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Size markets using narratives, not numbers Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case...
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Anyone who has pitched VCs knows they are obsessed with market size.  If you can’t make the case that you’re addressing a possible billion…
CrimethInc.
Announcing The Beautiful Idea : A New Podcast Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media...
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Participants in CrimethInc. projects are collaborating with veterans of other anarchist media platforms on a new podcast, The Beautiful Idea, which will offer reporting and analysis of current events. The first episode of The Beautiful Idea has just been released! In their own...
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Introduction to MobX 4 for React/Redux Developers an introduction to mobx 4 for people coming from react and redux
over a year ago
Diaries of Note
The Pole at Last!!! Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Peary spent 23 years of his life preparing to achieve what had...
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Born in Pennsylvania in 1856, Robert Peary spent 23 years of his life preparing to achieve what had eluded explorers for centuries: reaching the North Pole. Driven by ambition and unwavering determination, Peary, an American explorer and United States Navy officer, believed he...
Classical Wisdom
Where did the time go? Important Notice
3 weeks ago
Notes on software...
Analyzing large JSON files via partial JSON parsing This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Random Ruby Tricks: Class.new
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Following Links I loved this post from Chris Enns (via Robb Knight) where he outlines the rabbit hole of links he...
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I loved this post from Chris Enns (via Robb Knight) where he outlines the rabbit hole of links he ventured down in writing that post. It felt fun and familiar, as that’s how my own browsing goes, e.g. “I saw X and I clicked it. Then I saw Y, so I clicked that. But then I went...
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway Acquires BHE Minority Interests Berkshire Hathaway has acquired the remaining minority interests in BHE from the Scott family and...
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Berkshire Hathaway has acquired the remaining minority interests in BHE from the Scott family and now is the sole owner of the energy company.
the jsomers.net blog
Most book clubs are doing it wrong The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk...
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The standard way to run a book club is to have everybody finish the book before meeting to talk about it. You have one meeting per book. The discussion goes on for one or two hours before it runs out of gas, and then the group picks the next book, and you agree to meet […]
Seth's Blog
The good news What if there were a pipeline into your day, a series of emails or posts or feeds that had nothing...
a year ago
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a year ago
What if there were a pipeline into your day, a series of emails or posts or feeds that had nothing but nice things, positive feedback and encouragement coming your way? Amazingly, you could build something like that in just a few minutes and have it forever. If the bad news...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Important Symbols in Alice in Wonderland? undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Ken Burns’ New Documentary on Leonardo da Vinci Streaming Online (in the US) for a Limited Time A quick heads up: The filmmaker Ken Burns has just released his new documentary on Leonardo da...
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A quick heads up: The filmmaker Ken Burns has just released his new documentary on Leonardo da Vinci. Running nearly four hours, the film offers what The New York Times calls a “thorough and engrossing biography” of the 15th-century polymath. Currently airing on PBS, the film can...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Dubious or Questionable Medium' In 1972, Daryl Hine, the editor of Poetry, requested poems “protesting the acceleration of the...
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In 1972, Daryl Hine, the editor of Poetry, requested poems “protesting the acceleration of the undeclared Indo-Chinese War” for a special issue to be published in September of that year. Hine said he would be “grateful to consider any poem on this terrible and topical subject...
Arduino Blog
How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
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The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
TheCollector
The Lost Cause Philosophy of the American Civil War: Fact vs. Fiction undefined
4 weeks ago
Blog - Practical...
HEAVY CONSTRUCTION of a Sewage Pump Station - Ep 4 This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's...
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This is the fourth episode of a five-part pilot series to gauge your interest in "How It's Made"-esque heavy construction videos. Drop a comment or send me an email to let me know what you think! Watch on YouTube above or ad-free on Nebula here.
Home on Erik...
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that...
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Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The end I will now close this journal. I’m optimistic about my recovery. It seems like a good time to end...
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I will now close this journal. I’m optimistic about my recovery. It seems like a good time to end this...
Citation Needed
Citation Needed has a new home Citation Needed is no longer hosted on Substack. Welcome to my antifascist bar.
11 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Summer job at Configura This is a wrap up of my 5 weeks at Configura as a summer internship. There were 6 interns and we had...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a wrap up of my 5 weeks at Configura as a summer internship. There were 6 interns and we had two teams doing different things. I worked with two other awesome guys and it was great! The Premise We had two assignments this summer. One was to create an optimized version of...
TheCollector
New Leonora Carrington Record Set at Sotheby’s undefined
7 months ago
Londonist
15 Delightful Day Trips From London: November 2023 Charming events within easy reach of London.
a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
How do wood finishes hold up? A quick 18-month experiment to shed light on traditional woodworking lore.
3 months ago
Julia Evans
Why pipes sometimes get "stuck": buffering Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood...
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Here’s a niche terminal problem that has bothered me for years but that I never really understood until a few weeks ago. Let’s say you’re running this command to watch for some specific output in a log file: tail -f /some/log/file | grep thing1 | grep thing2 If log lines are...
Vadim Kravcenko
Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and...
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Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and you’re not […] The post Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
A Smart Bear
You're a little company, now act like one You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the...
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You're afraid that looking like being a small company means you'll lose sales. It's actually the opposite -- you're alienating your best customers.
Maggie Appleton
Reverse Outlining with Language Models
a year ago
Stoic Simple
What Does Stoicism Teach About Money, Wealth & Poverty? Stoicism is a philosophical belief system that has been around since the ancient times. It aims to...
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Stoicism is a philosophical belief system that has been around since the ancient times. It aims to promote ethical living and personal fulfillment by closely examining one's values and beliefs. One area where Stoicism offers interesting insights is wealth and poverty. This...
TheCollector
What Is the Book of Galatians About? undefined
a month ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Rise from the deep A comic about Twitter. View on my website
over a year ago
Ink & Switch
Potluck: Dynamic documents as personal software Gradually enriching text documents into interactive applications
over a year ago
somenice
Whistler High Note Trail Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail...
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Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
a year ago
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ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
Aaron's Essays
Asking questions Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly...
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Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
fast.ai
AI and Power: The Ethical Challenges of Automation, Centralization, and Scale Moving AI ethics beyond explainability and fairness to empowerment and justice
a year ago
Diaries of Note
At dusk it takes on a life of its own Born in Keswick in 1905, Enid J. Wilson grew up surrounded by the majestic beauty of the Lake...
