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Nadia Asparouhova
The New American University I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president,...
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over a year ago
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out,...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Rob Jones I am a textiles artist working with Japanese techniques such as Shibori, shaped resist and Katagami...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I am a textiles artist working with Japanese techniques such as Shibori, shaped resist and Katagami stencilling (using indigo to dye the fabric). I also work with formal Japanese embroidery techniques - Sashiko and Kogin (counted thread) embroidery as well as some Boro inspired...
Escaping Flatland
Becoming perceptive This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my...
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4 months ago
This is the second part of an essay series that began with “Everything that turned out well in my life followed the same design process.” It can be read on its own.
Anecdotal Evidence
'He Has Embalmed So Many Eminent Persons' Over the years I wrote thousands of pieces – hard news stories, features, columns, obituaries,...
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9 months ago
Over the years I wrote thousands of pieces – hard news stories, features, columns, obituaries, reviews of books, movies and music – for the newspapers where I worked in Ohio, Indiana and New York. They’re clipped and saved in a chaotic file cabinet. Most, I, like the rest of the...
The American Scholar
Tramping With Virginia A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of...
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A seminal essay about walking the streets of London can present challenges in the classrooms of today The post Tramping With Virginia appeared first on The American Scholar.
History Today Feed
Who was Thorkell the Tall? Who was Thorkell the Tall? JamesHoare Wed, 11/27/2024 - 10:20
a month ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if your Index Page was Smart? Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls? It was cool to hang out at the mall—until it wasn't
3 weeks ago
Inverted Passion
Notes from the book “Magic Words” Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a significant amount of time in assembling the thoughts we want to convey, but assume the words to convey them as a given. 2/ This book – written by a professor of business – takes the view...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Protein Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If demand is high enough, SMBC will reorient all business around the production of nugs. Today's News:
Diaries of Note
It seemed like a general conflagration In 1807, three years after shooting Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel, former Vice President of the...
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a year ago
In 1807, three years after shooting Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr was indicted for a second time, for treason. Having once been at the pinnacle of American politics, he was now accused of plotting to carve out his own...
Math Is Still...
The Year in Computer Science Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer...
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a year ago
Artificial intelligence learned how to generate text and art better than ever before, while computer scientists developed algorithms that solved long-standing problems. The post The Year in Computer Science first appeared on Quanta Magazine
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The only college major that matters If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of those companies, or work as an employee in…
Tony Finch's blog
inlined nearly divisionless random numbers a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded...
6 months ago
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a blog post for international RNG day Lemire’s nearly-divisionless algorithm unbiased bounded random numbers has a fast path and a slow path. In the fast path it gets a random number, does a multiplication, and a comparison. In the rarely-taken slow path, it calculates a...
xkcd.com
Classical Periodic Table
4 months ago
Neil Panchal
Introducing Berkeley Mono Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Now publicly available! Berkeley Mono Typeface Download a trial: https://berkeleygraphics.com/typefaces/berkeley-mono It will be available through Berkeley Graphics agency as a first release. Berkeley Mono Typeface Berkeley Mono is a love letter to the golden era of computing....
TheCollector
The AIDS Epidemic: A Heartbreaking Story undefined
11 months ago
ntietz.com blog
Unpacking some Rust ergonomics: getting a single Result from an iterator of them Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy. One of the least discussed ones is also one of my favorites. It's a little nugget in the standard library that makes handling possible failures a lot easier. And it's not even baked in—it just falls out from the type...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Cobot Proxie Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
a month ago
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a month ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit: 11–12 December...
markround.com
Haiku Package Management Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have...
a year ago
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a year ago
Discussion on Hacker News Discussion on lobste.rs I’ve long since been a die-hard BeOS fan and have been running the open-source recreation Haiku for many years. I think it’s interesting to explore the “alternative OS” world and consider some great ideas that for whatever reason...
Rest of World -...
Riders in the smog Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Rest of World equipped gig riders across South Asia with pollution monitors. The readings were off the charts.
TheCollector
Peter Singer’s Famine, Affluence, and Morality: Is Charity Good? undefined
a year ago
Commoncog
Dell's Capital Expertise We trace Michael Dell's skill at the art of capital in business, and use it to examine how skill at...
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We trace Michael Dell's skill at the art of capital in business, and use it to examine how skill at capital allows you to make moves that aren't available to a novice business operator.
Classical Wisdom
Forgotten Gods Nature Spirits of Greek Myth
7 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🙈 Copying doesn’t matter
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
The most surprising tech champions of 2024 From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions...
a month ago
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a month ago
From Threads to Bluesky and Zello to Black Myth: Wukong, a handful of small and large tech champions stood out for their impressive growth this year.
The Elysian
Will you explain anarchism to me? Letters to an anarchist, part one.
2 months ago
Gwern.net Newsletter
August 2020 gwern.net newsletter with an essay on sidenotes; links on human competence, efficient-computing/hardware-overhangs; no...
over a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
Software 2.0
over a year ago
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
Seth's Blog
A small shopping list (floss and more) Here are some books and household items that I wanted to share. I’m mostly into audiobooks these...
a year ago
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Here are some books and household items that I wanted to share. I’m mostly into audiobooks these days–a good narrator combined with a good author is pretty rare and wonderful… It turns out that a breakthrough rice cooker is a bargain, even if it seems expensive at first. The...
Varun's Notes
You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
over a year ago
Open Culture
Thousands of Pablo Picasso’s Works Now Available in a New Digital Archive If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Pablo Picasso, you might start at the Museo Picasso...
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If you want to immerse yourself in the world of Pablo Picasso, you might start at the Museo Picasso Málaga, located in the artist’s Spanish birthplace. But to understand how his work developed throughout his life, you’ll have to get out of Spain — which is just what Picasso did...
Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Alignment Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine filed a meritless lawsuit and Automattic responded, and there’s been a hurricane of public activity and press. Inside of Automattic, there’s been a parallel debate and process....
Good Enough
Thoughts On Thoughts It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s time for a revolution. Too long have we, collectively and individually, been tyrannized by our thoughts and what we believe about them. Or perhaps we can think of this as an intervention. This post is the circle of friends gathered to help us stop hitting ourselves in the...
Atoms vs Bits
Sleep Setup in case you were wondering
a month ago
Old Structures...
Four Views For Advertising From 1909, we’ve got some amazing sketches of the view from the Singer Building, created to show how...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
From 1909, we’ve got some amazing sketches of the view from the Singer Building, created to show how wonderful it would be to have an office there. South: West: North: East: I’m not going to go into detail about all the buildings you can see, as I’ve done so many times before....
African History...
a brief note on Ethnicity and the State in Africa the evolution of the Tutsi/Hutu dichotomy in the precolonial Great Lakes.
8 months ago
Computer Things
New blog post: Composing TLA+ Specifications Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers....
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Post here! It's a really advanced TLA+ technique that I'm sure will alienate 90% of my readers. Patreon here. Anyway, I'm off to get a bone graft. Proper newsletter will come later this week when I've got more time to write.
Explorations of an...
Day Two At Río Bigal - Brilliant Birding and Magnificent Mothing The Pink-throated Brilliant.  There are, of course, many other weird and wonderful species that call...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Pink-throated Brilliant.  There are, of course, many other weird and wonderful species that call Río Bigal home, but I was first drawn to the idea of visiting this reserve while reading about the enigmatic Pink-throated Brilliant. This rare hummingbird lives only in forest in...
Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
a year ago
Kevin Chen
Saving six round trips with OCSP stapling I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was trying to figure out why my site was so slow on my phone after I enabled HTTPS. After all, TLS is supposed to be fast now, right? But even when there was plenty of bandwidth, it still took several seconds to load a page of text. One WebPageTest later, and I found the...
Seth's Blog
Choose your customers …choose your future. It’s an odd way to think about your project, your job, your startup, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
…choose your future. It’s an odd way to think about your project, your job, your startup, but there’s little that matters more. There are two key elements: At one extreme is the first few years of Google’s growth. The salesforce didn’t matter–the customers showed up on their own,...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sorry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later, he gets a bill anyway. Today's News:
10 months ago
Making software...
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut 2021-12-06 I recently decided to switch my personal, static...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hosting a Jekyll Site on Sourcehut 2021-12-06 I recently decided to switch my personal, static site's hosting from Netlify to sourcehut pages. The process went fairly smoothly with only a couple minor hiccups; nothing rage-inducing. After everything was up and running smoothly, I...
brr
South Pole Topography The relentless accumulation (and management) of snow.
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Teach Your Children .... Not to be afraid of moral relativism.
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Cured The official test earlier this week was negative too. Most of the symptoms are gone, but some days I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The official test earlier this week was negative too. Most of the symptoms are gone, but some days I cough...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse engineering the barrel shifter circuit on the Intel 386 processor die The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Intel 386 processor (1985) was a large step from the 286 processor, moving x86 to a 32-bit architecture. The 386 also dramatically improved the performance of shift and rotate operations by adding a "barrel shifter", a circuit that can shift by multiple bits in one step. The...
Chris Nicholas
A new blog for 2024 It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024,...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
Nelson's Weblog
PreSonus Eris speakers PreSonus makes good computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100 for a...
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7 months ago
PreSonus makes good computer speakers. They’re marketed as “reference monitors” but at $100 for a small set I have my doubts about their referenceness. Fortunately I have a tin ear and they sound just fine for my computer playing YouTube videos, compressed music, games. ...
SatPost by Trung...
I want Apple's Vision Pro The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".
a year ago
Asterisk
Is Wine Fake? Wine commands wealth, prestige, and attention from aficionados. How much of what they admire is in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Wine commands wealth, prestige, and attention from aficionados. How much of what they admire is in their heads?
Rest of World -...
Samsung knowingly exposed workers to highly toxic chemicals, whistleblower claims In Vietnam, a key production base, a former safety officer alleges the factory also dumped chemicals...
a year ago
brr
South Pole Signage Please close doors quietly!
a year ago
Louwrentius
Experiences running ZFS on Ubuntu Linux 12.04 I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I really like ZFS because with current data sets, I do believe that data corruption may start becoming an issue. The thing is that the license under which ZFS is released does not permit it to be used in the Linux kernel. That's quite unfortunate, but there is hope. There is a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Moving to a GitHub CMS Discussing the 2022 migration of swyx.io to SvelteKit and GitHub Issues
over a year ago
The personal website...
Better problem solving: unask the question When faced with a challenging problem, it’s important to have a reliable and re-usable plan of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When faced with a challenging problem, it’s important to have a reliable and re-usable plan of attack. As I put a great amount of faith in hard science, my go-to problem-solving method is typically what’s called “hypothesis testing” — that is, the typical “scientific method” we...
Good Enough
Season 1, Issue 1: The Loneliest Number 1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
1. Confirmed Positive After two years of running from reality, it has finally happened for my family. I have tested positive for SARS Coronavirus-2, the virus that causes COVID-19. For this honor, I would like to thank our society’s collective tiring of virus mitigation. It truly...
