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CONTEMPORIST
A Desk Designed To Hide Inside The Wall Architectural and interior design firm Sonya Lee Architect has shared photos of a 1930s home they...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architectural and interior design firm Sonya Lee Architect has shared photos of a 1930s home they renovated in Queens, New York, that includes an interesting design detail. As working from home has become much more popular, especially over the last few years, the designers...
Citation Needed
Issue 45 – I'm the director now Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rising bitcoin prices bring echoes of the crypto mania from years past, and an ambitious hacker decides to manifest a new job for themselves.
Casey Handmer's blog
Entrepreneurship changed the way I think A quick note with some self reflection on the eve of my 37th year and after nearly three years of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A quick note with some self reflection on the eve of my 37th year and after nearly three years of running a hardware start up. I never saw myself as a founder. At some point a few years ago I realized nearly all my friends were founders or managers of their own business, but I...
Ognjen Regoje •...
What if I spent exactly two hours on each post Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Over the past year, the backlog of things I wanted to write had piled up. But my free time had dwindled. So, in the interest of being prolific and producing content that I can iterate and learn from, at the start of the year I decided that this year I would not spend more than...
Nat Eliason's...
7 Things I Learned Drafting a Novel in 26 Days 85,000 words and many caffeinated drinks later
3 months ago
Open Culture
Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of... Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 (1953) on a coin-operated typewriter that charged 10 cents for every 30 minutes, and he spent a total of $9.80, how many hours did it...
Common Edge
Should NYC’s Housing Authority Demolish Public Housing in Manhattan? Plans for a phased demolition and rebuilding of the Fulton and Chelsea-Elliott Houses should be...
a month ago
nanoscale views
Neutrality and experimental detective work One of the remarkable aspects of condensed matter physics is the idea of emergent quasiparticles,...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the remarkable aspects of condensed matter physics is the idea of emergent quasiparticles, where through the interactions of many underlying degrees of freedom, new excitations emerge that are long-lived and often can propagate around in ways very different than their...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Design and art In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too...
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over a year ago
In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too concerned...
Rest of World -...
Uber’s big plan for India: buses Uber Shuttle, a shared bus ride service, is available in two Indian cities. The company plans to...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Uber Shuttle, a shared bus ride service, is available in two Indian cities. The company plans to launch in three more cities soon.
TheCollector
3 Key Ideas from Aristotle on Politics undefined
a year ago
latest projects -...
Motorised Camera Slider [Hardware] Simple smooth motor mod
5 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
SemVer: The Tricky Parts Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Semantic versioning, is the way to version packages in JS ecosystem. I always thought I understood semver, but that illusion disappeared once I started maintaining libraries myself. Semver has tricky edge cases where it's unclear what the new version number should be: Should you...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - The Painting Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That stick figure diagram is the most joy I've had...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That stick figure diagram is the most joy I've had making an illustration in years. Today's News: For non-Amazon purchase options please click here.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Big timing “Big timing” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot lately which refers to people who are “higher ranking”...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Big timing” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot lately which refers to people who are “higher ranking” acting disrespectfully toward people who…
The Map is Mostly...
quests, failure, desire or: contra defensive postures
4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Eusebius? undefined
11 months ago
nanoscale views
Chemical potential and banana waffles The concept of chemical potential is one that seems almost deliberately obscure to many.  I’ve...
a year ago
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a year ago
The concept of chemical potential is one that seems almost deliberately obscure to many.  I’ve written about this here, and referenced this article.  What you may not realize is that the chemical potential, of water in particular, plays a crucial role in why my banana waffle...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Cool Ideas For Dentistry + Medicine With Nisarg Patel | Out-Of-Pocket plus what actually happens in the operating room?
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
The Power of Being Weird There are a lot of different ways to be an outsider. Nobody really wants to be a misfit or a "noob."...
a year ago
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a year ago
There are a lot of different ways to be an outsider. Nobody really wants to be a misfit or a "noob." But there is wisdom in outsiders. They can be characters who challenge societal norms and reshape our understanding of what it means to belong. There are some people for whom...
Daniel Miessler
My Answer to the “ChatGPT Isn’t Really Creative” Argument There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool...
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s a river of argument about ChatGPT that goes something like this: I know GPT can do some cool stuff, but it’s really just a next-word-completion trick. It’s not doing real creativity like humans do. I get that argument, and it’s attractive to me as well, but I think it’s...
Retail Design Blog
Neovoyager album design by Mary Zaleska Album artwork for Neoquartet that I had the pleasure of designing. NeoVoyager is inspired by...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Album artwork for Neoquartet that I had the pleasure of designing. NeoVoyager is inspired by reaching further, literally out of...
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon? undefined
6 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
An Observation Tower That Looks Like Twisted Wood Rises Above The Swedish Landscape White Arkitekter has shared photos of Observation Tower Kärven on the Swedish west coast, which they...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
White Arkitekter has shared photos of Observation Tower Kärven on the Swedish west coast, which they completed after winning Varberg Municipality’s architectural competition. Recently opened, the tower in Getterön nature reserve north of Varberg, measures 39 feet (12m) high and...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Negativity and Emotionality of News Media Headlines Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological...
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over a year ago
Published article Introduction I have recently published a paper where we describe a chronological (2000–2019) analysis of sentiment and emotion in 23 million headlines from 47 news media outlets popular in the United States. We used Transformer language models fine-tuned for...
