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The Roots of...
Do we get better or worse at adapting to change? Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes...
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Verner Vinge, in a classic 1993 essay, described “the Singularity” as an era where progress becomes “an exponential runaway beyond any hope of control.” The idea that technological change might accelerate to a pace faster than we can keep up with is a common concern. Almost three...
History Today Feed
‘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
7 months ago
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration undefined
a year ago
This Space
The end of something Thirteen years ago I posted The beginning of something to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Spike...
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Thirteen years ago I posted The beginning of something to mark the fifteenth anniversary of Spike Magazine (not to be confused with Spiked), which I helped to found when the world wide web was forming, and to comment on the direction online literary culture had taken. By that...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Soulmate Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday the machine will give you everything you...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Someday the machine will give you everything you want, and the pretenses will be dropped so rapidly it'll be heartbreaking. Today's News:
Math Is Still...
Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes Researchers are discovering the shortest knots and fattest Möbius strips, among other “optimal...
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a year ago
Researchers are discovering the shortest knots and fattest Möbius strips, among other “optimal shapes.” The post Mathematicians Identify the Best Versions of Iconic Shapes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dear Bees Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later Steve discovers Stable Diffusion and never...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later Steve discovers Stable Diffusion and never leaves his room again. Today's News: Just 11 days till launch!
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 25-31 December 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
Hainan House, Angel Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it...
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Hainan is an island off the south coast of China about the size of Vancouver Island - that makes it bigger than Sicily and Sardinia and twice the size of Hawaii, with a population of over 10 million people (more than London). And yet inevitably until last week I'd never heard of...
The Last...
Ten Extra Seconds Would Have Saved True Detective's Finale what could it mean? You just watched a historical TV moment: never before has the audience for a...
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over a year ago
what could it mean? You just watched a historical TV moment: never before has the audience for a show been smarter than its writer.   I submit as second evidence the season finale for The Bachelor that was on yesterday, for three hours, drawing ten million "people".  Just...
Words and Buttons...
SymPy makes math fun again It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast,...
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over a year ago
It's a Python library that does the boring part of math for you. Moreover, it does it fast, accurate, and without angst. In other words, it is everything I'm not.
Posts on Made of...
Fun with the preprocessor: CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION hacks in Linux About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that...
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About two months ago, Linux saw CVE-2010-0307, which was a trival denial-of-service attack that could crash essentially any 64-bit Linux machine with 32-bit compatibility enabled. LWN has an excellent writeup of the bug, which turns out to be a subtle error related to the details...
TheCollector
Bob Ross’s First Completed Work Is Up for Sale for $9.85 M. undefined
a year ago
watchTowr Labs
Exploitation Walkthrough and Techniques - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282) As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote...
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As we saw in our previous blogpost, we fully analyzed Ivanti’s most recent unauthenticated Remote Code Execution vulnerability in their Connect Secure (VPN) appliance. Specifically, we analyzed CVE-2025-0282. Today, we’re going to walk through exploitation. Once again, however,...
Remains of the Day
My first podcast appearance A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He...
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over a year ago
A few months ago David Perell emailed and asked if I'd like to be on his podcast, The North Star. He mentioned some of the other people he'd had on, so many of whom I admire, and I thought he had emailed the wrong person. But no, he had done his research and knew a lot about my...
Light from Space
Vaporwave Crescent Shooting space with a monochrome camera means using various filters—when choosing narrowband filters...
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over a year ago
Shooting space with a monochrome camera means using various filters—when choosing narrowband filters (those with only a few nanometers of bandpass) one can limit the sensor capturing only very specific wavelengths of light, namely the emissions of certain gasses (basically,...
This Space
Kafka's great fire The centenary of Kafka's death was marked twelve years late. His diary records it in September...
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7 months ago
The centenary of Kafka's death was marked twelve years late. His diary records it in September 1912: This story, The Judgment, I wrote at one sitting during the night of the 22nd-23rd, from ten o'clock at night to six o'clock in the morning. I was hardly able to pull my legs...
Londonist
Your London Reading List: The Best Non-Fiction Books Best books voted for by Londonist readers.
9 months ago
Londonist
The Natural History Museum Is Throwing Another Epic New Year's Eve Bash It's going to be WILD.
a year ago
African History...
An empire of cloth: the textile industry of the Sokoto empire ca. 1808-1903. The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in...
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The Hausaland region of northern Nigeria was home to one of the largest textile industries in pre-colonial Africa, whose scale and scope were unparalleled throughout most of the continent.
TheCollector
5 Paintings That Inspired Famous Filmmakers undefined
a year ago
Common Edge
NYC’s ‘City of Yes’ Proposal Is a Free Pass for Big Real Estate It won’t create affordable housing, but instead lead to continued gentrification and displacement.
4 months ago
diamond geezer
Poverest This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret...
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This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret Leisure Destination Poverest, the charming outer London suburb handily located on the Chislehurst Road, where a good time is always on offer. [map] Ask anyone in Poverest where...
Londonist
London Overground Strikes Next Week Cancelled Normal service now planned.
11 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'I’d Be the Man Dares Clearly Sing' I have no musical talent apart from a sometimes annoying gift for remembering lyrics, and not always...
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8 months ago
I have no musical talent apart from a sometimes annoying gift for remembering lyrics, and not always the good stuff. I know all the words to a radio jingle for a car dealer in Cleveland, circa 1964, among other clutter. A related symptom is the long-lasting earworm. Much of this...
Probably...
The mean of a Likert scale? Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. likert_mean Likert scale analysis¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. I have collected data regarding how...
Liz Denys
L'Insurrection qui vient I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I can trace different periods of my life back to the music with which I decided to fill my ears and the stories towards which I let my eyes venture. Rereading tends to bring a part of me back to previous points in times, and occasionally, I partake in this. But there are few...
Home on Erik...
Black Box Machine Learning in the Cloud There's a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Some old companies like...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's a bunch of companies working on machine learning as a service. Some old companies like Google, but now also Amazon and Microsoft. Then there's a ton of startups: PredictionIO ($2.7M funding), BigML ($1.6M funding), Clarifai, etc, etc.
The Honest Broker
My Rule of the 6 Spheres Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very...
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Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very seriously—it's at the heart of my worldview and keeps me on the right path
diamond geezer
DIY blogpost For one day only I'm offering you the opportunity to write today's post. Ten or so paragraphs of...
a year ago
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a year ago
For one day only I'm offering you the opportunity to write today's post. Ten or so paragraphs of factual musings, hopefully entertaining and illuminating, for the wider readership to enjoy. I'll pick the topic, you provide the words. Don't worry, I'm not expecting you to write...
TheCollector
What Makes a Celt & Did They Ever Inhabit Britannia? undefined
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Thirty Second Mind Minds capable of deep concentration may soon be extinct.
a year ago
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 31, 2016: 'innocent until proven guilty' gives cover to abusers Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. The ride home after yet another day hearing someone famous has been abusing a woman in his life: Content warning: abuse, rape Johnny Depp has allegedly been...
Math Is Still...
How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes A novel type of “jumping gene” may explain why the genomes of complex cells aren’t all equally...