Map of the Week
Thirty Day Map Challenge 2023-Days 24-30 The final installment of this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge.  Day 24 - Black and White I had no...
a year ago
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a year ago
The final installment of this year’s 30 Day Map Challenge.  Day 24 - Black and White I had no thoughts ahead of time on this one. I wanted to do something with raster data and the easy, quick thing (this often requires taking the easy and quick route) was to grab the Natural...
Marco.org
Low Power Mode on the Mac Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Laptop battery life is decreasingly relevant to me as more airplanes offer power outlets. But sometimes you lose that lottery, as I did on my latest 8-hour daytime flight. Apple’s “Up to 10 hours” claim doesn’t apply to my work,1 which is usually a mix of Xcode, web browsing, and...
Mazdak
Elon Musk Lashes Out at Advertisers Leaving X ⚡️ Musk's Fiery Response to Advertiser Exodus 💥 "Go Fk Yourself," Musk Says to Advertisers** 🚀 X...
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⚡️ Musk's Fiery Response to Advertiser Exodus 💥 "Go Fk Yourself," Musk Says to Advertisers** 🚀 X CEO Defiant Amidst Advertising Boycott In a fiery exchange at the 2023 DealBook Summit in New York, Elon Musk unleashed a barrage of profanity at advertisers who have pulled their...
TheCollector
How Did Alexander Become ‘the Great’? undefined
a year ago
diamond geezer
A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos London Zoo is an acclaimed repository of...
a year ago
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a year ago
A skinflint's guide to visiting London's zoos London Zoo is an acclaimed repository of globally-sourced animals, as well as a conservation hub and a prestige tourist attraction. But it's a bit pricey with tickets costing £27 on weekdays and £31 at weekends, or even more on the...
bt RSS Feed
Perspective Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and...
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Perspective 2024-08-06 I recently read both Starting Hospice and No Salt posted on Jake’s blog and was quite moved. I don’t know Jake and have never met him - but his writing and shared experiences give a very real look into his mind and perspective. If you haven’t yet, I...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Zoology: Why are there so many animal models? Inside the emerging model menagerie.
a year ago
Ben Borgers
Ben Forms
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Twin Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The cape cost three dollars, but it's an...
a year ago
mtlynch.io
My Second Year as a Solo Developer Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I...
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over a year ago
Two years ago, I quit my developer job at Google to build my own software business. A year later, I posted an update about my finances, happiness, and lessons learned. Today marks the end of my second year, so it’s time for another update. How I made and spent money Metric 2018...
bt RSS Feed
Styling Empty Table Cells Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you’re bound to come...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Styling Empty Table Cells 2019-07-17 Often when designing tables on the web you’re bound to come across empty pockets of data. These will be rendered as “blank” table cells, which isn’t always the intended outcome. Let’s take a quick look at how to target and style empty table...
Vitalik Buterin's...
An Incomplete Guide to Rollups
over a year ago
diamond geezer
The Taylor Swift tube map The most important event of the summer, if publicity is to be believed, is the arrival of Taylor...
6 months ago
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The most important event of the summer, if publicity is to be believed, is the arrival of Taylor Swift to play eight gigs at Wembley Stadium. Taylor, as you'll be aware, is a billionaire singer from West Pennsylvania whose hit canon includes Shake It Off and several lesser known...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Blogpost Annealing Letting my writing improve under the heat of feedback
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pro Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Pro Wrestling is the most realistic form of entertainment, in that nothing means anything, but everyone still gets hurt. Today's News:
CONTEMPORIST
A New Extension And A Garden Studio For This Heritage-Listed Home Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town...
a year ago
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Paul Archer Design has sent us photos of a rear addition they completed for a Grade II Listed Town House in Greater London, England. Not only did they design the addition, but they also created a small garden studio that provides a workspace for the musician owner. A large...
Ben Borgers
I Run My Life on Reminders
over a year ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Parsing MIDI messages in Rust I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI. That means I need a MIDI...
a month ago
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a month ago
I'm working on a terrible idea of a project, and this project uses MIDI. That means I need a MIDI implementation! I chose to use an existing library, midir, to connect to devices and receive messages. But the reason I was interested in this not-yet-announced project is because I...
Working Theorys
Writer-Builders Theory #39 | The archetype of new kind of renaissance man
8 months ago
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 12: What's Next, and Speedrunning Crafting Interpreters And that's it. My batch at RC ended yesterday. I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
And that's it. My batch at RC ended yesterday. I have so many thoughts and feelings from this time, but it's going to take time to coalesce them all. I'll write up my Return Statement1 in a week or two, but for now, here's what I was up to the last week! Mostly, this last week...
CONTEMPORIST
Two Spiral Staircases Help Create This Unique Home Design Architect Alexis Dornier together with interior designer Silvia Fairman, have completed a new home...
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Architect Alexis Dornier together with interior designer Silvia Fairman, have completed a new home in the Balinese jungle, that features a unique design centered around a pair of spiral staircases. Drawing inspiration from the beauty of nature and a desire to challenge...
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim undefined
a month ago
Steven Scrawls
Easy Questions, Part 1: Introduction Easy Questions, Part 1: Introduction What if our stories explore questions not because those...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Easy Questions, Part 1: Introduction What if our stories explore questions not because those questions are interesting, but because those questions are easier to respond to than the alternatives? Trope: The Chosen One What’s the shallow, wish-fulfillment version of...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 057: Claude 3 March 8, 2024.
10 months ago
mtlynch.io
Zestful: Month 5 Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Zestful Month 5:...
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over a year ago
Prior to February 2019, I published all my retrospectives on Indie Hackers: Zestful Month 5: Launched, but Still No Customers
Explorations of an...
Making The Most Of Our Seoul Layover October 21, 2024 Laura and I had a long layover scheduled in Seoul, South Korea. I was pleasantly...
