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What jobs are users hiring your product to perform? One of Clay Christensen’s favorite concepts is that instead of dividing your customers into segments...
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One of Clay Christensen’s favorite concepts is that instead of dividing your customers into segments and asking which features each segment…
Rest of World -...
Shein and MercadoLibre are fighting over vendors in Brazil’s largest garment market After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses,...
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After the pandemic pushed Brazilian manufacturers and store owners to digitize their businesses, e-commerce platforms began pulling out all the stops to lure vendors.
Tech and Tea
Comparison and joy: a complicated relationship Comparison from a place of enough-ness
a year ago
Common Edge
Are For-Profit Developments Consistent With the Values of a Public University? These public-private partnerships may not dovetail with the schools’ values or mission.
a year ago
nanoscale views
APS March Meeting 2023, Day 3 There is vigorous discussion taking place on the Day 2 link regarding the highly controversial claim...
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There is vigorous discussion taking place on the Day 2 link regarding the highly controversial claim of room temperature superconductivity.   Highlights from Wednesday are a hodgepodge because of my meanderings: The session about quantum computing hardware was well attended,...
SatPost by Trung...
5 Good Evergreen Podcasts Baller topics include food, explorers, record labels, Vietnam War films and iconic sounds.
a year ago
TokyoDev
Heroku + Travis CI: Tokyo Rubyist Meetup Report While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist...
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While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp), thanks to all the great people who attended, we were able to turn it into a lively event. Anchoring the night were presentations about...
Christopher Butler
Technology and Moral Responsibility As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago....
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As I’ve been cleaning up my site, I’ll occasionally read back over something I wrote many years ago. Yesterday, I re-read a series of posts I wrote over a decade ago on ethics and technology. Here’s the first one. What surprised me yesterday was how I could have easily written...
Vadim Kravcenko
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree Question: Answer: The post Stand Out and Dare to Disagree appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
7 months ago
McMansion Hell
namesake mcmansion Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long...
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Howdy folks! Today’s McMansion is very special because a) we’re returning to Maryland after a long time and b) because the street this McMansion is on is the same as my name. (It was not named after me.) Hence, it is my personal McMansion, which I guess is somewhat like when...
diamond geezer
Park Lane PARK LANE £350   London's Monopoly Streets PARK LANE Colour group: dark blue Purchase price:...
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PARK LANE £350   London's Monopoly Streets PARK LANE Colour group: dark blue Purchase price: £350 Rent: £35 Length: 1200m Borough: Westminster Postcode: W1 Park Lane, a seething dual carriageway that somehow retains a luxury cachet. One side is a wall of superior hideaways and...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Weaving the Women of the Ancient World
2 months ago
The Ruffian
The Enigma of Luigi Mangione And the Madness Of His Apologists
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The Marginalian
How to Love Yourself and How to Love Another: A Playful and Poignant Vintage Illustrated Fable about... The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override...
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The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override this elemental self-reference only with constant vigilance, reminding ourselves again and again as we forget over and over how difficult it is — how nigh impossible — to know what...
Tech + Economics +...
Stop treating human beings like NPCs. Technology has made it stupidly easy to avoid real human interaction. Our eyes are glued to our...
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Technology has made it stupidly easy to avoid real human interaction. Our eyes are glued to our phones as we walk down streets, barely noticing the people around us. Even in real-world interactions, we talk over the top of our screens, anything to avoid face-to-face...
blag
Recurse Center Day 16: Open Source merged few open pull requests on my projects
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
Nothing can be less beautiful than the first sight of London Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with...
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Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with intellectual curiosity. Born in Suffolk, England in 1819, her now-celebrated journal contains not just her intricate observations of the natural world, but also thoughtful reflections...
Louwrentius
Smoking coolermaster Silent Pro M 600W TN6M50 So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person...
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So I was just messing around on my work station, when suddenly I smelled the smell any person familiar with electronics fears. The smell of some electrical component burning. The whole upper floor smelled like something was smoldering. So I shut down both my storage servers....
Fonts In Use: Blog...
The Mystery of the Dune Font Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.worthpoint.com License: All Rights Reserved. In the six decades since the publication of the original Dune novel in 1965, the science fiction franchise has gone through many different typographic identities. Notable examples...
Noahpinion
Who's "weird"? A campaign insult offers a window into American society in the 2020s.
4 months ago
Londonist
Inside London's New Women's Museum Head east for London's latest cultural offering.
9 months ago
anderegg.ca
More details on Bluesky’s subscription plan Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on...