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A novel type of “jumping gene” may explain why the genomes of complex cells aren’t all equally stuffed with noncoding sequences. The post How a DNA ‘Parasite’ May Have Fragmented Our Genes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Posts on Made of...
6.170, CVS, and SVN I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but...
over a year ago
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I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but one of the most egregious, in my opinion, is that they force you to use CVS for your version control. Problem sets are distributed by the TAs importing them into your repository, and...
TheCollector
King Charles XIV John (Bernadotte): Marshal of France, King of Sweden undefined
2 months ago
TheCollector
What does Aristotle say in De Interpretatione? undefined
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
From Stable Diffusion to Stable Everything Inside Stability AI's roster of AI models.
8 months ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The creative agency of small projects Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple...
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Since I moved out of the startup world I've exclusively worked on small projects. Niche, simple tools packed with love and attention to detail. I've written about my approach to building, and how it impacts my life and outlook. Today, however, I want to write about a less-obvious...
Confessions of a...
Reflections of a postgrad lecturer-in-training: Part 1 In a previous post, I mentioned that I was beginning a stint as postgraduate teaching intern at UWA,...
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In a previous post, I mentioned that I was beginning a stint as postgraduate teaching intern at UWA, and that part of the internship involved keeping a reflective journal.  So I’ve decided that instead of merely writing down my thoughts (and possibly becoming lazy about it as the...
abdz.do - Have you...
Universal Principles of UX Book Universal Principles of UX Book AoiroStudio0507—23 Anton & Irene...
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Universal Principles of UX Book AoiroStudio0507—23 Anton & Irene are renowned interaction designers who have made significant contributions to the field of UX and beyond. We love their work on abdz. One of their notable works is out now and...
The Honest Broker
My 'Personal Favorites' Carla Bley Playlist I pay tribute to the jazz pianist and composer—who left us yesterday at age 87
a year ago
Londonist
An Airport In Hyde Park? It Could Have Happened 1920s proposal envisaged a VERY central aerodrome.
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Global Migration Explorer
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Was Vercingetorix? undefined
10 months ago
Louwrentius
HighPoint RocketRAID and staggered spinup with Samsung F1 I have experienced problems using a HighPoint RocketRaid 2320 and 2340 when they are using...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I have experienced problems using a HighPoint RocketRaid 2320 and 2340 when they are using 'staggered spinup' in combination with Samsung Spinpoint F1, 1 (one) terrabyte disks. The problem is that the F1 disks spinup very slowly and often seem to 'hang' while making ticking...
Renegade Otter
Code Lab - Job queues in Postgres Introduction Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack users to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Introduction Friendly Fire needs to periodically execute scheduled jobs - to remind Slack users to review GitHub pull requests. Instead of bolting on a new system just for this, I decided to leverage Postgres instead. The must-have requirement was the ability to schedule a job...
David Perell
Thoughts on Free Will My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will....
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over a year ago
My friend Chris Sparks says: “When it comes to creating your environment, assume you have free will. When it comes to living in it, assume you have no free will.” Here’s an example: I lost my love of working out during the pandemic. Before it started, I worked out at a nice,...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hybrid Biopolymer Transistors – Implications for Brain Machine Interface There are several technologies which seem likely to be transformative in the coming decades. Genetic...
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There are several technologies which seem likely to be transformative in the coming decades. Genetic bioengineering gives us the ability to control the basic machinery of life, including ourselves. Artificial intelligence is a suite of active, learning, information tools....
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conspire Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 4 is the greatest prose I'm capable...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 4 is the greatest prose I'm capable of. Today's News: Hey geeks, after years of holding out, I'm finally getting engaged with social media. I post a lot of favorite old comics plus news about NEW BOOKS. You can follow me on...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, February 2024 Here’s the Ware for February 2024: Here’s another ware courtesy of FETguy, who recovered this from...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Here’s the Ware for February 2024: Here’s another ware courtesy of FETguy, who recovered this from Renew Computers in San Rafael, CA. Renew is a recycling facility that apparently processes a fair bit of e-waste. NGL: I’m a little envious of being able to rummage around an...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Do what's right Doing what’s right is so interesting. It’s so difficult It’s difficult to be completely honest with...
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Doing what’s right is so interesting. It’s so difficult It’s difficult to be completely honest with yourself when you know what’s right but you don’t want to do it. It’s often physically more difficult: you’ll have to spend more effort, more time, more money. But it’s so...
Home on Erik...
State drift I generally haven't written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion....
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I generally haven't written much about software architecture. People make heuristics into religion. But here is something I thought about: how to build in self-correction into systems. This has been something just vaguely sitting in my head lacking a clear conceptual definition...
diamond geezer
Canteenlessness I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I was out in the City at lunchtime, not far from St Paul's, and found myself amid a horde of businessfolk buying lunch. They were flocking to nearby shops, mainly specialist food outlets, for a calorific haul to tide them over into the afternoon. You could tell it was peak...
Society's Backend
The FTC Cracks Down on Fake AI-Generated Reviews, Midjourney Available on the Web, AI Used to Farm... Machine learning resources and updates 8/26/2024
4 months ago
Retail Design Blog
INVICTO by Cabello x Mure We created the INVICTO brand inspired by the excellence and quality of the product that presents...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
We created the INVICTO brand inspired by the excellence and quality of the product that presents itself as an unbeatable...
Coffee with an...
Design Paths 2 Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Design is hard. The path you follow from start to finish is never a straight line. If only there were another handful of clear diagrams to explain the process. This still isn’t that: More Design Paths HERE
The Modern House
Step Outside: six top-tier terraces in London homes for sale With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets...
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a year ago
With the sun hanging around until the early hours of the evening and the daffodils’ golden trumpets heralding that spring is in full swing, it finally feels like we’re properly coming out of hibernation. And where better to admire the return of the rays than […]
Liz Denys
Save Congestion Pricing! Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Gov. Kathy Hochul has announced an intention to "indefinitely pause" the scheduled rollout of congestion pricing on June 30. Your voice is urgently needed to stand up for a funded MTA with increased accessibility, a healthy planet, and good government in New York. Stop a $15...
Working Theorys
Second Encounters Firsts are overrated
10 months ago
TheCollector
Ancient Greece and Persia: Foes, Friends, or Both? undefined
11 months ago
Londonist
David Attenborough Waxwork Comes To Madame Tussauds It's the second time he's been honoured here.
a year ago
Map of the Week
Terrain Representations from the Atlas of Design In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
In last week’s post I reviewed Volume 7 of the Atlas of Design. As an occasional cartographer I have been interested in how topography is represented in maps for a long time. This atlas volume provides many contrasting examples. From the “cartographic realism” of Tom Patterson’s...
Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age “These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
“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...
Explorations of an...
Final Argentina Post - Hudson's Canasteros, Shorebirds and Jaegers at Punta Rasa February 20, 2023 As we traveled south from Buenos Aires, the landscape opened up. The small towns...
a year ago
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a year ago
February 20, 2023 As we traveled south from Buenos Aires, the landscape opened up. The small towns and communities became less frequent, giving way to vast expanses of pasture and agriculture with nary a tree in sight, other than the occasional hedgerow. Several hours later, and...
