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Open Culture
T. S. Eliot’s Classic Modernist Poem The Waste Land Gets Adapted into Comic-Book Form The phrase “April is the cruelest month” was first printed more than 100 years ago, and it’s been in...
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The phrase “April is the cruelest month” was first printed more than 100 years ago, and it’s been in common circulation almost as long. One can easily know it without having the faintest idea of its source, let alone its meaning. This is not, of course, to call T. S. Eliot’s The...
Maps Mania
Travel Times in the Roman & British Empires
a month ago
Retail Design Blog
Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records Offices by HofmanDujardin HofmanDujardin designed the Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records office in Amsterdam, emphasizing...
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HofmanDujardin designed the Warner Music Group and Spinnin’ Records office in Amsterdam, emphasizing a music-driven, immersive environment that reflects the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI's invisible instructions What meme prompts can teach us about better interface design.
2 months ago
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in November 2024 30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in November 2024 1) In a typical month (April 2024) TfL...
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30 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in November 2024 1) In a typical month (April 2024) TfL issued 29,767 Under 16 Oyster Photocards, 6992 16+ Oyster Photocards, 6028 18+ Oyster Photocards and 269 Apprentice Oyster Photocards. 2) The social media management tool used by...
Nat Eliason's...
Traditional Publishing is Great, Actually Don't be deceived like I was...
8 months ago
Neil Madden
The square roots of all evil Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all...
a month ago
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a month ago
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
Paul Graham: Essays
How to Convince Investors
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Running SQL Server in a container on Github Actions This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
TheCollector
Performance Art: 8 Famous and Influential Women undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
The Baroque in Latin America: From Colonial Times to the Present undefined
6 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Avant Bakery by oftn studio Avant Bakery is a well-established F&B brand with multiple locations, known for offering desserts...
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Avant Bakery is a well-established F&B brand with multiple locations, known for offering desserts and bread crafted from traditional French...
The Forney Flyer
Our Summer Plans up in the Air... And a Motorcycle Adventure from Late Last Year I mentioned in a recent letter that we sent to many of you, that you should check this blog for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I mentioned in a recent letter that we sent to many of you, that you should check this blog for the latest updates regarding our plans to be in the U.S. briefly this summer. Well, as you can imagine, those plans are totally muddled right now because of all the Covid-19 related...
Paul Graham: Essays
Subject: Airbnb
over a year ago
The Marginalian
The Two Souls Within: Hermann Hesse on the Dual Life of the Creative Spirit "Like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a...
a year ago
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a year ago
"Like a precious, fleeting foam over the sea of suffering arise all those works of art, in which a single individual lifts himself for an hour so high above his personal destiny that his happiness shines like a star and appears to all who see it as something eternal and as a...
Seth's Blog
The grey goo If we take a big enough dataset… Add to it machine learning and autotune and the race to fit in and...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
If we take a big enough dataset… Add to it machine learning and autotune and the race to fit in and reach the masses… We end up with a relentless march toward mediocrity. Mediocre is another word for average. It has always happened as industries matured (whether it’s Motown or...
The Marginalian
The Importance of Trusting Yourself: Nick Cave on the Relationship Between Creativity and Faith "There is more going on than we can see or understand, and we need to find a way to lean into the...
a year ago
Business Brainstorms
Podcast translations, Apple opportunity, being unreasonable, don't hire corporate executives, the... Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write...
a year ago
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a year ago
Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “When the Apple VR headset drops tomorrow, every social...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Most Perverse Gesture' “Books are friends, oracles, household gods, characters in the ongoing drama of our...
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a year ago
“Books are friends, oracles, household gods, characters in the ongoing drama of our minds.” Understandably, Lance Marrow gets a little sentimental about books and their needless destruction. We resist soft-headed fetishism but for some of us, discarding or destroying books, even...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Man vs. AI: optimizing JavaScript (Claude, Cursor) How AI beat me at code optimization game. When I started writing this article I did not...
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4 months ago
How AI beat me at code optimization game. When I started writing this article I did not expect AI to beat me at optimizing JavaScript code. But it did. I’m really passionate about optimizing JavaScript. Some say it’s a mental illness but I like my code to go balls to...
Musings on Markets
Reaping the Whirlwind: A September 2022 Inflation Update! In my early 2021 posts on inflation, I argued that while the higher inflation that we were just...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In my early 2021 posts on inflation, I argued that while the higher inflation that we were just starting to see could be explained by COVID and supply chain issues, prudence on the part of policy makers required that it be taken as a long term threat and dealt with quickly. Not...
Blog System/5
How "new type" helps avoid production outages My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
My January links recap included the “Phantom Types” article by David Soria Parra. In it, the author briefly touches upon the “new type” idiom, its typical implementation in Rust, and then proceeds to propose a better alternative. But the question arises: why should you care?
Flashbak
Liberation Through Art: Flyers From New York’s Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) “I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act...
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a month ago
“I also believe in the ability of art to enhance people’s lives, to liberate people’s lives, to act as a form of communication that transcends language to connect cultures together” – Jeffrey Deitch   Deitch Projects (1996 – 2010) changed our expectations around art. Named after...
Quanta Magazine
The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to show their work. The post The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Christopher Butler
object – Wooden Task Lamp I made this in just a couple of hours. We needed just a little bit more light on the desk. I...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I made this in just a couple of hours. We needed just a little bit more light on the desk. I made a quick sketch for a lamp I could make at home that would also look fun — if I didn’t screw it up. I gave myself a budget of about $25, which was enough to pick up a utility...
Seth's Blog
Chasing cool The cool thing is always a little out of reach. And for most of us, once we get it, it’s not seen as...
a year ago
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a year ago
The cool thing is always a little out of reach. And for most of us, once we get it, it’s not seen as cool any more. This is not an accident. One definition of cool are things that are just out of reach.
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman! How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
Old Structures...
Little, Yet Big That’s 65 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs, an 1851 wood-frame house that had fallen on hard times....
8 months ago
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8 months ago
That’s 65 Phila Street in Saratoga Springs, an 1851 wood-frame house that had fallen on hard times. People at the Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation have been trying for a very long time to get the building repaired and re-occupied – the best way to ensure an old building’s...