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Born in Keswick in 1905, Enid J. Wilson grew up surrounded by the majestic beauty of the Lake District. As the daughter of both a climber and a botanist, Enid developed a deep understanding and appreciation for the natural world. Her love for the environment, combined with her...
CONTEMPORIST
A Black Interior Gives This Apartment A Dark And Dramatic Appearance Architecture and interior design firm RA!, has shared photos of an apartment they recently completed...
11 months ago
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Architecture and interior design firm RA!, has shared photos of an apartment they recently completed in Mexico that features a monochromatic interior. The 861 square foot (80m2) apartment heavily features black and grey throughout its interior, with the walls showcasing a mixture...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 055: Race conditions February 23, 2023.
10 months ago
Josh Collinsworth
Building accessible toggle buttons (with examples for Svelte, Vue, and React) Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them...
over a year ago
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Toggle buttons might be the biggest missing native HTML element. This post will help you code them right, for all users, in any (or no) framework.
One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
How Engineers at Digital Equipment Corp. Saved Ethernet I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The...
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I’ve enjoyed reading magazine articles about Ethernet’s 50th anniversary, including one in the The Institute. Invented by computer scientists Robert Metcalfe and David Boggs, Ethernet has been extraordinarily impactful. Metcalfe, an IEEE Fellow, received the 1996 IEEE Medal of...
TheCollector
New Exhibition Examines Rembrandt’s Relationship with Star Pupil undefined
2 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Complex numbers and conformal mapping This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces...
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This explains the geometry of complex numbers. Explains conformal transformations, introduces analytic functions, and shows that analytic complex functions are conformal. And using the connection between the geometry and the analysis explains it all in just some five minutes.
Essays - Benedict...
The problem of AI ethics, and laws about AI Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used...
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Should you try to write laws, or lay down ethical principles, about a technology that will be used in entirely different ways, for different purposes, in different industries? How about if it’s changing entirely every 18 months?
Rozado’s Visual...
Excess mortality during COVID pandemic, % of population vaccinated and Stringency Index of... Please be mindful of potential confounds: population density, population behavior, virus virulence...
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'All These Jolts of Beauty' Once I interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom from an oak tree...
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Once I interviewed a mycologist who, before his lecture, removed a yellow mushroom from an oak tree in front of the hall where he was speaking and munched on it while he spoke. A few years later the writer Paul Metcalf, author of Genoa (1965), swore me to secrecy before revealing...
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Washington, D.C. is Leading the Way in Accessible Travel
a year ago
On Life and Lisp
Vulkan 1.4 sur Asahi Linux English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique...
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English version follows. Aujourd’hui, Khronos Group a sorti la spécification 1.4 de l’API graphique standard Vulkan. Le projet Asahi Linux est fier d’annoncer le premier pilote Vulkan 1.4 pour le matériel d’Apple. En effet, notre pilote graphique Honeykrisp est reconnu par...
African History...
On Hegel's ignorance of African History *my article for ROAPE journal
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Nick Drake at Age 75 On a milestone birthday, I revisit a singer-songwriter nobody ever really knew
a year ago
AI Snake Oil
ChatGPT is a bullshit generator. But it can still be amazingly useful The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without...
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The philosopher Harry Frankfurt defined bullshit as speech that is intended to persuade without regard for the truth. By this measure, OpenAI’s new chatbot ChatGPT is the greatest bullshitter ever. Large Language Models (LLMs) are trained to produce
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Graduated It seemed like just yesterday that Twelve Mile Circle chronicled the kid who designed an imaginary...
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It seemed like just yesterday that Twelve Mile Circle chronicled the kid who designed an imaginary town and counted various forms of transportation. Now my elementary aged student is all grown up, a newly-minted university graduate. Those interceding years passed much more...
TheCollector
What Is an Existential Crisis? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
The Life of St. Francis of Assisi: Patron of Animals undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
The Rise of Francisco Franco & the Effects of the Spanish Civil War undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Watch The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, the Influential German Expressionist Horror Film (1920) In early 1920, posters began appearing all over Berlin with a hypnotic spiral and the mysterious...
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In early 1920, posters began appearing all over Berlin with a hypnotic spiral and the mysterious command Du musst Caligari werden — “You must become Caligari.” The posters were part of an innovative advertising campaign for an upcoming movie by Robert Wiene called The Cabinet of...
Essays - Benedict...
Competing in search A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in...
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A quarter century after 'don't be evil', a judge has found that Google is abusing its monopoly in search. But no-one knows what happens next, and whether this ruling will change anything. Will Apple build a search engine? Will ChatGPT change search? Does it matter?
CONTEMPORIST
A Large Sliding Window Offers A Look Inside This Nature-Inspired Store Design Architecture and interiors firm MRDK have designed a modern retail store in Montreal, Canada, for...
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Architecture and interiors firm MRDK have designed a modern retail store in Montreal, Canada, for Attitude, a company that specializes in plastic-free beauty products. The design of the space reflects their commitment to sustainability and a connection to nature, which is visible...
Retail Design Blog
Zhicang Coffee by MOS Wood & Stone Design Zhichang Coffee is located on Mihe Farm, within the site of the Weiyang Palace of Han Chang’an City,...
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Zhichang Coffee is located on Mihe Farm, within the site of the Weiyang Palace of Han Chang’an City, outside the...
Spoon & Tamago
Discarded Tatami Mats are Reborn as Contemporary Furniture Tatami mats are traditional Japanese flooring made from sewn-together igusa grass. But despite their...
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Tatami mats are traditional Japanese flooring made from sewn-together igusa grass. But despite their lovely aroma and natural resistance to mold, their usage has consistently declined as modern consumers opt for more contemporary living choices. The Tatami ReFab Project is an...
Retail Design Blog
PORTOS office by CAPEXUS The law firm PORTOS, located on the 26th and 25th floors of the tallest building in Prague, has...
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The law firm PORTOS, located on the 26th and 25th floors of the tallest building in Prague, has recently opened...
Posts on Made of...
Regular Expression Search with Suffix Arrays Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had...
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Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index. By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I...
