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Londonist
The Natural History Museum Is Throwing Another Epic New Year's Eve Bash It's going to be WILD.
a year ago
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Model facts, not your problem domain
over a year ago
Paul Cudenec
Amsterdam, gaslighting and the horrible truth In terms of what physically happened, the much-publicised events in Amsterdam last week don’t amount...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In terms of what physically happened, the much-publicised events in Amsterdam last week don’t amount to much.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 050: Synthetic Geometry January 19, 2024.
a year ago
Eric Bailey
Little Library
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
FUDDY DUDDY pizza takeout by Saint of Athens & ICD Designers Saint of Athens and ICD Designers present FUDDY DUDDY, a unique pizza takeout store located in the...
7 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Seeking Good Light There used to be a small park just off a Colorado highway down in the Big Thompson Canyon. If you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There used to be a small park just off a Colorado highway down in the Big Thompson Canyon. If you stopped there you would usually see several photographers pointing their cameras at the glow of pre-married couples, the awkward smiles of pimply high school seniors, or toddlers...
sancho.dev
Don't use Tailwind for your Design System
over a year ago
Asterisk
Mysticism & Empiricism The best way to predict if you’ll benefit from psychedelic therapy is a questionnaire asking if...
a year ago
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a year ago
The best way to predict if you’ll benefit from psychedelic therapy is a questionnaire asking if you’ve met God. Where did it come from, and what is it really measuring?
Data Boutique
Economics of Web Data: ROI Customer's Value Standpoint
a year ago
The Changelog
Roundup of Secure Messengers with Off-The-Grid Capabilities (Distributed/Mesh Messengers) Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Amid all the conversation about Signal, and the debate over decentralization, one thing has often not been raised: all of these things require an Internet connection. “Of course,” you might say. “Internet is everywhere these days.” Well, not so much, and it turns out there are...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Knots 3D "Feel free to explore our knot catalog and learn how to tie over 150 knots! "
over a year ago
computers are bad
2023-05-07 electrical characteristics of telephone lines Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring...
a year ago
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a year ago
Let's take a break from our boring topic of regional history to focus instead on an even more boring topic: implementation details of telephone lines. The conventional "copper pair" analog telephone line is fading away. The FCC has begun to authorize abandonment of copper outside...
99% Invisible
Anything’s Pastable: Eat Sauté Love [EPISODE] This week we’re featuring an episode from The Sporkful’s series on the creation of “Anything’s...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This week we’re featuring an episode from The Sporkful’s series on the creation of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan Pashman’s new pasta cookbook. In part two of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about...
Maps Mania
More 2024 Maps of the Year
2 weeks ago
Old Structures...
Amazing Detail I recently put up a map put up an 1884 planning map for the expansion of the Croton water system...
a year ago
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a year ago
I recently put up a map put up an 1884 planning map for the expansion of the Croton water system north of New York. It turns out that was just an appetizer. Today’s map, from 1899, has much more detail and is amazing proof of what could be done with hand drafting: no GIS...
The Last...
Product Review: Panasonic PT AX200U (Hipsters On Food Stamps Part 3) but how will you afford a steak? Part 2 here Three questions, open book: 1.  Did Hipster...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
but how will you afford a steak? Part 2 here Three questions, open book: 1.  Did Hipster Gerry get his money's worth from the University of Chicago, either $100k in future income or knowledge?  No. 2. Did society get their money's worth in sending him, i.e. by...
pcloadletter
RSS is still pretty great I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information readily available is phenomenal. Sadly, the signal-to-noise ratio here is pretty low. For me, consuming RSS feeds[1] offers the best way to read the kind of high-quality information...
Josh Thompson
Simplify, simplify, simplify Kristi and I stumbled upon the realization that we’ve become minimalists. And it is exciting. We...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Kristi and I stumbled upon the realization that we’ve become minimalists. And it is exciting. We live in a one-bedroom apartment. It is spacious, for a one-bedroom, but compared to anything larger than a one-bedroom apartment, it is small. We managed to pack it full of stuff in...
Mazdak
Understanding Family Trusts in Canada: A Comprehensive Guide What is a Family Trust?
a month ago
TheCollector
Did Nietzsche Hate Christianity? undefined
a year ago
Common Edge
MoMA’s Woefully Incomplete Look at Architecture’s Environmental Arc A new exhibition is at best a limited glimpse at a critical movement.
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Man-Made Moons (1960) Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant...
a year ago
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a year ago
Another book re-scanned. This one has some wonderful graphics and book design. The design is meant to be an example of isotype graphic design. This was a visual language created to unite the world without using words at all: International System Of Typographic Picture Education,...
Words and Buttons...
Why did I write Geometry for programmers This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is not an interactive page, it has zero didactic value. It does explain why Words and Buttons has been stagnant for a while though. I have been writing a book. Why? Well, visit and see.
