stage. Chance brought me together with a crowd of unknowns. It was up to me to parse them out and magnify the moment.” – Joni Sternbach on her pictures of NYC Subway Passengers in the 1970s  ...
NeuroLogica Blog
Unifying Cognitive Biases Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there...
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Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there is some controversy over exactly how to categorize complex phenomena, specifically whether or not to favor the fewest categories based on similarities, or the greatest number of...
Paul Graham: Essays
Apple's Mistake
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Seth's Blog
The useful agreement Contrary to expectations, written contracts don’t have to be adversarial. In fact, the effective...
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Contrary to expectations, written contracts don’t have to be adversarial. In fact, the effective ones rarely are. When you hand someone a release, a royalty agreement or even a partnership document, it pays to point out the gnarly parts, the controversial bits and the ones that...
Daniel Miessler
NO. 363 | FrontView Mirror: 2023 Edition New Content 💡FRONTVIEW MIRROR: 2023 EDITION  💡MY PHILOSOPHY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE LASTPASS...
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New Content 💡FRONTVIEW MIRROR: 2023 EDITION  💡MY PHILOSOPHY AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE LASTPASS BREACHES SECURITY NEWS In a bit of Deja Vu from LastPass, Okta has now revealed that attackers have stolen source code from its GitHub repositories. This comes after it was hit by...
Steven Scrawls
The Firefly Artist The Firefly Artist Note: it’s a metaphor. I’m not calling for mass firefly imprisonment. Two hours...
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The Firefly Artist Note: it’s a metaphor. I’m not calling for mass firefly imprisonment. Two hours after dusk, a crowd gathered by the dozens, by the hundreds, to see the firefly artist’s yearly performance. They spread out blankets in the clearing, sharing snacks by the light of...
The Codist
How Talking Over A Wall Changed My Direction As A Programmer I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my...
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I started my programming career in October 1981 at a large defense contractor (GD). At the time, my goal was to work for a couple of years and then continue my education with a Ph.D. in Chemistry (I had already been accepted). The office I worked in was a
CONTEMPORIST
A Seamless Terrazzo Flows From The Wall To The Countertop In This Kitchen Studio Modijefsky has shared photos of a project where they transformed a 17th-century inn into a...
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Studio Modijefsky has shared photos of a project where they transformed a 17th-century inn into a modern family home in Nieuwersluis, The Netherlands. As part of the renovation, they designed a new inviting, and open-plan kitchen with a cooking island and a terrazzo countertop....
Tech + Economics +...
A few thoughts on the end of Omegle. In 2009, Omegle was more than just a website to me; it was a lifeline when I felt adrift and...
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In 2009, Omegle was more than just a website to me; it was a lifeline when I felt adrift and isolated from any real sense of community or network. I was struggling with depression, alcohol abuse and the recent end of my music career and my life on tour. Omegle's premise...
Joel Gascoigne
Don't register your idea as a company * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again, and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a number of different experiences and...
Data Boutique
Tracking How Bad The Situation At Farfetch Really Is A case study for web data
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The Marginalian
A Republic of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the... "I believe in... an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to...
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"I believe in... an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet."
The Ruffian
The best reason to believe Woody Allen is innocent is the simplest one How we form opinions on limited information
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Open Culture
The Illustrated Version of “Alice’s Restaurant”: Watch Arlo Guthrie’s Thanksgiving Counterculture... Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around...
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Alice’s Restaurant. It’s now a Thanksgiving classic, and something of a tradition around here. Recorded in 1967, the 18+ minute counterculture song recounts Arlo Guthrie’s real encounter with the law, starting on Thanksgiving Day 1965. As the long song unfolds, we hear all about...
Evan Jones -...
Getting $3300 from a casino promotion New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy...
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New York State legalized mobile sports gambling in January 2022. The casinos offered crazy promotions to get people signed up. The craziest offered $3300 of free money. I did the math, and there was a low risk way to claim this money. As long as you placed 11 or more bets, you...
Flashbak
The Months: Gardens of Art by Eugène Grasset In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French...
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In 1894, Eugène Grasset (25 May 1845 – 23 October 1917) received a commission from the French department store La Belle Jardinière to create 12 original works of art to be used as a calendar. Grasset’s woodcuts show women in fashionable costumes of the period each bearing a sign...
The American Scholar
To Catch a Sunset Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset...
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Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset appeared first on The American Scholar.
