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The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
3 months ago
The Fight for Mary, Queen of Scots’ Jewels
JamesHoare
Wed, 09/18/2024 - 06:00
TheCollector
What Is the Tallest Wonder of the World?
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4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Novels by Charles Bukowski You Should Know
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5 months ago
TheCollector
10 Historical Facts About London You Might Not Know
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2 months ago
Flashbak
Miyako Festivals Of Kyoto, Japan – Illustrations From A 1920s Album of Silk Paintings
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s...
a year ago
These illustrations of Miyako Festivals are from an album of silk paintings created in the 1920s showing all different festivals held in Kyoto, Japan. Miyako (‘capital’) is an archaic name for Kyoto, which was the capital of Japan from 794 AD to 1868 AD. The pictures playson...
Open Culture
How Audrey Hepburn Risked Death to Help the Dutch Resistance in World War II
Audrey Hepburn may not have had the most prolific Hollywood career, but a fair few of her characters...
3 months ago
Audrey Hepburn may not have had the most prolific Hollywood career, but a fair few of her characters still feel today like roles she was born to play. Perhaps the same could have been true of the part of Anne Frank, had she not refused to take it up. When Anne’s father Otto Frank...
Global Inequality...
Devant la guerre
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
a month ago
On E. H. Carr's "The twenty years' crisis 1919-39"
tonsky.me
Talk: Clj-reload: A smarter way to reload code @
In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live...
6 months ago
In Clojure, we all love the REPL. We love playing with our code and seeing results applied live without ever restarting the app.
But in any project, there comes a time when your state becomes more complex than a simple set of functions. Evaluating the buffer does not...
Unfiltered by Tim...
How to Build an Online Empire by Yourself (Without Any Hacks)
Let's cut the cr*p
4 weeks ago
Transit Maps
Submission – BART “Heat Map” by Harsha Devulapalli
Submitted by Harsha, who says: I’ve been a big fan of your blog for over a decade. Recently, I had...
4 months ago
Submitted by Harsha, who says: I’ve been a big fan of your blog for over a decade. Recently, I had the opportunity to replicate the BART transit map for a data visualization in a story I wrote for the San Francisco Chronicle. I would love to hear your thoughts on it! Transit Maps...
TheCollector
Joachim Murat: First Horseman of Napoleon’s Empire
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5 months ago
Daniel Marino
Making Generative Art
I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he...
12 months ago
I saw Joshua Davis give a talk over 10 years ago, and I was mesmorized. Not just by how engaging he was, but more so with the work he was doing with generative art.
I had never heard of generative art before, but I immediately fell in love with the concept of it. I like to draw,...
alexwlchan
Adding locations to my photos from my Apple Watch workouts
A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest...
a year ago
A week or so ago, I was hiking around Lake Bohinj, a gorgeous Alpine lake in northwest Slovenia.
It’s a very photogenic landscape, so I was taking some pictures with my “nice” camera.
It’s an Olympus that takes better photos than my iPhone, but it’s quite old and it doesn’t have...
History Today Feed
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
a year ago
Why the Oracle of Delphi Still Beguiles
j.hoare
Wed, 12/13/2023 - 10:08
Old Structures...
Adelaide House, Part 4 – The Context
Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. Part 3, Facades: here. Skyscrapers only make sense...
9 months ago
Part 1, General: here. Part 2, Structure: here. Part 3, Facades: here. Skyscrapers only make sense as an urban phenomenon. (Keep in mind that a lot of inner-ring US suburbs are at urban density.) Putting aside the obvious economic argument that land is cheap in rural areas so...
Steve Klabnik
Deleuze for developers: assemblages
over a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Spider-Man’s Web Shooter
I have to admit that my favorite superhero as a kid, and still today, is Spider-Man (and yes, that’s...
3 months ago
I have to admit that my favorite superhero as a kid, and still today, is Spider-Man (and yes, that’s the correct spelling). There are a number of narrative reasons for this that I grew to appreciate more as I aged. First, Spider-Man is in the sweet spot of super abilities – he is...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware October 2024
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware,...
a month ago
Last month’s ware were boards from a Sony HCD-T1. Thanks again to spida for contributing the ware, and congratulations to marcan for nailing it. Ping me if you want a prize!
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal
A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same. ...
a year ago
A new paper finds a faster method for determining when two mathematical groups are the same.
The post Computer Scientists Inch Closer to Major Algorithmic Goal first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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What we built at our sun-kissed Aruba hackathon
Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've...
a year ago
Every year, Team PostHog congregates for our annual all-company offsite . In previous years we've been to Italy, Portugal and Iceland. This year, we…
Making software...
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we...
over a year ago
Animated Radio Tab Toggles
2021-01-05
In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user:
One-time payment
Recurring payment
Free tier...
Seth's Blog
Learning from the Amazon gift card snafu
Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake...
a year ago
Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake because: We can learn a lot about what not to do from this. First, if you make a mistake by email, fix it. Fix it by email AND fix it on your site. Let everyone who got the wrong […]
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HogMail #15
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product...
over a year ago
Welcome to HogMail, our newsletter featuring the best of the PostHog blog, tutorials, product guides, and curated articles on building great products…
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Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Enabling Safari Extensions with the macOS Catalina Patcher
2021-09-23
I have an old 2011 MacBook Air that is running the latest version of macOS Catalina thanks to the very wonderful Catalina Patcher by dosdude1. This project has made it possible for me to run and test some of...
Maps Mania
The Presidential Medal of Cartography
5 months ago
Common Edge
What I Learned From Six Recessions in Architecture
Life is imperfect, and architects understand this better than most.
a month ago
Life is imperfect, and architects understand this better than most.
TheCollector
3 Mexican Artists Who Painted Political Murals
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4 months ago
TheCollector
Is There a Connection Between Cinema and Edward Hopper?
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9 months ago
Both Are True
this is some real game of thrones shit
this season of USA is insane
6 months ago
this season of USA is insane
This Space
39 Books: 1998
I said I'd come back to "not writing".
A few months ago I watched Unstuck in Time, a long but...
8 months ago
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...
Transit Maps
Project: My UTA Rail and BRT Design Exploration
I teased this in yesterday’s review of the new official UTA diagram, so here’s my exploration of a...
a year ago
I teased this in yesterday’s review of the new official UTA diagram, so here’s my exploration of a few design ideas for an alternative version. As always with this type of project, I look for ways to approach the design problems for the diagram that are intentionally different to...
Old Vintage...
Thou shalt follow these Vintage Computing Commandments
Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote...
11 months ago
Thou shalt check voltage and polarity on new-to-thee power supplies, or thy machines shall be smote and release smoke. This is sometimes very hard to judge without a load, but they should be somewhere in the ballpark, verily, and you should get in the habit of checking any new...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 20-26 November 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Making software...
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community....
over a year ago
How to "FLOSS" as a Web Designer
2020-02-07
I have a profound respect for the open source community. I most likely wouldn't have the skills or knowledge I do today with it. Unfortunately, when I was just starting out in "web dev" some 10 years ago, proprietary software was the...
Alex Meub
Building an Arcade Stick
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an...
over a year ago
I’ve been into playing games on my RetroPie machine lately and thought it would be cool to build an arcade stick (also called a “fight stick”). Here’s the finished product:
Materials and Components
I had some leftover IKEA oak butcher block from a kitchen project and I thought...
Flashbak
Millions of Cats: Wanda Gag’s Beautifully Illustrated Children’s Book
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send...
a year ago
“I aim to make the illustrations for children’s books as much a work of art as anything I would send to an art exhibition. I strive to make them completely accurate in relation to the text. I try to make them warmly human, imaginative, or humourous — not coldly decorative — and...
Home on Erik...