The Modern House
Five contemporary family homes with green living and community at their core
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Traditional multinationals are making their mark on Latin American tech The region’s conservative corporations are finding different ways to get into technology.
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Coworking Offices – The Workshop YCK The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The Workshop is dedicated to creating versatile co-working spaces that invite professionals into a dynamic environment that offers private workpods...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Myths and Metamorphoses
6 months ago
TheCollector
6 Outrageous Judicial Errors in the Trial of Jesus Christ undefined
11 months ago
diamond geezer
My Saturday My Saturday diamond geezer 5am  I awake early because there's not a moment to be wasted. I'll read...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
My Saturday diamond geezer 5am  I awake early because there's not a moment to be wasted. I'll read for a while - the latest by Tess Gerritsen is a proper page turner - then leap purposefully out of bed and find a grapefruit to slice, perhaps a handful of berries. The cafetière...
Elad Blog
Why Has Israel Succeeded At COVID Vaccination? Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Israel has pulled ahead of much in the world in its rate of vaccinating its citizens - with roughly 1% of the entire population vaccinated per day and over 23% of the country vaccinated in the first few weeks. The country hopes to have the entire population over age 16
Epic Web Dev
Prisma Typed SQL Queries (tip)
3 months ago
TheCollector
8 Inventive Weapons of the Ancient World undefined
6 months ago
xkcd.com
Paleontology Museum
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Counterintuitive lessons about our pricing Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Imagine being able to grow twice as fast with just a few hours of work. Changing your pricing has a real chance to get you there. Here is a breakdown…
Neil Madden
Is Datalog a good language for authorization? Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Datalog is a logic programming language, based on Prolog, which is seeing something of a resurgence in interest in recent years. In particular, several recent approaches to authorization (working out who can do what) have used Datalog as the logical basis for access control...
CONTEMPORIST
A Curved Accent Wall Wraps Around From The Fireplace To The Ceiling Inside This Home MAKHNO Studio has designed a home in Kiev, Ukraine, that includes a contemporary living room with a...
a year ago
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a year ago
MAKHNO Studio has designed a home in Kiev, Ukraine, that includes a contemporary living room with a large curved statement piece. The living room has a sunken couch that neatly fits into the step-down, and faces the fireplace, while the focal point of the room is a curved section...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Route of the Adriana Disaster
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Before the Games: The Site I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving the site. The last week or so has been extremely productive with me throwing out a lot of wasted code, speeding up the site and adding/removing features and I want to continue with...
Miguel Carranza
The first five employees The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The main figures of the startup ecosystem are founders and investors. The incentives are not always aligned, and sometimes there is a notable lack of gratitude. But, for the most part, it’s a symbiotic relationship. Founders benefit from capital, and VCs need access to the best...
CONTEMPORIST
Large Travertine Slabs Were Used To Update This Home’s Design Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of the Kojima House, a home that has been...
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7 months ago
Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of the Kojima House, a home that has been updated with an additional and a remodel. Located in Kentfield, California, the home boasts unobstructed views of San Francisco Bay, Kent-Woodlands Valley, and surrounding mountains....
TheCollector
The History of Tibet: The Truth Uncovered undefined
4 months ago
Alex MacCaw
The Illusion of Free Will One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the most difficult concepts to grasp is the idea that free will, the cornerstone of our human experience, might be nothing more than an illusion.
Rest of World -...
The capybara influencer revolt A wildlife influencer’s famous capybara was confiscated by Brazilian authorities. A mass movement...
a year ago
Liz Denys
One idle dreary day many years ago Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every time I come across this photograph on my computer, I am impressed by how simultaneously dull and sharp the sky was that day in San Francisco. When editing this photograph I took now about three and a half years ago, I only flattened the sky slightly and didn't touch up the...
The Ruffian
Five Myths About Trump Why We Keep Underestimating Him
11 months ago
Blog - Practical...
What Happens When a Reservoir Goes Dry? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2022, the level in Lake Mead, the largest water reservoir in the United States formed by the Hoover Dam, reached yet another all-time low of 175 feet or 53 meters below full, a level that hasn’t been...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Mystery of Penelope
4 months ago
Map of the Week
The Climate Impact of Your Neighborhood This latest New York Times interactive map shows how people who live closer in to city centers have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This latest New York Times interactive map shows how people who live closer in to city centers have a relatively small carbon footprint, while those who live further out have some of the largest footprints in the nation. While that may not be surprising by itself there are some...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Call for Entries: Finding Forte Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved. The call for entries is now open! Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
Maps Mania
Draw Your Neighborhood
a week ago
TheCollector
The First Provenance Research Head at the Met undefined
9 months ago
davidyat.es
Review: The Excavation of Hob's Barrow
a year ago
Passing Time
Fun, Fellowship, and Fractures On the downside of activity-based friendships
6 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Tasty Coffee by LINII Tasty Coffee is not only a production, but also an entire ecosystem for wholesale and retail...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Tasty Coffee is not only a production, but also an entire ecosystem for wholesale and retail clients, which includes a...
Open Culture
Jean-Paul Sartre Rejects the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1964: “It Was Monstrous!” In a 2013 blog post, the great Ursula K. Le Guin quotes a London Times Literary Supplement column by...
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4 months ago
In a 2013 blog post, the great Ursula K. Le Guin quotes a London Times Literary Supplement column by a “J.C.,” who satirically proposes the “Jean-Paul Sartre Prize for Prize Refusal.” “Writers all over Europe and America are turning down awards in the hope of being nominated for...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #192 Unpopular large companies, Dopamine culture, Buffett's cheapest stock, Investing in vertical SaaS,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Unpopular large companies, Dopamine culture, Buffett's cheapest stock, Investing in vertical SaaS, The bear case for China, Chris Davis, Michael Mauboussin
Chris Grossack's...