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing MIDI messages in Rust I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI. That means I need a MIDI...
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I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI. That means I need a MIDI implementation! I chose to use an existing library, midir, to connect to devices and receive messages. But the reason I was interested in this not-yet-announced project is because I...
Ken Shirriff's blog
The transparent chip inside a vintage Hewlett-Packard floppy drive While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface...
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While repairing an eight-inch HP floppy drive, we found that the problem was a broken interface chip. Since the chip was bad, I decapped it and took photos. This chip is very unusual: instead of a silicon substrate, the chip is formed on a base of sapphire, with silicon and metal...
Neocha – Culture &...
Functional Necessities
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macwright.com
Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by () I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with...
a year ago
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I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with Peloton, Swift, and other “integrations.” It’s great for them, but the activities just look like ads for Peloton and don’t have any of the things that I like about Strava’s...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sim Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.' Today's News: Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 11-17 March 2024 Our best articles from the past week.
9 months ago
abdz.do - Have you...
Aeonik Mono and Aeonik Fono Typefaces Aeonik Mono and Aeonik Fono Typefaces abduzeedo0209—23 RM Mono...
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Aeonik Mono and Aeonik Fono Typefaces abduzeedo0209—23 RM Mono is the monospaced version of RM Neue. Each character in RM Mono fits in a box of the same width (600 units). While developing RM Mono, we also took the time to update RM Neue with a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Still to Suruiue in My Immortall Song' Many of the best things in life, so long as they persist, are accompanied by a shadow of...
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Many of the best things in life, so long as they persist, are accompanied by a shadow of their disappearance. If fortunate, we learn this lesson early. Their transitoriness becomes part of their charm, whether a cat, a garden or a brother. We are grateful and enjoy them...
Dan Quach Blog
West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile death hike Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really...
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Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details. I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail. It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via...
Common Edge
Explaining NYC’s Arcane, and Possibly Unconstitutional, Planning and Approval Process It’s the “City of Yes”—even if you say “NO”!
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Londonist
Five Big Firsts For West End Cinemas From the first British talkie to the first circular cinema.
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Nelson's Weblog
No more talking to politicians I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant...
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I am no longer talking to politicians. I have been aggressively filtering my email, a constant battle. Now I will no longer accept their calls. Unfortunately my home phone number is ruined. Between scams and politicians I never answer my phone unless I recognize the caller...
Steve Klabnik
New Beginnings
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High Signal
Selling Unicorn Platform for $800k I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder,...
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I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder, as I previously interviewed him about learning to code without a CS degree. Alex has stayed on at Mars, the company which has acquired him and unlike a lot of founders, will stay
Open Culture
Get Unlimited Access to Courses & Certificates: Coursera Is Offering 40% (or $159) Off of Coursera... A heads-up on a deal: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its...
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A heads-up on a deal: Between today and December 2, 2024, Coursera is offering a 40% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus (now available for $239.40) gives you access to 7,000+ courses for one all-inclusive...
Platformer
How two insurgents are taking on Twitter Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Startup = Growth
over a year ago
MMapped blog
IC internals: XNet protocol
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Notifications with xmonad/irssi/urxvt So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So I’ve been idling on irc for years now and I’ve been using irssi for that, which works fine. I have not had notifications enabled, so I can see from the statusbar whenever someone messages me. As I’ve never been very active this has been fine, but now I figured it’s time to fix...
Seth's Blog
We probably can’t buy our way out of it That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line...
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That’s what we usually try to do. When technology, comfort, convenience, efficiency and price line up, the market takes care of itself. On the other hand, seatbelts would never have happened if they weren’t required. But pizza grew to dominate our diets with no centralized...
The Honest Broker
How To Kill a Superhero Hollywood embraces a desperate strategy—canceling franchise films before they're released
a year ago
Map of the Week
Countries with Women Leaders Here is a map from the Washington Post, via Reddit showing countries past & present with women as...
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Here is a map from the Washington Post, via Reddit showing countries past & present with women as heads of state. Click it (and then again) for higher resolution. We in the United States like to think we are the most advanced country in the world but by this metric we are well...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Be an Expert in a Changing World
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
React Suspense Q&A a friendly cheat sheet for those wondering what React Suspense is and if they should care
over a year ago
Irrational...
2023 in review. Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 This was an eventful year. My son went to...
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a year ago
Previously: 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017 This was an eventful year. My son went to preschool, I joined Carta, left Calm, and wrote my third book. It was also a logistically intensive year, with our toddler heading to preschool, more work travel, and a bunch of other little...
