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TheCollector
12 Surprising Facts About Loki, the Nordic God undefined
a year ago
Both Are True
A link to my daily log as a person who is offline here it is
a year ago
Rest of World -...
The chilling power of Gaza’s internet blackout Ongoing bloodshed makes the territory’s digital ties even more important.
a year ago
Global Inequality...
The abolition of paper and the pompous rule of the present China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
China is considered to have been the first country (civilization) to have created the modern version of paper. Paper is listed as one among the four big Chinese inventions (the other three are compass, gun powder and printing). Perhaps it will be the first country to desinvent...
Making software...
Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount...
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Over-Engineering an Oil Tank Gauge 2020-09-09 I almost went down the path of investing a huge amount of time and effort into fixing a stuck oil fuel tank float-gauge in my house. Recently, the float mechanism became stuck and permanently displayed empty regardless of how much...
Maggie Appleton
Epistemic Disclosure
over a year ago
Map of the Week
Terrain Representations from the Atlas of Design In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have...
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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...
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Disadvantages of Wine' An offhand recounting of a conversation with Dr. Johnson:  “He has great virtue, in not drinking...
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An offhand recounting of a conversation with Dr. Johnson:  “He has great virtue, in not drinking wine or any fermented liquor, because, as he acknowledged to us, he could not do it in moderation. Lady M’Leod would hardly believe him, and said, ‘I am sure, sir, you would not carry...
Old Structures...
Delaying The Obvious Solution The idea behind Columbus Circle was a good one. The corner of a large park (Central Park, in this...
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The idea behind Columbus Circle was a good one. The corner of a large park (Central Park, in this case) is a good place to have a monumental space. The only problem was reality: the southwest corner of Central Park is the intersection of Central Park West (AKA Eight Avenue),...
Flashbak
Photos of New York City Stores in 1997 New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
New Yorker Meredith Jacobson Marciano has amassed archive of 35mm film shots, Polaroids and early digital photographs in NYC from the mid to late 1970s through the early aughts, “when the city still seemed kind of old”. Much like with Peter Marshall’s pictures of London, Meredith...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Arc Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We need an arc of History that smashes BOOM right into Justice. Today's News:
There are two types...
My Meals With Bob: My Mini Memoir in Common Edge A photo of New York 1900. showing two of the four images of the Colonial Club in the book. We...
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over a year ago
A photo of New York 1900. showing two of the four images of the Colonial Club in the book. We included so many images of the pleasant but unremarkable building because that was where we wrote the book, in Robert A.M. … Continue reading → The post My Meals With Bob: My Mini Memoir...
Alex Meub
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 24 Highlights TinyPilot reached an all-time high of $74k in revenue. I’m trying to figure out the best...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Highlights TinyPilot reached an all-time high of $74k in revenue. I’m trying to figure out the best approach to software licensing. I’m still searching for a web framework I can love. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023] Big, Big News!
a year ago
Words and Buttons...
The simplest possible smooth contouring algorithm The algorithm that takes a distance function and makes a smooth contour out of it in three steps.
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
ReasonML for production React Apps? 🤔 (Part 4) This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is the last article of the series. We've built a few things with ReasonReact and now it's time to share my opinion about using Reason to create React applications. Access Part 1 here, Part 2 here and Part 3 here. Though, my opinion shouldn't really matter if you're also...
Elad Blog
Startup Decoupling & Reckoning The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely...
a year ago
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a year ago
The coming reset in mid-to-late stage startups in 2023-2024 is at this point likely largely decoupled from interest rates and inflation. Implications are discussed.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Amazing Athletes of the 21st Century Read more about RSS Club. Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Read more about RSS Club. Content warning: wherein I talk about sports. If that’s not your thing, feel free to skip this one. I’m not a rabid sports fan. I don’t have a team, though I do have teams I hate (or rather, like to hate on). But I do enjoy following sports. I’ve...
Home on Erik...
The number of letters in the word for each number Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just for fun, I generated these graphs of the number of letters in the word for each number. I really spent about 10 minutes on this (ok…possibly also another 40 minutes tweaking the plots): More languages!