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October 21, 2024 Laura and I had a long layover scheduled in Seoul, South Korea. I was pleasantly surprised to find out that there were no visa requirements for Canadians and so we schemed how we could leave the airport to go see some new birds. Neither of us had explored this...
Ian Betteridge
Ten Blue Links “I’m late, I’m late, for a very important date” Edition 1. Who rules us? Google changed its rules on what kind of behaviour it regards as “spam” and, of...
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1. Who rules us? Google changed its rules on what kind of behaviour it regards as “spam” and, of course, the impact on some companies will be pretty negative. The behaviour it is targeting is so-called “parasite SEO”, where a publisher allows a third party to create content for...
History Today Feed
Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling Why Uruguay Legalised Duelling JamesHoare Mon, 10/21/2024 - 08:00
2 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for May 2023 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects and apps during the month of May. We'll also be reporting in our on position in the world, and on our future plans. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, updated jib cars, and added new recommendations on the...
99% Invisible
The Power Broker #03: David Sims [EPISODE] This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This is the third official episode, breaking down the 1974 Pulitzer Prize winning book, The Power Broker by our hero Robert Caro. Blank Check podcast co-host and The Atlantic movie critic David Sims is our book club guest. On today’s show, Elliott Kalan, Roman Mars, and David...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Suit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Depending on which AI becomes skynet you might also...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Depending on which AI becomes skynet you might also be able to have a suit with banal political questions. Today's News:
Stephen Wolfram...
What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The Mystery of Machine Learning It’s surprising how little is known about the foundations of machine learning. Yes, from an engineering point of view, an immense amount has been figured out about how to build neural nets that do all kinds of impressive and sometimes almost...
Flashbak
Très Parisien: The Height Of French Chic 1920-1936 Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Très Parisien magazine sold itself as ‘chic’ and ‘elegant’. Published between 1920 and 1936 it presented creations by such couturiers as Louise Chéruit, Premet (best known for La Garconne, or The Flapper, a black dress with a white collar and cuffs introduced in 1923, Philip et...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Magnetism, an Ardor, a Refusal to Be False' “It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
“It’s against his nature to be a critic—he is too grateful.”  That’s from one of Elias Canetti’s notebooks, collected in Notes from Hampstead (trans. John Hargraves, 1998). While I admire the work of a handful of critics – Dryden, Johnson, Winters, Cunningham, a few others –...
Explorations of an...
A Rare Hummingbird Twitch In Ecuador October 22, 2023 I recently returned from Ecuador where I had spent the previous couple of weeks....
a year ago
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a year ago
October 22, 2023 I recently returned from Ecuador where I had spent the previous couple of weeks. The main purpose of the trip was to lead a tour for Worldwide Quest to the Galápagos archipelago, but I made some time for a little extra-curricular birding as well. If I was going...
Ryan Mulligan
Starting Exploration of Scroll-driven Animations in CSS CSS Scroll-driven Animations has recently made its debut on the main stage in the latest versions of...
a year ago
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a year ago
CSS Scroll-driven Animations has recently made its debut on the main stage in the latest versions of Chrome and Edge. Before this module became available, linking an element's animation to a scroll position was only possible through JavaScript. I've been (and still am) a huge fan...
ToughSF
Piracy in Space is Possible Part II: Armed Merchants and Pirate Patrols There's more to piracy than just attacking a target and running away afterwards.  Put yourself in...
over a year ago
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There's more to piracy than just attacking a target and running away afterwards.  Put yourself in the shoes of a pirate, a merchant or the authorities. What would you do? Fighting back Pirates intercepting, attacking and ransoming a merchant crew should be...
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Collections: The Afterlife of the Roman Republic This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate...
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This week we are taking a look at what ended up being the ‘runner-up’ in the latest ACOUP Senate poll (we’ll also do the winner, “The Problem with Sci-Fi Body armor” before year’s end, worry not), the “Afterlife of the Roman Republic,” which is to say a look at the continued...
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Momentum and mean reversion might just be volatility bias The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at...
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The Economist just published an article called The best, the worst and the ugly. By looking at historical performance for mutual funds, they find strong support for momentum and mean reversion. Picking the best or the worst fund over the previous five years gives great returns...
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There's a lot to be said about the redevelopment/regeneration/whitewashing (delete as applicable) of Elephant and Castle, and I am singularly unqualified to say it. I'm not trying to avoid the issue (honest), but am very aware that having nothing invested in the old place and...
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Ten Years of Global Marine Traffic
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photo by teerayut hiruntaraporn Japan’s cherry blossoms usually get all the attention for their short-lived beauty. But equally ephemeral are Japan’s Nemophila, or Baby Blue Eyes. And once a year, around late April to Early May, an astounding sea of 5.3 million of these little...
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Next-level frosted glass with backdrop-filter Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing...
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Glassy headers have become a core part of the “slick startup” UI toolkit, but they’re all missing that final 10% that really makes it shine. In this tutorial, you’ll learn how to create the most realistic lush frosted glass anywhere on the internet.
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Non-Invasive Deep Brain Stimulation We are rapidly entering the era of neuromodulation – using electrical and magnetic fields in order...
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We are rapidly entering the era of neuromodulation – using electrical and magnetic fields in order to increase or decrease the activity of specific regions and circuits in the brain. Such treatments are already shown to be effective in treating some Parkinson’s symptoms,...
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Boeing Starliner Launches Soon If all goes well, Boeing’s Starliner capsule will launch on Monday May 6th with two crew members...