Seth's Blog
Getting AI to do your work That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time...
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That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time you’ve freed up and do work that the AI can’t do.
TheCollector
Who Is the Egyptian God Thoth? undefined
a year ago
Quanta Magazine
New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize The proof establishes new conditions that cause connected oscillators to sway in sync. ...
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The proof establishes new conditions that cause connected oscillators to sway in sync. The post New Proof Shows That ‘Expander’ Graphs Synchronize first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Make Pittsburgh a Startup Hub
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TheCollector
The Truth and Reconciliation Commission: Moving Past Apartheid? undefined
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Tikalon Blog by Dev...
Plant Sounds My early adulthood coincided with the New Age movement and its belief in many discredited past...
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My early adulthood coincided with the New Age movement and its belief in many discredited past ideas, such as astrology. One New Age idea that seemed strange at the time was that talking to plants helped them to grow. What could be more New Age than a hippie chick talking to a...
The Honest Broker
The Hottest Drummer You've Never Heard A new book pays tribute to the amazing Chick Webb, the hardest swinging jazz drummer of his day
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Dreams come true > Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David...
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> Go confidently in the direction of your dreams! Live the life you’ve imagined. - Henry David Thoreau [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_David_Thoreau] I can distinctly remember that for the month of December in 2010, and for much of January 2011, I did a lot of dreaming.
The Marginalian
An Introvert’s Field Guide to Friendship: Thoreau on the Challenges and Rewards of the Art of... "We only need to be as true to others as we are to ourselves that there may be ground enough for...
a year ago
Global Inequality...
The three German fears Historical origins of the malaise
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
They're Looting The Internet Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram...
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Last week, Meta revealed (in a motion trying to dismiss an FTC anti-monopoly lawsuit) that Instagram made an astonishing $32.4 billion in advertising revenue in 2021. That figure becomes even more shocking when you consider Google's YouTube made $28.8 billion in the same period....
Arduino Blog
ThermoGrasp brings thermal feedback to virtual reality Imagine playing Half-Life: Alyx and feeling the gun heat up in your hand as you take down The...
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Imagine playing Half-Life: Alyx and feeling the gun heat up in your hand as you take down The Combine. Or operating a robot through augmented reality and feeling coldness on your fingers when you get close to exceeding the robot’s limits. A prototype device called ThermoGrasp...
Making software...
Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's...
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Create a Mac App Icon with Pure HTML and CSS 2021-04-13 I have always been a huge fan of Bogdan's work on Dribbble and was recently inspired to see if I could replicate one of his awesome icon designs with only HTML & CSS. What was the outcome? I think it's a half-way decent copy...
History Today Feed
Putting Mothers on Death Row Putting Mothers on Death Row JamesHoare Thu, 08/22/2024 - 09:47
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TheCollector
Henry VIII and Anne of Cleves: “I Like Her Not” undefined
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NeuroLogica Blog
Fake Fossils In 1931 a fossil lizard was recovered from the Italian Alps, believed to be a 280 million year old...
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In 1931 a fossil lizard was recovered from the Italian Alps, believed to be a 280 million year old specimen. The fossil was also rare in that it appeared to have some preserved soft tissue. It was given the species designation Tridentinosaurus antiquus and was thought to be part...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Where I Went and Cannot Come Again' A brief return to the Russian word toska mentioned in Thursday’s post by Gary Saul Morson in...
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A brief return to the Russian word toska mentioned in Thursday’s post by Gary Saul Morson in reference to Chekhov. Dave Lull alerted me to Nabokov’s explication of the word in his translation of Pushkin’s Eugene Onegin. In the second of the four volumes, Nabokov writes:  “No...
Alex MacCaw
Artificial Knowledge Creation How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know...
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How does creativity work and is it possible to bottle it up inside a computer? This is what we know so far.
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on September 19, 2016: Monday morning in New York and an emergency alert Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work,...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway. On the 2 train to work, after watching two men of color have their bags searched at Grand Army Plaza: I woke up today to my phone beeping in a pattern that wasn't my alarm: WANTED: Ahmad Khan Rahami,...
TheCollector
What Are the Pauline Epistles About? undefined
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TheCollector
Germanus of Auxerre and His Connection to Arthurian Legends undefined
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The Marginalian
A Shelter in Time: John Berger on the Power of Music "Songs are like rivers: each follows its own course, yet all flow to the sea, from which everything...