Talk -- What is Algebraic Geometry and Why Should You Care? So an embarrassing amount of time ago (Feburary 17?) I gave a talk for the undergraduate math club...
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a year ago
So an embarrassing amount of time ago (Feburary 17?) I gave a talk for the undergraduate math club titled “What is Algebraic Geometry, and Why Should You Care?”. I think it went quite well, and the audience seemed like they had a good time. I really wanted to have the talk...
Math Is Still...
The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Cell membranes from comb jellies reveal a new kind of adaptation to the deep sea: curvy lipids that conform to an ideal shape under pressure. The post The Cellular Secret to Resisting the Pressure of the Deep Sea first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Flashbak
Isaac Asimov’s Books of Dirty Limericks Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Isaac Asimov (c. January 2, 1920 – April 6, 1992) is remembered for his prolific science fiction writing, impressive ‘lamb chops’  – of which he said: “They became a permanent feature of my face, and it is now difficult to believe early photographs that show me without sideburns”...
Londonist
Things To Do This Easter Weekend In London: 29 March-1 April 2024 Our bumper events guide for the long weekend.
9 months ago
Articles - Alex...
The age of average In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market...
a year ago
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a year ago
In the early 1990s, two Russian artists named Vitaly Komar and Alexander Melamid hired a market research firm to survey the public on what they wanted in a work of art. Across 11 countries they then set about painting a piece that reflected the results. Each piece was...
bt RSS Feed
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles 2021-11-09 This website almost exclusively uses the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Modern Improvements for Default Browser Styles 2021-11-09 This website almost exclusively uses the browser’s (whichever one that might be) default styling to render it’s HTML. I firmly believe, and have stated in a previous post, that the default HTML styling across all browsers...
Noahpinion
Bank weakness is how our economy cools off Not polycrisis, but stabilization.
a year ago
On Test Automation
Security testing your APIs - Unrestricted Resource Consumption In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In this blog post series, I am going to explore the vulnerabilities in the OWASP API Security Top 10. For each entry, I’ll show you how to perform experiments on APIs to test for the vulnerability, and I’ll discuss my observations. I’ll use different APIs as test subjects in...
Sarah Parmenter
Salt of Southend “Salt seasons, it preserves, it improves. In Southend it’s in the air we breathe and it’s on the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Salt seasons, it preserves, it improves. In Southend it’s in the air we breathe and it’s on the best fish and chips in the country. The people featured in this book do the same thing; every day they get up, and improve the borough in their own special way.” Rich With Last year I...
The Honest Broker
Mainstream Is Now Fringe, and Fringe Is Mainstream The current state of media is total anarchy
5 days ago
Flashbak
Erich Sokol For Playboy : Beautiful Women And Desperate Men (NSFW) “Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a...
a month ago
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a month ago
“Modern art is what happens when painters stop looking at girls and persuade themselves they have a better idea.” – John Ciardi, American poet (24 June 1916 – 30 March 1986)     Erich Sokol (31 March 1933 – 20 February 2003) was an Austrian illustrator and caricaturist best known...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Working at a Startup From Series B to C Some careful thoughts from joining a startup from Series B to C.
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
The hard part first If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have...
a year ago
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a year ago
If you’re trying to reduce risk, do the hard part first. That way, if it fails, you’ll have minimized your time and effort. On the other hand, if you’re looking for buy-in and commitment so you can through the hard part, do it last. People are terrible at ignoring sunk costs, and...
Blog - Practical...
Why Are Rails Shaped Like That? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Maybe more than any other type...
a year ago
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a year ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Maybe more than any other type of infrastructure, railways have a contingent of devoted enthusiasts. “Railfans” as they call themselves; Or should say “ourselves”? Maybe it's the nostalgia of an earlier era or...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Revenue vs margin Three years ago, Fred Wilson wrote a great blog post called When Talking About Business Models,...
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over a year ago
Three years ago, Fred Wilson wrote a great blog post called When Talking About Business Models, Remember that Profits Equal Revenues Minus…
The American Scholar
“He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy appeared first...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “He Asked About the Quality” by C. P. Cavafy appeared first on The American Scholar.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Answers: How should physicians get paid? | Out-Of-Pocket What is a "fair amount" for a physician to get paid?
a year ago
TheCollector
The Infancy Gospel of Thomas & the Childhood of Jesus Christ undefined
a month ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Let the Other 95% of Great Programmers In
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
Fermat's principle I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was browsing around on the Internet and the physics geek in me started reading about Fermat's principle. And suddenly something came back to me that I've been trying to suppress for many years – how I never understood why there's anything fundamental about the principal of...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
England, Day 1 (Do-Over) This was the trip we wanted to take last summer before our plans abruptly changed. Instead we went...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This was the trip we wanted to take last summer before our plans abruptly changed. Instead we went to Costa Rica for reasons I talked about before, and all of us had a wonderful time. Even so, I still felt bad that the younger kid lost out on the original destination. He wanted...
Wanderingspace
OSIRIS-REX Leaves Bennu The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the near Earth asteroid Bennu after successfully executing a sample touchdown last fall. [LINK] The sampling of of the asteroid’s surface is shown above.