Ben Borgers
Welcome to TikTok
over a year ago
Neil Madden
Multiple input MACs When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When working with Message Authentication Codes (MACs), you often need to authenticate not just a single string, but multiple fields of data. For example, when creating an authenticated encryption mode by composing a cipher and a MAC (like AES-CBC and HMAC), you need to ensure the...
Birchtree
Comfort Zone: OLED Dreams and Studio Display Realities Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I...
a week ago
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a week ago
Niléane is out, so Chris and I are left to fend on ourselves! Chris steals like an artist and I defend a new purchase…oh, and we have some fun with desks that sadly ends in Vision Pro slander. Why does this keep happening?! Watch on YouTube
A Smart Bear
Using the Needs Stack for competitive strategy This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who...
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a year ago
This simple method positions your product to be more valuable, especially against competitors who aim to disrupt you, or you them.
Probably...
What is a percentile rank? Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Here’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. percentile_rank What is a Percentile Rank?¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. What’s the difference between...
TheCollector
6 American Film Noirs Influenced by German Expressionism undefined
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Web services should be both federated and extensible One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the most important developments of the web 2.0 era is the proliferation of full featured, bidirectional APIs.  APIs provide a way to…
Arduino Blog
Turn your old Android smartphone into an Arduino screen with the RemoteXY app Each component you add to your Arduino project increases its complexity and the opportunity for...
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a month ago
Each component you add to your Arduino project increases its complexity and the opportunity for mistakes. But most projects require some “auxiliary” hardware — components that you use to interact with the Arduino or to help it do the job you’re asking of it. Buttons and displays...
CONTEMPORIST
The Black Exterior Of This Home In The Forest Covers A White Minimalist Interior Matière Première Architecture has completed a new home in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, that has a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Matière Première Architecture has completed a new home in Stanstead, Quebec, Canada, that has a striking black exterior surrounded by the forest. The house’s design emphasizes its connection with a nearby stream by incorporating strategic window placements and a layout that...
axio.ms
Internet of kitchen lighting, with OSC This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This project was completed in June 2015. Wow, is it 2017 already? In this post, I’d like to say that I wrote a useful little bit of software and built up a crappy hack to demonstrate it but, secretly, the crappy hack came first and I’ve retroactively found something vaguely...
The Honest Broker
12 Things I Learned from René Girard How a thinker who hated trends & fashions became trendy & fashionable
10 months ago
The Modern House
How a love of Japan and the 1970s shaped Sherrill Smith’s Hackney home
a year ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
How I learn (making games for the Playdate) I (finally) received my Playdate, after about a year and a half of waiting. To be honest, I'd kinda...
a year ago
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a year ago
I (finally) received my Playdate, after about a year and a half of waiting. To be honest, I'd kinda forgotten that I'd ordered it and was pleasantly surprised when it showed up. For those who don't know, the Playdate is a niche handheld gaming console, similar to a Gameboy. It...
TheCollector
Cecil John Rhodes: Life and Legacy of a British Imperialist undefined
8 months ago
Rest of World -...
The World’s Last Internet Cafes For a quarter century, internet cafes connected the world. Now they’re vanishing into history.
a year ago
ToughSF
Cold, Laser-Coupled Particle Beams This is a follow-up to the Particle Beams in Space post. This time, we look at two concepts that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This is a follow-up to the Particle Beams in Space post. This time, we look at two concepts that can massively increase the effective range of particle beam: one is being applied every day in modern accelerators, and the other is an outgrowth of a tool used in...
SatPost by Trung...
Steve Ballmer, Larry Ellison and That Sweet Sweet Tech Equity The backstories for how the single biggest shareholders in Microsoft and Oracle built their stakes.
4 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Advice from my editor A sculptural representation of JS Bach’s Fugue in E Flat Minor by Henrik Neugeboren “I can’t make...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
A sculptural representation of JS Bach’s Fugue in E Flat Minor by Henrik Neugeboren “I can’t make myself finish this one,” Johanna said one night when we were reading together in bed. She was working her way through a 6021-word essay draft about identities as interfaces that I...
Contemporist...
Art Deco Was Reinterpreted Into This Futuristic Gelato Parlor Multidisciplinary design studio Masquespacio has shared photos of Amiko Gelato, a new retail...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Multidisciplinary design studio Masquespacio has shared photos of Amiko Gelato, a new retail destination in Barcelona that blends futuristic design with art deco elements.
General Robots
Programming Robots: Keeping the Code Clean So You Want To Do Robots: Part 8.    Learn why the world is a giant hairy ball of unobservable...
a year ago
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a year ago
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.
Eukaryote Writes...
A point of clarification on infohazard terminology “Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “memetic...
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over a year ago
“Infohazard” means any kind of information that could be harmful in some fashion. Let’s use “memetic hazard” to describe information that could specifically harm the person who knows it.
Sean Carroll
What I Look for in Podcast Guests People often suggest guests to appear on Mindscape — which I very much appreciate! Several of my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
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...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
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...
Avestura's Blog
Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
over a year ago
On the Arts
Winter as Reading Season David Foster Wallace on the necessity of quiet time in order to read.
a year ago
TheCollector
French New Wave: Here’s What You Need to Know undefined
5 months ago
99% Invisible
WARNING: This Podcast Contains Chemicals Known to the State of California to Cause Cancer or Other... WARNING: Entering this area can expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
WARNING: Entering this area can expose you to chemicals known to the State of California to cause cancer and birth defects or other reproductive harm, including Benzene, a chemical used in urinal cleaners and Toluene, a chemical used in common household cleaning products. For...
Arduino Blog
Amassing a mobile Minion militia Channeling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Channeling his inner Gru, YouTuber Electo built a robotic minion army to terrorize and amuse the public in local shopping malls. Building one minion robot is, in theory, pretty straightforward. That is especially true when, like these, that robot isn’t actually bipedal and...
Computer Things
Logic for Programmers now in early access! I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I am delighted to announce that Logic for Programmers is now available for purchase! While still in early access, it's almost 20,000 words, has 30 exercises, and covers a wide variety of logic applications: Property testing Functional correctness and contracts Formal...
The Forney Flyer
Run For Radios This week our whole family ran for radios in support of Every Village. If you're not familiar with...
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This week our whole family ran for radios in support of Every Village. If you're not familiar with them, take a moment to check them out now.  Joy and the kids walked a brisk (and dizzying) 32 laps around our yard... ...which not coincidentally equals a solid 5K! As I've...
elementary Blog
Happy Holidays! We Come Bringing Gifts! It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with...
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It’s only been a little over 2 weeks since we released elementary OS 8, but we’re already back with updates just in time for the holidays! Terminal The headliner this month is Terminal which comes with a bunch of fixes and new features thanks to Jeremy. It now uses the more...
The Rational Walk
A Dangerous Interregnum President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles deep into Russian territory...
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President Biden's decision to allow Ukraine to fire American missiles deep into Russian territory risks plunging the world into crisis in the finals months of his administration.
Moneyness
Inflation as a tax Last week I explored how Henry VIII resorted to coin debasement as a way to raise revenues in order...
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Last week I explored how Henry VIII resorted to coin debasement as a way to raise revenues in order to fight his wars. This provided Henry with the financial firepower to annex the city of Boulogne from the French in 1544, albeit at the price of England experiencing one of its...