The Ruffian
Am I Anti-Woke? Self-Reflection Inspired by Nick Cave, Plus a Taxonomy of Woke, Plus Rattle Bag
8 months ago
Wanderingspace
Eclipse 2024 from Space https://twitter.com/ThePlanetaryGuy
8 months ago
Common Edge
Election 2024: Revisiting the Duck and the Decorated Shed How the Statue of Liberty and the Hollywood Sign frame the nation’s inherent tensions.
3 months ago
Math Is Still...
How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? Exposure to a virus isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. The concept of “infectious dose” suggests...
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Exposure to a virus isn’t an all-or-nothing proposition. The concept of “infectious dose” suggests ways to keep ourselves safer from harm. The post How Many Microbes Does It Take to Make You Sick? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Notes on software...
How do databases execute expressions? Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not...
a year ago
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a year ago
Databases are fun. They sit at the confluence of Computer Science topics that might otherwise not seem practical in life as a developer. For example, every database with a query language is also a programming language implementation of some caliber. That doesn't include all...
The Modern House
The 'sculptural experience' of designer Ashley Law’s uniquely tactile cottage in Whitechapel
8 months ago
Archinect - Features
'Starting a Successful Woman-Owned Business in a Heavily Male-Dominated Industry Is No Joke':... In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with Allison Bryan, Founding...
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In this episode of our Studio Snapshot series, Archinect connected with Allison Bryan, Founding Principal of multi-disciplinary design practice Open Studio Collective, based in Bozeman, Montana, and Ojai, California. Trained in both graphic design and architecture, Bryan talks...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How to increase test coverage FAST The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to...
over a year ago
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The second quarter is coming to an end. I suppose a lot of my fellow developers are struggling to meet their ambitious KPI of "20% more test coverage". Fear not — I'll show you a couple of neat tricks that will up your coverage game in no time, so that you can go on with your...
Moneyness
Are the sanctions on Russia working? I very much enjoy economist Robin Brooks's tweets, especially his charts showing how sanctions...
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I very much enjoy economist Robin Brooks's tweets, especially his charts showing how sanctions imposed on Russia have affected regional trade patterns. While direct trade between Europe and Russia has collapsed thanks to Russia's invasion of Ukraine and subsequent sanctions, the...
Jonas Hietala
Up like a Sun, Down like a Pancake I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But it just don’t feel right to me. I’m not prepared, I feel a little bit stressed and I don’t really have faith in my game so I’m gonna step down this one as well. But it’s fine, Ludum...
Atoms vs Bits
Don't Meet Me In The Middle Against journey centerism
2 months ago
Stoic Simple
What Does it Mean to be a Stoic? Using Christianity to Explain Stoicism by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a...
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by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a quasi-parallel to help answer this question. What does it mean to be a Christian? I think the base-line of the faith is the belief that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.  In Stoicism that...
TheCollector
4 Great Films About the Troubles and Irish Independence undefined
a month ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Travel by Sea With Luxury, Sustainability, and Adventure
3 months ago
Infinite Scroll
Infinite Scroll x GiveDirectly Read to the end for an AI cokehead
2 weeks ago
TheCollector
New Roman Frescoes Discovered at Pompeii undefined
8 months ago
Data Boutique
Generic data marketplaces are broken Misaligned interests and lack of value are the cause
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Cultural Vacation in Monaco
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
Amazon launched a program for Indian handicrafts. Local artisans say it’s not working Makers say Amazon Karigar has failed to distinguish their crafts from mass-produced items.
a month ago
Rest of World -...
The ByteDance streaming app that’s quietly going global Resso could give Spotify a run for its money.
a year ago
xkcd.com
Commemorative Plaque
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Man and superman There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The...
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There are two broad philosophical approaches to explaining the forces that drive world events. The first one is sometimes called the Great…
Common Edge
Developers Are Dangerously in Control of New York City Urbanist Roberta Brandes Gratz’s remarks on receiving the Preservation Leadership Award.
8 months ago
Home on Erik...
What I have been working on: Modal Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
TheCollector
Symbolism & Identity in Elizabeth I’s Portraits: Decoding the Queen undefined
2 weeks ago
Londonist
Where To Be Scottish In London Kilty pleasures
a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Mars Chopper Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a week ago
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. ICRA 2025: 19–23 May 2025, ATLANTA,...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Disagree
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
Marine Ecology or Marine Biology….what’s the difference!?!?!? A few of you may be wondering why the blog is called ‘Confessions of a Marine Ecologist” and not...
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over a year ago
A few of you may be wondering why the blog is called ‘Confessions of a Marine Ecologist” and not ‘Confessions of a Marine Biologist”.  After all, if you ask a group of school kids what they want to be when they grow up, more than a handful would happily answer “marine biologist”,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Away Just Updated its Classic Suitcases With a New Design
a year ago
SOCKS
Michelangelo Caetani’s Six Topographic Maps of the Divine Comedy As a follow up to the latest post on Norman Bel Geddes’s stage set design for Dante Alighieri’s...
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As a follow up to the latest post on Norman Bel Geddes’s stage set design for Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, here we feature the six maps drawn by Michelangelo Caetani in a book titled La materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri dichiarata in VI tavole, Roma (1855). A...
Blog posts of...
How global media communication changes in a transparent world These are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
These are crowdaggregated pictures from Syria (across basically all social media channels). No media publisher inbetween. Authenti...
Trying to Understand...
One Way Or Another .... We're going to get you.
a year ago
somethingaboutmaps
Simple Oblique Views in Blender While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While many people use my Blender shaded relief tutorial, and associate me with the software, I’m really not much of a 3D cartographer. I make oblique-view maps only rarely, and when I do, it’s usually in a simplified, abstract style, rather than the detailed, naturalistic...
David Heinemeier...
Turns out nobody cared about panel gaps One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the most fascinating aspects of Tesla's rise to dominance has been how they discarded many of the traditional values of car making. While the rest of the industry was stuck competing on the size of their panel gaps, and other aspects of precision and quality assembly,...
nanoscale views
Some recent papers of interest A couple of recent papers that seem interesting and I need to read more closely: This paper in...
a year ago
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a year ago
A couple of recent papers that seem interesting and I need to read more closely: This paper in Nature, a collaboration between folks at Ohio University and Argonne, is a neat combination of scanning tunneling microscopy and (synchrotron-enabled) resonant x-ray absorption.  The...
TheCollector
Beer Can Art Accidentally Trashed at Dutch Museum undefined
2 months ago
Making software...