Data architecture vs backend architecture
A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also...
over a year ago
A modern tech stack typically involves at least a frontend and backend but relatively quickly also grows to include a data platform. This typically grows out of the need for ad-hoc analysis and reporting but possibly evolves into a whole oil refinery of cronjobs, dashboards, bulk...
Rest of World -...
The job listing app where you can slide into a recruiter’s DMs
Boss Zhipin’s AI connects job seekers directly with recruiters, and it’s thriving on China’s...
a year ago
Boss Zhipin’s AI connects job seekers directly with recruiters, and it’s thriving on China’s employment crisis.
Florian Bellmann |...
How to strategically approach technical improvements
It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements...
a year ago
It's hard to make the right technical decisions in an active project. Particularly improvements without direct business value are difficult to manage. In this post, we discuss some learnings from the battlefield on how improvements can be approached.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Alone
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God runs a comedy club in heaven and everyone is...
a year ago
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God runs a comedy club in heaven and everyone is obligated to laugh at his disturbingly alien sense of humor.
Today's News:
Thanks to everyone who came for BAHFest and congrats to our winner of the Hennig Brand trophy, Esther...
Old Structures...
New Ringing The Old
Here’s a terrible photo I took through the window of a ferry: There’s a weird concentric-circle...
3 months ago
Here’s a terrible photo I took through the window of a ferry: There’s a weird concentric-circle effect to the buildings in much of lower Manhattan that you can see clearly here, that the buildings on the waterfront are new and bigger than the ones behind them. It’s a simple...
Castles in the Sky
The Bookseller's Register #1
Introducing a new series on building the bookstore of the future
a year ago
Introducing a new series on building the bookstore of the future
Math Is Still...
A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory
Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property...
a year ago
Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property describing unavoidable structure in graphs.
The post A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The American Scholar
Insisting on the Positive
A popular historian’s philosophical musings
The post Insisting on the Positive appeared first on The...
4 months ago
A popular historian’s philosophical musings
The post Insisting on the Positive appeared first on The American Scholar.
Passing Time
Valuable, but not productive
Consulting & finance as black holes of elite human capital
a month ago
Consulting & finance as black holes of elite human capital
Essays - Benedict...
Retail, search and Amazon’s $40bn ‘advertising’ business
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime,
bigger than the entire...
a year ago
Amazon sold close to $40bn of advertising last year - bigger than Prime,
bigger than the entire global newspaper industry and probably more
profitable than AWS. But is this really advertising, rent, or something
else? And what does that mean for Google?
Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025
And a review of last year's predictions.
yesterday
And a review of last year's predictions.
Hidden History
The Great Horse Flu Epidemic of 1872
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire...
3 weeks ago
An epidemic of “Horse Flu” in 1872 virtually shut down the US economy and paralyzed the entire country. By the 1870s, the once-rural agrarian United States was beginning to emerge as an industrial power. The Civil War had spurred the rapid development of industry such as iron...
Willem's Blog
Apple Watch as Phone
Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the...
a year ago
Embark on a digital detox journey as I swap my smartphone for an Apple Watch Ultra, exploring the liberating yet challenging world of wearable tech.
Josh Thompson
Structural Holes and Good Ideas
Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and...
over a year ago
Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and academic literature, as applied to somewhat practical-ish domains.
These pages serve as a brief overview of a paper, and I’ll be able to link to this paper down the road when I what...
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
8 months ago
On the Spot: Eugene Rogan
JamesHoare
Tue, 05/14/2024 - 09:43
Steve Klabnik
How Dogecoin changed my perspective on cryptocurrency
over a year ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Building Your Personal Efficiency-O-Meter
Inefficiency is the result of wasted energy. Understanding this you can start looking for ways to...
over a year ago
Inefficiency is the result of wasted energy. Understanding this you can start looking for ways to plug the leaks and recapture the lost energy that is slowing you down.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Climate
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We had a thing with A City on Mars where a lot of...
2 months ago
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We had a thing with A City on Mars where a lot of people couldn't disagree without assuming Secret Motives.
Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ticket
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Oh you thought you saw something in panel 4? You...
a month ago
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Oh you thought you saw something in panel 4? You got a dirty mind.
Today's News:
Words and Buttons...
A picture is worth a thousand tags
This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer...
over a year ago
This shows how a picture can be turned into an HTML table. With this, you can not only have nicer tables or uglier pictures, but you can have something that is both at the same time.
Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims, Construction Spending
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Mortgage rates...
a week ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Mortgage rates as of Monday (a little lower on Tuesday).
mortgage purchase applications index.
initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for an increase to 223...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Stones River?
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3 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Thank You
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Having enough support that you can insist on four...
2 months ago
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Having enough support that you can insist on four years to research a topic before presenting a book is of course down to all of you over all these years. It is daily appreciated.
Today's News:
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Tram and Busways of Casablanca, Morocco, 2024
Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length...
3 months ago
Submitted by Leo, who says: On September 24, the Casablanca tramway network nearly doubled in length with the opening of T3 and T4. The Casatramway network, operated by RATP, is depicted in the new map alongside the Casabusway BRT lines currently under construction. The map...
This Space
The withdrawal of the novel
We are subjected to that which does not exist
Simone Weil
When an old friend who...
over a year ago
We are subjected to that which does not exist
Simone Weil
When an old friend who has drunk deep from the puddle of the New Atheism complained on social media that religious people believe things that are “inventions, fairy stories, not real, made up", I was...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware April 2023
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the...
a year ago
The ware for April 2023 is an X-rite DTP22 spectrophotometer. This one almost made it through the month without being guessed, but congrats to cpresser for figuring it out in the last week! email me for your prize. Here’s some more context images of the ware. The colored filter...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fairytale
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Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing,...
a year ago
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Kids have precisely three fantasies: nurturing, power, and retribution. Adults are the same, plus sex and immortality.
Today's News:
abdz.do - Have you...
Superlative’s SB01 (Space Bee) — Visual Identity
Superlative’s SB01 (Space Bee) — Visual Identity
AoiroStudio0213—23
...
a year ago
Superlative’s SB01 (Space Bee) — Visual Identity
AoiroStudio0213—23
We would like to feature the work of Niklas Rosén and his collaboration with Kurppa Hosk on the Superlative SB01 (Space Bee), a groundbreaking product that is set to...
Blog - Guerrilla...
Migration Away From Flooded Land in Seattle
How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?
Deciding what to map was the...
over a year ago
How did you decide on your map subject for the Migration atlas?
Deciding what to map was the hardest part of the Atlas in a Day experience. The first night, we developed a number of interesting concepts but nothing felt quite right. Were data available? What interesting story...
NeuroLogica Blog
Trust in New Technology
In an optimally rational person, what should govern their perception of risk? Of course, people are...
6 months ago
In an optimally rational person, what should govern their perception of risk? Of course, people are generally not “optimally rational”. It’s therefore an interesting thought experiment – what would be optimal, and how does that differ from how people actually assess risk? Risk is...
Map of the Week
The Incredible Shrinking Great Salt Lake(s)
NOTE: due to accidental deletions on this platform I have lost some of the original attributions for...
a year ago
NOTE: due to accidental deletions on this platform I have lost some of the original attributions for this post.
Here is a map of the paleo-lakes of the Great Basin from the Pleistocene Era.
The present day lakes are shown in lighter blue though even those have shrunk from the...
Jonas Hietala
The first (worst) post
Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog...
over a year ago
Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog will be about and maybe, if I’m dedicated, it won’t die before Christmas you think.
And sure, you’re right. I will run away to the corner in about two and a half months crying I never...
Anecdotal Evidence
'His Empty Heart is Full at Length'
Two-hundred-fifty
years ago, in the late summer and fall of 1773, Dr. Johnson and Boswell made
their...
a year ago
Two-hundred-fifty
years ago, in the late summer and fall of 1773, Dr. Johnson and Boswell made
their grand tour of Scotland, including the Hebrides, and both would
publish accounts of their adventures. Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands of Scotland appeared in...
