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Consequentialism Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment....
10th May 2020
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Consequentialism

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

10th May 2020
Consequentialism became the most popular approach to ethics following the Age of Enlightenment. Writers in the late 18th and early 19th century saw how strict, rule-based, duty-bound theories of ethics resulted in contradictory and often destructive behavior. After Napoleon’s...
Mirror As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting,...
4th Dec 2024
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Mirror

from Carl Barenbrug RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Dec 2024
As the year draws to a close with gloomy December days compensated with lots of artificial lighting, it's not surprising that many people take the time to reflect on their recent past — what we've managed to achieve, what we learned, what we failed in, where we went, and what we...
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags! You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
9th Aug 2023
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You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!

from Buttondown's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2023
You can now view high-level statistics for your subscriber tags!
New trend: extreme hours at AI startups Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is...
14th Aug 2025
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New trend: extreme hours at AI startups

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in technology

14th Aug 2025
Pulling 80+ hour work weeks – including weekends – is becoming the norm across AI startups, and is unlikely to stop while AI is so hot.
Bob and Van For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob. Bob and his wife were a...
4th Sep 2026
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Bob and Van

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Sep 2026
For the first half of my childhood in suburban Ohio, we lived next to Bob. Bob and his wife were a kind, reserved older couple who decorated their home mostly with crucifixes and talked about Jesus a lot. Bob helped my mom with a lot of common household tasks after my dad died....
Get in losers, we're moving to Linux! I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something...
3rd Jul 2025
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Get in losers, we're moving to Linux!

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jul 2025
I've never seen so many developers curious about leaving the Mac and giving Linux a go. Something has really changed in the last few years. Maybe Linux just got better? Maybe powerful mini PCs made it easier? Maybe Apple just fumbled their relationship with developers one too...
Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem (No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of...
16th Feb 2018
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Hilariously Fast Volume Computation with the Divergence Theorem

from Alyssa Rosenzweig [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Feb 2018
(No, there won’t be jokes.) The following presents a fast algorithm for volume computation of a simple, closed, triangulated 3D mesh. This assumption is a consequence of the divergence theorem. Further extensions may generalise to other meshes as well, although that is presently...
Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
5th Apr 2020
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Stop Taking Regular Notes; Use a Zettelkasten Instead

from Eugene Yan [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Apr 2020
Using a Zettelkasten helps you make connections between notes, improving learning and memory.
Early stage funding markets for science - an analysis In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging...
23rd Jan 2023
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Early stage funding markets for science - an analysis

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

23rd Jan 2023
In the summer of 2022, with support from Schmidt Futures, I took a closer look at several emerging science funding mechanisms – rapid grants, scout programs, and focused research organizations (FROs) – to understand how they serve the needs of early stage science. I also...
When The Writing Is Very Good That Doesn't Matter The most popular link last time was this list of things that aren't doing the thing, with this piece...
4th Dec 2025
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When The Writing Is Very Good That Doesn't Matter

from Caroline Crampton [alt+shift+b] in life

4th Dec 2025
The most popular link last time was this list of things that aren't doing the thing, with this piece wondering if you are Actually Trying second. Somehow, the most insightful thing I have read/seen about contemporary social media usage is this Google Slides presentation. It's
The RP2350 is too fast I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the...
15th May 2026
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The RP2350 is too fast

from Quentin Santos [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2026
I had a few hours of “fun” figuring out why my RP2350 could use my ILI9341 display, but not the ST7796 one. To be more specific, displaying stuff with the first display worked flawlessly, while the ST7796 would display a single frame correctly, and then glitch. Depending on the...
I was told, I would become quadriplegic Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first...
1st Sep 2018
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I was told, I would become quadriplegic

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Sep 2018
Tingling on the side of the face during tasks involving intense cognition was my first symptom. Nature of my job involves regular problem solving of various degree, on certain occasions there was a halting tingling sensation on the right side of my face to the end of lower...
5 Kup After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to...
2nd Dec 2012
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5 Kup

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Dec 2012
After a season with very bad attendence, I blame school and lack of motivation, I still went to grading. I slept well but I was super stressed all weekend so I had to constantly run to the bathroom and I couldn’t eat lunch or breakfast properly, and I don’t usually get...
This Arduino Nano R4-controlled hourglass simulates sand with LEDs Outside of playing board games, hourglasses are almost entirely pointless these days. And yet,...
1st Oct 2025
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This Arduino Nano R4-controlled hourglass simulates sand with LEDs

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Oct 2025
Outside of playing board games, hourglasses are almost entirely pointless these days. And yet, they’re still incredibly satisfying. Watching the sand fall in a steady and consistent stream is downright mesmerizing. Sadly, you probably can’t make your own hourglass unless you...
Playing dice: Randomness, determinism and the quantum world What’s the difference between unexpected, random and chaotic? Does the universe contain any truly...
3rd Oct 2022
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Playing dice: Randomness, determinism and the quantum world

from Blog - Amy Goodchild [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Oct 2022
What’s the difference between unexpected, random and chaotic? Does the universe contain any truly random events, or is it operating like clockwork, ticking from one event to the next?
On Returning The post On Returning appeared first on The American Scholar.
2nd Sep 2026
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On Returning

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

2nd Sep 2026
The post On Returning appeared first on The American Scholar.
What just happened, what is happening next The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
9th Apr 2024
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What just happened, what is happening next

from One Useful Thing [alt+shift+b] in AI

9th Apr 2024
The tasks AI can do well are expanding rapidly
17th Jan 2020
15th Nov 2015
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CS183c Assignment #3

from Stories by Andrej Karpathy on Medium [alt+shift+b] in AI

15th Nov 2015
A self-absorbed giant Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
12th Jul 2026
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A self-absorbed giant

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

12th Jul 2026
Dearth of Chinese lessons for the rest of the world
1st Jul 2022
Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast....
3rd Jun 2026
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Rare 1960s Photos Offer a Fascinating Look at Swimsuit Fashion of the Era

from Rare Historical Photos [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd Jun 2026
Fashion has a way of reflecting the world around it, and in the 1960s, the world was moving fast. The postwar economic boom had put more disposable income in more pockets than any previous generation had known. Vacation culture was expanding, domestic air travel was becoming...
Slackware update The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my...
2nd Aug 2015
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Slackware update

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

2nd Aug 2015
The last time I (re)installed Slackware I documented what I did. Somehow I managed to really bork my installation and I decided to go through with a larger reinstallation once more. This is a log of some things I did differently. Kernel Before installing the kernel it’s nice to...
Birth of a new blog What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or...
3rd Jan 2023
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Birth of a new blog

from Confused bit [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jan 2023
What is the best programming language? Why is Vim better than Emacs? Tabs or spaces? Static or dynamic typing? The answer to all these questions and more on “Confused bit”. This blog is a place to host and share my thoughts on software, crafting, and my experience with various...
Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a...
3rd Nov 2024
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Moving my website from Netlify to Caddy

