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Farza's Newsletter
just ate a croissant but then realized it was a steak what a stupid mistake Hey all — been a while. My last newsletter was 6-months ago. In it I was telling you all that we...
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over a year ago
Hey all — been a while. My last newsletter was 6-months ago. In it I was telling you all that we were pivotting away from ZipSchool to this random thing called buildspace. Like with any pivot, you don’t really know what it’ll turn into. You don’t know the vision —
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 6: Halfway done, wrote a parser! I'm halfway done with my RC batch now. Time feels like it has sped up. The feeling that my time at...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm halfway done with my RC batch now. Time feels like it has sped up. The feeling that my time at RC is infinite is gone. This was compounded by seeing folks from the Fall 1 batch conclude their batches yesterday. We'll get a new boost from the Winter 1 batch joining on Monday,...
Steve Klabnik
_why is a role, not a person
over a year ago
Maggie Appleton
JSX is a Lovechild
over a year ago
samwho.dev
Getting an Autism Diagnosis On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism...
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a year ago
On the 3rd of March 2022, we received a letter informing us that our eldest son, Max, has Autism Spectrum Disorder. The letter was the end result of a long process. I’m going to talk about that process from start to finish, in as much detail as I can. This post would not have...
History Today Feed
Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin Bodies in the Blitz: The Murder of Rachel Dobkin JamesHoare Mon, 08/19/2024 - 10:19
4 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
The time before YC I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm James , and I work with Tim . We are the co-founders of PostHog - a current batch YC company. This is us (I'm on the right), just after we got…
IEEE Spectrum
How Tech Automated the January 6 Investigations Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Josh Coker’s Facebook page doesn’t show any MAGA memes or Trump quotes. He wasn’t live-streaming on 6 January 2021, and no one has ever stepped forward to identify him as one of the mob that stormed the US Capitol that day. Oregon, Ohio, with five counts connected to the failed...
Classical Wisdom
Greece's Forgotten Legacy Ancient Mixed Martial Arts?
a year ago
Common Edge
What Is Sacred Architecture in an Increasingly Secular Time? Is it space or the people who animate it?
10 months ago
The Ruffian
The Wile E. Coyote Illusion Have you looked down yet?
a year ago
Mazdak
The ChatGPT Revolution: A Year Later On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) that quickly captured...
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a year ago
On November 30, 2022, OpenAI released ChatGPT, a large language model (LLM) that quickly captured the attention of the world. ChatGPT's ability to generate human-quality text, translate languages, write different kinds of creative content, and answer questions in an informative...
Retail Design Blog
424 store by Zoo as Zoo Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it...
a month ago
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Originally from Guatemala City, designer Guillermo Andrade defined his style very early on, but it wasn’t until 2015 that he...
Retail Design Blog
FanDuel Offices by Unispace Unispace partnered with FanDuel to design a vibrant, flexible 65,000 square-foot office in Atlanta’s...
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6 months ago
Unispace partnered with FanDuel to design a vibrant, flexible 65,000 square-foot office in Atlanta’s Ponce City Market, reflecting a disruptive...
swyx's site RSS Feed
GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries My mistakes and insights on GraphQL Variables and Persisted Queries.
over a year ago
Londonist
Fancy Eating Cricket-Topped Hummus At This Bug-Based Restaurant? Celeb chefs dish up bugs at this pop-up.
a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan On the Spot: Eugene Rogan JamesHoare Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
7 months ago
The American Scholar
Queen of the Night Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark The post Queen of the Night appeared...
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3 months ago
Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark The post Queen of the Night appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
Customer satisfaction and tipping In North America, tipping is an unfair system built into the status quo by law. Restaurants aren’t...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
In North America, tipping is an unfair system built into the status quo by law. Restaurants aren’t allowed to easily spread tips around, and as a result, they tend to to exacerbate many of the inequities in our culture at the same time that they make it hard to count on a fair...
Old Structures...
Examples Illustrated I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was,...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I was at the annual SEAoNY conference yesterday – 9½ hours devoted to building codes – and it was, as expected, informative and interesting. Obviously, that’s not what I’m going to write about here. The conference was at Convene (a place where you can rent space for conferences)...
Light from Space
The Dense & Dusty Orion Nebula Next to the Andromeda Galaxy, the Orion Nebula (also referred to as “Great Nebula in Orion” in older...
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over a year ago
Next to the Andromeda Galaxy, the Orion Nebula (also referred to as “Great Nebula in Orion” in older texts) is likely the first target for any fledgling amateur astrophotographer in the Northern Hemisphere. It's so bright it actually appears to the naked eye essentially like a
The Marginalian
A Republic of the Sensitive: E.M. Forster on the Personal and Political Power of Empaths and the... "I believe in... an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to...
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"I believe in... an aristocracy of the sensitive, the considerate and the plucky. Its members are to be found in all nations and classes, and all through the ages, and there is a secret understanding between them when they meet."
Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Sweden Worrying crime trends in the land of Pippi Longstocking
4 months ago
Dustin Curtis
Block Carefully A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
lcamtuf’s thing
The marvelous disappearing capacitor The performance of photodiode amplifiers can be improved in a clever way.
2 weeks ago
bt RSS Feed
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
a year ago
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a year ago
Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
Retail Design Blog
Ghyston Offices by Interaction Interaction collaborated with Ghyston in Bristol to design a modern, flexible office space that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Interaction collaborated with Ghyston in Bristol to design a modern, flexible office space that reflects their empowering culture, featuring inclusive,...
Trying to Understand...
Games Nations Play. But they forget the people and the Street.
7 months ago
Paul Cudenec
Amsterdam, gaslighting and the horrible truth In terms of what physically happened, the much-publicised events in Amsterdam last week don’t amount...
a month ago
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a month ago
In terms of what physically happened, the much-publicised events in Amsterdam last week don’t amount to much.
Making software...
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on...
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over a year ago
Using Netlify for Dynamic URL Redirects 2021-12-03 With the recent domain switch that took place on this website, I needed to have a dependable setup to forward my old domain URLs to the new one. While using something like "URL forwarding" through your domain provider could work,...
TheCollector
How Did the Guggenheim Museum Emerge as an Iconic Art Institution? undefined
7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Horrific Stories from the Old Testament undefined
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Confronting Impossible Futures We shouldn't be certain about what is next, but we should plan for it
5 months ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
The new heroes of design I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to...
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over a year ago
I used to have several design heroes I looked up to. But when I changed from industrial design to digital...