Common Edge
Wonder and Awe in a James Turrell Skyspace The artist’s latest work, in Manhattan, is both an engineering and a visual marvel that moves the...
2 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Sacred Flames and Divine Philosophers
a year ago
Many Worlds
The Makeup of Red Dwarf Solar Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable Planets Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation...
a year ago
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a year ago
Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation and evolution of Earth possible. In the early days of the solar system, massive Jupiter helped the planet grow rapidly while serving as a gravity well that shielded the planet from...
The personal website...
The things of everyday design There’s a secret code embedded in every app, website, and interface you use. Underneath your fingers...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There’s a secret code embedded in every app, website, and interface you use. Underneath your fingers is a hidden world traveled by the interface designers, caught up in a war between the complexities of technology and the breakneck evolution of user needs. These designers speak...
Noahpinion
A better way to build a downtown It's time to learn a Japanese word: "zakkyo".
3 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Five years with Rust
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
How I wrote a book using Pollen I wrote an online book using Pollen, a static site generator in Racket. An earlier post contains my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wrote an online book using Pollen, a static site generator in Racket. An earlier post contains my first impressions of it, but as the book is now completed I think I can summarize some implementation details in more detail with this post. I really like the markup language and...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is misguided: We decided to assume that the…
Rest of World -...
Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.
a week ago
TheCollector
The Venice Biennale 2024 Does Not Include Russia undefined
11 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Scheduling visits from the muse Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
a year ago
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a year ago
Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive. And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center. What changed? I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
Ian's Blog
GitHub Notification Emails Hijacked to Send Malware As an open source developer I frequently get emails from GitHub, most of these emails are...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
As an open source developer I frequently get emails from GitHub, most of these emails are notifications sent on behalf of GitHub users to let me know that somebody has interacted with something and requires my attention. Perhaps somebody has created a new issue on one of my...
Retail Design Blog
Landsec headquarters by Modus We reimagined 30,000 sq ft headquarters for Landsec at 100 Victoria Street, a key project for our...
a month ago
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a month ago
We reimagined 30,000 sq ft headquarters for Landsec at 100 Victoria Street, a key project for our long-term client. The...
99% Invisible
Chambre de Bonne [EPISODE] For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
Anecdotal Evidence
'An Obscuration of the Luminaries of Heaven' In 1963, our street in a suburb on the West Side of Cleveland was still unpaved and the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
In 1963, our street in a suburb on the West Side of Cleveland was still unpaved and the city periodically coated it with tar. Rain fell on the morning of July 20 but by late afternoon the skies had cleared and all that remained of the rain were puddles in the water-proof street....
SOCKS
Fragments of an Unknown Civilization: Works by James Lipnickas James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
James Lipnickas is a New Haven-based artist and graphic designer. He creates highly evocative scenes representing small architectural stages in axonometric projection. Suspended stairwells, excavated blocks, and plinths separated, or all combined are located in deserted...
journal – Winnie Lim
open-air dining in seoul It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I...
a year ago
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a year ago
It probably sounds obscure to write specifically about dining in open air in seoul, but when I conducted my own research prior to the trip it was challenging for me to find...
Willem's Blog
The birth of a child Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Witnessing the birth of a child changes a man, for science and curiosity I wore a biometric sensor capturing the impact of birth on yours truly.
TokyoDev
Will a company in Japan find out your previous salary? When it comes to [salary negotiation in...
a year ago
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a year ago
When it comes to [salary negotiation in Japan](/articles/a-guide-to-salary-negotiations-in-japan-s-tech-industry), companies often have the upper hand. Not only do they know what they're willing to pay for a position, but it is very common for companies to ask you to disclose...
Quantum Frontiers
My experimental adventures in quantum thermodynamics Imagine a billiard ball bouncing around on a pool table. High-school level physics enables us to...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Imagine a billiard ball bouncing around on a pool table. High-school level physics enables us to predict its motion until the end of time using simple equations for energy and momentum conservation, as long as you know the initial conditions … Continue reading →
ribbonfarm
Bangalore Meetup Report Did a ribbonfarm meetup in Bangalore last night, the first ever in India. Thanks to Abhishek Agarwal...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Did a ribbonfarm meetup in Bangalore last night, the first ever in India. Thanks to Abhishek Agarwal for organizing. I think this is the first meetup I’ve done since the last Refactor Camp in 2019. It was kinda last minute, which is why I only posted on Substack rather than here...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why YC
over a year ago
Stoic Simple
Did Stoicism Have Any Influence on Ancient Rome? Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece in the 3rd century BC. It was founded by philosopher Zeno of Citium and was quickly adopted and expanded upon by his successors, including the influential Roman philosopher, Seneca. Stoicism's focus on self-discipline,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cortex Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead of the curve on madness. You are all us now. Today's News:
Acko.net
Headless React Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Part 1: Climbing Mount Effect - Declarative Code and Effects Part 2: Reconcile All The Things - Memoization, Data Flow and reconciliation Part 3: Headless React - Live, Yeet Reduce, No-API, WebGPU Live It is actually pretty easy to build a mediocre headless React today, i.e. an...