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If all goes well, Boeing’s Starliner capsule will launch on Monday May 6th with two crew members aboard, Butch Wilmore and Suni Williams, who will be spending a week aboard the ISS. This is the last (hopefully) test of the new capsule, and if successful it will become officially...
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Slayyyy. EmoHerb Harmony by CreativeByDefinition The brand identity and packaging design for Slayyyy was inspired by harmony and finding the perfect...
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The brand identity and packaging design for Slayyyy was inspired by harmony and finding the perfect balance for each individual....
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2016 in Review See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in...
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See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in Netrunner. Won a couple of smaller Netrunner tournaments. Got Veronica to play Game of Thrones with us. She beat us and she loved it! Programmed a little bit of Elixir and a tiny bit of front...
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My solar-powered blog is now on Lithium Iron Phosphate In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi -...
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In my last blog post I discussed how a small solar project - to power this blog on a Raspberry Pi - escalated into a full-blown off-grid solar setup, large enough to power the computer I use at the moment to write this update1. In this update, I want to discuss my battery...
Anecdotal Evidence
'It Bubbles and Chuckles Along' “Persistently obscure writers will usually be found to be defective human beings.”  A truth I had...
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“Persistently obscure writers will usually be found to be defective human beings.”  A truth I had been waiting to hear for much of my life. Willful obscurity (which is not the same as complexity) is favored by writers contemptuous of readers. Avant-gardistes often fancy...
The Rational Walk
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A Dangerous Interregnum, Trump's Energy Policy, Damodaran on ESG, Buffett in 1970, Inflation's Role in Trump's Victory, Taxes in Retirement, James J. Hill, IKEA, F. A. Hayek, Shakespeare
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Two big Open House openings on opposite sides of Lincoln's Inn Fields. Open House: Lincoln's Inn Lincoln's Inn is the largest occupying 11 acres on the eastern side of Lincoln's Inn Fields (which was named after it, not the other way round). It's been here for at least 600...
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Apple should tell Indians what it knows about politicians’ phones being hacked The Silicon Valley giant’s muted public response after several Indian opposition leaders received a...
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The Silicon Valley giant’s muted public response after several Indian opposition leaders received a message that their devices may be compromised is doing more harm.
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Jan 2020 Recap a belated recap, highlighting my best writing over the past couple months
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The Real Divorcees of Facebook Marketplace For sale: wife shoes, hardly worn
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Maps of Julian Hoffman Anton I'm always excited to find new cartographic artists. Here are some maps from Julian Hoffman Anton....
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I'm always excited to find new cartographic artists. Here are some maps from Julian Hoffman Anton. The first one is his Tokyo Eat Map. I've cropped the map a bit to fit the format of this page. To see it all click here. This is really a heat map showing restaurant density. Egg...
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Fireside chat with Reid Hoffman on AI, Big Tech, & Society Notion was kind enough to host a fireside chat between myself and Reid Hoffman on AI. Transcript and...
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The American Scholar
Sheep Jones Swimming below the surface The post Sheep Jones appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Roman Mars Describes Chicago As It Is [EPISODE] A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he...
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A few years ago, at the very start of the pandemic, Roman Mars wrote an episode of 99pi in which he simply talked about design details in his house — realizing that he, like the audience, didn’t have many other places to go. )You should check it out — it’s a real time capsule,...
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Decision Brownouts In thinking about decision-making under stress, most people focus on fight-or-flight responses. Both...
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In thinking about decision-making under stress, most people focus on fight-or-flight responses. Both fighting and fleeing are obvious courses of action that inherit a clear sense of direction from the characteristics of the threat itself, and are energized by the automatic...
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Serial Dependence Bias As I have discussed numerous times on this blog, our brains did not evolve to be optimal precise...
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As I have discussed numerous times on this blog, our brains did not evolve to be optimal precise perceivers and processors of information. Here is an infographic showing 188 documents cognitive biases. These biases are not all bad – they are tradeoffs. Evolutionary forces care...
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The 21st century direct-to-TV game console: a dirt-cheap toy dragging poor ports of cherished games to a more downmarket age. If you couldn't afford the real device, your alternative was these inexpensive, inadequate facsimiles faithful only to one's gauzy recollection. As their...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Other dilemmas take a few billion years, but they all work out eventually. Today's News: Just 10 more days!
Seth's Blog
Hiring for stuck Once an organization figures out a successful model, it begins to grow. And when it grows, it needs...
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Once an organization figures out a successful model, it begins to grow. And when it grows, it needs more staff. And they often hire for specific tasks and the skills that go with them. They need a person who will reliably and obediently deliver what they need right now. And...
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The Two Most Important Skills for Interaction Designers They are almost certainly not what you think they are. Good interaction design depends upon a...
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They are almost certainly not what you think they are. Good interaction design depends upon a very long list of skills, from a practical understanding of formal design concepts to the speed and efficiency with which you wield digital design tools and navigate a variety of...
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Google diversity memo, global warming, Pascal's wager, and other stuff There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple...
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There's about 765 million blog posts about the diversity “memo” that leaked out of Google a couple of weeks ago. I think the case for any biological difference is pretty weak, and it bothers me when people refer to an “interest gap” as anything else than caused by the...
Castles in the Sky
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Why is it ok to divide by 0.0? This explains why the division by zero in floating point numbers is ok.
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Don't use Tailwind for your Design System
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An interactive quiz about microoptimizations in CUDA. 10 rounds, two pieces of code per each, you get to guess which is the faster.
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Glamping Tents Designed By Architects Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they...
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Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they designed for the Costa del Sol Glamping Village in Spain. Each tent’s structure is made entirely of laminated pine wood, with a volume formed from three porticoes that support the...