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Nov 2024
I had a long train journey on Tuesday, and I spent the time moving this website from Netlify to a Linux server running Caddy. (Yes, the Wi-Fi on European trains is reliable enough to make that possible, even pleasant.) Hopefully nobody noticed! When I flipped the DNS records to...
Escaping science’s paradox Scientific research today is afflicted by poor reliability and low utility, despite the best efforts...
19th Oct 2020
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Escaping science’s paradox

from Works in Progress RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in science

19th Oct 2020
Scientific research today is afflicted by poor reliability and low utility, despite the best efforts of individual researchers.
Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were...
10th Jan 2009
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Prevent white noise from appearing in images after fading

from A Beautiful Site [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Jan 2009
The first time I ever saw this alleged bug was in Internet Explorer 7 yesterday. Images were rotating on a page in the form of a slideshow, fading in and out for a nice, smooth transition. One problem, though: in Internet Explorer 7 (and 6, as it turned out), one of the images...
PCG64 DXSM random number generator Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It...
21st Jun 2023
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PCG64 DXSM random number generator

from Tony Finch's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

21st Jun 2023
Last week I was interested to read about the proposed math/rand/v2 for Golang’s standard library. It mentioned a new-ish flavour of PCG random number generator which I had not previously encountered, called PCG64 DXSM. This blog post collects what I have learned about it. (I have...
My anti-New Year’s resolutions I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick...
30th Jan 2024
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My anti-New Year’s resolutions

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

30th Jan 2024
I suck at New Year's Resolutions. Most of them are boring which is one reason we don't really stick with them.
GitHub now has a setting to underline links A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an...
2nd Oct 2023
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GitHub now has a setting to underline links

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Oct 2023
A public beta was released for GitHub on Friday the 29th. It allows you to apply or remove an underline effect to links in body content. The link underlines are present in Issue and Pull Request comments, as well as other areas of the site. We are still identifying areas where...
Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any...
5th Oct 2021
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Ten years after we lost Steve Jobs

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Oct 2021
Losing Steve affected me more than it probably should have, given that I never met him or had any correspondence with him. But losing him was devastating — not just to my world, but the world. He was a sort of virtual father figure: I was always hoping that maybe Steve would...
2015-11-16 "Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal...
16th Nov 2015
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2015-11-16

from David Crawshaw [alt+shift+b] in programming

16th Nov 2015
"Where the jury actually comes out on Go may take years to determine. There are no clear formal methods of measurement for how 'good' a language is, so it mostly happens by default as popular systems thrive and unpopular ones wither and...
Learning Dutch online in 2023 Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning...
2nd Mar 2023
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Learning Dutch online in 2023

from Alice GG [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2023
Back in 2020, I left France to live in the Netherlands. Since then, I have spent some time learning the language and reached an intermediate (B1-B2) level. While learning Dutch is not a hard requirement to live and work in the country, it does make day-to-day life a bit more...
2025 Advice to my old selves I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got...
15th May 2025
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2025 Advice to my old selves

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

15th May 2025
I turned a birthday recently and it was so busy (DataCouncil + sg flight) that i never really got the chance to sit and reflect. a lot of things are going well, lots more could be better. I'm the only person responsible for preserving the good and fixing the bad. I'm now back on...
Basic Formal Ontology Basic Formal Ontology The Basic Formal Ontology is an upper ontology that can describe a broad...
21st Jul 2024
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Basic Formal Ontology

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

21st Jul 2024
Basic Formal Ontology The Basic Formal Ontology is an upper ontology that can describe a broad swatch of human knowledge. It's a cornerstone for logic programmers and those creating comprehensive knowledge graphs which cover multiple domains. graph TD; Q --> Q; Q[Variable...
The Strange Behavior of LLMs in Hiring Decisions: Systemic Gender and Positional Biases in Candidate... Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
19th May 2025
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19th May 2025
Hints of discrimination and lack of principled reasoning in frontier AI systems
Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve...
1st Jul 2025
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Why Investors Don’t Care About Your Business

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Jul 2025
Founders with great businesses are often frustrated that they can’t raise money. Here’s why. I’ve been having coffee with lots of frustrated founders (my students and others) bemoaning most VCs won’t even meet with them unless they have AI in their fundraising pitch. And the AI...
What I've been eating... Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating...
3rd May 2023
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What I've been eating...

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

3rd May 2023
Anyone who spends any time with me knows that I love food — thinking about food, making food, eating food, telling people about food. Why not add it into Tech and Tea?
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
5th Sep 2023
Home Assistant-compatible air quality sensor I recently moved and our new home is equipped with a ventilation system that distributes fresh...
13th Dec 2021
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Home Assistant-compatible air quality sensor

from Willem Pennings [alt+shift+b] in science

13th Dec 2021
I recently moved and our new home is equipped with a ventilation system that distributes fresh (outside) air through the house and recoups heat from the air that is exhausted. There is a problem with this system, though. Sometimes, for example when a neighbour lights their wood...
5th Jan 2024
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...
26th May 2023
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Riding Sunbeams with Solar Sails

from ToughSF [alt+shift+b] in science

26th May 2023
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...
Painted Tunnel The post Painted Tunnel appeared first on Last Place Comics.
7th Sep 2024
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Painted Tunnel

from Last Place Comics [alt+shift+b] in comics

7th Sep 2024
The post Painted Tunnel appeared first on Last Place Comics.
Micro app 15: Railway Dashboard for iOS I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the...
1st May 2026
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Micro app 15: Railway Dashboard for iOS

from Birchtree [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st May 2026
I use Railway to host a few of my projects, and while they have a nice desktop interface in the browser, their mobile UI isn't so hot, and I wanted to make something t help me monitor things like my cost and deployments on my phone with ease.
How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help...
9th Jul 2021
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How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Jul 2021
This article is part of the series called Founders Guide which I’m writing currently to help early-stage founders tackle the problems they […] The post How to Hire a CTO for Your Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Poetry in People Hi readers, these poems are based on people I knew before and after college.
9th Aug 2026
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Poetry in People

from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative

9th Aug 2026
Hi readers, these poems are based on people I knew before and after college.
Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta *Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
1st Jun 2022
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Kagi search and Orion browser enter public beta

from Kagi Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jun 2022
*Web tracking and ads are becoming a personal and societal problem.
Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge The universe of problems that a computer can check has grown. The researchers’ secret ingredient?...
9th Apr 2020
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Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

9th Apr 2020
The universe of problems that a computer can check has grown. The researchers’ secret ingredient? Quantum entanglement. The post Computer Scientists Expand the Frontier of Verifiable Knowledge first appeared on Quanta Magazine
We’ve been waiting 20 years for this The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been...
6th Feb 2024
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We’ve been waiting 20 years for this

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Feb 2024
The indie web may be back. But if is, it is likely in a way we least expect. The post We’ve been waiting 20 years for this appeared first on The History of the Web.
A boxed set of DR DOS 6! I feel like I righted a wrong in some small way recently. It also gives me an excuse to write...
1st Sep 2026
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A boxed set of DR DOS 6!