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Update: I had missed this, but the Bluesky team had already announced a subscription model was on the way. I had written this article assuming that was the news. What is new is the work happening on their official apps, which contains details on features and potential pricing. An...
Nat Eliason's...
Proof You Can Do Hard Things An Essential Piece to Your Life Resume
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #199 Daily Journal reduces leverage, iPad Pro vs. MacBooks, Independent platforms, Berkshire Hathaway's...
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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
Quanta Magazine
Does Nothingness Exist? Even empty space bubbles with energy, according to quantum mechanics — and that fact affects almost...
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Even empty space bubbles with energy, according to quantum mechanics — and that fact affects almost every facet of physical reality. The theoretical physicist Isabel Garcia Garcia explains to Steven Strogatz why it’s so important in modern physics to understand what a true vacuum...
Maggie Appleton
Natureculture, Moral Purity, and Cultural Boundaries
over a year ago
Words and Buttons...
Image darning It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of...
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It's about a feature that cleans up dirt stains from aged newspapers. I called it darning because of how it works.
Archinect - Features
'A Commitment to Craft Is Intrinsic to This Place': A Conversation with Portland-Based... For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and...
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For our latest Studio Snapshot conversation, we had the pleasure of chatting with Brent Linden and Chris Brown, founding partners of Portland, Oregon-based Linden, Brown Architecture. Established in 2018 as a collaborative venture after working for large, established firms, the...
Musings on Markets
Data Update 4 for 2023: Country Risk - Measures and Implications I describe myself as a dabbler, and it does get in the way of my best laid plans. A few weeks ago, I...
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I describe myself as a dabbler, and it does get in the way of my best laid plans. A few weeks ago, I posted my first data update pulling together what I had learned from looking at the data in 2023, and promised many more on the topic. In the month since, I have added two more...
Moneyness
Renovatio monetae This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of...
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This silver pfennig from the Archbishopric of Magdeburg (1152-1192) was subject to a policy of renovatio monetae. Twice a year whoever held it had to bring it in to be changed for new coins at a rate of four old coins to three new coins. That suggests an annualized tax rate on...
Musings on Markets
AI's Winners, Losers and Wannabes: An NVIDIA Valuation, with the AI Boost! I will start this post with a couple of confessions. The first is that my portfolio has held up well...
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I will start this post with a couple of confessions. The first is that my portfolio has held up well this year, in a market that has been top-heavy and tech-driven, and one big reason is that it contains both NVIDIA and Microsoft, two companies that have benefited from the AI...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to measure product engagement Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for...
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Product engagement is the most important factor when it comes to driving retention and revenue for your business. Though it seems easy to view success…
Noahpinion
Come see me speak about Japan! Plus: A bunch of fun posts I've written about Japanese urbanism and Japanese society.
4 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Companies as Alaskan Fishing Boats What if companies are supposed to be like Alaskan fishing boats? You know, the kind on The Deadliest...
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What if companies are supposed to be like Alaskan fishing boats? You know, the kind on The Deadliest Catch. So you have this tiny crew of total badasses. Everyone is a superhero at their particular role because the crew needs to stay extremely small to protect profits. The...
Chris Grossack's...
$\mathsf{B}\text{Diff}(\Sigma)$ Classifies $\Sigma$-bundles I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the cobordism hypothesis,...
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I’ve been trying to learn all about topological (quantum) field theories, the cobordism hypothesis, and how to use $(\infty,n)$-categories. This is all in service of some stuff I’m doing with skein algebras (which are part of a “$3+1$ TQFT” often named after Crane–Yetter, but...
Old Structures...
Discussing Immigrants Elsewhere That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere...
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That’s discussion elsewhere about immigrants here, not discussion here about immigrants somewhere else. I’m at the 8th International Congress on Construction History this week, where I hope to learn a lot about past design and construction practice. I have certainly learned much...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Named Blogs I think it’s endearing when people name their blog. I’m not talking about branding, like people do...
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I think it’s endearing when people name their blog. I’m not talking about branding, like people do with professional blogs or newsletters. I’m talking about personal blogs that people name out of care and idiosyncrasy. It’s endearing, because you brand things you own, you name...
Seth's Blog
Early next week… It’s going to get busy around here. I wanted to share some upcoming events (online and in person) so...
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It’s going to get busy around here. I wanted to share some upcoming events (online and in person) so you can plan ahead… there are five more for the end of the week, but here we go: Linda Rottenberg is joining me on LinkedIn on Monday. She’s built an extraordinary organization...
