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mtlynch.io
Experimenting with Lllama 3 via Ollama I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to...
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8 months ago
I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to give it a try. I don’t have much experience running open-source AI models, and I didn’t see a lot of documentation about how to run them. I tinkered with it for a few hours and got...
The Pragmatic...
Open source business model struggles at WordPress Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers....
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Automattic, creator of Wordpress, is being sued by one of the largest WordPress hosting providers. The conflict fits into a trend of billion-dollar companies struggling to effectively monetize open source, and are changing tactics to limit their competition and increase their...
Math Is Still...
Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems....
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6 months ago
Researchers have proved that secure quantum encryption is possible in a world without hard problems. The post Cryptographers Discover a New Foundation for Quantum Secrecy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Maps Mania
AI Search of San Francisco
3 months ago
Coffee with an...
Architect Valentines 2024 It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
It’s that time of year again. The time of year when an architect’s thoughts turn to Love. Well, not really. We’re working on a deadline right now. But, we promise, as soon as we’re finished with these details, our thoughts will totally turn to love. In the meantime, here are a...
Rest of World -...
Apple and Foxconn lobbied India to relax its labor laws. Unions are fighting back The business-friendly change extends factory shifts from nine to 12 hours, and allows women to work...
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
How to delete a tag on GitHub In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the world of Git, tags are very useful for keeping track of your project's version history. A lot of folks will argue that you shouldn't delete tags, but there are real-world examples in which tags need to be deleted.  That said, it's both a good and a bad thing that GitHub...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Don’t bother securing your trademarks in the beginning Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: This is intended as a short, tactical guide to getting your trademarks sorted out for the first time, on a minimal budget. This is not…
The Honest Broker
Open Thread: What Is Your Spiciest Hot Take? Tell us your most controversial views on music, books, movies & other arts
a year ago
Londonist
Behind The Blue Doors Of Brixton's Georgian Almshouse Free exhibition comes to Lambeth Archives.
8 months ago
Blog - Mac Pierce
The Whys and Hows of the Opt-Out Cap. Why I built the Opt-Out Cap cap, and how it all came together.
over a year ago
Londonist
9 Things To Do In London To Brighten Up The Dark Nights It's not all doom and gloom.
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
August theme: Bare Minimum This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This time I’ll be following my inspiring site and declare Bare Minimum as the theme for my next game. This could really be anything, from graphics to user interaction… But I’ve got an idea. It’ll be a real challange for me to make but hopefully I’ll have a game in a few weeks...
Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
a week ago
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a week ago
Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
A Smart Bear
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
Adventures In...
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...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“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...
Dustin Curtis
Apple Card disabled my iCloud, App Store, and Apple ID accounts About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
About ten days ago, when I went to update a few apps in the App Store on my Mac, I was met with a curious error. The internet is filled with stories from people whose Google accounts were locked for unexplained reasons, causing them to lose all of their data, including years of...
Steve Klabnik
A break with the past
over a year ago
James Vaughan's blog
College Advice I Would Give My Freshman Self
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Mysterious Tale of the Mary Celeste: What Happened? undefined
5 months ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
The “je ne sais quoi” of TikTok Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: When I originally wrote this post, TikTok oEmbeds did not auto-play. I recommend pausing them and pressing play when ready to view…
NeuroLogica Blog
The Lunar Cycle and Suicide Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no...
a year ago
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a year ago
Does the lunar cycle affect human behavior? This seems to be a question that refuses to die, no matter how hard it is to confirm any actual effect. It’s now a cultural idea, deeply embedded and not going anywhere. A recent study, however, seems to show a correlation between...
TheCollector
10 Great London Theaters Worth Visiting undefined
4 months ago
Diaries of Note
A greater public calamity could not have occurred On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected...
a year ago
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a year ago
On 6th November 1817, the British public was plunged into deep mourning following the unexpected death of Princess Charlotte of Wales. The only child of the Prince Regent (later King George IV) and Caroline of Brunswick, Princess Charlotte was admired for her spirited personality...
Azad's Blog
Apple Vision Pro—A Revolution for Home Video Formats Apple has always been at the forefront of home video with Apple TV (the device), iTunes Movies,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Apple has always been at the forefront of home video with Apple TV (the device), iTunes Movies, Spatial Audio, and the vivid displays of iPhones, iPads, and Mac displays. With Apple Vision Pro, Apple is once again pushing the boundaries of the movie watching experience by...
The Marginalian
Starlings and the Magic of Murmurations: A Stunning Watercolor Celebration of One of Earth’s Living... Biking back to my rented cottage from CERN one autumn evening, having descended into the underworld...
a year ago
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a year ago
Biking back to my rented cottage from CERN one autumn evening, having descended into the underworld of matter for a visit to the world’s largest high-energy particle collider, a sight stopped me up short on the shore of Lake Geneva: In the orange sky over the orange water, a...
Londonist
The Dreamlike Tower Bridge From Poor Things Was Almost Real Yorgos Lanthimos revives Horace Jones' original design.
9 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Nov 2019 Recap Hello mailing list friends!
over a year ago
Maps Mania
The Solar Eclipse Simulator
a year ago
The Marginalian
Lichens and the Meaning of Life "We are lichens on a grand scale."
a year ago
FIRE v London
Oct ’24: Budgets & broad shoulders I haven’t seen much of London in October. I’ve been away every weekend in October, partly in the UK...
a month ago
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a month ago
I haven’t seen much of London in October. I’ve been away every weekend in October, partly in the UK and partly visiting friends overseas. And now we’re in November, the clocks have gone back, but temperatures haven’t plummeted yet. London feels busy – pubs still have crowds...
Paul Graham: Essays
Coronavirus and Credibility
over a year ago
TheCollector
Baruch Spinoza’s Political Philosophy: Rights & Normativity undefined
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The New Funding Landscape
over a year ago
Nothing Human
I, Token an origin story
4 weeks ago
Londonist
Greenwich's Old Town Hall To Become Flats And Viewing Gallery Art deco landmark gets green light for regeneration.
9 months ago
Applied Cartography
Shipping is capturing value This great essay from Sean Goedecke went viral two weeks ago, drawing fury and fervor alike for a...
4 weeks ago
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4 weeks ago
This great essay from Sean Goedecke went viral two weeks ago, drawing fury and fervor alike for a Moral Mazes-esque analysis of how engineers at large companies should think about shipping: Shipping is a social construct within a company. Concretely, that means that a project is...
TokyoDev
Recruiters and Human Traffickers: A Short History of Employment Agencies in Japan Japan's [Employment Security...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Japan's [Employment Security Act](http://www.japaneselawtranslation.go.jp/law/detail_main?id=10&vm=2&re=) requires a recruitment business to obtain a license. Failure to do so can result in imprisonment of up to a year. While I've met sleazy recruiters, sending them to prison...
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge What is True?
8 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 29 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Jonas Hietala
10 Games in 10 Languages For school we have this programming course for Java. It isn’t anything special really and it would...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For school we have this programming course for Java. It isn’t anything special really and it would be really boring if I don’t like to program, it almost is anyway, if it weren’t for the fact that we’re to create a game! Just any game will do and we’re in a group of two and we...
elementary Blog
OS 8 Now Available in Early Access I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I’m super excited to let you know that OS 8 builds are available in Early Access and they are now installable! While we highly recommend you don’t run these experimental builds in production, they’re perfect for trying in a virtual machine or a spare computer. Early Access is a...