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Allocation investing and the social premium The rational way to invest in something – a startup, public company, venture capital firm, real...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The rational way to invest in something – a startup, public company, venture capital firm, real estate project, etc. – is to base your…
TheCollector
Have You Heard of These 5 Unusual Musical Instruments? undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
When Was the Fall of the Byzantine Empire? undefined
11 months ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
Overcoming Automotive Overconsumption Through Design The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The average car consists of around 30,000 parts. They are built up from many different resources that come from all over the world. These…
TheCollector
A Brief History of Mount Everest undefined
a month ago
The Works in...
Should you infect yourself with Zika? What life is like in a challenge trial
8 months ago
Old Structures...
Reuse, Well Done From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old...
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4 months ago
From Carol Highsmith’s archive, a Target store in Brooklyn in 2018. If you’re going to reuse an old theater for your big-box store, why not reuse the marquee and vertical knife sign for advertising?
Global Inequality...
2x2 geopolitics Wars and ideology simplified
5 months ago
Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete. You don't need to know that.
9 months ago
The DESK Magazine
Is the folder dead? Think about a real folder made of paper. Back in the day... We invented paper folders because we...
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over a year ago
Think about a real folder made of paper. Back in the day... We invented paper folders because we had limited space in the physical world to organize ourselves. We needed a way to group and sort our letters, documents and papers. If we had stacked up our files anywhere on
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 5 In which I doubled my conversion rate without trying too hard.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
If I can paint three good pictures, then I shall go gladly Paula Modersohn-Becker was just thirty-one when she died, her life tragically cut short in 1907 due...
a year ago
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a year ago
Paula Modersohn-Becker was just thirty-one when she died, her life tragically cut short in 1907 due to complications after childbirth. Born in Germany in 1876, she had already established herself as a pioneering figure in the early expressionist art movement, and the hundreds of...
Rozado’s Visual...
El desproporcionado número de referencias al machismo en los medios de comunicación españoles Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos...
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a year ago
Los medios de comunicación españoles constituyen una anomalía en comparación con sus homólogos internacionales por su alto número de referencias al machismo que triplican a las de cualquier otro país
Cheese and Biscuits
The Devonshire, Soho There's no avoiding the fact, and there's no point dancing around it. There's no need for lengthy,...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's no avoiding the fact, and there's no point dancing around it. There's no need for lengthy, thoughtful or measured arguments; no sense in analysing the details. There needs to be no slow and steady building of a case, culminating in a grand and weighty conclusion. The...
Society's Backend
OpenAI’s Blunder is a Loss for the ML Community The timeline and why OpenAI’s actions are a big deal
7 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Clear the barnacles The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at...
a year ago
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a year ago
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at once. These little mental barnacles add up in imperceptible ways until you suddenly feel like you're getting nowhere, no matter how hard you push. You must keep scrubbing your...
Londonist
TfL Poppy Roundels: Here Are The Underground And Overground Stations Where You'll Find Them London's trains and buses are 'wearing' poppies too.
a year ago
xkcd.com
DateTime
a year ago
The Modern House
How a love of Japan and the 1970s shaped Sherrill Smith’s Hackney home
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement undefined
10 months ago
Probably...
What are the odds? Whenever something unlikely happens, it is tempting to ask, “What are the odds?” In some very...
a year ago
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a year ago
Whenever something unlikely happens, it is tempting to ask, “What are the odds?” In some very limited cases, we can answer that question. For example, if someone deals you five cards from a well-shuffled deck, and you want to know the odds of getting a royal flush, we can answer...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Lessons in Competitive Comms from the Plaid-Stripe Kerfuffle Now that the dust has settled on the Plaid-Stripe thing it's time to recap lessons learned.
over a year ago
TheCollector
What Are the Challenges of Creating ‘True Crime’ Stories? undefined
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
Two Shingle Covered Cottages Connected By A Living Room And Kitchen In Between Bates Masi + Architects has designed a house in Montauk, New York, that’s built on land that was...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bates Masi + Architects has designed a house in Montauk, New York, that’s built on land that was once home to early settlers in the 17th century. Remnants of horse stables, barns, and workers’ cottages scatter the landscape, however, one such cottage, a late addition built in the...
Math Is Still...
A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies...
