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Joel Gascoigne
Why I don't shield my team from bad news I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite...
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I think there's an interesting concept that's prevalent, which I believe could actually be quite dangerous. It's the idea that as a CEO or executive of a company, you need to shield your team from bad news, the risks of a startup, and other negative aspects that are inevitable on
Society's Backend
What you need to understand about LLM creativity An simple overview of temperature and its effect on LLM output
7 months ago
Diaries of Note
Art is local On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his...
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On 24th October 1967, American painter Raphael Soyer found himself standing amidst a lifetime of his creations at the Whitney Museum of American Art. Born in Russia in 1899, Soyer emigrated to the U.S. with his family in 1912, eventually becoming a prominent figure in the Social...
brr
The Last Egg Five more months until freshies...
a year ago
Common Edge
Why Cities Must Embrace Getting Smaller Urban researcher Alan Mallach on the global phenomenon of shrinking—and “thinning”—cities and...
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Urban researcher Alan Mallach on the global phenomenon of shrinking—and “thinning”—cities and countries.
Artificial Ignorance
Funding a new generation of AI companies Listen now | A conversation with Evan Stites-Clayton, partner at HF0 and CTO of Teespring.
11 months ago
Rest of World -...
Scale AI’s Remotasks platform is dropping whole countries without explanation Workers in Kenya, Nigeria, and Pakistan were booted off the AI-training service earlier this month.
8 months ago
diamond geezer
Electric 358 A new bus has started running on route 358 between Crystal Palace and Orpington. They call it the...
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A new bus has started running on route 358 between Crystal Palace and Orpington. They call it the tram bus. It's not really a tram, it's "a bus with tram styling" according to the manufacturers, Spanish company Irizar. They make two lengths of vehicle and to be fair the 18m...
Max Rozen
Blogging lessons from working for a large blogging company For a short period, I was employed by a company that drove most of its revenue from blogging. Here's...
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For a short period, I was employed by a company that drove most of its revenue from blogging. Here's what I learned while I was there.
Contemporist...
This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi...
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Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a family of four with two sons.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Off to Welter and Waste' The Russian-Jewish poet Boris Slutsky (1919-86) was thirty-three years old on the Night of the...
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The Russian-Jewish poet Boris Slutsky (1919-86) was thirty-three years old on the Night of the Murdered Poets, and he wasn’t among them. In the final stanza of his poem “About the Jews” (trans. G.S. Smith), dating from the 1950s, Slutsky writes:  “From the war I came back safe So...
The Modern House
Akram Khan: the poignant story of a man who found his voice through dance Matt Gibberd’s guest on this week’s podcast is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. Having...
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Matt Gibberd’s guest on this week’s podcast is the dancer and choreographer Akram Khan. Having danced since he was very small, Akram, who was born in London to Bangladeshi parents, is one of the most acclaimed names in contemporary dance working today, known for his […]
Jonas Hietala
Laying off Pintos Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished...
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Exam period is here which means all courses should be wrapping up and a week or so ago we finished up our lab series about pintos. The labs were among the best I’ve had yet and I learned a ton. We didn’t follow the official instructions but we had our own assigmnets....
diamond geezer
Pointless push-button crossings There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout. This one's worthwhile. However this...
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There are seven pedestrian crossings at the Bow Roundabout. This one's worthwhile. However this one's useless. This one's useless too. And what's interesting is that people generally don't realise this and press the buttons anyway. Parents heading to the shops press the...
Arduino Blog
Shop vac becomes a Roomba on steroids A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and...
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A robotic vacuum, such as a Roomba, offers a lot of convenience. Instead of having to vacuum and sweep your own floors, you have a little maid robot to do the job for you. But these devices have very little power and capacity, which makes them useless for anything other than...
symmetry magazine
Whatever happened to the theory of everything? A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go? It is...