Maps Mania
AI Geography Quizzes
a year ago
Maps Mania
Unlocking America’s Visual Time Machine
a year ago
Mazdak
Elon Musk: All In He's the richest man in the world, a tech titan, and now...
a month ago
Willem's Blog
From tree to table Creating a night stand from a raw slab of chestnut wood.
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Design Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Literally everyone would be happy about this. We...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Literally everyone would be happy about this. We should be building NOW Today's News:
TokyoDev
Rakuten and Globalization Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English, but quickly switched to...
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Hiroshi Mikitani started [Rakuten's Technology Conference] in English, but quickly switched to Japanese. He claimed there was a strong demand from the Japanese participants for him to present in Japanese. This shows how much work ahead of him he has if Rakuten is going to meet...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How Data Transformed Small Group Underwriting | Out-Of-Pocket Paper forms be gone, now we anonymize and risk it all (literally).
5 months ago
The American Scholar
Bony Ramirez Beautiful parasites The post Bony Ramirez appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 months ago
mtlynch.io
Deploying Syncthing on a Fly.io Cloud Server I recently discovered Syncthing, an open-source tool for syncing files across multiple...
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I recently discovered Syncthing, an open-source tool for syncing files across multiple machines. Setting up Syncthing on my personal devices was easy, but I went on an interesting journey deploying it to a cloud server. Why run Syncthing in the cloud? Syncthing synchronizes files...
Quantum Frontiers
Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the...
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A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building Rube Goldberg style contraptions to achieve … Continue reading →
The American Scholar
Good Vibrations One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound The post Good Vibrations appeared...
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One eccentric’s desert landmark allows visitors to bathe in sound The post Good Vibrations appeared first on The American Scholar.
Hixie's Natural Log
Flutter: Static analysis of sample code snippets in API docs One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation....
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One of the things I am particularly proud of with Flutter is the quality of our API documentation. With Flutter's web support, we're even able to literally inline full sample applications into the API docs and have them literally editable and executable inline. For example,...
Quanta Magazine
The Year in Computer Science Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer...
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Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer scientists developed algorithms that solved long-standing problems. The post The Year in Computer Science first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Marginalian
The Power of Being a Heretic: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Critical Thinking,... "If we are to be true and worthy heretics, we need not only new heads, but new hearts, and, most of...
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"If we are to be true and worthy heretics, we need not only new heads, but new hearts, and, most of all, that new emotional imagination... begotten of enlarged sympathies and a more sensitive habit of feeling."
TheCollector
How Did Philosophers of Different Eras Perceive Happiness? undefined
3 weeks ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #46: The transformation of London's skyline, a big week for nuclear, and installing... Plus how to avoid the road pricing landmine
2 weeks ago
Seth's Blog
The rock star conundrum Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the...
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Forty years ago, the royalty of rock spent the night in a studio to record one of the fastest-selling singles of all time. The documentary of the event is just okay, but it’s fascinating in how it shows us just how deep imposter syndrome lies. Only a few stars seemed at all...
diamond geezer
Birmingham stations quiz Birmingham stations quiz Birmingham.   1) Cider Pub 2) Fresh Road 3) Valets Path 4) Jump...
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Birmingham stations quiz Birmingham.   1) Cider Pub 2) Fresh Road 3) Valets Path 4) Jump Street 5) Upland Road 6) Student Hub 7) Tree Quartet 8) Stony Mound 9) Wintry Mount 10) Little Common   11) Half Half Ring 12) Perfume Forest 13) Dark Chocolate 14) Pork Substitute 15)...
TheCollector
7 Largest Cities in the Ancient World undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Post Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like more comics need to use the word...
9 months ago
Patterns in Humanity
The case for prisons The purpose of prisons, and the evidence of their efficacy
3 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Moved Off Dev.to 2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just...
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2 years ago I moved all my blogging to Dev.to. Today my main blog is on Github Issues and I've just launched DXTips on Hashnode.
Maps Mania
How Smooth is the Earth?
3 months ago
The Pragmatic...
Compensation at Publicly Traded Tech Companies Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least...
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Insights from 50 publicly traded tech companies, and a list of those paying the most and the least in median total compensation.
Identity Designed
The Bond Designed by Common Curiosity, Birmingham, London.
a year ago
Londonist
London Overground Strikes Next Week Cancelled Normal service now planned.
10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Neighborhood Guide to Toronto’s Little Jamaica
a year ago
FIRE v London
May ’24: UK election called The month of May seems a little while ago, so I’d better get on and write it up. This will be quick....
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The month of May seems a little while ago, so I’d better get on and write it up. This will be quick. The big news in the UK was Rishi Sunak, the outgoing PM, calling a general election for 4 July. Independence-from-the-Tories Day. May was also the month that u-turner/blowharder...