Retail Design Blog
Vialto Partners office by Woodalls The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration....
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration. These core values were the inspiration and...
balajis.com
America's $175 Trillion Problem The true state of the global financial system, in ten charts.
6 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Taste for Makers
over a year ago
samwho.dev
Move Your Bugs to the Left We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We all want to ship bug-free software. No-one wants to be the person that introduced a show-stopping bug the week before release. To help with this, I’ve come up with a simple way to visualise the points in the development process that you can find bugs. The further to the left...
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to Tokyo undefined
8 months ago
Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles (but forgot to mention it)
2 weeks ago
Seth's Blog
The catfight and the construction site We’re quick to stop to see the car wreck, the billionaire having a meltdown, or the professional...
a year ago
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a year ago
We’re quick to stop to see the car wreck, the billionaire having a meltdown, or the professional wrestlers pretending to be political leaders. But it often seems more difficult to take a moment to watch people building something that matters instead. We’ll probably spend billions...
Seth's Blog
The good news What if there were a pipeline into your day, a series of emails or posts or feeds that had nothing...
a year ago
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a year ago
What if there were a pipeline into your day, a series of emails or posts or feeds that had nothing but nice things, positive feedback and encouragement coming your way? Amazingly, you could build something like that in just a few minutes and have it forever. If the bad news...
Maps Mania
Scrambled Maps for Mobile
3 months ago
Sam Altman
Greg A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of people ask me what the ideal cofounder looks like.  I now have an answer: Greg Brockman. Every successful startup I know has at least one person who provides the force of will to make the startup happen.  I’d thought a lot about this in the abstract while advising YC...
Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
TheCollector
Is Right & Wrong a Matter of Perspective? Moral Relativism Explained undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
Ernest Hemingway’s Six-Word Short Story “For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway   You might...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“For sale: Baby shoes. Never worn.” – the six-word story attributed to Ernest Hemingway   You might have heard that Ernest Hemingway wrote a six-word short story in response to a $10 bet that so few words could make the reader cry. Hemingway won with: “For sale: Baby shoes. Never...
Archinect - Features
The Longevity & Legacy of the 'Vanilla Architect': How a Monoculture Yields Cycles of... This Op-Ed explores how unconscious bias of mentors, tokenism, and resultant patterns of system...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This Op-Ed explores how unconscious bias of mentors, tokenism, and resultant patterns of system justification reinforce a status quo that marginalizes women and people of color. These complex and long-lived dynamics are unpacked through personal anecdotes, historical analysis,...
Fonts In Use – Blog...
The Black Panther: Black Community News Service Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Stephen Coles Wide Elite Victoria (Sample unavailable) Bold Face No. 2 (IBM) (Sample unavailable) Source: letterformarchive.org License: All Rights Reserved. The Black Panther, published weekly by the Black Panther Party, shone a light on...
Classical Wisdom
Magna Graecia Greek or Roman?
3 months ago
ntietz.com blog
I found some of my first code! Annotating and reflecting on robotics code from 2009. In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most...
a year ago
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a year ago
In high school, one of my teachers shattered my plans for my life, in the most beautiful way. Most of my life, I'd intended to become a math professional of some sort: a math teacher, when that was all I saw math for; an actuary, when I started to learn more; and then a...
Opsbros
The past lives again! I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I found a GameBoy Camera for my GBC and thought it'd be a good idea to extract the photos from eons ago and bring them to the era of the internet.
Jonas Hietala
Why make games Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic games; Super Mario, Lemmings, Tetris, GTA, The Sims, Counterstrike, Theme Hospital, SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon… Damn - when you count them like this you’ll see how many great...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Are many useStates better than useState(object)? Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every time — why do I feel like splitting the old class state into so many useState(atom) — one for each state key? Is there any real benefit in it? Should I just leave a single...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Got a brand problem? Put a bird on it. The story behind why there weren’t any logos on the thousands of RVs that were sent to the victims...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The story behind why there weren’t any logos on the thousands of RVs that were sent to the victims of hurricane Katrina?
TheCollector
Benjamin Franklin: All About His Personal & Private Life undefined
2 months ago
Fonts In Use – Blog...