Steve Klabnik
Removing Turbolinks from Rails 4
over a year ago
devonzuegel.com
Remote work will break the US monopoly on global talent Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Remote work is creating a new economic niche, and countries that put in the work to fill it will finally be able to compete with the US to attract talent. This is the once-in-a-generation opportunity for small, stable countries to grow, diversify, and up-skill their...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
How to Make Prairie Dogs Clap Their Hands Prairie dogs can’t clap. Their short arms can’t stretch across their pudgy bodies. When they spot me...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Prairie dogs can’t clap. Their short arms can’t stretch across their pudgy bodies. When they spot me running through their field they duck into their holes for cover. As I pass they chirp prairie dog profanity at me. They seem to shake their tiny fists, threatening me, telling me...
FIRE v London
April ’24: Juggling cash as new UK tax year begins The temperature in the Middle East got even hotter in April, with Israel and Iran trading attacks on...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
The temperature in the Middle East got even hotter in April, with Israel and Iran trading attacks on each other’s sovereign buildings/territory. Somehow World War III has never really seemed in danger of breaking out but it is a reminder that only change is constant. Over in New...
Josh Collinsworth
Social Media, Compulsion, and the 12 Things I Learned on My Break from Facebook I’m beginning to believe that becoming more connected with everyone is making me less connected with...
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
My Search for Hidden Meanings in Beatles Songs Before the Internet, we often had no idea what hit songs were about
a month ago
Londonist
Explore Holborn's Two 'Secret' Platforms On This New Hidden London Tour Torches at the ready.
10 months ago
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The ChatGPT vs Bear Blog spam war Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking...
a year ago
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a year ago
Ever since Bear Blog's infancy, spam has been an issue. Free services tend to attract those seeking to exploit them for backlinks and the alleged SEO benefits (although this is debatable given updates to the Google algorithm). I've previously discussed this in a post, detailing...
Both Are True
someone is impersonating me so i reached out to them going undercover to meet myself -- a video of our entire 30 minute long convo
6 months ago
TheCollector
Understanding Australian History Through 3 Artworks undefined
5 months ago
TheCollector
Alexander Gardner: The Man Who Captured the Civil War undefined
9 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Chaco War? undefined
a year ago
Flashbak
People of the Twentieth Century: the Ideal German, the Nazi and the Persecuted Jew “If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the...
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5 months ago
“If we can create portraits of subjects that are true, we thereby in effect create a mirror of the times.” – August Sander, creator of Menschen des 20 Jahrhunderts (People of The 20th Century)   What you see above is a picture of Arnold Katz and Benjamin (Benno) Katz being...
Entrepreneur's Edge
Scale 10X with Court Lorenzini (Founder/CEO Docusign) A conversation around building your startup, making the right bets, and achieving operational...
a year ago
ribbonfarm
Covid and Noun-Memory Effects Ever since I got a bout of Covid a couple of years ago (late 2022), I’ve noticed memory problems of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Ever since I got a bout of Covid a couple of years ago (late 2022), I’ve noticed memory problems of a very specific sort: Difficulty remembering names. Especially people names, but also other sorts of proper nouns. This is especially marked when it comes to remembering names of...
Castles in the Sky
Dreams Over Goals in 2024 More dreams, less goals, and some commitments for the year
11 months ago
TheCollector
Queen Elizabeth II: Who was Elizabeth Windsor? undefined
5 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The Platinum Rule You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You've heard of the Golden Rule? "Treat others as you want to be treated." Introducing the Platinum and Silver Rules.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Brains Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: However they're slow because many of them have no...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: However they're slow because many of them have no appendages. Today's News:
Jonas Hietala
Incomplete game coming up Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done -...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Man I’m far too much of a perfectionist, with this mentality I’ll never get anything done - seriously. I spent far too many hours, even days, figuring out in my mind how the game should be and I started off going for nothing less than just that. But it turned out to be a lot...
Noahpinion
Stop saying "there is no decoupling". There is! Decoupling will take time, and it won't look like the Iron Curtain, but it's happening.
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
Castles in the Sky 35 Thirteen Perspective Changing Experiences from July 2023
a year ago
Writing - Andreas...
Using fewer parts Fewer parts make for better software and better products.
a year ago
Construction Physics
Book Review: Healthy Buildings Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about...
a year ago
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a year ago
Healthy Buildings, written by John Macomber and Joseph Allen is, as the title suggests, a book about how buildings affect health. Allen is a former environmental consultant, professor of public health, and director of Harvard’s “Healthy Buildings” program. Macomber is a lecturer...
Adventures In...
North Arrow Necessity Can a map still be considered a map if it doesn’t have a north arrow? Yes. A north arrow is an...
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4 months ago
Can a map still be considered a map if it doesn’t have a north arrow? Yes. A north arrow is an optional map accompaniment and you should think critically about your map to determine for yourself if it needs a north arrow or not. For what it’s worth, often a map should not have a...
TheCollector
Germany’s 7 Most Important Historical Landmarks undefined
7 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Challenge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later bean guy makes a fortune selling cans of beans with his label on them. People who hate him are 60% of his audience. He goes on to a university position in media studies. Today's News:
The American Scholar
Paolo Arao Acts of devotion The post Paolo Arao appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
How I Take and Publish Notes I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of...
a year ago
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a year ago
I publish notes at notes.jim-nielsen.com. I’ve written about why I made that site as well as some of my favorite aspects of its design. But I’ve yet to write about how I take and publish notes to it. The other day Bill Beckelman emailed me and told me he made a similar site of...
The Modern House
Nature's way: Botanical stylist Yasuyo Harvey’s stunning transformation of a standard suburban semi
4 months ago
Style over Substance
M4 Hex Socket Thumbscrew Knob Caps For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
For the past few weeks I’ve been teaching myself how to use Fusion 360, a free online cloud-based CAD/CAM program that lets you create your own 3D designs. The best way to learn how to use a new program is to build something you actually need. And my latest design is a work in...
Platformer
A visit to TikTok's transparency center Few companies have ever made their code so available for inspection. How much will it matter?
a year ago
Louwrentius
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...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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...
Coding Horror
The Great Filter Comes For Us All With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe...