Spoon & Tamago
A Weathered Copper Facade Oxidized by Soy Sauce Defines Suetomi’s New Kyoto Cafe Suetomi, the well-established Japanese Confectionery shop in Kyoto, has started a new venture with a...
a year ago
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a year ago
Suetomi, the well-established Japanese Confectionery shop in Kyoto, has started a new venture with a café business named AoQ Related posts: Kaikado’s Tea and Coffee Cafe in Kyoto Cafe Fang: An Oasis of Books and Coffee in Kyoto Discover Souvenirs Galore at Kyoto’s Newest Gift...
TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World? undefined
3 months ago
Florian Bellmann |...
Build a career path by multiplying your value Oftentimes senior developers lack ideas on where to go next. Let's try to explore some ideas.
a year ago
elementary Blog
Spring cleaning is in full effect March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get...
a year ago
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a year ago
March was all about bug fixes. This month don’t expect too many new features, but instead get excited about improved stability and closed issue reports! The team has been hard at work sorting through your feedback and smoothing out all of the wrinkles. Sideload Since sideloading...
A Beautiful Site
CSS shapes are here Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's something exciting from the CSS world: shapes! Ok, it may not sound all that exciting, but you haven't had a chance to see what can actually be done with CSS shapes yet. (Hint: check out the featured image above.) Razvan Caliman explains it like this: For a long time, web...
Steve Klabnik
New blog: Words
over a year ago
The Rational Walk
By diverse means we arrive at the same end Montaigne's Essays: Book 1, Chapter 1
a year ago
Oxide Computer...
Oxide Computer Company: Initial boot sequence We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of us being born in a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We have started a computer company! If you haven’t yet, read Jess’s account of us being born in a garage and Bryan’s on the soul of our new computer company. Also, see the perspectives of some of our founding engineers: Robert Mustacchi on joining Oxide, Joshua Clulow on the need...
TheCollector
6 (In)Famous Gunslingers of the Wild West undefined
11 months ago
The Roots of...
Why no Roman Industrial Revolution? Why didn’t the Roman Empire have an industrial revolution? Bret Devereaux has an essay addressing...
a year ago
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a year ago
Why didn’t the Roman Empire have an industrial revolution? Bret Devereaux has an essay addressing that question, which multiple people have pointed me to at various times. In brief, Devereaux says that Britain industrialized through a very specific path, involving coal mines,...
TheCollector
How Did Philosophy Help Develop Artificial Intelligence? undefined
a year ago
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Hot Dogs In A Temple Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below,...
a year ago
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a year ago
Above, a somewhat pathetic villain threatens the people of Gotham City, while Batgirl muses. Below, the stair connecting the train shed at the old Penn Station with the concourse: And zoomed in: And another angle:
Inverted Passion
Why you will skim this article Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then...
a year ago
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a year ago
Most likely, you’re going to read this sentence and hit the back button. Still here? Good, then you’re likely to scan through a few paragraphs in this article and then give up. (Unless, you’re a long-time reader and trust that my writing is worthy of your time. More on this...
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization. For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
pcloadletter
My articles don't belong on certain social networks I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
I write this blog because I enjoy writing. Some people enjoy reading what I write, which makes me feel really great! Recently, I took down a post and stopped writing for a few months because I didn't love the reaction I was getting on social media sites like Reddit and Hacker...
Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
The DESK Magazine
A clean, peaceful place to read your articles without distractions The people who use mymind typically have an intellectual side. They like to think, learn and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The people who use mymind typically have an intellectual side. They like to think, learn and challenge themselves on their own time. So we knew this brand new feature was not optional: Reader Mode.
Laetitia@Work
What's not to like about work-life balance? Laetitia@Work #43
over a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Arup Offices by PMIA Arup’s new Bangkok office by Project Manhattan Interior Architecture (PMIA) showcases...
5 months ago
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Arup’s new Bangkok office by Project Manhattan Interior Architecture (PMIA) showcases professionalism and regional uniqueness, with a focus on sustainability...
The Modern House
A fossil-shaped eco home on the border of Devon and Somerset
a year ago
Math Is Still...
Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A controversial technique has produced detailed maps of the magnetic fields in colossal galaxy clusters. If confirmed, the approach could be used to reveal where cosmic magnetic fields come from. The post Radio Maps May Reveal the Universe’s Biggest Magnetic Fields...
Londonist
Burns Night 2024 In London: Parties, Suppers And Ceilidhs To Celebrate This Year Kilt up and raise a dram to Robert Burns on 25 January.
11 months ago
diamond geezer
The Hayes diagram TfL are proposing a small change to bus route 350 in Hayes, diverting it to terminate alongside new...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
TfL are proposing a small change to bus route 350 in Hayes, diverting it to terminate alongside new flats on Nestles Avenue rather than outside Asda. It's not a particularly controversial consultation, nor indeed terribly interesting unless you live very locally. this map titled...
The Codist
Career Retrospective: Being Interviewed I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I'm starting a series on what I learned during my four decades as a working programmer. First, I will describe my experience of being interviewed. Interviews are part of being a programmer; every time you find a new job, you will go through interviews, which allow a prospective
Londonist
Photos Of The London Tube In The 1940s And Ukraine's Metros In The 2020s Echoes of the Blitz comes to LTM.
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Complaints The best way to complain is to make things better. Complaining can be a form of intimacy. It’s a...
a week ago
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a week ago
The best way to complain is to make things better. Complaining can be a form of intimacy. It’s a useful way to explain our behavior. And best of all, it gives us a way to communicate as we work to create community action. The rest sort of complaint requires generosity and...
diamond geezer
Tube map gaps It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map. Intervals between tube maps in reverse...
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It's exactly 11 months since London last had a new tube map. Intervals between tube maps in reverse chronological order 11 months Dec 2023  A Little Slice of Paradise ← Brent Cross West 7 months May 2023  Come Out, Come Out 6 months Nov 2022  Routes/Roots ← Bond Street 6...
African History...
a brief note on the history of Africans exploring their own continent plus: Ancient Egypt in Africa.
a year ago
TheCollector
Queen Anne: Britain’s Tragic Queen? undefined
6 months 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...
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6 months ago
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...
Commoncog
Danny Meyer’s Business Expertise Let's break down Danny Meyer's business expertise as an exercise in biography reading.
4 months ago
Maps Mania
Mapping the Big Map Index
6 months ago
Acko.net
I is for Intent Why your app turned into spaghetti There's a certain kind of programmer. Let's call him...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Why your app turned into spaghetti There's a certain kind of programmer. Let's call him Stanley. Stanley has been around for a while, and has his fair share of war stories. The common thread is that poorly conceived and specced solutions lead to disaster, or at least,...
TheCollector
Yayoi Kusama Debuts New Infinity Room in Australia Retrospective undefined
a week ago
alexwlchan
A script to get Live Text from images One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of my favourite new features on Apple’s OSes in the last few years is Live Text, which is an optical character recognition tool that lets you select text in images. This sort of tech has been around for decades, but having it built into the OS makes it much easier to use. The...