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a year ago
On its surface, the Kakeya conjecture is a simple statement about rotating needles. But it underlies a wealth of mathematics. The post A Tower of Conjectures That Rests Upon a Needle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Marina Abramović Leads 7-Minute Silence at Glastonbury Festival undefined
5 months ago
Open Culture
How Man Ray Reinvented Himself & Created One of the Most Iconic Works of Surrealist Photography It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his past and make his...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his past and make his mark on the culture in a place like Williamsburg. But in the case of Man Ray, Williamsburg was his past. One must remember that the Brooklyn of today bears little resemblance to the...
Both Are True
The signal is the noise - how the sounds of an old ass calculator ended up on the website of the... You'd think it's boring but it's sorta cool and kinda wild how it's about everything but also...
5 months ago
Jonas Hietala
I, Robot Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here are the results of the big robot construction course we had before christmas! The whole process went smooth and our group was amazing. The design and building of the robot went well even though in hindsight I would’ve changed a lot of stuff. The ending competition didn’t go...
History Today Feed
The Election That Caused the Boer War The Election That Caused the Boer War JamesHoare Thu, 06/20/2024 - 10:19
6 months ago
Math Is Still...
An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves...
a year ago
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a year ago
Astronomers have found a background din of exceptionally long-wavelength gravitational waves pervading the cosmos. The post An Enormous Gravity ‘Hum’ Moves Through the Universe first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
When Was the First U.S. Presidential Election? undefined
3 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Dwarf Planet Ring Mystery Scientists love mysteries, because that is where new discoveries lay. It is nice to find evidence...
a year ago
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a year ago
Scientists love mysteries, because that is where new discoveries lay. It is nice to find evidence consistent with existing theories, providing further confirmation, but it’s exciting to find evidence that cannot be explained with existing theories. Astronomers may have found such...
Willem's Blog
I see dead people This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
Florian Bellmann |...
Why I blog The reasons why I started blogging.
a year ago
Uncharted...
What Is the Earth’s Carrying Capacity? Most "experts" don't understand technology or economics
a month ago
Bartosz Ciechanowski
Airfoil The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The dream of soaring in the sky like a bird has captivated the human mind for ages. Although many failed, some eventually succeeded in achieving that goal. These days we take air transportation for granted, but the physics of flight can still be puzzling. In this article we’ll...
NeuroLogica Blog
Everything Will Evaporate What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities,...
a year ago
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a year ago
What will be the ultimate fate of our universe? There are a number of theories and possibilities, but at present the most likely scenario seems to be that the universe will continue to expand, most mass will eventually find its way into a black hole, and those black holes will...
David Perell
28 Pieces of Life Advice In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice appeared first on David Perell.
Rest of World -...
In Southeast Asia, Ramadan is an online shopping bonanza An e-commerce battle brews between Shopee, Lazada and TikTok Shop with the continued rise of...
8 months ago
TheCollector
Hegel’s Master-Slave Dialectic Explained undefined
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Automatic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If I can draw this out to 200 pages, I could get a divinity degree. Today's News:
TheCollector
How Did Hannah Arendt Define Evil? undefined
10 months ago
Grow With Less
9 Inspiring Examples of Successful Blogs (And How They Got There) Looking at blog income reports from popular blogs, you could think that the only way to make money...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Looking at blog income reports from popular blogs, you could think that the only way to make money blogging is to blog about blogging. Luckily, you would be mistaken. The reality is that there are successful blogs in all kinds of niches. You simply hear more about the make money...
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Stop Using Sticky Navigation on Mobile 2019-10-06 Stop styling your web elements to be “sticky” on mobile. This creates a horrible experience for your users and also looks like trash from a UI perspective. Don’t style your navigation (or any components for that matter) to be...
Open Culture
Coursera Offers $120 Off of Coursera Plus (Until September 30), Giving You Unlimited Access to... A quick reminder: As the new school year gets underway, millions of students are heading back to...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A quick reminder: As the new school year gets underway, millions of students are heading back to classrooms. And you can too. From now until September 30, 2024, Coursera is offering a 30% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399,...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Compilers Copout Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I dropped out of the Compilers course I accidentally registered myself for. I'm not proud of it but there's too much I want to do and I know I'm just going to do a shit job at everything by spreading my self thin and also putting an intense gun to my head.