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard "go-to" for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 May 11 - May 19 SimPocalypse Our older kiddo has been playing SimCity — the first version. I’ve always...
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SimPocalypse Our older kiddo has been playing SimCity — the first version. I’ve always preferred the simplicity of its symbolic graphics. I remember when SimCity 2000 came out and, despite all its upgrades, I still played the old version. Same thing for Civilization, and...
👋 Hello, I'm...
The real reasons why your boss wants you back in the office
a year ago
Blog - Mac Pierce
Sending a signal - DOGMAS, a project because of the RP2040 How and why I built the DOGMAS project, a self contained Morse code reader in the form of a...
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Facts about the Moon: Dorianne Laux’s Stunning Poem about Bearing Our Human Losses When Even the... “Hearing the rising tide,” Rachel Carson wrote in her poetic meditation on the ocean and the meaning...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
“Hearing the rising tide,” Rachel Carson wrote in her poetic meditation on the ocean and the meaning of life, “there are echoes of past and future: of the flow of time, obliterating yet containing all that has gone before… of the stream of life, flowing as inexorably as any ocean...
mtlynch.io
Outliers by Malcolm Gladwell Like all Gladwell books, Outliers does an excellent job of building an engaging narrative out of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Like all Gladwell books, Outliers does an excellent job of building an engaging narrative out of topics that the average person might otherwise find inaccessible. His exploration into the causes of airline crashes was especially fascinating. While it provides a nice collection of...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup What if Aristotle ran Amazon?
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Predation of juvenile reef fish in coral patches at Ningaloo Reef The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!  In fact, it was the first paper I was a co-author on, after linking up with the Department of Environment and Conservation through an ANNiMS internship program.  The paper was...
ntietz.com blog
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There are some examples of scientific progress that just seem so far above and beyond the norm, it's almost jaw dropping in terms of the mental leap needed for the insight.  One example that I always liked to point out to first-year undergrads learning about gravity is Johannes...
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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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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...
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Measure CO2, temperature, humidity and send that data to the cloud, while displaying results on an 2.9″ e-ink display. My first choice was to use the display vertically. It feels a bit less like a price tag in this orientation. This past August 18th marked CircuitPython day, a...
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To calculate the amount of carbon stored inside peatlands, researchers developed a unified theory of “bog physics” applicable around the world. The post Simple Equation Predicts the Shapes of Carbon-Capturing Wetlands first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Supposedly Albert Einstein called compounding the 8th wonder of the world. Certainly the wonder of compound annual growth rates is something I feel quite viscerally, the more so with each month that I track my portfolio. But I’ve been struck recently by a radical improvement in...
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I haven’t done much blogging or game programming in a while but instead I’ve finished some school stuff. We completed the assembly course labs, which were pretty fun actually, and I managed to finally complete the electronics course I’ve been holding off on for like forever… But...
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Today we did a research launch of DALL•E 2, a new AI tool that can create and edit images from natural language instructions.  Most importantly, we hope people love the tool and find it useful. For me, it’s the most delightful thing to play with we’ve created so far. I find it to...
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So you've thrown yourself into the modern dating pool, eh? You brave, brave soul. Look, I know meeting new people, going on dates, figuring out if you even like the person sitting across from you—it can all be confusing, frustrating, and just exhausting at times. But before you...
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I used to have a newsletter with the pitch, “3 Ideas That Can Change Your Life.” For years, I sent out emails in that format: three ideas—one, two, three—thank you, drive through. News flash: I've got a new weekly newsletter now called The Breakthrough where I send out ideas and...
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While working on a project where I was putting a lot of data into a HashMap, I started to notice my hashmaps were taking up a lot of RAM. I mean, a lot of RAM. I did a back of the napkin calculation for what the minimum memory usage should be, and I was getting more than twice...
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A few weeks ago, my friend Asad asked me how I was feeling about chatGPT. I’ve talked about it before but given how fast the landscape is changing, I want to expand further: How I feel about chatGPT is complicated. The short answer is: From a business and writing point of view,...
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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...
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The Jupyter+git problem is now solved Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the...
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Previously, using git with Jupyter could create conflicts and break notebooks. With nbdev2, the problem has been totally solved.
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Ahoy there! This time I’ll take you along for a ride with an arty Tycoon game. Jonas IceCream Stand Instructions It should be pretty self-explanatory, it’s a very simply tycoon game. Credits Music: Eric Maskol Steve Chatterton Sound effects: freesound Rest: Me
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If a placebo heals your illness, does that mean it was all in your head in the first place? That you weren’t really sick, or didn’t really want to get better? If expensive wine tastes better to you, but you can’t tell wine apart in a double-blind taste test, does that mean it...
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'A Master of Light But Stinging Irony' I bought Vikram Seth’s novel-in-verse The Golden Gate when it was published in 1986. Around that...
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I bought Vikram Seth’s novel-in-verse The Golden Gate when it was published in 1986. Around that time I was giving up the practice of writing in books, which had always left me a little uncomfortable. Instead, I switched to keeping notebooks. In The Golden Gate I see that I...
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Nick Morley, aka Linocutboy, is an artist, illustrator, author and educator specialising in linocut. His prints have been bought by people all over the world and his illustrations have appeared on book covers and in magazines. Nick teaches regular linocut workshops at Hello Print...
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31 unblogged things I did in October Tue 1: Two new developments in Barking & Dagenham are over-egging transport links in their roadside marketing. Barking Riverside says 'Perfectly connected' when the reality is a half-hourly boat, a train to Barking or non-express buses....
Noahpinion
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Seth's Blog
Dreams, plans and contradictions Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen....
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Dreams are fine. And dreams involve contradictions. We want this AND that, but both can’t happen. That’s what keeps them from being plans. Plans embrace boundaries and reality, they don’t ignore them. Plans thrive on scarcity and constraints. Plans are open for inspection, and a...
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Interpreting TypeScript In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript...
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In addition to providing a static type system and compiler for a superset of JavaScript, TypeScript makes much of its functionality available programmatically. In this post we'll use the TypeScript compiler API to build an interpreter. We'll build off of a...
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Situated Software Written by Clay Shirky First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and...
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Written by Clay Shirky First published March 30, 2004 on the "Networks, Economics, and Culture" mailing list. Subscribe to the mailing list. I teach at NYU's Interactive Telecommunications Program (ITP), where the student population is about evenly divided between...