Joel Gascoigne
Why I crave mistakes I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas]...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve mentioned many [https://joel.is/post/5961172449/beware-of-the-social-ideas] times [https://joel.is/post/23348997538/what-online-gaming-taught-me-about-startups] before [https://joel.is/post/12790799237/achieving-scale-by-doing-things-that-dont-scale] on this blog that I...
Transit Maps
Book Review: “Iconic Transit Maps” by Mark Ovenden, 2024 After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is...
a week ago
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a week ago
After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is Mark Ovenden’s third offering on the subject of global transit maps and diagrams. The question to be asked, then, is simply – is a new book on the same subject worth it? In a...
Society's Backend
LLM-as-a-Judge, Instruction Pretraining, Solving Benchmarks Instead of Real-World ML Problems, and... Weekly updates and resources 7/22/24
5 months ago
The Forney Flyer
Congratulations Hannah! Congratulations Hannah! We are so proud of you!
over a year ago
Open Culture
Édouard Manet Illustrates Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven, in a French Edition Translated by Stephane... Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Edgar Allan Poe achieved almost instant fame during his lifetime after the publication of The Raven (1845), but he never felt that he received the recognition he deserved. In some respects, he was right. He was, after all, paid only nine dollars for the poem, and he struggled...
bunnie's blog
Infra-Red, In Situ (IRIS) Inspection of Silicon Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure...
a year ago
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a year ago
Cryptography tells us how to make a chain of trust rooted in special-purpose chips known as secure elements. But how do we come to trust our secure elements? I have been searching for solutions to this thorny supply chain problem. Ideally, one can directly inspect the...
bt RSS Feed
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
89 Blog Posts in a Single HTML File 2021-04-22 This is no longer the current setup of my blog. I have switched back to Jekyll for performance reasons. I’ll be leaving this post up as a point of reference though :) This is my personal blog (if that wasn’t already obvious). I...
Computer Ads from...
Huson Soft HuCAL Hudson creates business software for everyone.
11 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Home In The Trees With A Living Room Suspended Over The Forest Floor DeForest Architects has sent us images of a home they completed in Burien, Washington, that has a...
a year ago
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a year ago
DeForest Architects has sent us images of a home they completed in Burien, Washington, that has a living room suspended above the forest floor. The home sits on a one-acre wooded parcel at the top of a bluff overlooking Puget Sound, with the clients wanting a tranquil and...
Joel Gascoigne
What can we do right now? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Recently there have been a few occasions at Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we’ve hesitated about next steps or thought about spending longer on certain tasks. As a result of my thinking...
ntietz.com blog
Resting is hard This post has been a struggle to write. Not just because it requires a lot of vulnerability, though...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
This post has been a struggle to write. Not just because it requires a lot of vulnerability, though that's part of it. And it's not just about finding the right words. Most of the struggle has been fatigue. It's hard to find the energy to open my text editor and when I do, my...
Stat Significant
The Rise and (Overstated) Fall of Radio. A Statistical Analysis Examining radio's rapid adoption and surprising cultural endurance.
a week ago
Cheese and Biscuits
40 Maltby Street, Bermondsey 40 Maltby Street sits alongside places like Quality Chop House and the French House in that special...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
40 Maltby Street sits alongside places like Quality Chop House and the French House in that special category of restaurants used as a kind of shorthand amongst food-obsessed types in order to prove they know what they're talking about. Like Quality Chop House and the French...
The Ruffian
Five Myths About Trump Why We Keep Underestimating Him
11 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How to Explore Graz's Food Scene
6 months ago
Londonist
Guess What Our Most-Read Article Of 2023 Was... You love Christmas and the tube - but what was numero uno?
12 months ago
Seth's Blog
Walking the city, walking the world Last week, I passed 800 people as I walked my way through New York. I decided to look at the folks I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, I passed 800 people as I walked my way through New York. I decided to look at the folks I was walking near. Of those 800 people, not one was as conventionally attractive as a movie star. Few looked like the images I saw on the billboards I passed. Most wouldn’t be cast...
Words and Buttons...
Lexical differential highlighting instead of syntax highlighting “Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
“Lexical” since it doesn't need true syntax analysis, primitive tokenization and filtering are enough. And it's “differential” because it aims to highlight the difference between lexemes. Ideally, the smaller the lexical difference, the greater the color difference should be. ...
diamond geezer
Zoë's Mayoral transport policies As the Mayoral election approaches, all sorts of parties are announcing all sorts of policies on all...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
As the Mayoral election approaches, all sorts of parties are announcing all sorts of policies on all sorts of things. manifesto to be released, that of Green Party candidate Zoë Garbett, a 134-page monster which was launched yesterday. And because transport is one of the areas...
Londonist
Londonist: Time Machine Opens Its Archive For Easter "It's so damned good!"
9 months ago
Old Structures...
A First Attempt If you’re familiar with a final product, looking at the early ideas can be disconcerting. Things...
10 months ago
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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...
Noahpinion
No, you are not on Indigenous land Pieces of territory belong to institutions, not to racial groups.
3 weeks ago
On Test Automation
The test automation quadrant, or a different way to look at your tests Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been...
a week ago
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a week ago
Like many others working in software testing, and more specifically in automation, I have been introduced to the concept of the test automation pyramid early on in my career. While this model has received its share of criticism in the testing community over the years, I still use...
Old Structures...
A Very Specific Moment I wrote before about the destruction of St. John’s Park, but I had not seen the photo below. The...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I wrote before about the destruction of St. John’s Park, but I had not seen the photo below. The photo shows St. John’s Chapel, an out-chapel of Trinity Church, which was constructed in 1807 and which eventually gave the park its name. This was originally an almost suburban...
Liz Denys
Has Baby Yoda been engaging in Twitter 'platform manipulation?' and the broad brush of Twitter's... Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Popular Twitter parody account @BabyYodaBaby is currently suspended for "platform manipulation and spam" according to their Instagram. Twitter's policy on platform manipulation and spam allows for "using Twitter pseudonymously or as a parody, commentary, or fan account," as...
TheCollector
Pauline Epistles: Did Apostle Paul Write Them All? undefined
2 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How Are Airplane Blankets, Seats, and Bathrooms Cleaned?
a year ago
Nat Eliason's...
7 Things I Learned Drafting a Novel in 26 Days 85,000 words and many caffeinated drinks later
3 months ago
Math Is Still...
Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
A mutant seedling revealed how plant tissues scatter incoming light, allowing plants to sense its direction and move toward it. The post Plants Find Light Using Gaps Between Their Cells first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Retail Design Blog
SUSHISAMBA Singapore Situated at the pinnacle of Singapore’s iconic Capital Tower, the newest member of the SUSHISAMBA...
a month ago
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a month ago
Situated at the pinnacle of Singapore’s iconic Capital Tower, the newest member of the SUSHISAMBA network, masterfully crafted by Kokaistudios,...
The Marginalian
The Shape of Wonder: N.J. Berrill on the Universe, the Deepest Meaning of Beauty, and the Highest... "We, each of us, you and I, exhibit more of the true nature of the universe than any dead Saturn or...
3 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Analyzing Token Sale Models
over a year ago
CommitStrip
It haunts us
over a year ago
TheCollector
Vincent and Theo Van Gogh: A Tale of Brotherly Love undefined
3 months ago
Contemporist...
A’ Design Awards And Competition – The Winners A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts in...
7 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Hackers and Painters
over a year ago
macwright.com
Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list. Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies and...
Tech + Economics +...
Copyright is both vital and obsolete. The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.? For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights to our creations are not worth much money to anyone but ourselves. But, if you are the guy who wrote “Born to Run,” it is prudent to assign your rights to an entity...