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TheCollector
Sotheby’s Sells Monet’s Water Lilies For $65.5 Million undefined
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This Space
39 Books: 2001 In 1995 I found this hardback edition in the British History section of a Brighton bookshop six...
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In 1995 I found this hardback edition in the British History section of a Brighton bookshop six years after the French original was cited by Gabriel Josipovici as one of his books of the year: "a beautifully controlled examination of the effect on [Roubaud] of his wife's death...
Josh Thompson
Waking Up Early, Part 3 I’ve written about my attempts to wake up early before. Most recently, I promised to take a sleep...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve written about my attempts to wake up early before. Most recently, I promised to take a sleep log, to track trends. Fortunately, I did not intend to try to wake up early, because I didn’t. Here’s what I learned in the last three weeks: Benadryl messes with your ability to...
Seth's Blog
On choosing a college For some fortunate 17 year olds, the end of the year is the day for a momentous decision, one that’s...
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For some fortunate 17 year olds, the end of the year is the day for a momentous decision, one that’s largely out of the comfort zone of a 17 year old. A four-year college education in the US can cost nearly half a million dollars once we count the expenses and foregone...
haseeb qureshi
The Life and Death of Plasma By Haseeb Qureshi and Ashwin Ramachandran It was August 2017. The price of Ether was near an all...
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By Haseeb Qureshi and Ashwin Ramachandran It was August 2017. The price of Ether was near an all time high, the Ethereum blockchain was exploding with usage, and the chain was buckling under the ever increasing demand. Researchers and developers were frantically searching for new...
bt RSS Feed
New Domain and Code Forge New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to...
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New Domain and Code Forge 2024-01-29 As you can clearly see, my site’s domain has switched over to btxx.org. This post will go into details about the reason for this URL swap (spoilers: I’m a cheapskate) - but that isn’t all. I have moved my personal git repositories over to my...
AI Snake Oil
The LLaMA is out of the bag. Should we expect a tidal wave of disinformation? The bottleneck isn't the cost of producing disinfo, which is already very low.
a year ago
blag
Recurse Center Day 4: B Tree fill factor Q: How do I have a same B Tree fill factor across all nodes?
over a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
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over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How the Paris 2023 Protests are Impacting Travel
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
The Many Faces of Mexican Heirloom Corn | Introducing the Vignettes Series Vignettes #1
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On the Arts
Plastic palm trees and inflatable pineapples An Interview with Max Ryynänen on the Tropical Kitsch
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Increasing velocity Two common discussions in the startup world right now are 1) the increasing speed at which new...
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Two common discussions in the startup world right now are 1) the increasing speed at which new apps/websites can gain mass adoption…
Confessions of a...
Substack has Failed Indian Creators Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the...
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Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the problems I (and many other Indian writers) have faced in monetizing their writing on Substack, even after being here for years, bringing in thousands of new readers and producing...
Dreams of Space -...
To Other Planets (Estonian) (1962) Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other...
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Teistele Planeetidele! This seems be be an Estonian translation and reprint of the book To Other Planets (1959). I blogged about that book here on Feb 24, 2010: \ http://dreamsofspace.blogspot.com/2010/02/russian-space-book-1959.html AND October 1, 2012...
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tl;dr: I do not like merging the main branch into feature branches, and I do not like squashing MR/PRs git commit git has emerged as the obvious choice for SCCS (Source Code Control System). The consensus is that it is unambiguously better than the previous standard, SVN. There...
Quanta Magazine
How Math Achieved Transcendence Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to...
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Transcendental numbers include famous examples like e and π, but it took mathematicians centuries to understand them. The post How Math Achieved Transcendence first appeared on Quanta Magazine
A Smart Bear
The mid-market briar patch Mid-sized companies: Small enough to have small budgets, big enough for bureaucratic nightmares.
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Google is showing outdated results from the UK’s election Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough...
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Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough night for every Conservative candidate, many of whom either lost their seat or saw their majorities severely diminished. One of those Conservative candidates was Nigel...
The Rational Walk
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Berkshire Hathaway has acquired the remaining minority interests in BHE from the Scott family and now is the sole owner of the energy company.
Old Structures...
Somehow, We’re Large-Small When you look past the good-news headline, there’s some interesting discussion in “NYC’s Small...