from Rubenerd [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Sep 2026
I feel like I righted a wrong in some small way recently. It also gives me an excuse to write another of my shaggy dog posts about old computers, which I’ll never pass up the opportunity to do. Behold, our boxed copy of Digital Research DOS 6.0 from 1992: The first OS I ever...
We don’t need to use what we make For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like...
11th Nov 2024
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We don’t need to use what we make

from Derek Sivers [alt+shift+b] in startups

11th Nov 2024
For many years, I was a touring musician, performing live on stage every week. But I didn’t like attending concerts. I liked making music more than listening to music. I felt I must be in the wrong line of work, creating something that I don’t consume. I never reconciled this...
Teaching formalisation to mathematics undergraduates It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a...
29th Jul 2022
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29th Jul 2022
It’s been a hectic 2022 so far, but August is looking a lot calmer; this is the first of hopefully a few blog posts this month catching up on various things. In this post I want to talk about the … Continue reading →
Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR...
8th Apr 2022
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Video Gamer skills that make a Great Designer

from Oykun Yilmaz [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Apr 2022
Enjoy your time with video games, do not see it as a waste of time as society thinks. This is YOUR time, use it as you like it. It will make you a better designer.
The War That I don't have an analysis or insight to offer doesn't mean I don't care. It simply means there...
1st Mar 2026
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The War

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

1st Mar 2026
That I don't have an analysis or insight to offer doesn't mean I don't care. It simply means there are limits on what we know, and what we do know suggests circumspection. War seems to demand some response--opinion, analysis, insight--lest it seem that we're uncaring or...
Detecting Online Predatory Journals The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right...
2nd Sep 2025
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Detecting Online Predatory Journals

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

2nd Sep 2025
The World Wide Web has proven to be a transformative communication technology (we are using it right now). At the same time there have been some rather negative unforeseen consequences. Significantly lowering the threshold for establishing a communications outlet has democratized...
Collections: What Do Historians Do? For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!)...
7th Mar 2025
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Collections: What Do Historians Do?

from A Collection of Unmitigated Pedantry [alt+shift+b] in history

7th Mar 2025
For this week, I want to take a step back (we’ll be back to our series on Rings of Power next week!) and talk about the craft of history: we’ve talked about “How Your History Gets Made” from the perspective of the different people who do it – research historians, public...
Writing an LLM from scratch, part 28 -- training a base model from scratch on an RTX 3090 Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from...
2nd Dec 2025
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2nd Dec 2025
Having worked through the main body of Sebastian Raschka's book "Build a Large Language Model (from Scratch)", I wanted to try an experiment: is it possible to train a base model of my own, on my own hardware? The book shows you how to train your LLM, does a basic training run on...
Recently I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so...
29th Aug 2025
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Recently

from Tom MacWright [alt+shift+b] in programming

29th Aug 2025
I missed last month’s Recently because I was traveling. I’ll be pretty busy this weekend too, so I’ll publish this now: a solid double-length post to make up for it. Listening It’s been a really good time for music: both discovering new albums by bands I’ve followed, and finding...
'Give Thanks for All Things' “It is the province of poems to make some order in the world, but poets can’t afford to forget...
1st Mar 2026
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'Give Thanks for All Things'

from Anecdotal Evidence [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Mar 2026
“It is the province of poems to make some order in the world, but poets can’t afford to forget that there is a reality of things which survives all orders great and small. Things are. The cow is there. No poetry can have any strength unless it continually bashes itself against...
Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
3rd Jun 2024
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Scientists should use AI as a tool, not an oracle

from AI as Normal Technology [alt+shift+b] in AI

3rd Jun 2024
How AI hype leads to flawed research that fuels more hype
Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my...
3rd Sep 2026
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Being the CTO and on the Board of Directors

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Sep 2026
July 1, 2026 marked my seventh year in Japan. Relocating to the other side of the world was not my original plan, but somehow I ended up here. I came to fill in a high management role at an AI startup, and within a few years was appointed CTO, and then a member of the Board of...
One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
8th Jun 2025
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One Law to Rule All Code Optimizations

from Confessions of a Code Addict [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jun 2025
A systems-level reasoning model for understanding why optimizations succeed or fail.
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...
16th Dec 2024
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Book Review: “Iconic Transit Maps” by Mark Ovenden, 2024

from Transit Maps [alt+shift+b] in cartography

16th Dec 2024
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...
Code: Selfish Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding...
11th Nov 2018
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Code: Selfish

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

11th Nov 2018
Code: Selfish What it’s not What it is Be selfish ¶Code: Selfish I want to talk about coding selfishly. This isn’t what you think. Coding selfishly is about assessing your motivations, your joys and coding in a way that brings you the most long-term value. It’s really a form of...
15th Feb 2023
DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct...
1st May 2026
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DuckDB vs ClickHouse: Why we use both at PostHog

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st May 2026
ClickHouse and DuckDB are two heavyweights in the OLAP category. This makes them appear as direct competitors. In a few respects they are, but they…
How To Accomplish Little And Feel Great At no time in the world will a man who is sane Over-reach himself, Over-spend himself, Over-rate...
1st Aug 2017
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How To Accomplish Little And Feel Great

from The Tao Of Wealth [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Aug 2017
At no time in the world will a man who is sane Over-reach himself, Over-spend himself, Over-rate himself. -Lao Tzu All is vanity. What do people gain from all the toil at which they toil under the sun? -Ecclesiastes 1:2-3 Sell not yourself at little price, being so precious in...
Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
2nd Feb 2023
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech

from Eric Migicovsky's Blog RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Feb 2023
In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
A disgusting playbook So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started...
20th Jul 2023
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A disgusting playbook

from the singularity is nearer [alt+shift+b] in programming

20th Jul 2023
So I started another company. I have even less tolerance for fake bullshit than when I started comma, and I probably will fail because of this. Cruise Automation is a good example here. If they told the truth, they would be out of business. In 2016, they were bought by GM for...
Example of a home networking setup with VLANs Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on...
5th Feb 2012
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Example of a home networking setup with VLANs

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Feb 2012
Updated October 24, 2012, see below. This post is a description of my home network setup based on gigabit ethernet. I did a non-standard trick with VLANs that may also be of interest to other people. I'm going to start with a diagram of the network. Just take a look (click to...
Pivoting into a new corporate structure This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1)...
1st Aug 2011
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Pivoting into a new corporate structure