Artificial Ignorance
What AI models really think about politics
Exploring the political biases of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.
2 months ago
Exploring the political biases of ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini, and Grok.
99% Invisible
Trail Mix [EPISODE]
A good trail is one that is easy to follow and well maintained. Each trail is designed, constructed...
a year ago
A good trail is one that is easy to follow and well maintained. Each trail is designed, constructed and maintained to meet specific standards. These standards relate to the recreational experience the trail is intended to provide. But trails are something many of us take for...
TheCollector
Van Gogh & Gauguin: A Fiery Friendship Between Two Post-Impressionists
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6 months ago
Irrational...
How to plan as an engineering executive.
Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question...
a year ago
Some years back, I interviewed a senior leader for an engineering role, and asked them a question about planning. I enjoyed their response, “Ah yes, the ‘P’ word, planning.” That answer captured an oft heard perspective that planning is some sort of business curse word. Even when...
Josh Comeau's blog
Designing Beautiful Shadows in CSS
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be...
over a year ago
When I look around the web, most of the shadows I see are fuzzy grey boxes. It doesn't have to be this way, though! CSS gives us the tools to create rich, lush, lifelike shadows. In this tutorial, I'll show you how.
Passing Time
My Aspirational People List
These are the people I would invest in
over a year ago
These are the people I would invest in
Spoon & Tamago
Three Art Festival to Visit in Japan in the 2nd Half of 2024
Japan’s numerous art festivals have proven to be an effective way of luring domestic and...
7 months ago
Japan’s numerous art festivals have proven to be an effective way of luring domestic and international tourists out of popular destinations and into rural parts of Japan they would have otherwise not visited. The poster child is perhaps the Setouchi Triennale, whose combination...
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...
6 months ago
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...
TheCollector
8 Things You Should Know About Wangechi Mutu
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a year ago
Ben Borgers
The Magic of the Common Room
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The End of Localhost
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site:...
over a year ago
> This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/the-end-of-localhost
Farnam Street
Reciprocity: Getting What You Give
This article is an excerpt from the bestselling book The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics,...
over a year ago
This article is an excerpt from the bestselling book The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology Reciprocity teaches us why win-win relationships are the way to go, why waiters leave candies with the bill, why it’s a good idea to use the least force possible...
Retail Design Blog
Baker by Saeed Haroun
Our packaging design for Baker brand is a celebration of innovation, seamlessly blending tradition...
7 months ago
Our packaging design for Baker brand is a celebration of innovation, seamlessly blending tradition with contemporary flair to create a...
TheCollector
Soviets in Munich? The 1919 Bavarian Soviet Republic
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7 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
Don't register your idea as a company
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When to...
over a year ago
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When to incorporate is one of those topics which comes up time and time again,
and there is much conflicting advice out there. I’m lucky enough to have a
number of different experiences and...
The American Scholar
Drops in a Bucket
The post Drops in a Bucket appeared first on The American Scholar.
5 months ago
The post Drops in a Bucket appeared first on The American Scholar.
Classical Wisdom
Caligula's Forgotten Legacy
The Nemi Ships
a year ago
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My Hacktoberfest 2019
This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and...
over a year ago
This year I participated in Hacktoberfest for the first time. I became aware of it last year and really wanted to participate, but I had…
NeuroLogica Blog
What Is Orbitronics
You have definitely heard of electronics. You may (if you are a tech nerd like me) have heard of...
3 months ago
You have definitely heard of electronics. You may (if you are a tech nerd like me) have heard of spintronics and photonics. Now there is also the possibility of orbitronics. What do these cool-sounding words mean? Electronic technology is one of those core technologies that has...
TheCollector
Nike Sneakers Designed for Spike Lee Sold for $50,800
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a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'They Will Leave Behind Trenches'
“You wouldn’t
give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of
fortune...
2 months ago
“You wouldn’t
give up utopia it was too nourishing seductive / For mommy’s boys the heirs of
fortune heirs / To the bloody myths of the twentieth city.”
Today is the
centenary of Polish poet and essayist Zbigniew Herbert. The
Anglophone world has been fortunate. Herbert’s poems...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Affordable Idealism
How to maintain your ideals without obsoleting yourself
over a year ago
How to maintain your ideals without obsoleting yourself
Old Structures...
On The Spectrum Between Solid and Hole
For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This...
11 months ago
For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This piece of the subway system has a slightly odd history. The portion south of and up to 180th Street, at the south end of Bronx Park, was planned as part of the original IRT subway, but...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover the Best Fall Getaways: 3 American Cities You Must Visit
7 months ago
somethingaboutmaps
2024 Freelance Rate Survey Results
Thank you once again to everyone who participated in this year’s survey of freelance cartographer...
3 months ago
Thank you once again to everyone who participated in this year’s survey of freelance cartographer rates and business practices! Our apologies for the delay in posting the results; life has been busy for both Aly and myself. Before we get to the survey results, here are some handy...
Notes on software...
Container scheduling strategies for integration testing 14 different databases in Github Actions
This is an external post of mine. Click
here
if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
This is an external post of mine. Click
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if you are not redirected.
Flashbak
A Book of Dreams: 25 Vintage Visions To Awaken Your Mind
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by...
8 months ago
We’re dreaming today with collector Robert E Jackson. Triggered by the undertow of memory and fed by desire, our dreams are visions of other lives, possible clues to the future. “The interpretation of dreams is the royal road to a knowledge of the unconscious activities of the...
The American Scholar
“I Have Had My Vision”
Three prompts
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6 Incredible Roman Sites in Spain
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Lustre and the risk of Serious Data Loss
Personally I have a weakness for big-ass storage. Say 'petabyte' and I'm
interested. So I was...
over a year ago
Personally I have a weakness for big-ass storage. Say 'petabyte' and I'm
interested. So I was thinking about how you would setup a large, scalable
storage infrastructure. How should such a thing work?
Very simple: you should be able just to add hosts with some bad-ass huge...
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5 analytics ideas for marketing teams using PostHog
One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making...
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One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making analytics accessible to more than just analysts. There’s…
Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
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In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
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I DON'T KNOW
If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the
following game when...
3 months ago
If you're an annoying know-it-all like me, I suggest that you try playing the
following game when you attend a conference or a user group meetup or
even a work meeting. The game is:
If someone asks you a question, and you say
“I don't know”, you score a point.
That's it. ...
Open Culture
Sci-Fi Author J.G. Ballard Predicts the Rise of Social Media (1977)
Say you were a fan of Steven Spielberg’s moving coming-of-age drama Empire of the Sun, set in a...
7 months ago
Say you were a fan of Steven Spielberg’s moving coming-of-age drama Empire of the Sun, set in a Japanese internment camp during World War II and starring a young Christian Bale. Say you read the autobiographical novel on which that film is based, written by one J.G. Ballard. Say...
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Wagoneer
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed...
a year ago
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed down our travels though, spending more time in an area makes it nice to have a car to go exploring, run errands, and get to places the bus can't. For that reason we bought a 2006...
TokyoDev
Remote Worker Rights In Japan
Are you working remotely for a Japanese company? What happens if your company suddenly issues a...
a month ago
Are you working remotely for a Japanese company? What happens if your company suddenly issues a return-to-office mandate?
Will you have to move back to Tokyo? What if remote work is in your contract—do you have the right to refuse to return to the office? What standing do you...
Both Are True
The masks we wear (rom com, act three)
A denoument? In this economy? You betcha. Let's boogie.
10 months ago
A denoument? In this economy? You betcha. Let's boogie.
Calculated Risk
Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
3 weeks ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024
A brief excerpt:
Earlier this week, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-December 2024 I reviewed home inventory, housing...