TheCollector
9 Queer Artists Who Changed the History of Modern Art Forever undefined
a year ago
Christopher Butler
The Last Time Life has as many ends as it has beginnings. What can an end teach us about making our...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Life has as many ends as it has beginnings. What can an end teach us about making our world? Bye, Chris” were the last words a friend said to me. We had been talking on the phone for about an hour, catching up as we did back then, a few times each year. He said his goodbye as...
The Elysian
Can we create a wise & enlightened citizenry? We'll need to address cognitive biases if we want to reach Plato's ideal.
8 months ago
Old Structures...
The Public Realm This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
This is the 1895 firehouse constructed for Engine Company 31 and Battalion 2 of the Fire Department of New York, at Lafayette and White Streets. The fire department facilities were moved elsewhere over 50 years ago, but the building is landmarked and reusable, so it has been...
Flashbak
British Punks in the 1980s by Shirley Baker British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
British photographer Shirley Baker captured these fabulous portraits of punks on the streets of Manchester, Stockport and London’s Camden Town in the early 1980s. Shirley’s daughter, Nan Levy, spoke to the Museum of of Youth Culture about her mother’s work as part of an...
TheCollector
Hitler’s Gamble: Where Did the Battle of the Bulge Take Place? undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Hume on Personal Identity: Who Are We? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Eris: Goddess of Strife and Discord in Greek Mythology undefined
4 days ago
Math Is Still...
How Math Has Changed the Shape of Gerrymandering New tools make it possible to detect hidden manipulation of maps. The post How Math Has...
a year ago
Londonist
Hundreds Of Boats Race On The Thames The Week Before Oxford Vs Cambridge Ever seen the Head of the River Race?
9 months ago
The DESK Magazine
Das Gesamtkunstwerk First and foremost I am a designer. By trade and at heart.
6 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Like anything else, we need to practice startups * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It is easy to look at successful founders and see them as genuises, as people who were without a doubt going to be triumphant. When we look at people in that way, it is completely understandable...
abdz.do - Have you...
Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV abduzeedo0501—23 ...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bold art direction, UX and web design for GV abduzeedo0501—23 GV, previously known as Google Ventures, recently underwent a rebranding and relaunch of their corporate website with a simpler UX. The new strategy and branding was created by the...
Dreams of Space -...
Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power (1963) A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A very nice 1963 book about rocket propulsion. It was written for the "little engineer" and has some very nice illustrations of the construction of rockets. Coombs, Charles. Illustrated by Foor, R. H. Lift-off: The Story of Rocket Power. New York: William Morrow and Co. (96 p.)...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #179 Guard your time, Tributes to Charlie Munger, Social media traps, The margin of illusion, AI...
a year ago
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a year ago
Guard your time, Tributes to Charlie Munger, Social media traps, The margin of illusion, AI colonoscopies, Advice on tipping, Alcohol and cardiovascular risks, Nicomachean ethics
Rozado’s Visual...
ChatGPT no longer displays a clear left-leaning political bias Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter...
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over a year ago
Update (20/01/2023): Results of administering 15 political orientation tests to ChatGPT Twitter Thread Summary Between December 5-6, I applied 4 political orientation tests to ChatGPT. Results were consistent across the tests. All 4 tests diagnosed ChatGPT answers to their...
Maps Mania
Crowdsourcing Neighborhood Borders
3 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Jacquemus Shop-in-Shops by OMA In Paris and London, OMA have designed the shops for the southern French fashion label Jacquemus,...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
In Paris and London, OMA have designed the shops for the southern French fashion label Jacquemus, developing multi-layered design scenarios...
Escaping Flatland
A summary of what I wrote in 2024 A man sets out to draw the world.
a week ago
Society's Backend
Chinese AI is Less Expensive, What it's Like to Work in AI, an Evaluation Framework for Voice... Society's Backend Reading List 11-18-2024
a month ago
History Today Feed
‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review ‘Catherine de’ Medici’ by Mary Hollingsworth review JamesHoare Tue, 09/10/2024 - 00:00
3 months ago
Maps Mania
Guess Where You Are
2 months ago
Coffee with an...
Architect Valentines 2024 It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not really. We’re working on a deadline right now. But, we promise, as soon as we’re finished with these details, our thoughts will totally turn to love. In the meantime, here are a...
SatPost by Trung...