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a month ago
With a 13 billion year head start on evolution, why haven't any other forms of life in the universe contacted us by now? teaching the aliens how to exit Vim (Arrival is a fantastic movie. Watch it, but don't stop there - read the Story of
Common Edge
Worshiping the Old Isn’t Historic Preservation To keep buildings alive and relevant, some flexibility is required.
2 months ago
AVC
AI Art There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I...
a year ago
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a year ago
There has been a lot of discussion about how AIs can make art and possibly replace artists, but I think the opposite is more likely to happen. Artists have been using AI to make art for a while now and the pace has picked up a lot in recent years. I have always loved the […]
diamond geezer
Unblogged November 30 unblogged things I did in November Fri 1: I bought some Edding 55 pens online yesterday because...
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30 unblogged things I did in November Fri 1: I bought some Edding 55 pens online yesterday because I can't find them in the shops any more, and they were due to arrive today. Before they arrived I got three emails saying "Please note, your driver is unable to leave this item...
The DESK Magazine
Breaking the algorithm The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to...
a year ago
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a year ago
The world wants to tell you what to think about, what to be interested in, what to learn, what to pursue, what to worry about. And it's easier to let it.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics. Today's News:
The Architectural...
The bigotry of Modernism We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse....
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8 months ago
We know that history tends to repeat itself, sometimes for better and sometimes for worse. Unfortunately, the architecture world, including academics and practitioners, is often unaware that it perpetuates backward and bigoted attitudes, stifling the creativity of architects and...
Chris Grossack's...
Talk -- What is Factorization Homology? I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I was recently invited to speak at the AMS Sectional in Tallahassee, Florida. In particular, at the special session on Homotopy Theory and Category Theory in Interaction. The conference was this weekend, and I’m typing this up on my plane ride home. I had a great time, and...
Quanta Magazine
Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally Knowing a little about the local connections on flight maps and other networks can reveal a lot...
a year ago
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a year ago
Knowing a little about the local connections on flight maps and other networks can reveal a lot about a system’s global structure. The post Math That Lets You Think Locally but Act Globally first appeared on Quanta Magazine
99% Invisible
The Art of the Olympics [EPISODE] The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99%...
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5 months ago
The 2024 Paris Olympics are currently under way, and we thought we’d play two stories from the 99% Invisible archives about the art of the Olympics. Mexico 68 The 1968 Olympics took place in Mexico City, Mexico. It was the first Games ever hosted in a Latin American country. And...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Erwin Lessons from building Tailscan in public to $500 MRR
a year ago
Mahmoud Felfel's...
The Phoenix project — Book Notes Book Notes From "The Phoenix project".
over a year ago
Maps Mania
NIMBY Mapping
a year ago
African History...
A complete history of Dogon country: Bandiagara from 1900BC to 1900AD demystifying an ancient African society
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Wikiphilia I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've been obsessed with Wikipedia for the past ten years. Occasionally I find some good articles worth sharing and that's why I created the wikiphilia Twitter handle. Just a long stream of stuff that for one reason or another may be interesting.
essay – snarfed.org
Policing misinformation Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Unpopular opinion: I have deep reservations about policing misinformation. I’m a big believer in the demarcation problem: in the general case, there’s no shortcut to determining objective truth. It’s similar to the halting problem in computer science: if we want to know whether a...
devonzuegel.com
Tutorial: Telegram → Logseq quick notes I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I've long wanted a notes app with an optional chat style interface for append-only notes. The idea is that I'll use the simpler append-only interface while on the go, and then use full-featured interface to review, edit, and organize those notes when I'm back at my computer. I...
Uncharted...
The Moral Case for More People on Earth Today we’re going to cover four points that have emerged from the last few articles on growing our...
a month ago
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a month ago
Today we’re going to cover four points that have emerged from the last few articles on growing our population, but which I haven’t covered yet:
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Why don’t healthcare companies say what they do? | Out-Of-Pocket And some tips to figure out what a company does
a year ago
Notes on software...
Writing a SQL database from scratch in Go: 3. indexes Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 2. binary expressions...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Previously in database basics: 1. SELECT, INSERT, CREATE and a REPL 2. binary expressions and WHERE filters 4. a database/sql driver In this post, we extend gosql to support indexes. We focus on the addition of PRIMARY KEY constraints on table creation and some easy...
Archinect - Features
'The Relationship Between AI and Architecture Is Old Enough to Receive Social Security'; A... Molly Wright Steenson's introduction to the world of computing came when she was ten years old. From...
a year ago
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a year ago
Molly Wright Steenson's introduction to the world of computing came when she was ten years old. From there, her career as a writer, designer, historian, and professor has taken her on a journey of understanding the past, present, and future of artificial intelligence and its...
Passing Time
Follow Up: Feedback Request Mistake Substack doesn't work how I thought
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Yeep Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also nothing will ever taste as good as a single...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Also nothing will ever taste as good as a single oreo, age 9. Today's News:
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Software patents should be abolished The alleged societal benefit of patent law is that it creates a financial incentive to innovate....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The alleged societal benefit of patent law is that it creates a financial incentive to innovate.  The societal drawback is that it reduces…
TheCollector
Alphonse Mucha: The Father of Art Nouveau in 7 Works undefined
7 months ago
Willem's Blog
Art of visualisation You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
You learn from experts if you have the privilege to work with them, this month I had a chance to help a professional food photographer.
NeuroLogica Blog
Reading The Mind with fMRI and AI This is pretty exciting neuroscience news – Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is pretty exciting neuroscience news – Semantic reconstruction of continuous language from non-invasive brain recordings. What this means is that researchers have been able to, sort of, decode the words that subjects were thinking of simply by reading their fMRI scan. They...
TheCollector
Çatalhöyük: One of the Oldest Recorded Cities in History undefined
a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Beware Policy Abstraction The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly...
a month ago
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a month ago
The recent US presidential election should be fresh enough in your memory to let you directly confirm that the issues focused on there were biased in two key ways.