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

1st Aug 2011
This hasn’t happened to me, but I keep hearing stories about situations like the following: 1) startup raises a seed financing round while…
The most profound message in the history of junk literature I have always been a slow reader. I get discouraged by dense text and I struggle to finish books...
1st Jul 2017
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The most profound message in the history of junk literature

from Adrian Hanft, III: RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jul 2017
I have always been a slow reader. I get discouraged by dense text and I struggle to finish books thicker than the width of my thumb.
The subtle shade of the clouds Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too...
27th Nov 2023
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The subtle shade of the clouds

from Daniel Bourke [alt+shift+b] in life

27th Nov 2023
Garlic takes six to seven months to grow. I’m still working it out. I planted my garlic too late. Not the farm garlic though. They’ve had practice. Over a thousand bulbs this year, maybe more. Tens of thousands of cloves. Garlic is the biggest harvest of
Unleash Your Inner Sage: 5 Powerful Mindsets Fostered by Stoicism By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A...
2nd Jun 2023
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2nd Jun 2023
By Michael McGill The Stoics had a name for a person who fully realized the virtues of Stoicism. A person who overcame all of their personal defects to achieve a life of complete tranquility and goodness. The perfect Stoic, if you will.  They referred to this person as the Stoic...
How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update) Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple...
6th Nov 2017
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How to create a digital Suica card in Apple Pay (2024 Update)

from Kevin Chen [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Nov 2017
Suica is a smart card used to pay at train stations and convenience stores in Japan. In 2016, Apple added support for Suica to Apple Pay on iPhone 7 devices sold in Japan. In 2017, Apple added support to all iPhone 8/X and later, regardless of where they’re sold.1 Virtual Suica...
Commuting by bike For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped...
1st Dec 2017
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Commuting by bike

from Willem L. Middelkoop [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Dec 2017
For a few years now, I commute to work using a bicycle. I have lost more than 15KG since I stopped using my scooter. This week I tested a VanMoof Electrified S, an electric bike with an industrial, minimal design. Is it any good? How does it compare to a normal bike? Will an...
How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure Kidneys sniff out signals from gut bacteria for cues to lower blood pressure after meals. Our...
10th May 2018
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How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

10th May 2018
Kidneys sniff out signals from gut bacteria for cues to lower blood pressure after meals. Our understanding of how the symbiotic microbes affect health is becoming much more molecular. The post How Bacteria Help Regulate Blood Pressure first appeared on Quanta...
Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by...
8th Apr 2020
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Buffer's investor update on COVID-19 impact and approach

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Apr 2020
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. Ever since the world got turned upside down by COVID-19, it’s been “business as unusual” for everyone – Buffer included. I sent this update out to Buffer’s investors one week ago. I hesitated on whether
A Simple, Delay-Tolerant, Offline-Capable Mesh Network with Syncthing (+ optional NNCP) A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage....
4th Feb 2021
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4th Feb 2021
A little while back, I spent a week in a remote area. It had no Internet and no cell phone coverage. Sometimes, I would drive in to town where there was a signal to get messages, upload photos, and so forth. I had to take several devices with me: my phone, my wife’s, maybe a …...
How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) Our career path is how we spend our time, support our lifestyles, make our impact, even define our...
12th Apr 2018
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How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You)

from Wait But Why [alt+shift+b] in life

12th Apr 2018
Our career path is how we spend our time, support our lifestyles, make our impact, even define our identity. Let’s make sure we’re on the right track. The post How to Pick a Career (That Actually Fits You) appeared first on Wait But Why.
Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in...
4th Feb 2024
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Deciding whether an investment is worthwhile

from A Smart Bear [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Feb 2024
Why "expected value" doesn't work; here's a better framework for making long-term investments in your career, startup, and life.
Comic for 2025.07.01 - Lost My Dad New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
1st Jul 2025
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Comic for 2025.07.01 - Lost My Dad

from Explosm.net [alt+shift+b] in comics

1st Jul 2025
New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
Deploying on Netlify with Apple’s Shortcuts Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I...
2nd Aug 2024
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Deploying on Netlify with Apple’s Shortcuts

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Aug 2024
Just a quick note on a personal workflow thing. I’ve written before about the many different ways I host my personal websites on Netlify. I’ve got a few websites that aren’t the traditional model of: commit to git, push, build triggers on Netlify, website goes live. Sometimes I...
Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
7th Aug 2024
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Why AI hasn’t shown up in the GDP statistics yet

from Strange Loop Canon [alt+shift+b] in AI

7th Aug 2024
AI is meant to bring us closer to utopia, according to its builders.
Grace Paley on the Countercultural Courage of Imagining Other Lives “Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real,” Iris...
1st Aug 2024
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Grace Paley on the Countercultural Courage of Imagining Other Lives

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

1st Aug 2024
“Love is the extremely difficult realisation that something other than oneself is real,” Iris Murdoch wrote in her superb investigation of the parallels between art and morality. There could be no such realization without imagination, which is our only instrument for fathoming...
Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out...
8th Jul 2020
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Repairing a Giro AEON bicycle helmet

from Willem's Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8th Jul 2020
Try fixing your Giro bicycle helmet? I went through some trouble to do it! Read along to find out how.
Splitting a class into balanced groups Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem. She’s got a class of 12 students, who are...
2nd Mar 2023
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Splitting a class into balanced groups

from alexwlchan [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Mar 2023
Earlier this week, my mum sent me an interesting problem. She’s got a class of 12 students, who are going to meet over 7 sessions. In each session, they’re going to split into 3 or 4 groups, and she wants to find an even distribution of groups – each person gets to work with...
A Taste of Italy In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian...
14th May 2021
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A Taste of Italy

from Damn Interesting [alt+shift+b] in science

14th May 2021
In the mid-1800s, Italy was consumed by two parallel fights: one to rid itself of Austrian domination (a holdover from the Holy Roman Empire) and the other for unification. At the time, Europe’s boot was a curious conglomeration of separate states, not all of which got along....
How Video Podcasts Took Over Streaming: A Statistical Analysis The rise of video podcasts, quantified.
7th Jan 2026
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How Video Podcasts Took Over Streaming: A Statistical Analysis

from Stat Significant [alt+shift+b] in creative

7th Jan 2026
The rise of video podcasts, quantified.
Stay in the driver's seat (AI as co-pilot, not autopilot) Meet Raydian, a full-stack AI platform that keeps you in control while bringing ideas to life
25th Nov 2025
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Stay in the driver's seat (AI as co-pilot, not autopilot)

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

25th Nov 2025
Meet Raydian, a full-stack AI platform that keeps you in control while bringing ideas to life
Why the chicken crossed the road, according to various entities When I started this blog, I promised myself that I would always steer into weirdness. (As they say,...
4th Dec 2025
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4th Dec 2025
When I started this blog, I promised myself that I would always steer into weirdness. (As they say, “Get busy being weird, or get busy dying.”) While time has shown there are limits to what y’all will tolerate [1 2 3 4], I still sometimes feel an uncontrollable need to publish...
How do you know what you like anymore? "Did you see Turtle Boss yet?" Tim asked over brunch. "I saw it," said Katie over a mouthful of...
27th Sep 2023
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How do you know what you like anymore?

from The DESK Magazine [alt+shift+b] in design

27th Sep 2023
"Did you see Turtle Boss yet?" Tim asked over brunch. "I saw it," said Katie over a mouthful of hash browns. "It was so freaking good." "Good?" said Sam. "You actually thought it was good?" "Yeah, it was incredible.
No more global micro-SaaS from India Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which...
31st Jul 2024
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No more global micro-SaaS from India

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

31st Jul 2024
Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which requires payment aggregators to perform physical KYC on small & medium sized merchants, verify their bank accounts among other regulations. Stripe, sighting the aforementioned...
Predation of juvenile reef fish in coral patches at Ningaloo Reef The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!...
11th Feb 2013
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Predation of juvenile reef fish in coral patches at Ningaloo Reef

from Confessions of a Marine Ecologist [alt+shift+b] in science

11th Feb 2013
The second research article I have decided to discuss is one I had the pleasure to be involved with!  In fact, it was the first paper I was a co-author on, after linking up with the Department of Environment and Conservation through an ANNiMS internship program.  The paper was...
Letting Claude Teach Me Now that I use AI regularly to help write code and complete tasks, I find myself in a position where...
4th May 2026
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Letting Claude Teach Me

