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Common Edge
What Happened to New York City Public Housing, and How Can We Fix It? The former chief architect for NYCHA on what ails the the system.
9 months ago
Flashbak
Plants With Faces From A 15th-Century Italian Medicine Book The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest...
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a year ago
The 15th-century Italian herbalist could consult the illustrated Erbario and thereby know the latest medieval conventions, sometimes depicted in water colour with fantastic elements such as human faces. The medicinal properties and preparations of the plants.     Via University...
Internal Tech Emails
Inside Google's negotiations with Apple I would let them try someone else for search if they don’t like our last offer.
a year ago
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Paradigms, AI, Pentium, Netflix, China, SBF
5 days ago
TheCollector
Voices from Chinese Christianity: Between Christ and Confucius undefined
a year ago
African History...
Acemoglu in Kongo: a critique of 'Why Nations Fail' and its wilful ignorance of African history. There aren’t many Africans on the list of Nobel laureates, nor does research on African societies...
2 months ago
TheCollector
Here’s What to Know About the History of Lake Como’s World-Famous Villa undefined
2 months ago
A Smart Bear
The roadmap to Product/Market Fit… maybe This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to...
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a year ago
This eight-step process brought WP Engine from an idea to a Unicorn. While there are other roads to Product/Market Fit, consider copying some of these ideas.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Using Web Components on My Icon Galleries Websites I recently redesigned my icon gallery sites. The goal: create a layout that allows you to customize...
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a year ago
I recently redesigned my icon gallery sites. The goal: create a layout that allows you to customize the view around the collection of icons you’re looking at by changing the size and spacing of the grid — sort of like the thumbnail view on macOS finder. I’m happy with how it...
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a...
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Editor’s Note: Due to the sheer amount of interesting material here we decided to break this into a three-part article. We thank our avid reader “S” who suggested this topic and graciously helped with our research. Could a nation’s bathing culture be influenced by
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Call for Entries: Finding Forte Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
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Contributed by Fonts In Use Staff Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved. The call for entries is now open! Forte in use for a shop sign, spotted by Tom Koch in Siem Reap, Cambodia. Source: www.tomkoch.net Tom Koch. License: All Rights Reserved....
The Marginalian
The Art of Lying Fallow: Psychoanalyst Masud Khan on the Existential Salve for the Age of Cultish... On inviting the state of being that "allows for that larval inner experience which distinguishes...
a year ago
Quentin Santos
You can move !Unpin Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the...
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a month ago
Although I am now mostly comfortable with Rust, some concepts still elude me. One of them is the exact meaning of Unpin. The documentation says: The documentation of Unpin says: Types that do not require any pinning guarantees. Where pinning is described as: From this, you could...
Maps Mania
Find Your Future Climate Zone
6 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Fixing URL validation in WebCard <![CDATA[I fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard I have been stuck with for almost a week. When...
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<![CDATA[I fixed a URL validation bug of WebCard I have been stuck with for almost a week. When creating a new card, the function WCD.AskURL brings up a dialog and loops prompting for a URL to go with the card until the input is valid. After the fix the input dialog looks like...
Ben Borgers
Am I a Gym Bro Now?
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
A Deep Dive in Tailwind Font Settings (tip) Take a deep dive on multiple approaches for controlling typographic settings on an element with...
5 months ago
Maps Mania
The US Heat Risk Map
8 months ago
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for November 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of November. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added an article named A Shining Place Built Upon The Sand, and Week 6 to the Victoria to Sitka Logbook. Rabbit Waves, added a page on Morse Code...
TheCollector
Who Was Tertullian? undefined
11 months ago
tomcritchlow.com
9 Years on the Road October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I...
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October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I write a set of reflections about this strange and magical journey.
Calculated Risk
CoreLogic: US Home Prices Increased 3.4% Year-over-year in November Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for November. The recent Case-Shiller index...
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2 days ago
Notes: This CoreLogic House Price Index report is for November. The recent Case-Shiller index release was for October. The CoreLogic HPI is a three-month weighted average and is not seasonally adjusted (NSA). CoreLogic: Northeastern, New England States Continue to Lead US for...
TheCollector
8 Famous French Artists Who Achieved Greatness undefined
9 months ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVa: Philip V This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look...
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This is the first part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb) look at why the thing to use to beat a Macedonian sarisa phalanx is, in fact, a Roman legion in the third and second century BC. Last time, we finished our look at the third-century...
The DESK Magazine
Let's talk about AI Many of you have asked me to write an essay with my thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence). So in...
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a year ago
Many of you have asked me to write an essay with my thoughts on AI (Artificial Intelligence). So in the spirit of things, I've tasked ChatGPT to write this article for me.
David Heinemeier...
Until the end of the internet It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and...
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a year ago
It's hard to know what'll stick around when shopping for software online. Popular services and crucial products get shut down all the time. You can't even trust that major conglomerates like Google to provide something you can count on two-five-ten years from now. And if you're...
Adventures In...
Close Encounters of the Cartographic Kind I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the...
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I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the family last night and nerded out when I saw a character that claimed to be a cartographer. I always do. It was the cartographer who recognized that the signals the aliens sent were...
Math Is Still...
A Rosetta Stone for Mathematics In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating...
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8 months ago
In 1940 André Weil wrote a letter to his sister, Simone, outlining his vision for translating between three distinct areas of mathematics. Eighty years later, it still animates many of the most exciting developments in the field. The post A Rosetta Stone for...
Construction Physics
Roman vs Modern Concrete There's a new paper out exploring some of the chemical mechanisms at work in Roman concrete. As per...
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There's a new paper out exploring some of the chemical mechanisms at work in Roman concrete. As per usual, it’s triggered a round of enthusiastic discussion of Roman concrete, and how its ability to last for millennia puts modern concrete (which often fails after a few decades)...
Citation Needed
POSSE: Reclaiming social media in a fragmented world A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still...
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A simple technique offers the best of both worlds: total control over your own work, while still maintaining a presence on third-party platforms.
AFAR Media - Travel...
The 15 Best Luxury Hotels in California
a year ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Dayton, Ohio Part 6 (Breweries) It’s the eternal question. Should I lump all of the brewery visits into a single article or should I...