Moneyness
Why do sanctioned entities use Tether? Tether, a stablecoin, has been in the news for offering sanctioned actors such as Hamas a means to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Tether, a stablecoin, has been in the news for offering sanctioned actors such as Hamas a means to participate in the global payments ecosystem. In this post I want to explore in more depth how Tether is being used to dodge sanctions. I'm going to avoid drawing on the Hamas...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Balls So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
So it’s been what? Two, three years since I discovered the art of programming and I haven’t made one single game?! Well now I’m not counting the visual basic nightmare mastermind I made a long time ago but a real game. Whatever that means. I’ve had these monster-projects; Point...
bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware February 2024 The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
The ware for February 2024 is the core of a B&G 213 Masthead Wind Sensor, an instrument capable of reporting both wind speed and direction. Thanks again to FETguy and Renew Computers for the contribution! The coil on the left hand side is a brushless resolver, which determines...
TheCollector
Battle of Thebes: How Alexander the Great Destroyed the Great City undefined
11 months ago
Luxagraf:...
Fortified From Edisto we worked our way south, stopping off a Hunting Island for a few dismal days in the cold...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
From Edisto we worked our way south, stopping off a Hunting Island for a few dismal days in the cold and rain, camping in a site that was just a smidge above actual bog. We escaped that dreariness for the much more uplifting Fort McAllister, the first of a string of forts we...
somenice
Atlas of AI by Kate Crawford I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ll admit I’m a HUGE believer of advances in Artificial Intelligence. Deep learning or just general machine learning. From Bayesian beginnings to GANs and CNNs, I’m all about data, ML and all of the promises it’s future holds. The problems it can solve today seemed impossible...
The Marginalian
The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with... "We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather...
11 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Organic Startup Ideas
over a year ago
TheCollector
KAWS Show Shut Down by Protestors undefined
10 months ago
Mazdak
The Rollercoaster Ride of Long-Term Rates: What it Means for You and the Economy Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Remember that dramatic rise in long-term interest rates back in September and October? The one that had everyone from policymakers to financial analysts glued to their screens? Well, guess what? It's mostly reversed! What does this mean? In a nutshell, it means a sigh of relief...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Keybase: bringing public-key cryptography to mainstream users Today I’m excited to announce that a16z is leading a $10.8M Series A financing of Keybase, a company...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today I’m excited to announce that a16z is leading a $10.8M Series A financing of Keybase, a company that is trying to make the internet…
elementary Blog
Happy Pride! Have Some Updates! This month we have some surprise updates for OS 7, including new releases of GNOME apps and a big...
7 months ago
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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...
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How I fixed one hardware issue with another one I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever...
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I happen to run on an ASRock Fatal1ty B450 Gaming-ITX/ac motherboard that used to run fine, but ever since I installed one UEFI update, it has had this one annoying issue: whenever you reboot, it gets stuck at POST. Cold boots work fine and the shutdown-and-push-the-power-button...
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Apple Watch, Musical Chairs at Dollar General, IPOs, Impact Investing, Buffett in 1988, Mapping the human brain, Interviews of Nassim Taleb, Jensen Huang, John and Patrick Collison, and more ...
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A week off work, yay! Obviously that has not stopped me checking and replying to a few emails. My team were also attempting to get me to help them cheat at the work Christmas quiz using WhatsApp. Shamefully, they didn’t even win. I had my first face to face physio session about...
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Piled Higher & Deeper by Jorge Cham www.phdcomics.com title: "The COVID-19 Virus Explained" - originally published 9/17/2021 For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
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Magical Fibonacci Formulae The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence, without loops, recursion or floating...
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The following Python function computes the Fibonacci sequence, without loops, recursion or floating point arithmetic: f=lambda n:(b:=2<<n)**n*b//(b*b-b-1)%b It really does: >>> [f(n) for n in range(10)] [0, 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, 21, 34] How does it work? As a teaser, look at...
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Small children are great at asking questions. Their questions are simple, direct, and utterly without ego. If you spend time with 2-5 year olds, you’ll find yourself answering a near infinite series of progressively more challenging questions. This is one of the main paths by...
Andrej Karpathy blog
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Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
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What I have been working on: Modal Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you...
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Long story short: I'm working on a super cool tool called Modal. Please check it out — it lets you run things in the cloud without having to think about infrastructure. Scaling out, scheduling, containerization, using GPUs, setting up webhooks, and all kinds of other stuff.
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Many moons ago I made a short-lived attempt to do some shorter-form reviews of sandwich shops, street food joints, delis and the like, places that are perhaps noteworthy but for which the usual 1000+ words could be considered overkill. This resolution didn't last long, partly...
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It's been frustrating to see the US coverage of Milei, Argentina's new president. They are deeply misunderstanding (or misrepresenting?) what's going on. It seems the American press can only understand Argentine politics through the lens of the US, when really it's just a totally...
99% Invisible
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Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There are two hundred and seventy different Chick Tracts, with titles like “The Death Cookie,” “Kidnapped!,” “Mean Momma,” “The Sissy?,” and “Satan Comes To Salem.” Many of these are...
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The case for a Global Sanctuary City What if the Syrians can’t return home?
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Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 released I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme...
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I'm happy to announce that Guile-SDL2 0.8.0 has been released! Guile-SDL2 provides Guile Scheme bindings for the SDL2 C shared library. The bindings are written in pure Scheme using Guile's foreign function interface. New bindings in this...
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The Large Arch Window In Front Of This Cafe Offers A Glimpse Of The Creative Interior Anatomy Architecture + Atelier has shared photos of a cafe they designed in Ayutthaya, Thailand,...
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Anatomy Architecture + Atelier has shared photos of a cafe they designed in Ayutthaya, Thailand, that incorporates a collection of windows to create a welcoming arch shape on its facade.
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Integrate Home Assistant with Apple Reminders I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos....
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I recently integrated Home Assistant with Apple Reminders so that automations can create new todos. This is trickier as it sounds, because Reminders has no API that can be accessed from Home Assistant. Here's how I worked around that problem with a script, input text helper and...
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Zabbix is a populair tool for monitoring servers, services and network equipment. For monitoring hosts, Zabbix provides an agent that can be installed on the hosts that must be monitored. Based on the supplied documentation and some remarks on the internets, the 'security' of...