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th May 2026
Now that I use AI regularly to help write code and complete tasks, I find myself in a position where I’m not learning as much as I used to. That feels a bit crummy. Fairly often, Claude writes code I don’t fully understand. For example: I know enough TypeScript to be dangerous,...
What do you see when you look past death? “When the pagan looks at the very core of the cosmos he is struck cold.”
14th Sep 2025
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What do you see when you look past death?

from Anarchy Unfolds [alt+shift+b] in creative

14th Sep 2025
“When the pagan looks at the very core of the cosmos he is struck cold.”
Transformed into a couch On taking this time to slooooooow down
28th Dec 2022
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Transformed into a couch

from Tech and Tea [alt+shift+b] in life

28th Dec 2022
On taking this time to slooooooow down
The New Macbook Pro with Touchbar I purchased my new MacBook Pro on a flight from London to San Francisco in the Autumn. I felt all...
21st Mar 2017
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The New Macbook Pro with Touchbar

from Sarah Parmenter [alt+shift+b] in design

21st Mar 2017
I purchased my new MacBook Pro on a flight from London to San Francisco in the Autumn. I felt all futuristic as I secured one of the new machines whilst on a poor internet connection, blazing through the sky. I felt even more nerdy when the Apple Store in Union Square was one of...
Think of a number: an update A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around...
16th Mar 2025
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Think of a number: an update

from Xena [alt+shift+b] in AI

16th Mar 2025
A month or two ago I wrote this post which expressed my frustration with various issues around private datasets as a way of measuring the mathematical abilities of language models. More generally I was frustrated about the difficulty of being … Continue reading →
A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed 2023/01/01 A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed When I first started my forever project, a peer to...
1st Jan 2023
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A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

1st Jan 2023
2023/01/01 A Bridge Over a River Never Crossed When I first started my forever project, a peer to peer file sync software using Interval Tree Clocks, I wanted to build it right. That meant property-based testing everything, specifying the protocol fully, dealing with error...
I and We Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego...
30th Sep 2015
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I and We

from Aaron's Essays [alt+shift+b] in startups

30th Sep 2015
Starting a company is, in large part, an act of ego. When that business is a startup, the ego component is even larger. This is a good thing. Ego is what gives the founder the confidence to create something new. Ego powers the belief that the new thing the founder creates will...
Today’s Home Screen As I start to make a concerted effort to turn down my phone and social media usage, I’ve moved to a...
20th Sep 2025
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Today’s Home Screen

from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel

20th Sep 2025
As I start to make a concerted effort to turn down my phone and social media usage, I’ve moved to a new Home Screen experiment. First, I tried Dumb Phone. It’s good! The immediate impact of no icons was pretty effective, but I realized over time it trained me to search-then-open...
Project Mercury Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space...
4th Mar 2025
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Project Mercury

from Hidden History [alt+shift+b] in history

4th Mar 2025
Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space before the Soviet Union did. The Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 caused a near-panic in the United States and led to desperate calls to “catch up”. President...
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory Let's implememnt the calculations from Scattering...
25th Apr 2014
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Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory

from Stephen Diehl [alt+shift+b] in startups

25th Apr 2014
Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory Let's implememnt the calculations from Scattering Amplitudes in Quantum Field Theory in Python. from sympy import Eq, Symbol, sympify, Matrix, sqrt, zeros, Basic, ones, pprint from sympy.physics import msigma, mgamma Now let's define...
The Astor Building 2 Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor...
1st Sep 2026
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The Astor Building 2

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

1st Sep 2026
Keeping on with the construction photos of the St. Regis Hotel under its temporary name “the Astor Building”… Unlike my previous dive into the construction photos of the Equitable Trust Building on Broad Street, the main sequence photos here (which are numbered and dated) begin...
New Whale Fossil – Possibly Heaviest Animal Ever The largest and heaviest animal to ever live on the Earth, as far as we know, is the blue whale,...
3rd Aug 2023
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New Whale Fossil – Possibly Heaviest Animal Ever

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Aug 2023
The largest and heaviest animal to ever live on the Earth, as far as we know, is the blue whale, which is extant today. The blue whale is larger than any dinosaur, even the giant sauropods. The average weight of a blue whale is 160 tons, with the largest specimen being 190 tons,...
OSIRIS-REX Leaves Bennu The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the...
12th May 2021
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OSIRIS-REX Leaves Bennu

from Wanderingspace [alt+shift+b] in science

12th May 2021
The OSIRIS-REX mission in on a two year trajectory back to Earth after capturing fragments of the near Earth asteroid Bennu after successfully executing a sample touchdown last fall. [LINK] The sampling of of the asteroid’s surface is shown above.
"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed" Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth...
13th Mar 2015
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"It all blossomed out of this tiny little seed"

from cdixon [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Mar 2015
Steve Jobs in 1985: I felt it the first time when I visited a school. It was third and fourth graders, and they had a whole classroom full…
Platform Risk Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with...
3rd Feb 2023
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Platform Risk

from XO Capital - Field Notes [alt+shift+b] in startups

3rd Feb 2023
Platform risk is when another company controls your destiny. This week there was a big scare with Twitter's enforcement of a policy they claim had been around for a while. Twitter’s new developer terms ban third-party clients | Engadget Twitter has quietly updated its...
How many pets do you have? I used to have too many pets. My house was overflowing. But it didn’t feel that way at the...
13th Aug 2021
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How many pets do you have?

from Derek Sivers podcast [alt+shift+b] in startups

13th Aug 2021
I used to have too many pets. My house was overflowing. But it didn’t feel that way at the time. In each moment, I was giving just one pet my full attention. My life was full of so many loves. I sadly realized this was unfair. The situation was hurting them. No pet was...
🔵 TREND RADAR #20 :: TECH DRIVERS Soft Optimization in a Surveillance State
3rd Aug 2026
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🔵 TREND RADAR #20 :: TECH DRIVERS

from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative

3rd Aug 2026
Soft Optimization in a Surveillance State
How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional...
8th Jan 2019
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How to get a taste of ReasonML by building something useful

from Tinloof - Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jan 2019
ReasonML, a programming language that compiles to JavaScript, was built by extending the functional programming language OCaml, leveraging powerful and safe types smartly inferred by default. Reason’s official documentation is clear, yet covering the theory with “Hello World”...
Feeling Less Lonely I'm reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling...
7th Oct 2025
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Feeling Less Lonely

from The History of the Web [alt+shift+b] in programming

7th Oct 2025
I'm reflecting on a lot of really interesting responses I got last month to my article about feeling lonely on the web. And maybe now, I'm feeling a bit less so. So thank you to everyone who responded. The post Feeling Less Lonely appeared first on The History of the Web.
25.10 HUMANWASHING Post-Reality & A Hierarchy of Humanness
11th Dec 2025
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25.10 HUMANWASHING