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When you look past the good-news headline, there’s some interesting discussion in “NYC’s Small Business Recovery: Patterns of Growth in a Changing Economy”, a report from the city’s Economic Development Corporation. The showy headline is that “Total small businesses in NYC...
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A growth loop is a series of actions that amplify each other to fuel perpetual growth. New inputs repeatedly power the series to exponentially grow…
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Suddenly, there’s nothing shameful about ignorance. I mean personally, not as an indictment of the bigger culture. There’s so much I don’t know or understand, and that knowledge of my ignorance no longer bothers me very much. I still like learning things but there was a time when...
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A beauty contest controversy turned Uber into an unlikely battlefield between Nigeria and South... Bolt has suspended inter-country requests between South Africa and Nigeria as users book hoax rides...
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Daily Journal reduces leverage, iPad Pro vs. MacBooks, Independent platforms, Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, A long run perspective, the parent-therapy trap
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The Value Flywheel Effect is a worthwhile read. It’s imperfect, but a fascinating look into real-world application of Wardley mapping, and a rare view of a company’s engineering strategy. I’m currently diving into the topic of engineering strategy, and a sub-topic that I’ve not...
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I got to join The Geoholics podcast this week and had a fun conversation with Kent Groh, Ryan Kelly, and Nik Smilovsky Here is a link to the episode: https://open.spotify.com/episode/0sHBwsGyfAoZE3ra5RaeVB?si=f1f3bdf9ab3b4695 Here’s the episode’s description: Raised by two...
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Build In Public...
Building In Public 101 Here's a crash course on the rising trend of building in public
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journal – Winnie Lim
am i actually autistic? Recently I chanced upon a tweet stating that highly sensitive persons (HSPs) are basically autistic...
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Recently I chanced upon a tweet stating that highly sensitive persons (HSPs) are basically autistic without admitting it. It surprised me, since the traits of HSPs as I know it seem to be the...
TheCollector
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NeuroLogica Blog
Checkup on Climate Change There is good evidence that if you want to lose weight, you need to weigh yourself at least weekly....
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There is good evidence that if you want to lose weight, you need to weigh yourself at least weekly. You need the constant feedback of the scale to adjust your behavior. This is a good general principle – having outcome feedback to measure the effect of what you are doing so you...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Answers: Did The FDA Mess Up With Aduhelm? | Out-Of-Pocket what if it incentivizes actually good drugs?
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The Modern House
A Modern Way to Live: our co-founder Matt Gibberd on space Since The Modern House launched in 2005, we’ve come to realise that beautifully designed homes share...
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Since The Modern House launched in 2005, we’ve come to realise that beautifully designed homes share the same timeless principles: space, light, materials, nature and decoration. These five tenets are not only the subject of our co-founder Matt Gibberd’s book, A Modern Way to...
99% Invisible
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This is the eleventh official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman Mars and Elliott Kalan sit down with Brennan Lee Mulligan, a comedian and host with Dropout TV, where he’s...
bt RSS Feed
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up “dynamic” navigation in Jekyll. The problem I’ve noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
CONTEMPORIST
LED Lighting Illuminates Shelving Throughout This Home’s Interior Estevez + Persson, a new architecture and design studio, founded by Fernando Estevez Barroso and...
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Estevez + Persson, a new architecture and design studio, founded by Fernando Estevez Barroso and Daniel Persson, has debuted a residential project called Casa Bosques de Olivos in Mexico City. The exterior of the house features concrete, wood, and metal, as well as landscaped...
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My favorite software subreddits Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only...
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Originally published on December 5, 2021. If you are an experienced software developer whose only exposure to reddit is dank memes, proggit or even language-specific subreddits like /r/python, you're missing out. What follows are my favorite subreddits in tech. My criteria is...
A Beautiful Site
Down with the share widget! In a world dominated by social media, it's natural to want visitors to share your content with...
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In a world dominated by social media, it's natural to want visitors to share your content with friends and followers. This really isn't a bad thing, but how you go about encouraging them can actually be discouraging. The rise of the "share" widget # Six years ago, Twitter wasn't...
Louwrentius
Achieving 450 MB/s network file transfers using Linux Bonding Linux Bonding In this article I'd like to show the results of using regular 1 Gigabit network...
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Linux Bonding In this article I'd like to show the results of using regular 1 Gigabit network connections to achieve 450 MB/s file transfers over NFS. I'm again using Linux interface bonding for this purpose. Linux interface bonding can be used to create a virtual network...