Patterns in Humanity
Mental Health and Social Stratification In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and...
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In this post I summarize some research on the importance of mental health for social outcomes and discuss some of the implications for social stratification.
Vitalik Buterin's...
我在加密世界的一些个人体验
over a year ago
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, February 23, 2024 (On the Military Failures of Fascism) Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week....
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Fireside this week! We’ll pick up looking at some of the successes of Hellenistic armies next week. For this week’s musing, I wanted to take the opportunity to expand a bit on a topic that I raised on Twitter which draw a fair bit of commentary: that fascists and fascist...
Retail Design Blog
FENDI store FENDI has upgraded its presence in Osaka‘s downtown Shinsaibashi area by relocating to new and...
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FENDI has upgraded its presence in Osaka‘s downtown Shinsaibashi area by relocating to new and bigger premises a few blocks...
AFAR Media - Travel...
United To Fly New Nonstop Flights to East Asia This Fall
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the Gift of Tongues in the Bible? undefined
6 months ago
Engineers Need Art
Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
a year ago
Ink & Switch
Local First Unconference [2023 / STL]
over a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How to start a growth team (as an engineer) Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at ...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thomas Owers knew nothing about growth engineering when he started the first growth team at Let's Do This – a Y Combinator startup with $80M in…
swyx's site RSS Feed
My Fave New Podcasts of 2022 As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years...
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As someone who does a lot of my learning via podcasts, I've been putting up picks lists for 3 years straight (see main [2019 list](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts), then my [2020](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2020) and [2021](https://www.swyx.io/fave-podcasts-2021) diffs),...
Dan Slimmon
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
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We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
One Useful Thing
One sentence. Prompting for maximum impact (and why that is a bad idea)
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Show Your Japan Prefectural Love With These Enamel Pins This series of enamel pins, with each representing one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, are the perfect...
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This series of enamel pins, with each representing one of Japan’s 47 prefectures, are the perfect way to show love for your hometown, or simply keep as mementos from your travels. Not only do they accurately capture the shape of each prefecture but the colors were also carefully...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 21 Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months...
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Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months and $32k over budget on a website redesign. I launched PicoShare, and it’s the fastest-growing project I’ve ever published. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what...
CONTEMPORIST
Sculptural Walls Inspired By The Intricate Detailing Of Indian Temple Architecture Abin Design Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a gallery and store that...
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Abin Design Studio has shared photos of an interior they designed for a gallery and store that displays Italian furniture in Kolkata, India. The striking interior seamlessly blends the finesse and elegance of Italian craftsmanship with the vibrancy of Indian design traditions....
Making software...
Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I'm going to quickly breakdown the update I've...
Notes on software...
Writing a lisp compiler from scratch in JavaScript: 6. an x86 upgrade Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables ...
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over a year ago
Previously in compiler basics: 1. lisp to assembly 2. user-defined functions and variables 3. LLVM 4. LLVM conditionals and compiling fibonacci 5. LLVM system calls This post upgrades the ulisp x86 backend from using a limited set of registers (with no spilling...
bt RSS Feed
Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink 2024-07-24 A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a...
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Setting Up Pi-Hole with Eero on Starlink 2024-07-24 A couple years ago I wrote about setting up a standard pi-hole server with eero WiFi but since that time I have swapped out my “cell tower” internet for Starlink. The speed improvement has been incredible and there is no looking...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Way to Detect Bias
over a year ago
The Elysian
I'd like to open a Singapore franchise please? Franchise Cities as an alternative to Charter Cities.
9 months ago
Probably...
Probably the Book Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is...
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Last week I had the pleasure of presenting a keynote at posit::conf(2024). When the video is available, I will post it here. In the meantime, you can read the slides, if you don’t mind spoilers. For people at the conference who don’t know me, this might be a good time to...
The Modern House
A fossil-shaped eco home in the rolling countryside of Devon
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grinch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just in time for Easter. Today's News:
9 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Introducing issue2pr
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
Understanding free software A cup of coffee costs far more than a glass of water. That’s true even though we can’t live without...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A cup of coffee costs far more than a glass of water. That’s true even though we can’t live without water. (Most) people can live without coffee. It’s true even though creating the infrastructure to purify and deliver clean water costs billions of dollars. The critical reason for...
mtlynch.io
My Third Year as a Solo Developer Today is the third anniversary of quitting my job at Google to build my own software business. I...