Cheese and Biscuits
Peckham Cellars, Peckham Though it's always flattering to be invited to try the latest and greatest of London restaurants,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Though it's always flattering to be invited to try the latest and greatest of London restaurants, and more often than not I'm happy to play a part in the tricky first few weeks of a new operation to help get it off the ground, or to refocus attention on an established place...
diamond geezer
The great Banksy cover-up I visited the new Banksy on Hornsey Road on Day 3, which proved the optimal time. Days 1 and 2 it...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I visited the new Banksy on Hornsey Road on Day 3, which proved the optimal time. Days 1 and 2 it had been rammed with people crowding round the railings, so getting a decent photo was difficult. Day 4 someone chucked white paint over part of the artwork closest to the road and...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Bus Ticket Theory of Genius
over a year ago
Julia Evans
Some Go web dev notes I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I spent a lot of time in the past couple of weeks working on a website in Go that may or may not ever see the light of day, but I learned a couple of things along the way I wanted to write down. Here they are: go 1.22 now has better routing I’ve never felt motivated to learn any...
Construction Physics
The Long, Sad History of American Attempts to Build High-Speed Rail, Part II Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week, we looked at the early history of high-speed rail in the US. Though the US attempted to build its own high-speed rail routes soon after they debuted in Japan in 1964, these efforts were unsuccessful, outside of the popular-but-troubled Metroliner
Jonas Hietala
The Little Things in Life It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It’s the little things in life that makes it extra special. Sometimes it’s the luxury of coffee together with the morning paper and other times it’s just a small simple smile from a random stranger, kid or dog. Today when I got this bad headache I got saved by a two hour nap and...
Spoon & Tamago
Manga Artist Hirohiko Araki Pays Tribute to Osaka Station’s History and Culture with New Public Art... Osaka Station just got a little more bizzare. Manga artist Hirohiko Araki, known best for his epic...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Osaka Station just got a little more bizzare. Manga artist Hirohiko Araki, known best for his epic saga Jojo’s Bizarre Adventure, has installed his first-ever public art piece at Osaka Station’s West Gate. Titled “Fountain Boy,” the circular, back-lit sculpture pays homage to the...
A Collection of...
Gap Week: April 19, 2024 (Manor Lords First Impression) Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Hey folks, this week is a bit of a gap week as I am heading out to the annual meeting of the Society for Military History (and, indeed, by the time you read this, I will be there). Normally, I post the abstract of my conference talk for these sorts of things, but since I …...
diamond geezer
Route 24 A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A New Year means new digits, and new digits mean a series of posts about the number 24. I've chosen to start with London's oldest unchanged bus route, the 24's north/south run from Hampstead down to Pimlico. Rest assured I won't be writing a full travelogue because I did that...
99% Invisible
Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House [EPISODE] The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings in the world — but it...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings in the world — but it took a relative newcomer and architectural outsider to dream up. The making of this future world heritage landmark is a tale for the ages — a cautionary tale, for which we turn to Tim...
xkcd.com
University Age
4 months ago
Map of the Week
Mauna Loa Lava Maps Sure, there are cool livestreams of the Mauna Loa volcano you can watch, but even better, you can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sure, there are cool livestreams of the Mauna Loa volcano you can watch, but even better, you can see live maps of the lava flow. Here is yesterday's status map from the U.S. Geological Survey The dark red in these maps shows the new lava flow from the last 24 hours. It is...
Making software...
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it's nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
African History...
A history of the Buganda kingdom. government in central Africa.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Stoicism in the Gioia Family My brother Dana tells how our LA childhood gave us a direct connection to an ancient Roman worldview
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Understanding useMemo and useCallback What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
What's the deal with these two hooks?! Lots of devs find them confusing, for a whole host of reasons. In this tutorial, we'll dig deep and understand what they do, why they're useful, and how to get the most out of them.
Ink & Switch
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud A new generation of collaborative software that allows users to retain ownership of their data.
over a year ago
Irrational...
Engineering’s role in Mergers & Acquisitions. I managed the engineering team at Digg as we ran out of money, and were eventually acquired. It was...
a year ago
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a year ago
I managed the engineering team at Digg as we ran out of money, and were eventually acquired. It was an eye opening experience, and I learned a great deal about the reality and the optics of selling a company, particularly one with no money and a shrinking user base. Humbling was...
Renegade Otter
Your database skills are not ‘good to have’ A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search...
a year ago
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a year ago
A MySQL war story It’s 2006, and the New York Magazine digital team set out to create a new search experience for its Fashion Week portal. It was one of those projects where technical feasibility was not even discussed with the tech team - a common occurrence back then. Agile...
TheCollector
George Herbert Mead on the Birth & Evolution of the Self undefined
5 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Home Renovation Where The Walls Were Removed So The Interior Connects With the Exterior Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they renovated in London, that included opening up...
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Paul Archer Design has shared photos of a home they renovated in London, that included opening up the walls to connect the interior spaces with the garden. The designers removed the whole ground floor, including the external walls to the rear, the stairs, most of the interior,...
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This month I nearly destroyed my iMac during an attempt to upgrade it. Thanks to determination and some spare time I was able to resurrect it from the death!
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AWS costs are tricky: they can grow in seemingly unbounded ways and often represent significant portions of our engineering budgets. However there are techniques we can use to get them under control and even reduce overall spend significantly.
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Meade Harwell, Gordon H. Felton, M.J.A. McGittigan, Jess H. Cloud, Byron Vazakas, Ellis Foote, Myron H. Broomell, Celeste Turner Wright.  Who are these strangers? What brings them together? They recall a walk in the cemetery, reading on the stones the names of people we have...
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Today is the King's 75th birthday. Nationwide to celebrate his 30th, but here we are. His mother had a hospital, a bridge, an Olympic Park, a reservoir, a conference centre, an airport terminal, a parliamentary tower, a concert hall and a railway line, to mention but a few....
The Honest Broker
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Meta, Microsoft, and Apple lost billions trying to convince us to live in the Matrix. Can you guess what they're doing next?
A Beautiful Site
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They say there's no such thing as bug-free code. When problems arise, creating a minimal reproduction will give you the best chance of a speedy resolution. When a potential bug is discovered, many developers' first reaction is to file an issue. That's great, but please exercise...
This Space
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I said I'd come back to "not writing".  A few months ago I watched Unstuck in Time, a long but captivating documentary on the life of Kurt Vonnegut and his friendship with the film's maker, Robert Weide. In his final years, Vonnegut moved to the country and stopped writing. His...
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Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
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Life in a Lognormal World At PyData Global 2023 I will present a talk, “Extremes, outliers, and GOATs: On life in a lognormal...
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At PyData Global 2023 I will present a talk, “Extremes, outliers, and GOATs: On life in a lognormal world”. It is scheduled for Wednesday 6 December at 11 am Eastern Time. Here is the abstract: The fastest runners are much faster than we expect from a Gaussian distribution, and...
Arduino Blog
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As you might have heard, on July 9th, Arm announced that the Mbed platform and OS are officially destined to reach end of life in July 2026, and therefore will no longer be maintained. The news has sent ripples through the embedded development community, particularly affecting...
Aaron's Essays
Conflicted Capital I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of...
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I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of interest generated by opposing incentives.[1] These considerations are especially important when a founder thinks about fundraising. The founder needs to figure out how to treat...
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How I ship projects at big tech companies I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to...
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I have shipped a lot of different projects over the last ~10 years in tech. I often get tapped to lead new ones when it’s important to get…
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Dinner Conversation Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting,...
