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Explorations of an...
A Month In Northern Peru, Part 3: Lush Forests of Casupe (February 4, 2024) February 4, 2024 We said our goodbyes to the owner of Eco Camping Racarrumi and hit the road at 6 AM...
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9 months ago
February 4, 2024 We said our goodbyes to the owner of Eco Camping Racarrumi and hit the road at 6 AM sharp. We continued inland, away from the coast and towards the foothills, which is where we hoped to spend the morning birding. The landscape continued to change during our ~45...
Paul Graham: Essays
Some Heroes
over a year ago
Stoic Simple
How Stoicism Can Improve Your Physical Health & Fitness Are you looking for ways to improve your physical health? Many people focus on exercise and diet,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Are you looking for ways to improve your physical health? Many people focus on exercise and diet, but there is another method that has been gaining popularity in recent years - Stoicism. This ancient philosophy has many principles that can help you lead a healthier and happier...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Version 1.0
over a year ago
Maps Mania
Explore the World with Shadows
a year ago
99% Invisible
Medellin, Revisited [EPISODE] Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this...
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3 months ago
Back in the 1980s, Medellín, Colombia was in the middle of a full-blown crisis. 30 years ago, this was the murder capital of the world. Pablo Escobar’s notorious Medellín Cartel was waging a bloody drug war right on the city’s streets. For Medellín’s residents, the threat of...
Math Is Still...
Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Mathematicians have illuminated what sets of points can look like if the distances between them are all whole numbers. The post Merging Fields, Mathematicians Go the Distance On Old Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
NeuroLogica Blog
Deep South – A Neuromorphic Supercomputer Australian researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) at Western Sydney...
a year ago
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a year ago
Australian researchers at the International Centre for Neuromorphic Systems (ICNS) at Western Sydney University have announced they are building what they are calling Deep South (based on IBM’s Deep Blue). This will be the world’s largest neuromorphic supercomputer, with 228...
Neil Madden
Newsletter Happy new year! I’m hoping to write a few posts on here over the next few weeks, but probably...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Happy new year! I’m hoping to write a few posts on here over the next few weeks, but probably exploring a few topics around AI and philosophy. If you’d prefer some more technical content around security and cryptography, then take a look at the newsletter I put out for my...
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.1% to 3.3% Range From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 3Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up a tenth to...
a week ago
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a week ago
From BofA: Since our last weekly publication, our 3Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up a tenth to 3.0% q/q saar. Additionally, our 4Q US GDP tracker was unchanged at 2.1% q/q saar. [Dec 13th estimate] emphasis added From Goldman: We left our Q4 GDP tracking and domestic final...
SatPost by Trung...
Blumhouse: The Hollywood Horror Hit Machine How Jason Blum turned "constraints breed creativity" into a business model.
a year ago
The Beauty of...
How Serifs Lost the Road War but Won the Streets It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It is 1961. At Benson Airfield in south Oxfordshire, a test car driver employed by the Roads Research Laboratory is revving the engine of his Morris Oxford and preparing to release the handbrake. With his car (unbalanced atop due to the addition of a large road sign attached to...
NeuroLogica Blog
911 Conspiracy Theories Persist On September 11, 2001, as part of a planned terrorist attack, commercial planes were hijacked and...
a month ago
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a month ago
On September 11, 2001, as part of a planned terrorist attack, commercial planes were hijacked and flown into each of the two towers at the World Trade Center in New York. A third plane was flown into the Pentagon, and a fourth crashed after the passengers fought back. This, of...
Math Is Still...
A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal Stability. Now the Idea May Be Falling Apart. A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A series of advances seemed to promise the impossible: the existence of quantum states that would never, ever fall into disarray. But physicists are now discovering that the pull of disorder may not be so easily overcome. The post A Quantum Trick Implied Eternal...
Londonist
The Crazy-Reasonably Priced Cafe Hidden In A Waterloo Bus Garage Next stop: a hearty lunch for as little at £4!
11 months ago
TheCollector
Forgotten Sandro Botticelli Piece Seized by Italian Authorities undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Theodicy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, the prompt verbal response is...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, the prompt verbal response is highly appreciated. Today's News:
Londonist
9 Things To Do In London To Brighten Up The Dark Nights It's not all doom and gloom.
a year ago
Irrational...
Ex-technology companies. One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
One of the most interesting questions I got after joining Calm in 2020 was whether Calm was a technology company. Most interestingly, this question wasn’t coming from friends or random strangers on the internet, it was coming from the engineers working there! In an attempt to...
Both Are True
parenting as improv yes and yes and yes and
a month ago
TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch undefined
3 months ago
Daniel Miessler
Why Apple Keeps Winning People are blown away that Apple keeps winning while its competitors are floundering. It’s a simple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
People are blown away that Apple keeps winning while its competitors are floundering. It’s a simple formula. Make consistently super-high-quality products that work together as part of an ecosystem. Google and Microsoft have 20X Apple’s losses in the last year. A staggering $3...
TheCollector
Jamestown: The Myth & Mystery of America’s First Permanent Colony undefined
7 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Single Line of Calm' Judged solely as a liquid asset, the most valuable book I ever held was a history of Argentina...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Judged solely as a liquid asset, the most valuable book I ever held was a history of Argentina borrowed from the public library in Schenectady, N.Y. At home I discovered the previous reader had marked his place with a twenty-dollar bill. I returned the book but not the cash. It...