from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative

11th Dec 2025
Post-Reality & A Hierarchy of Humanness
21st Jan 2025
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The unfortunate truth of software for technologists

from Solving the decision problem [alt+shift+b] in AI

21st Jan 2025
It's all about the money, baby
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Self-avoiding Walk I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of...
23rd Mar 2025
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Self-avoiding Walk

from Daniel Marino [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Mar 2025
I’m a bit late to this, but back in summer 2024 I participated in the OST Composing Jam. The goal of this jam is to compose an original soundtrack (minimum of 3 minutes) of any style for an imaginary game. While I’ve composed a lot of video game music, I’ve never created an...
Parking for a Concert at Gillette Stadium Parking a vehicle for a concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, is quite a...
9th Aug 2026
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Parking for a Concert at Gillette Stadium

from I am BARRY HESS [alt+shift+b] in travel

9th Aug 2026
Parking a vehicle for a concert at Gillette Stadium in Foxborough, Massachusetts, is quite a challenge. Before heading to the BTS concerts this past week I did some research, even asking Chat GPT about how to handle parking. To its credit, with my hints about what I wanted, it...
Default blind In a software business, it is hard to even know what is going on.
20th Sep 2024
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Default blind

from sbensu [alt+shift+b] in literature

20th Sep 2024
In a software business, it is hard to even know what is going on.
BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation David Bowie's website circa August-September 1998. In late 1996, just before his 50th birthday...
10th Jan 2023
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BowieNet: The Inside Story of Its Creation

from Cybercultural: Internet History [alt+shift+b] in history

10th Jan 2023
David Bowie's website circa August-September 1998. In late 1996, just before his 50th birthday concert at Madison Square Garden and before his latest album ‘Earthling’ was released, David Bowie had quietly approved the development of what was to become his biggest internet...
My portable ergonomic setup In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I...
3rd Jun 2024
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My portable ergonomic setup

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

3rd Jun 2024
In 2022, I developed nerve pain in my arms. It came on quickly, and it was bad: I couldn't drive, I couldn't type, and at the worst I couldn't pick up our kids. That episode spontaneously resolved after a couple of months, but flareups happen occasionally. One guaranteed trigger...
Creating a global safety net without nation-states A Guest Lecture featuring Sondre Rasch, co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing.
3rd Jun 2025
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Creating a global safety net without nation-states

from The Elysian [alt+shift+b] in literature

3rd Jun 2025
A Guest Lecture featuring Sondre Rasch, co-founder and CEO of SafetyWing.
How deep is Tulainyo Lake? Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket list a few years ago....
3 weeks ago
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How deep is Tulainyo Lake?

from Casey Handmer's blog [alt+shift+b] in science

3 weeks ago
Regular readers may recall that I put a visit to Tulainyo Lake on my bucket list a few years ago. Last week I did it. Impossibly remote, otherworldly beauty, and an enduring mystery. Just how deep was this lake? Wikipedia claims not to know. Measuring it is non-trivial. A worthy...
Punctuated Excitement Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new...
27th May 2016
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Punctuated Excitement

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th May 2016
Punctuated Excitement Sunsets always lead to sunrises ¶Punctuated Excitement When I try to tell new acquaintances about what I do, the conversation usually finishes in 30 seconds with them saying something like “oh yeah, IT, I thought so” or “so you’re a web designer?” So I...
4th May 2025
The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View Astronomers are discovering that magnetic fields permeate much of the cosmos. If these fields date...
3rd Dec 2020
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The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View

from The Quanta Podcast [alt+shift+b] in science

3rd Dec 2020
Astronomers are discovering that magnetic fields permeate much of the cosmos. If these fields date back to the Big Bang, they could solve a major cosmological mystery. The post The Hidden Magnetic Universe Begins to Come Into View first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The World Record for Loneliness What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
6th May 2024
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The World Record for Loneliness

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th May 2024
What's the farthest any person has been from the nearest other person?
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
6th Jul 2022
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

6th Jul 2022
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
The Economic Geography of Iran: Attempting to Map Per Capita GDP (Note: GeoCurrents has been on an extended hiatus due to personal issues and teaching obligations. I...
1st Apr 2026
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The Economic Geography of Iran: Attempting to Map Per Capita GDP

from GeoCurrents [alt+shift+b] in cartography

1st Apr 2026
(Note: GeoCurrents has been on an extended hiatus due to personal issues and teaching obligations. I now hope to resume regular posting. My initial focus will be on Iran, for obvious reasons). Iran is usually regarded as a middle-income country. According to the International...
Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Nate Washington) Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week,...
6th Oct 2021
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Build In Public: Spotlight Edition (Nate Washington)

from Build In Public Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

6th Oct 2021
Hi everyone, welcome to the latest spotlight edition of the Build In Public newsletter. Every week, I interview one prolific creator or founder and unpack insights, strategies, and actionable advice from their story that can be helpful in your own journey.
WanderJest: Month 1 Highlights Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest. Two of my blog...
5th Feb 2020
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WanderJest: Month 1

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

5th Feb 2020
Highlights Three businesses agreed to form affiliate partnerships with WanderJest. Two of my blog posts reached the front page of Hacker News. Is It Keto earned its all-time-highest monthly revenue, doubling its previous record. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare...
Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly. As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most...
19th Feb 2014
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Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly.

from Blog posts of Andreas Klinger [alt+shift+b] in startups

19th Feb 2014
As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most common mistakes is how people...
Mechanical Watch In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the...
4th May 2022
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Mechanical Watch

from Bartosz Ciechanowski [alt+shift+b] in science

4th May 2022
In the world of modern portable devices, it may be hard to believe that merely a few decades ago the most convenient way to keep track of time was a mechanical watch. Unlike their quartz and smart siblings, mechanical watches can run without using any batteries or other...
25.5 ASPIRATIONAL HUMANITY Soulfulness as luxury
7th May 2025
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25.5 ASPIRATIONAL HUMANITY

from WHAT'S ANU [alt+shift+b] in creative

7th May 2025
Soulfulness as luxury
OpenAI Launches GPT‑4.1: What You Need to Know About the New Family of AI Models OpenAI has officially released the GPT‑4.1 family — and it’s more than just a minor upgrade.
14th Apr 2025
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OpenAI has officially released the GPT‑4.1 family — and it’s more than just a minor upgrade.
The Hard Parts of Open Source, by Evan Czaplicki Speaker: Evan Czaplicki Meeting: Strange Loop 2018 - September 2018 Video:...
25th Jan 2019
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The Hard Parts of Open Source, by Evan Czaplicki

from devonzuegel.com [alt+shift+b] in architecture

25th Jan 2019
Speaker: Evan Czaplicki Meeting: Strange Loop 2018 - September 2018 Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o_4EX4dPppA Slides: https://prezi.com/oowcpzsnwp-8/the-hard-parts-of-open-source/?webgl=0 [ References to videos, books, and articles mentioned in this...
Happy Pride! Have Some Updates! This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
4th Jun 2024
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Happy Pride! Have Some Updates!