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Read more about RSS Club. I love following the blogs of people in tech who have interesting, insightful things to say about the industry and their craft. I also really enjoy when those same people post little insights into their personal lives. I love seeing the human side...
Math Is Still...
New Proof Threads the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem A new proof marks major progress toward solving the Kakeya conjecture, a deceptively simple question...
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A new proof marks major progress toward solving the Kakeya conjecture, a deceptively simple question that underpins a tower of conjectures. The post New Proof Threads the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Map of the Week
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When I see a river, I often think about where it comes from and where it goes. I started a mapping project showing this for the Northeastern United States. For the level of detail needed it was necessary to choose a manageable area so I chose where I've lived almost all of my...
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24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical...
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Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical controller, providing 28 TB of storage: Take a look here The main difference is that this person uses 1.5 TB disk, thus achieving more storage.
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Before And After – A Respectful Remodel For A Mid-Century Modern Home Interior design firm Wise Design, together with General Contractor and Architect Owen Gabbert...
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Interior design firm Wise Design, together with General Contractor and Architect Owen Gabbert (formerly Clarkbuilt), has transformed a dated 1954 mid-century modern home in Portland, Oregon. Before – The ExteriorThe original home has a brown exterior with original windows and...
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250k downloads of Latent Space Pod I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded...
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I last talked about my Latent Space adventures in April and last December. Even as a well regarded developer-part-time-creator, the Latent Space Newsletter + Pod has done much better than I usually do. Here are the stats as of today:
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WHEN I was in graduate school, I was one of the editors of VIA IV: “Culture and the Social Vision.” I helped Robert A.M. Stern write New York 1900, Metropolitan Architecture and Urbanism 1890-1915. My summer job turned into a … Continue reading → The post With Rhetoric: The New...
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Just before new year's, Corrinne and the kids rejoined me at Big Lagoon. We had a quiet new year's around the fire, and then the next day we headed out to the Fort Pickens portion of Gulf Islands National Seashore. If St. George is the best spot in the panhandle, Fort Pickens is...
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Bringing the Coolest Car of the Carrera Panamericana to Life I recently came across the work of Ralph Morse, a photographer who worked for Life Magazine. Many of...
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I recently came across the work of Ralph Morse, a photographer who worked for Life Magazine. Many of his photos are made available by Google…
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'An Ill-Assorted Collection' A friend has broken up with her boyfriend and he is launching protracted salvos of nasty emails in...
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A friend has broken up with her boyfriend and he is launching protracted salvos of nasty emails in her direction. As prose they are better than average. There have been no threats of violence and little profanity. The ex’s weapon of choice is a detailed critique of every aspect...
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What does a CTO actually do? In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small...
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In 2017, I found myself stepping into the shoes of a CTO for the first time. I joined a small […] The post What does a CTO actually do? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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<![CDATA[Planet Python carried out my request to remove my blog from the aggregator. Now their feed no longer syndicates my posts about Python, which I'll no longer write much about. Planet Python is an aggregator of blogs, podcasts, and other resources of interest to the Python...
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Experimental techniques: bridge measurements When we teach undergraduates about materials and measuring electrical resistance, we tend to gloss...
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When we teach undergraduates about materials and measuring electrical resistance, we tend to gloss over the fact that there are specialized techniques for this - it's more than just hooking up a battery and an ammeter.  If you want to get high precision results, such as measuring...
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The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments... Howlin’ Wolf may well have been the greatest blues singer of the 20th century. Certainly many people...
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Howlin’ Wolf may well have been the greatest blues singer of the 20th century. Certainly many people have said so, but there are other measurements than mere opinion, though it’s one I happen to share. The man born Chester Arthur Burnett also had a profound historical effect on...
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37 Hitchcock Cameo Appearances Over 50 Years: All in One Video Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock began making small appearances in his own films. The cameos...
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Early in his career, Alfred Hitchcock began making small appearances in his own films. The cameos sometimes lasted just a few brief seconds, and sometimes a little while longer. Either way, they became a signature of Hitchcock’s filmmaking, and fans made a sport of seeing whether...
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Broad-billed Sandpiper: Now a Red-listed wader A dedicated team of Scottish bird ringers has been studying breeding waders in northern Norway since...
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A dedicated team of Scottish bird ringers has been studying breeding waders in northern Norway since 1993. One of the focal species of their fieldwork is the secretive Broad-billed Sandpiper, an unusual taiga wader which nests on low-lying tussocks embedded in floating mats of...
Seth's Blog
What sort of bicycle? While it’s likely that you own a bike, you probably don’t have a front-wheel recumbent bicycle in...
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While it’s likely that you own a bike, you probably don’t have a front-wheel recumbent bicycle in your garage. Even though it’s more efficient, more comfortable and often faster. How did that happen? In 1933, a twenty-year old speed record was broken by a racer on a recumbent...
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My attempt at archiving nfscars.net Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which...
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Background My mother once had a laptop: the Compaq Armada 1592DT. It came with Windows ME which later got “upgraded” to Windows 98 SE after I managed to completely screw up the OS, a whopping 96MB of RAM and a hard drive that probably wasn’t much larger than 1-3GB. It wasn’t...
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The art of estimation If you’re a freelancer or a contractor of any kind, it’s typical to be asked for an estimate or a...
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If you’re a freelancer or a contractor of any kind, it’s typical to be asked for an estimate or a quote. And if you’ve been doing business for a while, it’s likely that you’ve heard about price more than just about any other factor in losing an opportunity. So the pressure is on...
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Thinking rationally about emotion In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case...
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In advertising, using emotion is entirely logical. Creative agencies have made this case consistently. But in 2013 Les Binet and Peter Field bought some much-needed data to the discussion. In their seminal report, The Long and The Short of It, the duo analysed 30 years of...
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Bottom of the funnel It’s easy to get focused on the public-facing mouth of the funnel. More followers. More impressions....
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It’s easy to get focused on the public-facing mouth of the funnel. More followers. More impressions. More buzz, hype, promotion. Get the word out. Just about all the time people who call themselves “marketers” spend is on this. Don’t worry about what happens later, just pour more...
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The power of post-war design in Regent’s Park, north-west London
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How to make this thematic map, and stuff One of the great joys of working here at Esri is the opportunity to collaborate with amazing people....
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One of the great joys of working here at Esri is the opportunity to collaborate with amazing people. Recently I had the opportunity to present at the User Conference about thematic mapping, with Sarah Bell and Kenneth Field. It was a lot of fun and we all surprised each other...
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Delaying asset requests in Eleventy While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading...
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While building my photography portfolio, I've put much effort into optimizing the picture loading behavior. One technique is to provide a visual fallback as long as the images are still loading. First, a static background color included in the markup is displayed. As soon as a...
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How I blew up my backup server (Valve pls fix) It all started with me getting a Steam Deck. Background After getting familiar with the Steam Deck...
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It all started with me getting a Steam Deck. Background After getting familiar with the Steam Deck and how the Proton compatibility layer works, I decided to write a backup script that would back up everything in the home folder, excluding the Steam games themselves due to the...
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Before & After – Remodeled Kitchen And Bathrooms For A Mid-Century Modern Home M Monroe Design has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel they recently completed for a...
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M Monroe Design has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel they recently completed for a mid-century modern home in Newport Beach, California, that includes a new kitchen as well as the main bathroom and a kids’ bathroom. Before – The KitchenThe original kitchen had a tiled...