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Coming to engineering management as a discipline requires a completely fresh set of skills. A common mistake is to assume that our previous expertise will make this transition seamless. In reality, it's important to recognize the need to shift mindsets entirely.
Noahpinion
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Deploying Node and React Shopify apps on Vercel Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this...
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Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this article, I'll show you how.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'This Refined, White-Sheeted Torture' My tutelary spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from Hodgkin...
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My tutelary spirit of recent days has been the American poet L.E. Sissman, dead from Hodgkin lymphoma at age forty-eight. Out in the hall I spoke with three oncologists  after they had yet again examined my brother. I asked the question no one had yet asked: How much time does...
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Approaching Rugby by train 20 years ago, what you'd have noticed out of the window was a vast array of very tall masts clustered across the fields to one side. They were even more prominent from the A5 on the far side of the site, equally visible from the M1 and perhaps best seen...
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The End Of An Era - Reflections On Our Travels (Written on April 23, 2023) In just a few days time, Laura and I will board a jet bound for another...
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(Written on April 23, 2023) In just a few days time, Laura and I will board a jet bound for another international destination. Our flight home to Toronto isn't that unique of a scenario, as we have flown on plenty of planes headed home since we began our international travels...
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FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another. Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
Musings on Markets
META Lesson 3: Tell me a story! In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market...
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In my first two posts on Facebook, I noted that its most recent earnings report, and the market reaction to it, offers an opportunity for us to talk about bigger issues. I started by examining corporate governance, or its absence, and argued that some of the frustration that...
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Migrating to rocks.nvim My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At...
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My relationship with my Neovim config is best described as an On-again, off-again relationship. At times I’m deeply in love and spend all my time caressing the config—like how in September I did a complete rewrite in Lua—while other times I’m busy with other love interests and...
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Click to Load Website Images Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to...
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Click to Load Website Images 2021-03-25 In my previous post about switching my Jekyll blog over to PHPetite, I briefly mentioned how I only loaded in article images if the user clicked or tapped the empty file element. In this post, I'm going to quickly breakdown the update I've...
Seth's Blog
The paradox of lessons The people most likely to sign up for coaching or additional learning are the folks who are already...
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The people most likely to sign up for coaching or additional learning are the folks who are already good at their craft. “I’m terrible at this,” can lead to, “and I don’t want to be reminded of it.” Or perhaps, “I don’t want to waste their time,” or, “I’m never going to get...
bt RSS Feed
Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung...
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Why I Stopped Using an External Monitor 2023-03-03 For the longest time I’ve been using a Samsung 27” UHD monitor as my main display. This monitor was connected to my ThinkPad X260 (in clamshell mode) through the official Lenovo dock. It wasn’t a bad setup, but I have since...
A Smart Bear
Distributed Logical Time Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is...
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Properly ordering events in time is notoriously difficult in distributed systems. This algorithm is a simple, decentralized, scalable, constant-memory mechanism for independent replicas to record events in time, such that “happened-before” is preserved in almost all cases.
DYNOMIGHT
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Thank you to the 966 people who filled out the survey. And thanks also to the strangely numerous people who read all the questions and wrote to me about them but didn’t answer them. (Though: why?) Many asked: Will the survey data be public? Unfortunately no, because I’m a big...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'One I Loved Taught Here, Provoking Strife' When Yvor Winters retired from the Stanford English Department in 1966 after almost forty years, the...
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When Yvor Winters retired from the Stanford English Department in 1966 after almost forty years, the university published a commemorative volume, Laurel, Archaic, Rude: A Collection of Poems. It gathers twenty-six poems written by former students, including Edgar Bowers,...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teleporter Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just a few more and I can do a book of teleporter...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just a few more and I can do a book of teleporter humor. Today's News: I've spent the last month promoting stuff here, so this is just a reminder to you that it's just me over here and I hate having to promote products. Please...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’m writing this from Javea, Spain [http://maps.google.co.uk/maps?q=javea,+spain&ie=UTF8&hq=&hnear=Javea,+Province+of+Alicante,+Valencia,+Spain&gl=uk&t=h&z=12] . I arrived here a couple of days...
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I don't want a lot of guesses about Netscape generated by people who may know less than I do. I want to learn a lot of facts - most of which I don't already know.
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A...
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Stop Using Custom Web Fonts 2023-03-14 I recently read an excellent post by Manu Moreale titled A rant on web font licenses. I highly recommend you give it a read (it’s relatively short) since Manu makes a solid argument against existing font licenses. After reading, I found...
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Quick Dive into React As usual, this is a work in progress. At a high level, I’m familiarizing myself with Phoenix/Elixir,...
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As usual, this is a work in progress. At a high level, I’m familiarizing myself with Phoenix/Elixir, and need to sharpen my React knowledge along the way. After working through part 1 of a slack clone in Elixir/Phoenix tutorial, I ran into some errors getting the React app up and...
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I rented the car from the Porsche Museum in Stuttgart. It turned out to be a brand new Porsche Taycan Cross Turismo 4S. It has a base…
devonzuegel.com
Why do home buyers look at price/sqft more than renters? A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than...
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A question that's puzzled me for a while is why home buyers focus on price/sqft so much more than renters. I asked around for what other people thought and got some interesting answers, so I decided to write up my takeaways. I. Investments demand legibility Homeownership is...
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Reclaiming the City, Reclaiming Words: Póli Gynaikón – City of Women Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive,...
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Contributed by Maria Paganopoulou Photo: Maria Paganopoulou. Delfys Feminist Archive, Athens. License: All Rights Reserved. Covers of the magazine Póli Ginaikón Marsha Rowe, editor of the groundbreaking feminist magazine Spare Rib, famously recalled: “Suddenly, words...
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I love my Travelcard because it allows me to take multiple journeys anywhere I like whenever I like. For a one-off fee I can roam on all TfL modes of transport in my chosen zones. I can go to Woolwich, then West Ealing, then Wood Green if I so choose. I can change my mind mid...
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It seems most of the decisions in life are made in favor of the present you, or the future you. I wish the future me could sit beside the present me, and discuss how I was going about my day. Instead, it’s a rather one-sided conversation. There are obvious choices, like food,...