Steve Klabnik
ActiveRecord considered harmful
over a year ago
Londonist
In Pictures: London's Tube Station Gardens Which is your fave?
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
obsessively compulsively thinking about death, loss and existence Some time ago while reading a blog post on autism I learnt about the concept of existential OCD...
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Some time ago while reading a blog post on autism I learnt about the concept of existential OCD (obsessive compulsive disorder): Existential OCD involves intrusive, repetitive thinking about questions which cannot possibly...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The Internet is for snacking Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Web products have followed a steady evolutionary path from the compound to the atomic. Today’s popular social sites are spin outs of…
TheCollector
How Did Rachel Ruysch Become a World Famous Still Life Painter? undefined
10 months ago
Maps Mania
The Best Graphics Team in the World
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
Reclaiming “fiasco” Usually modified with “total,” the failure might not be as bad as we fear. The origin of the word...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Usually modified with “total,” the failure might not be as bad as we fear. The origin of the word probably comes from Italian, a long time ago. The person who loses a round in a game has to buy the next bottle for the group (from: flask). Which means that there is going to be […]
Maps Mania
US Segregation Maps
2 weeks ago
Tech + Economics +...
WeWork files for bankruptcy amid office market downturn. On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”....
a year ago
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a year ago
On Monday, Mr Neumann issued a statement saying the impending bankruptcy was “disappointing”. “It has been challenging for me to watch from the sidelines since 2019 as WeWork has failed to take advantage of a product that is more relevant today than ever before,” ...
Mazdak
Canada's Retail Pulse: Holiday Shopping Season Navigates Mixed Signals Canada's retail landscape is offering a mixed bag of signals heading into the critical holiday...
a year ago
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a year ago
Canada's retail landscape is offering a mixed bag of signals heading into the critical holiday season. While October saw a surprising 0.7% increase in retail sales, exceeding economist expectations, concerns linger about the sustainability of this trend in the face of rising...
./techtipsy
Disk is OK Maybe I am unlucky with computer hardware. Maybe I have the opposite of the golden touch of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Maybe I am unlucky with computer hardware. Maybe I have the opposite of the golden touch of Midas. Or maybe it’s just the fact that I use my hardware for things they were never meant to be used for. Anyway, I have acquired two Seagate 4TB external hard drives for doing some...
alexwlchan
Preserving Dates during JSON serialisation with vanilla JS For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our...
a year ago
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a year ago
For my sins, I’ve spent a lot of the last year dealing with datetime-related bugs. One of our longest-standing issues has been around sending Date values via JSON – JavaScript will happily encode a Date value in JSON, but it gets encoded as a string, and there’s no easy way to...
Math Is Still...
The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The cerebellum is responsible for far more than coordinating movement. New techniques reveal that it is, in fact, a hub of sensory and emotional processing in the brain. The post The Brain Region That Controls Movement Also Guides Feelings first appeared on Quanta...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Suffering Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please consult yesterday's comments (we have...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Please consult yesterday's comments (we have comments now) for the excellent post by Hans Rickheit. Today's News: We have them, like it's the 90s again! Please don't be a dick - I would like to keep moderation light. Also, if you...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States? undefined
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Resurrection Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It gets even weirder when you realize God has been...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It gets even weirder when you realize God has been saving the brains, so the blogs are sapient. Today's News:
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Five It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter...
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a year ago
It’s hard to believe that five years have already gone by since RevenueCat’s inception. In a matter of weeks, RevenueCat will become the company where I have worked the longest in my career. As Jason Lemkin says, it’s important to continuously reinvent the company and oneself...
TheCollector
September 1, 1939: The Invasion of Poland undefined
9 months ago
The Great Discontent...
Luke Zahm “Everyone eats. There's so much beauty in realizing that humaneness and that oneness.” This is the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
“Everyone eats. There's so much beauty in realizing that humaneness and that oneness.” This is the ethos of Luke Zahm. The James Beard-nominated chef, host of the hit PBS show Wisconsin Foodie, and owner of the widely acclaimed Driftless Café in Viroqua, Wisconsin, believes food...
Seth's Blog
Flashing on contempt It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face...
a year ago
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a year ago
It doesn’t have to happen with intent, in fact, it rarely does. Micro-emotions appear on our face and then disappear in less than a second. Blink and you’ll miss them. But sometimes, people don’t blink. We’ve evolved to be hyperware of these tiny displays of emotion. And yet,...
Daniel Bourke
Attitude follows behaviour Imposter syndrome. Feeling like you’re doing something you shouldn’t be. Hanging around those who...
a year ago
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a year ago
Imposter syndrome. Feeling like you’re doing something you shouldn’t be. Hanging around those who you feel should be. It’s true, if at any time you feel your skill is inadequate, it likely is. But that just means you know what you don’t
Society's Backend
LLM Research Recap of 2024, Fine-tuning LLM Judges, Amazon's Nova Models, Google's Genie 2, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-10-2024
a week ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not Merely Mental Stenography' “Allow me a small confession: It has been some time since I have truly enjoyed an essay in a...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
“Allow me a small confession: It has been some time since I have truly enjoyed an essay in a literary magazine. There are too many essays, and vanishingly few good essayists. There seems to be real confusion about whether style can conceal a fundamental incuriosity, whether...
abdz.do - Have you...
Superlative’s SB01 (Space Bee) — Visual Identity Superlative’s SB01 (Space Bee) — Visual Identity AoiroStudio0213—23 ...
a year ago
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Superlative’s SB01 (Space Bee) — Visual Identity AoiroStudio0213—23 We would like to feature the work of Niklas Rosén and his collaboration with Kurppa Hosk on the Superlative SB01 (Space Bee), a groundbreaking product that is set to...
Retail Design Blog
Spatial Labs flagship store Young entrepreneur Iddris Sandu has taken his Spatial Labs brand to the next level. The Accra-born...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Young entrepreneur Iddris Sandu has taken his Spatial Labs brand to the next level. The Accra-born multitasker has been interested...
Kevin Chen
What’s on my ballot: November 2020 general election Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal ...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s how I’m voting in the November 2020 general election in San Francisco: Contents Federal President & Vice President US Representative, District 12 California State Legislature State Senator, District 11 State Assembly, District 17 San Francisco City & County ...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Mimicry vs Reflexivity Two opposing forces that describe how perception and reality do battle.
over a year ago
TheCollector
How to Read Renaissance Maps (7 Tips) undefined
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Engaged Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panels 3 and 4 are the last 10 years of Internet summarized. Today's News: For the three of you who read this blog, we're doing a livechat about Bea Wolf in 30 minutes on instagram!
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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)...