Neil Panchal
Favorite Perfumes A quick condensed list based on over 15 years of exploration in the world of perfumery. I didn't...
a year ago
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a year ago
A quick condensed list based on over 15 years of exploration in the world of perfumery. I didn't include obvious classics such as Polo Green and Aramis. If I were to pick 3 perfumes to wear for life, it would be: Hermes Bel Ami, Chanel Antaeus and Serge
./techtipsy
The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now! Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently started reworking my home server setup to be more IPv6 compatible, and as part of that I learned that during the summer of 2024 Docker shipped an update that eliminated a lot of the...
Julia Evans
Some miscellaneous git facts I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been very slowly working on writing about how Git works. I thought I already knew Git pretty well, but as usual when I try to explain something I’ve been learning some new things. None of these things feel super surprising in retrospect, but I hadn’t thought about them...
ntietz.com blog -...
Evolving my ergonomic setup (or, my laptop with extra steps) My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
My computer setup attracts attention when I'm out and about. This has two effects: engineers1 ask me about it, and everyone else ignores me. These effects are not undesirable, but further testing is required. The main reason I have such an unusual setup, though, is more...
The Diff
Meta's Least-Untrusted Clone Model Plus! AI Interfaces; The Many Peaks of Mobile; Borrowing Distribution Networks; Ad Arbitrages; More...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Plus! AI Interfaces; The Many Peaks of Mobile; Borrowing Distribution Networks; Ad Arbitrages; More YouTube AI IP
Cognitive...
dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about...
a year ago
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a year ago
https://huggingface.co/ehartford/dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b I get a lot of questions about dolphin-2.5-mixtral-8x7b and I wanted to address some of them on my blog. Dolphin got a nice video review from Prompt Engineering What's this about? Friday December 8, MistralAI released a...
NeuroLogica Blog
Choosing our Representatives As we are in an election year in the US, there seems to be only one thing on which there is broad...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
As we are in an election year in the US, there seems to be only one thing on which there is broad agreement – this upcoming election will be consequential. So allow me to share some of my musings about the process of electing our political representatives. Let me start by laying...
Left To Write
№ 72: The First Wealth Is Health For most of my twenties, I valued money, women, friends, family and material possessions. But around...
a year ago
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a year ago
For most of my twenties, I valued money, women, friends, family and material possessions. But around 28 years old, something in my psychology began to change. Perhaps it was inching towards 30 years old. Perhaps it was being tired of constantly feeling anxious. Perhaps it was...
A Smart Bear
The only way to guarantee startup success What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and...
a year ago
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a year ago
What is it like to reach the pinnacle of success? Is that where you attain happiness and fulfillment? Or are those found right here, right now.
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we justified quitting our jobs and financing PostHog early on Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Let me tell you a story of the financial pressures that face new founders and how that pressure motivated Tim and me to make an epic pivot leap…
Londonist
Street Art Hopscotch Appears In London, With A Potent Anti-War Message “Stop talking about the politics of war and think more about the children suffering from conflict."
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'By Studying Little Things' “He advised me to keep a journal of my life, fair and undisguised.”  So did my high-school English...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
“He advised me to keep a journal of my life, fair and undisguised.”  So did my high-school English teacher two centuries later. Boswell took Dr. Johnson’s advice and later mined the resulting journal when assembling his Life of Johnson (1791). Much of Boswell’s London Journal...
TheCollector
Oxyrhynchus: History’s Most Revealing Rubbish Dump undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
Top 10 Places to Visit in Athens, Greece undefined
9 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
BIPOC Guide to Asheville's Outdoors
10 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Have We Lost Ritual in our Lives? How can we bring it back? And should we in the first place?
a year ago
Noahpinion
Economic losses for our allies are not wins for the U.S. Stop comparing ourselves to countries who are on our side.
10 months ago
Rest of World -...
Ethiopians are struggling to keep up with the new “EV or nothing” policy Ethiopia became the first country in the world to ban the import of gas and diesel cars. But the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Ethiopia became the first country in the world to ban the import of gas and diesel cars. But the country has only around 50 charging stations.
CONTEMPORIST
A White Concrete Exterior Protects This Seaside Mediterranean House Ramón Esteve Estudio has shared images of a new home they designed in an urbanized area of a small...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Ramón Esteve Estudio has shared images of a new home they designed in an urbanized area of a small seaside town in Valencia, Spain. The house has a white concrete envelope that generates a large protective shell for a harmonious and delicate interior. Large overhangs and a system...
Stoic Simple
Understanding the Key Principles of Stoicism If you're looking for a practical philosophy to help guide you through life's ups and downs, look no...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you're looking for a practical philosophy to help guide you through life's ups and downs, look no further than Stoicism. At its core, Stoicism is all about living a good life by cultivating virtues like wisdom, courage, justice, and temperance, and finding inner tranquility no...
TheCollector
Who Was the Terrifying Ottoman Sultan Selim “the Grim?” undefined
5 months ago
The Honest Broker
Are Harvard Graduates Better Than Harvard Dropouts? Or how I spent $503,402 on college education
11 months ago
The Marginalian
Something About the Sky: Rachel Carson’s Lost Serenade to the Science of the Clouds, Found and... A version of this essay appeared in The New York Times Book Review. A cloud is a spell against...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A version of this essay appeared in The New York Times Book Review. A cloud is a spell against indifference, an emblem of the water cycle that makes this planet a living world capable of trees and tenderness, a great cosmic gasp at the improbability that such a world exists, that...
Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q3 Flow of Funds Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
a week ago
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a week ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 220 thousand initial claims, up from 213 thousand last week. Producer Price Index for November from the BLS. The...
diamond geezer
The temperature post The temperature post 19.6°C at Kinlochewe. Kinlochewe is a village in NW Scotland, about halfway...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The temperature post 19.6°C at Kinlochewe. Kinlochewe is a village in NW Scotland, about halfway between Skye and Inverness. It sits at the head of a loch and is also surrounded on three sides by mountains, so is precisely the sort of place where the Föhn effect might boost...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - More Beautiful Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It was the only way to save you. Today's News:
a year ago
Old Structures...