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It’s the eternal question. Should I lump all of the brewery visits into a single article or should I spread them within the series? Well, as always, it depends. This time I decided to discuss them all at once because of a simple fact of geography. We visited eight breweries...
abdz.do - Have you...
Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around ...
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Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around abduzeedo0212—23 Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love and remind us that it is all around us. This year, instead of buying generic gifts, why...
Home on Erik...
Learning from users faster using machine learning I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're...
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I had an interesting idea a few weeks ago, best explained through an example. Let's say you're running an e-commerce site (I kind of do) and you want to optimize the number of purchases. Let's also say we try to learn as much as we can from users, both using A/B tests but also...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Being a minor AI public figure I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf:...
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I was recently involved in moderating a chat with Kanjun Qiu of Imbue at the MIT AI conf: https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipNJ9i78ICeg2YuemyAXmtStKvqr9l0Tao3xQWxmeAVjBALHn_NnFvPXFlNSkdMfqA?pli=1&key=dTFRRHBTLVRZTEVCem0zal8tNVkxblh0V3k4VXhR
Dreams of Space -...
Moon Base (1959) Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base"...
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Number 2 in Nephew and Chester’s space quartet.: Moon Base. Just saying the phrase "moon base" brings me a sense of excitement and nostalgia. In fact one of my treasures is my talking Dr. Evil Doll that says "Welcome to my moon base". Nephew, William and Chester, Michael....
Society's Backend
Pelosi opposes SB 1047, New LLM Training Paradigms, Prompt Caching to Save 90% of API Costs, and... Machine learning resources and updates 8/19/2024
4 months ago
Arduino Blog
Receive an alert when your device goes offline in Arduino Cloud You’re managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations....
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You’re managing a network of IoT sensors that monitor air quality across multiple locations. Suddenly, one of the sensors goes offline, but you don’t notice until hours later. The result? A gap in your data and a missed opportunity to take corrective action. This is a common...
Odds and Ends of...
WATCH: Were the US election polls right? My conversation with polling guru Mark Pack
a month ago
Mazdak
Tesla's Robotaxi: A Gamble? Elon Musk finally took the wraps off his highly anticipated Cybercab at Tesla's "We, Robot" event on...
2 months ago
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Elon Musk finally took the wraps off his highly anticipated Cybercab at Tesla's "We, Robot" event on October 10th.
There are two types...
Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There are better ways to spend $10 billion than rebuilding the BQE New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change...
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New York City plans to spend more than $10 billion on a project that will speed up climate change and increase the number of New Yorkers killed by traffic and pollution. The good news is that the city will hold … Continue reading → The post Traffic Flow and the Status Quo: There...
Unpacked
IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending...
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Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending two decades of Intuit's regulatory capture of the tax software market
Jonas Hietala
Why I still blog after 15 years Time flies when you’re having fun. Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Time flies when you’re having fun. Before you know it, your little babies have started school, you celebrate the 30th anniversary of Jurassic Park, and that little blog you started have now been going for 15 years. 15 years is a long time; longer than I’ve been waiting for Winds...
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...
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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...
Old Structures...
Ancient Sensationalism Sometimes you learn a little historical nugget and you don’t think about it. It sits in the back of...
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2 months ago
Sometimes you learn a little historical nugget and you don’t think about it. It sits in the back of your head for years – decades, actually, in this case – until you’re reminded of it. The murder of Gulielma Sands in 1799 is a good example. It was a tragedy for Ms. Sands and a...
Old Structures...
Twelve Years Undemolished This photo from 1954 was taken from the top level of the Queensboro Plaza Station, looking west to...
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5 months ago
This photo from 1954 was taken from the top level of the Queensboro Plaza Station, looking west to Manhattan. That’s the Queensboro Bridge on the right. If you take the 7 train to Flushing, as I used to, the odds are not bad that you’ll change trains at this station, as it’s...
Stephen Wolfram...
How to Think Computationally about AI, The Universe and Everything Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics....
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a year ago
Transcript of a talk at TED AI on October 17, 2023, in San Francisco Human language. Mathematics. Logic. These are all ways to formalize the world. And in our century there’s a new and yet more powerful one: computation. And for nearly 50 years I’ve had the great privilege of...
Rest of World -...
A U.S. outsourcing company brought lofty promises to Nepal. Then came the layoffs Former employees say the company killed the dream it once sold them.
a year ago
A Collection of...
Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’ This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
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6 days ago
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
Paul Graham: Essays
Why Twitter is a Big Deal
over a year ago
The Modern House
 A look inside Issue No.6 of our magazine The new issue of our print magazine has just landed in our shop – and it’s filled with stories that...
a year ago
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a year ago
The new issue of our print magazine has just landed in our shop – and it’s filled with stories that look at the journeys we go on with our homes, from the emotional paths they take us on, to the very real process of renovating […]
Nat Eliason's...
Using ChatGPT as a Writing Coach How to improve instead of atrophy
a year ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Why I prefer JS for front-end build automation Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every front-end project involves some automation to build it, test it, lint it, run dev servers, measure bundle size, and what not. npm scripts are fine for one-liners, but as the workflows grow more complex — run these things in parallel, then do something else, but only if...
Open Culture
Archaeologists Discover an Ancient Roman Sandal with Nails Used for Tread A recreation of the military sandals. (Photo: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation)...
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5 months ago
A recreation of the military sandals. (Photo: Bavarian State Office for Monument Preservation) Whether you’re putting together a stage play, a film, or a television series, if the story is set in ancient Rome, you know you’re going to have to get a lot of sandals on order. This...
Math Is Still...
The Year in Biology In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life,...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a year packed with fascinating discoveries, biologists pushed the limits of synthetic life, probed how organisms keep time, and refined theories about consciousness and emotional health. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
Who Were the Utopian Socialists? undefined
9 months ago
Business Brainstorms
Squeeze page builders, better Bible App, why you're stuck, 1X vs. 2x Founders, talk to people! Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “There is a desperate need for new software devs in the...
xkcd.com
Island Storage
a year ago
exist
An Intriguing Triangle
over a year ago
Christopher Butler
Periodical 14 – v DIY While you’re here, make the world your own. Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as...
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While you’re here, make the world your own. Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as home. Home should be a makerspace! At any level — food, art, life, clothing, and on to more difficult craft like furniture and construction — everyone should have their hands in...