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A theory of everything was all the rage in the 1980s. So where did it go? It is only the optimists who achieve anything in this world—theorist John Ellis once read this adage on a candy wrapper. It stuck with him, so much so that in 1986 he referenced this...
Retail Design Blog
LinkedIn Office Design, Bengaluru LinkedIn’s Bengaluru office underwent a dynamic redesign to elevate the workplace experience,...
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LinkedIn’s Bengaluru office underwent a dynamic redesign to elevate the workplace experience, blending the company’s culture with a focus on...
Tech + Economics +...
Elon Musk’s childishness knows no bounds. Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the...
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Taylor Lorenz on Threads: At the Dealbook summit, with X CEO Linda Yaccarino sitting in the room, Elon Musk just told advertisers — including Disney CEO Bob Iger — to go fuck themselves."Don't advertise... If somebody did try to blackmail me with...
Seth's Blog
The seduction of grad school For a certain cohort of high-performing students at famous colleges, graduate school feels...
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For a certain cohort of high-performing students at famous colleges, graduate school feels irresistible. If you’re good at school, the challenge and offer of law school, med school or a famous business school means you get to do more of what you’re good at. You’re offered a...
Map of the Week
Hidden Hydrology In my day job I've mapped buried streams to give an indication of areas that are most likely to...
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In my day job I've mapped buried streams to give an indication of areas that are most likely to flood in major storms. It turns out that buried streams in older urban centers is common everywhere. Hidden Hydrology is a great resource for exploring disappeared waterways throughout...
TheCollector
Who Were the Disciples Thomas, Judas and Simon? undefined
6 months ago
alexwlchan
Making the fish shell more forgetful For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool...
a year ago
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For quite a few years, I’ve been using fish (https://fishshell.com/) as my shell. One of the cool things it does is autosuggestions from my shell history. As I’m typing, it suggests (in light grey) a command I’ve run before. I can press the right arrow to accept the suggestion,...
diamond geezer
dg Q&A dg Q&A Thank you for your questions. How many spoons do you have? Have you ever milked a...
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dg Q&A Thank you for your questions. How many spoons do you have? Have you ever milked a cow? What did you have for lunch on 30th July 1989? What's the most northerly object in your flat? Which is the most-read Diamond Geezer post? Does the UK have the worst pedestrian...
The Ruffian
The Ruffian's Greatest Hits 2023 This Year's Top Ten Posts As Voted On By Me
a year ago
TheCollector
5 Transformative Leaders That Shaped British History undefined
3 months ago
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Trick or Treat, Atlas Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids 2024: 22–24 November...
TheCollector
7 Famous Artists Who Had Unexpected Day Jobs undefined
a year ago
Copper • A blog...
A window switcher on the Mac App Store? Is it even possible? Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email,...
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Not really, no. Not without annoying workarounds and a confusing user experience. Another email, another annoyed user: Firefox not loading websites when launched through rcmd! It works when launched from Alfred.. Please fix ASAP!! I’m gonna fix this Firefox issue once and for...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The best open-source analytics tools you can self-host Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide...
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Author: Andy Vandervell There's no shortage of powerful open-source analytics tools. In this guide we've split them into two categories: Self-hosted…
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Two eras of the internet: pull and push The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad...
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The evolution of the internet is an extremely complex topic. Sometimes it is helpful to find broad patterns that make it easier to…
ntietz.com blog
Scheduling visits from the muse Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively...
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Eight years ago, I decided to start a blog. For most of the life of my blog, it was relatively inactive. And then, I just started pumping out a lot more blog posts in 2022 while attending the Recurse Center. What changed? I stopped relying on visits from the muse, and started...
Anecdotal Evidence
'That Other Thermopylae, the Alamo' A reader asks for impressions of Texas, a place she, a lifelong Northerner, has never visited....
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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...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The problem with tranched VC investments In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over...
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In venture capital, tranching refers to investments where portions of the money are released over time when certain pre-negotiated…
HTMHell
#32 almost a proper close button Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13"...