Best Commute Ever The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel is not far away in a two-dimensional sense. I picked it some months ago by looking at a map and thinking that it was a short walk from campus. It’s a short flight to campus if...
TheCollector
Death in the Bible: Two Contradictory Views undefined
7 months ago
History Today Feed
‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review ‘Age of Wolf and Wind’ by Davide Zori review JamesHoare Wed, 05/29/2024 - 10:27
6 months ago
Londonist
Things To Keep You Busy For LGBT+ History Month 2024 In London Museums, guided walks, cabaret and kids events.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
Blogged September 30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5...
a year ago
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a year ago
30 blogged things I did in September Fri 1: I've now been publishing my 'unblogged' posts for 5 years, i.e. I've done 60 of them, so to still be getting 50 comments on the latest one is quite something, thanks. Sat 2: I broke the news that tube platform tickets were being...
Rest of World -...
Chinese smartphone maker Transsion’s strategy to win hearts and wallets in small-town India After big successes in Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, China's Transsion Holdings sets its sights...
9 months ago
42!
Finding and fixing slow queries Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash I love dashboards, and I run several on my system to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Photo by Caspar Camille Rubin on Unsplash I love dashboards, and I run several on my system to monitor my HR startup in real time. I love collecting data points around subscriptions, user activity, and most importantly, server uptime and performance. Especially now that we are...
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 25-31 March 2024 Catch up with the best Londonist articles from the past week.
8 months ago
diamond geezer
Unblogged April 30 unblogged things I did in April Mon 1: Three highlights of a day spent at my Dad's in Norfolk: i)...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
30 unblogged things I did in April Mon 1: Three highlights of a day spent at my Dad's in Norfolk: i) going to the local art exhibition and having tea and cake with a sheep farmer. ii) watching a wren repeatedly bringing nest material into the birdbox beside my bedroom window....
Kevin Chen
Analyzing Tesla AI Day 2022 I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was fortunate enough to attend this year’s Tesla AI Day. Tesla’s architecture has always been interesting to me because their hardware limitations drive advances in their software. Relative to other players in the industry: Low-spec sensors require ML- and data-first...
TheCollector
5 Strange Election Systems Around the World undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
The Dutch Throne in an Exhibition for the First Time undefined
a year ago
How to Be a Stoic
Stoic Q&A: can virtue justify evil? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org.]...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org.] V. writes: My question is: can Stoic virtues be used as excuses to conduct evil deeds? I’m asking this question for several reasons. First, in the current political climate, the...
Maps Mania
Racial Profiling in Redlining Maps
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Golden Era of Blogging Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Matt has an interesting post titled: “Today’s YouTubers are repeating the mistakes of yesterday’s bloggers”. While I’m not super into the YouTube scene, his observations sound right from where I sit. He points out how some of the YouTube creators he loves and follows are...
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family undefined
a month ago
Open Culture
Meet Madame Inès Decourcelle, One of the Very First Female Taxi Drivers in Paris (Circa 1908) If you can read this, you almost certainly know the French word for a professional automobile...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
If you can read this, you almost certainly know the French word for a professional automobile driver. That’s because we use the same word in English: chauffeur. French nouns, unlike English ones, come in masculine and feminine varieties, and that -eur ending unmistakably...
Steve Klabnik
Abstract vs concrete
over a year ago
Calculated Risk
PCE Measure of Shelter Decreases to 4.8% YoY in November Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE...
2 days ago
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2 days ago
Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE report this morning, both through November 2024. CPI Shelter was up 4.8% year-over-year in November, down from 4.9% in October, and down from the cycle peak of 8.2% in March...
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Peter Pan goes to Ukraine Some people never grow up.
over a year ago
Louwrentius
Configuring, attacking and securing VRRP on Linux The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The VRRP or Virtual Router Redundancy Protocol helps you create a reliable network by using multiple routers in an active/passive configuration. If the primary router fails, the backup router takes over almost seamlessly. This is how VRRP works: Clients connect to a virtual...
Greg Brockman
#define CTO OpenAI It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s been two years since I wrote #define CTO, in which I documented my quest for a role where I could have scalable impact by writing code. I’ve finally found that role, though not by seeking it — instead, I sought out a problem more important to me than my role within it,...
NeuroLogica Blog
Understanding Jumbo Phage Viruses Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant form of life on Earth. And yet...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Bacteriophages, viruses that infect bacteria, are the most abundant form of life on Earth. And yet we know comparatively little about them. But in recent years phage research has taken off with renewed interest. This is partly driven by the availability of CRISPR-based tools for...
TheCollector
Luc Tuymans Mural Exhibition to Open Wednesday at Louvre undefined
7 months ago
The Diff
Are VCs Incentivized to be too Nice for Venture Debt? Plus! Art of the Cram-Down; Transaction Costs; Amazon Air; Bull Markets; Misinformation
2 weeks ago
Dreams of Space -...
Cosmonaut-2 (1964) Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely...
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over a year ago
Cosmonaut-2 was a Russian pamphlet for older children about Gherman Titov. It has some lovely illustration about the 2nd manned Russian space launch. At age 25 Titov remains the youngest man to fly in Earth orbit. Vostok 2 was launched on August 6, 1961. Cosmonaut-2, 1964. 38 p....
swyx's site RSS Feed
How To Add Monaco Editor to a Next.js app ## Bottom Line Up Front
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Approximate nearest news As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm the author of a Python package called Annoy. I've also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages.