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Cover letters in the era of ChatGPT At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a...
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At first glance, ChatGPT seems like it is a powerful tool for writing a custom cover letter for a job (when I saw cover letter, these days this often refers to the body of an email or the text someone puts into a “message” field of an application form). For instance, I was able...
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Guide to faculty searches, 2024 edition As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing...
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As you can tell from my posting frequency lately, I have been unusually busy.  I hope to be writing about more condensed matter and nano science soon.   In the meantime, I realized that I have not re-posted or updated my primer on how tenure-track faculty searches work in physics...
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Exploring the tension between order and disorder When Kurasu, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto, entered Indonesia, its first home...
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Stop trying to build the next unicorn So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy...
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So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy office building out in the valley? That's cool. By the same odds we'll both be rich, because I'm holding tonight's winning lotto ticket. Your idea probably won't be the next big thing...
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Bouldering My first introduction to bouldering was in 2017, in DUMBO:
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Migrating a Create React App project to Vite Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It...
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Create React App (CRA) provides an all-in-one development toolchain for your React applications. It is great for beginners, as you don't need to care about configuring your toolset. However, I've encountered more and more limitations without "ejecting", mostly due to the...
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Brass-Lined Arches Connect The Kitchen With The Dining Room Inside This Home Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with...
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Architecture and art studio Svima has shared photos of a kitchen and living room they updated, with the kitchen featuring brass design accents. Their clients, a Toronto couple, has opposite tastes: he is an enthusiast of tenebrous minimalism, and she is a lover of bright French...
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Going through my old school papers I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014. When I was done, I had six plastic...
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I left school in 2011, and I graduated from university in 2014. When I was done, I had six plastic crates full of paper – exercise books, worksheets, school newsletters – everything I’d accumulated over nearly two decades of education. It was a lot. 🤯 I’m trying to reduce this...
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<![CDATA[Although online access to Medley Interlisp is convenient and prebuilt binaries are available for all major operating system, it's also possible to compile it from source. I first built Medley from source when I wanted to run it on my Raspberry Pi 400 and no ARM64...
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Dijkstra's Algorithm For rust, I’m updating the documentation for the standard library and specifically with the...
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For rust, I’m updating the documentation for the standard library and specifically with the collections. For the priority queue I had the idea to use Dijkstra’s algorithm as a fun example. That idea was well received and that example is now live. At first I wanted to use A* to...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Something I’ve been thinking about a lot recently is the idea of simply trying harder with everything I choose to spend my time on. It seems like an elusive thing, the idea of optimal focus and...
99% Invisible
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A few years back, journalist Lauren Ober was diagnosed with autism. She then made a podcast about her experience called The Loudest Girl in the World. And she found herself imagining a fantasy world where everything is tailored to Lauren’s very specific autistic needs. And she...
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Steve Job's passing has led to a huge wave of press coverage of Apple's and iPhone's "superiority", all created by the, "passionate, tireless, perfectionist..." The point here is that there is an unintended benefit for Apple, since the external messages by 3rd parties are all...
Seth's Blog
The challenge of “a risky scheme” New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it...
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New ideas aren’t adopted all at once. A few people go first while the rest of us watch to see how it goes. “Look, Mikey, he likes it!” This is the story of tech innovations, dance crazes and even food. Ideas spread horizontally, and people who prefer the status quo will embrace...
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Which is a better choice, Rust or Go? Which language should you choose for your next project, and why? How do the two compare in areas like performance, simplicity, safety, features, scale, and concurrency?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
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Are you a TypeScript user? Your initial reaction may be a resounding “Yes!” Or perhaps be a booming “No!” The answer seems simple, but (as with most things) it might be more nuanced than you think. Here’s Anders Hejlsberg, TypeScript Co-Creator & Lead Architech, from the...
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Scripting is configuration. Configuration is scripting. TJ DeVries A different take on editing code I’ve been using Neovim since it forked from Vim almost 8 years ago, and I used Vim many years before that. I feel quite comfortable with Neovim, and I’ve gone down the...
The Honest Broker
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Continuing my discussion (part 1 is here) of London’s maybe-first skyscraper, the Adelaide House, let’s talk about structure. There’s a big difference between trying to build the first skyscraper in your city in the 1870s or 80s or 90s (depending on how you want to define...
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Consider the data product The advice might seem dated these days, but I think the stair step approach to bootstrapping is...
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The advice might seem dated these days, but I think the stair step approach to bootstrapping is evergreen: It’s much easier to sell an add-on to an existing ecosystem like a WordPress plugin, a Shopify app, a Heroku add-on – they’re usually small things to build, relatively...
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Thoreau’s Pencils How might a newly discovered The post Thoreau’s Pencils appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Big picture time – as I have discussed before, we have just passed 8 billion people on this planet and will likely top 10 billion before populations stabilize (which is quite possible, but that’s another story).  What this means is that anything we collectively do is big. It...
99% Invisible
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This is the fourth official episode of our ongoing series breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. This week, Roman and Elliott also sit down with Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, the U.S. representative for New York’s 14th...
Old Structures...
Wrong But Impressive I’m generally anti-graffiti. If the graffiti itself doesn’t cause permanent damage to the wall it’s...
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I’m generally anti-graffiti. If the graffiti itself doesn’t cause permanent damage to the wall it’s on, the cleaning probably will; the content generally ranges from idiotic (here’s my name – isn’t it impressive?) to puerile (pictures of genitalia being the most common); and it’s...
Old Structures...
It Seemed Like A Good Idea At The Time Some current news: various books from the nineteenth century are being taken off library shelves...
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Some current news: various books from the nineteenth century are being taken off library shelves because their covers and/or page edges contain poisonous dyes, as described in “That book is poison: Even more Victorian covers found to contain toxic dyes” by Jennifer Ouellette. The...
The Convivial...
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Water, not lithium, is the resource Latin America should worry about The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without...
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The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without the most important resource of them all.
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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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...
Seth's Blog
The thing about decay One reason we have so much trouble fixing chronic degenerative conditions is that we need to remove...
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One reason we have so much trouble fixing chronic degenerative conditions is that we need to remove elements before we can start building new functions. If we simply put effort on top of a shaky foundation, it’ll all be wasted. The best way forward might be to take a few steps...