Good Enough
TIL: JavaScript Turbo Stream Requests
I am working on search for Album Whale and I was very confused when my JavaScript fetch requests...
a year ago
I am working on search for Album Whale and I was very confused when my JavaScript fetch requests were not resulting in turbo_stream rendering getting displayed on my page. I checked my logs to see if the render was happening. I looked for missing <%= tags. Debugged and...
Seth's Blog
Decisions as effort
Why are we more likely to get tasks done than to take on new initiatives? Checking something off a...
2 months ago
Why are we more likely to get tasks done than to take on new initiatives? Checking something off a to-do list requires far less emotional energy than adding something to the list was in the first place. As is often the case, “resistance” is the answer. It’s easy to type a book,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 041: Lyria
November 17, 2023.
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TheCollector
Is My Life Just a Cosmic Accident? Finding Meaning in a Meaningless Universe
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Handprinted - Blog
How to Design and Print a Straight Repeating Pattern
Here’s an easy way to design a repeat pattern (without using a computer) and to block print it on to...
over a year ago
Here’s an easy way to design a repeat pattern (without using a computer) and to block print it on to fabric. We used MasterCut for our block because it’s an easy to cut stamping material that prints beautifully.
Draw around your block onto a piece of paper.
Draw part of your...
Daniel Miessler
Summary: Andrej Karpathy on Lex Fridman’s Podcast (Late 2022)
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The Changelog
KDE: A Nice Tiling Envieonment and a Surprisingly Awesome DE
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a...
over a year ago
I recently wrote that managing an external display on Linux shouldn’t be this hard. I went down a path of trying out some different options before finally landing at an unexpected place: KDE. I say “unexpected” because I find tiling window managers are just about a necessity....
Ben Borgers
Building henrynitzberg.com
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Reticent Humor'
“For nearly
twenty years after the publication of The
Children of the Night in 1896, poetry...
a year ago
“For nearly
twenty years after the publication of The
Children of the Night in 1896, poetry comprised the only notable American literature.”
A
provocative statement that sends one scrambling for counter-examples, which
aren’t difficult to find. Between 1896 and 1916 appeared...
James Cheshire
Anxiety and Mapping the Climate Crisis
Many of the maps I have created in recent years address the climate crisis and I’ve been asked a...
over a year ago
Many of the maps I have created in recent years address the climate crisis and I’ve been asked a number of times about if I feel powerless in the face of the data I’m showing. I reflect on this here with Kit Rackley. Our chat also in part inspired this article in The...
Dan Slimmon
Ask questions first, shoot later
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that...
7 months ago
The fact that fixing and diagnosing often converge to the same actions doesn't change the fact that these two concurrent activities have different goals. The goal of fixing is to bring the system into line with your mental model of how it's supposed to function. The goal of...
somenice
Matter as a Smart home standard
Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home...
9 months ago
Matter is the name of the smart home standard that promises to bridge IOT devices and different home eco-systems. Amazon Alexa, Google Home, Apple Homekit, Samsung SmartThings, etc. To prevent 6+ flavours of smart lightbulbs working with 6+ different apps, a standard needed to be...
Open Culture
Jimi Hendrix Opens for The Monkees on a 1967 Tour; Then Flips Off the Crowd and Quits
It’s easy to dismiss The Monkees. Critics and listeners have been doing it since the sixties,...
5 months ago
It’s easy to dismiss The Monkees. Critics and listeners have been doing it since the sixties, although the band has also come in for its share of reappraisals, particularly for their psych-rock album Head. (That’s the soundtrack from the 1968 Jack Nicholson-directed art film of...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do In London This Week: 18-24 March 2024
Things to do for under a fiver.
9 months ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
Noahpinion
Some ideas for science fiction in the 2020s
The future ain't what it used to be.
a year ago
The future ain't what it used to be.
Global Inequality...
Living through another great transformation…
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
5 months ago
A review of Karl Polanyi's "Great transformation"
Unpacked
Instagram limits political content, and Google's consumer play with Gemini
Last week, Meta announced that they will not proactively recommend political content across their...
11 months ago
Last week, Meta announced that they will not proactively recommend political content across their recommendation surfaces including Reels and Threads. We dive into criticism Meta has gotten in the past, what led Meta to this decision, the increasingly dispersed media landscape...
Neil Panchal
Overkill Objects for Everyday Life
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair...
over a year ago
I routinely make a fool of myself when I tell friends I want a Martin Baker ejection seat as a chair in my living room. Of course, with the pyrotechnic charge removed. Seriously, I would totally buy it if it weren't $5,000 on eBay and I'
Commoncog
Beck’s Measurement Model, or Why It’s So Damn Hard to Measure Software Development
A pretty useful lens for when a business activity is easy to measure, and when it is not. Part of...
a year ago
A pretty useful lens for when a business activity is easy to measure, and when it is not. Part of the Becoming Data Driven in Business Series.
Citation Needed
Elon Musk and the right’s war on Wikipedia
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part...
a week ago
The world's richest man has joined a growing chorus of right-wing voices attacking Wikipedia as part of an intensifying campaign against free and open access information.
Both Are True
well this is embarrassing
when you're madsad about the caviar problems
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when you're madsad about the caviar problems
Marco.org
WatchKit is a sweet solution that will only ever give us baby apps
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time...
over a year ago
In the original 2007 iPhone introduction, Steve Jobs famously derided other smartphones at the time for running “baby” software and the “baby” internet. He was right.
Developers weren’t given access to make native apps until the iPhone’s second year. Before the native development...
TheCollector
Frick Collection Announces April 2025 Reopening
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The Marginalian
Maira Kalman on How to Live with Remorse and Make of It a Portal of Creative Vitality
Each time we have tried to elevate ourselves above the other animals by claiming singular possession...
11 months ago
Each time we have tried to elevate ourselves above the other animals by claiming singular possession of some faculty, we have been humbled otherwise: Language, it turns out, is not ours alone, nor is the use of tools, nor is music. Elephants grieve, octopuses remember and...
the singularity is...
Three Class Society
I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t...
a year ago
I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t want to live in a free society. A free society requires personal responsiblity. People here want to be managed. They want a ruling class.”
I heard something similar once from a...
Seth's Blog
Volition and placebos
If a placebo heals your illness, does that mean it was all in your head in the first place? That you...
a year ago
If a placebo heals your illness, does that mean it was all in your head in the first place? That you weren’t really sick, or didn’t really want to get better? If expensive wine tastes better to you, but you can’t tell wine apart in a double-blind taste test, does that mean it...
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In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
over a year ago
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
Map of the Week
Algal Blooming Across the World
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center produced a video showing the increase in harmful algal blooms...
4 months ago
NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center produced a video showing the increase in harmful algal blooms over the last 50 years.
If the above video does not load try clicking here. This version ends by opening the globe into a world map to show everywhere at once. There is another...
TheCollector
6 Facts About Johannes Itten, the Famous Bauhaus Teacher
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Smallpox in the New World: History, Victims, & Symptoms
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The Modern House
Tim Ross: the Australian broadcaster on the life-enhancing effect of modest, modernist buildings –...
Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was...
6 months ago
Growing up in a 1960s house in the suburbs of Melbourne, the Australian broadcaster Tim Ross was often left to his own devices. A daydreamer with an eye for design, his passion for modernist buildings took root and caught up with him following his early […]
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All the cool things we built at our Rome hackathon
As an all-remote team, we know how important getting together in person is (we’ve written about...
over a year ago
As an all-remote team, we know how important getting together in person is (we’ve written about this before ). Our product analytics team (plus…
Notes on software...
A paper reading club at work; databases and distributed systems research
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases
and distributed systems...
9 months ago
I started a paper reading club this week at work, focused on databases
and distributed systems research. I posted in a general channel about
the premise and asked if anyone was interested. I clarified the
intended topic and that discussions would be asynchronous over email,
run...