The Map is Mostly...
Sketches of Beauty, Shades of Remoteness A little moth asked the other day, what makes something beautiful? I wonder and doubt if I could...
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A little moth asked the other day, what makes something beautiful? I wonder and doubt if I could ever give a fulfilling answer. As a topic it is almost too monumental to touch. Certainly to write about all at once. But maybe we can glance at it from time to time. So, a short...
IEEE Spectrum
Fakes: Not an Internet Thing, a Human Thing Every day, as the Internet becomes more indispensable to modern life, the drawbacks of deep...
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Every day, as the Internet becomes more indispensable to modern life, the drawbacks of deep engagement with the virtual realm capture as much attention as the wide-ranging benefits. On the Internet, of course, anyone can in all too many forums pretty much say anything—regardless...
Spoon & Tamago
You’ll Soon Be Able to Stay in One of Japan’s Most Beautifully Designed Prisons photos by Masashi Mizowaki and Takaharu Yagi Spending the night in jail is usually not a good thing....
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photos by Masashi Mizowaki and Takaharu Yagi Spending the night in jail is usually not a good thing. Unless of course you’re staying in Japan’s Nara Prison, a historic red-brick structure built in 1908 with western archways and onion domes that lend an air of castle more than...
Sarah Parmenter
America, here is why I love you. I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times...
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I am proud to call America my second home, and I’ve toyed with living there permanently more times than I can count. On this day when emotions are running high, and sadness, anxiety, and trepidation is in the air for so many, I wanted to note down why I love America and what, as...
TheCollector
Fascism vs. Modernism: Clash in Art & Design undefined
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Some ways to use ZK-SNARKs for privacy
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
This Building With A Split Roof Makes Space For A Rooftop Park Architecture firm RAD+ar has shared photos of a building they’ve completed in Jakarta, Indonesia,...
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Architecture firm RAD+ar has shared photos of a building they’ve completed in Jakarta, Indonesia, that has a split roof held together by a skylight. The split design allowed half of the building to have a regular roof, while the other, is dedicated to outdoor space and a garden....
Common Edge
The Art and Angst of Architecture in Southern California An excerpt from An Urban Odyssey: A Critic’s Search for the Soul of Cities and Self.
a month ago
TheCollector
Thomas Gainsborough: 7 Facts You Need to Know undefined
11 months ago
African History...
A history of the Rozvi kingdom (1680-1830) From Changamire's expulsion of the Portuguese to the ruined cities of Zimbabwe.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Oimachi’s New Shopping Oasis Coexists with the Mountains and Sea All images © Osamu Morishita Architect and Associates Built on reclaimed land that seamlessly blends...
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All images © Osamu Morishita Architect and Associates Built on reclaimed land that seamlessly blends the expanse of the sea with the majestic mountains, ‘See-Sea Park‘ is a new commercial complex spanning over an area of 10,800 square meters in Oimachi, Fukui. The structure aims...
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Three Jobs of Containers A great nugget I learned from watching Brian Holt's Intro to Containers workshop
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Management Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like if prayers came with a token fee people...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I feel like if prayers came with a token fee people would consume a lot less. Today's News:
Citation Needed
Issue 62 – Grassroots Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has 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.
Cheese and Biscuits
Restaurant of the Year 2022 - The Bridge Arms, Canterbury Since the madness of the Covid Times, you may have noticed that the rate of posting on this blog has...
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over a year ago
Since the madness of the Covid Times, you may have noticed that the rate of posting on this blog has slowed down a bit. Where I used to try and do 6 or 7 posts a month, and with that obviously stopping completely while there was nothing open to review, I have since found that 2...
TheCollector
4 Awe-Inspiring Neolithic Monuments in the British Isles undefined
a year ago
MMapped blog
Transposing tensor files
2 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Beginning Programming I read a wonderful post, 3 Things I hate about “beginner” programming books, which I couldn’t agree...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read a wonderful post, 3 Things I hate about “beginner” programming books, which I couldn’t agree more with. Basically he has these points: Too long Too many examples like “Hello World!” No answers to exercises. Nr 1 is a pretty curious one. Even though I think a book is good,...
xkcd.com
Snow
a year ago
alexwlchan
Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
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I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.) Hopefully nobody noticed! When I flipped the DNS records to...
Working Theorys
Collective Experiences | Theory No. 8 On the value of creating shared context in the age of personalized, on-demand media.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
The Strangest Hit Songwriter in History He wrote one of my favorite songs, but was so much more than a composer
7 months ago
Marco.org
The 2018 iPad Pro Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes. Rather than try to be comprehensive, I...
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over a year ago
Watch my video review of the new iPad Pro in both sizes. Rather than try to be comprehensive, I focused on what matters most to me: size choice between the 11” and 12.9”, the Smart Keyboard Folio from my perspective as a frequent 10.5” Smart Keyboard user, the new Pencil, and why...
The Marginalian
The Wound Is the Gift: David Whyte on the Relationship Between Anxiety and Intimacy "Intimacy is presence magnified by our vulnerability, magnified by increasing proximity to the fear...
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Aaron's Essays
I and We Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego...
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over a year ago
Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego component is even larger. This is a good thing. Ego is what gives the founder the confidence to create something new. Ego powers the belief that the new thing the founder creates will...
Julia Evans
Mounting git commits as folders with NFS Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git...
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Hello! The other day, I started wondering – has anyone ever made a FUSE filesystem for a git repository where all every commit is a folder? It turns out the answer is yes! There’s giblefs, GitMounter, and git9 for Plan 9. But FUSE is pretty annoying to use on Mac – you need to...
Both Are True
The masks we wear (rom com, act three) A denoument? In this economy? You betcha. Let's boogie.
10 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Socrates Focus on Self-Knowledge and Introspection? undefined
10 months ago
John Reynolds -...
Collage Collage 2016
a year ago
alexwlchan
*Spy for Spy*, at Riverside Studios Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a...
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a year ago
Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a romance story with a clever narrative twist – it’s being told in the wrong order. Aside from the prologue and epilogue, the show is split into six scenes from the Molly and Sarah’s...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Using global memoization in React When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a...
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over a year ago
When our React apps get slow, we usually turn to useMemo to avoid useless job on re-render. It’s a hammer that often works well, and makes it hard to shoot yourself in the foot. But useMemo is not a silver bullet — sometimes it just introduces more useless work instead of making...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Touch Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The deepest cut is when he pets his cat, raised from kittenhood for 10 years, and nothing happens. Today's News:
Making software...
Width or Flex-Basis? Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be...
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over a year ago
Width or Flex-Basis? 2018-11-28 Creating rows and columns of elements that adapt dynamically can be a little tricky depending on the desired outcome. Let's breakdown how to solve this issue using both inline-block paired with width and flex-basis. Width Setting the width of the...
Irrational...
A brief rant on converging compliance regimes. Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has...
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over a year ago
Although I’ve never worked exclusively on compliance, much of my work over the past decade has touched on reconciling between product and compliance goals, and over that time I’ve developed something of a pet theory on the evolution of compliance over the next five to ten years:...
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The 7 best mobile app analytics tools 1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an...