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The shore, the tide, the current: an oceanic Caribbean exhibition by Ignacio G. Galán + OF... The architectural proposal for the exhibition “the shore, the tide, the current: an oceanic...
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Joining a startup is far less risky than most people think Joining a startup is far less risky than most people seem to think.  In fact, I don’t know if anyone...
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Joining a startup is far less risky than most people seem to think.  In fact, I don’t know if anyone has ever studied this systematically…
./techtipsy
Recovering a password-protected ThinkPad T60 A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member...
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A couple of years ago, I worked on a ThinkPad T60. That ThinkPad had been in use by a family member before that, and I started its cleanup by disassembling the whole machine and making sure that it was pristine. However, once I put it all back together, I saw that it was password...
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Outsource things you don’t care about A fundamental principle of business is that you do things in house that you think can give you a...
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A fundamental principle of business is that you do things in house that you think can give you a competitive advantage and outsource things…
Engineers Need Art
Soft Dorothy Software — Shareware Projects Wherein I attempt to recover and restore old shareware code and program again like it's 1989.
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Retail Design Blog
Bottega Veneta residence Next level luxury shopping isn’t for the faint-hearted. You’ve got to bring your A-game, and most...
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Next level luxury shopping isn’t for the faint-hearted. You’ve got to bring your A-game, and most importantly, the deepest of...
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How to customize your Arduino Cloud IoT dashboards on the go The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage...
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The Arduino Cloud has long been a trusted platform for makers, engineers, and developers to manage their IoT projects with ease. From tracking sensor data to automating smart devices, the cloud enables seamless connectivity. Complementing this, the Arduino IoT Remote mobile app...
Patrick Kayongo
Substack vs Africa The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging...
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The writing site, Substack, has taken the world by storm. At a time when everyone thought blogging and online writing was dead, superseded by YouTube, Substack came along and solved the problems of discovery and monetisation. Their feed and recommendations have allowed many to...
Aaron's Essays
Fooled by experts Experts are generally right until they're wrong. Unfortunately, it's very easy to get fooled into...
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Experts are generally right until they're wrong. Unfortunately, it's very easy to get fooled into thinking that experts are always right. This is because they are...experts. They are authoritative and knowledgeable. This is especially true when it comes to trying new things in...
Vadim Kravcenko
Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and...
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Starting a business can be a daunting task. It’s even more difficult when you’re doing it alone and you’re not […] The post Where do I find technical co-founder for my startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Mark Manson
The 5 Levels of Understanding Yourself Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the...
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Hey there, you beautiful bastards. Today, we're diving into the infinite complexities of the self. We'll be exploring the concept of self at five different levels, from simple explanations to brain-melting ideas that'll leave you questioning your very existence. Ready? Let's do...
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A Beautiful Site
Downloading a list of URLs automatically I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to...
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I recently needed to download a bunch of files from Amazon S3, but I didn't have direct access to the bucket — I only had a list of URLs. There were too many to fetch one by one, so I wanted to fetch them automatically. Here are a couple ways I found to do that. Using curl # Curl...
The Modern House
Scene Stealers: seven rural homes with spectacular surroundings We’ve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country – growing your own fruit and veg, wild...
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We’ve all found ourselves daydreaming of life in the country – growing your own fruit and veg, wild swimming, enjoying a glass of red by a cosy log fire… But if that’s never been quite enough to inspire you to take the plunge, the homes […]
Flashbak
The Art of Arranging Flowers: A 1960s Guide for Achieving Harmony Through Art and Nature The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of...
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The Art of Arranging Flowers (1965) by Shozo Sato is a comprehensive guide to the Japanese art of ikebana. The practice, which roughly translates to “making flowers come alive”, “the way of flowers” or the less poetic “flowers kept alive” uses flora to create specific human...
Castles in the Sky
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How does Michelin Guide's business work? The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is...
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The Michelin tire business does $30B+ a year in revenue. The brand's iconic food review guide is 0.1% of sales. An incredible marketing deal.
Diaries of Note
The goose for Xmas disappeared In the waning days of 1948, George Orwell was secluded on the Scottish island of Jura in a remote...
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In the waning days of 1948, George Orwell was secluded on the Scottish island of Jura in a remote farmhouse named Barnhill—a stark, white-washed building set against the backdrop of Jura’s untamed wilderness. It was there, amidst the stark beauty of nature and in declining...
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Data outlasts Code, yet Code keeps winning My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving...
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My recent End of Localhost piece on Hacker News came with the usual dash of HN criticism devolving into blaming beginners for not knowing the same parts of the stack that they consider mandatory:
Vadim Kravcenko
🥇 The unfair advantage 🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […] The...
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🎙️ I love listening to podcasts. I listen to one of them when I go for a walk or during […] The post 🥇 The unfair advantage appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Making o(m)g:image, Part II: As Little JS As Possible This is part two of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project...
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This is part two of my series of posts describing how I made my quiz game o(m)g:image. Project Announcement Pt. I: Design Iterations Pt. II: As Little JS As Possible One of my goals when making this project was to use as little JavaScript as possible. In retrospect, I have to...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Life Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Six dimensions is OK, but 7+ is for freaks. Today's...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - All Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Happy family life, productive work life, and...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Happy family life, productive work life, and worldwide hegemony. Today's News: Nice review of our space book in WSJ.
TheCollector
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The whole Channel is filled with little ships Exactly 80 years ago today, the world held its breath as the Allied forces launched the largest...
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Exactly 80 years ago today, the world held its breath as the Allied forces launched the largest seaborne invasion in history, marking the beginning of the end for Nazi Germany’s occupation of Europe. Among the thousands of brave soldiers who set out to liberate the continent was...
Open Culture
The “Nonsense” Botanical Illustrations of Victorian Artist-Poet Edward Lear (1871–77) Since the Victorian era, Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been, for generation upon...
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Since the Victorian era, Edward Lear’s “The Owl and the Pussy-Cat” has been, for generation upon generation in the English-speaking world, the kind of poem that one simply knows, whether one remembers actually having read it or not. As with most such works that seep so...
Seth's Blog
Finding a more useful umwelt Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious...
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Add up all the senses you use and the things you notice: that’s your umwelt. It’s pretty obvious that your dog has a different one than you do. They see fewer colors and smell far more intelligently. Sea slugs see a much wider range of colors, and bats can sense vibrations. Among...
Retail Design Blog
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Conexus Studio designed Sartorius’ regional office in Singapore, integrating agility, innovation, biophilic elements, and collaborative spaces, prioritizing a vibrant yet...
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Teens Obsessed with YouTube and TikTok: New Survey Reveals Usage Trends Nearly 1 in 5 teens are on YouTube or TikTok "almost constantly," according to a new survey by Pew...
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Nearly 1 in 5 teens are on YouTube or TikTok "almost constantly," according to a new survey by Pew Research Center. This highlights the immense popularity of these video-streaming platforms among younger generations. Here are the key takeaways from the survey:
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30 Day Map Challenge-One Final Note In writing yesterday’s post I forgot about this awesome music video about the 30 Day Map Challenge....
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In writing yesterday’s post I forgot about this awesome music video about the 30 Day Map Challenge. The lyrics are French with English subtitles and it’s fun to hear how musical words like choropleth and story map can sound in French. “Some people sell houses, chickens, bidets, I...
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Political Alignment and Outlook This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from...
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This is the fourth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 15, which is part of the political alignment case study. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab....
The American Scholar
Imperfecta Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the...
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Her brother’s disease leads a writer to challenge how we conceive of human abnormality in the emerging era of gene editing The post Imperfecta appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Great Experience (1963) I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't...