Rest of World -...
Stifled at home, Tunisian tech finds success in the West
Acquisitions of InstaDeep and Expensya, which focused on international customers, are inspiring...
a year ago
Acquisitions of InstaDeep and Expensya, which focused on international customers, are inspiring Tunisian entrepreneurs to look outside the country.
Retail Design Blog
Neptune Energy Offices by Parella
Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting...
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Parella designed innovative, collaborative workspaces for Neptune Energy in The Hague, reflecting the company’s culture with open areas, communal spaces,...
David Heinemeier...
Why I retired from the tech crusades
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer...
7 months ago
When Ruby on Rails was launched over twenty years ago, I was a twenty-some young programmer convinced that anyone who gave my stack a try would accept its universal superiority for solving The Web Problem. So I pursued the path of the crusade, attempting to convert the...
./techtipsy
They make USB-C cables with displays now!
I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are
based around the coveted...
7 months ago
I’ve reached a point in my setup where most of the devices that I use are
based around the coveted USB-C port. This meant that I had a valid reason to get
a few extra because I didn’t yet have a stockpile of good USB-C cables.
That’s when I found out that there exist cables that...
Ognjen Regoje •...
CEOs are mandating return to office because they need instant gratification
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must...
a year ago
Many CEOs and companies are pushing for a return to the office. They can’t all be crazy – they must have some justification.
Remote work increases individual productivity, so what are they trading off against then?
One argument is serendipity and those spontaneous moments of...
Christopher Butler
We Have Five Years Left
We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of...
8 months ago
We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of climate change. How can you help?
We have only 5 years left to do something about climate change. Depending upon how you define “do something,” we have even less time,...
Old Structures...
Once Again, In Plastic
The restoration of Notre Dame deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it, but have I...
2 weeks ago
The restoration of Notre Dame deserves all the praise that has been heaped upon it, but have I mentioned recently that my son and I have built the LEGO Notre Dame? We finished our small Notre Dame about a week after the official opening of the large one, but they had a head start...
davidyat.es
Image upload with render hooks
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#46)
Morning in America; Trump's bad vibes; Japan's chip industry; Biden and abundance; native-born...
4 months ago
Morning in America; Trump's bad vibes; Japan's chip industry; Biden and abundance; native-born employment; redistribution; transit costs
Style over Substance
Our favorite places to eat and drinks during our Portugal vacation
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a...
7 months ago
In the summer of 2023, we went on an amazing trip through Portugal. We’d already visited Lisbon on a short city trip a few years earlier, and that experience was so good we knew we had to return. This time, we decided to take a full three weeks and see the sights. We were...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Date
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TheCollector
What Did Descartes Mean With “Cogito Ergo Sum”?
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Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Marie Martens
Lessons from building Tally.so from 0 to $40k MRR all in public
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Lessons from building Tally.so from 0 to $40k MRR all in public
Stories by Andrej...
Virtual Reality: still not quite there, again.
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Rest of World -...
The political power of an unlikely Tesla factory
How Elon Musk plays politicians from Monterrey to Buffalo.
a year ago
How Elon Musk plays politicians from Monterrey to Buffalo.
Stoic Simple
Using Stoicism to be Less Emotional About Politics & News Media
by Bob Cymber Most Stoics are aware of the famous "Dichotomy of Control." In this view, there are...
a year ago
by Bob Cymber Most Stoics are aware of the famous "Dichotomy of Control." In this view, there are things that are directly under our influence and things that are not directly under our influence (although those who know about modern Stoic William Irvine’s commentary realize that...
TheCollector
What Is Henry Darger’s In The Realms of the Unreal?
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What if your Index Page was Smart?
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
over a year ago
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
Noahpinion
Japan isn't quite "back", but it has a fighting chance
Here are some ideas for what it can do to be truly "back".
10 months ago
Here are some ideas for what it can do to be truly "back".
Castles in the Sky
What it feels like to be in love
Vignettes #2
9 months ago
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STARKs, Part 3: Into the Weeds
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Kept
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a year ago
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Stretch goals are being revealed faster than I had expected and I should've planned more!!
Jonas Hietala
The T-34/0 keyboard layout
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While...
over a year ago
This is an update to the T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been using for a solid number of weeks. While there are more changes I’d like to try, I’m quite pleased with these changes so I figured I might as well immortalize them before I explore further. (And I do have a bunch of big...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Simple
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7 months ago
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diamond geezer
The Secret Life of the Home
As science evolves, so does the Science Museum.
The Secret Life of the Home.
This much-loved...
7 months ago
As science evolves, so does the Science Museum.
The Secret Life of the Home.
This much-loved corner of the basement, where the life of the domestic appliance is quirkily celebrated, closes forever on Sunday 2nd June. I went for a last look round with a wall-to-wall smile,...
Probably...
Which Standard Deviation?
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
7 months ago
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. standard_dev Which Standard Deviation¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. When do we use N and when N-1 for...
Jonas Hietala
Design for Hackers has arrived!
Design for Hackers
It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will...
over a year ago
Design for Hackers
It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will make me a design god! Or at least make me aware of something called design. Joking aside I’m really terrible at design and making things look good. Admittedly my programming art...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Aristotle's Politics
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Retail Design Blog
Purple Garden Restaurant
Located near Hangzhou’s famed West Lake, the project takes inspiration from Ming Dynasty gardens and...
7 months ago
Located near Hangzhou’s famed West Lake, the project takes inspiration from Ming Dynasty gardens and fuses them with a contemporary...
Seth's Blog
Getting AI to do your work
That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time...
3 months ago
That’s the first step, certainly. If you don’t, your boss will. The second step is to take the time you’ve freed up and do work that the AI can’t do.
nanoscale views
Lots to read, including fab for quantum and "Immaterial Science"
Sometimes there are upticks in the rate of fun reading material. In the last few days:
A...
3 months ago
Sometimes there are upticks in the rate of fun reading material. In the last few days:
A Nature paper has been published by a group of authors predominantly from IMEC in Belgium, in which they demonstrate CMOS-compatible manufacturing of superconducting qubit hardware...
On the Arts
Winter as Reading Season
David Foster Wallace on the necessity of quiet time in order to read.
a year ago
David Foster Wallace on the necessity of quiet time in order to read.
Noahpinion
This is not a good way to fight racism in America
Building a multiracial society is hard work. Don't be tempted by shortcuts.
10 months ago
Building a multiracial society is hard work. Don't be tempted by shortcuts.
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
Matt Blewitt
7 Languages in 7 Weeks for 2025
It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a...
a month ago
It’s been over 14 years since the original 7 Languages in 7 Weeks was first published, giving a hands on tour of Ruby, Clojure, Haskell, Io, Scala, Erlang and Prolog. Ruby achieved critical mass, to some degree so did Scala, with the others being popular within their specific...
ntietz.com blog
Visualizing the FIDE World Chess Championship
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y...
a year ago
This week is Never Graduate Week at the Recurse Center, where alumni come back to do Recurse-y things together.
It's a great experience and I've had a lot of fun reconnecting with friends and meeting some new friends.
But it wouldn't be an RC experience without working at the...
The Pragmatic...
Google Shutting down Firebase Dynamic Links
Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS,...
a year ago
Firebase Dynamic Links was a popular way to build universal deeplinks that worked across iOS, Android, and the web. Now after 7 years, Google is shutting down this product. But why? I asked the Big Tech giant for details.
Cheese and Biscuits
Baudry Greene, Covent Garden
There are few things more important in the success of a restaurant than pedigree. If you are able to...
8 months ago
There are few things more important in the success of a restaurant than pedigree. If you are able to launch one good restaurant, you're more than likely to be able to make a good go of a second. And then a third, and so on. Well, up to a point. You don't want to spread yourself...