I ❤️ NY Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.moma.org © 2021 NYS Dept. of Economic Development....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.moma.org © 2021 NYS Dept. of Economic Development. License: All Rights Reserved. “I ❤️ NY” presentation board, two-line version, 1976, as archived in MoMA’s permanent collection. Source: www.moma.org © 2021 NYS Dept. of Economic...
Marc Astbury
The Continuum of Design Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past:...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Where do we go from here? User centricity helped us build software, but what comes next? The past: the genius designer design through ideology Vignelli, Da Vinci, Le Corbusier etc. master designer will intuit problems and find solutions, a moment of genius designing with atoms...
Vadim Kravcenko
Asking questions the right way In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity....
a year ago
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a year ago
In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions undefined
11 months ago
A Smart Bear
A butterfly flaps its wings and you make a sale It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
It is true that small changes can have enormous effects? Or is this just what optimization consultants want us to believe?
TheCollector
Baroque Art & Architecture: 6 Frequently Asked Questions undefined
a year ago
Irrational...
Team Charters are a trap. I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m cleaning out old lingering drafts. This one’s on why I dislike Team Charters. Recently an email came in asking about writing team charters. I’ve worked at a number of companies that asked teams to write charters, and I think it’s an interesting project. That said, it’s not a...
diamond geezer
2024 index dg 2024 index Beyond London Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
dg 2024 index Beyond London Rugby: The Midlands town that inspired a ball game, and what happened to its radio masts [photos] Crewe: The delights of the railway town were worth half a day... [photos] Stafford: ...whereas this historic market town could have sustained me for...
Rest of World -...
Inside Foxconn’s struggle to make iPhones in India Chinese engineers are flying to India to train the next generation of iPhone builders.
a year ago
Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Fate and Destiny? Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for centuries, with roots that can be traced back to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stoicism is a philosophy that has been around for centuries, with roots that can be traced back to ancient Greece. It is a philosophy that emphasizes personal ethics, logic, and rationality, which are often used to help individuals cope with the hardships and unpredictability of...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🪄 Growth Magic
5 months ago
Uncharted...
Should You Be Able to Experiment on Your Own Cancer? A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A researcher in virology and immunotherapy got bad news: Her cancer was back with a vengeance; the treatments weren’t working. She decided to treat it herself.
xkcd.com
Hatchery
6 months ago
Adventures In...
Illumination Cartography Here are a few flavors of a technique, illumination cartography, that uses data to shed light on its...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Here are a few flavors of a technique, illumination cartography, that uses data to shed light on its underlying basemap. There’s something satisfying about presenting a phenomenon as revealing geography rather than obscuring it. Love, John
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Half-Buried Sense for Poetry' It’s easy to mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or...
a month ago
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a month ago
It’s easy to mistake geniality for prevarication. So rare a quality seems suspicious or naively unprofessional, a mask worn to conceal the shark within, especially among literary types. Of course, critics are born to be severe, nobody’s pal. How many critics can you name whose...
Seth's Blog
Bitterness is consistent It will never let you down. Bitterness is never-ending, impenetrable and refuses to negotiate. If...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It will never let you down. Bitterness is never-ending, impenetrable and refuses to negotiate. If you give it a chance, it will persist. It lacks nuance or surprise. It’s simply a wall you can lean against, whenever you choose. Consistency is all it has to offer, actually.
NeuroLogica Blog
Boeing Starliner Launches Soon If all goes well, Boeing’s Starliner capsule will launch on Monday May 6th with two crew members...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
If all goes well, Boeing’s Starliner capsule will launch on Monday May 6th with two crew members aboard, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who will be spending a week aboard the ISS. This is the last (hopefully) test of the new capsule, and if successful it will become officially...
Retail Design Blog
Day and Night Park by CATS In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
In late 2022, the independent bookstore Jetlag Books, based in Beijing, approached us with a collaboration opportunity with the Swire...
Louwrentius
An ode to the 10,000 RPM Western Digital (Veloci)Raptor Introduction Back in 2004, I visited a now bankrupt Dutch computer store called MyCom1, located at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Back in 2004, I visited a now bankrupt Dutch computer store called MyCom1, located at the Kinkerstraat in Amsterdam. I was there to buy a Western Digital Raptor model WD740, with 74 GB of capacity, running at 10,000 RPM. When I bought this drive, we were still in...
Map of the Week
Philadelphia Bookstore Map Note: As September comes to a close so does Philadelphia month. There will be a couple more posts...
a year ago
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a year ago
Note: As September comes to a close so does Philadelphia month. There will be a couple more posts today and tomorrow before I return to my normal weekly schedule. This one is personal. Several years ago I was working with a Philly-based computer programmer and an artist to create...
Stat Significant
Who's the Worst Actor in Movie History? A Statistical Analysis Who's the worst actor of all time, and why?