Construction Physics
Mass Timber is Great, but It Will Not Solve the Housing Shortage A short policy memo recently posted on the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) website argues...
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10 months ago
A short policy memo recently posted on the Federation of American Scientists’ (FAS) website argues that “mass timber can help solve the housing shortage.” It was posted as part of the Housing Ideas Challenge, a collaboration between FAS, Matt Yglesias and a few other...
Classical Wisdom
The "New" Ancient City Discovering Kavala...
8 months ago
History Today Feed
US President or American Caesar? US President or American Caesar? JamesHoare Thu, 09/26/2024 - 08:00
3 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How-to Guide for Art Enthusiasts in Dallas
6 months ago
Simply Explained
Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
TheCollector
Was Riothamus the Real King Arthur? undefined
6 months ago
Roberto Vitillo's...
Counting at scale How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How engaged are users for a certain segment of the population? How many users are actively using a new feature? One way to answer that…
Josh Thompson
Depression I’m starting to write more regularly these days. For a long time, I’ve hardly written anything, or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m starting to write more regularly these days. For a long time, I’ve hardly written anything, or only written when external circumstances required me to write something. For example, when I give a talk, I always create a page to “support” the talk, that I can link to in slides,...
A Beautiful Site
Get comfortable with abstraction I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I stumbled across a tweet the other day and it's been resonating in my mind ever since. Mostly because it's something I tend to have a problem with. You see, I have this thing where I try really hard to understand exactly how something works—all the way down to the last nut and...
davidyat.es
Review: Bezos
3 months ago
TheCollector
Third-Party Candidates: The Outsiders in US Elections undefined
3 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How To Make Your Own Card Game | Out-Of-Pocket Want to bring a board or card game to life? Here's what you can expect in terms of costs and money...
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Habits to start I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven’t been feeling quite as forward or as energetic lately. There are no set plans, habits or goals for this spring and I don’t have a clear vision of what to do currently but it also feels… fine? Maybe I will cruise in a lower gear for a while and rev up when my mood...
Confessions of a...
Substack has Failed Indian Creators Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the problems I (and many other Indian writers) have faced in monetizing their writing on Substack, even after being here for years, bringing in thousands of new readers and producing...
The Ruffian
27 Takes On What It Means To Be a Serious Person Plus a rattle bag of goodies
8 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useEffect sometimes fires before paint useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
useEffect should run after paint to prevent blocking the update. But did you know it's not really guaranteed to fire after paint? Updating state in useLayoutEffect makes every useEffect from the same render run before paint, effectively turning them into layout effects....
The Convivial...
If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11
4 months ago
Adventures In...
Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 2, Mountains “I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains. And then find somewhere where I can rest.” In...
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11 months ago
“I want to see mountains again, Gandalf, mountains. And then find somewhere where I can rest.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life...
Maps Mania
The Real-Time GPS Spoofing Map
3 weeks ago
Irrational...
Getting lucky isn't a plan. One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than...
a year ago
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a year ago
One piece of flippant commentary that you’ll hear occasionally is that it’s “Better to be lucky than to be good.” On an individual level, it’s almost certainly true that being very lucky outperforms being quite good: I certainly know a number of folks who are financially...
David Heinemeier...
What is HiFi I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless...
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I grew up in a home where music was always playing. My father repaired electronics, so an endless stream of speakers, amplifiers, turntables, and TVs passed through the household. And all of it had to be tested, of course. At max volume. Sometimes at odd hours. While that was...
Steve Klabnik
"The Rust Programming Language" will be published by No Starch Press
over a year ago
TheCollector
How to Explore the Galapagos Islands for Its Natural Wonders undefined
6 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
A reminder. We are living through the first year of pretending the pandemic never happened and that everything...
a year ago
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a year ago
We are living through the first year of pretending the pandemic never happened and that everything is back to normal. Nobody has had a chance to heal, and this holiday season is going to break a whole lot of people. Be kind.
The Modern House
Father Studio, creators of our sonic identity, on why sound is an integral part of design
a year ago
xkcd.com
Messier Objects
a year ago
xkcd.com
Hydrothermal Vents
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The length trick It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s possible that the memo or video is simply too long. A 14 minute video explaining how to have a 10 minute brainstorming meeting might benefit from some editing. But it might be that your instruction manual would benefit from some more photos and better in depth explanation....
Quentin Santos
Linux Pipes are Slow Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Errata: Some significant mistakes were pointed out to me by email by Brendan MacDonell. I have included errata, but the results might not be reliable, so take this with pinch of salt! vmsplice is too fast Some programs use a particular system call “vmsplice” to move data faster...
Confessions of a...
Predation of juvenile reef fish in coral patches at Ningaloo Reef The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!...
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over a year ago
The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!  In fact, it was the first paper I was a co-author on, after linking up with the Department of Environment and Conservation through an ANNiMS internship program.  The paper was...
SatPost by Trung...
Gordon Ramsay's Apprenticeship The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
The iconic chef said a top-tier mentor (Marco Pierre-White) taught him the value of learning high standards and how to take the reins.
Internal Tech Emails
Google and AI | Elon Musk on Tesla comp Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex,...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Such a deep ML system could well be developed outside of Google-- at Microsoft, Baidu, Yandex, Amazon, Apple, or even a startup.
Kagi Blog
Taking web search through the last mile (This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog (...
over a year ago
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(This piece first appeared on the kagi.ai blog ( https://web.archive.org/web/20200927234617/https://kagi.ai/last-mile-for-web-search.html ) a few short years ago.
Marco.org
The 16-inch MacBook Pro After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast! Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
xkcd.com
Doctor's Office
a year ago
MMapped blog
Tutorial: stable-structures
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
Copilot for cooperations, futility of SOPs, $0->$100m->$0 in 5 years, and adjusting to market... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “Is there a Superhuman for Salesforce? Because this...
The Ruffian
Yog, Andy, and George Wham! and the Struggle For Fun
a year ago
TheCollector
How did the First Ecumenical Council of Nicaea Change Christianity? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Incredible Facts about Marcel Duchamp undefined
6 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Guo Lai Ren (过来人) One of the most powerful forms of persuasion is the argument from crossover people
over a year ago
Made by Ollin
Game Emulation via Neural Network
over a year ago
Citation Needed
Fighting for our web A talk from XOXO
3 months ago
alexwlchan
The Collected Works of Ian Flemingo On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation...