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Today is the third anniversary of quitting my job at Google to build my own software business. I posted updates at the end of my first and second years, so it’s time to share my progress. The year things clicked into place In my first two years working for myself, I earned less...
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 1: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy? Today, I was on a panel discussing lending and access to capital (not a wooden panel, mind you — but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today, I was on a panel discussing lending and access to capital (not a wooden panel, mind you — but a panel of speakers. Now that I think about it, we may have been sitting on wooden panel flooring). At any rate, the discussion covered alot of ground, all as part of the larger...
Open Culture
The Metropolitan Museum of Art Puts 490,000 High-Res Images Online & Makes Them Free to Use Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic...
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Update: The Metropolitan Museum of Art has put online 492,000 high-resolution images of artistic works. Even better, the museum has placed the vast majority of these images into the public domain, meaning they can be downloaded directly from the museum’s website for...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Talk Notes for The End of Localhost (Infobip Shift 2022) I returned to Zadar!
over a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 1999 I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others...
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I've always preferred the Serpent's Tail edition of Pessoa's Book of Disquiet over the others published around the same time, such as from Quartet Encounters and Carcanet, the latter with a fussy variant on the title: The Book of Disquietude. But this one is the most pleasurable...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic 101, Part IIIa: Starting Down the Path of Honors This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic...
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This is the third of our planned five part series (I, II) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries. Last time we discussed Rome’s popular assemblies, which at least notionally expressed the will of the people. One of the key tasks those...
Daniel Bourke
Small sways in the breeze make you strong I watch the olive trees in my backyard dance in the wind. When they were small, they’d almost fall...
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I watch the olive trees in my backyard dance in the wind. When they were small, they’d almost fall over. But the post kept them up. Now they’re big enough to stand on their own. A breeze comes along and their branches move with it but
General Robots
So You Want To Do Robots, Step 4: Profit? About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
About this series I’ve been working on general purpose robots with Everyday Robots for 8 years, and was the engineering lead of the product/applications group until me and my team was impacted by the recent Alphabet layoffs. This series is an attempt to share almost a decade of...
Maps Mania
The Unknown Pleasures of Population Density
a year ago
Vadim Kravcenko
Aging Code In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a quaint bar on the outskirts of Catania (Italy), as whiskey glasses clinked and muted conversations blended into a […] The post Aging Code appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
diamond geezer
Open House wrap-up Let's finish this for another year. Open House: The Rowe (Aldgate) The Unoccupied One located...
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I've set up a homelab finally! This is something I've wanted for a while and finally the timing was right. The right project came along to justify it, so I took the plunge. Naturally, that leads to a few questions: What's a home lab? Why do you want one? And what is the shiny...
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Anecdotal Evidence
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Reporters and their editors have always fetishized what’s known in the trade as the lede – the opening sentence or paragraph of a news story. The idea is to quickly grab the reader’s attention and, with luck, hold on to it. Subtlety is discouraged in journalism. There’s much...
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Anecdotal Evidence
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Once I interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom from an oak tree in front of the hall where he was speaking and munched on it while he spoke. A few years later the writer Paul Metcalf, author of Genoa (1965), swore me to secrecy before revealing...
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“Liminal spaces” have become trendy in recent years, especially on TikTok, Tumblr, and YouTube. But what makes a space liminal? And why are they so popular lately?
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Moneyness
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I just bought Machine, Platform, Crowd: Harnessing Our Digital Future and discovered that it mentions my blog – in particular the post When machine learning matters. Ok, I lied a little bit. I didn't discover it serendipitously.
Map of the Week
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In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have been interested in how topography is represented in maps for a long time. This atlas volume provides many contrasting examples. From the “cartographic realism” of Tom Patterson’s...
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No update this month I’m skipping my normal retrospective this month, as I sold TinyPilot and am taking some time to figure out my next project. Retrospectives will resume in July.
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Build the political support necessary to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.
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Any executive or business owner will say their company values integrity, and virtually every company claims that they reward and value their employees exhibiting their brand values. But is that really accurate?
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The unequal treatment of demographic groups by ChatGPT/OpenAI content moderation system Should AI systems treat different demographic groups unequally?
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I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The ReadME project. This topic was particularly on my mind when I wrote it towards the end of last year, when I was focused on my Infrastructure Engineering project. That project is a...
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The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. John F. Kennedy Humans have mastered lots of things that have transformed our lives, created our civilizations, and might ultimately...
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‪Apple TV is a hardware device. ‪Apple TV is an app on Apple TV that curates content you can buy from Apple and also content you can stream through other installed apps (but not all apps, and there is no way to tell which ones). Apple TV is an app on iOS/iPadOS devices that...