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
Hidden History
The Japanese Mafia and the Card Game of Koi-Koi The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
The card game of Koi-Koi is closely identified with the Japanese Mafia, known as Yakuza, which had its origin some 400 years ago in early attempts by the Shoguns to ban gambling and European playing cards. History When the Portuguese arrived in Japan in 1543, they established...
TheCollector
Sybil Ludington: The Girl Who Rode Twice As Far As Paul Revere? undefined
7 months ago
Elad Blog
Startup Markets, Summer 2022 Edition About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About a month ago, I wrote a tweet storm on the changing startup financing and employment environment. This blog captures aspects of that tweet storm and some of its predictions and extends them further. Like all predictions this is what I view as a highly likely scenario versus...
The Honest Broker
My Lost Gumby Essay Or how I overcame ontological horror with the help of a rubbery toy
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Sound and Place: Archinect's Summer Music Playlist to Keep You Moving “The interference patterns of visual, sonic, and kinetic waveform transmissions that flooded the...
a year ago
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a year ago
“The interference patterns of visual, sonic, and kinetic waveform transmissions that flooded the dance floor and enveloped me were deeply transformative. Along the perimeter, bass-bins sent out shock waves that rattled your ribcage and tweeter horns above them fired a percussive...
The Rational Walk
Free Articles! A selection of fifteen formerly paywalled articles
8 months ago
TheCollector
The MoMA Became the Latest Target of Climate Activists undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspiracy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Remember when conspiracy theories were all about who was doing it with Sasquatch? Today's News:
TheCollector
The Rise and Fall of Behaviorism: Are We More Than Machines? undefined
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
"Nokia, our platform is burning" The first iPhone shipped in 2007, and we still don't have a product that is close to their...
4 months ago
TheCollector
Who Was Jelly Roll Morton? Self-styled “Inventor” of Jazz undefined
a month ago
Arduino Blog
ardEEG is an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi shield for measuring biosignals The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The secrets to most of the mind’s mysteries may still elude us, but we’ve made a tremendous amount of progress in reading signals produced by the brain. We may not understand exactly what is going on, but we can see the result and utilize it. And now you can start...
Citation Needed
Issue 48 – Bitcoin has "no chance" of going to the moon Bitcoin ETF fakeouts, imaginary CEOs, and a bridge hack make for an eventful start to the new year.
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
Popular Chinese AI chatbots accused of unwanted sexual advances, misogyny Glow, known for its immersive role-play experience, lacks clear moderation rules.
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Barry Diller: Facebook is trying to "steal" Tinder's cofounder Their attempts to hire Sean away from us potentially indicate they believe something like Tinder...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Their attempts to hire Sean away from us potentially indicate they believe something like Tinder could be replicated by them. I’d like to avoid that, though I don’t know that FB itself makes it that much more likely to succeed than anyone else.
TheCollector
MFA Boston Returns a Looted Egyptian Coffin to Sweden undefined
8 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Magic of Compounding The magic of compounding was evident when I recently compared my lifetime gross wage income to my...
5 months ago
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The magic of compounding was evident when I recently compared my lifetime gross wage income to my current net worth.
Kevin Chen
Tearing down the Rewind app Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rewind is a Mac app that records your computer’s screen and audio, allowing the user to scroll through a timeline of past screen recordings. Rewind also recognizes text, including text in videos and Zoom calls, allowing the user to perform full-text search on anything that has...
Open Culture
Moebius Gives 18 Wisdom-Filled Tips to Aspiring Artists Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless...
3 months ago
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Jean Giraud, aka Moebius, was a comic book artist who combined blinding speed with boundless imagination. He shaped the look of Alien, Empire Strikes Back and The Fifth Element. He reimagined the Silver Surfer for Stan Lee. And he is an acknowledged influence on everyone from...
Overcoming Bias
Cultural Scenario Probabilities On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
On Oct 25 I posted on the rankings given by polls on 16 cultural drift scenarios re their relative likelihood, desirability, and ease of influence.
SatPost by Trung...
Gathering seeds My most popular posts and tweets for 1H 2023.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is misguided: We decided to assume that the…
xkcd.com
Ruling Out
a year ago
The Ruffian
How Did Politics Get So Weird? James Kanagasooriam Explains Everything
a week ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Gene Editing Chickens to Resist Bird Flu There are 33 billion chickens in the world, mostly domestic species raised for egg-laying or meat....
a year ago
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a year ago
There are 33 billion chickens in the world, mostly domestic species raised for egg-laying or meat. They are a high efficiency source of high quality protein. It’s the kind of thing we need to do if we want to feed 8 billion people. Similarly we have planted 4.62 billion acres of...
Joel Gascoigne
Expert of nothing * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most...
over a year ago
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * One of the most interesting and simultaneously challenging realizations I’ve had is that as a founder, especially the CEO, you essentially have chosen to never become an expert of anything. Oh,...
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Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
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What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
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The 2024 Kei-Truck Gardening Contest took place over the weekend. In what is perhaps the most-Japanese contest, professional gardeners and landscapers compete to create a beautiful, seasonal, and unique landscape , all within the bed of their kei-trucks. This contest originated...
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Twitter’s ongoing cruel treatment of software engineers Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon...
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Twitter has become the most toxic workplace amongst any major tech company in 2022. But why is Elon Musk treating developers in an unusually cruel way?
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Once I was complaining to Arun about how hard it is to come up with ideas, and he pointed out that coming up with ideas is actually very easy––what makes it hard is that we’re aiming for good ideas. The next time you're coming up with ideas, tell yourself, Forget about good...