4 months ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 35 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
a year ago
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a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
TheCollector
Cairo Widens Access to Famous Saladin Citadel undefined
11 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
precarious health, and bringing the whole self to every encounter I had another health episode this past week after our penang trip. I have a habit of measuring my...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had another health episode this past week after our penang trip. I have a habit of measuring my heart rate and heart rate variability every morning when I wake up to...
The Ruffian
The Orangutan Theory of Intelligence Why Thinking In Pairs Is Powerful and What It Tells Us About AI
3 months ago
TheCollector
Who Is Ai Weiwei? undefined
7 months ago
Laetitia@Work
Mind the Exponential Gap Listen now (54 mins) | Laetitia@Work #42
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
A protest or a project? Protests let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in time...
a year ago
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a year ago
Protests let off steam. They organize people who might not show up by creating a moment in time where there’s enough opportunity and social pressure that they participate. A protest sends a message. But almost every time, the very things that made a protest appealing mean that it...
TheCollector
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There’s no such thing as work life balance. There’s simply life. And you spend part of your life at work. One way to change the pressure of work is to expand or contract the size of the container that holds it. It’s a trap to embrace a productivity shortcut that isn’t a shortcut...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
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News Websites Are Dumpster Fires 2019-05-29 Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
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Homo Habilis: The First Humans? undefined
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I Have No Idea What...
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In deciding what startup to start, I’ve been thinking about what problem space I want to tackle. An area that’s drawing my attention is team communication and collaboration, especially for knowledge workers. This is for several reasons: With the trend towards distributed/hybrid...
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For obvious reasons, video game console controls provide input commands directly to the console. Modern consoles may do so wirelessly, but the effect is the same: direct input. But what if you connected a “controller” to the internet? Then you could play from anywhere and that is...
Retail Design Blog
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Design philosophy The design of the Ørsted office is a harmonious blend of Scandinavian simplicity and a gently activating functional...
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A view of Park Avenue by Angelo Rizzuto from June 1959m looking south. The big tower on the left is the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, with St. Bart’s in front of it; the ornate tower that seemingly ends the avenue is the New York Central Building, not yet sold by the railroad and...
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A Vaulted Ceiling Is A Dramatic Feature Inside This Modern Barn House BLA Design Group has sent us photos of a modern barn house they completed that features an atrium...
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BLA Design Group has sent us photos of a modern barn house they completed that features an atrium space that encourages activity and connectivity for a young family in British Columbia, Canada. The home sits on an irregular site located at the end of a cul-de-sac, and is designed...
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AMD Ryzen 7 5700G: first impressions on Fedora 34 Introduction I’ve covered my self-hosting setup in a previous post. It has been a couple of months...
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Introduction I’ve covered my self-hosting setup in a previous post. It has been a couple of months and the setup has mostly been fine. Sure, the power usage was pretty big under load, and yes, my internet did cut out every time I turned the VM on with all the services starting,...
Home on Erik...
Norvig's claim that programming competitions correlate negatively with being good on the job I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation...
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I saw a bunch of tweets over the weekend about Peter Norvig claiming there's a negative correlation between being good at programming competitions and being good at the job. There were some decent Hacker News comments on it.
Left To Write
Your Map Is Not The Territory Afflictions of the human condition
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African History...
Taming and domesticating the wild: the War-Elephants of ancient Aksum and Kush In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper...
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In his 1668 description of the West African kingdom of Benin, the Dutch writer Olfert Dapper reported that “The king shows himself only once a year to his people, going out of his court on horseback, accompanied by three or four hundred noblemen on horseback.”
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What Are Sheaves? These metaphorical gardens have become central objects in modern mathematics. The post...
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Open Culture
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The Olympic Games have their origins in antiquity, but their modern revival has also been going on longer than any of us has been here. Even the fifth Summer Olympics, which took place in Stockholm in 1912, has passed out of living memory. But thanks to the technology of the...
Seth's Blog
Dreams and roadblocks The first step is to imagine what the people you serve want and care about it. The second is to...
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The first step is to imagine what the people you serve want and care about it. The second is to figure out why they don’t have it yet. If you can help people get to where they seek to go, when they’re ready to get there, the stuff called marketing gets significantly easier.
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Announcing posetree.py: Wrangling Timestamps and Transforms for Robots A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no...
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A python library for doing pose math for fun and profit. (Although I open sourced it for free so, no profit for me I guess). Check it out!
Flashbak
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The text book Free drawing: a way of teaching drawing based on natural and everyday objects was illustrated by artist Franz Čižek and edited by Hermann Kastner in 1925. The book features 80 plates of rich ornamental compositions.     Franz Čižek – Champion of Creative Art For...
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Why You’re So Unhappy This isn't going to be your typical pep talk about how the universe works in mysterious ways, or how...