Commoncog
Eric Nehrlich on the Art of Executive Coaching and Forecasting Cedric talks to Eric Nehrlich about driving down the error rate for Google's revenue forecasting...
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Cedric talks to Eric Nehrlich about driving down the error rate for Google's revenue forecasting from 10-20% down to 0.5%, his approach to executive coaching, and how to come up with small experiments for personal growth.
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Founders - Don't just build another job for yourself I was having pre-Christmas lunch with Paul*, one of my best friends from middle school a couple of...
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I was having pre-Christmas lunch with Paul*, one of my best friends from middle school a couple of weeks back. However, as soon as he sat down at our table and I asked him how he was, he surprisingly announced that he would be closing his business at the end of the year. I was...
TheCollector
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I swear, we're working on that stupid t-shirt design. Info in a day or two. Today's News:
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Okay, promises, promises. Here's the first of my bucket list projects I'm completing which I've intermittently worked on for literally two decades. Now that I've finally shaken out more bugs, tuned it up and cleaned it off, it's time to let people play with the source...
Moneyness
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Some folks are suggesting that a bitcoin ETF is absurd because it doesn't fit with Bitcoin's original ethos. On the contrary, I think it's a nice snug fit. It would be a misunderstanding of bitcoin's history to assume that it was the idealism of cypherpunk-ism that gave birth to...
ntietz.com blog
Don't Disrupt Things; Fix Them People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but...
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People talk about disrupting industries when those industries appear to be in a stable but inefficient state. For example, the taxicab industry: there was little innovation going on in it, and it was stable, but it seemed like it was far from ideal. Along came Uber, intent to...
Seth's Blog
Who cares? A question we don’t ask ourselves very often, but a choice we make every day. It’s tempting to not...
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A question we don’t ask ourselves very often, but a choice we make every day. It’s tempting to not care. If you choose to not care, you’re off the hook. It’s simply to do as little as possible, avoid too much trouble, ask if it will be on the test, try to stay off the […]
Elad Blog
Unicorn Market Cap & Industry Towns, 2020 In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas,...
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In 2019 I wrote about how "industry towns" emerge in every market. These clusters of people, ideas, capital, service providers, and companies tend to have strong network effects that support startup formation and success in a given industry. For example, Silicon Valley, London,...
Artificial Ignorance
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The Gradient
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In the realm of AI-powered text-to-CAD, there's promise, but also a surge in subpar designs. Can we steer this technology towards better outcomes?
General Robots
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Donald Knuth tells us, “Programs are meant to be read by humans and only incidentally for computers to execute.” but in the future we have a third category. I think that programs and libraries (and programming languages?) that lend themselves to effective AI assistance will win...
NeuroLogica Blog
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I’m going to do something I rarely do and make a straight-up prediction – I think we are close to having AI apps that will function as our all-purpose digital assistants. That’s not really a tough call, we already have digital assistants and they are progressing rapidly. So I am...
Flashbak
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Small Town Noir is a study of life and crime in New Castle, western Pennsylvania. The site compiles the mugshots of criminals who lived in the town in the 1930, 40s and 50s, with notes on their offences. The mugshots were pulled from the rubbish when the town’s police department...
Londonist
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Explorations of an...
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February 5, 2024 Today's plan was to complete the drive to Cajamarca, stop for Unicolored Tapaculos on the way, and then spend the rest of the day at a particular river valley where the Gray-bellied Comet is regularly seen. Therefore, since we did not have any early morning...
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CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
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CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let’s change that, shall we? The Demo I’m basing...
xkcd.com
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Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform...
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For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is. But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
Common Edge
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Entity authentication with a KEM In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity...
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In cryptography, the process of authenticating a user (or app/service) is known as entity authentication or identification (to distinguish it from message authentication or data origin authentication). There are lots of ways to do this. In this post I’m going to talk about...
Liz Denys
My favorite secret to baking healthier: white whole wheat flour Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people...
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Replacing white bread with wheat bread has been becoming more and more popular recently, and people seem to be wondering how to generally add more whole grains to their diets. This doesn't come as much of a surprise: whole grains haven't had their bran and germ removed through...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Bring on the Vitamines' When I returned to college in 2002, thirty years after dropping out a year before graduating, I took...
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When I returned to college in 2002, thirty years after dropping out a year before graduating, I took a class in something called “psychological anthropology.” The teacher was personable and the class was a sort of catch basin of random learning. We could write about any stray...
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Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the holistic system. This in contrast to and in direct support of teams which focus on a narrower domain. In doing so, platform teams elevate and accelerate the work of their peers...
On Test Automation
Contract testing - what (not) to test for - part 1 Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing...
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Recently, I started working with a new client who have been working on their contract testing implementation for a while and figured out they could use some outside help. I’ve paid them a visit recently, and to make the most out of our time together (there was some travel...
Liz Denys
Liz rides the subway on May 23, 2016: street harassment Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment...
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Liz rides the subway is a series containing thoughts I have on the subway, mostly as an experiment to get me to write more. Today was the first time I was street harassed on my commute since moving in November... memories relived on the following train ride: Content warning:...
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...
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“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...
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Since most of our readers have never seen most of our posts, every other week we re-issue a favorite from deep in our archive. You can unsubscribe from Reissues but continue receiving our new posts by updating your preference here. Last year, Atvbt’s bloggers published a piece...
Drew Ex Machina
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One of the more dangerous parts of a space mission is launch which is why almost all crewed spacecraft have had launch abort options to cover […]
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by Alexis Degryse I think we all know the <datalist> element (and if you don’t, it’s ok). It holds a list of <option> elements, offering suggested choices for its associated input field. It’s not an alternative for the <select> element. A field associated to a <datalist> can...
Flashbak
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The girl presenting her pet lizard toad at the Children’s Pets show held on Venice Beach, California, in the mid 1930s makes for a cute photograph. Walter Chandoha’s 1955 picture of his daughter Paula with a kitten in 1955 is also cute. Angie Cook’s school photo from 1978 when...
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The current state of Linux is amazing. If we take a look at, for example, Ubuntu Linux, we have to admit that the Linux desktop is really becoming a nice, user-friendly environment. I'm truly starting to like what I see. I considered whiping Mac OS X from my macbook, but there...