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Stripe is Silently Recording Your Movements On its Customers' Websites Among startups and tech companies, Stripe seems to be the near-universal favorite for payment...
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Among startups and tech companies, Stripe seems to be the near-universal favorite for payment processing. When I needed paid subscription functionality for my new web app, Stripe felt like the natural choice. After integration, however, I discovered that Stripe’s official...
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Friendly doesn’t mean saying ‘yes’ all the time, or changing every policy, or giving up our principles. Friendly is how it feels, not what it does.
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Next we began our trek to Monteverde, into Costa Rica’s famed Cloud Forest. This is one of the nation’s smallest microclimates and one of its most intriguing. High in the mountains, a thick blanket of fog frequently envelopes the landscape and creates a gentile moisture. A steady...
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It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. How do I use bootstrapping to generate confidence intervals for a...
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Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a meltdown, and another exchange suffers a nine-figure hack.
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It gets pretty easy to idolize the superstars of tech. One of the coolest things we've learned is that many of the most successful founders will find…
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Placebos work and placebos spread. We’re wired to believe something, but the specifics of what we believe often come from other people. When there were a limited number of channels, mainstream ideas were the focus of our conversations, because the mainstream was all that was...
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Neuroscience research into people with aphantasia, who don’t experience mental imagery, is revealing how imagination works and demonstrating the sweeping variety in our subjective experiences. The post What Happens in a Mind That Can’t ‘See’ Mental Images first...
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The first step is to imagine what the people you serve want and care about it. The second is to figure out why they don’t have it yet. If you can help people get to where they seek to go, when they’re ready to get there, the stuff called marketing gets significantly easier.
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Is anyone having a good experience with this? What would it take to fix this? I investigate. First off, you need a business model that isn’t mobile gaming. A monthly fee. Even better, you have a great thing to “sin tax.” Single men. Charge men money per month. Only men. Every...
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Looking for the chance to live inside a piece of architectural history? Here are six London flats for sale within buildings that exemplify the best of British modernism, from the Barbican to Trellick Tower. The brains behind these sprawling estates and soaring blocks followed new...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Formula 1 is, by many accounts, the pinnacle of car racing. F1 cars are among the fastest in the world, particularly around the tight corners of the various paved tracks across the globe. Drivers can experience...
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There are a lot of companies pitching new kinds of wallets, with lots of ads - Ridge is one of the most famous. An option that never seems to come up in internet listicles but I’ve sworn by for years is the Hawbuck wallet. My personal preferences for this kind of thing...
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People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my best conversations were with people I had never heard of before they were effectively suggested by someone. Suggestions could be made here (in comments below), or on the subreddit, or...
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I vaguely know Fort Tilden – a former army base near the west end of the Rockaway peninsula – but its remote location and the lack of anything there that really interests me mean that I don’t know it particularly well. So the headline “Time to pay last respects to the abandoned...
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New Codes Could Make Quantum Computing 10 Times More Efficient Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting...
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Quantum computing is still really, really hard. But the rise of a powerful class of error-correcting codes suggests that the task might be slightly more feasible than many feared. The post New Codes Could Make Quantum Computing 10 Times More Efficient first appeared...
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Juniors are judged on effort, seniors are judged on outcomes. That’s a common and useful heuristic for evaluating employees. It neatly separates productivity from effectiveness, and places a premium on the latter. But the biggest benefit of this distinction ought to be of the...
Style over Substance
Using the Olympus XA as an everyday carry camera The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of...
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The Olympus XA has been my EDC camera this year and I gotta say – it’s a ton of fun. The concept of EDC – Every Day Carry – is that a piece of equipment should be light and compact enough to have with you every day, yet still versatile enough to be useful in […] The post Using...
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A reawakening of systems programming meetups This year has seen a resurgence in really high quality systems programming meetups. Munich...
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This year has seen a resurgence in really high quality systems programming meetups. Munich Database Meetup, Berlin Systems Group, SF Distributed Systems Meetup, NYC Systems, Bengaluru Systems, to name a few. This post summarizes a bit of disappointing recent tech meetup history,...
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I recently encountered a choice example of academic snobbery, the lording of a tenured professor over lecturers, adjuncts and even “mere assistant professors.” Normally the perpetrator tries to disguise his snottiness or treat it as a joke but in this case the prima donna was...
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To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the...
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Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the path they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable. The post To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past...
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Default to surrender AI chatbots highight a challenge that is worth understanding. It applies to customer service,...
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AI chatbots highight a challenge that is worth understanding. It applies to customer service, bureaucracies and teachers as well… If you ask an AI a question and it’s not confident in the answer, it should say, “I’m not sure.” That could be followed up with, “do you want me to...
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A write-ahead log is not a universal part of durability A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its...
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A database does not need a write-ahead log (WAL) to achieve durability. A database can write its long-term data structure durably to disk before returning to a client. Granted, this is a bad idea! And granted, a WAL is critical for durability by design in most databases. But I...
Christopher Butler
We Live in the Uncanny Valley Now Making virtual worlds can help us understand the real one, but they’re not places we can live...
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Making virtual worlds can help us understand the real one, but they’re not places we can live permanently. Terebithia, the imaginary world he and his friend Leslie create in the woods would have no meaning, no power, and no purpose. Theirs is a story about real children, in...
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Immigration and crime: Denmark Are immigrants overrepresented in crime? If so, which immigrants? And why?