TheCollector
Trench Warfare in World War I: Rot, Rats, Ruin undefined
a year ago
Code Of Honor
Uh-oh: was the company site hacked? Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Anyone who runs a web site knows that they’re constantly under attack. You only have to look at your log files to know that hackers running site-scanners are constantly hitting your servers looking for unpatched vulnerabilities to exploit. One of the servers I wrote for Guild...
Diaries of Note
I have never been less communicative with a crew It was in 1992, four years after his iconic movie debut as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, that Alan...
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It was in 1992, four years after his iconic movie debut as Hans Gruber in Die Hard, that Alan Rickman began to keep a daily diary—the first of 26 volumes he would go on to fill during a glittering decades-long career on stage and screen, right up until his death at the beginning...
Alice GG
A love letter to Apache Echarts In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In the world of software development, I believe the 7th circle of hell is called “NPM”. It’s a place where you can find Javascript libraries that make great promises only to disappoint you once you actually import them. I know this because I even wrote one. When you find a gem...
Maps Mania
The Geotastic Daily Challenge
2 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the experience of completing a sketchbook for my japan trip Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Last year I started sketching, and for the first time in my life I started bringing art materials on my travels. I did the same when I went to Japan, except a...
Seth's Blog
Leprechauns Is there a rainbow underneath your pot of gold? Sometimes, we get it backwards.
6 months ago
Londonist
London Overground Strikes Next Week Cancelled Normal service now planned.
10 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Making Ethereum alignment legible
2 months ago
HTMHell
Forced Colors Mode Futility by Matthias Zöchling figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid...
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2 weeks ago
by Matthias Zöchling figure{margin-bottom:2.4rem}figure img{aspect-ratio:4;border: 6px solid #000}figcaption,sup,.highlight,section:has(#resources) span,section:has(#fns)...
Vadim Kravcenko
What questions to ask a startup before joining them? Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared […] The post What questions to ask a startup before joining them? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Daniel Miessler
Something is Up With Meritocracy I’ve been thinking a lot about meritocracy lately, and I’ve come to believe that opportunity...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been thinking a lot about meritocracy lately, and I’ve come to believe that opportunity magnifies inequality. Here’s one way I’ve seen it explained: If there are two main reasons for outcome differences: innate talent and environment, and if you equalize environment you will...
Londonist
See Dozens Of Tube Sketches At Barbican Library Martin Church's vibrant portraits in free exhibition.
11 months ago
Posts on Made of...
New reptyr feature: TTY-stealing Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever since I wrote reptyr, I’ve been frustrated by a number of issues in reptyr that I fundamentally didn’t know how to solve within the reptyr model. Most annoyingly, reptyr fundamentally only worked on single processes, and could not attach processes with children, making it...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Promise Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is more commonly known as the median voter...
a month ago
TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods undefined
11 months ago
SatPost by Trung...
9 Creative Lessons From Virgil Abloh Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Insights from the late designer who went from studying architecture, working with Kanye, founding Off-White and leading menswear at Louis Vuitton.
TheCollector
Rosemaling in America: Norwegian-American Folk Art (Origins & History) undefined
a week ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Why infrastructure is a competitive advantage for us We're hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). I'm biased of course, but I think it's worth...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We're hiring Site Reliability Engineers (SREs). I'm biased of course, but I think it's worth explaining why we think PostHog is the most exciting…
Construction Physics
Weekend roundup - Icon, Diamond Age, Cuby, Gropyus Since there’s more interesting things happening in construction than I can cover in a weekly post...
a year ago
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a year ago
Since there’s more interesting things happening in construction than I can cover in a weekly post (especially if I’m spending posts writing about things that happened 800 years ago), I’m experimenting with occasionally sending out a brief roundup of interesting links related to...
Chris Grossack's...
Life in Johnstone's Topological Topos 3 -- Bonus Axioms In the first post of the series, we talked about what the topological topos is, and how we can...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
In the first post of the series, we talked about what the topological topos is, and how we can think about its objects (and, importantly, how we can relate computations in the topos $\mathcal{T}$ to computations with topological spaces in “the real world”). In part two, we...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Ramones presidential seal logo Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: sinistersaladmusikal.wordpress.com License: All Rights...
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over a year ago
Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: sinistersaladmusikal.wordpress.com License: All Rights Reserved. Source: i-d.vice.com License: All Rights Reserved. Arturo Vega had the logo tattooed on his back with his own name incorporated and a type style that is less stylized...
Vadim Kravcenko
Is development the right career for me? Hello dear reader, first off all, I want to acknowledge the weight of the question you’re grappling...
a year ago
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The image preview you see when sharing a link is a great opportunity to get your brand’s message in front of people without them even clicking through to your website. Most sites just opt to display a logo and some brand elements.
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There are many file systems available under Linux, however only a few of them can be used for a large storage array. I am assuming that you want to create a single file system. I don't care if you use LVM or other layers beneath, this is about which file system to use. I will...
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I am routinely solicited for my technical opinion on new and interesting technologies and companies developing them. 90% of the time, my answer is “I don’t know” but it continues to concern me that aspects of technical feasibility are evidently not legible to financial types (and...
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The area around the Zürich Hardbrücke train station, while not exactly a center of tourism, is quite a captivating neighborhood. It's literally quite colorful, and home to Freitag's flagship store.
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Traffic in lower Manhattan is always bad, but is today impassable even for pedestrians. The New York Liberty are getting a ticker-tape parade for their WNBA championship. First, congrats to the Liberty and happy days to their fans. Second, there is something very New York about...