SpaceX's 5-Step Design Process How rapid failure and iteration will get Starship to orbit and beyond.
a year ago
The Changelog
Photographic comparison: Is the Kobo Libra Colour display worse than the Kobo Libra 2? I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
I’ve been using E Ink-based ereaders for quite a number of years now. I’ve had my Kobo Libra 2 for a few years, and was looking forward to the Kobo Libra Colour — the first color E Ink display in a mainstream ereader line. I found the display to be a mixed bag; contrast seemed …...
diamond geezer
Unlocking QEOP Ten years ago, when Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park fully opened, I showed you this graphic showing all...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Ten years ago, when Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park fully opened, I showed you this graphic showing all the pedestrian entrances into the park. It wasn't an official list, simply those I'd spotted, numbered in an anti-clockwise direction starting from Westfield. greens were...
Luxagraf:...
California We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to...
a month ago
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a month ago
We didn't have long to settle into the cabin. A week later the kids and I flew out to California to visit my parents, trading the last of fall for some warmth and extra sunshine at the beach. I am a stranger in my hometown. The California of my youth is gone. Everything paved...
The Gradient
The Artificiality of Alignment This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk”...
a year ago
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a year ago
This essay first appeared in Reboot. Credulous, breathless coverage of “AI existential risk” (abbreviated “x-risk”) has reached the mainstream. Who could have foreseen that the smallcaps onomatopoeia “ꜰᴏᴏᴍ” — both evocative of and directly derived from children’s cartoons —
Mazdak
Google's Gemini Enters the AI Arena: Ready to Take on OpenAI? Get ready for a new contender in the world of large language models (LLMs): Google's Gemini! This...
a year ago
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a year ago
Get ready for a new contender in the world of large language models (LLMs): Google's Gemini! This powerful AI is set to shake things up, potentially rivaling big names like OpenAI and Microsoft. What's the Buzz About Gemini? Gemini comes in three flavors:
Ink & Switch
04 · Diff visualizations Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Prototypes to show changes on a document, such as red deletion glyphs and change summaries by section.
The Map is Mostly...
Dispatches from childhood Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with...
a year ago
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a year ago
Humility is the virtue of seeing each sunrise as truly new. Little children have no trouble with this perspective, they could not live any other way. Everything is visceral to them, and they carry this visceral interiority everywhere.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Downhill Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I too commit the fundamental attribution...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I too commit the fundamental attribution error! Today's News: Hey geeks, last day to buy A City on Mars during launch week. Purchases now really help us, so if you were going to buy, we appreciate it happening soon. I am looking...
Anarchy Unfolds
Queer Folk Don't Need Orientation How decade-old discourse shows us a way out
2 months ago
Moneyness
Central bank digital currencies and the fallacy of immaculate adoption I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently noticed that the Bank of Jamaica, Jamaica's central bank, has implemented two new marketing strategies to drive adoption of its new central bank digital currency, Jam-Dex. Jam-Dex is one of only four operational central bank digital currencies (CBDCs) in the world,...
The Ruffian
The Historian and the Culture Warrior Plus: Thoughts on Responses To the Kaba Verdict
a month ago
Math Is Still...
Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of Shock Therapy Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Electroconvulsive therapy is highly effective in treating major depressive disorder, but no one knows why it works. New research suggests it may restore balance between excitation and inhibition in the brain. The post Brain’s ‘Background Noise’ May Explain Value of...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 3 Hello from a rainy and cold autumn morning in Durham. We are in the midst of the most magical time...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello from a rainy and cold autumn morning in Durham. We are in the midst of the most magical time of the year. Our enormous old oak is covering everything in a blanket of golden leaves. The meadow is turning purple with the tall Aster that flower in November. I’m getting ready...
TheCollector
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The OAuth2 spec cleanly separates the role of Authorization Server (AS) from that of Resource Server (RS). The role of the AS, and the whole OAUTH2 dance, is to get an access token that will be accepted by a RS.It’s puzzling. It should be easy, nay, trivial, to implement the...
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Anyone who’s ever dreamed of building their own home has probably watched an episode of Grand Designs. In fact, quite a few people have – the programme has been on our screens since 1999, during which time Kevin McCloud has cemented his reputation as a […]
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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...