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Bad code <button display="flex" role="button"> <svg role="img" viewBox="0 0 13 13" aria-hidden="true" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" height="15px" width="15px" fill="#000" name="close"> <title>Close dialog</title> <path d="…"> </path> </svg> </button> Issues and...
Musings on Markets
The Power of Expectations: Nvidia's Earnings and the Market Reaction! Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled...
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Last Wednesday (August 28), the market waited with bated breath for Nvidia’s earning call, scheduled for after the market closed. That call, at first sight, contained exceptionally good news, with revenues and earnings coming in at stratospheric levels, and above expectations,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'One Thing Always to Be Guarded Against' “Poetry, geography, moral essays, the divers [sic] subjects of philosophy, travels, natural history,...
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“Poetry, geography, moral essays, the divers [sic] subjects of philosophy, travels, natural history, books on sciences; and, in short, the whole range of book-knowledge is before you; but there is one thing always to be guarded against; and that is, not to admire and applaud...
Maggie Appleton
Synecdoche: Drawing the Part for the Whole
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Between Demolition and Redevelopment Angelo Rizzuto, in 1959, was going for the same feeling as Berenice Abbott in her Changing New York...
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Angelo Rizzuto, in 1959, was going for the same feeling as Berenice Abbott in her Changing New York photos twenty years earlier: contrast the new and the old. In this case we’ve got three eras represented: the mid- to late-1800s in the rowhouses and tenements along Third Avenue,...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Planning the next steps for WebCard <![CDATA[Over the past days I ran WebCard a bit, reviewed the code, and checked my notes and I'm...
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<![CDATA[Over the past days I ran WebCard a bit, reviewed the code, and checked my notes and I'm satisfied with what the system does. Since WebCard is nearly feature complete it's a good time to chart the next steps for wrapping up my RetroChallenge 2024 project. Aside from some...
TheCollector
Climate Vandal Painted Words in Red Next to a Civil War Exhibit undefined
a year ago
Common Edge
Are For-Profit Developments Consistent With the Values of a Public University? These public-private partnerships may not dovetail with the schools’ values or mission.
a year ago
Diaries of Note
The air crackled with a mixture of excitement and tension On the day of her 77th birthday in 1997, proving that it’s never too late to begin, acclaimed...
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On the day of her 77th birthday in 1997, proving that it’s never too late to begin, acclaimed detective novelist P. D. James wrote her first diary entry—one of many she would pen over the course of twelve months in a concerted effort to “record just one year that otherwise might...
Arduino Blog
3D printing an affordable robot arm  If you have an interest in robotics, then a robot arm is a great educational tool to start your...
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If you have an interest in robotics, then a robot arm is a great educational tool to start your journey. But professional robot arms are expensive and the DIY route is more informative anyway. That’s especially true if you take the time to design the arm yourself, as did Oliver...
Making software...
Disabling Comments in WordPress Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and...
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Disabling Comments in WordPress 2020-12-28 I seem to come across a decent amount of clients and users online that have a difficult time knowing how to disable comments for both future and previous blog posts. It isn’t the easiest for both use cases, so let’s break it down. Back...
diamond geezer
The beetle After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my...
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After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my rucksack. It could have jumped from a bush I'd brushed against, it could have worked its way up from my boots or it could have crawled on when I put my rucksack down on the...
David Heinemeier...
I could have been happy with Windows After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple....
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After more than twenty years on the mac, it was always going to be difficult for me to leave Apple. I've simply not been in the market for another computing platform in decades. Sure, I've dabbled a bit here and there, but never with true commitment. It wasn't until Cupertino...
A Weekly Dose of...
Book Briefs #47: Three Altrim Titles Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short...
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Here is the next installment of "Book Briefs," the series of occasional posts featuring short first-hand descriptions of some of the numerous books that publishers send to me for consideration on this blog. Obviously, these briefs are not full-blown reviews, but they are a way to...