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On Monday evening, about two hundred Mincefluencers descended on the Fortune Theatre for “Operation Human Thermos”, a fan gathering to celebrate Operation Mincemeat, a musical that gives us all the warm and fuzzies. A lot of people dressed in cosplay to mark the occasion, and I...
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A slightly-redacted photo from a Brooklyn site visit, showing a diagram on the wall in a maintenance room: No one I spoke to had floor plans of any kind for the building. I knew it had a steel frame but not where the interior columns were. And then, during a site visit, a handy...
Seth's Blog
Possibility and opportunity We have the chance to build something that creates connection and generates value. On the other...
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We have the chance to build something that creates connection and generates value. On the other hand, a system that diminishes agency and dignity is inherently unstable. When we seek to create scarcity and control and optimize output at the expense of our humanity, it may pay off...
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Post Bootcamp Mindmap What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or...
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What are all the things you can do to improve as a developer after graduating from college or bootcamp?
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Bad code <body> <header>…</header> <main>…</main> <footer>…</footer> <div class="cookie_consent modal"> <p>We use cookies…</p> <div class="cookie_consent__close"> <i class="fa fa-times"></i> </div> <div class="cookie_consent__ok">OK</div> ...
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In the software development realm, asking questions isn’t just a right—it’s a downright necessity. Let’s cut the crap and dive […] The post Asking questions the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
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In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
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When Hurricane Beryl struck Texas last week it left nearly 2 million Houston area residents and businesses without power. Local power company Center Point Energy's online power outage map has been unavailable since May. Social media user BBQBryan noted that Texas based...
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I designed my own keyboard layout. Was it worth it? Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I...
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Almost two and a half years ago I embarked on the journey to change keyboard layout. At first I tried out existing ones, but it didn’t take long before I figured it’s better to develop my own—and things went downhill fast from there. (Some) combos of the T-34 layout. But now...
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The time since the APS meeting has been very busy, hence the lack of posting.  A few items of interest: The present issue of Nature Physics has several articles about physics education that I really want to read.  This past week we hosted N. Peter Armitage for a really fun...
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For most musicians, a long-lost song written in their teenage years would be of interest only to serious fans — and even then, probably more for biographical reasons than as a standalone piece of work. But that’s hardly the case for Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, who was composing...
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When it comes to building successful websites, it's important to gain insights and data about your website visitors in order to enhance their experience. In this guide, we will go over the steps of integrating Fathom Analytics into a Remix application. Creating a site in Fathom...
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What are the defaults? Perhaps they were chosen a very long time ago. Or with very little thought. It could be that the...
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Perhaps they were chosen a very long time ago. Or with very little thought. It could be that the constraints that led to the default are long gone. They might be perpetuating bad choices, injustice or sub-optimal outputs. The best way to fix something is to look at what we assume...
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After writing a few blog posts about Pollen I started getting annoyed that I didn’t have syntax highlighting for the code snippets. So I did a bit of fooling around with Pygments, and it turns out writing a custom lexer isn’t that unreasonable, so here’s how I did it. Pollen...
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The last 12 months, The Pragmatic Engineer covered a variety of deepdives, revealing previously unshared details like what Stripe's engineering culture is like, The architecture evolution of Bluesky, How the ChatGPT scaled to meet demand, How Anthropic builds products, How and...
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I entered 2019 with more optimism than I have ever had going into the new year. I just felt like big things were on the horizon. I was right.
The Marginalian
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * My co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] and I are headed to Hawaii tomorrow morning for a 10 day trip. I just emailed the team, and I thought in line with one of our core...
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This is the town of Purley. three OS Landranger maps. Landranger maps, each drawn to a scale of 1:50000, and between them they cover the whole of Great Britain and its islands. maps tend to align precisely with their neighbours so places appear on one or the other. But...
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“The use of music,” Richard Powers wrote, “is to remind us how short a time we have a body” — a truth nowhere more bittersweet than in the creature whose body is the oldest unchanged musical instrument on Earth: a tiny mandolin silent for most of its existence, then sonorous with...
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It Looked Familiar: Anachronistic The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in...
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The Falcon and Black Widow above the streets of Manhattan…he’s flying and she’s doing gymnastics in mid-air, I guess: The location is instantly recognizable: the building on the far left with the single dormer is the Washington Life Insurance Building at 141 Broadway, the...
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Placemark is now open source! In short: MIT license TypeScript codebase Contributions welcome Placemark is the map editor software-as-a-service that I built for several years. It’s a website where you can import, create, edit, export, publish, and visualize geospatial data. I’m...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I think I finally hit a completely new theodicy. If I can draw this out to 200 pages, I could get a divinity degree. Today's News:
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It doesn’t take an expert in the field to know that, around the world, there is much disagreement on the subject of religion. But as explained in the UsefulCharts video above by Matt Baker, whose PhD in Religious Studies makes him an expert in the field, every source does agree...
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Delivering good taste There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly...
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There are lots of books on creating cooking, photography, writing and music. But they can’t possibly help you do better until you see and taste and appreciate what you’re trying to create. If you think what you’re serving is good, but others don’t, more recipes aren’t going to...
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FTX fraudster Sam Bankman-Fried says he wants a do-over just as Celsius fraudster Alex Mashinsky goes to trial, and some more ill-received blockchain games suggest “GameFi” has an uncertain future.
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An entry dated June 15, 1830 in Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Table Talk: “[Jonathan, not Taylor] Swift was anima Rabelaisii habitans in sicco,--the soul of Rabelais dwelling in a dry place. Yet Swift was rare.”   Now there’s a metaphor that sticks in the mind – “dwelling in a dry...
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So why write a blog? I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass...
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I’ve never been good at maintaining a “professional” profile on the web. It’s bitten me in the ass when I’ve really needed to show off work…
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I still remember the first time I visited Wellcome Collection – just over seven years ago. I was living and working in the Cambridge at the time, and I’d come into London for the day to hang out with a friend who lived near King’s Cross. We wandered up the Euston Road, popped...
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I got back from Los Angeles last night and my head is still spinning. I’d move there again in a heartbeat. There are three great cities in the United States: there’s Los Angeles, Chicago, and New York – in that order. I love Boston; I even love Denver; I like Miami; I think...