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And I’ve got some free LUTs for you. The iPhone 15 Pro and Pro Max feature log video recording. This is a big deal, but there’s already some confusion about it. Where consumer devices and pro video overlap, that’s where the Prolost Signal gleams brightest in the night sky. So...
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Since Summer 2020, I've been organizing with Bridges 4 People, a campaign of the Transportation Alternatives Brooklyn, North Brooklyn, and Manhattan activist committees. Bridges 4 People reimagines what the bridges that connect Brooklyn and Manhattan would look like if they...
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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...
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Writing and editing should be separate activities.  When I’m in this creation mode, I shoot for a flow state. I keep my fingertips on the keyboard and measure progress by how many words I put on the page.  My physical environment helps me be generative too. If I’m sitting down at...
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New Zealand architecture firm Studio John Irving Architects has shared photos of a modern farmhouse they completed that's been designed like a collection of linked farm outbuildings.
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Cells in the placenta have an unusual trick for activating gentle immune defenses and keeping them turned on when no infection is present. It involves crafting and deploying a fake virus. The post During Pregnancy, a Fake ‘Infection’ Protects the Fetus first appeared...
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It has been an unsettling summer for anyone with a stake in the movie, television and broadcasting businesses.  The strike by screen actors and writers which started in July is now into almost into its third month, with no end in sight, putting at risk the pipeline of movies and...
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This post previously appeared on the readwrite blog.   A CEO running a B-to-B startup in needs to live in the city where their business is – or else they’ll never scale. I was having breakfast with Erin, an ex-student, just off a red-eye flight from New York. She’s built a...
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Apparently MTA (the company running the NYC subway) has a real-time API. My fascination for the subway takes autistic proportions and so obviously I had to analyze some of the data. The documentation is somewhat terrible, but here's some relevant code for how to use the API:
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Sometimes it’s obvious, like the $1 that you get charged for using an ATM or a credit card, and it’s simply not worth the hassle to walk a few blocks. And sometimes it’s not, like the cost we all pay for the conveniently wrapped fruits or vegetables at the market–wrapped in...
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I recently bought the Eight Sleep Pod 4—a smart mattress cover that tracks your heart rate, HRV, snoring, and cools or warms the mattress during the night. There’s a lot to like about the mattress but in the end I opted to return it. This post describes my experience with the Pod...
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Networking Essentials: Routing How the Internet cobbles together thousands of Autonomous Systems with the Border Gateway Protocol
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Recently, I am thinking quite a bit about engineering strategy, and as part of that have started re-reading previous resources on the topic, and looking for new things to read while I refine my point of view on what makes for good engineering strategy. The best introduction to my...
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Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine. I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
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Bad code <a href="#" onclick="modal.open()">Login</a> Issues and how to fix them If the a element has an href attribute, it represents a link to another resource like a page or a PDF document. The purpose of the element in this example is to trigger an action on the same page...
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How distributed systems fail At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes,...
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At scale, any failure that can happen will eventually happen. Hardware failures, software crashes, memory leaks - you name it. The more…
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The hallmark of great wisdom is not what you know, but what you know and can put to use. The globe is full of learned idiots, unable or incapable of following the wisdom they have accumulated. There's no prize for a closet full of axioms or insights, if you leave it all in there,...
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Upgrade your Asahi Linux systems, because your graphics drivers are getting a big boost: leapfrogging from OpenGL 2.1 over OpenGL 3.0 up to OpenGL 3.1! Similarly, the OpenGL ES 2.0 support is bumping up to OpenGL ES 3.0. That means more playable games and more functioning...
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We were surprised to discover that Osaka has quite a number of outdoor dining options. Our first meal was okonomiyaki of course, and my partner found a okonomiyaki restaurant with outdoor seating:...
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The Cultural Anthropology of React
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Diaries of Note
Some monstrous gullet suffocating with fury Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and esteemed novelist who rose to prominence in the late 19th...
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Pierre Loti was a French naval officer and esteemed novelist who rose to prominence in the late 19th century. Born Louis Marie Julien Viaud, he pursued a naval career, earning a recall to service during World War I due to his expertise in Pacific waters. Married to poet and...
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On the morning of 8th August 1969, as a policeman held back traffic, all four members of the Beatles made their way across a zebra crossing outside EMI Studios in London. As they walked in line, one after the other, with a ten minute window in which to get the job done,...