The Marginalian
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The morning after the 2016 presidential election, I awoke to terrifying flashbacks of my childhood under a totalitarian dictatorship. Desperate for assurance that the future need not hold the total moral collapse of democracy, I reached out to my eldest friend for perspective....
Probably...
How Does World Population Grow? Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially,...
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Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially, quadratically, linearly, or logarithmically?” Here are the responses: By a narrow margin, the most popular answer is correct — since 1960 world population growth has been roughly...
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Note: Google was kind enough to invite me to give a short talk at their Zeitgeist conference earlier this week. It was a really interesting…
CONTEMPORIST
A New Home With Twin Gables Connected By A Glazed Breezeway Wheeler Kearns Architects has shared photos of a new home they have completed in Illinois, which is...
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Wheeler Kearns Architects has shared photos of a new home they have completed in Illinois, which is located on a one-acre wooded ravine site north of Chicago. The home, situated upward and slightly angled away from the street, includes twin-gabled volumes, one for sleeping and...
Paul Graham: Essays
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A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
mtlynch.io
I Regret My $46k Website Redesign Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a...
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Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a decent-looking template, I created a site that looked okay. I told myself that if the business took off, I’d hire a real designer to make it look professional. TinyPilot website,...
Farza's Newsletter
just bit into a baklava but it was a cement brick damn what a scam It was a fun week. Tough, but fun! Zip doubled in size which is cool. Startups are a cool thing...
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It was a fun week. Tough, but fun! Zip doubled in size which is cool. Startups are a cool thing where learnings really stack on top of each other regardless of the product/company… Going to try our best to keep the growth going into next week! Something that’s going well:...
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
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Diaries of Note
We spend our lives in tense expectation In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into...
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In the midst of the Russian Civil War, April 1919 saw the city of Odessa plunged further into turmoil as the Bolshevik Red Army entered, leaving the future uncertain for the once-thriving port and its inhabitants. One person who found himself caught amidst the chaos was Ivan...
Londonist
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Londonist
The Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Drives Into London This Week Merry fizz-mas!
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Seeking Wisdom
Embeddings – Part 2 This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend...
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This is the 9th post in my series on building a toy GPT. For better understanding, I recommend reading my earlier posts first. Word embeddings convert words into fixed-length numerical arrays. Each number in these arrays corresponds to a specific characteristic of the word, such...
Dreams of Space -...
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The Moon Fleet Log Book was a book distributed by Wall's Ice Cream to collect space cards that came with the ice cream. There were spaces for 24 cards. This book was incomplete but still worth sharing with you.
diamond geezer
Not the Metropolitan line extension Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming...
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Eight years ago the Metropolitan line extension to Watford Junction was cancelled when the incoming Mayor chose to ditch the outgoing Mayor's underfunded project. The people of London barely noticed - they had no desperate need to go to west Watford and the money saved went on...
Making software...
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Improving Laptop Battery Performance on OpenBSD 2023-06-13 It is no secret that OpenBSD has poor battery performance on laptops. Although not as impressive as something like Alpine Linux or FreeBSD, you can tweak OpenBSD just enough to squeeze more life out of your machine's...
Jonas Hietala
Extracting schedule information from timeedit At LIU we use timeedit to track our schedules. Recently they updated their interface and improved...
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At LIU we use timeedit to track our schedules. Recently they updated their interface and improved some parts. It’s now possible to create a prenumeration of a collection of courses exported as csv which can then be imported to other calendar apps. But they also started to...
Louwrentius
Fio-plot: creating nice charts from FIO storage benchmark data New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice...
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New release of fio-plot I've rewritten fio-plot, a tool that turns FIO benchmark data into nice charts. It allows you to create four types of graphs which will be discussed below. The github project page explains how to run this tool. Fio-plot also includes a benchmark script...
Seth's Blog
Raising the bar That’s not the same as raising the average. With the advent of the high jump, the idiom raising the...
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That’s not the same as raising the average. With the advent of the high jump, the idiom raising the bar became well understood: If you can’t jump over the bar that the current leader cleared, you don’t win. But most of the innovations that change our culture don’t actually...
Paul Cudenec
Truth, essence, knowledge and light Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after...
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Being criticised or insulted by your political enemies is not too difficult to cope with – after all, you do not really care what they think of you.
The Rational Walk
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The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson revealed corruption in society that justifies higher corporate spending to protect executives.
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 11 Highlights Two of my blog posts reached the front page of Hacker News. I may have finally discovered...