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1. PostHog Best for: Engineering and product teams What is PostHog? PostHog (that's us 👋) is an all-in-one platform built to help engineers create…
This Space
The Lascaux Notebooks by Jean-Luc Champerret Lascaux, a placename standing for the abyssal revelation of the cave paintings discovered there...
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Lascaux, a placename standing for the abyssal revelation of the cave paintings discovered there after millennia in darkness, and Notebooks, suggesting a private endeavour, preparation, a work to come. While neither is secret as such, neither was meant for the light. Two intrigues...
Product Identity
In awe of InVision An aftermath promo for the nerdy designer
5 months ago
TheCollector
Discover the Lost Culture of San Agustín in Colombia undefined
8 months ago
Flashbak
Facade: Bill Cunningham’s Tribute To New York Style In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a...
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In 1968, American fashion photographer Bill Cunningham (March 13, 1929 – June 25, 2016) started a project to document New York City’s rich history of architecture and fashion. Cunningham dressed his friend and fellow photographer Editta Sherman (July 9, 1912 – November 1, 2013)...
xkcd.com
Phase Change
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Julia Evans
New playground: memory spy Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hello! Today we’re releasing a new playground called “memory spy”. It lets you run C programs and see how their variables are represented in memory. It’s designed to be accessible to folks who don’t know C – it comes with bunch of extremely simple example C programs that you can...
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Small Towns in the Adirondacks undefined
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Eric Bailey
Use of the design system should factor into promotion packets That’s it, that’s the post.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is Berlin Science Week? Everything You Need to Know undefined
2 months ago
Willem's Blog
Replacing a Shimano shift cable After some adventure with our cargo bike, the Shimano Nexus 7-speed shifter cable got damaged and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After some adventure with our cargo bike, the Shimano Nexus 7-speed shifter cable got damaged and needed replacement. Read my blog post to learn how to do this yourself.
NeuroLogica Blog
Will AI Make Work Redundant? Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional...
a year ago
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a year ago
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is coming for your job. This, at least, is increasingly conventional wisdom, but I’m not so sure. In a recent interview, Elon Musk predicted that AI would “make paid work redundant.” I encountered the same opinion watching the latest season of...
TheCollector
TheCollector Interviews Artist Inna Levinson: From Paint to Pixels undefined
9 months ago
Arduino Blog
Kick off the Monaco Grand Prix weekend with these Formula 1-inspired Arduino projects The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the...
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The Monaco Grand Prix is just days away and will likely be one of the most exciting races of the season. While most fans can’t participate directly — except as spectators — they can celebrate their passion through DIY projects. That’s why we’ve scoured the community to find the...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
SWORD Health And Virtual Musculoskeletal Care | Out-Of-Pocket A first person account
a year ago
Probably...
Which Standard Deviation? It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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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. standard_dev Which Standard Deviation¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. When do we use N and when N-1 for...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Viking Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Surprisingly, Panda War Criminals 3 was the high...
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Surprisingly, Panda War Criminals 3 was the high point in the series. Today's News:
Ognjen Regoje •...
Lie still in bed I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even...
a year ago
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a year ago
I found it very difficult to switch to a regular sleep, and wake, schedule after university. I even started using one of the loudest and most annoying alarm clocks I could find. (That sound still gives my university housemate flashbacks.) In my search for ways to fix my sleep...
The Pragmatic...
Weekend maintenance kicks an Italian bank offline for days It is now day five that Italian bank Sella has its apps and internetbank down, after a weekend...
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9 months ago
It is now day five that Italian bank Sella has its apps and internetbank down, after a weekend systems update went south. The problem seems to be database-related: “something, something Oracle.”
xkcd.com
Disposal
2 months ago
Josh Thompson
What I've learned from cooking in 36 kitchens in the last year Since we’ve been on the road full-time for the last year, Kristi and I have prepared meals for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Since we’ve been on the road full-time for the last year, Kristi and I have prepared meals for (usually) ourselves and (sometimes) others in 36 (!!!) kitchens. Sometimes we’ve used a kitchen for just one night, sometimes it’s every night for two months. Needless to say, we’ve...
Common Edge
San Francisco’s Love Affair With the Ferry Building John King, urban design critic of the San Francisco Chronicle, talks about his new book, Portal.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Did you see it in the theater? We’re in the middle of a huge and unusual shift. The magazine publisher acted like the best sales...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We’re in the middle of a huge and unusual shift. The magazine publisher acted like the best sales were newsstand sales, even though the profit came from subscriptions and most people simply visited the website. Book publishers and editors seem to focus on selling copies on paper,...
Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
a year ago
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a year ago
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
mtlynch.io
Shoe Dog by Phil Knight I bought this book hoping for lessons to apply to my business, manufacturing and selling physical...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I bought this book hoping for lessons to apply to my business, manufacturing and selling physical products. I didn’t find many business insights, but it was still an engaging and funny story.
ntietz.com blog
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time? The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
a year ago
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a year ago
The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers. That is just mind boggling scale to me. It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in. They are paying a lot of engineers. Some of them do very...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Doing Valuable Work in Literary Criticism' “Part of the drama of reading Boswell’s Life for the first time is that one can never (however much...
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“Part of the drama of reading Boswell’s Life for the first time is that one can never (however much classical or Christian erudition one brings to the task) predict confidently how Johnson is going to respond to this or that specific question; yet of course by the end one...
Old Structures...
Embracing office-to-residential conversion in the ‘City of Yes’ A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current...
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A timely ‘Yes’ to converting older buildings is set to further fuel Manhattan’s current office-to-residential boom. New York City Council recently passed Mayor Adams’ ‘City of Yes’ proposal to create over 80,000 new housing units across the city over 15 years. Among the historic...
History Today Feed
‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review ‘A Revolutionary Friendship’ by Francis D. Cogliano review JamesHoare Wed, 08/21/2024 - 09:18
5 months ago
Retail Design Blog
AMIRI shop-in-shop AMIRI continues its global retail expansion with a menswear shop-in-shop at Matsuzakaya, one of...
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a month ago
AMIRI continues its global retail expansion with a menswear shop-in-shop at Matsuzakaya, one of Nagoya‘s leading department stores. Situated on...
macwright.com
Hiding Peloton and Zwift workouts on Strava by () I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with...
a year ago
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a year ago
I love Strava, and a lot of my friends do too. And some of them do most of their workouts with Peloton, Swift, and other “integrations.” It’s great for them, but the activities just look like ads for Peloton and don’t have any of the things that I like about Strava’s...
UX Collective
Creativity is the only thing Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
a month ago
Old Structures...
Residential Conversion and a Mirror Office-to-residential conversion is a hot topic lately, the result of a tight housing market and the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Office-to-residential conversion is a hot topic lately, the result of a tight housing market and the remote-work depression in commercial office space. The following is, at best, anecdata but gives a minor sense of that process for older buildings. I recently stayed in the Rand...
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
a week ago
Seth's Blog
“Please create more tension” This rarely comes up in focus group data. It doesn’t come up when a school talks to students, or a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This rarely comes up in focus group data. It doesn’t come up when a school talks to students, or a conductor asks the orchestra. It doesn’t come up when the gym owner surveys potential members or when a chef or playwright thinks about building something new. But of course, that’s...