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I have been collecting these books for such a long time that it is rare to come across one I haven't seen.  I know there are still many out there but my language skills are poor enough that I rarely find  the many books that exist in other languages. So I present today The Great...
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Books finished in April 2023 I continue the practice of posting a list as a substitute for real writing. Coming soon: a long...
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I continue the practice of posting a list as a substitute for real writing. Coming soon: a long overdue loot at Seneca's plays, a glance at Gide's Counterfeiters, and some messing around with Plato's Republic. If I did not write in April, I at least read: GREEK PHILOSOPHY The...
Classical Wisdom
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Prototyping Magic Tricks and Software In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their...
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In Penn & Teller’s Masterclass (no. 12 “Principles of Performing”) they explain how one of their favorite ways to design a magic trick is to come up with an idea and then act it out as if they already know how to do it. Here’s Penn: We still start with an idea for a trick, how we...
Daniel Bourke
Superglue and milk We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He...
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We walked out of the movies and it was still daylight. I helped Dad get onto the escalators. He moves slower than most. It keeps me in check when I’m steaming along. Walking into the movies I looked at the time. We were late. Friday afternoon traffic. So
Neil Madden
On PBKDF2 iterations There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to...
a year ago
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a year ago
There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key. Other people have already dissected this particular breach, but I want to more...
TheCollector
7 Scottish Inventors & Their Inventions undefined
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Who Was Judah Maccabee? The Ancient Jewish Resistance Leader undefined
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Noahpinion
A pivotal moment for Japan's national defense A guest post by Jonathan Grady
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Flashbak
The Yule Goat: Photographs of Finland’s Nuuttipukki (1928) “Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying     On January 13, it’s...
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“Good Thomas brought Christmas and bad Nuutti took it away” – Finnish saying     On January 13, it’s Saint Knut’s day in Finland, which usually marks the end of the Christmas season. And the Nuuttipukki is at your door. The strange, goat-like creature is a thirsty man dressed in...
TheCollector
What Countries Joined the Axis Powers? undefined
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ToughSF
Riding Sunbeams with Solar Sails Reset your expectations of solar sails. They are a fast and free way to travel to any point in the...
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Reset your expectations of solar sails. They are a fast and free way to travel to any point in the Solar System, as many times as you want, any time of the year. Solar sails can carry passengers and they have a nearly unlimited number of uses. You just have to... think...
NeuroLogica Blog
Carbon Fiber Structural Battery I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a...
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I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a concrete battery. The basic idea is a battery made out of material that is strong enough that it can bare a load. Essentially we’re asking the material to do two things at once – be...
TheCollector
5 Controversies Surrounding Marina Abramović undefined
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Diaries of Note
We puny mortals On 2nd November 1995, NASA released a photograph that would become one of the most iconic images of...
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On 2nd November 1995, NASA released a photograph that would become one of the most iconic images of space ever captured: the Hubble Space Telescope’s view of the gas pillars in the Eagle Nebula, known as the Pillars of Creation. One of the millions of observers that weekend was...
Irrational...
When to write strategy, and how much? Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the...
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Even if you believe that strategy is generally useful, it is difficult to decide that today’s the day to start writing engineering strategy. When you do start writing strategy, it’s easy write so much strategy that your organization is overwhelmed and ignores your strategy rather...
Don Melton
Happy twentieth to Safari and WebKit Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous...
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over a year ago
Safari and WebKit aren’t teenagers anymore. I just want to make note of that. To quote a previous post: On June 25, 2001, I arrived at Apple Computer to lead the effort in building a new Web browser. It was also Ken Kocienda’s first day on the job, both at Apple and on that same...
diamond geezer
Snowflakes A lot has been added to the tube map in recent years. Accessibility blobs, walking connections,...
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a year ago
A lot has been added to the tube map in recent years. Accessibility blobs, walking connections, cablecars, trams, river piers and most recently Thameslink, all have been shoehorned into an increasingly cluttered diagram. But whatever ridiculous woke nonsense have they added...
Nelson's Weblog
8BitDo Game Controllers 8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some...
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8BitDo makes good game controllers. A wide variety of styles from retro to mainstream, with some unusual shapes. And wide compatibility with various systems: PC, Macs, Switch, Android. They’re well built, work right, and quite inexpensive. A far cry from the...
Noahpinion
Turkey, you were doing so well! (repost) An economic success story runs off the rails.
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Puzzle Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you should just think of every moment of your life as a series of escape rooms. It's healthy. Today's News:
99% Invisible
You Ain’t Nothin But a Postmark [EPISODE] Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as...
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Over a decade after Elvis Presley’s death, the king of rock & roll took over headlines once again as Americans weighed in on which portrait of Elvis would be forever immortalized on a 29 cent US postage stamp. It was put to a popular vote: should the stamp feature an image of...
A Smart Bear
How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price You can charge much more than you think, if you reposition your value-proposition. Here's how.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The internet is reshaping our economy from one of huge corporations with lots of jobs to huge... From Innovation and the Bell Labs Miracle in today NYTimes: Innovation is an important new product...
over a year ago
Epic Web Dev
Preparing for a workshop with Kent C. Dodds (tip) Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step...
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a year ago
Full Stack Workshop Series Volume 1 and enhance your web development skills. Get step-by-step instructions, resources, and hands-on exercises to level up.
Rest of World -...
How a Ugandan startup wound up in Mexico Assak's unexpected entry into Mexico bodes well for international investment.
a year ago
Both Are True
"she looks exactly like you" she's my daughter, she's my twin
8 months ago
Diaries of Note
Hostilities were suspended for the Night On 17th October 1781, a decisive moment arrived in the American Revolutionary War: the Siege of...
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a year ago
On 17th October 1781, a decisive moment arrived in the American Revolutionary War: the Siege of Yorktown effectively came to an end. Situated in Virginia, Yorktown had been a critical stronghold for the British forces led by General Charles Cornwallis. The American and French...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Balloon Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Unfortunately there's no plumber-bot to fix that...
a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Exterior Lighting Shows Off The Post And Beam Structure Of This Home Ward + Blake Architects has shared photos of a modern post and beam home they completed in Wyoming,...
a year ago
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Ward + Blake Architects has shared photos of a modern post and beam home they completed in Wyoming, that’s been placed on a hillside, just above a farmable portion of the site to preserve the ongoing agricultural use of the property. The home has generous roof overhangs that...
Uncharted...
Deserts, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Snow, Paradises, Swamps: Why Do People Live Where They Live in the... Deserts, Tornadoes, Hurricanes, Snow, Paradises, Swamps
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Working Theorys
Cool Self There are a lot of theories about the meaning of life. About what we go through life searching for....
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There are a lot of theories about the meaning of life. About what we go through life searching for. What we’re lucky if we find. Some of these theories give us answers, but many prompt us to ask more questions. Recently I’ve landed on my own theory, one rooted in a kind of common...
Epic Web Dev
Mocking Techniques in Vitest (workshop)
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Maps Mania
Dressing Miku
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Louwrentius
Is storage really that cheap? Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Nowadays you can buy a 1 TB harddrive for less than 100 euro's . So I build myself a 4 TB NAS box, which is already 50% full. However, although it is to some degree fault-tollerant by using RAID 6, one mistake or catastrophic hardware faillure and all data is lost. And that's...
TheCollector
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Steve Klabnik
New blog: Words
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The Marginalian
The Living Wonder of Leafcutter Ants, in Mesmerizing Stop Motion Alongside humans, leafcutter ants form some of nature’s vastest, most sophisticated societies — a...