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

4th Jun 2024
This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big update for Mail. Plus Wayland is here, there’s a new way to manage Drivers, and we’re shipping Flathub by default! And don’t forget Platform 8 is now ready for developers. Read ahead...
Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?} These are some notes for getting OpenBSD-current running on the Japanese-model Pomera DM250, DM250X,...
9th Apr 2026
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Installing OpenBSD on the Pomera DM250{,XY?}

from joshua stein [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Apr 2026
These are some notes for getting OpenBSD-current running on the Japanese-model Pomera DM250, DM250X, and DM250XY. Table of Contents Top Throat-clearing Making a backup Some DM250 hardware notes Making an OpenBSD installation SD card Installing...
#11: Searchable list of all the mistakes I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know...
13th Feb 2022
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#11: Searchable list of all the mistakes

from Pea Bee [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Feb 2022
I have more than a decade old google account that I am no longer able to access even though I know the correct password.
I ended up adding duplicate records on a unique index in MongoDB how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert...
31st Mar 2021
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31st Mar 2021
how my curiosity lead me to discover a weird inconsistency with MongoDB where I was able to insert records that conflicted the index constraints
Evidence (p=.05) that ≥15% of Super-intelligences are Safe? It’s strange but at least temporarily come with me to crazy town.
1st Jun 2023
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Evidence (p=.05) that ≥15% of Super-intelligences are Safe?

from Atoms vs Bits [alt+shift+b] in life

1st Jun 2023
It’s strange but at least temporarily come with me to crazy town.
Reading List 08/01/26 Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed...
1st Aug 2026
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Reading List 08/01/26

from Construction Physics [alt+shift+b] in technology

1st Aug 2026
Pepper-spray drones, China’s chip Manhattan Project, Commonwealth Fusion’s fundraise, and a proposed Dulles Airport renovation.
Record Labels Are Running on Empty The latest news is ominous
2nd Jul 2025
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Record Labels Are Running on Empty

from The Honest Broker [alt+shift+b] in life

2nd Jul 2025
The latest news is ominous
Geniune Love and Infatuation After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for...
10th Jan 2019
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Geniune Love and Infatuation

from Himanshu Mishra | orkohunter.net RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in technology

10th Jan 2019
After a long time, I read something so meaningful on reddit. How do you distinguish genuine love for someone from infatuation? was the…
Stop Calling it a Wallet How language shapes our view of the world
23rd May 2022
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Stop Calling it a Wallet

from Greater Still by Gaby Goldberg [alt+shift+b] in technology

23rd May 2022
How language shapes our view of the world
Implementation-First GraphQL Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
17th Apr 2023
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Implementation-First GraphQL

from Jordan Eldredge's Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

17th Apr 2023
Defining a meaningful distinction within code-first GraphQL server libraries.
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Getting in shape for summer This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future...
2nd Jun 2023
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Getting in shape for summer

from elementary Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2nd Jun 2023
This month we have mostly minor maintenance updates as we gear up for a feature-filled future release. Enjoy a mild May because this summer is going to get hot! Calculator Calculator now follows keyboard shortcuts for copy and paste, even when the main text entry isn’t focused,...
Blooms and roots embroidery I got a crewel embroidery kit for a variety of flowers and their roots from Purl Soho. Like I am...
26th Aug 2022
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Blooms and roots embroidery

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

26th Aug 2022
I got a crewel embroidery kit for a variety of flowers and their roots from Purl Soho. Like I am often wont to do, I deviated from the prescribed stitches, especially in the roots section so the different flowers had distinct roots. Here's the finished piece:
In Favor of Reading Aloud When I read Jane Eyre, I stalled for a full year between the opening part at the boarding school and...
11th Sep 2024
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In Favor of Reading Aloud

from Raptitude.com [alt+shift+b] in life

11th Sep 2024
When I read Jane Eyre, I stalled for a full year between the opening part at the boarding school and the rest of the book. I tend to dislike boarding-school openings in books, but the real problem was I found myself having to reread too many of Charlotte Brontë’s winding,...
War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
3rd May 2023
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War Is Complicated.

from Trying to Understand the World [alt+shift+b] in history

3rd May 2023
And not just the fighting bit.
can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI The robots aren't coming, but the people who can't shut the fuck up about them are already here.
5th Jun 2024
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can everyone kindly shut the fuck up about AI

from Both Are True [alt+shift+b] in life

5th Jun 2024
The robots aren't coming, but the people who can't shut the fuck up about them are already here.
Boox Go 10.3, two months in [The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the...
5th Mar 2025
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Boox Go 10.3, two months in

from Tyler Cipriani: blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

5th Mar 2025
[The] Linux kernel uses GPLv2, and if you distribute GPLv2 code, you have to provide a copy of the source (and modifications) once someone asks for it. And now I’m asking nicely for you to do so 🙂 – Joga, bbs.onyx-international.com Boox in split screen, typewriter mode In...
The Count 2025 For twenty-two consecutive Februaries on diamond geezer I've kept myself busy by counting things....
1st Feb 2025
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The Count 2025

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st Feb 2025
For twenty-two consecutive Februaries on diamond geezer I've kept myself busy by counting things. Ten different counts, to be precise, in a stats-tastic 28-day feature called The Count. You therefore won't be surprised to hear that I intend to do exactly the same again this year,...
Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it...
9th May 2020
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Arctangent scale. It's like the logarithmic scale but infinite

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th May 2020
With arctangent used as a scale, we can show any function on a screen. And not just a fragment of it but the whole function.
All of the 8,291 License Plates in America States now offer a vast menu of personalized plate options for a dizzying array of organizations,...
21st Aug 2023
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All of the 8,291 License Plates in America

from Beautiful Public Data [alt+shift+b] in science

21st Aug 2023
States now offer a vast menu of personalized plate options for a dizzying array of organizations, professions, sports teams, causes and other groups.
Blogroll Remember when everyone had a really ugly blog with a blogroll? Anyway, just think the word is...
9th Jun 2017
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Blogroll

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

9th Jun 2017
Remember when everyone had a really ugly blog with a blogroll? Anyway, just think the word is funny. I follow a few hundred blogs using Feedly and Reeder and have been reading a few hundred thousand blog posts over the last 10 years.
Be A Donor This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the...
22nd Apr 2012
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Be A Donor

from Fabien Sanglard [alt+shift+b] in technology

22nd Apr 2012
This is probably the proudest moment of my Computer Science career so far: On April 17th, 2012 the Government of Ontario released the Mobile Website I designed and implemented for the major part of 2011. Beadonor.ca allows you reinforce your decision to be an organ donor. I feel...
The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about...
10th Apr 2014
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The Best Resources for Entrepreneurial Developers