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Highlights Two of my blog posts reached the front page of Hacker News. I may have finally discovered a way to scale my keto site profitably. I’m putting Portfolio Rebalancer on the backburner due to lack of traction. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like...
Anecdotal Evidence
'My Soul, Beyond Distant Death" More than any secular writer I can think of, Vladimir Nabokov hints at the existence of an...
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More than any secular writer I can think of, Vladimir Nabokov hints at the existence of an afterlife. He never preaches and makes no theological assertions. His frequent use of the word “paradise” is often ambiguous, blurring its mundane, metaphorical meaning – an earthly place...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
People and Blogs and Me If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely...
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If you haven’t seen it, Manu has a new series called “People and Blogs” centered around a lovely goal: to both highlight wonderful human beings and their blogs, and also to promote a healthier way to inhabit the web and show that traditional social media is not the be all and end...
Diaries of Note
Beginning of Classes In 1911, having recently become interested in the field of psychoanalysis, 50-year-old German writer...
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In 1911, having recently become interested in the field of psychoanalysis, 50-year-old German writer Lou Andreas-Salomé attended the Third Psychoanalytical Congress in Weimar and met, amongst other leading figures, Sigmund Freud. A year later, in September of 1912, she wrote to...
CONTEMPORIST
Corrugated Metal Covers The Barrel Shaped Roofs Of This Portable Home William Samuels Architects has sent us photos of a small home they designed and built in Nelson, New...
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William Samuels Architects has sent us photos of a small home they designed and built in Nelson, New Zealand, that includes a single bedroom. The project was created out of a desire by architect William Samuels and his partner, Hannah D’Arcy, to own their first home. Building...
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My 2024 New Mac Setup I set up a new Mac for work today. Here's everything I use on a Mac for fullstack web development.
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Quanta Magazine
The Year in Biology In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life,...
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In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life, probed how organisms keep time, and refined theories about consciousness and emotional health. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
Home on Erik...
Conversion rates – you are (most likely) computing them wrong How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and...
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How hard can it be to compute conversion rate? Take the total number of users that converted and divide them with the total number of users. Done. Except… it's a lot more complicated when you have any sort of significant time lag.
The Honest Broker
All Bad Music Will Eventually Disappear Or how I learned to stop worrying about those godawful playlists
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Classical Wisdom
Art of the Etruscans Romans before the Romans
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TheCollector
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Engineer’s Codex
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Blog System/5
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Battle Hymns Charles Ives and the Civil War The post Battle Hymns appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
diamond geezer
merry = 𝑥 - mas We have the best signwriters at Bow Road station. merry = 𝑥-mas
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Many a technologist has been inspired by science fiction. Some have even built, or rebuilt, entire companies around an idea introduced in a story they read, as the founders of Second Life and Meta did, working from the metaverse as imagined by Neal Stephenson in his seminal 1992...
Trying to Understand...
Service to what nation? Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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Steve Blank
What Does Product Market Fit Sound Like? This. I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?”...
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I got a call from an ex-student asking me “how do you know when you found product market fit?” There’s been lots of words written about it, but no actual recordings of the moment. I remembered I had saved this 90 second, 26 year-old audio file because this is when I knew we had...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 090: Computer Use October 25, 2024.
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diamond geezer
Blogged September 30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5...
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30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5 years, i.e. I've done 60 of them, so to still be getting 50 comments on the latest one is quite something, thanks. Sat 2: I broke the news that tube platform tickets were being...
AI Snake Oil
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
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Diaries of Note
The prop department are about to fuck up the spacecraft Released in 1979, the groundbreaking film Alien is indelibly associated with H. R. Giger, the Swiss...
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Released in 1979, the groundbreaking film Alien is indelibly associated with H. R. Giger, the Swiss artist who brought a unique blend of horror and beauty to its alien species and environments. For much of 1978, beginning in February, Giger could be found in his workshop at...
blag
Recurse Center Day 13: Why 'Raft'? I started re-reading Raft and I learned why it is called so!
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
Arrived in Peking today As Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later his Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer was a key...
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As Adolf Hitler’s chief architect and later his Minister of Armaments, Albert Speer was a key instrument in the murderous machine of the Third Reich, a role for which he was rightly convicted of war crimes and crimes against humanity at the Nuremberg Trials. During his...
Eukaryote Writes...
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology “Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “memetic...
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“Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “memetic hazard” to describe information that could specifically harm the person who knows it.
CONTEMPORIST
Ceramic Forms Surrounding The Windows Of This New Building Give It A Unique Character Photography © Sebastian van Damme De Zwarte Hond and Loer Architecten have shared photos of a...