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Boring rice cooker becomes uruchimai powerhouse Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable....
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Rice cookers are staple appliances in about half of the world and basic models are very affordable. But those are simple machines that are about as “dumb” as electric kettles. The result is often rice that has been sitting in the warming stage for too long, making the bottom...
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“To write well, all you have to do is cultivate your mind and then write what you see.” When I talk to people who have worked with their ideas seriously for 10+ years, it feels like I can throw any topic on them and they’ll have an interesting idea, or if not an idea so at least...
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How Eleven Madison Park survived the 2008 Global Recession ... and what this tells us about operating through the capital cycle.
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Testing and operating distributed systems I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally...
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I am excited to announce that the first edition of my book about distributed systems is finally complete! First things first, I have…
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Book review: Against the Grain, by James C. Scott The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C....
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The book that etched the deepest grooves in my mind last year was Against the Grain by James C. Scott. It explores how the unique characteristics of grain-based agriculture shaped the early history of states. While I did learn many interesting historical facts and trends from...
CONTEMPORIST
A House Designed Like Two Barns Beside Each Other Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that...
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Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that has a layout similar to two barns positioned side-by-side. The home has been designed to take advantage of the long and narrow lot, with the layout divided into two interconnected...
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One of the most fun weeks we've had so far with our UX - resizable and touch-enabled dashboards with a new display mode, Microsoft Teams support, and…
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April 1974 wasn't all about ABBA, it was also about the Wombles. Top 5 singles, week ending 27 April 1974 1) Seasons In The Sun (Terry Jacks) 2) Waterloo (Abba) 3) The Cat Crept In (Mud) 4) Remember You're A Womble (Wombles) 5) Angel Face (Glitter Band) As a nine year-old I was...
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Sunk deeply into the blues Sherwood Anderson was an important and influential writer, highly regarded for his seminal work...
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Sherwood Anderson was an important and influential writer, highly regarded for his seminal work Winesburg, Ohio, a collection of interrelated short stories that painted an intimate portrait of small-town America and had a lasting impact on American literature. By 1938, three...
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H22 – Perfume Bottle & Label Design Project Overview: This perfume design project for H22 was crafted to embody elegance...
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This story begins one day when I was assembling a map of the city of Edmonton, Alberta from OpenStreetMap data. It was going to be a big map, a 42″ (106 cm) wide poster for a wall. The data was good, but the standard OSM colours were not. They would work fine for a street …...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We had a thing with A City on Mars where a lot of people couldn't disagree without assuming Secret Motives. Today's News:
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So it has begun, the long road until christmas when we’re supposed to have a working warrior robot. We’re gonna do battle with infrared lasers instead of axes but it might be fun anyway. Luckily for me I’m responsible for software and nothing harder than that! w00p! We could...
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As a temporary pop-up space, under the current situation of the venue and budget constraints, we hope to create a...
Passing Time
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Stanley Kubrick’s Annotated Copy of Stephen King’s The Shining The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s...
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The web site Overlook Hotel has posted pictures of Stanley Kubrick’s personal copy of Stephen King’s novel The Shining. The book is filled with highlighted passages and largely illegible notes in the margin—tantalizing clues to Kubrick’s intentions for the movie. The site...
Ink & Switch
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“The typical path of how people respond to life-changing inventions I’ve never heard of it. I’ve heard of it but don’t understand it. I understand it, but I don’t see...
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I’ve never heard of it. I’ve heard of it but don’t understand it. I understand it, but I don’t see how it’s useful. I see how it could be…
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We have recently added some fantastic new books to the Handprinted shop and this one is no exception. Sarah Campbell's beautifully curated and inspirational book explores the art of painting and making patterns on fabric. Even just flicking through the pages of this book makes...
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If you go to hear Patti Smith in concert, you expect her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,” “Because the Night,” and almost certainly “People Have the Power,” the hit single from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Horses, that album had a cover photo by Robert...
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Add Netlify Identity Authentication to any React App in 5 minutes with React Context, Hooks and... Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to...
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Adding authentication is a pain point for many React beginners. We’ve made it ridiculously easy to add Netlify Identity onto any React app, including create-react-app, Gatsby, Next.js, or any other setup you may have, by wrapping it all into one simple React Hook! However, this...
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LLMs are good search helpers. Here’s three search tools I use every day. All of these use an AI to synthesize answers but also provide an essential feature: specific web search results for you to verify and further research. I use these for conversational inquiries in addition...
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I was in Portland, OR for a few days hanging out at OSCON. Was fun. I also talked a bit about Luigi: Next week I'm presenting at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup together with Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
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“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
Arduino Blog
This robotic kalimba plays melodies with an Arduino Nano With roots in Africa, the kalimba is a type of hand piano featuring an array of keys that are each...
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With roots in Africa, the kalimba is a type of hand piano featuring an array of keys that are each tuned for a specific note, and upon plucking or striking one, a pleasant xylophone-like sound can be heard. Taking inspiration from his mini kalimba, Axel from the YouTube channel...
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Travelling keeps me sane. It is only on this trip that I realised how much my brain craves being in some sort of engagement, and travelling is a way to keep it...
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My latest creation is a 3D-printed adapter for the Raleno PLV-S104 (Raleno 104) light. The model turns it into a lightbox that you can use for digital camera scanning of your negative film. It also contains a holder compatible with the Valoi 35mm/120 film carriers. Additionally,...
The Marginalian
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My Freedom of Speech WP Engine has filed hundreds pages of legal documents seeking an injunction against me and...