Classical Wisdom
On the Obscenity of Ovid & Gorgeous George's Self-censorship
3 months ago
The Honest Broker
Why Love Songs Are Badass And how to read Sappho
5 months ago
Style over Substance
Review of the 2-dial TTArtisan Light Meter My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My latest purchase for my analog cameras is the TTArtisan light meter, a hotshoe-mounted meter accessory. The market for these shoe-mounted light meters for vintage cameras has become weirdly competitive. They fit on top of a mechanical camera and provide you with the right...
ntietz.com blog
Making it fast shouldn't be the last step There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make...
a year ago
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a year ago
There's a common quote in the software world that you should "make it work, make it right, then make it fast."1 This is a catchy aphorism, and it is often taken as a rule. But in its short form, it misses some crucial nuance. Let's unpack it to see what's missing, then how to do...
Open Culture
An Illustrator Creates a Kindle for Charles Dickens, Placing 40 Miniature Classics within a Large... For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to...
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For a design class project, Rachel Walsh, a student at Cardiff School of Art and Design, set out to explain the concept of a Kindle to Charles Dickens. Recognizing that Dickens, a 19th-century author, wouldn’t understand modern terms like ebooks, downloads or the internet, she...
bunnie's blog
Name that Ware, January 2023 The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully...
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The Ware for January 2023 is shown below. Thanks to cpresser for contributing this wonderfully photographed circuit board as this month’s entry.
Open Culture
David Bowie Songs Reimagined as Pulp Fiction Book Covers: Space Oddity, Heroes, Life on Mars & More In the last year, screenwriter Todd Alcott’s hobby has blown up into a legit side career. This Etsy...
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In the last year, screenwriter Todd Alcott’s hobby has blown up into a legit side career. This Etsy seller isn’t peddling kombucha SCOBYs, letter pressing new baby announcements, or repurposing old barns for use as cutting boards. No, Alcott’s crafty fortunes fall squarely at the...
Map of the Week
New Sweden New Sweden was the first European colony in the Delaware Valley, established in 1638. It was a short...
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New Sweden was the first European colony in the Delaware Valley, established in 1638. It was a short lived colony meant to be Sweden's answer to the New Netherland colony (now New York).  via Wikipedia  "Nya Sverige" or "Niew Sweden" was originally proposed by Peter Minuit,...
TheCollector
What Is Samsara in Hinduism? undefined
3 months ago
Jason Crawford
“Ascend the Hierarchy”: Let’s improve online discourse Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of...
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Many years ago Paul Graham wrote an essay, “How to Disagree”, that proposed a hierarchy of disagreement with seven levels, from DH0, “name-calling”, to DH6, “refuting the central point”. Someone then created a pyramid diagram based on this. Recently when someone commented...
Both Are True
forget thanksgiving its time for fearsharing a new holiday
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Vadim Kravcenko
Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that...
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Back when I was coding in 2007, my stack was straightforward. I had a shared hosting provider that cost me […] The post Infrastructure: From Zero to Enterprise appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Maps Mania
The Global Problem of Forever Chemicals
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
I Don’t Like The Term “IC” Either I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the...
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I really liked Robin’s piece, “Stop calling yourself an IC”. I still remember the way I felt the first time I heard that term. It was used in a way where its connotations conveyed a kind of laziness via lack of ambition. And I thought, “But wait, I am an individual contributor —...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Lobo MAX-80 The Computer Tandy Should Have Built (at least according to the ad).
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Commoncog
Business Reality Without Frameworks A paradox: why it’s important to think about business without abstractions, even as we from what’s...
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A paradox: why it’s important to think about business without abstractions, even as we from what’s come before.
Seth's Blog
When the media is ready (Bongo part 2) Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to...
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Media isn’t a magazine or a website. It’s a system. We can learn to see the system and contribute to it with leverage. There are three elements to consider in a media system that’s worth a professional creator’s time: Systems are changed by technology. When desktop publishing...
Maps Mania
2024 Fall Foliage Map
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Matt Mullenweg
Bezos at Dealbook It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew...
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It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew Ross Sorkin, but this one with Jeff Bezos was particularly good.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beautiful Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just to be clear, I was dunking on humans and praising AI *before* it was a terrifying nearterm concern. Today's News:
Tech + Economics +...
Apple’s LLM gap is real. It might not last much longer. Apple has carved out a prestigious position in the consumer tech market through sleek designs,...
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Apple has carved out a prestigious position in the consumer tech market through sleek designs, user-friendly interfaces, and a robust ecosystem. The data is clear - Apple is the market and perception leader in every category that matters. But developments in Large Language...
The Marginalian
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously...
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I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously underappreciated, is coming to love someone who loves it. As we enter each other’s worlds in love — whatever its shape or species — we double our way of seeing, broaden our way of...
xkcd.com
Electron Color
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Homemade Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You could also do history by unboxing...
3 months ago
Words and Buttons...
Static typing isn’t free. Where do you think the C++ angry mob comes from? Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two...
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a year ago
Type inference works like logic deduction so any program in a statically typed language is two programs. The first one is the thing you sell, and the second – is a model that undergoes some sort of verification every time you run a compiler. This second program, although, often...
TheCollector
What Are the Seven Wonders of the Natural World? undefined
4 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Grounded in the Deep Tradition of English Poesy' When I’m told someone, somewhere has started a new poetry journal, a little piece of me dies. Just...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
When I’m told someone, somewhere has started a new poetry journal, a little piece of me dies. Just what we’ve been waiting for: more precious self-revelations, strident politics and lineated prose. Nice to know the world can still surprise us. An Australian, Clarence Caddell, has...
SOCKS
Alain Biltereyst: Traces of Abstraction in the Urban Environment Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold...
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10 months ago
Contemporary Belgian artist Alain Biltereyst works on abstract paintings characterized by bold patterns and colors. Most of the time, the shapes he depicts are not purely the result of chosen arrangements but act as a sort of “found art”: they are extracted from existing signs,...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Big timing “Big timing” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot lately which refers to people who are “higher ranking”...
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“Big timing” is a phrase I’ve heard a lot lately which refers to people who are “higher ranking” acting disrespectfully toward people who…
swyx's site RSS Feed
You Can Run Containers on AWS Amplify Now AWS just added the easiest way to deploy long running serverful code alongside a serverless...
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spot On Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This will be written one day when a traveler comes upon the ruins of Ohio. Today's News:
Old Structures...
A First Attempt If you’re familiar with a final product, looking at the early ideas can be disconcerting. Things...
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10 months ago
If you’re familiar with a final product, looking at the early ideas can be disconcerting. Things seem familiar but wrong, as can be seen in this 1870s map with a proposal for Morningside Park. The Upper West Side was pretty sparsely populated at that time because of the...