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The Museu das Máquinas Falantes (Talking Machines Museum) in Alcobaça, whose project began in 2017, was inaugurated on 25 April...
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Day out: Lavenham well off the beaten track - roughly west of Ipswich and south of Bury St Edmunds. But 500 years ago Lavenham was one of the wealthiest towns in the country thanks to all the money to be made from sheep, specifically the dyeing, spinning and weaving of woollen...
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Reviewing the Surface Book 2 The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I considered. Then the review. Why...
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The first few paragraphs cover what I was looking for and what I considered. Then the review. Why the Surface Book 2 I used a Macbook throughout my professional career until I had the choice a few years ago when I started my current job. Here, I ran Gentoo, then FreeBSD, then...
Seth's Blog
The next one When asked what his favorite composition was, Duke Ellington said, “the next one.” This is the...
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When asked what his favorite composition was, Duke Ellington said, “the next one.” This is the essence of the artistic process. When we’re in the liminal space between now and what is about to come, we’re fully alive.
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I ventured into familiar territory as we started the trip, back to the same eastside of Atlanta that I’d explored just four months prior. That wasn’t a coincidence. I enjoyed the area so much that I wanted the whole family to experience it too. So it made perfect sense to fly...
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CORONACION DAY On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles...
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On 23rd April 1661, a decade after fleeing the country following defeat by Oliver Cromwell, Charles II was crowned king, heralding the restoration of the monarchy and the end of political turmoil. The Abbey was resplendently adorned in reds that day, and the finest of garments...
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Simple sabotage for software CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out...
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CIA produced a fantastic book during the peak of World War 2 called Simple Sabotage. It laid out various ways for infiltrators to ruin productivity of a company. Some of the advice is timeless, for instance the section about “General interference with Organizations and...
Math Is Still...
‘Quantum Memory’ Proves Exponentially Powerful Researchers are exploring new ways that quantum computers will be able to reveal the secrets of...
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Researchers are exploring new ways that quantum computers will be able to reveal the secrets of complex quantum systems. The post ‘Quantum Memory’ Proves Exponentially Powerful first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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A peek into Japan's Convenience Stores (Part 2) Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part article. It will mostly make sense even without...
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Editor’s note: This is the second of a two-part article. It will mostly make sense even without reading Part 1, but you would be missing out on a lot of context! Before we start, let's take a quick detour to talk about that word in the
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I'm hopeful but wary of "empathic" AI A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be...
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A couple of months ago, one of my friends told me about a startup called Hume. I was primed to be skeptical, except that I trust this friend to have a somewhat balanced perspective on this topic. He'd talked to some people there and read their site and generally felt a good vibe...
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Junshanye x Gugo Brand – The national tea aesthetics of Valley Creation Walking in secret places, talking to mountains and seas Transcribing the original power of nature...
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First, a 1908 postcard, issued when the Singer Building was brand new: Second, a photo from about the same time: It’s standard practice in New York real-estate glamor pictures to pretend that the buildings between you and the subject don’t exist. Narrow streets and big buildings...
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Simi Mama Birtoka Chutneys and Jams by Corvin Art School Simi Mama Birtoka is a small family business selling high-quality organic products such as jams,...
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Simi Mama Birtoka is a small family business selling high-quality organic products such as jams, chutneys, syrups and juices. The...
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Looking back When I started this journal, it was still very unclear what it would mean to get covid. If only I...
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When I started this journal, it was still very unclear what it would mean to get covid. If only I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: One of the most reassuring thoughts I've ever had is that the day I die, there will be some young person in my family comparing it to the loss of a hamster. Today's News:
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JET Fusion Experiment Sets New Record Don’t get excited. It’s always nice to see incremental progress being made with the various fusion...
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Don’t get excited. It’s always nice to see incremental progress being made with the various fusion experiments happening around the world, but we are still a long way off from commercial fusion power, and this experiment doesn’t really bring us any close, despite the headlines....
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Year in review: 2022 Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my...
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Every new year I reflect on the previous year and set new goals. I'm focusing primarily on my YouTube channel and newsletter, but there are personal reflections in here as well. Last year was an off year for me, and I'm gearing up to make up for lost time in 2023.
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Turning from Peril to Possibility: Ecological Superhero Christiana Figueres on the Spirituality of... Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from...
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Few things have maimed the spirit of Western civilization more than the myth of our expulsion from the Garden of Eden — a deeply damaging story about human nature, damning us and our relationship to nature. Unthinkingly, we have perpetuated this story in our present narrative...
Math Is Still...
What Can Jellyfish Teach Us About Fluid Dynamics? Jellyfish and other aquatic creatures embody solutions to diverse problems in engineering, medicine...
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Jellyfish and other aquatic creatures embody solutions to diverse problems in engineering, medicine and mathematics. John Dabiri, a fluid dynamics expert, talks with Steven Strogatz about what jellyfish can teach us about going with the flow. The post What Can...
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AI Video Editing, MLX vs PyTorch, AI in Space, and More [Comprehensive ML Resource List for 6/28/24] Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank...
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Here is a comprehensive list of all machine learning resources and updates from the past week. Thank you for supporting Society's Backend! Don't forget to also follow me on X. Claude 3.5 Sonnet Can Long-Context Language Models Subsume Retrieval, RAG, SQL, and More?
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The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans,...
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Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized. The post The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria first appeared on Quanta...
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Maybe you saw Monday's eclipse and were impressed enough to want to travel to see another one or maybe you missed it because life got in the way or you couldn't justify the time and expense of travel. Or, maybe you're like me and foolishly traveled to Rochester, New York where...
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The Past and Future of Architecture Books The recent receipt of two review books got me thinking about the past and the future of architecture...
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The recent receipt of two review books got me thinking about the past and the future of architecture books. The first one is This is Architecture: Writing on Buildings, a collection of excerpted texts about buildings, spanning from the mid-1800s to the 2010s.  This is...
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Tolkien Style Maps in a GIS: part 1, Forests “Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll...
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“Most of the trees are just trees, of course; but many are half awake.” In this 4-part series we’ll walk through the reckoning of a Lord of the Rings style fantasy map, right in ArcGIS Pro. We map-makers get to breathe honest to goodness geographic life into the seminal aesthetic...