Acko.net
Minds of Its Own A tale from the loop Simon Stålenhag Key Human AiDungeon.io's...
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A tale from the loop Simon Stålenhag Key Human AiDungeon.io's Dragon model. TLDR: AI sandbox escape, any% run. You won't believe what happens next. You are GPT3, an advanced text predictor. Some people consider you a general AI. Your stateless nature...
TheCollector
5 Strange Election Systems Around the World undefined
2 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Write My Code For Me _My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a...
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_My thoughts to self while weighing adding `netlify functions:create` to Netlify Dev. [Originally a gist](https://gist.github.com/sw-yx/6f97b9d7f3efbfad4c8e5b8a14b5bd27)_
Maps Mania
The Virtual Tour Maker
a year ago
TheCollector
J.S. Bach & Sons: The Composer’s Legacy and Family undefined
a month ago
Farnam Street
[FS Members] Lessons from Rockefeller: The Upside of Patience Long-term thinking is one of the most valuable traits of successful individuals. It demands that you...
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Long-term thinking is one of the most valuable traits of successful individuals. It demands that you forego the rewards of the immediate future and position yourself for lasting success. But long-term thinking is impossible without patience; it’s what made John D. Rockefeller one...
Making software...
Introducing Notez Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I...
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Introducing Notez 2021-01-13 I have always been a fan of simple note taking applications, since I tend to take a lot of random notes throughout the work day. Sometimes I reach for simple pen and paper, but other times it's nice to stay focused jotting down notes on the same...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dev Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: 4 Internet Points to Dave Luebke for making the...
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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:
Anecdotal Evidence
'There Is No Nothingness' Once asked about politics in a symposium portentously titled “The Writer’s Situation,”...
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Once asked about politics in a symposium portentously titled “The Writer’s Situation,” J.V. Cunningham replied:  “You can write on politics or not. I do not. But is politics meant here? Or is it, rather, ideology? The latter is religious, not political, though religion...
TheCollector
Top 8 Bronze Age Civilizations (in the Mediterranean and Near East) undefined
9 months ago
Mazdak
The 7 Steps to Becoming a Top Investor Do you want to become a great investor? If so, you're in the right place. In this article, I'm going...
a year ago
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a year ago
Do you want to become a great investor? If so, you're in the right place. In this article, I'm going to share with you the seven steps that I believe are essential for becoming a top investor. Step 1: Develop a Clear Investment Philosophy The first step to becoming a great...
TheCollector
“Horrible” Painting Found in Cellar Could Be $6 Million Picasso undefined
2 months ago
Passing Time
An Ode to Manchester Wall A 19th-century bridge's contribution to climbing culture
7 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No More Heroes. Pity the nation that needs someone else's.
a month ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Most Important Leaders of WWII? undefined
11 months ago
Farza's Newsletter
just ate a croissant but then realized it was a steak what a stupid mistake Hey all — been a while. My last newsletter was 6-months ago. In it I was telling you all that we...
over a year ago
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Hey all — been a while. My last newsletter was 6-months ago. In it I was telling you all that we were pivotting away from ZipSchool to this random thing called buildspace. Like with any pivot, you don’t really know what it’ll turn into. You don’t know the vision —
Diaries of Note
I cannot understand how these people exist without ice R. D. Blumenfeld is best known for being editor of British tabloid the Daily Express for twenty...
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R. D. Blumenfeld is best known for being editor of British tabloid the Daily Express for twenty seven years—a role he took on in 1902. But for the first thirty years he lived in the U.S., and in 1887 was dispatched to England for the first time to report on Queen Victoria’s...
Dan Quach Blog
State of Data Engineering 2023 Q2 When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market...