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“The past has always been more interesting to me than the future, just as I have found pessimists more amusing than optimists and failures more attractive than successes. I do not say that my preferences are based upon universal principles or that everyone should share them; in...
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In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could...
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With Identipops you could fashion 74 press-out pieces to make ‘thousands of faces – stars and unknowns’. The unknowns are easy to spot – but can you identify all the popstars on the game’s box design? Made in the UKL by Play Value Ltd  – they produced similar games, also from the...
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For the triumphant final video in the Biggest Ideas series, we look at a big idea indeed: Science. What is science, and why is it so great? And I also take the opportunity to dip a toe into the current state of fundamental physics — are predictions that unobservable universes...
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Are you someone who struggles with managing your anger? Do you find yourself constantly feeling frustrated and overwhelmed? If so, it might be time to consider turning to the ancient wisdom of Stoicism. In this article, we'll explore five Stoic strategies for anger management...
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That’s sort of an oxymoron. The original figureheads were carved into the bow of a ship. They exist to express the spirit of the boat and to demonstrate its power and resilience. Here’s an AI recreation of the most famous one: The sailors were wise enough to understand that the...
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As Halloween fast approaches, it’s time to get those costumes ready. We think it’s a perfect opportunity to try out Speedball Night Glo Fabric Screen Printing Ink! Print glow in the dark Halloween messages, pictures, or even your kids’ spooky drawings onto their own...
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Abundant, strong, durable – not to mention beautiful – wood has been used to build our homes for millennia. It’s not surprising, really, when you think how easy it is to access and work with, to say nothing of the ways in which it provides […]
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For all the enchantment the color blue has cast upon humanity, no animal has fallen under its spell more hopelessly than the bowerbird, whose very survival hinges on blue. In a small clearing on the forest floor, the male weaves twigs and branches into an elaborate bower, which...
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In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
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5 ways to improve your product analytics data This is a guest post by Anna Debenham . Anna is a former developer and director of product at...
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This is a guest post by Anna Debenham . Anna is a former developer and director of product at cybersecurity company Snyk . She is currently an…
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Homer's epic poem has much to teach us about human nature if we first take the time to gain an understanding of Greek mythology.
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One Stop Beyond: Carpenders Park In this series I'm taking the train one stop beyond the Greater London boundary, getting off and seeing what's there. Today that means Carpenders Park, one stop beyond Hatch End on what will next week be the Lioness line. For positioning purposes...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Moneyness
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Last week I explored how Henry VIII resorted to coin debasement as a way to raise revenues in order to fight his wars. This provided Henry with the financial firepower to annex the city of Boulogne from the French in 1544, albeit at the price of England experiencing one of its...
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The internet is inundated with countless videos and advice columns promising to teach you how to become more successful than 99% of the world's population. Most of these claims revolve around setting goals, developing discipline, and eliminating distractions. But let's face it:...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 4 Internet Points to Dave Luebke for making the techno-babble more accurate. Today's News:
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This is a quick introduction to the philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein. The post Ludwig Wittgenstein – How we speak appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
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Thanks very much to host Stephen Townshend of Slight Reliability podcast. We talked about incident response, diagnosis, and looking for trouble. It was very chill! Full 28-minute episode:
Elad Blog
Silicon Valley & Defense Tech Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a...
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Over the last few years there has been a lot of press coverage of Google canceling project Maven, a defense contract. This has led to claims Silicon Valley is no longer engaging in defense tech, despite tech's roots working with the Department of Defense
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I've reached the self-hosting endgame Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim...
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Setup After I had a perfectly functional, quiet and performant server up and running, I fell victim to my imagination and completely changed my self-hosting setup. Again. Here it is, in all its glory: Well, at least that’s what’s on the table. This machine is a true all-in-one:...
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Using robots.txt to discover hidden content I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s...
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I sometimes check the robots.txt of sites to see what they might not want to be indexed. It’s interesting because some sites use it as access control, which, of course, is silly. Just because robots won’t index it doesn’t mean people won’t find it. Plus, by specifying it in...
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flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API &rarr; I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a...
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I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job. Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API. They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
AI Snake Oil
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A new analysis of ancient sediments fills a gap in the fossil record — revealing a massive dynasty of ancient eukaryotes, which may have reigned for 800 million years and shaped the history of life of Earth. The post Fossilized Molecules Reveal a Lost World of Ancient...
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London life I’ve been keeping busy as winter in London sets in. The Christmas lights are all out and looking resplendent, and both the West End and the City are feeling pretty buzzy. For all the general ‘UK stuck in the weeds’ economic commentary, we feel a long way from any talk...
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Do You Have an Extra $10? 2022-11-23 As software designers and developers, think of all the little things that we spend $10 on. Maybe it's a couple coffees over the course of a week. Maybe it's a TV streaming subscription. Maybe it's an impulse buy while we're out shopping for...
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Blog - Amy Goodchild
A strange kind of physical reality A long-form generative art project coming to fxhash in partnership with FAB DAO on 11th Jan 2024....
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A long-form generative art project coming to fxhash in partnership with FAB DAO on 11th Jan 2024. This series is inspired, in the abstract, by the images I visualise when reading about quantum theory. Particularly thoughts of particles spreading out as waves and then collapsing...
Left To Write
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How I find clear signals in a misinforming & disinforming noisy world; To see the future, look back in time
Making software...
Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information...
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Simple Navigation Setup in Jekyll 3.9.0 2020-09-29 I have found that there is a lot of information on the internet in regards to setting up "dynamic" navigation in Jekyll. The problem I've noticed is that a good amount of these implementations are overly complex. Here is the...
Confessions of a...
My Teaching Philosophy As mentioned previously, I need to complete a teaching portfolio over my year as a lecturing intern...
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As mentioned previously, I need to complete a teaching portfolio over my year as a lecturing intern as part of the PTIS scheme.  Central to this portfolio is a personal teaching philosophy, detailing why teaching is important to me, what my objectives are as a teacher, what...
A Beautiful Site
On Buttons and Links I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea...
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I posted a tweet yesterday that was met with some controversy, so I thought it would be a good idea to unravel it. Unpopular opinion: in a design system, a "link" and a "button" should be one component. — Cory LaViska (@claviska) October 5, 2021 At face value, I understand why...