TokyoDev
Oh, that's not your job My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese...
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My first job was as [a Ruby developer at a Japanese startup](/articles/finding-a-job-as-a-ruby-developer-in-japan). The company had a stellar development team, and in a couple of months of working there I learned more about developing software than I did in my entire computer...
Rest of World -...
Turn it up: Rest of World’s 2023 global party playlist Impress your friends by queuing up these chart-topping pop songs from the countries we cover.
a year ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #199 Daily Journal reduces leverage, iPad Pro vs. MacBooks, Independent platforms, Berkshire Hathaway's...
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Daily Journal reduces leverage, iPad Pro vs. MacBooks, Independent platforms, Berkshire Hathaway's annual meeting, A long run perspective, the parent-therapy trap
Max Rozen
How to write semantic HTML Writing semantic HTML markup is one of the first steps to writing accessible websites. Let's learn...
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over a year ago
Writing semantic HTML markup is one of the first steps to writing accessible websites. Let's learn how to get started!
Steve Klabnik
Rust is surprisingly expressive
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The 2024 European Election Map
5 months ago
Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240701 Another correction
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A Beautiful Site
Getting duplicate ids in an HTML document I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I needed a way to identify all HTML elements with duplicate IDs. This is a seemingly simple task, but unfortunately, I didn't find anything out there that fit the bill. I did find a couple functions that returned the duplicates, but they didn't include the first occurrence (I...
Open Culture
Isaac Asimov Predicts the Future of Online Education in 1988–and It’s Now Coming True “I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Though that line probably originated...
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7 months ago
“I have never let my schooling interfere with my education.” Though that line probably originated with  a Canadian novelist called Grant Allen, it’s long been popularly attributed to his more colorful nineteenth-century contemporary Mark Twain. It isn’t hard to understand why it...
Data Boutique
Should Websites Open Access to Data? Looking at web data from the website perspective
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Mole Rocket (1965) Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mole Rocket is a Czechoslovakian children's book about a mole finding a rocket. It is a silly piece of fiction but since it does have adventuring in a rocket it seemed worth sharing. Miler. Mole Rocket, 1965. When the mole crash lands, the rocket breaks apart in...
Max Rozen
Understanding your webpack config webpack is a complicated beast. The more you get to know it though, the better it can serve you.
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Two Shingle Covered Cottages Connected By A Living Room And Kitchen In Between Bates Masi + Architects has designed a house in Montauk, New York, that’s built on land that was...
a year ago
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a year ago
Bates Masi + Architects has designed a house in Montauk, New York, that’s built on land that was once home to early settlers in the 17th century. Remnants of horse stables, barns, and workers’ cottages scatter the landscape, however, one such cottage, a late addition built in the...
TokyoDev
The 2020 International Developers in Japan results are live! In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In November 2020, I conducted a survey of international developers living in Japan to better paint a picture of what the typical foreign developer life is like. [The results are now live](/insights/2020-developer-survey), please check them out! With 362 people responding, I...
SOCKS
Michelangelo Caetani’s Six Topographic Maps of the Divine Comedy As a follow up to the latest post on Norman Bel Geddes’s stage set design for Dante Alighieri’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As a follow up to the latest post on Norman Bel Geddes’s stage set design for Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy, here we feature the six maps drawn by Michelangelo Caetani in a book titled La materia della Divina Commedia di Dante Alighieri dichiarata in VI tavole, Roma (1855). A...
Spoon & Tamago
Kumu in Kanazawa Connects People and Places all photos by takumi ota The Japanese word kumu is a verb with many nuances. Depending on the...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
all photos by takumi ota The Japanese word kumu is a verb with many nuances. Depending on the context, kumu can mean “to join,”  “to draw out,”  or “to pour.”  In that sense, it was the perfect name for a hotel that embodies connection and hospitality: connecting people with a...
The Honest Broker
My 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023 Number one will surprise you
11 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Founders of Chichen Itza? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
What Treaty Ended World War II? undefined
4 months ago
Old Structures...
Sketches by a Master This sketch sheet by Cass Gilbert, dated February 3, 1912, is titled “Institutional structures by...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
This sketch sheet by Cass Gilbert, dated February 3, 1912, is titled “Institutional structures by Gilbert” in the Library of Congress, although it has both public and commercial buildings. Gilbert’s description at the bottom is better: “These buildings are now in the office in...
Londonist
The West End's Atmospheric Alleys: A Self-Guided Tour 10 of London's most characterful alleys.
a year ago
Archinect - Features
Architecture Business Metrics Begin To Turn Positive: Archinect’s State of AEC November... Welcome to the sixth installment of Archinect's series, State of AEC. At the end of each month, we...
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Welcome to the sixth installment of Archinect's series, State of AEC. At the end of each month, we will guide you through the latest analyses, indexes, and trends on how the architecture and construction industries are performing economically. Throughout the past month, several...
Commoncog
Commoncog is Off for the Chinese New Year A quick announcement. Happy Year of the Rabbit everyone!
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we raised $3M for an open source project Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Open source projects have long battled with how to finance themselves. PostHog is lucky to have significant funding and wanted to share what we did…
somenice
Merlin Bird Sound ID I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve been really impressed with the Merlin App for Android Sound ID.There have been a few birds that I have not been able to spot or identify visually but using Sound ID I can quickly pull up and confirm which bird I’m hearing. The Pacific Wren has an amazing song and I noticed...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Phone is Still the Best Way to Order Pizza "When ordering pizza for pickup, there is no easier way to do it than using a phone. On average, it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
"When ordering pizza for pickup, there is no easier way to do it than using a phone. On average, it takes no more than 20 seconds: There are many, many websites and apps that partner with local pizza shops. Often these apps require you to sign up or add excess information. "
The Modern House
Charlotte Taylor on the wonders of wood and her sudoku-orientated routine
a year ago
Steve Blank
The Three Pillars of World-class Corporate Innovation My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My good friend Alexander Osterwalder, the inventor of the business model canvas (one of foundations of the Lean Methodology) has written a playbook (along with his associate partner Tendayi Viki,) From Innovation Theater to Growth Engine to explain how to build and implement...
Atoms vs Bits
Everything At Once Sometimes it feels like all your problems loop together.
a year ago
This Space
39 Books: 2005 Four years later, browsing in Waterstones, I picked a book from a table and read "What will we do to...
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7 months ago
Four years later, browsing in Waterstones, I picked a book from a table and read "What will we do to disappear?" – the epigram to Enrique Vila-Matas's novel Montano's Malady. It's a line taken from Maurice Blanchot's Infinite Conversation, so I had to buy it. Later that year,...
Old Structures...
Escheresque I’ll probably talk about this project more in the future, but seeing that it just started, I’m going...