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When looking at data engineering for your projects, it is important to think about market segmentation. In particular, you might be able to think about it in four segments Small Data – This refers to scenarios where companies have data problems (organization, modeling,...
diamond geezer
St Paul's Cathedral On Lord Mayor's Show day entrance to St Paul's Cathedral is free. Today's post comes free with 30...
a year ago
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On Lord Mayor's Show day entrance to St Paul's Cathedral is free. Today's post comes free with 30 photos on Flickr. n.b. Doors open at 8.30am, so if you get there early you can get minimal people in your photos. 20 things to see inside St Paul's Cathedral Nave 1) The font...
Luxagraf:...
Fort Klock We left the shores of Lake Ontario on a blustery, cold day. Fortunately the wind was with us. The...
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We left the shores of Lake Ontario on a blustery, cold day. Fortunately the wind was with us. The bus blew down the road into the Mohawk Valley, to a small town on the shores of the Erie Canal where there was a marina that also had a few campsites. The campground was wedged...
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Choice Architecture Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of...
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Reflection on how both gyms and startups do choice architecture and how we can be more conscious of this
Rest of World -...
How Shein and TikTok Shop are trying to shake the ‘Made in China’ reputation Chinese platforms came for global customers. Now they want global sellers.
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
The Moon Christmas Coloring Book (1970) Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that...
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Here is another favorite rescanned since it's last posting 11 years ago. It was a coloring book that was a give-away from Lord and Taylor's Department stores. With it's moon dust snowflakes and 1970s design it is a winner every Christmas.  I especially enjoy how Santa has to get...
TheCollector
The Wizard of Oz: 9 Things That Made It Great undefined
5 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Architectural Wonders: 5 Cities You Must See
6 months ago
Rest of World -...
How Singapore became the ideal testing ground for self-driving cars The tiny country has embraced autonomous vehicles as a way to overcome labor shortages and use its...
3 weeks ago
journal – Winnie Lim
the answer I must seek My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always...
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My partner pitter patters around the house constantly, always looking for something to do, always scheming up some new creative project of hers. Being with her is an ongoing lesson and reminder...
Prolost
What Does and Doesn’t Matter about Apple Shooting their October Event on iPhone 15 Pro Max A still from Apple’s “Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhone” video Apple Shot Their...
a year ago
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A still from Apple’s “Behind the scenes: An Apple Event shot on iPhone” video Apple Shot Their “Scary Fast” October Event Video on iPhones And We Had Feelings You’re somewhere on the spectrum of occasionally shooting video on your iPhone to a professional-ish video maker with...
xkcd.com
Cold Air
3 weeks ago
Coding Horror
What does Stack Overflow want to be when it grows up? I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living,...
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I sometimes get asked by regular people in the actual real world what it is that I do for a living, and here's my 15 second answer: We built a sort of Wikipedia website for computer programmers to post questions and answers. It's called Stack Overflow
Gwern.net Newsletter
June gwern.net newsletter June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening,...
over a year ago
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June 2020 gwern.net newsletter with 3 new pages/essays, and links on CRISPR, population screening, AI scaling, politics, and technological unemployment.
Stephen Wolfram...
Wolfram|Alpha as the Way to Bring Computational Knowledge Superpowers to ChatGPT ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us...
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ChatGPT and Wolfram|Alpha It’s always amazing when things suddenly “just work”. It happened to us with Wolfram|Alpha back in 2009. It happened with our Physics Project in 2020. And it’s happening now with OpenAI’s ChatGPT. I’ve been tracking neural net technology for a long time...
The Elysian
Week 8: What communities should know about you? (Write a story about them)
8 months ago
Elad Blog
Video and transcript: Fireside chat with Clem Delangue, CEO of Hugging Face We discuss Hugging Face, Open Source, and AI
a year ago
Flashbak
Charles Green Shaw Cocktail Book of Rhymed Recipes (1930s) This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white...