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WP Engine has filed hundreds pages of legal documents seeking an injunction against me and Automattic. They say this is about community or some nonsense, but if you look at the core, what they’re trying to do is ask a judge to curtail my First Amendment rights. The First...
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Almost one year after Oslo-based jewellery brand Tom Wood opened up shop in Tokyo, it has raised its profile once...
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Badass: Making Users Awesome by Kathy Sierra Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The...
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Overall, this was an interesting read, but I found it hard to apply the lessons to my product. The book contains compelling case studies and ideas from the field of meta-learning, but most of the ideas were either too theoretical or too specific to large companies.
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I reread books like Aharon Appelfeld's A Table for One and Anne Atik's How It Was as if returning to a particular bench with a view of the sea. On first glance A Table for One promises only banal, coffee-table memories and reflections, and that would be almost right: Real...
The American Scholar
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Gaffe” by C. K. Williams appeared first on The American Scholar.
Mazdak
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Tax season can be a daunting journey, with its intricate paths and hidden obstacles. For Canadian taxpayers, understanding the tax code and optimizing their financial position requires careful planning and informed decisions. This comprehensive guide equips you with the knowledge...
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Superloop 2 Yesterday's big reveal from would-be Mayor-to-be Sadiq was a major extension to the Superloop...
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Yesterday's big reveal from would-be Mayor-to-be Sadiq was a major extension to the Superloop express bus network. Phase 1 has ten routes and the plan is to add another ten and call it Superloop 2. There's a map and everything. The most important thing on the map is the box in...
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Good design requires persuasion. might be persuasive on its own; the notion that a thing “just works” implies that its function, however novel, is an intuitive leap from its form. This is what Apple is known for. Apple products are renowned for their simplicity, which is what...
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You might know, by now, of my views on ESG, which I have described as an empty acronym, born in sanctimony, nurtured in hypocrisy and sold with sophistry. My voyage with ESG began with curiosity in my 2019 exploration of what it purported to measure, turned to cynicism as the...
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… said the collector to the painter Jasper Johns. “Neither have I.” Watching is different than doing. Trying to do both at the same time is a challenge.
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I really don’t care how any given A/B test turns out. That’s right. Not one bit. But wait, how do I double or triple conversion rates without caring how a test performs? I actually care about the whole SYSTEM of testing. All the pieces need to fit together just right. If not,...
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In 1977, Phil Portus photographed life on the streets of Salford in Greater Manchester, England. A member of the Reflex photography group, led by documentarian Diane Bush, a young American established documentary photographer, Portus wanted to show the everyday things people...
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I wrote earlier this week about the latest successful test of Starship and the capture of the Super Heavy booster by grabbing arms of the landing tower. This was quite a feat, but it should not eclipse what was perhaps even bigger space news this week – the launch of NASAs...
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"Cultivating a questioning mind, of which conversation is the chief instrument, enriches our relationship with the world."
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LEGO’s minifigs are the perfect canvas for creativity, as their simple plastic forms provide enough constraint to force people to consider their art and design choices. That’s exactly the kind of pressure that Wicked Makers’ Jaimie and Jay thrive under, leading them to build this...
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Portions of this post previously appeared in War On the Rocks. Looking at a satellite image of Ukraine online I realized it was from Capella Space – one of our Hacking for Defense student teams who now has 7 satellites in orbit. National Security is Now Dependent on Commercial...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * It’s often interesting to look back and think about how much I’ve learned in the past year or two. Especially areas where I almost had no understanding at all. Company culture is one of those...
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Brengues Le Pavec architects have shared photos of a modern warehouse conversion they completed in the south of France, between Montpellier and the sea. The ‘Before’…the run-down warehouse, which was still being used to store products, was dark and filled with shelves. The...
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I just want you to see, I just want you to see Regardless of who wins on Tuesday, does anyone think this gets fixed? Is Kamala going to restore trust in government? Is Trump going to restore trust in government? Despite what Western media might have you believe about how the...
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by Daniela Kubesch In the fast-paced world of web development, it's easy to get caught up in the latest frameworks, libraries and cutting-edge technologies. But sometimes, the most impactful improvements come from revisiting the fundamentals. In this blog post, I'll guide you...
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Editor’s Note: This article ends on a cliffhanger. The next part goes out in a week. I will start with an honest admission. I didn’t set out to write about the world’s first app store. I set out to write about Brother printers. But
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Cartographers will often exaggerate the natural scale of a mapped feature to help it communicate something of its nature. Some examples are vertical exaggeration of terrain or the very existence of point symbols (cities aren’t actually that big). We embellish for effect. Making a...
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_This article was [published on Indie Hackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/article/jamstack-for-indie-hackers-b07f7a943d)!_
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First of all, I wanted to extend a huge and heartfelt thank you to all of the people who bought Logic for Programmers. Seeing the interest is incredible motivation to continue improving it. If you read it and have feedback, please share it with me! Second, I have a new blogpost...
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Thanks for the question. Navigating the crossroads of your budding tech career is no small feat, and the decision between […] The post Is coding bootcamp better than university? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you...
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Short Answer: DON’T DO IT. Long Answer: It’s a common problem. As you’re building a business you need to take […] The post Is it a bad idea if I build the MVP of my startup on my company’s pc? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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What's the most popular journey between tube stations? an FOI request published yesterday. The data is a) for journeys in the calendar year 2023 We have had similar spreadsheets before, but this is the first The most popular journey is from Liverpool Street to Tottenham...