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a month ago
I’ll probably talk about this project more in the future, but seeing that it just started, I’m going to have a movie-style trailer consisting of a single photo: That’s roof framing at the Hopewell Furnace, an early-1800s ironworks in Pennsylvania. (Note that this is a...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Myrtle Beach’s Sensory-Friendly Hotels, Spots, Restaurants
3 months ago
Remains of the Day
Seeing Like an Algorithm In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my previous post on TikTok I discussed why its For You Page algorithm is the connective tissue that makes TikTok work. It is the bus on its motherboard that connects and closes all its feedback loops. But in the breathless rush to understand why companies might want to acquire...
Beautiful Public...
The Army and Navy Style Guides These fascinating Army and Navy brand style guides define the look, feel and voice of our armed...
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Friday: No major economic releases scheduled Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • No...
a week ago
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a week ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Friday: • No major economic releases scheduled.
TheCollector
The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations undefined
3 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
drawing & painting as a form of meditation I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since...
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I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since then I’ve been trying to do it more regularly, hoping to incorporate it as a...
Math Is Still...
Neural Networks Need Data to Learn. Even If It’s Fake. Real data can be hard to get, so researchers are turning to synthetic data to train their artificial...
a year ago
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Real data can be hard to get, so researchers are turning to synthetic data to train their artificial intelligence systems. The post Neural Networks Need Data to Learn. Even If It’s Fake. first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Retail Design Blog
Mad Organics by 327 creative studio Mad Organics bars make organic, plant-based snacking tasty, fun, and approachable for the...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Mad Organics bars make organic, plant-based snacking tasty, fun, and approachable for the health-conscious. With no mysterious components, their short...
Math Is Still...
Pierre de Fermat’s Link to a High School Student’s Prime Math Proof How Fermat’s less famous ‘little theorem’ got mathematicians young and old to play with prime-like...
a year ago
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a year ago
How Fermat’s less famous ‘little theorem’ got mathematicians young and old to play with prime-like Carmichael numbers. The post Pierre de Fermat’s Link to a High School Student’s Prime Math Proof first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Maps Mania
Indian Election Maps
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
The page-a-day calendar Time passes. And humans have always kept track. Distribution and technology combined to create a few...
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Time passes. And humans have always kept track. Distribution and technology combined to create a few decades where the tear off daily calendar was nearly ubiquitous (read on for details on my new one, a collaboration with Debbie Millman). First, the industry needed to efficiently...
Common Edge
Why So Many Banal Boxes? Because Architecture Reflects the Ethos of Its Time The 5-over-1 is a perfect embodiment of our increasingly selfish and self-isolated existence.
6 months ago
The Changelog
Consider Security First I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
I write this in the context of my decision to ditch Raspberry Pi OS and move everything I possibly can, including my Raspberry Pi devices, to Debian. I will write about that later. But for now, I wanted to comment on something I think is often overlooked and misunderstood by...
Adventures In...
GIS Day 2024 They say it’s the mappiest day of the year, but here’s a short video we made for GIS Day way back at...
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a month ago
They say it’s the mappiest day of the year, but here’s a short video we made for GIS Day way back at the mappiest place on earth (aka the Esri User Conference) back in July! November felt like forever away, but you know how all that goes. Thanks to Jo Ann Prichniewski for...
devonzuegel.com
Edge Esmeralda: A recap of June's popup village This summer, I co-organized a month-long 1,300-person "popup village" in Healdsburg, CA called Edge...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This summer, I co-organized a month-long 1,300-person "popup village" in Healdsburg, CA called Edge Esmeralda. This gathering was incredibly fun and rewarding, and it was also a huge accelerant to the creation of the permanent village we are building, Esmeralda. Edge Esmeralda...
The Berkeley...
Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning...
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Rethinking the Role of PPO in RLHF TL;DR: In RLHF, there’s tension between the reward learning phase, which uses human preference in the form of comparisons, and the RL fine-tuning phase, which optimizes a single, non-comparative reward. What if we performed RL in a comparative...
xkcd.com
Machine
8 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Richmond Has The Best Art and Music Scene
2 months ago
Identity Designed
Contemporary Art Now Designed by Knom, Madrid.
over a year ago
Liz Denys
Sometimes, the outside is inside Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a few pages off the bustling infinite corridor, there's another hallway, but unlike the infinite, it has four-story-high glass ceilings, my favorite piece favorite piece from the Percent-for-Art Program, and no traffic. The exterior of building 6C fascinates me. The...
TheCollector
Why Is Edward Hopper Cinema’s Favorite Painter? undefined
6 months ago
Londonist
Check Out This Hand-Drawn Culture Map Of London ALL the culture. Well, a lot of it.
a year ago
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women undefined
5 months ago
Applied Cartography
Finding null JSON values in Postgres Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the Django ORM into SQL to do weird things, the syntax strikes me as confusing and arcane. As such, when I need to do esoteric things it takes me longer time than I'd like, and in hopes...
Old Structures...
Sic Transit This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye...
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8 months ago
This photo by Angelo Rizzuto, from October 1952, is listed at the Library of Congress as “Bird’s eye view of a building in New York City.” It’s the old Metropolitan Opera House at 40th Street and Broadway, the one that the Met left in 1966 to move to Lincoln Center. The Met had...
Dreams of Space -...
The Hero's Ride (1963) This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963.  It is mostly an...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963.  It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it. Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
Anecdotal Evidence
'But There Must Have Been More' One of the unexpected gifts of being young and working as a newspaper reporter was the...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the unexpected gifts of being young and working as a newspaper reporter was the giddy sensation of being thrown into life and finally mistaken for an adult. Some of the one-time abstractions – murder, suicide, cancer – become real. Once you’ve interviewed the parents of a...
TheCollector
The Early Anarchism of William Godwin undefined
a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Automattic Alignment Winston Churchill said, “Never let a good crisis go to waste.” Since I last blogged here, WP Engine...
2 months ago
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2 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....
Seth's Blog
The opposite of insubordination “Do as I say.” That’s industrial management in four words. If you don’t follow the instructions to...
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11 months ago
“Do as I say.” That’s industrial management in four words. If you don’t follow the instructions to the letter, you’re insubordinate. Not subordinate. Complete subordination might have been the goal in an industrial setting. But now, it’s dangerous, expensive and inefficent....
Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens “Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
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7 months ago
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954     On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not Movement But Glaciation' There’s an art to reviewing a book one doesn’t love but doesn’t hate, especially if the reviewer...
a year ago
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a year ago
There’s an art to reviewing a book one doesn’t love but doesn’t hate, especially if the reviewer prizes the author’s earlier work. How to juggle critical rigor, honesty and tact? Turner Cassity, writing about Edwin Arlington Robinson’s Amaranth (1934), does it with confident...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bring Back Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is the real afterlife. Today's News:
5 months ago
David Heinemeier...