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The Carbon Almanac is now available in Spanish. For free. Free to download, free to share and free to print a copy at home. While the book has been traditionally published around the world (in Italian, Czech, Chinese, Korean, Japanese and Dutch), no Spanish-language publisher was...
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As Moore's Law ends, devices multiply, and software becomes critical to life, we must take another look at our full stack for continued gains in efficiency, reliability and security.
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Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages. I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's...
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LLM-based chatbots’ capabilities have been advancing every month. These improvements are mostly measured by benchmarks like MMLU, HumanEval, and MATH (e.g. sonnet 3.5, gpt-4o). However, as these measures get more and more saturated, is user experience increasing in proportion to...
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Under a secular mindset, intuition is all about you — your wants, needs, passions, and desires. A heavenly, God-inspired intuition is different. The post A Divine Intuition appeared first on David Perell.
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These two PHP functions use regular expressions to add the appropriate HTML anchor tags around hyperlinks and email addresses in $string. PHP code # function parseHyperlinks($string) { // Add tags around all hyperlinks in $string return...
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In my previous article about StarCraft I talked about why we rebooted the project and changed it from a follow-on to Warcraft — derisively called “Orcs in space” in 1996 — into the award-winning game that we were finally able to deliver after two more years of hardship. But one...
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Many developers seem to believe there's no difference between px and other CSS units. Let's dispel that myth, for the sake of better accessibility.
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It's no secret that I'm a fan of Shelly products to automate various devices in my house. They're well built, tiny and rock solid, and best of all: compatible with ESPHome.I flashed ESPHome onto all my Shelly 1's, but for some reason, I have issues with my Shelly 2.5 devices......
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I joined Google in October 2005, and handed in my resignation 18 years later. Last week was my last week at Google. I feel very lucky to have experienced the early post-IPO Google; unlike most companies, and contrary to the popular narrative, Googlers, from the junior...
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This map was published a month ago in the Londonist. Just about every other map blog has already picked up on it and I am late to the game. However, I've spent so much time looking at it that I think it's worth a visit even if you've already seen it. It was drawn by Harry Beck,...
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In an interview for Newsweek, Michio Kaku was asked about UFOs. Here’s his response: Well, first of all, I think that there’s been a game changer. In the old days, the burden of proof was on the true believers to prove that what they saw last night was a flying saucer of some...
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Reading Euripides chronologically, it would be fair to think that however ingenious and inventive Euripides was, he did not write a play quite at the level of Agamemnon or Oedipus the King, at least until his brief exile in Macedon, where he wrote The Bacchae just before his...
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Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth graders, and they had a whole classroom full…
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Flash loans have been the center of attention lately. Recently two hackers used flash loans to attack the margin trading protocol bZx, first in a $350K attack and later in a $600K copycat attack. These attacks were, in a word, magnificent. In each attack, a penniless attacker...
Old Structures...
That Certain Something About a dozen years ago, the Republic of Tanzania bought this building on East 53rd Street to serve...
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About a dozen years ago, the Republic of Tanzania bought this building on East 53rd Street to serve as, among other things, the Permanent Mission of Tanzania to the United Nations. Looking at the building I felt sure that it was constructed before 1900 and that it was industrial...
The Marginalian
The Heart of Matter: Pierre Teilhard de Chardin on Bridging the Scientific and the Sacred "Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by...
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"Blessed be you, mighty matter, irresistible march of evolution, reality ever new-born; you who, by constantly shattering our mental categories, force us to go ever further and further in our pursuit of the truth."
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Placebos Are Getting Stronger | Out-Of-Pocket Should we incorporate them into clinical practice?
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Diaries of Note
I’ve given my pee to science On 23rd November 2014, former Italian Air Force pilot Samantha Cristoforetti embarked on a...
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On 23rd November 2014, former Italian Air Force pilot Samantha Cristoforetti embarked on a monumental journey. Strapped into the confines of a Soyuz spacecraft in Kazakhstan, she was launched towards the International Space Station where she was to live for 199 days—the longest...
Matt Mazur
Going Full Time on My SaaS After 13 Years In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few...
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In January 2010 I soft-launched launched Preceden, a web-based timeline maker tool, followed a few weeks later by a larger launch on HackerNews: Today – almost 13 years to the day since the initial launch – I’m going full time on it and I couldn’t be more excited. A brief history...
Marco.org
Introducing Voice Boost 2: Remaster your podcasts The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year...
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The latest update to Overcast includes a feature that I’m especially proud of that took over a year to build. Voice Boost 2 is an all-new audio engine that includes professional-grade, mastering-quality loudness normalization. When I first introduced Overcast in 2014, Voice Boost...
Liz Denys
Inbox by Gmail's accidentally abusive algorithm The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up....
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The modern world really loves to use little algorithms here and there to help us speed things up. Inbox by Gmail is no exception. Inbox has a concept of "speed dial" - an algorithmically determined set of "frequent" contacts that appears when hovering over the compose button: In...
TheCollector
Emily Brontë: Misanthrope or Literary Genius (or Both)? undefined
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Mazdak
Anthropic & Amazon Partnership In the world of cutting-edge AI, a power couple has emerged: Anthropic, the ambitious AI startup,...
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In the world of cutting-edge AI, a power couple has emerged: Anthropic, the ambitious AI startup, and Amazon, the tech giant with cloud dominance.
Diaries of Note
Oh, self, they make me so sick! Born in rural Georgia in 1930, Richelene Mitchell faced significant obstacles throughout her life,...
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Born in rural Georgia in 1930, Richelene Mitchell faced significant obstacles throughout her life, from the entrenched racism of the American South to the economic hardships that forced her into public housing and onto welfare. Yet, despite the unyielding challenges she faced as...
Jonas Hietala
Dbot So I made a small irc bot in 294 characters in code-golfing language #1: Perl. Usage perl...
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So I made a small irc bot in 294 characters in code-golfing language #1: Perl. Usage perl Dbot Commands .name - Echo the bots name .hello - Output “hello world!” .src - Dump the source code Code use IO::Socket;$s=IO::Socket::INET->new("158.38.8.251:6667");sub o{print$s...
TheCollector
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Seth's Blog
Practical philosophy Engineering is the powerful practice of being able to deliver artifacts that do what they’re...
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Engineering is the powerful practice of being able to deliver artifacts that do what they’re supposed to. Bridges that don’t fall down, software that runs, IV leads that don’t get infected. But if we want to create something, it helps to know what it’s for. That simple question,...
AVC
Leading From The Heart I have watched so many leaders over the years in my various roles as lead investor, board member,...
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I have watched so many leaders over the years in my various roles as lead investor, board member, board chair, investor, and advisor. And one thing I have learned from this front-row seat is that leading from the heart is very powerful. A leader can be the most brilliant product...
Open Culture
Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet....
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Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet. “Sitting near the Black Sea, the town is full of half-finished, fully abandoned mini castles — 587 of them to be exact,” write Architectural Digest’s Katherine McLaughlin and Jessica...
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2023-03-13 the door close button This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been...
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This will probably be a short one, and I know I haven't written for a while, but it has always been the case that you get what you pay for and Computers Are Bad is nothing if not affordable. Still, this is a topic on which I am moderately passionate and so I can probably stretch...
Alex MacCaw
Predictions of the future A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions,...
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A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions, medical advances, AI? How will humanity tackle its largest problems? I guess we shall just have to wait and see (or get busy inventing it!). I've jotted down some of
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Entrepreneurs influenced by a single read include Joe Coulombe, Elon Musk, Jeff Bezos, Morris Chang, Sarah Blakely, Chip Wilson and Phil Knight.
mtlynch.io
Noah Bragg's First Stoke Fire Livestream I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that...
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I’ve been interested in Ethereum the past year, especially the Base ecosystem. The problem is that after hours of reading about Base, I still don’t get what Base is. Every few months, I check back in on the Base website’s developer section to see if there’s a path to building on...
TheCollector
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Stoic Simple
Using Stoicism to Live a Balanced Life Maintaining balance and achieving personal contentment has been a pressing concern for people...
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Maintaining balance and achieving personal contentment has been a pressing concern for people throughout history. From ancient Greek philosophers to modern-day wellness coaches, experts have offered diverse approaches to balance the physical, emotional, mental, and spiritual...
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Kyua graduates The story behind the FreeBSD and NetBSD testing frameworks
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In-depth: PostHog vs Pendo Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables...
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Want to understand the difference between Pendo and PostHog? Here's the short answer: Pendo enables users to add in tool-tips and in-app messages. It…
The Codist
Looks Good To Me: When Code Reviews Go Awry Code reviews can effectively improve code quality in large or mixed teams with experience...
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Code reviews can effectively improve code quality in large or mixed teams with experience differences. They can also be useless if not done correctly or if management does not support the time to do them. A code review is a modern invention, as the technology to do them easily...
watchTowr Labs -...
Palo Alto - Putting The Protecc In GlobalProtect (CVE-2024-3400) Welcome to April 2024, again. We’re back, again. Over the weekend, we were all greeted by...
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Welcome to April 2024, again. We’re back, again. Over the weekend, we were all greeted by now-familiar news—a nation-state was exploiting a “sophisticated” vulnerability for full compromise in yet another enterprise-grade SSLVPN device. We’ve seen all the commentary around the...
Londonist
Why The Hammersmith & City Is (Arguably) London's Newest Tube Line It's only been around since 1990 (sort of).
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David Heinemeier...
The price of managed cloud services One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good...
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One of the common objections to our cloud exit has been that we shouldn't have expected good outcomes from a lift'n'shift operation. That the real value of the cloud is in managed services and new architectures, not just running the same software on rented cloud instances. It's...
TheCollector
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Best Of Londonist: 11-17 September 2023 Doctor Who, a child called Hyde Park, and some ace Ian Nairn quotes.
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Maps Mania
AI Map Search Finds Atlantis
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Alex Meub
Finding Campsites with Python My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also...
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My wife and I love to camp on the Oregon coast and the summer is always the best time to go. It also ends up being the most competitive time to find a campsite. If you look up the handful of good campsites on the coast you will probably find that nearly every summer weekend is...
Math Is Still...
In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which...
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Sitting alongside the neurons in your enteric nervous system are underappreciated glial cells, which play key roles in digestion and disease that scientists are only just starting to understand. The post In the Gut’s ‘Second Brain,’ Key Agents of Health Emerge first...
TokyoDev
Announcing the 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be...
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The 2022 International Developers in Japan Survey is now live! By taking this survey, you'll be helping other developers living here better understand the experience of their peers, and also help people considering making the move here understand what working here is actually...
Elad Blog
AI: Startup Vs Incumbent Value In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by...
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In each technology wave the value, revenue, market cap, profits and great people captured by startups versus incumbents differs. In some waves it all goes to startups, while in others it goes to incumbents or is split between them. Unexpectedly, the prior wave of
abdz.do - Have you...
Life Between Blocks Life Between Blocks abduzeedo0214—23 A solo exhibition by...
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Life Between Blocks abduzeedo0214—23 A solo exhibition by Santiago Oddis.  As a collaboration between the production company Final Frontier and the renowned animation studio Le Cube the exhibition Life Between Blocks is now open at Silk...
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
“Incalculable Loss” front page of The New York Times for May 24th, 2020 Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: store.nytimes.com The New York Times. License: All Rights Reserved. The front page of The New York Times for Sunday, May 24th, 2020, was a stark wall of type, and only type: a long and somber list of Americans who have lost their lives...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“Easier and More Convenient” They Said… The other day in our morning rush before school my wife asked for help figuring out how to put lunch...
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The other day in our morning rush before school my wife asked for help figuring out how to put lunch money on our kids’ school accounts. For some time she’s been doing it “the hard way”: talk to the people in the front office of the school every few months and swipe a credit...
The Marginalian
Prisons We Choose to Live Inside: Doris Lessing on the Antidote to Self-Righteousness and Our Best... This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand...
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This is the history of the world: revolutionaries turning into tyrants, leaders who claim to stand with the masses turning the individuals within them on each other, stirring certainties and self-righteousness to distract from the uncomfortable unknowns, from the great open...
Eukaryote Writes...
Internet Harvest (2020, 3) Repairs, number stations, the only good Twitters, a low-key infohazard about pictures of...
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Repairs, number stations, the only good Twitters, a low-key infohazard about pictures of butterflies, and more.
NeuroLogica Blog
Big Ring Challenges Cosmological Principle University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) PhD student Alexia Lopez, who two years ago discovered a...
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University of Central Lancashire (UCLan) PhD student Alexia Lopez, who two years ago discovered a giant arc of galaxy clusters in the distant universe, has now discovered a Big Ring. This (if real) is one of the largest structures in the observable universe at 1.3 billion light...
Maps Mania
America's Drunkest Counties
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Math Is Still...
The (Often) Overlooked Experiment That Revealed the Quantum World A century ago, the Stern-Gerlach experiment established the truth of quantum mechanics. Now it’s...
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A century ago, the Stern-Gerlach experiment established the truth of quantum mechanics. Now it’s being used to probe the clash of quantum theory and gravity. The post The (Often) Overlooked Experiment That Revealed the Quantum World first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Moneyness
China is slowly joining the economic war against Russia I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it...
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I recently shared a chart on Twitter showing Chinese exports of ball bearings to Russia. Here it is: Having accelerated after Putin's invasion of Ukraine to a run-rate of around US$5-7 million per month in 2023, Chinese ball bearing exports to Russia have been ratcheted down...
Rest of World -...
23 Rest of World stories that defined 2023 This year, Rest of World published around 500 articles from more than 50 countries. Here are our...
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TheCollector
What Is the Role of Dance in Hindu Spirituality? (Dances & Gods) undefined
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Seeking Wisdom
Neural Networks – Part 2 This is my sixth post in a series on building a toy GPT. I recommend that you read my previous posts...
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This is my sixth post in a series on building a toy GPT. I recommend that you read my previous posts before reading this one. When using linear and logistic regression, which involve just a single linear equation, calculating derivatives is easy since there is only one equation...
swyx's site RSS Feed
React Miami: Temporal - React for the Backend These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the...
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over a year ago
These are the raw notes of my talk prep for my React Miami 2022 talk - Temporal - React for the Backend. Includes links and initial draft at the bottom.
Noahpinion
Economic development is doing OK Poor countries aren't catching up as fast as we'd like, but they're catching up faster than before.
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
3 reasons you shouldn't outsource your startup, and what to do instead One of my favorite things to do is to help others who are at an earlier...
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over a year ago
One of my favorite things to do is to help others who are at an earlier stage [https://joel.is/why-im-helping-startup-founders/] of the startup journey. I had a lot of false starts before Buffer. I enjoy sharing my lessons from those failed attempts, and I also enjoy getting my...
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:
Londonist
Easter 2024 Transport In London: Which Train And Tubes Are Running, And Which Stations Are Closed? Got an egg hunt to go to? Read this first
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Practical approaches for more effective teamwork Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it...
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Give credit, take responsibility Get aligned on timeframes Insist on a spec, write one, improve it Agree on a budget Keep a calendar Don’t hold a grudge Speak up clearly and generously Show your work Share your fears Make promises and keep them Do the reading Talk about people...
The Forney Flyer
South Sudan Photo Archives Here's some shots from South Sudan from the archives. These first three shots were taken just a few...
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Here's some shots from South Sudan from the archives. These first three shots were taken just a few months ago, when I flew a Caravan load of medicines up to a remote health clinic in South Sudan. This is the only clinic that offers actual medicine and medical treatment in that...
Open Culture
Hear 2.5 Hours of the Classical Music in Haruki Murakami’s Novels: Liszt, Beethoven, Janáček, and... Haruki Murakami’s hit novel 1Q84 features a memorable scene in a taxicab on a gridlocked freeway...
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Haruki Murakami’s hit novel 1Q84 features a memorable scene in a taxicab on a gridlocked freeway whose radio is playing Leoš Janáček’s Sinfonietta. “It is, as the book suggests, truly the worst possible music for a traffic jam,” writes Sam Anderson in a New York Times Magazine...
Ink & Switch
09 · Version history as chat This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for...
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This prototype mixes a history timeline with a chat-like interface. The result is useful for understanding changes and discussing a work-in-progress document.
One Useful Thing
Innovation through prompting Democratizing educational technology... and more
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
The human is a creature of paradox When he wrote the following diary entry in 1973, 30-year-old Arthur Ashe had already carved out a...
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a year ago
When he wrote the following diary entry in 1973, 30-year-old Arthur Ashe had already carved out a distinguished place in sporting history, not just as a formidable tennis player, but also as a pioneering African-American athlete in a predominantly white sport. With the US Open...
The American Scholar
Insisting on the Positive A popular historian’s philosophical musings The post Insisting on the Positive appeared first on The...
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A popular historian’s philosophical musings The post Insisting on the Positive appeared first on The American Scholar.
Vitalik Buterin's...
Zmowa
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Kind of Things I Love' At the end of her Friday post on Orson Welles and his Chimes at Midnight, Di Nguyen at the Little...
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11 months ago
At the end of her Friday post on Orson Welles and his Chimes at Midnight, Di Nguyen at the Little White Attic appends a bookish cri de coeur, one I have echoed many times:  “I increasingly feel at odds with modern culture,” she begins. “I’m indifferent to contemporary music,...
TheCollector
Marx’s German Ideology: What is Historical and Dialectical Materialism? undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Actionable feedback “Do you want to know what I think?” The best answer might be, “no.” Because this person is not very...
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“Do you want to know what I think?” The best answer might be, “no.” Because this person is not very good at offering useful feedback. Because you didn’t create this product or service or performance to please this person. They’re not the customer. Because you’re not going to...
Open Culture
What Ancient Greek Music Sounded Like: Listen to a Reconstruction That’s “100% Accurate” Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre,...
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Between 750 BC and 400 BC, the Ancient Greeks composed songs meant to be accompanied by the lyre, reed-pipes, and various percussion instruments. More than 2,000 years later, modern scholars have finally figured out how to reconstruct and perform these songs with (it’s claimed)...
Noahpinion
Interview: Heather Boushey, economist and member of the Council of Economic Advisers In which we talk all about Bidenomics.
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jennie Ing Describe your printmaking process. I make linocut prints by the reduction method. This is where all...
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a year ago
Describe your printmaking process. I make linocut prints by the reduction method. This is where all the colours come from the same piece of lino with the successive cutting away of the lino block and printing a new colour over the top of the last. The edition size has to be...
TheCollector
10 Interesting Facts About Haruki Murakami You Should Know undefined
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bt RSS Feed
CSS: Indenting Text CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to...
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CSS: Indenting Text 2019-04-05 A lot of developers tend to do the bare minimum when it comes to implementing proper website typography. This isn’t an insult - I’m happy that typography is given any thought at all during development, I just believe more can always be done to...
Astral Codex Ten
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Archinect - Features
Archinect Celebrates 20 Must-Watch Emerging U.S.-Based Architecture Practices In celebration of July 4th, Archinect recognizes the work of U.S.-based architecture firms by...
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In celebration of July 4th, Archinect recognizes the work of U.S.-based architecture firms by bringing attention to a selection of emerging studios establishing themselves as changemakers and design leaders within the industry. From coast to coast, we've explored several...
The Marginalian
Everything Is Already There: Javier Marías on the Courage to Heed Your Intuitions "This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it,...
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"This has nothing to do with premonitions, there is nothing supernatural or mysterious about it, what’s mysterious is that we pay no heed to it."
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware November 2023 The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it,...
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11 months ago
The Ware for November 2023 is a Lucira at home Covid test. Congrats to Jon Neal for nailing it, email me for your prize! Here’s some more images of the ware for your enjoyment.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Buttonhole Strangers on the Street' Dedicated readers have to be optimists. When we return to a book already read and enjoyed, often...
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Dedicated readers have to be optimists. When we return to a book already read and enjoyed, often decades later, we’re acting on faith, trusting that we and it remain compatible. That’s not always the case, of course. My younger self is not a reliable critic. For too long I was an...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The future of blogging I still frequently post things on social media, even if I prefer blogging. Publishing a blog post...
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I still frequently post things on social media, even if I prefer blogging. Publishing a blog post with preview images,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Founder/market fit An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent...
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over a year ago
An extremely useful concept that has grown popular among startup founders is what eminent entrepreneur and investor Marc Andreessen calls…
TheCollector
How Did Socrates View Democracy? undefined
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African History...
Africa and Europe during the age of mutual exploration: a Swahili traveler's description of 19th... The late modern period that began in the early 19th century was the height of mutual exploration on...
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Trying to Understand...
Can't Do, Won't Do! But striking poses is fun and easy.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the guidance system and computer of the Minuteman III nuclear missile The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent. The...
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The Minuteman missile was introduced in 1962 as a key part of America's nuclear deterrent. The Minuteman III missile is currently the only US land-based intercontinental ballistic missile (ICBM), with 400 missiles ready for launch, spread across five central states.1 The missile...
Seth's Blog
Living in the future In a bad 1950s science fiction movie, you might see flying jetpacks, invisibility cloaks and ray...
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In a bad 1950s science fiction movie, you might see flying jetpacks, invisibility cloaks and ray guns. What we got instead is a device that fits in our pocket. It allows us to connect to more than a billion people. It knows where we are and where we’re going. It has all of our...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Nothing Given Us to Keep Is Lost' Howard Nemerov reminded me not of Walden Pond in Concord but of a smaller, less storied pond at the...
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Howard Nemerov reminded me not of Walden Pond in Concord but of a smaller, less storied pond at the opposite end of Massachusetts, near Lee in the Berkshires. I was there to interview Paul Metcalf (1917-99) and his wife Nancy for my newspaper in the summer of 1988. Paul was a...
Engineers Need Art
Kim-1 User Manual For sale: a few KIM-1 User Manuals I printed up.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
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TheCollector
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The Ruffian
Who Has The Better Final Pitch? It's Closing Time In America
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David Heinemeier...
VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s...
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I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living with a PC for over a week that runs my programming tests faster than an M3 Max, ships with an excellent window manager out-the-box, and...