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Alongside humans, leafcutter ants form some of nature’s vastest, most sophisticated societies — a single mature colony can contain as many ants as there are people on Earth, living with a great deal more social harmony and consonance of purpose than we do. They are also one of...
Paul Cudenec
The spirit of Sophia: our promise Our Beloved!
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symmetry magazine
Applications of quantum mechanics at the beach How does sunscreen work on the atomic level?
a year ago
Open Culture
The Junky’s Christmas: William S. Burrough’s Dark Claymation Christmas Film Produced by Francis Ford... Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation...
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Back in 1993, the Beat writer William S. Burroughs wrote and narrated a 21-minute claymation Christmas film oddly produced by Francis Ford Coppola. And, as you can well imagine, it’s not your normal happy Christmas flick. Nope, this film – The Junky’s Christmas – is all about...
Louwrentius
Blu Ray is dead HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical media is dead....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
HD-DVD may be dead, but Blu Ray is just as dead. The whole concept of optical media is dead. Honestly, who is still burning CD's or DVD's nowadays? (If you are, why for Christ sake? I can't think of a single good reason) And at 10 euros ($100) for a single Blu Ray disk, you must...
Common Edge
Social Radicalism Reexamined: The Legacies of Christopher Alexander and Joseph Rykwert What these foreign-born giants of design theory brought to two American universities.
6 months ago
Bits about Money
Debanking (and Debunking?) Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for...
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Crypto advocates kicked off a recent, somewhat politicized, discussion of debanking. Strap in for scintillating banking compliance trivia.
./techtipsy
Back to roots This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet...
6 months ago
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This blog is running on a home server again. I have once again gained access to a competent internet connection1, and I think I have figured out the IPv6 setup as well2, leading to this change. The IP address is dynamic, there are occasional power outages and I might just mess up...
Classical Wisdom
The Great Debate: Free Will VS Determinism Heraclitus against Parmenides
2 months ago
Londonist
It's Official - London Has Two Of The World's 10 Best Bars But Barcelona's still the best place to booze.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Showing up Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mark Twain famously quipped that “80 percent of life is showing up.” Running a startup, I’d say it’s more like 90 percent. For example, I…
Seth's Blog
Redefining a profession Pharmacists used to mix chemicals by hand to create prescriptions. Opticians used to grind lenses...
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3 months ago
Pharmacists used to mix chemicals by hand to create prescriptions. Opticians used to grind lenses from scratch. Lawyers used to start with an empty page. Graphic designers needed to know how to draw. All of these jobs are still important. None of them are the same as they were...
Londonist
16 Spring Day Trips From London: April 2024 Steam trains, flower festivals and a mysterious grotto.
9 months ago
Transit Maps
Official Map: C-TRAN Bus Network, Vancouver, Washington, October 2023 Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Transit Maps has never taken a look at the map for Portland’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
Perhaps somewhat surprisingly, Transit Maps has never taken a look at the map for Portland’s northern neighbour, the (original) Vancouver. With the recent addition of their second “The Vine” BRT route along Mill Plain Boulevard, now seems like a good time. At first glance, it...
Retail Design Blog
Pergas Cafe by SAD Office & AMA Studio Pergas Cafe is located in the busy Armenian neighborhood of Jolfa, Isfahan, and the location of the...
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7 months ago
Pergas Cafe is located in the busy Armenian neighborhood of Jolfa, Isfahan, and the location of the property has its...
Nat Eliason's...
Permission to Slow Down In... Out...
a year ago
alexwlchan
Google is showing outdated results from the UK’s election Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough...
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Last week, fourteen years of Tory government came to an end with a Labour landslide. It was a rough night for every Conservative candidate, many of whom either lost their seat or saw their majorities severely diminished. One of those Conservative candidates was Nigel...
Farnam Street
Chesterton’s Fence: A Lesson in Second Order Thinking A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions....
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A core component of making great decisions is understanding the rationale behind previous decisions. If we don’t understand how we got “here,” we run the risk of making things much worse. *** When we seek to intervene in any system created by someone, it’s not enough to view...
fast.ai
Qualitative humanities research is crucial to AI Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Following the thread of any seemingly quantitative issue in AI ethics (such as determining if software to rate loan applicants is racially biased or evaluating YouTube’s recommendation system) quickly leads to a host of qualitative questions. Unfortunately, there is often a large...
NeuroLogica Blog
AI Copilots Are Coming I’m going to do something I rarely do and make a straight-up prediction – I think we are close to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’m going to do something I rarely do and make a straight-up prediction – I think we are close to having AI apps that will function as our all-purpose digital assistants. That’s not really a tough call, we already have digital assistants and they are progressing rapidly. So I am...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Control as Liability
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'You Must Start Rewriting in Your Head' “Rhythm is never effortless. To achieve it, you must start rewriting in your head and then continue...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“Rhythm is never effortless. To achieve it, you must start rewriting in your head and then continue rewriting on the page. The hallmark of a seductive style is to extend natural speech rhythm over the distance of a complex sentence.” When I applied for my first job on a...
Data Boutique
Tracking Farfetch [Part 2]: Kering's Exit A case study for web data
9 months ago
Blog posts of...
Startup Mentoring Sessions: How to get the most out of it. Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Everyone is doing pitch training. Almost no-one does training for the mentoring session, but this is where most startups get the m...
diamond geezer
Algorithmic feed I'm delighted to announce that diamond geezer now has a new non-chronological algorithm. From...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I'm delighted to announce that diamond geezer now has a new non-chronological algorithm. From today an automated algorithm will determine the order in which posts appear in your feed. This algorithm uses various factors to prioritise content with the goal of showing you the...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Human Arts Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bam, another apocalypse thwarted by...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bam, another apocalypse thwarted by Weinersmith. Today's News: I promised I'd do more longform once the latest book manuscript was done and HERE WE ARE.
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 036: The money pit October 13, 2023.
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
"It's pretty difficult to solve big problems in four years" Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Larry Page: When I talk to most companies, I do think their leaders are pretty short-term focused. Imagine you're running Exxon, what do you…
99% Invisible
Chambre de Bonne [EPISODE] For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
For many young people in Paris, it’s a right of passage to live in a very small, very French type of apartment, called a “chambre de bonne.” Literally, a maid’s room. A chambre de bonne is usually one small room, on the top floor of a five- or six-story apartment building, and...
Weighty Thoughts
What I got Right or Wrong in 2020 Reflecting on the Past Year
over a year ago
TheCollector
Cinco de Mayo: 5 Facts About the Mexican Celebration undefined
a year ago
Chris Nicholas
Integrate Twitter newsletters with API Routes Last week newsletters started popping up on Twitter profiles, using their recently purchased...
over a year ago
Open Culture
The Steampunk Clocks of 19th-Century Paris: Discover the Ingenious System That Revolutionized... A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for...
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4 months ago
A middle-class Parisian living around the turn of the twentieth century would have to budget for services like not just water or gas, but also time. Though electric clocks had been demonstrated, they were still a high-tech rarity; installing one in the home would have been...
Londonist
Fourth Plinth Winning Artworks For 2026 And 2028 Announced Say hello to Trafalgar Square's latest additions.
9 months ago
Commoncog
Executing on Becoming Data Driven: The Technicals A technical overview of how I'm applying the methods and ideas of the Becoming Data Driven in...
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Is It Worth Being Wise?
over a year ago
The American Scholar
Esteban Cabeza de Baca History witnessed, from the picket lines The post Esteban Cabeza de Baca appeared first on The...