Good Enough
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A body at rest tends to stay at rest, and a body in motion tends to stay in motion, unless acted on by a net external force. Sir Isaac Newton I often find that just getting started is the hardest part of doing something. This is especially true when the project is large or...
Melting Asphalt
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Time for my annual blogging review. And only 11 days late! I'll keep it brief. Blog stats I published a paltry six full essays this year. Don't get me wrong: I'm proud of them. But still, six. It would be… Read more ›
The Modern House
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Decorating a home is a substantial matter – quite literally. The materials we choose to live alongside inform our understanding and enjoyment of spaces, which is something we’re quite invested in. As such, we’ve got pretty good at seeing the wood from the trees. Here, […]
Stoic Simple
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Previous Next https://youtu.be/_W0xAHnxe6o Because suffering is an unavoidable part of the human experience and worries many of us, we can find many helpful quotes about it from the Stoics. Practicing Stoicism doesn't make us immune to pain, hardships and suffering . . . but it...
Seth's Blog
The swag is here To celebrate the new book, here are some limited edition swag options to benefit good causes and...
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To celebrate the new book, here are some limited edition swag options to benefit good causes and independent craftspeople. You can find them all at seths.store. I went to Brooklyn and worked with Dan at the Arm to create a set of five handmade letterpress posters. They’re 12...
Handprinted - Blog
Using a Thermal Screen to Print Festive Wrapping Printing your own bespoke wrapping paper or fabric can be very rewarding especially when the gift is...
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Printing your own bespoke wrapping paper or fabric can be very rewarding especially when the gift is for a loved one. This week we're printing our own kraft wrapping paper using a Thermal Screen.  Here at Handprinted we use a MiScreen Machine to make our Thermal Screens. You can...
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Weekend: Schedule for Week of December 15, 2024 Empire State manufacturing survey for December. The consensus is for a reading of 5.8, down from 31.2. Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 and DOW futures are mostly unchanged (fair value). WTI futures at $71.12 per...
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There is no one right way to make a map. Especially data-heavy thematic maps. In that spirit my friend and colleague Ken Field recently challenged Sarah Bell and I to each re-imagine a few wonderful classic maps. This is a tall order, but I found some comfort and encouragement...
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A Raspberry Pi is a great tool for any coder to have. It is a small, cheap computer that can be used for a variety of projects. This blog post will discuss some of the reasons why I think every coder should have one!
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This is the 11th and final post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better understanding. I concluded the previous post by explaining how Attention works. You can download the Excel sheet and Python code that explains how Attention from here and...
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Decisions should usually be made quickly, to accelerate action and learning. But sometimes it really is smarter to take your time. Here's how to decide.
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<![CDATA[In NoteCards, Text cards are rectangular windows with proportions similar to a post-it note. The Web card type of WebCard inherits from Text, including the default window size. Since a Web card needs only display a URL, the default shape leaves most of the text area...
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One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than to be good.” On an individual level, it’s almost certainly true that being very lucky outperforms being quite good: I certainly know a number of folks who are financially...
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The heating system in my apartment building consists of a group of heat pumps that deliver warm water to the underfloor heating system of about a dozen apartments, including mine. During the warm summer months, the system supplies cool water instead. The heat pumps figure out...
The Marginalian
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"We can never go back... We can go forward. We can find the love our hearts long for, but not until we let go grief about the love we lost long ago... All awakening to love is spiritual awakening."
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<p>blogstatic has been going well. Better than any other app I've ever ran. Not sure what it is. Could be that my experience over the years has caused for me to cover all the usual pitfalls, so everything looks good to the new client: from the marketing website all the way to the...
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So You Want To Do Robots: Part 8.    Learn why the world is a giant hairy ball of unobservable global state, how to log everything, and how to write robot code that doesn't make you gouge your eyes out when you look at it three days later.
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This is the keyboard layout I’m using for my custom keyboard that I generated, printed, and hand-wired. It’s a minimalistic keyboard of 35 keys and features an integrated trackball on the right-hand side. The keyboard layout started out as a direct copy of the T-34 keyboard...
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$.getJSON() is pretty handy for sending an AJAX request and getting back JSON data as a response. Alas, the jQuery documentation lacks a sister function that should be named $.postJSON(). Why not just use $.getJSON() and be done with it? Well, perhaps you want to send a large...
Londonist
Tempting New Afternoon Teas To Try In London Right Now: March 2024 Get booking for the newest afternoon tea menus in the capital.
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Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
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In the UK, you’re never more than 70 miles from the sea, but why put any distance between your home and the shifting shoreline? The pull of our luminous and varied coastline is undeniable, which is why we’ve found five homes a stone’s throw from […]
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Anecdotal Evidence
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"None can care for literature in itself who do not take a special pleasure in the sound of names; and there is no part of the world where nomenclature is so rich, poetical, humorous, and picturesque as the United States of America.”  Robert Louis Stevenson means place names. He’s...
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I recently listened to an episode of the Scriptnoes podcast interviewing Christopher Nolan, director of films such as The Dark Knight, Inception, and Oppenheimer. Generally, it’s fascinating look at the creative process. More specifically, I couldn’t help but see the parallels...
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More than ever, we’re pushed to have certainty. Strong opinions, tightly held and loudly proclaimed. And then, when reality intervenes, it can be stressful. The software stack, business model, career, candidate, policy, or even the social network habits that we had as part of our...
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