Rest of World -...
How Tesla’s Mexico plans stalled out When the Monterrey factory finally arrives, will Elon still want it?
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RSS is still pretty great I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information...
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I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information readily available is phenomenal. Sadly, the signal-to-noise ratio here is pretty low. For me, consuming RSS feeds[1] offers the best way to read the kind of high-quality information...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of your life as a series of escape rooms. It's healthy. Today's News:
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: ICRA Turns 40 Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
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The internet is inundated with countless videos and advice columns promising to teach you how to become more successful than 99% of the world's population. Most of these claims revolve around setting goals, developing discipline, and eliminating distractions. But let's face it:...
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The art of estimation If you’re a freelancer or a contractor of any kind, it’s typical to be asked for an estimate or a...
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If you’re a freelancer or a contractor of any kind, it’s typical to be asked for an estimate or a quote. And if you’ve been doing business for a while, it’s likely that you’ve heard about price more than just about any other factor in losing an opportunity. So the pressure is on...
Cheese and Biscuits
Nandine, Camberwell Another week, another fantastic new restaurant in Camberwell. I try not to moan too much on this...
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Another week, another fantastic new restaurant in Camberwell. I try not to moan too much on this site about the fact that certain areas of town seem overly saturated with great places to eat, while others have to wait decades between worthwhile new options, but it's hard not to...
TheCollector
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Musings on Markets
A Zomato 2022 Update: Value, Pricing and the Gap On July 21, 2021, I valued Zomato just ahead of its initial public offering at about ₹41 per share....
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On July 21, 2021, I valued Zomato just ahead of its initial public offering at about ₹41 per share. The market clearly had a very different view, as the stock premiered at ₹74  per share and soared into the stratosphere, peaking at ₹169 per share in late 2021. The last few months...
Darek Kay
Web push notifications: issues and limitations In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the...
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In this post, I will summarize some problems and constraints that I've encountered with the Notifications and Push web APIs. Notification settings on macOS Someone who's definitely not me wasted half an hour wondering why triggered notifications would not appear. On macOS,...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Erwin Lessons from building Tailscan in public to $500 MRR
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NeuroLogica Blog
New Theory Unites Gravity and Quantum Mechanics One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is how to unite the two overarching theories of...
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One of the greatest mysteries of modern science is how to unite the two overarching theories of physics – quantum mechanics and general relativity. If physicists could somehow unite these two theories, which currently do not play well together, then we might get to a deeper “one...
Rest of World -...
Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida From Havana to Key West on a surfboard and a cellphone.
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Strange Loop Canon
The age of access the great polarisation theory, and the death of professions
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Coding Horror
Building a PC, Part IX: Downsizing Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015....
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Hard to believe that I've had the same PC case since 2011, and my last serious upgrade was in 2015. I guess that's yet another sign that the PC is over, because PC upgrades have gotten really boring. It took 5 years for me to muster
Nat Eliason's...
This Moment is Your Life How to not waste it
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A Weekly Dose of...
Favorite Books of 2022 For this last post of 2022 I looked back at the dozens of books I reviewed or featured as "Book...
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For this last post of 2022 I looked back at the dozens of books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the ones I reviewed on World-Architects. From those books I gathered just over a dozen favorites, grouping them into some common themes that happened to come...
NeuroLogica Blog
Cities on Fire Most major cities in the US experienced a major fire sometime between 1860 and 1920. Actually these...
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Most major cities in the US experienced a major fire sometime between 1860 and 1920. Actually these fires, called conflagrations, have been occurring since colonial times and into the middle of the 20th century, but saw a peak in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many cities...
Flashbak
A Look Inside London Cafes and Greasy Spoons In the Early 1990s We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter...
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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...
Left To Write
№ 64: How I Make A V60 Pourover Coffee My morning coffee ritual - Choosing intention - Mother's cooking - Finding passion & purpose
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The American Scholar
Heart of Semi-Darkness A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors The post Heart of Semi-Darkness appeared first on The...
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A writer’s delectable quest for rare flavors The post Heart of Semi-Darkness appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
How to Grow Up: Nick Cave’s Life-Advice to a 13-Year-Old "Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world... Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a...
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"Fill yourself with the beautiful stuff of the world... Get amazed. Get astonished. Get awed on a regular basis, so that getting awed is habitual and becomes a state of being."
The Modern House
Five things to do and see this August August has arrived – and come rain or shine we’ve plenty on the agenda this month. From an Italian...