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This isn't going to be your typical pep talk about how the universe works in mysterious ways, or how everything will fall into place if you're patient. Spoiler alert: it won’t. The cold hard truth is this: the universe doesn’t care about your happiness. You do. Maybe you've...
The Modern House
Sent from Coventry: a graphic lament to the modernist architecture of 'the city of the future' The printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall uses linocuts to represent iconic British landmarks....
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The printmaker and illustrator Paul Catherall uses linocuts to represent iconic British landmarks. His current exhibition ‘Sent from Coventry’ is a collection of prints that highlight and record the groundbreaking post-war buildings in Coventry – Paul’s hometown – which, at the...
The American Scholar
Guillermo The post Guillermo appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Good Enough
TIL: Merge nested attributes in Rails permit params I am working on a new product that's a bit more complicated than our prior releases. Getting...
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I am working on a new product that's a bit more complicated than our prior releases. Getting refamiliarized with nested parameters in Rails has been interesting. In this case imagine I have a discussion that, when creating it I also want to create the first comment. The...
The Honest Broker
How Musicians Invented Stand-Up Comedy Even today rhythm makes a joke funnier
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Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
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We’re so back Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There...
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Under the old Twitter regime, politics seemed to seep into everything, especially tech talk. There was scarcely a programming or product topic that couldn’t be turned into a struggle session on account of some perceived transgression or privilege. It was, to use the trauma...
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Optimized or maximized? Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial,...
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Engineers can optimize a bridge. There are some bridge designs that satisfy aesthetic, financial, durability, safety and efficiency needs better than others. The work of optimization is finding the best set of tradeoffs. Maximization, on the other hand, seeks the solution that...
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A Haskell Implementation Reading List
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Recent papers to distract.... Time for blogging has continued to be scarce, but here are a few papers to distract (and for readers...
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Time for blogging has continued to be scarce, but here are a few papers to distract (and for readers who are US citizens:  vote if you have not already done so!). Reaching back, this preprint by Aharonov, Collins, Popescu talks about a thought experiment in which angular...
DYNOMIGHT
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If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED because BREAST MILK = OPTIMAL FOOD FOR BABY. But if you look for evidence, you’ll discover two disturbing facts. First, there’s no consensus about why breastfeeding is good. I’ve seen...
Lighthouse Blog
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Why do regexes use `$` and `^` as line anchors? Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics....
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Next week is April Cools! A bunch of tech bloggers will be writing about a bunch of non-tech topics. If you've got a blog come join us! You don't need to drive yourself crazy with a 3000-word hell essay, just write something fun and genuine and out of character for you. But I am...
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Contracts you should never sign When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part...
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When it comes to software engineering and the IT industry in general, contracts are a necessary part of doing business. […] The post Contracts you should never sign appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Mike Mandel (previously) took this series of selfies in 1971 for the project Myself: Time Exposures. Influenced by Jacques Henri Lartigue, Lee Friedlander and Marcel Duchamp’s work on the conceptual frame, the fun pictures invite us to question what we see and our place in the...
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You're a real company when… What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
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Adam Minter on what happens to all the stuff we downsize, declutter, and discard The post Overconsumed appeared first on The American Scholar.
A Collection of...
Gap Week: December 29, 2023 (Year In Review) Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but...
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Hey folks! I had planned to do a Fireside for this week with a sort of ‘year-in-review’ musing, but between the holidays and the whole pedant household coming down with a nasty cold, I’m a bit short of the time and energy to put together a full fireside with...
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I wrote a book: Read Write Own I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them –...
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I wrote a book: Read Write Own I believe blockchains and the software movement around them – typically called crypto or web3 – provide the…
Mark Manson
40 Life Lessons I Know at 40 (That I Wish I Knew at 20) Today is my 40th birthday. When I turned 30 a decade ago, I wrote an article sharing life lessons to...
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Today is my 40th birthday. When I turned 30 a decade ago, I wrote an article sharing life lessons to survive your 20s and crowd-sourced advice on how to excel in your 30s. And apparently you guys loved it. So, here's more of the good stuff: 40 life lessons I now know at 40 that I...
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Fatal Side Effects of Specialization What is the opposite of specialization? It's not generalization. We don’t need more general...
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What is the opposite of specialization? It's not generalization. We don’t need more general knowledge, more generic solutions, or more oatmeal. We need to transcend the silos of specialization.
Seth's Blog
How, why and hyperbole There are three trends in copywriting that have been so overused they should now be avoided. The...
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There are three trends in copywriting that have been so overused they should now be avoided. The first two: Headlines with “why” for articles that don’t actually explain why. Headlines with “how” that don’t really teach you how. Explaining why is difficult, which is where the...
Rest of World -...
What Elon Musk’s new biography leaves out Looking beyond the Tesla reality-distortion field.
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Maps Mania
Mapping Water Scarcity
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Noahpinion
Repost: Interview with James Medlock The future winner of Balaji's million-dollar bet talks about taxes, cash benefits, and other fun...
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How to leverage long form content with AI Specific tools and tactics for authors, podcasters, and videographers.
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Gaza, Again–and Again The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of...
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The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of its sovereignty. The two are of course intertwined, and the boundaries of Gaza are historically defined. The perimeter around the Gaza Strip was in a … Continue reading →
Seth's Blog
The leaping curve The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations...
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The learning curve is familiar to many people. It might be steep, but it’s continuous. Organizations (and people) work their way up it, one step at a time (it’s the black line in the graph below). But there’s rarely a continuous learning curve. Instead, it’s often interrupted by...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Consciousness Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Did you find it? Today's News: Just to be clear,...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Did you find it? Today's News: Just to be clear, there's no penis-nose in the actual comic strip. This is a lesson for the 99.4% of you who don't read the blog.
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HP 33120A Repair - Shutting Down the Eye of Sauron Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener...
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Introduction Opening Up an HP 33120A A Walk Through the Block Diagram Bug Hunting Zener Replacement Staring at the Eye of Sauron FLIR IR Imaging To Destroy a PCB in Order to Save It Circuit Reconstruction Success! Trust but Verify Conclusion References Introduction When the...
Seth's Blog
The empathy of useful feedback When a friend shows you work in progress, your best contribution is to imagine the point of view and...
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When a friend shows you work in progress, your best contribution is to imagine the point of view and preferences of the person it is being created for. “I don’t like it,” isn’t useful, because it’s not for you. “I could imagine that someone who wants x, y or z would be looking...
Asterisk
The Illogic of Nuclear Escalation How much is enough? It’s the most basic question in the nuclear arms race. For over sixty years, few...
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How much is enough? It’s the most basic question in the nuclear arms race. For over sixty years, few have asked it, and even fewer have received an answer.
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Will AI make MC the MVP of particle physics? Particle physicists are building innovative machine-learning algorithms to enhance Monte Carlo...
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Particle physicists are building innovative machine-learning algorithms to enhance Monte Carlo simulations with the power of AI.
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Overcoming Bias
Drift Poll Winner: Rational Culture Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re...
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Over the last day, I did two sets of polls comparing 16 cultural drift scenarios (detailed here) re their likelihood and desirability. (I later added influence.) Here are best fit priorities (relative to 100 max), sorted by priority sum:
Citation Needed
Issue 43 – Laser eyes Two crypto firms emerge from bankruptcy, and a Bored Ape party turns out even worse than it sounds.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
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The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
Stephen Diehl
FPTs: Pure Fungibility on the Blockchain
over a year ago
Londonist
Revised Skyscraper Plans Could Make It Centimetres Taller Than The Shard One Undershaft is going up in the world.
a year ago
TokyoDev
How I landed a software developer job in Japan How I came to Japan ------------------- During the first day of the first computer science...
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How I came to Japan ------------------- During the first day of the first computer science course I took, I happened to sit next to a Japanese woman. Over the semester, we became friends, and I remember many a lunch we had together, where she would tell me about life in...
The Forney Flyer
Making the Most of Being Stuck I'm taking a quick break from the series I was doing about our past, to update you on what's going...
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I'm taking a quick break from the series I was doing about our past, to update you on what's going on here right now.  I mentioned a while back that I would update you regarding our summer plans when we knew more. Well, the uncertainty has persisted throughout the summer, so I...
symmetry magazine
Whatever happened to the theory of everything? A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go? It is...
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A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go? It is only the optimists who achieve anything in this world—theorist John Ellis once read this adage on a candy wrapper. It stuck with him, so much so that in 1986 he referenced this...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder...
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Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed. In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the Pentium's floating point unit. This adder turns out to be a...
SatPost by Trung...
How Olympic Air Pistols Took Over The Timeline PLUS: WTF happened to Nike?
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Rest of World -...
Technology is transforming the deadly voyage from Cuba to Florida From Havana to Key West on a surfboard and a cellphone.
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Just” One Line From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a...
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From Jeremy Keith’s piece “Responsibility”: Dropping in one line of JavaScript seems like a victimless crime. It’s just one small script, right? But JavaScript can import more JavaScript. “It’s just one line of code” is a pitch you hear all the time. It might also be the biggest...
ntietz.com blog
On Estimates, Time, and Evidence Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this...
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Here's an exchange that's pretty common: "How long will that take?" "A few days." I run into this all the time with clients - they have real business needs to know how long something will take and what the risks are with any given project. So, we are asked to give estimates of...
Map of the Week
A Few Nice Eclipse Maps-Part 1 In a month a total eclipse will make its way across North America. On April 8th the path will travel...
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In a month a total eclipse will make its way across North America. On April 8th the path will travel quickly, (under two hours) from Mazatlán on Mexico's Pacific coast to Newfoundland, Canada and then into the Atlantic Ocean. There are some really nice visualizations of the...
Making software...
Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a...
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Installing Custom Fonts on Linux from the Command Line 2022-09-20 Installing custom fonts is a fairly streamlined feature on operating systems like MacOS and Windows. Linux, on the other hand, struggles to make this workflow easy for everyday users. Many newcomers tend to get...
diamond geezer
London's longest countdowns Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was...
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Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was still possible to drive round it five years ago, then massive sequential roadworks intervened and the northwest arm was slowly pedestrianised. Cars now have to negotiate a very...
TheCollector
What Was a Peasant’s Life in Medieval England Like? undefined
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Diaries of Note
CORONACION DAY On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles...
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On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles II was crowned king, heralding the restoration of the monarchy and the end of political turmoil. The Abbey was resplendently adorned in reds that day, and the finest of garments...
Avestura's Blog
An opinion on what's a good general-purpose programming language What features should a programming language have to be ideal, in my opinion?
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
A Brief History & Ethos of the Digital Garden A newly revived philosophy for publishing personal knowledge on the web
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Map of the Week
30 Day Map Challenge 2023 Days 3 9 Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts...
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Here’s what I’ve been working on for the past week’s 30 Day Map Challenges with the prompts listed. Day 3 - Polygons This is not exactly a hand made map, more having fun with cutting boards. My wife gave me the Pennsylvania board a few years ago and I used it in the 2021...
African History...
The intellectual history of East Africa (ca. 900-1950 CE): from the Swahili coast to Buganda to... The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions...
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The intellectual history of pre-colonial Africa is dominated by studies of the scholarly traditions of Ethiopia, West Africa, and Sudan, where a large corpus of extant manuscripts have been collected from the old scholarly centers of Timbuktu, Djenne, Gondar, and Harar.
Sean Carroll
Proposed Closure of the Dianoia Institute at Australian Catholic University Just a few years ago, Australian Catholic University (ACU) established a new Dianoia Institute of...
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Just a few years ago, Australian Catholic University (ACU) established a new Dianoia Institute of Philosophy. They recruited a number of researchers and made something of a splash, leading to a noticeable leap in ACU’s rankings in philosophy — all the way to second among Catholic...
Rest of World -...
The truth behind VinFast’s stunning stock market debut Beware of EV companies bearing SPACs.
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Calculated Risk
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Fed's Beige Book Economic activity increased slightly to moderately across the twelve Federal Reserve Districts in late November and December. Consumer spending moved up moderately, with most Districts reporting strong holiday sales that exceeded expectations. Vehicle sales grew...
Maps Mania
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African History...
A complete history of Abomey: capital of Dahomey (ca. 1650-1894) Urbanism in the forest region.
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Christopher Butler
Gestalt Principles of Design – Closure The mind is capable of perceiving more information than what is actually visible. The Gestalt...
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The mind is capable of perceiving more information than what is actually visible. The Gestalt Principles of Design are a set of concepts and guidelines drawn from gestalt psychology, which theorizes that the mind tends to process organized groups of things as a whole, rather...
Ink & Switch
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Collaborative writing tools don’t work well for writers or editors. With Upwelling, we demonstrate a design that gives writers privacy while still offering editors transparency into how a document is changing.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Steve Jobs single-handedly restructured the mobile industry With the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs achieved something that might be unique in the...
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With the introduction of the iPhone, Steve Jobs achieved something that might be unique in the history of business: he single-handedly…
Steve Blank
Startups that Have Employees In Offices Grow 3½ Times Faster This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that...
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This article previously appeared in EIX – Entreprenuers and Innovators Exchange. Data shows that pre-seed and seed startups with employees showing up in a physical office have 3½ times higher revenue growth than those that are solely remote. Let the discussion begin. During the...
TheCollector
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Talking tablets: what makes a great tablet? Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be...
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Over the past few weeks I worked with Microsoft Surface Pro X to see if it is any good, can it be your main computer?
Weighty Thoughts
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Look Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There was a discussion on patreon about whether pix...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There was a discussion on patreon about whether pix or pics is appropriate and I stand by my choice. Today's News:
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AI Snake Oil
Does the UK’s liver transplant matching algorithm systematically exclude younger patients? Seemingly minor technical decisions can have life-or-death effects
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HTMHell
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Context: Visually a list of links. Bad code <h6>Popular Cities</h6> <div> <h6 class="footerLinks">Amsterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Rotterdam</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Utrecht</h6> <h6 class="footerLinks">Den Haag</h6> <h6...
diamond geezer
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