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My Year-End Playlist As usual, here are some songs that stuck with me this year. fredwilson · Backing It When No One...
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As usual, here are some songs that stuck with me this year. fredwilson · Backing It When No One Believed I hope you enjoy it.
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Catherine Deneuve’s film career has been prolific and illustrious. Since her big screen debut in 1957 she has starred in close to 130 movies and garnered 14 César Award nominations, of which she has won two, cementing her as one of France’s most acclaimed actresses. Yet, even the...
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I am interested in computers as a way to do more than consume. That’s how Devine starts their talk from Strangeloop. I’ve linked to them before, as they have an interesting perspective on computing in the 21st century (given, in part, their environment of living on a boat). I...
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Welcome to Unsupervised Learning Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free...
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Thank you for subscribing! If you have a moment, feel free to dive into some content. And feel free to reach out if you find something you love. Best, Daniel InfoSec When to Use Vulnerability Assessment, Pentest, Red Team, vs Bug Bounty How to Build a Successful Information...
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I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how perverse incentives lead to poor community outcomes. It had a huge impact on the way that I think about where to live and what policies I support in local government. This book...
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Taken by the Curiosity rover. This is one of Mars tiny moons as seen from the ground. Impressive as it is only 14 long and you can actually see its shape from the surface. See Phobos below for reference.
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"Here it comes: the information dumping..." From section 237, page 185 of Ellis Sharp's latest novel, the part that is commentary on his attempt to destroy a commercially successful novel emulating "the style that The Guardian liked and promoted": The narrator is a young...
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If you want to improve your writing, match your punctuation to the mood. Punctuation is to writing as music is to movies. In The Joker, the renowned composer Hildur Guðnadóttir used the cello in the opening scenes to create empathy with the protagonist. But then, as The Joker’s...
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To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was...
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I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist. all about Palm devices on the Internet. It turns out there's a reason for that, and we're going to patch the operating system so we can make the Fossil Wrist PDA into what may be the...
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The first piece I ever wrote about engineering management, The Engineer/Manager Pendulum, was written as a love letter to a friend of mine who was unhappy at work. He was an engineering director at a large and fast-growing startup, where he had substantially built out the entire...
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Service to what nation? Why people should stop talking about conscription.
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IDA Summer of Code 2014 IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in...
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IDA Summer of Code is Linköping University’s response to Google Summer of Code. Students can send in a project of their choice and if selected they get paid to work on it for 4 weeks during the summer. In return the university get to show off the students and their projects in...
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Approximating the Sierpinski Triangle on my CNC One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess. I like to play it, and I also help run our town's...
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One of my big hobbies outside of tech is chess. I like to play it, and I also help run our town's chess club. As part of that, we like to run rated tournaments to get our members some experience in a low-pressure tournament environment. These are my responsibility to organize and...
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Some thoughts I had after conversations with a friend who has a terrible manager. This isn't nearly a comprehensive list, but it highlights many of the problems they were experiencing. Maybe my friend's manager will stumble upon it some day. When someone has a grievance, take an...
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Ireland’s Department of Foreign Affairs is responsible for the establishment and management of all Irish diplomatic missions around the world....
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Laura Thomas is a former CIA operations officer. Reading how she moved in 2021 from CIA ops into a quantum technology company offered insightful career transition advice for those leaving her agency. Most of her lessons were applicable to any government employee venturing out to...
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'I Used to Stand in Front of the Windows' In my dream I was staring through the window of a bookstore, worried that sunlight would bleach the...
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In my dream I was staring through the window of a bookstore, worried that sunlight would bleach the color from the cover of a book. At the center of a display that seemed to be made of cotton gauze was not just any book but a first edition of Ulysses. In the rare books collection...
Escaping Flatland
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A sculptural representation of JS Bach’s Fugue in E Flat Minor by Henrik Neugeboren “I can’t make myself finish this one,” Johanna said one night when we were reading together in bed. She was working her way through a 6021-word essay draft about identities as interfaces that I...
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A disgusting playbook So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started...
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So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started comma, and I probably will fail because of this. Cruise Automation is a good example here. If they told the truth, they would be out of business. In 2016, they were bought by GM for...