Inverted Passion
Games are problems people pay to solve Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me...
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Good definitions are powerful. Lately, while reading The Art of Game Design, it became clear to me that the author’s definition of games makes a lot of sense. He defines games as problems that people pay to solve with either their time or money. Unlike movies or books, games are...
devonzuegel.com
Property values should be normalized by acre In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without...
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In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without considering the costs it adds to the city's budget. This is like measuring how far a car can drive without considering how much gas it uses to get there. Different properties...
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None of what I write in this newsletter is about sowing doubt or "hating," but a sober evaluation of where we are today and where we may end up on the current path. I believe that the artificial intelligence boom — which would be better described as a
The Marginalian
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The most discomposing thing about people capable of monstrous acts is that they too enjoy art, they too read to their children, they too can be moved to tears by music. The dissident poet Joseph Brodsky captured this as he contemplated the greatest antidote to evil, observing...
IEEE Spectrum
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When we think of grasping robots, we think of manipulators of some sort on the ends of arms of some sort. Because of course we do—that’s how (most of us) are built, and that’s the mindset with which we have consequently optimized the world around us. But one of the great things...
TheCollector
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Seth's Blog
With the sound off If you’re watching a YouTube clip or a talking head, you can probably tell whether or not you...
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If you’re watching a YouTube clip or a talking head, you can probably tell whether or not you disagree with someone even with the sound off. And we judge a book or an article on the layout and appearance long before we’ve read all the words. Human beings invented symbolic logic...
The Modern House
Nice Modernism: introducing the friendly face of modernist architecture After almost a hundred years of modernist architecture, the writer and critic Alan Powers argues...
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After almost a hundred years of modernist architecture, the writer and critic Alan Powers argues that the canon is ripe for reappraisal. Here, he makes the case for “Nice Modernism” – an altogether gentler strand of architecture that emerged in the 1930s and is typified […]
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
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Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
Old Vintage...
Adding a cooling fan to the Commodore 128DCR Call it a "refurb weekend sequel" to our previous work on my beloved Commodore 128DCR. It's been a...
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Call it a "refurb weekend sequel" to our previous work on my beloved Commodore 128DCR. It's been a hot, horrid summer in Floodgap Very Sub-Orbital Headquarters and I was somewhat concerned about the heat in the house computer lab even with the A/C cranked up to "Vegas weekend for...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Asia-Pacific, Part 5 (Japan: Farther Afield) Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans...
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Monday arrived and I had to get back to work. A weekend in Tokyo was nice although I had other plans and that involved getting out of the city. After all, the whole premise for this trip was visiting U.S. military facilities USS Blue Ridge The 7th Fleet of the United States Navy...
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Mindshare 🧠 The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Replicant Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Inside though, the human is thinking how it still...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Inside though, the human is thinking how it still beats a real job. Today's News:
I Have No Idea What...
The Problem With Slack In deciding what startup to start, I’ve been thinking about what problem space I want to tackle. An...
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In deciding what startup to start, I’ve been thinking about what problem space I want to tackle. An area that’s drawing my attention is team communication and collaboration, especially for knowledge workers. This is for several reasons: With the trend towards distributed/hybrid...
Dreams of Space -...
The Solar System Pop-up Book (1978?) My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I...
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My first Greek space book. This is a fun pop-up book I found recently. It is pretty basic but I really like space pop-up books for their design and impact. Adelva. The Solar System Pop-up Book. Greece: Dotam International. 12 pp. 1978
A Beautiful Site
Parsing a JSON string results in an 'Invalid Label' error Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred...
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Whenever I work with AJAX, jQuery is my preferred JavaScript library and PHP is my preferred server-side language. I use JSON whenever I can to pass data between JavaScript and PHP. After all, $.get and $.post both process JSON easily, so it's my data type of choice. Sometimes,...
Noahpinion
Strategies to secure America's supply chains A guest post by Yann Calvó López and Ben Golub.
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The American Scholar
Bitten The post Bitten appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Retail Design Blog
Deliveroo Offices by Oktra Oktra redesigned Deliveroo’s office space at The River Building in London to integrate two floors,...
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Oktra redesigned Deliveroo’s office space at The River Building in London to integrate two floors, increase meeting rooms, and create...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
How I made banditypes, the smallest TS validation library I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit...
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I open-sourced banditypes — the smallest runtime validation library for TS / JS. It manages to fit all the basic functionality into an astounding 400 bytes. For reference, the popular zod and yup libraries are around 11KB, superstruct measures 1.8KB for the same set of...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Lessons learned porting 50k loc from Java to Go I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for...
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I was contracted to port a large Java code base to Go. The code in question is a Java client for RavenDB, a NoSQL JSON document database. Code with tests was around 50 thousand lines. The result of the port is a Go client. This article describes what I’ve learn in the...
Flashbak
László Moholy-Nagy: Art from the Epoch of the Modernist Experiment László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and...
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László Moholy-Nagy (July 20, 1895 – November 24, 1946) was a Jewish Hungarian poet, painter and photographer before he became the major proselytiser of the new avant-garde vision at the Bauhaus school, where has taught as a professor and succeeded is working across disciplines.  ...
Willem's Blog
I see dead people This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old...
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This may be Apple Vision Pro's killer feature, enabling you to see dead people: augmenting old photos into lifelike representations.
Londonist
"Displeasing And Absurd": A Hatchet Job Review Of A Christmas Carol From 1843 There's always one.
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, PPI, Q3 Flow of Funds Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for 220 thousand initial claims, up from 213 thousand last week. Producer Price Index for November from the BLS. The...
Posts on Made of...
wpa_supplicant: GUI and wpa_action I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on...
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I’ve made two new interesting discoveries about wpa_supplicant since writing my last blog post on the subject. (Actually, I pretty much made both of them while reading documentation in order to write it, and have been lame about writing them up). Using wpa_gui It turns out that...
Matt Mazur
It’s Time to Build It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
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It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
Notes on software...
An effective product manager There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I've worked with (and...
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There are three specific activities I have loved in some product managers I've worked with (and missed in others). tldr; Talk with customers and prospects Develop and share a vision Evangelize Talk with customers and prospects As a product manager, your superpower over...
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Louwrentius
'Linux: unattended installation with Debian preseeding' Debian Linux provides a mechanism to install the operating system without user intervention. This...