TheCollector
Who Was Saint Peter the Apostle? undefined
5 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
A Subtle Nicety of Fault Tolerance in HTML & CSS HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering...
a year ago
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a year ago
HTML and CSS are designed to be fault tolerant. Rather than failing completely when encountering syntax they don’t understand — looking at you JS/SyntaxError — browsers will continue parsing HTML and CSS as best they can when you introduce incorrect syntax. For someone who is...
somethingaboutmaps
The Projection Collection Returns About a year ago, I released The Projection Collection, a set of 77 trading cards based on map...
a year ago
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a year ago
About a year ago, I released The Projection Collection, a set of 77 trading cards based on map projections. Each card features a unique map produced by one of 65 different cartographers. While my colleagues and I did our best to let everyone know about these cards, some people...
Rest of World -...
ShopeeFood underestimates delivery distances. Gig workers in Vietnam are paying the price Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Rest of World reviewed nearly 50 orders on Vietnam’s second most popular food delivery app, and in most cases, the distance was estimated lower than Google Maps’ estimate.
Noahpinion
The reverse OPEC maneuver Pricing power in the oil industry is shifting, and will shift more.
a year ago
TokyoDev
Converting a Japanese Sole Proprietorship to a Company As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in...
a year ago
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a year ago
As I talk about in my article on [creating a company in Japan](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/creating-company-japan), I initially ran TokyoDev as a sole proprietorship, but in late 2022 converted it to a company. This involved three steps: 1. Incorporate TokyoDev Inc, a...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Is now a good time to start a company? Back in 2006, my co-founder at Hunch, Caterina Fake, wrote a blog post called “It’s a bad time to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back in 2006, my co-founder at Hunch, Caterina Fake, wrote a blog post called “It’s a bad time to start a company.”  There were no doubt…
Rest of World -...
Singapore’s gig workers worry new benefits could mean lower pay A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A first-in-the-region law gives gig workers injury compensation and retirement benefits. But some workers fears the higher costs will be passed on to them.
Transit Maps
Submission – Fantasy Map: Tram Network for Bristol, England by Elliott Sargent Submitted by Elliott, who says: I’ve been a fan of your work for a while now, and thought I’d submit...
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over a year ago
Submitted by Elliott, who says: I’ve been a fan of your work for a while now, and thought I’d submit my own work for judgement. I’ve had a crack at designing a map for an as-yet non-existent tram and bus network for Bristol, UK, a city in dire need of reliable, integrated public...
The Ruffian
Barbearheimer Notes on Barbie, Oppenheimer, and The Bear
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Hypermedia API reading list
over a year ago
TheCollector
Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, the Father of the Turks undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
37 Hitchcock Cameo Appearances Over 50 Years: All in One Video Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock began making small appearances in his own films. The cameos...
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6 months ago
Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock began making small appearances in his own films. The cameos sometimes lasted just a few brief seconds, and sometimes a little while longer. Either way, they became a signature of Hitchcock’s filmmaking, and fans made a sport of seeing whether...
Old Structures...
Finding Something Nice To Say Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should...
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Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should be stockier than tension members because, while the gross stresses are the same (force divided by cross-sectional area), compression members may buckle and tension members will not....
Math Is Still...
Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Recent controversies bode ill for the effort to detect life on other planets by analyzing the gases in their atmospheres. The post Doubts Grow About the Biosignature Approach to Alien-Hunting first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Marginalian
Yes: William Stafford’s Poetic Calibration of Perspective "No guarantees in this life."
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Joining the Shopify board of directors I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he...
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I've known Tobi for over twenty years now. Right from the earliest days of Ruby on Rails, when he was building Snowdevil, which eventually became Shopify, to sell snowboards online. Here's his first commit to Rails from 2004, which improved the ergonomics of controller testing....
The Elysian
Substack could create the future of books Here’s how that could look.
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moat Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For any problem there's a set of solutions that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For any problem there's a set of solutions that would actually work but would be too weird to be accepted. Today's News:
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"The great ideas have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas" It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable....
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over a year ago
It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable. It seems the height of unreason to…
Eric Bailey
Accessibility auditing and ego At its core, an accessibility audit is about determining if a disabled person can use a digital...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
At its core, an accessibility audit is about determining if a disabled person can use a digital experience. It takes a snapshot of a website, app, kiosk, or other digital experience and provides a summary of: What isn’t working, How numerous the problems are, How severe the...
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five Finals Intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at Saturday’s OpenAI Five Finals event, where our AI beat the world champions at Dota 2: “Welcome everyone. This is an exciting day. First, this is an historic moment: this will be the first time that an AI has even attempted to play...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Illusion Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I got this idea from a story I can't remember, only that it had the line 'I will show you the power of illusion' and was, possibly, from the Hindu tradition. Anyone know it? Today's News:
Asterisk
How We Can Regulate AI The chips used to train the most advanced AIs are scarce, expensive, and trackable — giving...
a year ago
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a year ago
The chips used to train the most advanced AIs are scarce, expensive, and trackable — giving regulators a path forward.
Spoon & Tamago
Undercover’s Jun Takahashi Lights up Paris Fashion Week with Glowing Terrarium Dresses images courtesy Undercover Flora and fauna were abound as designer Jun Takahashi’s fertile...
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a year ago
images courtesy Undercover Flora and fauna were abound as designer Jun Takahashi’s fertile creativity was unleashed during Paris Fashion Week 2023. The designer’s iconic brand Undercover, equally revered as a cult name in streetwear and as a fixture on Paris’ haute couture...
CONTEMPORIST
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Glasshouse Projects, an architecture, interior design, and building firm, has shared photos of a mid-century modern inspired extension and renovation they completed for an original 1890 sandstone cottage in Prospect, South Australia. The extension can be accessed through the...
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Brutalist Web Design I recently read an article by Tom MacWright on fancy software tools. Although tools such as Webflow,...
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I recently read an article by Tom MacWright on fancy software tools. Although tools such as Webflow, Squarespace, Semplice, and Notion are impressive in their own right and all fulfil specific needs, they are also needlessly complex (in a way). We have entered an era of design...
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On the same day I removed all the books from one of the bookcases, dusted the shelves and reorganized the volumes, one of our cats leaped into an open cupboard in the kitchen. One of the four pegs supporting the middle shelf was missing and Trane’s weight tipped it enough so a...
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How a pair of wealthy outsiders, Edith and Edgar Stern, helped inspire the first neighborhood development exclusively available to Black middle-class families.
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I grew up on pumpkin muffins. Every fall, without fail, my mom would make them by the dozens in her heart-shaped muffin mold, and I'd eat them for breakfast, sneak them into my lunchbox, frost them for dessert after dinner, and snack on them off courts at tennis meets. But I...
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We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for every raindrop and every eyelash to get through the daily tasks punctuating the unbidden wonder of...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A few weeks ago I restarted one of my favorite habits: a daily evening walk. I want to share a couple of reasons why I love this habit so much, and how I recommend starting it if you find that
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I have no idea if this'll work but let's give it a try. 20 questions hide and seek I'll be there from 10am to 11am. I shall have Squeezy Pig with me. Your questions go in this comments box. comments if(postComments['89451144195511'] != null){document.write(' (' +...