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 349
over a year ago
Benny Kuriakose
General Points on Photographing Historic Buildings - Part IV
The photographic recording should be done for posterity. Photographing a historic building must aim...
a year ago
The photographic recording should be done for posterity. Photographing a historic building must aim to convey information about it. It...
The Marginalian
Poetic Ecology and the Biology of Wonder
"The real disconnect is not between our human nature and all the other beings; it is between our...
a year ago
"The real disconnect is not between our human nature and all the other beings; it is between our image of our nature and our real nature."
Old Structures...
Peeking Ahead
The picture above – an aquatint according to the New York Public Library – was created in 1834, and...
a year ago
The picture above – an aquatint according to the New York Public Library – was created in 1834, and shows an active urban setting, with families, men talking business or politics, carriages, and dogs. If you didn’t know the date you’d probably guess the nineteenth century; if you...
Christian Selig
Curing Mac mini M4 fomo with 3D printing
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect
If you’re anything like me, you’ve...
a month ago
Spoiler: 3D printed! The colored ports really sell the effect
If you’re anything like me, you’ve found the new, tinier Mac mini to be absolutely adorable. But you might also be like me that you either already have an awesome M1 Mac mini that you have no real reason to replace,...
Aaron's Essays
Abundant Capital
The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies...
over a year ago
The venture capital industry was built on the premise that both capital and high quality companies are scarce. For most of the history of the industry, this has been true. I remember sitting at demo day in 2011 and marveling at the fact that the combined capital of all the VCs in...
Product Identity
Designing for a single purpose
What do a Dutch chocolate chip cookie and a thousand-year-old teahouse in Kyoto have in common?
8 months ago
What do a Dutch chocolate chip cookie and a thousand-year-old teahouse in Kyoto have in common?
ntietz.com blog
Unpacking some Rust ergonomics: getting a single Result from an iterator of them
Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy.
One of the least discussed ones is also one of my...
a year ago
Rust has a lot of nice things that make life easy.
One of the least discussed ones is also one of my favorites.
It's a little nugget in the standard library that makes handling possible failures a lot easier.
And it's not even baked in—it just falls out from the type...
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CONTEMPORIST
The Design Of This Shingle-Clad Hotel Lobby Was Inspired By A Coconut
Architecture firm Onion, has shared photos of a hotel lobby they completed for Holiday Inn Samui in...
a year ago
Architecture firm Onion, has shared photos of a hotel lobby they completed for Holiday Inn Samui in Thailand, whose design is inspired by the coconut shell after its meat has been grated to make Thai dessert. The curved building exterior is clad with wooden shingles, with...
Matt Mazur
Full Time Indie Hacking: Month 5 Update
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline...
a year ago
At the beginning of the year I quit consulting to focus full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. I also started working on a new side project, Emergent Mind, an AI-powered AI news site. My last update on how things were going was after 3 months which provides more...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Illusion
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a year ago
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The 2020 Simulator
Let’s say you could load 2020 into a simulation that you could replay on your computer over and...
over a year ago
Let’s say you could load 2020 into a simulation that you could replay on your computer over and over. I know that sounds like torture but stick with me.
Open Culture
Meet Fanny, the First Female Rock Band to Top the Charts: “They Were Just Colossal and Wonderful,...
When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the...
7 months ago
When the Beatles upended popular music, thousands of wannabe beat groups were born all over the world, and many of them–for the first time ever, really–were all-female groups. This Amoeba Records article has a fairly exhaustive list of these girl bands, with names like The...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Putting the “Person” in “Personal Website”
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this:
Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities...
3 months ago
The other day I saw a meme that went something like this:
Isn’t it crappy how basic human activities like singing, dancing, and making art have been turned into skills instead of being recognized as behaviors? The point of doing these things has become to get good at them. But...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Fixing and enhancing the WebCard card constructor
<![CDATA[I fixed a bug in the initial code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project.
An infinite...
3 months ago
<![CDATA[I fixed a bug in the initial code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project.
An infinite loop in the constructor of the Web card type caused a stack overflow that aborted Medley. The Web constructor was supposed to call the constructor of the parent card type Text. But...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Student's Guide to Startups
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Examples of Great URL Design
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010):
URLs are universal. They work...
a year ago
Here’s Kyle Aster on why thoughtful URL design is important (in 2010):
URLs are universal. They work in Firefox, Chrome, Safari, Internet Explorer, cURL, wget, your iPhone, Android and even written down on sticky notes. They are the one universal syntax of the web. Don’t take...
Citation Needed
Issue 53 – Choose rich
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
10 months ago
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
journal – Winnie Lim
living life like a solo rpg player
One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games,...
2 months ago
One of my all-time favourite games is stardew valley. I don’t actually play a lot of games, partially because they trigger migraines and motion sickness for me, and partially because a combination...
A Beautiful Site
Design Systems Aren't Cheap
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they...
over a year ago
Buttons are one of my favorite components. On the surface they seem simple, but in practice, they tend to be much more involved. In a post by Nathan Curtis entitled And you thought buttons were easy?, he demonstrates how costs can quickly skyrocket to $1,000,000 when one arm of...
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Don't you all use the SSMS trick at once or it'll stop being offputting.
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TheCollector
Bacon and Monet Landscapes to Lead Christie’s Evening Sale
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Be less precious
The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best...
10 months ago
The essence of the book Radical Candor is the concept of ruinous empathy. That by trying your best to couch employee performance feedback in overly gentle language, you end up confusing the message, and cheating the recipient out of the clarity they desperately need to improve –...
TheCollector
What Is the History of April Fools’ Day?
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Arduino Blog
A riddle wrapped in an enigma… made easy, with Arduino Plug and Make Kit
The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea...
a month ago
The Arduino Plug and Make Kit was designed to open up infinite possibilities, breaking down the idea that technology is a “black box” reserved for experts. With its snap-together system, this kit gives everyone – beginners and seasoned makers alike – the power to create and...
The Honest Broker
How Many Visionary Artists Are Mentally Ill?
A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in...
3 months ago
A surprising number of creative people have visions, hear voices, or have strange encounters in dreams
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 064: Big Tech's small models
April 26, 2024.
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The Honest Broker
Open Thread: What Are Your Picks for the Cultural Highlights of 2023?
What music, books, movies, or other creative works made the biggest impact on you this year?
a year ago
What music, books, movies, or other creative works made the biggest impact on you this year?
AVC
What Is A Protocol And Why Does It Matter?
USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and...
a year ago
USV’s current thesis is: Enabling trusted brands that broaden access to knowledge, capital, and well-being by leveraging networks, platforms, and protocols. https://www.usv.com/#thesis-3-0 That last word is powerful but unfortunately less understood than the other words in that...
A Smart Bear
When being “first” is not a competitive advantage
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a new startup that does nothing...
over a year ago
Is it good to be “first?” It seems so – what’s the point of building a new startup that does nothing new? On the surface being “first” sounds impressive, implying innovation and leadership. But reality is different.
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Nela Dunato Art &...
Emotional labor in creative professions + mixed media art journal page video
Doing creative work on behalf of a client requires a tremendous amount of empathy for their needs....
a year ago
Doing creative work on behalf of a client requires a tremendous amount of empathy for their needs. This emotional labor should be recognized and valued. In this episode of Art Chat I explain the source of emotional labor and its impact on our well-being, and provide tips to...
There are two types...
DONALD TRUMP & EVIL – A Post-Halloween / Election-Eve Story
Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from...
2 months ago
Almost forty years ago, I owned a small house in the Greenwich “backcountry” just a few miles from the Westchester County Airport. One morning, I was talking on the phone with a friend whom I would see later in the … Continue reading →
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Godcat has a special message for you
Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series.
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9 months ago
Your lord and savior, Godcat, has a favor to ask regarding his new Netflix series.