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A New Brewery in Yobuko Wants to Revive the Former Whaling Town Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of...
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Photos by Hiroshi Mizusaki courtesy Case-Real Architects The Town of Yobuko, located at the tip of North-Western Kyushu, is named after the migratory path that whales swam. Beginning in the 1700s, Yobuko prospered as a whaling town, birthing the idiom, a single whale flourishes...
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How to fix ZFS pool not importing at boot Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything...
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Issue description You are running a Linux-based machine with an install of ZFS on Linux. Everything seems to work correctly, but after restarting your machine, the ZFS pool is not visible. You can still import your pool manually using zpool import poolname or zpool import -a. In...
Diaries of Note
The important thing is to keep going Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who...
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Born in London in 1909, Stephen Spender’s talent was recognised early on by T.S. Eliot, who published Spender’s first book, Poems, at Faber & Faber in 1933. Spender wrote the following diary entry six years later, a few days after lunching with Eliot and with the world teetering...
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The Third World War Has Been Cancelled. It was all too difficult, finally.
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Podcast submission notes Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to....
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Getting started Web stuff & RSS Podcasts are distributed via RSS feeds that people can subscribe to. You need to generate podcast-specific RSS: start by reading Apple's requirements and looking at the RSS feeds of other podcasts. Some specific RSS fields <itunes:type>: You need...
Flashbak
Snapshots of London Going Mad For Christmas In the 1980s When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a...
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When they unpacked the 76h Christmas tree sent to the people of London from the City of Oslo as a token of gratitude for British support to Norway during the Second World War, it looked bedraggled. So before it went up on Trafalgar Square, the decorators nailed some of the...
High Signal
10 stoic quotes for entrepreneurs Stoic quotes can be a great comfort to you, especially if you are an entrepreneur. Building a...
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Stoic quotes can be a great comfort to you, especially if you are an entrepreneur. Building a business is hard work so it's important to build resilience. That's where stoicism comes in! Stoicism is not about being an emotion-less robot but more about not letting your
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Desalination: a Future of Infinite Water Desalination is finally cheap, and it’s only getting cheaper. Will this usher a world of plentiful...
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Desalination is finally cheap, and it’s only getting cheaper. Will this usher a world of plentiful water everywhere? Will we be able to build in the Sahara?
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How we built our onboarding email flow (with actual performance data) Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks...
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Marketers believe onboarding emails are a powerful tool for driving engagement. Everyone else thinks they're annoying and ineffective. The truth, as…
Classical Wisdom
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Blog - Mac Pierce
Loading, please wait... Starting the 1A2A3D project. Starting out on a project looking at the first amendment, second amendment, and 3-D printing.
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Applied Cartography
January, 2025 Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.) Headlining...
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Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.) Headlining this month was my annual review; everything else is flotsam. But, speaking of flotsam: A quick development note on the order attribute in CSS Notes on Linear and Fathom Why...
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Travelog: Damage and Weirdness Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty...
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Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty thorough job of strapping the corners of this small building in Bath, as well as installing some kind of pinning at the middle of the side wall. It’s not clear which way the floor spans...
Spoon & Tamago
School Lunch Provider Creates Manga Milk to Encourage Kids to Finish Their Milk Seki Milk, a Gifu-based provider of milk and other dairy-based products to local schools, had long...
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Seki Milk, a Gifu-based provider of milk and other dairy-based products to local schools, had long been dealing with an inconvenient truth. A large majority of students—65%, according to their own research— weren’t finishing their milk. This was leading to food loss but also a...
TheCollector
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Spirits packaging design by BXL creative The bottle has a special emblem with an illustration of the Latin motto meaning “holy guardian of...
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The bottle has a special emblem with an illustration of the Latin motto meaning “holy guardian of peace”. What other...
Grow With Less
Do Headline Analyzers Work? A Data-Driven Answer Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their...
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Headline analyzers are a popular way to come up with great headlines and try to predict their effectiveness. All you need to do is write your headline and the tool will give it a score telling you how effective it’s likely to be. But can these free headline analyzers accurately...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#24) Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S....
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Economists had a good 2023, degrowthers promising growth, the troubles in the humanities, U.S. redistribution, and defense production
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The unchecked rise of theocracy will extinguish liberal democracy. As a transgender woman, under any form of populist theocracy, my existence would be illegal. This...
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As a transgender woman, under any form of populist theocracy, my existence would be illegal. This is the reality of governance by faith-based doctrine. And it's a reality that cannot be allowed to spread. Religious freedom is a cornerstone of liberal democracy. Individuals...
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Why you should measure tail latencies The response times of your service can cost you dearly if left unchecked. Even when a small fraction...
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The response times of your service can cost you dearly if left unchecked. Even when a small fraction of requests experiences extreme…
A Collection of...
Collections: How Many People? Ancient Demography One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is...
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One of the first questions anyone asks about past societies is, ‘how many people were there?’ It is one of those basic bits of information and generally speaking those of us who teach these societies are usually prepared with an estimate to answer the question. But what we often...
Arduino Blog
Save 20% on Arduino Cloud Maker Plan this May! Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino...
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Enhance your IoT projects with our special offer! Get 20% off a yearly subscription to the Arduino Cloud Maker Plan using code CLOUD20MAY. Valid until the end of May, this deal saves you $14.38, reducing the price from $71.88 to $57.50. Benefits of the Maker Plan: What is Arduino...
Nela Dunato Art &...
My art studio renovation (that took 4 years to complete) Having a dedicated office or studio is not a requirement for creating great art, but I think we can...
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Having a dedicated office or studio is not a requirement for creating great art, but I think we can all agree that it helps. After years of moving around and making the best of what I had, I embarked on a mission to turn a tiny, cluttered space into a beautiful art studio and...