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Debian Linux provides a mechanism to install the operating system without user intervention. This mechanism is called 'preseeding' and is similar to Red Hat Kick Start and Sun Solaris Jump Start. The basic idea is that the installer is fed a recipe, according to which the system...
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The First Scientist’s Guide to Truth: Alhazen on Critical Thinking Born into a world with no clocks, telescopes, microscopes, or democracy, Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham...
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Born into a world with no clocks, telescopes, microscopes, or democracy, Ḥasan Ibn al-Haytham (c. 965–c. 1040), known in the West as Alhazen, began his life studying religion, but grew quickly disenchanted by its unquestioned dogmas and the way it turned people on each other with...
Seth's Blog
“No photos” That’s what it said at the florist shop. I’m guessing because ‘taking’ a photo sometimes feels like...
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That’s what it said at the florist shop. I’m guessing because ‘taking’ a photo sometimes feels like a taking. The creativity, skill and effort that goes into making a distinctive arrangement might feel uncompensated when someone simply takes the work and posts it. This misses the...
Steve Klabnik
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Seth's Blog
The natural size No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few....
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No matter how many people come over for dinner, you’re only going to be able to engage with a few. And no matter how big the crowd in the arena, the musicians can only see the faces of a few hundred. An investor can only be engaged and smart about a very small number of […]
Identity Designed
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Silicon Valley's False Prophet The tech industry has craved a messiah since the death of Steve Jobs, but in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman...
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The tech industry has craved a messiah since the death of Steve Jobs, but in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman they’ve discovered more of a false prophet — a seedy grifter that uses his remarkable ability to impress and manipulate Silicon Valley’s elite to mask a total
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Trippy polynomials in arctangent scale This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine...
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This shows the global properties of polynomials, their derivatives, and explains how the Maclaurine and Taylor series work all with animated plots in arctangent scale.
The American Scholar
To Catch a Sunset Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset...
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Reflections on allergies, anxieties, and the limits of familial love The post To Catch a Sunset appeared first on The American Scholar.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Olesya Dzhurayeva I am Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ukrainian artist. I was born in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, but I...
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I am Olesya Dzhurayeva, Ukrainian artist. I was born in Dushanbe, the capital of Tajikistan, but I moved to Ukraine as a child. Now I live in Kyiv. Despite the war, I am staying in Ukraine and continue to work. I am an active member of the international printmaking community,...
Retail Design Blog
Bershka flagship store by Castel Estudio Part of the Inditex empire, fast-fashion brand Bershka specifically targets a young demographic with...
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Part of the Inditex empire, fast-fashion brand Bershka specifically targets a young demographic with on-trend streetwear styles. In Spain, its...
The Gradient
A Brief Overview of Gender Bias in AI A brief overview and discussion on gender bias in AI
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Map of the Week
Bad News For Local News Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It...
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Northwestern University’s Medill Local News Initiative released the latest State of Local News. It highlights the dire state of print journalism with maps to illustrate the problems. This one highlights counties that are on the watch list to become news deserts. News deserts...
Josh Collinsworth
Understanding easing and cubic-bezier curves in CSS The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS...
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The easing curve can make or break any animation on the web. Let's look at the science of CSS cubic-bezier curves, and the art of using them to make the best web animations possible.
The Map is Mostly...
Building The Goose Palace The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason....
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The man who is most likely to ruin the place he loves is exactly the man who loves it with a reason. The man who will improve the place is the man who loves it without a reason. — GK Chesterton Dear friends, In May I announced I was going to timber frame a 12x16 barn, though I...
TheCollector
The Controversial Story of Scientology: Paying for Religion? undefined
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Liz Denys
When you don't have chocolate chips... But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate...
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But you still have large blocks of Valrhona dark chocolate and are craving the flavors of chocolate chip cookies? Turns out that while it's difficult to turn a large block into chip-sized chunks, it's a lot easier to turn it into shavings. Unfortunately, these shavings would get...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover Nine Ways to be Present in Los Angeles.
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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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In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too concerned...
Classical Wisdom
Stoicism and Buddhism: Two Sides of the Same Coin? New Event: Taking place July 10th with Dr. Benjamin Olshin
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Cheese and Biscuits
The Counter, Tunbridge Wells As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the...
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As much as I try to travel as far and wide as possible for a meal, there are certain parts of the world that are somewhat better-represented on these pages than others. Obviously as I live in London, and it's the best food city on the planet, that's the main focus of this blog....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Execute Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Lot of people are gonna say we can't build Star...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Lot of people are gonna say we can't build Star Trek teleporters, but we can do the first half, which is pretty good. Today's News:
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The IPv6 situation on Docker is good now! Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently...
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Good news, everyone! Doing IPv6 networking stuff on Docker is actually good now! I’ve recently started reworking my home server setup to be more IPv6 compatible, and as part of that I learned that during the summer of 2024 Docker shipped an update that eliminated a lot of the...
Max Countryman
Zero-Downtime Deployments with Docker Compose With a little bash scripting, a modern reverse proxy like Traefik, and Docker Compose, we can put...
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With a little bash scripting, a modern reverse proxy like Traefik, and Docker Compose, we can put together a fairly robust and simple approach to zero-downtime deployment. Moreover, this approach is flexible and scalable, even for dynamic container backends.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
AI Takes Over Because of Human Hype, Not Machine Intelligence Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging...
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Geoff, in his recent blog post “Damn the AI Torpedos”: The idea that businesses are already waging an “AI arms race”…that one those very companies, Microsoft, can invest $11 billion into OpenAI while laying off the folks responsible for keeping AI, um, responsible…that real...
Map of the Week
Paris Olympics 1924 Paris will host the Olympics in a few days. They previously hosted them 100 years ago. Here is a...
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Paris will host the Olympics in a few days. They previously hosted them 100 years ago. Here is a small map of the 1924 Olympic venues.  via metropolitiques Artist Pauline de Langre has some nice, artistic maps showing the venues in 1924 and 2024. A bit hard to read at this...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Ramones presidential seal logo Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: sinistersaladmusikal.wordpress.com License: All Rights...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: sinistersaladmusikal.wordpress.com License: All Rights Reserved. Source: i-d.vice.com License: All Rights Reserved. Arturo Vega had the logo tattooed on his back with his own name incorporated and a type style that is less stylized...