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Charles Chen
Interviews in the Age of AI: Ditch Leetcode - Try Code Reviews Instead
In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical...
a year ago
In the emerging age of AI generated code, is leetcode really the best way to evaluate technical candidates (was it ever)?
Coding Horror
I Fight For The Users
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I...
a year ago
If you haven't been able to keep up with my blistering pace of one blog post per year (if that), I can't blame you. There's a lot going on right now. It's a busy time. But let's pause and take
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Recon Patrol Is a Small Unit'
“A 21-year
old Marine Corporal leading his first patrol — a 10-man Reconnaissance Team —
kept a cool...
5 months ago
“A 21-year
old Marine Corporal leading his first patrol — a 10-man Reconnaissance Team —
kept a cool head in a tight situation.”
Long before
he was a poet and publisher, R.L. Barth in 1968-69 was a Marine serving as a
patrol leader in the 1st Reconnaissance Battalion in Vietnam....
Open Culture
Ray Bradbury Wrote the First Draft of Fahrenheit 451 on Coin-Operated Typewriters, for a Total of...
Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray...
7 months ago
Image by Alan Light, via Wikimedia Commons It sounds like a third grade math problem: “If Ray Bradbury wrote the first draft of Fahrenheit 451 (1953) on a coin-operated typewriter that charged 10 cents for every 30 minutes, and he spent a total of $9.80, how many hours did it...
Stat Significant
Does 'Avatar' Have No Cultural Footprint? A Statistical Analysis
Investigating claims of Avatar's cultural irrelevance.
3 months ago
Investigating claims of Avatar's cultural irrelevance.
Blog - Guerrilla...
We are Survivors. We are Stardust.
STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an...
over a year ago
STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an aerospace engineer. I was visiting with a friend (said engineer) when the theme for the Atlas in a Day Challenge was announced. Upon hearing the theme of Community, she shared that the...
Seth's Blog
The rear view mirror
It’s almost impossible to safely drive a car while only looking in the rear view mirror. Only seeing...
a year ago
It’s almost impossible to safely drive a car while only looking in the rear view mirror. Only seeing where you’ve been is a terrible way to figure out where to go. But it’s really unsafe to go forward with no idea of what came before. AI plods along into the future, using machine...
Tom Blomfield
Taking Risk
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities;...
7 months ago
I just spent a week talking with some exceptional students from three of the UK’s top universities; Cambridge, Oxford and Imperial College. Along with UCL, these British universities represent 4 of the top 10 universities in the world. The US - a country with 5x more people and...
Fonts In Use: Blog...
Metra tickets, 1990–1991
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas...
a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
January 1990, ft. an unidentified rounded sans
Source: www.c82.net C82 / Nicholas Rougeux. License: All Rights Reserved.
February...
On Life and Lisp
The Apple GPU and the Impossible Bug
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from...
over a year ago
In late 2020, Apple debuted the M1 with Apple’s GPU architecture, AGX, rumoured to be derived from Imagination’s PowerVR series. Since then, we’ve been reverse-engineering AGX and building open source graphics drivers. Last January, I rendered a triangle with my own code, but...
macwright.com
Recently
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn.
Really took advantage of the breadth of New...
a year ago
October was another pleasantly busy month in Brooklyn.
Really took advantage of the breadth of New York culture: I saw an opera at the Metropolitan Opera House, and then went to see prog-metal band Polyphia play guitar solos as fast as possible. At the latter, there were multiple...
pcloadletter
RSS is still pretty great
I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information...
11 months ago
I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information readily available is phenomenal. Sadly, the signal-to-noise ratio here is pretty low. For me, consuming RSS feeds[1] offers the best way to read the kind of high-quality information...
The Map is Mostly...
Resist Summary
painfully quick thoughts about AI
a week ago
painfully quick thoughts about AI
Anecdotal Evidence
'Leave Him Something to Imagine'
“I am now
beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with
a few of...
a year ago
“I am now
beginning to get fairly into my work; and by the help of a vegetable diet, with
a few of the cold seeds, I make no doubt but I shall be able to go on with my
uncle Toby’s story, and my own, in a tolerable strait line.”
By the time
a persevering reader has reached Book...
Old Structures...
Fuzzy
Structural steel and composite steel deck used with concrete slabs need to be fireproofed. Ducts,...
a month ago
Structural steel and composite steel deck used with concrete slabs need to be fireproofed. Ducts, pipes, lights, and electrical conduits do not.
Elad Blog
Defensibility & Competition
Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a...
a year ago
Are early SaaS or AI companies ever defensible early? What is the basis for competition for a startup?
Seth's Blog
Significant work is a vote
When we show up to bring humanity to work, we’re making a choice. It involves risk and effort and...
a year ago
When we show up to bring humanity to work, we’re making a choice. It involves risk and effort and emotional labor. We’re here to make a change happen, and we’re giving something to make that happen. So it’s a vote. A vote for the customer we seek to serve. A vote for the boss and...
Spoon & Tamago
Go See 5.3 Million Baby Blue Eye Flowers at Hitachi Seaside Park in Japan
photo by teerayut hiruntaraporn Japan’s cherry blossoms usually get all the attention for their...
a year ago
photo by teerayut hiruntaraporn Japan’s cherry blossoms usually get all the attention for their short-lived beauty. But equally ephemeral are Japan’s Nemophila, or Baby Blue Eyes. And once a year, around late April to Early May, an astounding sea of 5.3 million of these little...
Retail Design Blog
via·1719 Wu Liangcai New Vision Field by Dayuan Design
When a building becomes a collective memory of a city, the meaning it carries is unique. Whenever...
2 days ago
When a building becomes a collective memory of a city, the meaning it carries is unique. Whenever people mention it,...
A Beautiful Site
Five things I've learned about taking risks
I had a cush job at a university with great benefits, decent pay, and normal hours. Five years ago,...
over a year ago
I had a cush job at a university with great benefits, decent pay, and normal hours. Five years ago, I took a risk and gave it all up to start a company. Here are the five most important lessons I've learned about risk-taking.
1. There are good risks and bad risks #
People that...
TheCollector
10 Things to Do at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum in Santa Fe
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HTMHell
#20 HTMHell special: close buttons
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in...
over a year ago
This first HTMHell special inspects one of the most complicated and most controversial patterns in front-end development:
🔥 the close button. 🔥
In modals, ads, and other overlays you often find a button with a close symbol that allows users, or at least some of them, to close...
Rest of World -...
TikTok follow-up Lemon8 is flopping in the U.S.
Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers...
a year ago
Users complain the ByteDance app feels inorganic and curated, prioritizing the needs of influencers over ordinary people.
TheCollector
How Did the English Longbow Win So Many Battles?
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TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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8 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Designing a WebCard bitmap the hard way
<![CDATA[NoteCards link icons leading to cards of a certain type can and typically do have a custom...
2 months ago
<![CDATA[NoteCards link icons leading to cards of a certain type can and typically do have a custom bitmap associated with the type.
WebCard cards of type Web initially inherited the bitmap of the parent type Text, a stylized NoteCards blank card frame. To visually differentiate...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.20.0
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog...
over a year ago
We're back! 2020 was a hectic year for us and our team put in a whole lot of effort to get PostHog to where it is now. As such, we shut down PostHog…
One from Nippon
A peek into Japan’s Hot Springs (Part 2)
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here.
The Hot Spring...
a year ago
Editor’s note: This is the second of a three-part post. Part 1 can be found here.
The Hot Spring Act of 1948
Lest you think any old well could be an onsen, the Japanese government has very clear rules on what can be called an onsen.