There are no secrets left First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe...
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11 months ago
First-time entrepreneurs are often insecure about all the things they believe they don’t know. Maybe if they just get this one investor involved, they’ll know everything they need to do to crack product-market fit. Maybe if they just compose a board full of smart people, they’ll...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chemistry Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I'm just saying, it wouldn't be the MOST useless expenditure of grant money. Today's News:
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Myrtle Beach Travel Guide for Travelers with Disabilities
3 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Rabbit Holed Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her...
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Thank you to Emily Shepherd for her hard work reporting parts of this story, as well as her assistance clarifying details related to GAMA and finding company documents related to Rabbit and Cyber Manufacture.    In November 2021, a company called Cyber Manufacture Co raised $6...
Build In Public...
What if you could edit like Spielberg? 🎥 Meet Eddie AI—your new editing partner ready to bring cinematic flair to every cut!
2 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Job Screening Blog Post Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between...
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Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter #designEngineer
One Useful Thing
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 061: The AI innovator's dilemma April 5, 2024.
8 months ago
Classical Wisdom
From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb From Caesar's Back to King Tut's Tomb
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hatero Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's the baaaaasexuals you have to look out...
10 months ago
diamond geezer
The five smallest parks in Barking & Dagenham Join me on a journey of data-driven disappointment as I attempt to answer a question nobody else is...
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Join me on a journey of data-driven disappointment as I attempt to answer a question nobody else is asking. What are the five smallest parks in Barking & Dagenham? map. "We're so proud Barking and Dagenham has 28 brilliant parks and open spaces which are much loved by so many...
Retail Design Blog
Luca Faloni Store by PlaC This store is part of a wider re-thinking of Luca Faloni’s boutiques worldwide. Alongside this...
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We gave our sons Hebrew names: Joshua, Michael, David. They roughly translate as “God is deliverance,” “gift of God” and “beloved,” respectively. We are not Jewish and not linguists but we like plain names rooted in tradition, names with an identifiable history traceable, in this...
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How do you assess forecasts, when the forecast is only a probability? It's not just about accuracy. Let's dive into the math.
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March On March 4, Laura and I landed in São Paulo. It was our first time in Brazil. Even though we had planned to spend much of the next two months exploring Brazil, the country is so large that we could only see a small portion of it. We restricted our route to only include...
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This Bedroom With A Partial Glass Floor Looks Down To The Living Room Below Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo,...
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Fenda Arquitetura has shared photos of their project, a modern one-bedroom apartment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that features a partial glass floor in the bedroom. The apartment has been designed with the living space on the lower floor, while the bedroom is located upstairs. One...
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So after toying around with RAID 0 just for fun, time to get serious. I created a RAID 6 of 10 x 1 TB disks. This gives me raw device read speeds of 850 MB/s and write speeds of 300 MB/s. I think this is exactly what should be expected, but boy it is damn fast. Especially the...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] On Jun 11, 2023, a fuel tanker truck caught fire on an exit underneath Interstate 95 in Northeast Philadelphia. The fire severely damaged the northbound bridge, eventually causing it to collapse. Sadly, the...
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This week we’re featuring an episode from The Sporkful’s series on the creation of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan Pashman’s new pasta cookbook. In part two of “Anything’s Pastable,” Dan embarks on an epic trip across Italy in search of lesser-known pasta dishes — and to learn about...
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Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates in May that I want to share with you all. Let’s go! Welcome 128 new subscribers since the last issue! If you are new here, this is a monthly newsletter of my indie hacking journey....
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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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As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
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Human beings are often more effective when we’re a bit self-effacing. “I think,” “Perhaps,” or “I might be missing something, but…” are fine ways to give our assertions a chance to be considered. The solar-powered LED calculator we used in school did no such thing. 6 x 7 is 42,...
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Bits about Money now offers paid memberships. (Plus, a bonus essay on newsletter financial infrastructure.)
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I really like GitHub Pages, and have used it to host my site for a while. The biggest challenge of switching my site to Eleventy was getting deployments to GitHub pages set up. I suppose I could have built my site locally, and then push that to the gh-pages branch, but that felt...
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Architecture firm Onion, has shared photos of a hotel lobby they completed for Holiday Inn Samui in Thailand, whose design is inspired by the coconut shell after its meat has been grated to make Thai dessert. The curved building exterior is clad with wooden shingles, with...
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Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is that when you squint, it still looks like CLJS”.
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Just as most of the people we encounter across a lifetime mean nothing to us and will not even linger in memory, as they stir neither distaste nor devotion, so it is with books and writers. Had I been one of those desperately obsessive readers who records every title read, I...
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Today we are announcing the general availability of the world’s first commercial cloud computer — along with our $44M Series A financing. From the outset at Oxide, and as I outlined in my 2020 Stanford talk, we have had three core beliefs as a company: Cloud computing is the...
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Author Raymond Chandler was born in Chicago in 1888, and to this day remains one of the greats in the world of crime fiction thanks to his creation of Philip Marlowe, the hardboiled detective who stars in many of his stories: The Big Sleep (1939), Farewell, My Lovely (1940), The...
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Katalin Karikó and Drew Weissman have been awarded the 2023 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for discoveries leading to mRNA vaccines, such as those that protect against COVID-19. The post Covid-19 mRNA Vaccines Win Nobel Prize for Medicine 2023 first appeared on...
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Why you need content Dev tool marketing is tough. Developers are a selective bunch when it comes to what type of content they consume, and clickbait…
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A procession, a march. The Lord Mayor's Show on the telly, now sandwiched inbetween Saturday Kitchen and Football Focus. But if you want to experience the full historic pageant in all its feathered floaty glory you need to turn up in the City and watch the multitudes go by....
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Designing backend servers to connect with external services is challenging as you need to take into account unreliability and unpredictability.
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I have hope. You could call it delusion, and it probably is, but I have so much hope. Because without it, I won’t move towards the future I want. Even if you’re looking to change your life, create, build something, be better, and do more, you need to have hope in your heart.
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The multi-storey flagship store on the corner of 57th Street and Fifth Avenue in New York City has closed for...
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Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests, hobbies, and talents is highly...
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After at least a year of talking about it, my new website is launching. One of the sub-pages will be dedicated entirely to my favorite reading recommendations.
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Predatory loan apps are thriving in the Google Play store, despite ban Google says it takes the problem seriously, but over a dozen loan apps remain available in the...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again. For people who want signed copies, they will be available via The Strand, as well as HelloComics of Charlottesville and Scrawl bookstore of Reston. Today's News: This is the hardest project I've ever worked on and, I...