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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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I always keep my eyes peeled for a new tube map, even when one isn't scheduled. So I was surprised to see a cover I'd never seen before in the rack at Bow Road station yesterday morning. It was mostly black, and they don't make tube maps with mostly-black covers so I thought that...
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Many of the most important questions for running an organization don’t have clear answers. In most engineering organizations, both the teams working on infrastructure and the teams working on product feel they are undersized. It’s also true that most individuals feel they are...
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Stoicism is a school of ancient Greek philosophy that aims to teach individuals how to live a good life by focusing on rationality, self-control, and mindfulness. Despite its ancient roots, Stoicism has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years as people look to improve...
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It’s possible to have a useful conversation about what to do about something that’s broken or needs improvement. But first, we must acknowledge that it happened. It’s not controversial to understand the facts, the data and the shifts that are happening in the world we live in. In...
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Weeks after it was clear that Donald Trump lost the 2020 election, you could still make pennies on the dollar betting Joe Biden would win. Why doesn’t smart money drive out dumb money in election markets?
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Published in the February 1950 issue of Partisan Review was a “symposium” -- always a feature beloved by editors and loquacious respondents – this one titled “Religion and the Intellectuals.” Such things tend to be heavy on posturing and vast generalizations. I might have been...
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There are many things we mistake for love — infatuation, admiration, need — but there is no error of the heart graver than making another our higher power. This may seem inevitable — because to love is always to see the divine in each other, because all love is a yearning for the...
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This is a note to self: Except where absolutely necessary, stop being fancy. When confronted with, “Can this be done?” If the answer is an immediate "Yes", go ahead, do that. But if the answer is, “Well, you could, but you’d have to…" Just stop right there. Don’t go do...
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Peter Marshall  has taken us around London the 1980s, showing us graffiti in London, garages, sex shops, the West End, the East End and all parts between. Our focus here is in the cars on London’s roads in the 1980s. David Rostance took his pictures of London cars in the 1970s....
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Hello reader, my name is Shawn, and I'm one of the co-founders of Good Enough. I'd like to tell you a bit about how Good Enough came to be and what we plan on doing here. Barry and I started working together again in early 2022. By “work,” I mean that I’d show up on Slack for a...
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Wanted to write a note but I guess this warrants a proper post since I’ve completed my main aspiration for 2024! Today while trying our home pull-up bar I realised I could...
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Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged…
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really freaky part is when you hear about this going on in medical research. Today's News:
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You can search Github for unusual commit IDs: There are over 2k commits starting with 0000000! While looking for commits like these, I started to become suspicious that people were intentionally modifying their commits IDs to be unusual: A commit ID of eeeeeee, with a message...
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More details and reviews on Amazon This book has a different, more human approach to management and leadership, unlike most books that are usually written by top-level CEOs. Julie's journey from IC role to Manager is more relatable, at least to me. 3 premises I got from the
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Taste varies. That’s why we don’t call it utility. Taste is individual preference, not absolute truth. In team settings, then, it’s much more helpful to say, “I prefer this over that,” instead of, “this is wrong.” Some things are wrong. There are standards that we can all accept...
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Researchers recently published an extensive survey of almost 6,000 students across academic institution in Sweden. The results are not surprising, but they do give a snapshot of where we are with the recent introduction of large language model AIs. Most students, 56%, reported...
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THE RIGHT TO THE CITY: Who has the right to move freely through the city and who doesn’t? Map of Lima, Peru About the project TRANSitar Lima is a project that seeks to create a visual record of transphobic violence, based on collective mapping sessions. Trans, transvestites, and...
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A few weeks ago, I saw a flurry of conversation about how you can now disallow OpenAI from indexing your personal website using robots.txt: User-agent: GPTBot Disallow: / That felt a bit “ex post facto“ as they say. Or, as Jeremy put it, “Now that the horse has bolted—and...
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What does a guy like me do when not working on a new game? Except living my life, being a coach for my little brother’s hockey team and eating strawberries? The last week or so I’ve been working hard with my webpage, yes this page. If you’ve visited my site before today you’ll...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Leave Him Something to Imagine' “I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with a few of...
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“I am now beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with a few of the cold seeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on with my uncle Toby’s story, and my own, in a tolerable strait line.”  By the time a persevering reader has reached Book...
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Next in exploring PL/pgSQL: Implementing a Forth-like interpreter PostgreSQL comes with a builtin imperative programming language called PL/pgSQL. I used to think this language was scary because it has a bit more adornment than your usual language does. But looking deeper,...
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There’s a phenomenon that I think of as “life imitiates art imitates life imitates art…ad infinitium”. A work of art – a drawing, a painting, a movie – is base don reality and augments, making it look better than it does in real life, and then people change what they’re doing to...
macwright.com
Get the text of an uploaded file in Remix by () This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and...
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This took way too long to figure out. The File polyfill in Remix has the fresh new .stream() and .arrayBuffer() methods, which aren’t mentioned on MDN. So, assuming you’re in an action and the argument is args, you can get the body like: const body = await...
Math Is Still...
‘A-Team’ of Math Proves a Critical Link Between Addition and Sets A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture...
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A team of four prominent mathematicians, including two Fields medalists, proved a conjecture described as a “holy grail of additive combinatorics.” The post ‘A-Team’ of Math Proves a Critical Link Between Addition and Sets first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Zipf’s Law Elements of Data Science is in print now, available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. To...
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Elements of Data Science is in print now, available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. To celebrate, I’ll post some excerpts here, starting with one of my favorite examples, Zipf’s Law. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In almost any...
Applied Cartography
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There are few technical decisions I regret more with Buttondown than the decision to combine the author-facing app, the subscriber-facing app, and the marketing site all under a single domain. Most technical decisions are reversible with sufficient grit and dedication; this one...
Hundred Rabbits
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It was our dream to have a little wood stove aboard Pino. After researching stoves, we decided that the best model was the cast iron Sardine from Navigator Stoveworks. Our Espar forced air diesel heater broke on our last passage, and we decided not to replace it. There are few...
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Every now and day blog posts about what it takes to be a good programmer or how you figure out if someone is a bad programmer arrives. There’s always talk about how you find the good programmers in interviews and the topic is always hot in schools and universities. Today I read...
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No, AI Is Not “Disrupting” Architecture In my latest column for The Nation, I take on the specter of AI and the idea that it is coming for architects’ jobs.
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Introducing PageRoast 2021-03-11 Following up with my concept of releasing small side projects weekly, I have officially launched PageRoast. What is PageRoast I hear you ask? Receive a detailed report analyzing your landing page with actionable items to improve your conversion...
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A common problem in software engineering is avoiding confusion and errors when dealing with multiple types of data that share the same representation. Classic examples include differentiating between measurements stored in different units, distinguishing between a string of HTML...
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One of my goals this year was to participate in a Ludum Dare. I have cleared up my schedule, negotiated with my better half and everything is set up for epicness. At first the idea was to make a game in rust, even tough I basically haven’t used it in almost a year, but when I...
Arduino Blog
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Asset tracking has become increasingly crucial across various industries and applications. Whether you’re a logistics company monitoring your fleet, a conservation organization tracking wildlife, or an individual passionate about outdoor adventures, the ability to track and...