Rest of World -...
The viral AI portrait app sweeping across China Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that...
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Miaoya, which means "fabulous duck" in Chinese, charges users $1.40 to generate AI portraits that many say are shockingly accurate.
Hundred Rabbits
the promise of pancakes As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had...
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As soon as we'd tied to our mooring ball in Majuro's lagoon, the worries of the previous 24 days had vanished only to replaced by the crushing weight of responsibility. Devine, being worry-free, wanted to have pancakes, sleep and check-in tomorrow, but Devine knows how uptight I...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Not More Respected, Though Less Loved' In the late summer and autumn of 1773, Johnson and Boswell visited Scotland, the latter’s...
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In the late summer and autumn of 1773, Johnson and Boswell visited Scotland, the latter’s birthplace and the butt of many jokes by the former. The journey lasted eighty-three days and both men published books recounting their adventures. Johnson’s A Journey to the Western Islands...
xkcd.com
Ruling Out
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Josh Thompson
Typing for Programmers If you had to distill my ability to bring value to those around me, it would be “Josh types good”. I...
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over a year ago
If you had to distill my ability to bring value to those around me, it would be “Josh types good”. I can press these magical little keys on this little metal box here, and make these words come out. If you’re reading these words, you don’t care how these words actually got on...
Louwrentius
RAID 5 vs. RAID 6 or do you care about your data? Storage is cheap. Lots of storage with 10+ hard drives is still cheap. Running 10 drives increases...
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over a year ago
Storage is cheap. Lots of storage with 10+ hard drives is still cheap. Running 10 drives increases the risk of a drive failure tenfold. So often RAID 5 is used to keep your data up and running if one single disks fails. But disks are so cheap and storage arrays are getting so...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
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note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
McMansion Hell
we&rsquo;ve found it folks: mcmansion heaven Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a...
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Hello everyone. It is my pleasure to bring you the greatest house I have ever seen. The house of a true visionary. A real ad-hocist. A genuine pioneer of fenestration. This house is in Alabama. It was built in 1980 and costs around $5 million. It is worth every penny. Perhaps...
Charles Chen
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Anecdotal Evidence
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A reader asks for impressions of Texas, a place she, a lifelong Northerner, has never visited. Twenty years ago last month I saw Texas for the first time, and the first surprise, seen from the air, was abundant greenery. I was expecting desert and tumbleweeds. Houston is...
Scott Jenson
Assertive Instincts Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light...
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Your assumptions are your windows on the world. Scrub them off every once in a while, or the light won’t come in. Isaac Asimov It all started while on vacation with my wife. We were driving a rental car to a remote location in Washington state. The car had a safety feature that...
The Wandering...
Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 3: Hun-kua-ling sandhills to Ya-hu oasis [Go back to Part 2: From the Galpin Gobi to the Hun-kua-ling sandhills.] From here to the Ya-hu...
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[Go back to Part 2: From the Galpin Gobi to the Hun-kua-ling sandhills.] From here to the Ya-hu oasis (which Younghusband reaches on June 23rd) the route is obscure, and we find old maps less useful. We have to rely more upon comparing his route description with images of the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Our simpler goal: Help engineers to be better at product One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We...
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One of the things I've learned at PostHog is the simpler a strategy, the more likely it's right. We simplified our strategy recently. This post…
Cheese and Biscuits
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It's a strange part of town, is St James. Essentially a lesser-known southern extension of Mayfair, it's barely a half mile square and yet contains quite a high density of fancy hotels (Duke's, the Stafford, the Ritz), private members' clubs and the odd royal palace. Whereas some...
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Raw Thought (from...
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Aaron's Essays
Why Build Toys I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I...
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I first wrote this essay a few years ago. A founder mentioned it to me over the weekend, and so I decided to re-publish it here. One thing that's bothered me in the time since I wrote it is the way in which toys, which are meant to be harmless and fun can become companies capable...
Grow With Less
Minimalist Seo: How to Save Time and Ditch the Overwhelm What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best...
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What do you do when you spent hours writing awesome articles only to realize your mom and your best friend Dave are the only people reading them? That’s the question I asked myself 7 years ago after writing dozens of articles for my new blog French Together. I followed 10,000...
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$120k in Infoproduct Sales - How to Extend the Long Tail *This post originated as [an AMA on...
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*This post originated as [an AMA on IndieHackers](https://www.indiehackers.com/post/made-121-326-since-launching-my-book-last-july-63-of-it-after-launch-month-ama-about-long-tail-infoproducts-41b55f5670)*
Asterisk
Can You Trust An AI Press Release? Of course not. Here’s how leading AI labs mislead consumers, journalists, and each other.
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Asterisk
How Long Until Armageddon? Scientists, generals, and politicians all failed to accurately predict when the Soviets would get...
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Scientists, generals, and politicians all failed to accurately predict when the Soviets would get the bomb. Could they have done any better?
TheCollector
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Match Day and the Unmatched | Out-Of-Pocket an underutilized workforce?
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The Changelog
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since...
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Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can...
A Smart Bear
You're a real company when… What marks the moment when you become a "real" company?
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Marathon Sandals and Mediocrity Five miles into my run in last weekend's Colorado Marathon I was passed by a long-haired man in...
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Five miles into my run in last weekend's Colorado Marathon I was passed by a long-haired man in sandals. While it never feels great to get passed it was inspiring to see a minimalist runner in action. Could he keep that pace up for another 20 miles?
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The philosopher and accelerationist Nick Land writes, in his 1994 essay Machinic Desire, three of the most insight-dense paragraphs I’ve ever encountered:
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I feel like I used to spend an inordinate amount of time dealing with suspect hard drives. I mean, like, back in high school. These days I almost never do, or on the occasion that I have storage trouble, it's a drive that has completely stopped responding at all and there's...
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Happy Pi Day, fellow nerds! This is a holiday I've celebrated every year since at least 2010, and I'm not stopping anytime soon. The celebrations have evolved. It used to be just "bake a pie" and "haha pi, pie". Over time, I twisted it a bit (pizza is a pie of sorts! a cake with...
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