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Photography © Sebastian van Damme De Zwarte Hond and Loer Architecten have shared photos of a building they recently completed in Groningen, Netherlands, that combines modern design with ceramic elements. Photography © Marcel Ijzerman The architects worked together with ceramic...
Coffee with an...
How to be a better architect Ask yourself, “Is this needed?” Remove everything that isn’t. Study the function of the building...
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Ask yourself, “Is this needed?” Remove everything that isn’t. Study the function of the building well, but don’t let it drive the design. Connect the spaces with nature. Master the use of natural light. Create a balance between public and private spaces. Organize the Floorplan....
Adventures In...
How to find (and style!) detailed water polygons for your map I often struggle to find high resolution polygons for things that tend to change, like water, urban,...
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I often struggle to find high resolution polygons for things that tend to change, like water, urban, ice, whatever. Here’s how you can wrangle some up-to-date, detailed, water polygons for your small or medium scale maps (plus five different ways you can style them up)… Here’s...
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Why You Should Visit Greater Palm Springs
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GeoCurrents
The 2024 U.S. Presidential Election Was No Landslide Donald Trump clearly enjoyed an unexpected and decisive victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential...
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Donald Trump clearly enjoyed an unexpected and decisive victory in the 2024 U.S. presidential election. Indeed, many journalists and pundits have described the results as nothing less than a “landslide.”  In truth, it came nowhere near that standing. Although the final vote count...
Quanta Magazine
How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is...
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To buffer the brain against menaces in the blood, a dynamic, multi-tiered system of protection is built into the brain’s blood vessels. The post How the Brain Protects Itself From Blood-Borne Threats first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
An Ode to An Event Apart I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The...
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I’m not a big globe-trotting conference attendee. I’ve only been to a handful in my career. The event I remember most fondly is An Event Apart: Austin in 2013. In my memory (which, granted, might be fuzzy) that conference was more about ideas than any specific technology. What I...
Liz Denys
Some not-so-secrets of my kitchen I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I spend a lot of time sharing the secrets of my cooking and my baking, but today, I'm sharing some of the secrets of my kitchen. Actually, they're not so secret to anyone who's had a peek around my kitchen. Oven thermometer(s) For about five dollars, you can ensure your cookies...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Windows 98 Echoes of an Explosion
a year ago
Cognitive...
Dolphin 🐬 Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today I am announcing Dolphin, an open-source and uncensored, and commercially licensed dataset and series of instruct-tuned language models based on Microsoft's Orca paper. The dataset is released here, with Apache-2.0 license. The dataset can be used for commercial or...
diamond geezer
Bow Road Anyone can visit Bow Road for free. 20 things to see on Bow Road n.b. The following are all things...
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There’s a lot of content out there arguing that exploding term sheets—ones that expire after a set amount of time, whether or not they’re accepted—are bad. Some of this comes from founders who do not appreciate the pressure; some if it comes from VCs who want to emphasize their...
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I’m not really a fan of bumper stickers in general, but I saw this one on the freeway a few days ago and I couldn’t stop laughing: It’s of course making fun of the Earth Stickers that are so common everywhere (especially in Portland): If you’re curious, the original sticker was...
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Highlights My blog post about redesigning the TinyPilot website became my second most popular article of all time I’m exploring ways to preserve more knowledge on my blog I’ve lowered TinyPilot’s prices in an effort to reduce inventory Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
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Goal This tutorial shows you how to edit digitized video captures into smaller clips that you can publish on your own password-protected MediaGoblin server. You’ll use a free Heroku dyno, so your only ongoing cost for running this private media server is the cost of storage on...
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We made a fundamental error with the launch. Normal fan base focused on iPhone XS/XS Max. Momentum from event wasn’t sustained. Didn’t need to be last year but in retrospect we should have done more to keep the buzz going.
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GPT-4 was trained on 25k A100s in about 90 days. That’s 3e25 FLOPs. If a person has 20 PFLOPS (20e15) of compute, GPT-4 used 47.5 person-years to train. Very human scale. I want to build a computer capable of training GPT-4 in a day. I need 3e25/86400 = 347,000,000 TFLOPS, or...
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Hello, I’m Rachael and I am a printmaker based in Bath, UK. I generally work with linocut and mainly print in monochrome or bright primary colours. My work celebrates family life, nature and the local area. Describe your printmaking process. I normally sketch out a composition...
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Just spent a day at MLConf where I was talking about how we do music recommendations. There was a whole range of great speakers (actually almost 2/3 women which was pretty cool in itself). Here are my slides:
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