These are
Vadim Kravcenko
Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it...
over a year ago
As an indie founder, self-promotion is key to your success. But it’s also tricky – if you do it wrong, […]
The post Doing Self-Promotion on Reddit the right way appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Quantum Frontiers
A (quantum) complex legacy: Part deux
I didn’t fancy the research suggestion emailed by my PhD advisor. A 2016 email from John Preskill...
a year ago
I didn’t fancy the research suggestion emailed by my PhD advisor. A 2016 email from John Preskill led to my publishing a paper about quantum complexity in 2022, as I explained in last month’s blog post. But I didn’t explain … Continue reading →
Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 7 Retrospective
over a year ago
The Ruffian
Britain's Peculiar Brand of Patriotism, In Three Ads
Heroes To Zeroes
7 months ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
Is Gesture Interaction a Valid Alternative To Touch Interaction in Cars?
Interacting with in-car controls requires drivers to divert visual attention from the road to the...
over a year ago
Interacting with in-car controls requires drivers to divert visual attention from the road to the dashboard. For example, adjusting the…
Rest of World -...
A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM
Awarri has been tapped to help increase the representation of Nigerian languages in AI.
7 months ago
Awarri has been tapped to help increase the representation of Nigerian languages in AI.
Math Is Still...
Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count
By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of...
7 months ago
By making use of randomness, a team has created a simple algorithm for estimating large numbers of distinct objects in a stream of data.
The post Computer Scientists Invent an Efficient New Way to Count first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
A Jane Austen Statue to Turn Winchester Church Into ‘Disneyland’?
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 083: Bioacoustics
September 6, 2024.
4 months ago
TheCollector
When Picasso Crossed the Iron Curtain: The 1st USSR Picasso Exhibition
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8 months ago
Londonist
A Map Of Women's History In London
From Boudicca to Rachel Whiteread.
10 months ago
From Boudicca to Rachel Whiteread.
Rozado’s Visual...
Prevalence in News Media of Two Competing Hypotheses about COVID-19 Origins
Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the...
over a year ago
Published article Quick Twitter summary Introduction As of August 2021, the origins of the SARS-CoV-2 virus that caused the COVID-19 pandemic remain a mystery. This essay summarizes a recent article I published about the prevalence in news media articles of two popular hypotheses...
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Is My Ambition Here'
Does anyone
still read “Invictus”? Is it part of any school’s curriculum? It was as late as 1965,...
a year ago
Does anyone
still read “Invictus”? Is it part of any school’s curriculum? It was as late as 1965, when Miss Wagy had
us memorize it in eighth-grade English. The poem is irresistible for recitation,
whether privately in times of self-doubt or at the Kiwanis luncheon: “I am...
Sam Altman
The Merge
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
over a year ago
A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075.
People used to call this the...
Mazdak
Canada Tax Brackets 2025 🇨🇦
As we head into 2025, understanding Canada's tax brackets is crucial for both individuals and...
a month ago
As we head into 2025, understanding Canada's tax brackets is crucial for both individuals and businesses.
FIRE v London
My 20 year property returns
I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But...
a year ago
I was pleased to have reached the 10 year point of tracking my investment portfolio last month. But my net worth includes an important asset class – property – that I don’t normally track, but which I have held in some form for over 20 years. So, this post takes a look at how my…...
journal – Winnie Lim
on seeing my self as a canvas
I am not sure why, but I don’t have much interest in life. I have been this way for as long as I can...
a year ago
I am not sure why, but I don’t have much interest in life. I have been this way for as long as I can remember, though I am not sure if my...
Unpacked
Highlights: First Quarter of Unpacked
Bold product moves, AI things accelerate, Tech policy in the front seat, Interesting things...
a year ago
Bold product moves, AI things accelerate, Tech policy in the front seat, Interesting things continue. This post is a bird’s eye view of the seventeen articles published on Unpacked in the past quarter.
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Suckered Yet Again
Influencer boxing, BlueSky winning, and incredible calendar confessions
a month ago
Influencer boxing, BlueSky winning, and incredible calendar confessions
Trying to Understand...
That's The Truth?
In politics, well, it depends.
a year ago
In politics, well, it depends.
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Why IaaS beat PaaS
The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
over a year ago
The conclusions are far more nuanced when you ask the people involved at the time.
TheCollector
What Is Philosophical Intelligence? (And How to Practice It)
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Drew Ex Machina
First Pictures: Views of Mars from NASA’s Mars Observer – July 27, 1993
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s,...
a year ago
Having enthusiastically followed NASA’s Viking mission to Mars as a teenager during the late-1970s, the lack of any new NASA missions to Mars during the 1980s […]
Quantum Frontiers
Quantum computing vs. Grubhub
pon receiving my speaking assignments for the Tucson Festival of Books, I mentally raised my...
a year ago
pon receiving my speaking assignments for the Tucson Festival of Books, I mentally raised my eyebrows. I’d be participating in a panel discussion with Mike Evans, the founder of Grubhub? But I hadn’t created an app that’s a household name. I … Continue reading →
Flashbak
Women Smoking Snapshots – Touching The Sublime
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime ...
11 months ago
“Cigarettes are bad for you; that is why they are so good” – Richard Klein, Cigarettes Are Sublime Richard Klein, Professor of French at Cornell University and editor of Diacritics, quit smoking while writing Cigarettes Are Sublime and has been nicotine-free ever since. So do...
Build In Public...
🚨 Announcement Alert 🚨 I'm dropping a mega Twitter resource on BUILD IN PUBLIC
Hey everyone, Some of you know my story but if I have to summarize the last 3 years in 10 bullets of...
over a year ago
Hey everyone, Some of you know my story but if I have to summarize the last 3 years in 10 bullets of inflection points, here’s how it would look like: Jan 2018, I was a nobody in startups, stuck in a dead-end corporate job due to visa challenges Oct 2018, read a book called...
Retail Design Blog
phenom israel
Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and...
8 months ago
Phenom is a global HR technology company that delivers a single-platform solution and hyper-personalized experiences for candidates, recruiters, and employees....
HTMHell
Enforcing better HTML markup with Eleventy
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what...
over a year ago
While what we mean is usually very clear to us, others may decode our messages differently from what we intended. This is especially true on the web, where there are many ways to consume content. The language, browser type, device model, using a screen reader, navigating with or...
TheCollector
8 Fashion Trends of the Roaring Twenties
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Josh Thompson
Elixir/Phoenix part deux
I planned on working through this tutorial for building a slack clone, but half-way through the...
over a year ago
I planned on working through this tutorial for building a slack clone, but half-way through the set-up instructions, after I installed Elixir and Phoenix, I took a long detour through the basic set-up guide. Built some custom routes, along with controllers/views/templates,...
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun...
over a year ago
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at
Reed College. It was a fun project, studying
a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the
Ising
model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics.
It's the only significant thing I've...
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Everything You Hate About Clubhouse Is Why It Will Win
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
over a year ago
Understanding new social media is a *sociological* exercise, not a logical one.
Noahpinion
Decade of the Battery
A repost with some updates.
7 months ago
A repost with some updates.
TheCollector
Ancient Greek Sculpture in the Classical and Hellenistic Periods
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9 months ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Urchin, Hove
As soon as the sun comes out on a bank holiday, it feels like half of London heads down to the south...
7 months ago
As soon as the sun comes out on a bank holiday, it feels like half of London heads down to the south coast, and Brighton in particular. And though that town certainly has a lot going for it, not least a thriving restaurant and pub/wine scene that can show you a great time at all...
Astral Codex Ten
Can You Hate Everyone In Rome?
...
6 days ago
Classical Wisdom
How Can We Know Ourselves?
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
4 months ago
The More than Legendary Oracle of Delphi
Steve Klabnik
I'm making it dead simple to contribute to Ruby's documentation
over a year ago
TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste?
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Liz Denys
Things I've learned about biking for transportation in NYC
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier...
over a year ago
I've been biking for transportation for a few months now, and honestly, I've never been a happier person. That said, it took a while to go from very comfortable riding a bike around the car-free loop inside Prospect Park to no longer feeling extremely anxious riding on NYC...