CONTEMPORIST
A Distinct Dining Area Was Created In This Home By Surrounding It With Cabinetry Toronto-based architecture and design practice Great Lake Studio has shared photos of a home they...
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Toronto-based architecture and design practice Great Lake Studio has shared photos of a home they designed, that’s clad in custom charred cedar and has a pitched roof. Inside, the main level of the home is the gathering place, with the living room, dining area, and kitchen all...
Map of the Week
Paris Olympics 1924 Paris will host the Olympics in a few days. They previously hosted them 100 years ago. Here is a...
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Paris will host the Olympics in a few days. They previously hosted them 100 years ago. Here is a small map of the 1924 Olympic venues.  via metropolitiques Artist Pauline de Langre has some nice, artistic maps showing the venues in 1924 and 2024. A bit hard to read at this...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also rationality developed entirely to rationalize your own behavior. Its use in mathematics is incidental. Today's News:
Old Structures...
Specialization From 2018, a photo by Carol Highsmith taken from the Empire State Building and showing the variety...
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From 2018, a photo by Carol Highsmith taken from the Empire State Building and showing the variety of buildings on the east side of midtown south. I think most people will agree that this is a very New Yorky view of New York. The discussion at the “Office To Residential Summit”...
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Dear Commissioner Rodriquez, I’m writing to you because I just signed up for a workshop to improve Canal Street that your department is running tonight. I met you when you were a Councilman. I know you care deeply about making … Continue reading → The post “My Open Letter to NYC...
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Beatie Wolfe has beamed her music into space, been appointed a UN role model for innovation, and pioneered new formats for art that bridge the physical and digital. Wolfe's latest projects include a visualization of 800,000 years worth of climate data, a collective postcard art...
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If you ask the internet if breastfeeding is good, you will soon learn that YOU MUST BREASTFEED because BREAST MILK = OPTIMAL FOOD FOR BABY. But if you look for evidence, you’ll discover two disturbing facts. First, there’s no consensus about why breastfeeding is good. I’ve seen...
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"You actually have to remind yourself not to believe" [Virtual Reality] is the last medium. We’re at the very beginning of it, but version 147 is The...
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[Virtual Reality] is the last medium. We’re at the very beginning of it, but version 147 is The Matrix or Total Recall. Our brain is no…
Old Structures...
On The Spectrum Between Solid and Hole For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This...
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For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This piece of the subway system has a slightly odd history. The portion south of and up to 180th Street, at the south end of Bronx Park, was planned as part of the original IRT subway, but...
Seth's Blog
This time it’s personal My new book is urgent and it’s personal. Some readers have told me that it’s also their favorite. It...
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My new book is urgent and it’s personal. Some readers have told me that it’s also their favorite. It opens the door to a better way to work and to find meaning in how we spend our days. I’ve done dozens of podcasts talking about it, but when I talk about it, it’s not nearly […]
Construction Physics
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California has received its fair share of criticism for the trajectory of its high-speed rail project. When voters first approved the $10 billion dollar bond issue for the project in 2008, it was projected to be completed by 2020 at a cost of $33 billion. Instead, its costs have
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Svelte Zen Garden reigniting the Zen Garden era with modern technology
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Lamborghini Performance footwear 3d concept AoiroStudio0503—23 Hussain Almossawi is a talented 3D artist and art director based in Brooklyn, NY, USA. Recently, he created a concept work that reimagines what would happen if Lamborghini, the...
CONTEMPORIST
Hidden Lighting Creates A Warm Glow Throughout This Apartment Interior Cuaik | CDS has shared photos of an apartment interior they designed in Ciudad De México, Mexico,...
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Cuaik | CDS has shared photos of an apartment interior they designed in Ciudad De México, Mexico, that uses hidden lighting to create a warm atmosphere. Working together with Grupo Cuarit, the designers infused the space with bespoke wood carpentry and thoughtful illumination. In...
Math Is Still...
Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’ Has Been Debunked It was intuitive, even obvious. It was also wrong. The post Math’s ‘Bunkbed Conjecture’...
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./techtipsy
Why you might not want to publicly self-host a Wikipedia clone A while ago I wrote about how easy it is to download an archive of Wikipedia and host it...
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A while ago I wrote about how easy it is to download an archive of Wikipedia and host it anywhere you want using Kiwix. I’m still hosting Kiwix sites publicly, but here are a few things you might want to consider before doing so yourself. The spam I have a specific e-mail address...
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Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher, but even then there are lots of variabilities involved, depending on the layer you use to experiment. The Blend Mode Helper Map (and its constituent Blend Mode Helper layer) reduces...
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This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing winners from 114 countries in 139 different design disciplines. More than...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It's at its best when it interrupts a speech every twelve syllables. Today's News:
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Early experience with Medley on the Raspberry Pi 400 <![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the...
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<![CDATA[Medley is the first Lisp system I experimented with on my new Raspberry Pi 400, here is the AArch64 version on the Raspberry Pi OS desktop: SDL version of Medley Interlisp on a Raspberry Pi 400 under Raspberry Pi OS. The online version of Medley runs well and smoothly...
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🏆 Promotion-based development While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies...
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While researching how to create a proper career path for employees and the different ways companies do promotions, I stumbled […] The post 🏆 Promotion-based development appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
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Informed consent (rarely is) Adults make choices and live with the consequences. No one else should tell us what flavor of ice...
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Adults make choices and live with the consequences. No one else should tell us what flavor of ice cream we prefer, or what career to choose. We’re good at knowing what we want. In practice, this works really well for certain kinds of decisions. But when we add the network effect,...
Epic Web Dev
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Dive into the contentious world of code coverage. Learn its nuances, pitfalls, and practical applications for modern web app testing
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Too many people waste years in hollow ‘entrepreneurship’ classes. Instead, we need to develop the domain expertise that leads to entrepreneurial ideas. The post What I Got Wrong About Business appeared first on David Perell.
Transit Maps
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Submitted by Jakob, who says: The M4 branch extension to Copenhagen South has just opened, and with it, a much improved map compared to 2019 [My review of the 2019 map can be found here – Cam]. The Circle Line is now more spacious, junctions are labeled more clearly, and metro...
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John Fensten (American, New York, 1936-2001) studied acting with the world-renowned Actor’s Studio with Lee and Susan Strasberg in the late 1950s, early 1960s. He appeared on the critically acclaimed CBS television anthology drama series Playhouse 90. And was a longtime resident...
AVC
NFT Art CDMX We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the...
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We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the premier NFT art “gallery” in the world. I use that term in parentheses because Bright Moments is much more than a gallery but that word is well understood. USV is a member of the...
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AI and problems of scale Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now become practical to...
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Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now become practical to automate at a massive scale. Sometimes a change in scale is a change in principle.