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

10th Apr 2014
My background is as a developer, but I've been running my own business since 2008. For advice about business, I've always found other entrepreneurial developers are the best source, as they tend to have faced similar challenges to my own. If you're a developer starting your own...
How To Improve QA With Data Boutique For In-House Web Scraping Independent data help you get to 99% reliability
5th May 2023
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How To Improve QA With Data Boutique For In-House Web Scraping

from Data Boutique [alt+shift+b] in startups

5th May 2023
Independent data help you get to 99% reliability
this is the late review a casual blog of late reviews
21st Jul 2024
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this is the late review

from the late review [alt+shift+b] in literature

21st Jul 2024
a casual blog of late reviews
How Immune Cells Communicate This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here. A key obstacle hindering medical...
5th Feb 2024
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How Immune Cells Communicate

from Rachel Thomas, PhD [alt+shift+b] in AI

5th Feb 2024
This post is part 2 in a series. Be sure to read part 1 here. A key obstacle hindering medical research for a range of diseases is our lack of understanding of the immune system. Harvard Professor Wayne Koff described his decades of HIV research, “slowly, over time, we began to...
28 Pieces of Life Advice In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice...
7th Oct 2022
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28 Pieces of Life Advice

from David Perell [alt+shift+b] in startups

7th Oct 2022
In honor of my 28th birthday, here are 28 pieces of life advice. The post 28 Pieces of Life Advice appeared first on David Perell.
Projects for the Year Ahead Are you looking to start the year by learning a new skill or starting a fresh project? Perhaps you...
2nd Jan 2025
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Projects for the Year Ahead

from Handprinted - Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

2nd Jan 2025
Are you looking to start the year by learning a new skill or starting a fresh project? Perhaps you just need a boost of inspiration? We've put together some projects to get you going for the year ahead. Introduction to Linocut Did you get some new tools for Christmas and you'd...
<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
31st Oct 2022
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<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell

from Eric Bailey [alt+shift+b] in programming

31st Oct 2022
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element. Accessible names Accessible names use text to identify...
The hardest challenge about becoming a manager Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I...
5th Jun 2015
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The hardest challenge about becoming a manager

from Home on Erik Bernhardsson [alt+shift+b] in technology

5th Jun 2015
Note: this post is full of pseudo-psychology and highly speculative content. Like most fun stuff! I became a manager back in 2009. Being a developer is fun. You have this very tangible way to measure yourself.
The Love Metric If you’re publishing content, one useful way to measure success is to read what people are writing...
1st Jul 2026
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The Love Metric

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

1st Jul 2026
If you’re publishing content, one useful way to measure success is to read what people are writing about it online. Margarita Noriega, who’s the current managing editor of Morning Brew, calls this the Love Metric. When she sees someone saying something nice about her work online,...
Bike Brooklyn! zine I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of...
23rd Apr 2025
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Bike Brooklyn! zine

from Liz Denys [alt+shift+b] in programming

23rd Apr 2025
I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
13th Mar 2021
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February 2021 Gwern.net Newsletter

from Gwern.net Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in technology

13th Mar 2021
links on AI scaling, semaglutide, and ethicist ethics
Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released! About...
12th Mar 2026
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Guile-bstructs 0.2.0 released

from dthompson [alt+shift+b] in programming

12th Mar 2026
I'm happy to announce that guile-bstructs 0.2.0 has been released! About guile-bstructs Guile-bstructs is a library that provides structured read/write access to binary data for Guile. A bstruct (short for “binary structure”) is a data type that encapsulates a bytevector and a...
Overcast 4.1 now available Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually...
14th Mar 2018
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Overcast 4.1 now available

from Marco.org [alt+shift+b] in programming

14th Mar 2018
Overcast 4.1 is now in the App Store with some small but nice new features. Smart Resume is actually two features: It jumps back by up to a few seconds after having been paused to help remind you of the conversation. It slightly adjusts resumes and seeks to fall in the silences...
Calm yourself Here are a few techniques I've used to calm myself down in times of anxiety..
4th Mar 2022
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Calm yourself

from Justin Jackson [alt+shift+b] in startups

4th Mar 2022
Here are a few techniques I've used to calm myself down in times of anxiety..
Narrative debt HBO’s Watchmen is fantastic, as many have noted. It may be one of the most polished first drafts of...
13th Dec 2019
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Narrative debt

from Remains of the Day [alt+shift+b] in programming

13th Dec 2019
HBO’s Watchmen is fantastic, as many have noted. It may be one of the most polished first drafts of fan fiction to ever appear on the silver, errr, OLED screen. DC may lag behind the Marvel Universe in box office and audience acclaim, but it feels like DC is starting to find its...
The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable...
16th Jun 2024
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The Raspberry Pi 5 is no match for a tini-mini-micro PC

from Louwrentius - Solar [alt+shift+b] in technology

16th Jun 2024
I've always been fond of the idea of the Raspberry Pi. An energy efficient, small, cheap but capable computer. An ideal home server. Until the Pi 4, the Pi was not that capable, and only with the relatively recent Pi 5 (fall 2023) do I feel the Pi is OK performance wise, although...
My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know...
27th Jun 2022
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My Wonderful HTML Email Workflow

from Josh Comeau's blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

27th Jun 2022
If you've ever had the misfortune of being tasked with building a template for HTML emails, you know it's tricky business! In this blog post, I share the approach I took to build responsive, client-friendly emails without a single tag.
Tiny data visualizations This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d...
8th Feb 2016
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Tiny data visualizations

from The personal website of Matthew Ström [alt+shift+b] in design

8th Feb 2016
This is a direct translation of a talk I gave at the NYC D3.js meetup in January of 2016. If you’d like to see a video of the talk, you can check it out on YouTube. Have you seen this comprehensive list of Donald Trump’s insults? Or maybe this detailed rundown of the 2016...
What does Wabi-Sabi really mean? Explaining an often misunderstood idea in Japanese aesthetics.
5th Jul 2023
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What does Wabi-Sabi really mean?

from On the Arts [alt+shift+b] in creative

5th Jul 2023
Explaining an often misunderstood idea in Japanese aesthetics.
Before and after Almost Perfect At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in...
8th Jul 2024
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Before and after Almost Perfect

from Contraption Co. [alt+shift+b] in programming

8th Jul 2024
At the beginning of this year, I spent a couple of weeks at the Almost Perfect creative residence in Tokyo, run by Luis and Yuka. This week Luis and Yuka published a podcast we recorded during my residence. The first half was recorded on the first day of my stay,
PowerShell Customization - Fonts, Prompts, and Autocompletion Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the...
9th Aug 2024
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PowerShell Customization - Fonts, Prompts, and Autocompletion

from Eliran Turgeman [alt+shift+b] in programming

9th Aug 2024
Step 1: Install Oh-My-Posh goto oh-my-posh windows installation page, or just execute the following 1 winget install JanDeDobbeleer.OhMyPosh -s winget Step 2: Choose a Font Totally optional, but if you want to get a specific font follow this section. to install a supported...
Gif to MP4 encoding in the browser, the terminal &#038; everywhere else TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the...
6th Nov 2025
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6th Nov 2025
TLDR: I’ve shipped a new NPM module called gif2vid that enabled video encoding of GIF files in the browser, in your terminal and in a web app backend. I’ve also created an uber simple website at https://gif2vid.com where you can use it. My kids enjoy building cute (and...
Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority? The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the...
31st May 2023
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Is Avoiding Extinction from AI Really an Urgent Priority?

from AI Snake Oil [alt+shift+b] in AI

31st May 2023
The history of technology suggests that the greatest risks come not from the tech, but from the people who control it
1st Jul 2024
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