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Auguste Merle was an Art Brut artist living in France at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. His works depict imaginary buildings with meticulous detailing, using graphite on notebook paper. The rigorous yet inventive forms are depicted in 90-degree axonometric projections,...
The Rational Walk
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A few observations based on recent 13F filings, with a focus on Berkshire Hathaway, Dollar General, Markel, and Semper Augustus.
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An early canvas of Fissile mountain reflected in Russet Lake. This time early summer when there was still a bit of ice on the lake and the mountain tops are covered with snow. The painting is framed in western red cedar. Russet Lake Early Summer by Andrew SmithAcrylic on canvas10...
Seth's Blog
Is it a t-shirt brand? Not all projects become t-shirt brands, nor should they. The risk is in thinking you’re building one...
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Not all projects become t-shirt brands, nor should they. The risk is in thinking you’re building one when you’re not. T-shirt worthy brands are a very small subset of the whole. The question is: Would your customers want to wear your logo on a t-shirt? Why? If you’re creating...
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The Internet is for snacking Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s...
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Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of…
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Quitting when I sense “the grind” <p>One change I’ve made recently in my product making process is that I stop as soon as I sense that...
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<p>One change I’ve made recently in my product making process is that I stop as soon as I sense that I am “pushing it”.</p> <p>I quit immediately.</p> <p>Right there and then.</p> <p>If I don’t feel fresh, my work will look stale.</p> <p>I hit more “in the zone” states this...
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Maths is Fun and Useful but Lasers Are More So Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a...
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Way back when, I made a cool but basic paper sculpture (in Maths is Fun and Useful) by hand, using a perl script for the shape template. For cultural reasons, I wanted to make a gift out of paper and it had to be Heaps Good. I had finally got access to a laser cutter (omgomg)...
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Creating Cyanotypes using the Speedball UV Lamp Cyanotypes are made using a light sensitive solution to create designs on fabric and paper. Prints...
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Cyanotypes are made using a light sensitive solution to create designs on fabric and paper. Prints are typically created using direct sunlight. Unfortunately here in the UK, sunshine is often in short supply! But we have discovered a work around using the Speedball UV Lamp, a...
Quantum Frontiers
The power of awe Mid-afternoon, one Saturday late in September, I forgot where I was. I forgot that I was visiting...
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Mid-afternoon, one Saturday late in September, I forgot where I was. I forgot that I was visiting Seattle for the second time; I forgot that I’d just finished co-organizing a workshop partially about nuclear physics for the first time. I’d … Continue reading →
One Useful Thing
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Replacing a Shimano shift cable After some adventure with our cargo bike, the Shimano Nexus 7-speed shifter cable got damaged and...
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After some adventure with our cargo bike, the Shimano Nexus 7-speed shifter cable got damaged and needed replacement. Read my blog post to learn how to do this yourself.
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Three weeks in Portugal I was in Portugal for three weeks in June.  Five hours a day for four days I was in this inlingua...
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I was in Portugal for three weeks in June.  Five hours a day for four days I was in this inlingua classroom in Porto, or one much like it: The results: B1 in Portuguese after about two years of fairly relaxed study – relaxed until those four days – which seems pretty good. ...
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Chart the course, set the pace, hold the line I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They...
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I break the essential responsibilities of the company executive into three distinct buckets. They are:   1. Chart the course Where are we going? What are we building? Who is it for? Any executive running anything has to know the answer to these questions in order to lead anyone...
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...
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OCaml Speedrun! 🐫🐪 a guided walk through Jane Street's OCaml workshop
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Remarkable Literary Judgment' She was twelve or thirteen, a girl in a hooded sweatshirt seated beside a woman I assume was her...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
She was twelve or thirteen, a girl in a hooded sweatshirt seated beside a woman I assume was her mother. She sat on the aisle two rows ahead of me. The cabin of the plane glowed with screens while she was reading Andrew R. MacAndrew’s 1961 translation of Dead Souls, the Signet...
McMansion Hell
this house may or may not be real on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
on grayness in real estate Allegedly, somewhere in Wake Forest, North Carolina, a 4 bed, 5.5 bathroom house totaling more than 6,600 square feet is for sale at a price of 2.37 million dollars. The house, allegedly, was built in 2021. Allegedly, it looks like this: A McMansion...