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August has arrived – and come rain or shine we’ve plenty on the agenda this month. From an Italian menu that will transport you to the Mediterranean coast to an exhibition celebrating contemporary African photography, here are five shows, suppers and soirees not to be […]
Wanderingspace
Mars Express is Still Making Great Images 20 Years Later Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, and is ESA’s first Mars mission. In...
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Mars Express was launched by the European Space Agency in 2003, and is ESA’s first Mars mission. In one shot, you can see Mars as a half-lit disk, with Phobos, its tiny moon, hovering above. Right below Phobos is Olympus Mons, the solar system's largest volcano, towering 22 km...
This Space
39 Books: 2008 On January 19 of this year, I received a traumatic brain injury that for 16 years has limited my...
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On January 19 of this year, I received a traumatic brain injury that for 16 years has limited my capacity to read. It was also the year I read two novels in which the legacy of violence presses on the form they take. Horacio Castellanos Moya's Senselessness spirals in Bernhardian...
Elad Blog
Video & transcript: Apoorva Metha, founder & former CEO, Instacart Full video & transcript from Fireside chat with Apoorva Metha
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The Dangers of AI "Answers" From fake presidential pardons to AI-generated movie reviews, artificial intelligence is blurring...
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From fake presidential pardons to AI-generated movie reviews, artificial intelligence is blurring the lines between fact and fiction.
Casey Handmer's blog
Part 7 Senzeni Na Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier...
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Part of the Mars Trilogy Technical Commentary Series. Contains spoilers for this chapter and earlier chapters. Google Mars .kml. Literary commentary podcast. [Edit: If you enjoy this kind of thing, you may find a career at my company, Terraform Industries, rewarding. We’re hiring...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Perk Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't know if anyone else likes the etymology...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I don't know if anyone else likes the etymology jokes, but I am here for me. Today's News:
This Space
39 Books in one For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series. 39 Books:...
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For anyone interested (you there in the phone box), here's a PDF of the 39 Books series. 39 Books: PDF As the introduction explained, the books were chosen from those on my books-read lists that I hadn't written about before. I thought it might be instructive to contrast the...
Alice GG
Does ChatGPT dream about cryptographic cats? Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject:...
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Back in 2017, the tech world seemed to be constantly talking about a single subject: Blockchains. Two years ago, Vitalik Buterin revolutionized the nascent field by creating Ethereum. Ethereum was at the time a cryptographic protocol that would allow people to make distributed...
diamond geezer
The Putney Sculpture Trail A Nice Walk: Putney Sculpture Trail (1½ miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk,...
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A Nice Walk: Putney Sculpture Trail (1½ miles) Sometimes you just want to go for a nice walk, nothing too taxing, a bit of a stroll, lots to see, pretty views, tidal waterside, pockets of history, nine bronzes, multiple refreshment opportunities, entirely step-free, won't take...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Nine reasons screenshots are awesome By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots...
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By taking a screenshot, you can “export” from any app on any device. You can “import” screenshots back into any app that imports photos…
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both? undefined
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Daniel Marino
My GIF Workflow Using Eleventy, Netlify, and Alfred I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would...
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I used to keep my GIFs on Dropbox in the /public directory. There was a time when Dropbox would serve content as HTML from this directory. This was a simple way to share my GIFs with the world. I even adopted an Alfred workflow for quickly searching and copying my GIFs URL to the...
The Honest Broker
Judgment Day Has Arrived for the Journalism Business From Upworthy to Buzzfeed, all the click chasing gimmicks have failed—but there is one sure option...
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NeuroLogica Blog
A Climate Debate Regarding Health Effects – Part II Yesterday’s post was the first in an exchange about the effects of climate change on public health....
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Yesterday’s post was the first in an exchange about the effects of climate change on public health. Today’s post is my response. Part II Climate change is a critically important topic for society today, and it’s important that the public have a working knowledge of the facts,...
A Smart Bear
When being “first” is not a competitive advantage Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing...
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Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a product that does nothing new? On the surface being “first” sounds impressive, implying innovation and leadership. But reality is different.
Calculated Risk
Fed's Flow of Funds: Household Net Worth Increased $4.8 Trillion in Q3 The Federal Reserve released the Q3 2024 Flow of Funds report today: Financial Accounts of the...