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History witnessed, from the picket lines The post Esteban Cabeza de Baca appeared first on The American Scholar.
fast.ai
From Deep Learning Foundations to Stable Diffusion Practical Deep Learning for Coders part 2, 2022
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Why Mexico’s delivery workers are ditching food for packages As the popularity of Chinese e-commerce platforms grows, some gig workers are finding it more...
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5 months ago
As the popularity of Chinese e-commerce platforms grows, some gig workers are finding it more appealing to deliver packages than food orders.
macwright.com
Obsidian Freeform Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Prefer video? You can also watch an intro video that I recorded for this on YouTube. Obsidian Freeform is an extremely small Obsidian plugin that enables totally custom JavaScript-powered frames alongside your notes. I created it because I use Obsidian as my note-taking...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
What does longevity medicine actually mean? | Out-Of-Pocket An interview with a practicing longevity medicine doctor
a month ago
Londonist
Skyscraper Bagging: How Many Of London's 20 Tallest Buildings Have You Been Up? Ticking off the towers.
10 months ago
Neocha – Culture &...
Natural Selection
over a year ago
Londonist
"We're Bringing Migrant Voices To The London Stage" Foreign Affairs harnesses the power of translation.
a year ago
Math Is Still...
How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how...
a year ago
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a year ago
By measuring the universe’s emptiest spaces, scientists can study how matter clumps together and how fast it flies apart. The post How (Nearly) Nothing Might Solve Cosmology’s Biggest Questions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Notes on software...
Notes from Neal Gabler's Walt Disney Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though...
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a year ago
Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though politically the 1930s was considered the decade of Roosevelt (elected President in 1933), culturally the 1930s was considered the decade of Mickey Mouse. Almost every new...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
You're making me buy a new phone My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Hermès flagship store by RDAI A decade after relocating its Melbourne flagship store to Harley House, a heritage-listed 1924...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
A decade after relocating its Melbourne flagship store to Harley House, a heritage-listed 1924 office building by architect Sydney Wigham...
Mazdak
Canadian Mortgage Debt Growth Slows to Two-Decade Low, But Remains Elevated Canadians are taking on mortgage debt at a slower pace than ever before in two decades, according to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Canadians are taking on mortgage debt at a slower pace than ever before in two decades, according to data from the Bank of Canada (BoC). However, mortgage debt growth remains historically high, despite the recent slowdown. The BoC's latest data shows that outstanding mortgage...
Old Structures...
Not So Picturesque From 1849, “New York from the steeple of St. Paul’s Church, looking east, south and west.” In other...
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9 months ago
From 1849, “New York from the steeple of St. Paul’s Church, looking east, south and west.” In other words, looking into the heart of the downtown commercial district from its northern edge. My first thought in looking at this picture was that in 1849, before industrial technology...
Math Is Still...
The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some strange mathematical sequences are always whole numbers — until they’re not. The puzzling patterns have revealed ties to graph theory and prime numbers, awing mathematicians. The post The Astonishing Behavior of Recursive Sequences first appeared on Quanta...
Home on Erik...
Better precision and faster index building in Annoy Sometimes you have these awesome insights. A few days ago I got an idea for how to improve index...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sometimes you have these awesome insights. A few days ago I got an idea for how to improve index building in Annoy. For anyone who isn't acquainted with Annoy – it's a C++ library with Python bindings that provides fast high-dimensional nearest neighbor search.
Maps Mania
The Interactive Turbulence Map
11 months ago
Melting Asphalt
A Nihilist's Guide to Meaning I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've never been plagued by the big existential questions. You know, like What's my purpose? or What does it all mean? Growing up I was a very science-minded kid — still am — and from an early age I learned… Read more ›
Spoon & Tamago
Demographics Professor Warns that by 2531, Everyone in Japan Will be Named Sato image courtesy Mainichi Shimbun Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press...
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8 months ago
image courtesy Mainichi Shimbun Despite today’s date, this is not an April Fool’s prank. At a press conference in Tokyo last weekend, professor Hiroshi Yoshida from the Tohoku University Research Center for Aged Economy and Society, sounded the alarm bell for a looming crisis. By...
FIRE v London
Compounding, type II Supposedly Albert Einstein called compounding the 8th wonder of the world. Certainly the wonder of...
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a month ago
Supposedly Albert Einstein called compounding the 8th wonder of the world. Certainly the wonder of compound annual growth rates is something I feel quite viscerally, the more so with each month that I track my portfolio. But I’ve been struck recently by a radical improvement in...
Passing Time
Savoring the Unsavory Making Meaning on Mount Adams
11 months ago
Archinect - Features
Exploring Coffee and Architecture With These Ten Mesmerizing Cafes October 1st marks International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we explore exceptional projects that...
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a year ago
October 1st marks International Coffee Day, and to celebrate, we explore exceptional projects that exemplify the distinctive attributes and meticulous design considerations behind a diverse array of cafes across the globe.
Kagi Blog
What's next for Kagi? Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a...
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Two years ago, on June 1st, 2022, Kagi introduced ( https://blog.kagi.com/kagi-orion-public-beta ) a search engine that challenged the ad-supported version of the web.
mtlynch.io
Automatically Deploying ClipBucket with Ansible Overview ClipBucket is an open source video hosting platform, similar in functionality to YouTube or...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Overview ClipBucket is an open source video hosting platform, similar in functionality to YouTube or Vimeo. In this guide, we’ll walk through how to deploy ClipBucket to a server using the configuration management tool, Ansible. tl; dr - Just Install ClipBucket I don’t care about...
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...
NeuroLogica Blog
Fossil Fuels – Reduce Demand or Supply? This is a bit of a false choice – we can do both, or neither – but it is an important question and a...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is a bit of a false choice – we can do both, or neither – but it is an important question and a somewhat of a dilemma. Is the optimal path to reductions and eventual elimination of fossil fuel burning through reduced demand or supply? There are some interesting tradeoffs...
Londonist
New York Had A Crystal Palace And It Also Burned Down Imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
11 months ago
Unpacked
NVIDIA Explained: Origins, GPUs and AI stock bump | EP8 NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In...
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NVIDIA has seen their valuation 5x over the last 5 years and is now worth more than $2 trillion. In the latest episode, we dive a few layers deep into the company. We start with the origin of the company and the launch of their first GPU in 1999 which unlocked several...
journal – Winnie Lim
Paik Jong Won …is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
…is a celebrity chef in South Korea. He also owns multiple restaurant franchises with thousands of branches mainly in korea with some splattered all over the world. I first knew of him...
Matt Mullenweg
Response to DHH I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal, hateful words poisoned my brain, and the original version of this post was mean. I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH,...
Maps Mania
I'm Sending You Back to the Future!
4 weeks ago
Londonist
David Hockney Makes A Splash With His Battersea Power Station Christmas Trees You can see them every night till Christmas Day.
a year ago
TheCollector
Piero della Francesca in 3 Works: Perspective, Politics, and Symbols undefined
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TheCollector
Why Did the 1904 Olympic Marathon End in Disaster? undefined
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Classical Wisdom
What is Plagiarism? Is it possible to have a TRULY original thought?
11 months ago
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
a year ago
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a year ago
The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
Andrej Karpathy blog
A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
Handprinted - Blog
In the Studio 2022 We have had the pleasure of hosting lots of new and exciting Fab Friday workshops and wonderful...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We have had the pleasure of hosting lots of new and exciting Fab Friday workshops and wonderful Guest Tutors in 2022, exploring a variety of printmaking techniques. Take a look at this selection of work produced by students throughout the year:   Life Drawing - Mono Screen...