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If you use JavaScript or TypeScript for backend development, Node is the most popular choice of framework. A new runtime called “Bun” is taking this space by storm. Lessons from this sudden rise.
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Preemptive Pluralization is (Probably) Not Evil What if we just assumed we might have two of everything?
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Ken Shirriff's blog
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To use the Montreal subway (the Métro), you tap a paper ticket against the turnstile and it opens. The ticket works through a system called NFC, but what's happening internally? How does the ticket work without a battery? How does it communicate with the turnstile? And how can it...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: She sells printer ink cheaper than anyone, but you DO NOT ASK HOW. Today's News:
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He’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If...
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Yizhi “Patrick” Cai is coordinating a global effort to write a complete synthetic yeast genome. If he succeeds, the resulting cell will be the artificial life most closely related to humans to date. The post He’s Gleaning the Design Rules of Life to Re-Create It first...
Flashbak
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St. Patrick’s Day, 2003, Kenneth Anger wrote a letter asking me if I wanted to line-produce his next film Arrangement in White on Green. It was to be a film about cricket. A sports film was the last thing I ever imagined the director of Lucifer Rising would make. I was intrigued....
Cheese and Biscuits
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Beautiful 15th century Lambeth Palace is a strange London landmark - widely recognisable, with a stately position Thames-side and passed by a number of busy bus routes, it is nevertheless very rarely visited, most of the main structures off-limits as the Archbishop of...
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One of the principles I live by is a belief that the more you look, the more you see. It's a simple mantra but it contains the meaning of life. Or at least I think it does. I am probably wrong.
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Consider Seriously My Condition' Soon after he is shipwrecked on an island off the coast of Venezuela and has finished...
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Soon after he is shipwrecked on an island off the coast of Venezuela and has finished salvaging everything useful from the wreckage, Robinson Crusoe builds a calendar:  “After I had been there about ten or twelve days, it came into my thoughts that I should lose my reckoning of...
Seth's Blog
The pitfall of Big Game thinking In the US, today is a major holiday. The Superb Owl, with nachos, commercials and beer. People who...
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In the US, today is a major holiday. The Superb Owl, with nachos, commercials and beer. People who don’t even watch football watch this game, and it’s one of the largest audiences each year on TV. For a certain kind of mass marketer, a Super Bowl ad has been the gold standard for...
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How I use Roam Research I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot...
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I take lots of notes and I’m always looking for that perfect note taking app. Because I take a lot of notes, mobile-first note taking apps (e.g. Google’s Keep) are of no interest to me. To me most important thing is: lowest possible friction in adding new notes fast way of...
Inverted Passion
Why time seems to pass faster as we age 1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as...
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1/ I’ve been mega-obsessed with this feeling. A year as a 36-year-old seems so much shorter as compared to when I was a kid or even as a teen. It seems cosmically unfair – we have fewer years to live, and each year flies by faster. 2/ But, why is that happening? My tentative...
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Crafting a support network Sometime in late 2018, the concept of having a support network clicked for me.
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A quick, incomplete thought about Squid Game 2 This one thing about Squid Game really sticks in my craw…
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Quite Far I was at a project site in Rockaway this week. As the crow flies, about 13 or 14 miles from the...
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I was at a project site in Rockaway this week. As the crow flies, about 13 or 14 miles from the office; by subway about 18 miles and a little over an hour. (It would have been less, but the lift bridge on the train causeway was open for a boat to pass.) Apple Maps […]
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with links on AI scaling, particular new East Asian record-breaking work & deep reinforcement learning.
NeuroLogica Blog
ChatGPT Almost Passes Medical Licensure Exams The emergence of several AI applications for public use, such as Dalle-2, Midjourney, and ChatGPT,...
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The emergence of several AI applications for public use, such as Dalle-2, Midjourney, and ChatGPT, had made AI one of the biggest science news items of the past year. I have written about it here extensively myself, and have been using these applications extensively to get a feel...
UX Collective
Is “founder mode” a rebrand for micromanaging, top-down leaders? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Moneyness
Thoughts on the Tornado Cash defence and what happens when everyone adopts it Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance,...
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Payments companies are regularly punished for engaging in money laundering. MoneyGram, for instance, has has to pay multiple fines. Western Union was famously busted in 2017. Meanwhile, Cash App is being probed as we speak for inadequate anti-money laundering controls. In the...
TheCollector
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Spoon & Tamago
Isometric Drawings of Sento, Kissaten and other Japanese Establishments by Honami Enya rendering of the Takara-yu sento in Tokyo Japanese illustrator Enya Honami uses a style of...
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rendering of the Takara-yu sento in Tokyo Japanese illustrator Enya Honami uses a style of architectural rendering known as isometric drawings to faithfully recreate cross-sections of Japanese public bathhouses, or sento. Honami is a skilled draughtswoman by trade, having...
The Rational Walk
Hesiod’s Works and Days One of the oldest surviving books provides advice that is just as relevant to our lives today as it...
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One of the oldest surviving books provides advice that is just as relevant to our lives today as it was 2,700 years ago.
Internal Tech Emails
When Apple considered buying Bing Can I imagine that Apple can build a search engine to compete. Yes but it’s probably not the best...
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Can I imagine that Apple can build a search engine to compete. Yes but it’s probably not the best way to differentiate our products.
anderegg.ca
Two flavours of open social media Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new...
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Yesterday, the Mastodon team announced it would be handing over control of its project to a new non-profit organization. The timing of this announcement is perfect given everything that’s happening with WordPress, Meta, and… well, everything else. To date, I think Eugen Rochko...
Open Culture
Spin the 17th-Century Death Roulette Wheel & Find Out What Would Have Killed You in 1665 A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they...
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A common historical misconception holds that, up until a few centuries ago, everyone died when they were about 40. In fact, even in antiquity, one could well make it to what would be considered an advanced age today — assuming one survived the great mortal peril of childhood, and...
TheCollector
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A Smart Bear
Stop saying "fail" Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations...
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Language shapes our perception of setbacks. Use words other than "failure" to describe situations and to suggest the next step.
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
Birchtree
My favorite (and least favorite) movies of 2024 I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to...
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I’ve watched 48 new release movies in 2024, and with just a few weeks left in the year, I wanted to make what is my current top 10 (plus honorable mentions & worst movies). As we get to the end of the year and you might have some
Rest of World -...
Catching a break: How gig workers find rest Rest of World asked over 100 gig workers across 10 cities how they take a break between tasks.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
How PostHog built an app server (from MVP to billions of events) PostHog's mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. To achieve it,...
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PostHog's mission is to increase the number of successful products in the world. To achieve it, we're building a comprehensive suite of analytics and…
Spoon & Tamago
Tomona Matsukawa’s Realistic Paintings Reconstruct Fragments of Everyday Life “Morning will come and my feelings will ease a little” (2024), Oil on linen mounted on panel...
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“Morning will come and my feelings will ease a little” (2024), Oil on linen mounted on panel Kyoto-based artist Tomona Matsukawa creates realistic and somewhat dramatic oil paintings that are each inspired by conversations with other women of her generation, often strangers. The...
TheCollector
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