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The Federal Reserve released the Q3 2024 Flow of Funds report today: Financial Accounts of the United States. Click on graph for larger image. Net worth increased $4.8 trillion in Q3 to an all-time high.  As a percent of GDP, net worth increased in Q3 but is below the peak in...
Words and Buttons...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
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I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
Don Melton
How not to blog First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping...
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First off, be sure to wait at least three-and-a-half years between posts. It’s all about keeping your audience riveted in anticipation.
Daniel Immke's Blog...
Beginner interaction design with Principle Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and...
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Earlier this year when I was designing this site, I had a bit of a problem: I wanted to go above and beyond with the animations and…
Gwern.net Newsletter
September 2020 News September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no...
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September 2020 gwern.net newsletter with links on DRL and AI scaling, psychiatric disorders; no reviews.
The Pragmatic...
Amazon doubling down on RTO (return to office) The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office...
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The tech giant is not blinking: after the unprecedented pushback on its 3-day return to office policy last month, Amazon just made it clear that the policy is going ahead.
samwho.dev
Adventures in Homelab: Part 1 If you work in tech, and you use the cloud in any way, you've probably heard of Kubernetes. It's...
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over a year ago
If you work in tech, and you use the cloud in any way, you've probably heard of Kubernetes. It's inescapable now, and there's no shortage of takes on it. I've worked in a few companies that have used Kubernetes, but never been close to it. I've used in-house tools that...
NeuroLogica Blog
Marmosets Call Each Other By Name Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has...
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Humans identify and call each other by specific names. So far this advanced cognitive behavior has only been identified in a few other species, dolphins, elephants, and some parrots. Interestingly, it has never been documented in our closest relatives, non-human primates – that...
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
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Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media: "Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees." This...
TheCollector
Ragnarök: What Does the Prophecy of the Norse Apocalypse Actually Say? undefined
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Making noisy SVGs Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology...
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Addendum Dec 7, 2023 One of my ongoing fixations with the web is how improvements in technology inform web design. In an earlier post this…
Passing Time
What My Friends Have to Say About Me A Japanese proverb states that if the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
over a year ago
The Thinking Cap
Please Build More Silly Things Hacking on fun things with curious co-conspirators is a superpower
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Mardi Mercredi store by Studio Unravel Targeting a savvy Gen Z demographic, South Korean womenswear brand Mardi Mercredi has garnered a...
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Targeting a savvy Gen Z demographic, South Korean womenswear brand Mardi Mercredi has garnered a large following since its foundation...
Max Rozen
Starting a Cloudflare Worker from scratch We don't need no fancy tooling!
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
There’s TypeScript and Then There’s TypeScript Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming...
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a year ago
Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming “No!” The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think. Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
Asterisk
The Wrong Kind of City? How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According...
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How much can the way cities grow tell us about the economic trajectory of their countries? According to the father of modern sociology, quite a lot.
Irrational...
Safe defaults. Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice...
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Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice rankled a colleague. He wanted to spin up a new engineering team of two people, which I thought was a bad idea. It would be a fragile team that would fall apart quickly if it...
Seeking Wisdom
Attention is all you need – Part 1 This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better...
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This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better understanding. I asked ChatGPT to complete the sentence given the phrase: “I chose that bank for”. It completed the sentences sensibly. Here are the four sentences it generated: In...
TheCollector
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This Space
Further in the opposite direction Modernity is supposed to be the moment when religious claims and systems of authority reveal...
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Modernity is supposed to be the moment when religious claims and systems of authority reveal themselves to be human-all-too-human fictions that lack divine legitimation. Religion is supposed to wither away. But this itself...can be understood as a religious claim: the very...
Home on Erik...
hdfs2cass Just open sourced hdfs2cass which is a Hadoop job (written in Java) to do efficient Cassandra...
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over a year ago
Just open sourced hdfs2cass which is a Hadoop job (written in Java) to do efficient Cassandra bulkloading. The nice thing is that it queries Cassandra for its topology and uses that to partition the data so that each reducer can upload data directly to a Cassandra node.
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Who Was Hilma af Klint? 7 Facts About the Pioneer of Abstract Art undefined
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History Today Feed
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10 Historic Towns in Colorado Perfect for Retirement undefined
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Both Are True
An important reminder about all social media including Substack Notes The truths they don’t want you to know about
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1968 in America: One of the Most Tumultuous Years in US History? undefined
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The Modern House
Carefully composed: the bright reimagining of a Victorian garden apartment
2 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Looking for smart people I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We're going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken.