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The Wandering...
Constructing Bourgoin’s Figure 171 – Part 1 Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric...
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Just veering off into geometry here…. In November I was watching Eric Broug, an Islamic geometric design guru, give a talk online at an Islamic art conference, and I noticed that behind him they were projecting an interesting pattern on the scrim. I froze the video and grabbed a...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Off to Welter and Waste' The Russian-Jewish poet Boris Slutsky (1919-86) was thirty-three years old on the Night of the...
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The Russian-Jewish poet Boris Slutsky (1919-86) was thirty-three years old on the Night of the Murdered Poets, and he wasn’t among them. In the final stanza of his poem “About the Jews” (trans. G.S. Smith), dating from the 1950s, Slutsky writes:  “From the war I came back safe So...
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a...
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over a year ago
Next in database basics: 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 3. indexes 4. a database/sql driver In this series we'll write a rudimentary database from scratch in Go. Project source code is available on Github. In this first post we'll build enough of a parser to...
TheCollector
What Is Predictive Processing? & How It Explains 3 Visual Illusions undefined
10 months ago
The Elysian
Mondragon as the new City-State This cooperative could be its own country.
3 months ago
Home on Erik...
Installing TensorFlow on AWS Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some...
over a year ago
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Curious about Google's newly released TensorFlow? I don't have a beefy GPU machine, so I spent some time getting it to run on EC2. The steps on how to reproduce it are pretty brutal and I wouldn't recommend going through it unless you want to waste five hours of your live.
Open Culture
How Art Gets Stolen: What Happened to Egon Schiele’s Painting Boats Mirrored in the Water After Its... George Clooney may be better regarded as an actor than as a director, but his occasional work in the...
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George Clooney may be better regarded as an actor than as a director, but his occasional work in the latter capacity reveals an admirable interest in lesser-dramatized chapters of American history. His films have found their material in everything from the early years of the NFL...
Londonist
This Hammersmith Venue Hosts A Free Community Dinner Every Month "The simple act of eating together to spark connection."
a year ago
Left To Write
№ 74: An Entrepreneurial Odyssey How an epic poem can manage your expectations and reality
a year 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
Vitalik Buterin's...
Travel time ~= 750 * distance ^ 0.6
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Five Big Factors Behind the Architecture Industry’s Economic Slowdown Earlier this week, we released Part One of our findings from the Archinect Business Survey, which...
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Earlier this week, we released Part One of our findings from the Archinect Business Survey, which invited you to share how you were feeling about the economic outlook of your firm and sector. Our analysis found that across the United States, architects have seen business...
TheCollector
6 Eco-Friendly Designs of Thomas Heatherwick undefined
a year ago
Liz Denys
Patina tissue box, 2024 Tan stoneware clay with black speckles and light grog, slab-built, matte copper patina glaze
8 months ago
Seth's Blog
The lonely zone For many, the goal is to be the deciding vote, the donation that gets a cause over the goal, the...
a year ago
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For many, the goal is to be the deciding vote, the donation that gets a cause over the goal, the person who counts. And often, we enjoy piling on. Once the cause or fashion or tech is clearly working, it’s easy and fun to say “me too.” More rare, more vulnerable and more...
The Tao Of Wealth
The 7 Common ( But Unhelpful) Beliefs That Keep Us From Feeling OK Your mind is not wise. From an early age we are taught to listen to our mind, remember that reason...
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Your mind is not wise. From an early age we are taught to listen to our mind, remember that reason and logic are the way to get ahead and to strengthen our mind. We think we are our mind. But we also have a heart.  The mind is a very good computer, but that’s aboutContinue...
The Works in...
Gentrification as a housing problem The root cause of displacement is inflexible supply
5 months ago
Aaron's Essays
Goodbye YC I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I sent this email to the whole team at YC yesterday: When I joined YC 7.5 years ago, there weren’t many people around. PG and Jessica were still running things. We had offices in Mountain View, Palo Alto, and on Kearny street, but they were nearly always empty. The only meeting...
The Honest Broker
Why You Should Skip My Articles and Go Straight to the Comments Here are some highlights from yesterday's open mic anarchy thread
a year ago
Wuthering...
The elegant, intricate, sour comedies of Terence The great Roman playwright Terence wrote six plays between 166 and 160 BCE, twenty years after the...
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The great Roman playwright Terence wrote six plays between 166 and 160 BCE, twenty years after the death of Plautus.  The story is that he wrote the first one at age nineteen, while enslaved, thus winning his freedom and entry into a world of aristocratic patrons.  Plautus was...
Londonist
The City Street With FOUR Names What do you call the road between Millennium Bridge and St Paul's?
a year ago
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Security stories! Plus, a 2FA zine! The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The previous Loose Leaf Security series on safely surfing the web was pretty dense, so Geoffrey and I filled the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security with a bunch of our own personal security mishaps: Security stories: lost phones, a compromised computer, and an unexpected...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bang Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weirdest thing is when the conscious minds...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The weirdest thing is when the conscious minds start inventing reasons for all of this. Today's News: Psst - I'm told Bea Wolf will be highly discounted on Amazon tomorrow and the next day. Stay tuned.
Joel Gascoigne
I am an investor in 9 companies: How and why I started angel investing A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lesser known fact about me is that I have invested in 9 companies. It’s something I’ve not written about yet. So here we are.
NeuroLogica Blog
The Superconductor Flap of 2023 If you are at all interested in science and technology news, you have probably heard that a team...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you are at all interested in science and technology news, you have probably heard that a team from South Korea claims to have developed a material that is a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. Interestingly, if you are someone who does not follow such...
mtlynch.io
ArchiveBox is Super Cool Have you ever used archive.org’s Internet Wayback Machine? It’s a free tool that’s been archiving...
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Have you ever used archive.org’s Internet Wayback Machine? It’s a free tool that’s been archiving the web since 1996. So, if you want to see what Google looked like in 1999, they’ve got it. Internet Archive capture of Google from April 22, 1999 ArchiveBox is like your own,...
Computer Ads from...
Gould Electronic's PowerNode 6000 The Firebreathers from Gould blast the competition into oblivion.
4 months ago
Contemporist...
A Home Designed To Walk Up And Around The Green Roof AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina,...
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2 months ago
AtelierM has sent us photos of a contemporary home they completed in Capilla del Senor, Argentina, whose design was inspired by geometry and its surroundings.
Scott Jenson
Sotto Voce “AI” and “The Cloud” are both hot topics, but couldn’t be more different. AI is new, unproven, and...
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9 months ago
“AI” and “The Cloud” are both hot topics, but couldn’t be more different. AI is new, unproven, and surrounded by hyperbole, whereas “The Cloud” is older, established, and broadly accepted. But online, criticism is mounting against both, not so much for the technology itself but...
The Honest Broker
The Most Powerful Sound in the World Is Just One Syllable And it comes from you
6 months ago
Open Culture
Watch the Surrealist Glass Harmonica, the Only Animated Film Ever Banned by Soviet Censors (1968) The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens...
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The Soviet Union’s repressive state censorship went to absurd lengths to control what its citizens read, viewed, and listened to, such as the almost comical removal of purged former comrades from photographs during Stalin’s reign. When it came to aesthetics, Stalinism mostly...
African History...
The Dahlak islands and the African dynasty of Yemen a complete history of a cosmopolitan archipelago in the red sea (4th-19th century)
a year ago
Louwrentius
The iPhone, iPad and iOS are powering a revolution Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Most people just don't understand computers. Are these people dumb? Some may be dumb, but the people who make them are maybe even dumber. Because they can't seem to figure out how to create a computer that the majority of people understand. When the original macintosh arrived at...
alexwlchan
Some small accessibility fixes I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides...
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I’ve been doing a bunch of testing with VoiceOver recently, helping to prepare the digital guides for a new exhibition at work. I like to think my site is already pretty accessible – I put alt text on my images and I use semantic HTML – but I did find a few rough edges to...
charity.wtf
Every Achievement Has A Denominator One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure...
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over a year ago
One of the classic failure modes of management is the empire-builder — the managers who measure their own status, rank or value by the number of teams and people “under” them. Everyone knows you aren’t supposed to do this, but most of us secretly, sheepishly do it anyway to some...
The Marginalian
The Managed Heart: Emotional Labor and the Psychological Cost of Ambivalence What are you unwilling to feel? This is one of the most brutal, most clarifying questions in life,...
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What are you unwilling to feel? This is one of the most brutal, most clarifying questions in life, answering which requires great courage and great vulnerability. Out of that unwillingness arises the greatest inner tension of the heart: that between what we wish we felt and what...
TokyoDev
Personal Blog to Profitable Business: the Story of TokyoDev この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev...
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a year ago
この記事は[日本語でも](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/tokyodev-story-japanese)お読みいただけます。 TokyoDev started out as my personal blog talking about developer life in Japan, but has evolved into a job board that is a thriving business that is my sole source of income. But even more than...
Noahpinion
Will Elon Musk kill Substack? The fragmentation of the internet gets a push.
a year ago
African History...
Textile trade and Industry in the kingdom of Kongo: 1483-1914 the social and economic significance of Kongo's iconic raffia velvets
a year ago
Blog - Practical...
Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2000, the power...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2000, the power shut off across much of the San Francisco Bay area. There simply wasn’t enough electricity to meet demands, so more than a million customers were disconnected in California's largest...
Mazdak
Open Source AI Takes Center Stage: A New Alliance Challenges Tech Giants 🤖 In a bold move to challenge the dominance of closed AI models, a new global alliance for AI open...
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In a bold move to challenge the dominance of closed AI models, a new global alliance for AI open source development has emerged, firing shots at the likes of OpenAI, Google, and Anthropic. These tech giants have captured much of the AI spotlight in 2023, but the alliance believes...
Rest of World -...
Parents turn to AI tablets after China’s tutor crackdown Tech companies iFlytek, Baidu, and BKK are cashing in on parents who fear their child will fall...
10 months ago
Stoic Simple
Stoicism & Modern Therapy: Is Stoic Philosophy a Form of CBT? Stoic philosophy has been around for over two thousand years, with the likes of Epictetus, Seneca,...
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Stoic philosophy has been around for over two thousand years, with the likes of Epictetus, Seneca, and Marcus Aurelius as some of its founding figures. However, it wasn't until the emergence of modern therapy that the principles of Stoicism were integrated into the psychological...
Irrational...
Thoughts on writing and publishing Primer. I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last...
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a year ago
I’m materially finished writing my 3rd book, The Engineering Executive’s Primer. There’s one last chapter to go through tech review, and a fine line editing pass, but the hard stuff is largely done. Of course, that’s an author’s perspective, there is other hard stuff still to be...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - End Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kelly didn't think this was funny but who cares...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Kelly didn't think this was funny but who cares what she's thinking about AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT AT...
Paul Graham: Essays
What I've Learned from Users
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#28) Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Cultural stagnation, pedestrian deaths, evidence on decoupling, the benefits of education, and why philosophers read the classics
Vadim Kravcenko
Code Reviews Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post...
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Let me tell you a story. I worked with a client in the early days of my career. It was […] The post Code Reviews appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Home on Erik...
Everything I learned about technical debt I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just made it to Sweden suffering from jet lag induced insomnia, but this blog post will not cover that. Instead, I will talk a little bit about technical debt. The concept of technical debt always resonated with me, partly because I always like the analogy with “real” debt.
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Disadvantages of Wine' An offhand recounting of a conversation with Dr. Johnson:  “He has great virtue, in not drinking...
3 months ago
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An offhand recounting of a conversation with Dr. Johnson:  “He has great virtue, in not drinking wine or any fermented liquor, because, as he acknowledged to us, he could not do it in moderation. Lady M’Leod would hardly believe him, and said, ‘I am sure, sir, you would not carry...
Max Countryman
Indie Web Stack of the Future You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a...
a year ago
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a year ago
You're a soloprenuer building a SaaS in 2023. What does your ideal tech stack look like? There's a few things that make indie development different and we should design our stack around our unique goals. Let's explore an ideal web stack we can build the future on.
Noahpinion
The Big Tariffs are here Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Biden just slapped a 100% tax on Chinese car imports. Here's what that will and won't accomplish.
Londonist
The Grant Museum Of Zoology Is Reopening Very Soon And yes, the jar of moles will still be there.
10 months ago
Maps Mania
Local Explorer
11 months ago
Liz Denys
My love-hate relationship with typeface rendering in Ubuntu We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We take good, er at least reasonable, typography for granted all the time. This is especially true when it comes to personal computers because with Microsoft Windows and Mac OS X - upwards of 98 percent of the market - you get characters that are easy on the eye right out of the...
Data Boutique
How Data Boutique Works #3: Third Party Solutions Working with data? List your solution on Data Boutique
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Tallest Buildings in New York City? undefined
a year ago
Beautiful Public...
Mapping the Sea Floor USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of...
a year ago
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a year ago
USGS research vessels equipped with cameras, sonar and scanners created a map of 125 square miles of the sea floor off Cape Ann, MA.
Mazdak
The Elon Musk Empire In the annals of American history, few individuals have wielded influence over such diverse and...
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11 months ago
In the annals of American history, few individuals have wielded influence over such diverse and critical industries as Elon Musk. His companies, spanning transportation, communication, artificial intelligence, and space exploration, stand as testaments to his audacious vision and...
Dan Slimmon
Outliers carry information. Don’t leave them on the table Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over a decade ago, I saw this talk by John Rauser. Only recently, though, did I come to realize how incredibly influential this talk has been on my career. Gosh what a great talk! You should watch it. If you operate a complex system, like a SaaS app, you probably have a dashboard...
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 “By far the worst company to emulate in Startup Make-Believe is Google / Alphabet. Google has...
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#1 💡 “By far the worst company to emulate in Startup Make-Believe is Google / Alphabet. Google has a number of structural advantages stemming from its Search monopoly that mean that it’s able to be almost completely divorced from reality, and that has allowed it to grow in...
diamond geezer
Route 549 London's next dead bus 549: Loughton to South Woodford Location: outer London/Essex Length of...
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London's next dead bus 549: Loughton to South Woodford Location: outer London/Essex Length of journey: 5 miles, 30 minutes 549, which dies tomorrow, is one of London's weirder bus routes. It was transferred to TfL control from Essex in 2003, hence the unusual opening digit. It...
Moneyness
It's time to impose Iran-calibre sanctions on Russia Russia is sometimes described as the world's most sanctioned nation. And while that's true, the long...
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Russia is sometimes described as the world's most sanctioned nation. And while that's true, the long list of sanctions that the G7 coalition has placed on Russia in response to its attack on Ukraine are surprisingly light compared to the fewer but far more-draconian sanctions...
mtlynch.io
KetoHub Update: Month 3 In early October, I launched a new website, KetoHub, a recipe aggregator for keto meals. Each month,...
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over a year ago
In early October, I launched a new website, KetoHub, a recipe aggregator for keto meals. Each month, I’ve evaluated the site’s progress to decide how it’s doing and what areas need improvement. I’m doing my evaluation of December publicly. Here’s what was good, bad, and learnable...
TheCollector
The Man Who Became Santa: Who Was Saint Nicholas? undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
The Story of the Calydonian Boar Hunt in Greek Mythology undefined
2 months ago
HTMHell
Using SRI to protect from malicious JavaScript At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At some point of developing a website, there might come a time where we need to progressively enhance using JavaScript. There are few different options of how you add JavaScript. Firstly, we can write our own script using vanilla JS only, and self host the JavaScript file....
Trying to Understand...
The Past Is Another Country. A book review from the future.
5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Villa y Zapata Tequila by Helix Branding Villa y Zapata Tequila is a revolutionary, handcrafted spirit crafted for those with discerning...
a month ago
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a month ago
Villa y Zapata Tequila is a revolutionary, handcrafted spirit crafted for those with discerning palates. It pays tribute to individuals...
tomcritchlow.com
Slouching Towards Innovation A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A lot of innovation work revolves around shiny objects - maybe a slick interactive prototype, or a concept video. A lot of innovation projects never see the light of day.
Stephen Diehl
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 2 (Term Rewriting)
over a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Blast Off (1973) This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full...
a year ago
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This is also one of my favorite picture books, very hard to find, so I would like to share the full book with you. And Blast Off! Cain, Linda C. and Susan Rosenbaum. Illustrated by Dillon, Leo and Diane. Blast Off. Lexington, MA: Ginn. (24 p.) 1973.
Seth's Blog
Scaffolds and talent Kindergarten teachers matter more than you think. Chess isn’t a talent, it’s a learned practice....
a year ago
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a year ago
Kindergarten teachers matter more than you think. Chess isn’t a talent, it’s a learned practice. We’re sorting for head starts, not growth. And that’s just the first chapter. I think Hidden Potential is the most important book in Adam Grant’s career. The indoctrination around...
Rest of World -...
Rebel or sellout? How Nigeria’s startup darling became tech minister Bosun Tijani was a rock star in the Nigerian startup scene, but his transition to government has...
11 months ago
Commoncog
A Most Unlikely Master of Capital Allocation If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
If the most unlikely, most un-businesslike person could become a masterful capital allocator late in her life, then perhaps you could, too.
Wuthering...
Thanks and praise to celebrate the happiness of this great event – the end of the Greek play... I am quoting the end of Alcestis by Euripides, his early whatever it is, not a tragedy, not a satyr...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I am quoting the end of Alcestis by Euripides, his early whatever it is, not a tragedy, not a satyr play, not a comedy.  Admetos has won back his wife and the play is at its end, so he declares “a feast of thanks and praise” (tr. Arrowsmith), which is what I want to do.  If we...
Julia Evans
New zine: How Git Works! Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It...
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Hello! I’ve been writing about git on here nonstop for months, and the git zine is FINALLY done! It came out on Friday! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/git, or get an 14-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the cover: the table of contents Here’s the table...
mtlynch.io
I Regret My $46k Website Redesign Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a...
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over a year ago
Two years ago, I created a website for my business. By combining my terrible design skills with a decent-looking template, I created a site that looked okay. I told myself that if the business took off, I’d hire a real designer to make it look professional. TinyPilot website,...
xkcd.com
Daylight Saving Choice
a year ago
Damn Interesting
A Taste of Italy In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian domination (a holdover from the Holy Roman Empire) and the other for unification. At the time, Europe’s boot was a curious conglomeration of separate states, not all of which got along....
Louwrentius
Automated install of Debian Linux based on PXE net booting Every honest and good system administrator is continue bussy with automating his work. For two...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every honest and good system administrator is continue bussy with automating his work. For two reasons: Repeating the same task over and over again is friggin boring. A system administrator has better things to do, such as drinking coffee. Humans make mistakes, especially if...
Engineers Need Art
Stereographer Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Experimenting in stereo photography and I write an app to create old-fashioned stereoscopic cards.
A Beautiful Site
Shoelace 2.0: a forward-thinking library of web components I've been having a lot of fun with Stencil and web components lately. Back in January, I decided to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been having a lot of fun with Stencil and web components lately. Back in January, I decided to use it to completely redesign Shoelace, an open source project I created a few years ago. I recently published Shoelace 2.0 — a collection of professionally-designed, accessible...
History Today Feed
Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building Sokol: An Exercise in Czech Nation-Building j.hoare Thu, 11/23/2023 - 10:33
a year ago
TheCollector
6 Must-See Spanish Castles undefined
4 months ago
The Tao Of Wealth
The Bird In The Golden Cage A boy buys a bird and they are having a conversation: The boy says, “My dear bird, you live with me....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A boy buys a bird and they are having a conversation: The boy says, “My dear bird, you live with me. I shall give you very nice fruits. I shall talk with you,” and so many things. But the bird says, “No, I want to go away. I want to go away.” The boy replies,Continue reading "The...
Platformer
How banning one Palestinian slogan roiled Etsy The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees...
a year ago
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a year ago
The company secretly banned the phrase “from the river to the sea” on sellers’ wares. Some employees aren’t happy
bt RSS Feed
CSS Character Unit CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
CSS Character Unit 2019-04-23 When it comes to proper readability with large portions of text, the golden standard is to have no more than 75 characters per line. This is easy to achieve in the world of print but on the responsive, ever-changing web - statically defined...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. II Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Previously: The Case For Design Engineers, Pt. I. You’re given a design with a note: the dividing line between these two containers should be interactive so the user can drag to resize the respective containers on either side. Perhaps that note is all you get. Or perhaps the...
David Gerrells
how not to run a saas company Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Founder mode, somewhere someone said something and a meme was born. Join me as we explore what it means to founder mode.
Open Culture
How Man Ray Reinvented Himself & Created One of the Most Iconic Works of Surrealist Photography It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his past and make his...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
It would surprise none of us to encounter a young artist looking to cast off his past and make his mark on the culture in a place like Williamsburg. But in the case of Man Ray, Williamsburg was his past. One must remember that the Brooklyn of today bears little resemblance to the...
symmetry magazine
Do hidden influences give neutrinos their tiny mass? The quest to understand the small mass of neutrinos is also a quest to discover new particles. ...
a year ago
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a year ago
The quest to understand the small mass of neutrinos is also a quest to discover new particles. Neutrinos are the byproducts of astronomical events that give us life.  They shoot out from the nuclear fusion reaction within the sun and radiate from supernovas....
Tinloof - Blog
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Context Like many businesses operating online, we at Tinloof decided to explore SEO to attract more leads. Seeing the numerous SEO gurus on LinkedIn and Twitter, one might think it's worth a shot to try this approach, hoping to strike gold when search engines place your website...
Unpacked
AI-enabled SaaS vs Moatless AI Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct...
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Several enterprise SaaS companies have announced generative AI features recently, which is a direct threat to AI startups that lack sustainable competitive advantage
Beautiful Public...
1,000 Photos of Dolphin Fins Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat...
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Scars, scratches and wounds abound in these photos as encounters with unknown creatures and boat propellers leave their marks, imprinting a story of close escapes and cheating death.
Open Culture
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In 1970, when 10-year-old Joel Linton asked Charles Schulz, the creator of Peanuts, “What do you think makes a good citizen?” Schulz sent the youngster a short but pithy reply: Dear Joel: I think it is more difficult these days to define what makes a good citizen than it has ever...
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Deploying My Eleventy Site to GitHub Pages I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of...
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I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
Noahpinion
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Nineteen years ago today, I married my best friend, Joy.  One year later our first child was born... ... and well before his first birthday, we were commissioned by our church to head to the mission field. That was 17 years ago, and we've spent the vast majority of our...
Home on Erik...
coin2dice Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago...
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Here's a problem that I used to give to candidates. I stopped using it seriously a long time ago since I don't believe in puzzles, but I think it's kind of fun. Let's say you have a function that simulates a random coin flip.
The Marginalian
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The Meem app: it sucks If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a...
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If you’re a “digital only” bank like Meem, the app your customers use is all they see: it’s like a virtual 🏦 branch. That’s fitting, because you know what my impression of meem is as a user? When I open up their app, it feels like walking into a crowded butcher shop, with...
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As binary thinking -- a rush to judgment about books, food, our fellow humans and just about everything else -- becomes harsher and more fashionable, interesting conversation withers. Have you noticed how quickly people dismiss a subject before it has been pondered and probed?...
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Faster, smarter, more adaptable: These emerging market pioneers are outmaneuvering Silicon Valley for global domination.
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I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a combination of tech, art, systems, culture and most of all, deciding to put in the effort to get it right. [This is a long post, it would have been a podcast, but it doesn’t really...
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Rare is the writer who captures our imagination when we’re young and still assembling our personal canons, and remains rereadable for the rest of our lives. For me that would include Swift, Defoe and a third English novelist, a rather exotic import from Poland: Joseph Conrad. I...
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When an environmental impact assessment concludes that only a small number of shorebirds will be affected by a new airport, because relatively small flocks are counted during field surveys, is there an assumption that the birds encountered are always the same individuals? What if...
Map of the Week
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In my day job I've mapped buried streams to give an indication of areas that are most likely to flood in major storms. It turns out that buried streams in older urban centers is common everywhere. Hidden Hydrology is a great resource for exploring disappeared waterways throughout...
Grow With Less
10 Proven Meta Descriptions Templates Top Blogs Use to Get More Clicks I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description. I have no idea where to...
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I face the same problem every time I need to write a meta description. I have no idea where to start. Should I first mention the problem the article is solving? Should I use a call-to-action? Is it bad to repeat what I already wrote in the headline? To find out, I analyzed...
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Growing up I had the same dentist from childhood to adulthood. My dentist’s office was run by Dentist Chung (in Vietnamese I called him Bác Sĩ Chung – which means Dr Chung translated directly) and his sister running the office. The office was in Garden Grove, in between the...
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There is a press conference going on right now announcing a breakthrough at the National Ignition Facility at Livermore.   The NIF is an inertial confinement fusion facility that uses 192 laser beams to compress a fuel pellet containing deuterium and tritium.  The pellet is...
Arduino Blog
Adding real-time local voice controls to a SMARS Quad Mod robot with an Arduino RP2040 Connect Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools...
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Robotics kits like the Screwless/Screwed Modular Assemblable Robotic System (SMARS) are great tools for learning more about how electronics, mechanics, and software can combine to perform useful tasks in the physical world. And in his latest project, Edge Impulse’s senior...
Old Structures...
Waste Not, Something Something I was passing through Tribeca last week and came across this little building. Very, very little....
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I was passing through Tribeca last week and came across this little building. Very, very little. Three stories tall, maybe 40 feet wide, and about four feet deep on the left and maybe a luxurious ten or fifteen feet deep on the right. You know you’re in a city where real estate...
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A friend found a knobby growth near his knee. After a few doctor visits, it was diagnosed as cancer. A cancer diagnosis is a self-sufficient catastrophe–few people need more than that to start taking immediate action. At the same time, we live in a media culture where catastrophe...
Rest of World -...
At home with Asia’s shopping influencers In Vietnam, Pakistan, and Indonesia, three livestreamers build well-paid but precarious careers.
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2021 went well for PostHog - especially given we're not even two years old yet. 7,014 customers across our range of products (!) 800% increase in…
Classical Wisdom
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I have been using Gatsby for my blog and I have never been fond of it’s complexity considering that all I need is Markdown rendering. Trying to update Gatsby and its dependencies to the latest version was painful enough to motivate me to jump ship. After looking at what’s out...
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Complete silence Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and...
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Born in 1903 in Okayama Prefecture, Dr. Michihiko Hachiya was an extraordinary figure whose life and work took on a poignant significance following the bombing of Hiroshima. Serving as the director of the Hiroshima Communications Hospital, he found himself at the epicentre of...
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Fenwick Is Reopening As A Charity Shop For Two Weeks Maybe you'll score some cheap Dior.
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I've written before about learning that my ancestors Leonard and Melvina Ward owned a slave. Today I learned there were more, at least seven. This marker comes courtesy of Find-a-Grave. It's on a small family cemetery near Bagwell, TX. I'm not positive but I think the land is...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Largest Money-Printing UI Element Ever Made I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics...
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I watched a talk from Evan Czaplicki, creator of the Elm programming language, called “The Economics of Programming Languages”. It’s a fascinating look at how a small OSS project like Elm has to compete in a world where many of the expectations around developer experience for a...
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For their second location in South Jakarta, Kurasu decided to experiment with a menu beyond coffee. The Japanese kissaten concept...
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Tech + Economics +...
Red state politics are too much of a headache for tech. Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster? During the COVID-19 pandemic, investors...
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Is the Texas boom town of Austin losing its luster? During the COVID-19 pandemic, investors and startup founders alike flocked to the Texas capital, attracted to the lower cost of living, “hip” lifestyle and business-friendly environment (i.e. no state income ...
A Beautiful Site
Business cards VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist...
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VistaPrint delivered 1,000 “A Beautiful Site” business cards the other day, and I couldn't resist playing with them. I decided to go conservative with the design, relying a bit on curiosity to draw attention to the business. Nevertheless, I am pleased with the way they turned...
Quanta Magazine
How Scientists Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Solar Cycle Prediction Scientists have struggled to accurately forecast the strength of the sun’s 11-year cycle — even...
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Scientists have struggled to accurately forecast the strength of the sun’s 11-year cycle — even after centuries of solar observations. The post How Scientists Are Tackling the Tricky Task of Solar Cycle Prediction first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Citation Needed
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A Beautiful Site
Finding the active element in a shadow root You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this...
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You can get the focused element with document.activeElement but, if it's inside a shadow root, this will be the host element. This happens because of retargeting, but sometimes you might need access to the internal element that actually has focus. Here's a recursive function that...
Arduino Blog
The Club Master is a Nano RP2040 Connect-powered device that improves your golf swing When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even...
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When playing golf, few things are as important as using the correct form when swinging, since even small deviations can be the difference between a hole-in-one and additional strokes. To improve his game, Concept Bytes has designed a small clip-on device called the “Club Master.”...
The Pragmatic...
Open source business model struggles at WordPress Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
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Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
Dreams of Space -...
Utazas a vilagurbe/ Into Space (1978) A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share.  This pop-up book was part of the...
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over a year ago
A little out of my defined time period but too good not to share.  This pop-up book was part of the burst in Russian children's publishing in 1978. It was originally published in Russian but I have seen copies in English and this one in Hungarian. The pop-ups are wonderful and...
TheCollector
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./techtipsy
Quest towards energy efficiency part 1: the water heater While listening to the SelfHosted podcast, one of the hosts brought up their peculiar...
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While listening to the SelfHosted podcast, one of the hosts brought up their peculiar living arrangement multiple times. Essentially, he and his family are living in an RV that runs off of batteries, has solar panels, utilizes Home Assistant for automation, supports multiple...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023 The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
7 things you may not know about useState Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some...
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over a year ago
Doing code reviews for our hook-based project, I often see fellow developers not aware of some awesome features (and nasty pitfalls) useState offers. Since it's one of my favourite hooks, I decided to help spread a word. Don't expect any huge revelations, but here're the 7 facts...
TheCollector
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Unblogged May 31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican...
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31 unblogged things I did in May Wed 1: The latest exhibition at The Curve gallery at the Barbican is dark and almost empty apart from 20 scant full-frontal paintings. I completely missed the subtext ("The exhibition highlights how The Curve’s shape reflects the Arabic letter...
Old Structures...
Getting Repetative The heat wave is back. Technically it left for a few days, but given that I hate hot weather, it...
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The heat wave is back. Technically it left for a few days, but given that I hate hot weather, it didn’t seem like that to me. As bad as it is, even people without a/c can cool off in various public places. The most amusing is the subway, which, when I was commuting to school […]
History Today Feed
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Widening the horizon This is a game making site but where are the games? What gives? I’ve been slightly less motivated in...
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This is a game making site but where are the games? What gives? I’ve been slightly less motivated in making games lately and I’ve been doing different things, just to get my ideas and my motivation up. As I said in an earlier post I wanted a break from Experimental Games and I...
Platformer
How two insurgents are taking on Twitter Artifact's Kevin Systrom on the disruptive power of good comments. PLUS: Substack's naïveté around...
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London's Monopoly streets New year, new blog series. I speak of visiting all the streets in Monopoly.       OLD...
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New year, new blog series. I speak of visiting all the streets in Monopoly.       OLD KENT ROAD £60    →        MAYFAIR £400   I'm using the London version of the board, obviously, and the original 1935 streets rather than any of the silly thematic...
Josh Comeau's blog
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always...
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over a year ago
How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
Londonist
Exciting News For London Art Lovers! A special offer just in time for the Easter holidays
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Doing some online Personality tests For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own...
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over a year ago
For some reason I’ve done a couple of personality tests the last month, mostly to satisfy my own curiosity. The Braverman Test Inspired by Charles Poliquin’s visit on The Tim Ferriss Show I tried out the Braverman test to determine my neurotransmitter type. The point Charles...
Quanta Magazine
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The surprisingly subtle geometry of a familiar game shows how quickly math gets complicated. The post Unfolding the Mysteries of Polygonal Billiards first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Honest Broker
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Notes on Progress: Doing science backwards Preregistering research as a cure for scientific bias
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And Here We Go Trying Yet Again... There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last...
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There are so many good reasons/excuses I could give you as to why I did just one blog post last June, with indications that I would start consistently blogging again, and then I disappeared... again. I could tell you that life has been super crazy busy, and that by...
Words and Buttons...
SWInE: Simplicial Weight Interpolation and Extrapolation I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a...
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I stole exactly three ideas from other people, made them work together, and gave that compilation a funny name. I had my fun playing with the concept but the conclusion I had to put into my thesis was: “SWInE is rather promising”. In academic language, this means “useless”....
TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
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Only recently have I learned of the entrenched snobbery in certain quarters against anthologies. It seems to be rooted in the conviction that readers ought to read writers in their original volumes, not someone’s curated selection, or something like that. In common with most...
The Rational Walk
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Volcker on inflation, Parametric insurance, The futility of guidance, Corporate governance reform, Keeping a notebook, Singleton and Teledyne, The pros and cons of cancer screening
Common Edge
Climate Lessons From the Floating Villages of Cambodia Social and cultural values may be as important as hard (and expensive) infrastructure.
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Probably...
We Have a Book! My copy of Probably Overthinking It has arrived! If you want a copy for yourself, you can get a 30%...
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My copy of Probably Overthinking It has arrived! If you want a copy for yourself, you can get a 30% discount if you order from the publisher and use the code UCPNEW. You can also order from Amazon or, if you want to support independent bookstores, from Bookshop.org. The official...
Probably...
Extremes, outliers, and GOATS The video from my PyData Global 2023 talk, Extremes, outliers, and GOATS, is available now: The...
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10 months ago
The video from my PyData Global 2023 talk, Extremes, outliers, and GOATS, is available now: The slides are here. There are two Jupyter notebooks that contain the analysis I presented: Here’s the abstract: The fastest runners are much faster than we expect from a Gaussian...
Open Culture
What is Electronic Music?: Pioneering Electronic Musician Daphne Oram Explains (1969) Survey the British public about the most important institution to arise in their country after World...
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Survey the British public about the most important institution to arise in their country after World War II, and a lot of respondents are going to say the National Health Service. But keep asking around, and you’ll sooner or later encounter a few serious electronic-music...
Joel Gascoigne's...
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the...
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over a year ago
Our vision for location-independent salaries at Buffer Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. I’m happy to share that we’ve established a long-term goal that salaries at Buffer will not be based on location. We made our first step towards this last year, when we...
Londonist
Enchanting Chocolate Shops In London, For When You Need A Cocoa Fix Top-notch chocolatiers across town.
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James Vaughan's blog
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Oykun
Why Visual Design Matters Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...
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a year ago
Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on. I have faced situations like: Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please. We do not need visual...
TheCollector
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Stephen Diehl
A Sticky Stringy Quandary
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Elad Blog
Defensibility & Competition Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a...
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Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a startup?
The American Scholar
Part of the Parade The post Part of the Parade appeared first on The American Scholar.
a month ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Let's Bring Spacer GIFs Back! The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations,...
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over a year ago
The 90s web gave us many delightful things: web rings, guestbooks, “under construction” animations, and spacer GIFs. In this article, we'll see how I use a Spacer component to solve common layout problems, and why it's often a great tool for the job in the modern web.
Seldo.com
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over a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Solo, Aughton When I was first out of university, trying to decide what to do with my life, and with no long term...
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9 months ago
When I was first out of university, trying to decide what to do with my life, and with no long term plan other than the fact I knew - eventually - I wanted to move to London and stay there, I got a job as a cashier at Ormskirk Abbey National. Ormskirk is ostensibly a market town,...
Artificial Ignorance
LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
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Getting Started With Docker (Part 1) What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this...
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What is docker? Why do I need it? How do I use it? If you're asking any of these questions, this article is for you.
The Marginalian
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A Smart Bear
Worse, but unique An objectively "worse" strategy can win, if it leverages something unique or unexpected. Startups...
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An objectively "worse" strategy can win, if it leverages something unique or unexpected. Startups can use this concept to beat incumbents.
Calculated Risk
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Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization Industrial production (IP) moved down 0.1 percent in November after declining 0.4 percent in October. In November, manufacturing output rose 0.2 percent, boosted by a 3.5 percent increase in the index for motor...
Rest of World -...
U.S tech giants are building dozens of huge data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting back Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of...
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Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of centers in the country, fearing environmental devastation.
Explorations of an...
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a year ago
Laura and I were up early to make the most of our morning at Potrero de Yala. As dawn broke, we slowly drove in along the entrance road, keeping an eye out for guans. We found quite a few guans on and around the road but none were our hoped-for Red-faced Guans; they were all...
Willem's Blog
Commuter bike checkup This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to...
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This week my trustworthy commuter bike started making strange squeaking noises when braking, time to have a look at the bike after 21.000KM!
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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Home: An Illustrated Celebration of the Genius and Wonder of Animal Dwellings “There’s no place like home,” Dorothy sighs in The Wizard of Oz. But home is not a place — it is a...
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8 months ago
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One September dawn on the verge of a significant life change, sitting on my poet friend’s dock, I watched a great blue heron rise slow and prehistoric through the morning mist, carrying the sky on her back. In the years since, the heron has become the closest thing I have to what...
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A good metaphor for the ideal relationship between humanity and the environment is that the environment is like critical infrastructure. Infrastructure is valuable, because it provides crucial services. You want to maintain it carefully, because it’s bad if it breaks down. But...
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Now that everyone is spending many of their waking hours in Zoom, a lot of people are laughing at, and then asking me about, my Zoom setup. It’s actually not all that elaborate. I know many people with much more elaborate setups. Still, for a simple upgrade to the mic and camera...
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@bgmasters created an awesome series of blog posts covering his notes of Peter Thiel’s startup class CS183. Personally i try to re...
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