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As some of us are or might be, I “am a parent”, or I “have a child”, or something like that. This is complex for me to write and engage with, because something that is certainly true for all of us is that we “have a parent” or we “have been a child”. To talk about any of it is to...
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Tiny Language Models Come of Age To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler...
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To better understand how neural networks learn to simulate writing, researchers trained simpler versions on synthetic children’s stories. The post Tiny Language Models Come of Age first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Does a VC’s brand matter? Suppose you are in the enviable position of choosing between offers from multiple VC firms.  How...
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Suppose you are in the enviable position of choosing between offers from multiple VC firms.  How much should you weigh the brand of the VCs…
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Bananas are (slightly) radioactive. The banana equivalent dose (BED) is a measurement of radiation. It’s definitely not enough to hurt you. When we think about risk, the BED is a useful way to find perspective. Is the exposure this new thing will cause on the order of a banana?...
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Weekend Tournaments This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament...
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This weekend was filled by playing cards. On Saturday I hosted a small Game of Thrones tournament and on Sunday the local Netrunner community hosted a small summer kit tournament. Game of Thrones We’ve had a similar tournament once before when me and my girlfriend invited two of...
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The CroWn Chocolate packaging design is a visual treat that really knows how to stand out while keeping things simple...
Math Is Still...
The Number 15 Describes the Secret Limit of an Infinite Grid The “packing coloring” problem asks how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that...
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The “packing coloring” problem asks how many numbers are needed to fill an infinite grid so that identical numbers never get too close to one another. A new computer-assisted proof finds a surprisingly straightforward answer. The post The Number 15 Describes the...
Posts on Made of...
reptyr: Attach a running process to a new terminal Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last week, I’ve written a nifty tool that I call reptyr. reptyr is a utility for taking an existing running program and attaching it to a new terminal. Started a long-running process over ssh, but have to leave and don’t want to interrupt it? Just start a screen, use...
Archinect - Features
Climate, Justice, and Collaboration in Academia: A Conversation with Tyler School of Art and... At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an...
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At Temple University's Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Kate Wingert-Playdon is building an academic culture grounded in collaboration. As Senior Associate Dean and Director of Architecture, Wingert-Playdon is engaged in a mission of encouraging cross-disciplinary...
Math Is Still...
These Cells Spark Electricity in the Brain. They’re Not Neurons. For decades, researchers have debated whether brain cells called astrocytes can signal like neurons....
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For decades, researchers have debated whether brain cells called astrocytes can signal like neurons. Researchers recently published the best evidence yet that some astrocytes are part of the electrical conversation. The post These Cells Spark Electricity in the Brain....
Uncharted...
100 Billion Humans The world can carry them!
a month ago
Alex Meub
Recreating the Windows BSOD I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I thought it would be fun to recreate the iconic Windows Blue Screen of Death (BSOD) in Photoshop. I found the classic DOS system font and was able recreate a pixel-perfect BSOD image using it. You can see a rendering of the classic BSOD in all it’s pixelated glory here and...
Paul Graham: Essays
Founder Control
over a year ago
Robert Caro
Robert Caro on the Art of Biography I was never interested in writing biographies merely to tell the lives of famous men. From the first...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was never interested in writing biographies merely to tell the lives of famous men. From the first time I thought of becoming a biographer
Noahpinion
All the arguments against EVs are wrong EVs are just going to win.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Why me? Famous for the autobiographical monologues he performed on stage, American actor and writer Spalding...
a year ago
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a year ago
Famous for the autobiographical monologues he performed on stage, American actor and writer Spalding Gray turned his life into riveting art, his unique shows, such as the acclaimed Swimming to Cambodia, providing a compelling insight into his personal experiences. In 2001, while...
Roberto's blog
Decision matrices as a thinking tool Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best....
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Some decisions require comparing multiple options where it’s not immediately apparent which is best. One common way of doing that is to list the pros and cons of each option. For example, option A lists low latency as a pro, while option B lists high throughput as a pro. But do...
Ben Borgers
Have Your Cake and Eat It Too
over a year ago
History Today Feed
How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome How to Win an Election in Ancient Rome JamesHoare Fri, 10/25/2024 - 12:22
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TheCollector
Astrology in Ancient Rome: A Brief Overview undefined
a year ago
Map of the Week
Taiyoh Pokemon Nation Taiyoh is a fan-made Pokemon nation. It is based on Japan. In fact, the resemblance is so strong...
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a year ago
Taiyoh is a fan-made Pokemon nation. It is based on Japan. In fact, the resemblance is so strong that I came across these pages when looking for maps of Japan. I will refrain from commenting on Pokemon given my lack of knowledge. However, I like the look and feel of this map....
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
Rest of World -...
The politics of Africa’s TikTok bans TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in...
a year ago
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a year ago
TikTok was recently banned in Senegal and Somalia, and there have been efforts to do the same in Kenya, Uganda, and Egypt.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 12 On failing customers, failing to ship a new feature, learning sales, and giving up on ads.
a year ago
A small freedom area...
Investigating why Steam started picking a random font Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Out of the blue my Steam started picking a random font I had in my user fonts dir: Virgil, the Excalidraw font. That triggered me all sorts of emotions, ranging from laugh to total incredulity. I initially thought the root cause was a random derping from Valve but the Internet...
Rest of World -...
Becoming a tech powerhouse is harder than you think Rio’s gambit to become Latin America’s tech hub is analogous to Brazil and Latin America’s struggle.
a year ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 18-24 March 2024 Our best articles from the past week.
9 months ago
blag
Disaggregated Storage - a brief introduction a brief introduction to disaggregated storage systems in context of database systems
2 months ago
Global Inequality...
To all the newspapers I loved The decline and fall of the print media.
11 months ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
How We Designed a White-Label In-Car Infotainment System Infotainment systems are often overcomplicated and poorly built. Until recently, it was difficult to...
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5 months ago
Infotainment systems are often overcomplicated and poorly built. Until recently, it was difficult to change this because each carmaker had…
A Smart Bear
Tech Support is sales Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Tech support isn't just troubleshooting; it's the face of your company. Which means it's your brand, your positioning, and when it's excellent, it is sales.
Platformer
Another whistleblower comes for Twitter Is the real threat the company's "God Mode" — or its trust and safety team?
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
Exercise: a requirement for sleep? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently I have struggled to get to sleep at night. When I need to be up at 8 and working away on either my own projects or exciting client projects by 9 it is vital that I wake up refreshed
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Advice on Blogging In Manuel’s series People and Blogs, he asked me: Given your experience, if you were to start a blog...
a year ago
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a year ago
In Manuel’s series People and Blogs, he asked me: Given your experience, if you were to start a blog today, would you do anything differently? I gave my answer, but I wanted to expand on it. These kinds of questions are interesting to me. As readers, I think the answer we’re...
Notes on software...
Studying foreign languages with inbox zero The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The only time I've been able to seriously, rapidly improve my ability to speak a foreign language was through intensive language courses in college. I was forced to actively speak, read, and write Chinese for 6-8 hours a week (1-2 hours every day). Then study another 5-10 hours a...
Seth's Blog
Finding the glitch Many moths are attracted to light. That works fine when it’s a bright moon and an open field, but...
a year ago
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a year ago
Many moths are attracted to light. That works fine when it’s a bright moon and an open field, but not so well for the moths if the light was set up as a bug trap. Processionary caterpillars follow the one in front until their destination, even if they’re arranged in a circle,...
The Ruffian
Why Margaret Thatcher Didn't Jump The Difference Between Charisma and Charm
7 months ago
Making software...
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Quick and Dirty Theme Switcher 2020-06-04 Update: This article is no longer relevant since my blog design has changed. I'm keeping this post up since it will still be useful for those wanting to implement a theme switcher on their own site. I recently added a fairly...
Nat Eliason's...
10 Things I Learned Losing 10 Million Dollars How to Stay Sane in a Mania
6 months ago
Max Rozen
Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 2 - Deploying to a real... Start your own app with React, GraphQL and Serverless architecture: Part 2 - Let's get this running...
over a year ago
Engineer’s Codex
7 simple habits of the top 1% of engineers How elite software engineers maintain outperformance
a year ago
diamond geezer
The fares post The fares post announcement yesterday about trialling off-peak fares on Fridays. Here's the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The fares post announcement yesterday about trialling off-peak fares on Fridays. Here's the start of the press release. • Off-peak journeys on Fridays could transform the morning commute for Londoners and provide a welcome further boost to London’s economy The plan is to...
Posts on Made of...
Some Android reverse-engineering tools I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I created a couple of useful tools that I figure are worth sharing. I’ve been using dedexer instead of baksmali, honestly mainly because the former’s output has fewer blank lines and so...
Patrick Kayongo
Can I Speak To Someone? On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from...
a year ago
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a year ago
On the evening of Sunday 6 August 2023, my wife and I were on a flight back to Johannesburg from Heathrow Airport, London. After boarding, the flight remained on the runway for over an hour without taking off. Eventually, the pilot told us that due to the coup in Niger, the...
David Gerrells
all the ways to css I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently finished a little project that was a css birthday card of sorts for a friend. It was bunches of fun doing but recently I looked back on the code and work and had to come to terms with something....my code was bad...really bad.
Maps Mania
The Bike Map
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The World Has Always Seemed to Me So Various' I dropped out of university after my junior year in 1973 and didn’t return to campus to complete my...
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3 months ago
I dropped out of university after my junior year in 1973 and didn’t return to campus to complete my B.A. in English until 2003. The lack of a degree never got in the way of working for almost a quarter-century as a newspaper reporter. I suspect a degree in most non-STEM...
The Changelog
Recovering Our Lost Free Will Online: Tools and Techniques That Are Available Now Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: This post is also available on my webiste, where it will be periodically updated. As I’ve been thinking and writing about privacy and decentralization lately, I had a conversation with a colleague this week, and he commented about how loss of privacy is related to loss of...
Maps Mania
Discovering the Dissolution
a year ago
Noahpinion
In which I rebut Nate Silver on the economy and Matt Yglesias on nuclear Bloggers love to argue.
3 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Introduction to Linocut Tools As printmakers, we know that having good tools can be a game changer when it comes to your...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
As printmakers, we know that having good tools can be a game changer when it comes to your printmaking practice. There are lots of lino and wood cutting tools to choose from so read on for a breakdown of the different options available. All our linocut tools can be found here. We...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Heretic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For A City on Mars, I read a lot of war theory, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For A City on Mars, I read a lot of war theory, and one of the interesting things was how almost everyone stressed immediately that most places and times are peaceful. Today's News:
Uncharted...
10 Other Places Where Geniuses Hide Groups, networks, the Internet, IQ, state sponsorship, and many more
3 weeks ago
TokyoDev
The 2022 International Developers in Japan survey results are live! In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In October 2022, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan. [The results are now live](/insights/2022-developer-survey), please check them out! This year's survey had 42 questions, up from 24 questions for [2021's...
TheCollector
Why Is Mount Rushmore in South Dakota? undefined
7 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Extreme Off-Road 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 2024: 22–24 November...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread Inflation, AI, Linkrot, Data, Research, Pod Shops, Life Advice, Nvidia
2 weeks ago
Weighty Thoughts
Scaling is a Choice Progress in tech is rarely “inevitable.” Looking at semiconductors and AI.
3 weeks ago
The Modern House
TV presenter Will Best's space-smart Hackney home for three
7 months ago
TheCollector
What Does the New Testament Say About Hell? undefined
a week ago
Retail Design Blog
Ferragamo shop-in-shop Since British-born Maximilian Davis took the creative reigns at Ferragamo in 2022, the...
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5 months ago
Since British-born Maximilian Davis took the creative reigns at Ferragamo in 2022, the Florence-based fashion house has gradually regained the...
Maps Mania
Alternatives to Google Maps Street View
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
Finding the Closest Element Through Shadow Roots A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A great trick to find the closest element in the DOM that matches an arbitrary selector is Element.closest(). // Starts at el and walks the DOM until it finds a parent element // that matches the selector. In this case, it will return the // <body>...
Louwrentius
FreeBSD 10.1 unattended install over PXE & HTTP (no NFS) To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
To gain some more experience with FreeBSD, I decided to make a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1. My goal is to set something up similar to Debian/Ubuntu + preseeding or Redhat/CentOS + kickstart. Getting a PXE-based unattended installation of FreeBSD 10.1 was...
Londonist
Greek Things To Do In London: Cuisine, Culture, History And More As picked by experts.
a year ago
alexwlchan
CSS formatting in the console I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service)...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was poking around in Google Lens recently (which is Google’s magical reverse image lookup service) and I was mildly surprised by what I saw in the developer tools console: Code that runs in the dev console can be very powerful, so I can understand why they want to...
Josh Thompson
Exploring source code via Griddler and Griddler-Mailgun Proofpoint had a two-day “hack day” recently. My coworker John and I teamed up on a cool little...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Proofpoint had a two-day “hack day” recently. My coworker John and I teamed up on a cool little feature. I’ll give some context in a moment, but this post isn’t about the hack day, or email - it’s about exploring source code. Here’s the context: In my day-to-day, I work on a...
Unfiltered by Tim...
Being a High Performer Is Lonely as Hell It's also the best feeling in the world
3 months ago
sbensu
There Is No Antimemetics Division Notes on the book.
3 months ago
Steve Klabnik
Contributing to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
diamond geezer
2023 index dg 2023 index Beyond London Nottingham: Not just Robin Hood and cricket, but also caves, Boots and a...
a year ago
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a year ago
dg 2023 index Beyond London Nottingham: Not just Robin Hood and cricket, but also caves, Boots and a complete traverse of the tram network [photos] West Midlands Metro: A day of faffing about on the trams, especially the latest extensions Cheltenham and Gloucester: Spas, racing...
Wuthering...
The endlessly adaptable plays of Plautus - I’ll make it into a comedy with some tragedy mixed in The plays of Plautus are the foundation of Western comedy.  That they are based on the plays of...
a year ago
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a year ago
The plays of Plautus are the foundation of Western comedy.  That they are based on the plays of Menander and the other Greek New Comedy writers was irrelevant, since all of those texts were soon lost.  Plautus (and his successor Terence) carried the stage traditions, the...
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
“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...
TheCollector
What Are the Tallest Trees in the United States? undefined
a year ago
History Today Feed
The Great Fire of Smyrna The Great Fire of Smyrna JamesHoare Fri, 09/13/2024 - 07:00
3 months ago
TheCollector
How Romanticism Set the Stage for Darwin’s Theory of Evolution undefined
6 months ago
Londonist
The Open House London 2023 Programme Has Been Announced - Including BT Tower Tours Plus tube station tours, and other landmark buildings.
a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
My morning routine as a remote CEO and why it’s always changing Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Working remotely and having the opportunity to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Working remotely and having the opportunity to work from home, coffee shops, coworking spaces, or wherever else I might feel the most productive, means that I can design my own mornings because they don’t necessarily need to be...
TheCollector
Two New York Museums Face Climate Protests undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Long form AI The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can...
a year ago
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a year ago
The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can then ask it for criticism, summaries or other insights. I wouldn’t use it on a piece of literature, but if you’re reading for work (aren’t we all), it will dramatically increase how...
TheCollector
What Are the 10 Most Noteworthy Museums in Venice? undefined
8 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
TL;DR of Why React is Not Reactive A recap of my first ever conference talk
over a year ago
Joel Gascoigne
How to gain traction in two sided markets * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Startup ideas that involve two sided markets are notoriously difficult to get off the ground. It’s the age-old chicken and egg problem. You need lots of buyers for the sellers to be interested,...
Seth's Blog
When the committee decides They’re almost always conservative. Whether it’s a governmental body, the strategy group at a big...
a year ago
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a year ago
They’re almost always conservative. Whether it’s a governmental body, the strategy group at a big company or the membership panel at the local country club, we can learn a lot by seeing what they approve and when they stall. Of course, each of us know a lot about our offering,...
Old Structures...
Finding Something Nice To Say Howe trusses look backwards to me. Structural logic generally says that compression members should...
a month ago
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a month ago
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....
Home on Erik...
ML at Twitter I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is pretty interesting. Everything is a Pig workflow and then they do everything as UDF's. This approach seems pretty interesting.
Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2024: The data speaks, but what does it say? In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable...
a year ago
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a year ago
In January 1993, I was valuing a retail company, and I found myself wondering what a reasonable margin was for a firm operating in the retail business. In pursuit of an answer to that question, I used company-specific data from Value Line, one of the earliest entrants into the...
Asterisk
When RAND Made Magic in Santa Monica RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
RAND’s halcyon days lasted two decades, during which the corporation produced some of the most influential developments in science and American foreign policy. So how did it become just another think tank?
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#14) Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP...
a year ago
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a year ago
Commercial real estate doom, education polarization vs. racial polarization, China's dodgy GDP numbers, phonics, and Russian nationalism
TheCollector
6 Facts About Hilla von Rebay: The Mastermind Behind the Guggenheim undefined
a month ago
Dominik Sobe's...
Recapping 2023
a year ago
Maps Mania
Scrambled Maps on Toast
3 months ago
Blog -...
Book Review - Getting the Love You Want: A Guide for Couples, 2019 Edition I don’t anticipate giving many perfect ratings, but this book is a rare gem – a captivating...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I don’t anticipate giving many perfect ratings, but this book is a rare gem – a captivating page-turner packed full of aha moments. The authors have woven together decades of personal research and experience in the field of intimate relationships to create a classic...
Dan Slimmon
No Observability Without Theory: The Talk Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Last month, I had the unadulterated pleasure of presenting “No Observability Without Theory” at Monitorama 2024. If you’ve never been to Monitorama, I can’t recommend it enough. I think it’s the best tech conference, period. This talk was adapted from an old blog post of mine,...
TheCollector
7 Real Characters from Arthurian Legends undefined
10 months ago
The Modern House
Philippe Malouin: the experimental designer on creating with integrity – and the art of upcycling Philippe Malouin, it’s said, doesn’t read design magazines. That might surprise you. But it also...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Philippe Malouin, it’s said, doesn’t read design magazines. That might surprise you. But it also might be what keeps the Canadian’s own conceptions – form-driven, material-focused, out-the-box – feeling so fresh. In many ways, it makes sense. If the ideas of others were...
nanoscale views
Michio Kaku and science popularization in the Age of Shamelessness In some ways, we live in a golden age of science popularization.  There are fantastic publications...
a year ago
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a year ago
In some ways, we live in a golden age of science popularization.  There are fantastic publications like Quanta doing tremendous work; platforms like YouTube and podcasts have made it possible for both practicing scientists and science communicators to reach enormous audiences;...