Musings on Markets
Invisible, yet Invaluable: Valuing Intangibles in the Birkenstock IPO! A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering, and noted that the...
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A few days ago, I valued Instacart ahead of its initial public offering, and noted that the reception that the stock gets will be a good barometer of where risk capital stands in the market, right now. After a buzzy open, when the stock jumped from its offering price of $30 a...
Copper • A blog...
The complex simplicity of my static websites It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my...
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It was the spring of 2014, over 9 years ago, just 6 months into my first year of college, when my Computer Architecture teacher stopped in the middle of an assembly exercise to tell us that Bitdefender is hiring juniors for Malware Researcher positions. I had no idea what that...
Ryan Mulligan
Web Components for Password Input Enhancements So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the...
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So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the idea even came up but it quickly snowballed into a curious expedition. The result from the journey was a set of custom elements that provide extra functionality and information about...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Lunar Cycle and Suicide Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no...
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Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no matter how hard it is to confirm any actual effect. It’s now a cultural idea, deeply embedded and not going anywhere. A recent study, however, seems to show a correlation between...
bunnie's blog
Designing The Light Source for IRIS This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their...
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9 months ago
This post is part of a longer-running series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique. IRIS allows us to see the insides of certain types of chips, even after they are soldered to a circuit board. This is possible...
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – An Extension Adds New Living Space For This Home In London Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects has designed the contemporary renovation and addition for a...
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Bradley Van Der Straeten Architects has designed the contemporary renovation and addition for a Grade II listed terrace home in the London borough of Islington. The original house, which is spread over three floors, was in poor condition and had lost its charm and original...
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How to add JSDoc Typechecking to SvelteKit As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to...
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As I build out swyxkit, I am finding that I am no longer prototyping and that I need to be able to refactor with confidence.
Josh Thompson
Accomplishments and Achievements We’re encouraged to accomplish and achieve, yes? From birth, we pass milestones. Generally these...
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We’re encouraged to accomplish and achieve, yes? From birth, we pass milestones. Generally these milestones grow in complexity as we add to our abilities - it’s been a while since I’ve been rewarded for not wetting myself - but they are usually on par with our abilities. For...
Open Culture
Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish” Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program...
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Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program Face-to-Face in 1959 and was asked a closing question: What would you tell a generation living 1,000 years from now about the life you’ve lived and the lessons you’ve learned? His...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Particle Health And Pulling Patient Data | Out-Of-Pocket One API, one dream
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Flashbak
AREA: Cards and Invitations from the Fabulous New York Nightclub, 1983–1986 From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he...
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From 1983 to 1987, 157 Hudson Street in Manhattan, New York City, was home to Area. Frequented by he great and good, the  club was known for its changing themes (every six weeks the place got a new look – an approach inspired by Zurich’s 1916 Dadaist club Cabaret Voltaire) and...
TheCollector
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DYNOMIGHT
Datasets that change the odds you exist 1. It’s October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis just happened, thankfully without apocalyptic nuclear...
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1. It’s October 1962. The Cuban missile crisis just happened, thankfully without apocalyptic nuclear war. But still: Apocalyptic nuclear war easily could have happened. Crises as serious as the Cuban missile crisis clearly aren’t that rare, since one just happened. You estimate...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Cursed with an Acute Literary Conscience' Who among critics would begin a review with so seemingly inartistic a statement?:  “Some writers...
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Who among critics would begin a review with so seemingly inartistic a statement?:  “Some writers have a dread of platitudes. I have not. What is a platitude but an expression of the wisdom of the ages, the synopsis of a theory that was long ago propounded, tested, established,...
Paul Cudenec
Life philosophy: against the destructive will of Mammon It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely...
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It is today not considered possible by our culture for a sane and serious person to be entirely opposed to the modern world, to its infrastructure and to its thinking.
alexwlchan
Turning off ECS tasks overnight using an EventBridge Schedule At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example,...
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At work, we have a bunch of ECS services that run 24/7, even though they don’t need to. For example, we have a staging version of our website, where we test new changes before they’re deployed to the live site. We’re only making changes during UK office hours, so running the...
Archinect - Features
Upcoming Architecture School Admission Deadlines You Shouldn’t Miss As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting...
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As 2024 winds down, there’s still time to apply to architecture programs! Many schools are accepting undergraduate and graduate applications through January and February 2025 (and some even beyond that).  If you’re planning to start your architecture journey in Fall '25, check...
The Ruffian
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Brief items - light-driven diamagnetism, nuclear recoil, spin transport in VO2 Real life continues to make itself felt in various ways this summer (and that's not even an allusion...
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Real life continues to make itself felt in various ways this summer (and that's not even an allusion to political madness), but here are three papers (two from others and a self-indulgent plug for our work) you might find interesting. There has been a lot of work in recent...
Escaping Flatland
6 lessons I learned working at an art gallery On agency, doing value-aligned work, and making your job fun
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AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition July 5, 2024.
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Christopher Butler
Designing for (Realistic) Attention The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a...
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The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a webpage — like a service detail page — have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I’m really recommending that it ask a reader to commit to 30 seconds. To put that in perspective, a...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Thinking beyond value-based care | Out-Of-Pocket Maybe there’s more to life than shared savings
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Dan Slimmon
Putting a meaningful dent in your error backlog We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand....
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We often don't realize how noisy the errors have gotten until things are already well out of hand. After all, we've got shit to do. Deadlines to hit. By the time we decide to get serious about error management, a huge, impenetrable, meaningless backlog of errors has already...
Maps Mania
Standing on Top of the World
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Seth's Blog
Anti-smart There’s a difference between intellectual and smart. A plumber is smart, they know how to do a...
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There’s a difference between intellectual and smart. A plumber is smart, they know how to do a skilled and effective job on the task at hand. Intellectualism isn’t about practical results, it’s a passion for exploring what others have said, though this approach is sometimes...
Josh Thompson
Preparing to adopt a habit There are many habits I wish I had. More times than I can count, I have tried to get up early. I...
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over a year ago
There are many habits I wish I had. More times than I can count, I have tried to get up early. I faithfully set my alarm for some crack-of-dawn time that leaves me with a reasonable amount of sleep, but gives me time to myself before I have to get ready for work. Almost as many...
Open Culture
Kurt Vonnegut’s Lost Board Game Is Finally for Sale Kurt Vonnegut’s life was not without its ironies. Fighting in World War II, that descendant of a...
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the Kyoto Aqarium’s 2020 Penguin Relationship Flowchart Penguins, the way they waddle around and protect their eggs, are often thought of as cute, cuddly and romantic. But those who observe them for extended periods know they have a dark side. Two aquariums in Japan, Kyoto...
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Recently, I have had to explain to people what is it that I want to do. This question is difficult to answer for two reasons. The first reason is I am not yet strongly pulled into a specific position. My ideal answer would be “I want to do X role at company Y.” Short. Concise....
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I've read about 100 management books by now but if there's something that always bothered me it's the lack of first principles thinking. Basically it's a ton of heuristics. And heuristics are great, but when you present heuristics as true objectives, it kind of clouds the...
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For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
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When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected. The...
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Many years ago, when I was a student at RISD, one of my favorite places to visit was the Clipping File. It was an extension of the RISD Library — a vast collection of printed images and clippings organized with a card catalogue. If you ever needed source imagery for a project...
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Every year during the time of my birthday I would try to travel out of Singapore, even if it is just to somewhere an hour’s flight away. When I was much younger...
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Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
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While I have not conducted a formal survey, I think I have the right impression when I say that most university cartography courses, at least in the United States, are taught by people whose primary job (when they are not teaching) is not the regular production of maps. These...
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The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!  In fact, it was the first paper I was a co-author on, after linking up with the Department of Environment and Conservation through an ANNiMS internship program.  The paper was...
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There has been a lot of discussion lately about the markets for startup financing. Many of the discussions use words like “valuations…
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With a tiny bit more planning I made a dinner out the lessons 4 and 5 as the crabcakes were only supposed to be an appetizer: Crabcakes: Surprisingly delicious. Both me and Veronica gives them a 7. Zucchini: While I thought they passed Veronica said “Zucchini is not my thing” and...
Open Culture
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How to run finance at your startup without hiring a finance person We run finance at PostHog without a dedicated finance person. This is a comprehensive, step-by-step...
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Handprinted - Blog
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Once you've made an etching plate, you may be ready to print an edition - or you might want to proof it to decide on further edits. Taking a print is the only way you’ll be able to see how your plate is progressing. This blog is part of a series featuring tips and techniques to...
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There’s no getting away from the din. Who knew the human voice, individually and in the collective, could carry on this way? An innocent question or observation prompts a sonic explosion. I’m unable to get that angry and loud so quickly. Perhaps if my family were threatened....
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Understand your conversion rates better, PostHog 1.28.0 has launched! Significantly revamped performance for slower queries, advanced engagement cohorts, SAML support, and many more improvements and fixes.
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Previously on Deep Space Nine, we discussed the extensive and variable products that AT&T and telephone operating companies sold as private lines. One of the interesting properties of private line systems is that they can be ordered as four-wire. Internally, the telephone network...
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Foundation Contributing an original map to GC’s newest Shelter: An Atlas was very appealing to me for a couple of reasons: One, as an independent map illustrator, it would give my work wide exposure. Two, it would put me in good company with other talented mapmakers. Suggestions...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Popular The City Hall Station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line – a station that’s been abandoned since 1945...
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9 months ago
The City Hall Station on the IRT Lexington Avenue Line – a station that’s been abandoned since 1945 – is probably more popular to use as a backdrop in movies (and comic books) than any other. It’s really not a typical station: it’s much more ornate than most, it only has one...
Jordan’s Substack
On Building Git for Lawyers Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of...
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Over this past weekend, Twitter discovered the problem that I have dedicated the past four years of my life to solving. Why don't lawyers and other non-coders use git?
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The Absolute Best Way to Run Multiple npm Scripts in Parallel in 2022 Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log...
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Just a quick tutorial and explanation of how best to set up concurrently with named and colored log output since I had to look it up today.
Ryan Mulligan
CSS Scroll-triggered Animations with Style Queries Topping my CSS wishlist in 2024 are scroll-driven animations and style queries. At the time of...
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11 months ago
Topping my CSS wishlist in 2024 are scroll-driven animations and style queries. At the time of writing this post, both lack full support but I've got fingers crossed they become available in all evergreen browsers not too long from now. I had done some exploration of...
Maps Mania
Introducing the Sunderland Collection
a year ago
Working Theorys
Before the Crowd Shows Up The arena rewards those who arrive early.
9 months ago
Atoms vs Bits
I Rarely Saw The Plots Resolve What (doesn't) happen next will shock you
a month ago
Home on Erik...
Top posts These are some blog posts which have gotten a disproportionate amount of traffic (10,000+ page...
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These are some blog posts which have gotten a disproportionate amount of traffic (10,000+ page views): 2024 It's hard to write code for computers, but it's even harder to write code for humans 2023 Simple sabotage for software 2022 We are still early with the cloud: why...