DYNOMIGHT
OK, I can partly explain the LLM chess weirdness now We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All,...
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We recently talked about a mystery: All large language models (LLMs) are terrible at chess. All, that is, except for gpt-3.5-turbo-instruct, which for some reason can play at an advanced amateur level. This is despite the fact that this model is more than a year old and much...
Simply Explained
Migrating This Blog From Jekyll to Eleventy Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't...
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Jekyll has been powering this site for many years now. It replaced my WordPress setup, and I haven't looked back. Over the last few months, I have become fed up with Jekyll. It's slowing me down. Time to replace it with something new and shiny!
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.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that it's the default setting for...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that it's the default setting for all universes that come after this one. Today's News:
Math Is Still...
The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite...
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In the rumbles and groans of underwater volcanoes, Jackie Caplan-Auerbach finds her favorite harmonies — and clues to the Earth’s interior. The post The Scientist Who Decodes the Songs of Undersea Volcanoes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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'Wisdom As a Kind of Courtesy' “[A] reverence for the natural world, and a conviction that intelligent sanity is both more...
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“[A] reverence for the natural world, and a conviction that intelligent sanity is both more difficult than unreflective complacency and more interesting than madness.”  That’s how the poet Dick Davis characterized the concerns of Janet Lewis and her husband Yvor Winters in his...
IEEE Spectrum
How Tech Automated the January 6 Investigations Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on...
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Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on 6 January 2021, and no one has ever stepped forward to identify him as one of the mob that stormed the US Capitol that day. Oregon, Ohio, with five counts connected to the failed...
Platformer
The synthetic social network is coming Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to...
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Between ChatGPT’s surprisingly human voice and Meta’s AI characters, our feeds may be about to change forever
swyx's site RSS Feed
Two Words The best way to sell to, brand, persuade, or inspire people is to condense your idea down to Two...
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The best way to sell to, brand, persuade, or inspire people is to condense your idea down to Two Words.
Paolo Amoroso's...
Building a GUI for Insphex <![CDATA[I added a GUI to Insphex, the hex dump tool I'm writing in Common Lisp on the Medley...
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<![CDATA[I added a GUI to Insphex, the hex dump tool I'm writing in Common Lisp on the Medley Interlisp environment. The initial version printed the hex dump only to the standard output, now optionally to a separate TEdit window with a command menu. The menu has items for...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead of the curve on madness. You are all us now. Today's News:
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The Six Platonic Solids
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‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review ‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review JamesHoare Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
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Seth's Blog
There are no stupid mistakes There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is...
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There are mistakes. These are moments when reality teaches us something. And there’s stupid. This is what happens when we refuse to learn from our mistakes. “Don’t be stupid” is a fine mantra. It’s particularly apt when talking about cultural forces, political agendas and our...
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The Roaring 2020's Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea...
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Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
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Math Is Still...
Will AI Ever Have Common Sense? Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has...
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Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s “The Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz. The post Will AI Ever...
Math Is Still...
In a Fierce Desert, Microbe ‘Crusts’ Show How Life Tamed the Land Extreme microorganisms carpeting the Atacama Desert in Chile illuminate how life might have first...
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Extreme microorganisms carpeting the Atacama Desert in Chile illuminate how life might have first taken hold on Earth’s surface. The post In a Fierce Desert, Microbe ‘Crusts’ Show How Life Tamed the Land first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
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mtlynch.io
An Unexpected Reset Month Highlights My loved ones and I are safe and healthy. WanderJest is on hiatus due to the nationwide...
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Highlights My loved ones and I are safe and healthy. WanderJest is on hiatus due to the nationwide shutdown. I’m working on a product to help investors rebalance their portfolios. COVID-19 and me Obviously, the most relevant thing to happen in the last month has been the global...
Maps Mania
Real-Time Animated Wind Maps
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To Be a Person: Jane Hirshfield’s Playful and Poignant Poem About Bearing Our Human Condition "To be a person may be possible then, after all."
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Set Up Remote Desktop in Windows Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right...
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Here’s a quick guide to setting up Remote Desktop on Windows: 1. Allow Remote Connections Right click on the My Computer icon > Click Properties > Click on the Remote tab Check the box that says “Allow Users to Connect Remotely to this Computer” Add your username to the list of...
Letters of Note
I miss you so very much, Ryan In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during...
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In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during a contaminated treatment for hemophilia, a blood condition with which he had lived since birth. By June of 1985, keen to resume as normal a lifestyle as possible, Ryan attempted...
davidyat.es
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Seth's Blog
The absence of proof Belief makes us human. Belief is our tool to dance with a possible future, confront our fears, and...
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Belief makes us human. Belief is our tool to dance with a possible future, confront our fears, and build community. Our personal taste and our preferences belong to us as well, helping us believe in ourselves. For millennia, belief thrived in most parts of our lives. We didn’t...
TheCollector
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Christopher Butler
The Books that Have Shaped My Technological Worldview This is a personal collection, subject to change at any time. A Pattern Language, by Christopher...
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This is a personal collection, subject to change at any time. A Pattern Language, by Christopher Alexander, Murray Silverstein, and Sara Ishikawa A classic on architecture and urban design that you’ll find on many lists like this. What keeps it here for me — as a text that has...
Blog posts of...
Why i am leaving my own company. Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post...
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Fortunately I was able to tell this already to many people in person. But a quick public blog post might help to clarify and simpl...
TheCollector
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Old Vintage...
The Fossil Wrist PDA becomes a tiny Gopher client (with Overbite Palm 0.3) I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist. all...
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I don't always often wear watches. But when I do, I prefer Palm PDAs. Wired to my wrist. all about Palm devices on the Internet. It turns out there's a reason for that, and we're going to patch the operating system so we can make the Fossil Wrist PDA into what may be the...
Seth's Blog
Appropriate tension Growth usually feels risky. The feeling is a protection mechanism, a way to avoid failure or even...
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Growth usually feels risky. The feeling is a protection mechanism, a way to avoid failure or even the fear of failure. Of course, risk also feels risky (or at least it should). Differentiating between the two is difficult, which is why finding institutions, methods or coaches...
37signals Dev
The radiating programmer You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems....
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You are an individual contributor at heart. You like writing code and solving technical problems. You dislike meetings and ceremony. Here’s what you can do to maximize what you like and minimize what you don’t: radiate information. The daily standup meetings that Scrum...