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This great little book created by Charles Green Shaw in the 1930s features black and white illustrations and poetic recipes for various cocktails.   A leading figure in early American abstraction, Charles Green Shaw (May 1, 1892 – April 2, 1974) was an American painter, poet,...
Greg Brockman
Recurse Center Coding requires collaboration. As Andrew Bosworth said recently: doing anything meaningful past a...
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Coding requires collaboration. As Andrew Bosworth said recently: doing anything meaningful past a certain point requires more than one person. So if you want to build, it’s important to do so as part of a welcoming, collaborative environment. One environment I’ve long admired is...
Seth's Blog
The thing about decay One reason we have so much trouble fixing chronic degenerative conditions is that we need to remove...
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One reason we have so much trouble fixing chronic degenerative conditions is that we need to remove elements before we can start building new functions. If we simply put effort on top of a shaky foundation, it’ll all be wasted. The best way forward might be to take a few steps...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Man of My Kidney' I met my nephrologist for the first time when we shared an elevator to his office on the fourth...
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7 months ago
I met my nephrologist for the first time when we shared an elevator to his office on the fourth floor of the hospital. Between patients he was eating a banana, his breakfast, and carried a stack of folders in his other hand. On the front of his white lab coat was his name, the...
journal – Winnie Lim
what does it mean to live well A while ago an old friend texted me that an unexpected event had once again reminded her how...
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A while ago an old friend texted me that an unexpected event had once again reminded her how transient life can be, and she thought of me because I was one of...
Noahpinion
Price controls: Too early for a victory lap Narrative-driven triumphalism does not make for sound policy.
a year ago
TheCollector
The Vikings in Iceland: Their Story in Sagas and Archaeology undefined
10 months ago
The Elysian
Yes, Taylor Swift is just as genius as Mary Shelley The video from our live event.
2 months ago
Mazdak
Mastering Twitter/X Growth: Strategies to Skyrocket Your Follower Count Twitter/X stands as one of the leading platforms for sharing ideas, connecting with others, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Twitter/X stands as one of the leading platforms for sharing ideas, connecting with others, and building your personal brand. With the right strategies, you can transform your Twitter presence into a thriving community of engaged followers. In this blog post, I'll dive into...
History Today Feed
‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review ‘Don’t Let’s Be Beastly to the Germans’ by Daniel Cowling review JamesHoare Mon, 06/10/2024 - 09:48
6 months ago
macwright.com
Competition For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something...
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For the last few jobs, I’ve kept a private are.na board of competition. Every time I saw something that looked like it was competing with Observable, or Placemark, or val.town I’d add it to the list. Eventually I’d have a big gallery of screenshots of all the other companies and...
Diaries of Note
Practically all were intact Frank Hurley was an audacious Australian photographer and adventurer best known for his remarkable...
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a year ago
Frank Hurley was an audacious Australian photographer and adventurer best known for his remarkable images of Antarctica, particularly those he took on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. When Hurley wrote this diary entry on 2nd November 1915,...
One from Nippon
Emoji Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for...
a year ago
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a year ago
Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for years and see what others exist. You will soon see 🍡 🈸 🍙 and other weird-looking pictures. What the hell are these things, and why are they in
Seth's Blog
The challenge of focus groups for bold ideas “We’re thinking of having a holiday every year where kids of all ages go door to door unescorted and...
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“We’re thinking of having a holiday every year where kids of all ages go door to door unescorted and beg for candy, and adults dress up in expensive and revealing costumes and get drunk. Would you be likely to participate?” It’s not really a helpful question. (Yes, Halloween is...
Blog posts of...
🙏 Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me...
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over a year ago
Over the years i met several people that left quite an impact on me and in many cases helped me along the way. I tried to summariz...
ToughSF
Hypervelocity Tether Rockets Rotating tethers can reach incredible velocities when they are built out of high strength materials....
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over a year ago
Rotating tethers can reach incredible velocities when they are built out of high strength materials. With some design features, they can greatly surpass the exhaust velocities of chemical or even nuclear rockets. They can become propulsion systems with impressive performance......
Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
abdz.do - Have you...
An Introduction to the AI Generative Sneakers by Grant Franck An Introduction to the AI Generative Sneakers by Grant Franck ...
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a year ago
An Introduction to the AI Generative Sneakers by Grant Franck AoiroStudio0123—23 Grant Franck is a 3D artist and design director who has pushed the boundaries of sneaker design with his use of AI generative techniques. His series of...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 9-10 December 2023 Drag brunch, wheelchair basketball, life drawing, and a sci-fi film all-nighter.
a year ago
Cheese and Biscuits
The Ropemaker, Emsworth As I have surely said on this blog plenty of times over the years, I will never go to any holiday or...
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2 months ago
As I have surely said on this blog plenty of times over the years, I will never go to any holiday or short trip without at least one meal booked that stands a better than average chance of being decent. This is partly just for the sheer joy of eating out (how sad must your life...
Mazdak
The Shadow Bankers Rise: Private Credit Fuels M&A in a Turbulent Market While 2023 witnessed a 6% dip in US M&A value, a silent force has emerged as the lifeblood of...
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11 months ago
While 2023 witnessed a 6% dip in US M&A value, a silent force has emerged as the lifeblood of deal-making in this uncertain market: private credit. Stepping in where traditional bank financing hesitates, private credit has carved a niche with its nimble agility and diverse tools.
TheCollector
Was Saint Augustine the First Philosopher of History? undefined
a year ago
Explorations of an...
The Iberá Wetlands The national and provincial parks of Iberá form the largest protected area in Argentina. These parks...
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a year ago
The national and provincial parks of Iberá form the largest protected area in Argentina. These parks protect a portion of the Iberá Wetlands, which is the second largest wetland complex in South America after Brazil's Pantanal. The Iberá Wetlands is a vitally important area for...
CONTEMPORIST
A White Concrete Exterior Protects This Seaside Mediterranean House Ramón Esteve Estudio has shared images of a new home they designed in an urbanized area of a small...
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Ramón Esteve Estudio has shared images of a new home they designed in an urbanized area of a small seaside town in Valencia, Spain. The house has a white concrete envelope that generates a large protective shell for a harmonious and delicate interior. Large overhangs and a system...
Anecdotal Evidence
'It's Uncanny. The Past Is Not Dead.' “The Ferryman’s Due,” my article about Andrew Rickard and his Obolus Press, is published in the...
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4 days ago
“The Ferryman’s Due,” my article about Andrew Rickard and his Obolus Press, is published in the January 2025 issue of The New Criterion.: “Rickard often encounters such passages, in which the author he is translating seems to speak for him. ‘It’s uncanny. The past is not dead,’...
Blog - Practical...
How To Install a Pipeline Under a Railroad [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Union Pacific...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Union Pacific Railroad’s Austin Subdivision in central Texas. It’s a busy corridor that moves both freight and passengers north and south between Austin and San Antonio… But it’s mostly freight....
Rest of World -...
Self-checkout is putting elderly grocery baggers out of work in Mexico Volunteer packers at stores like Walmart say they’re receiving 50% fewer tips than before the...
a year ago
xkcd.com
Number Line Branch
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diamond geezer
The Vyne NATIONAL TRUST: The Vyne Location: Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, RG24 9HL [map] Open: 10am-5pm...
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NATIONAL TRUST: The Vyne Location: Sherborne St John, Basingstoke, RG24 9HL [map] Open: 10am-5pm (House open 11am-3pm) Admission: £15.00 Website: nationaltrust.org.uk/hampshire/the-vyne Four word summary: slimmed-down Tudor pile Time to allow: a couple of hours The Vyne to show...
Max Rozen
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...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Shopify's tutorial is awesome for getting started, but doesn't let you deploy onto Vercel. In this article, I'll show you how.
Vladimir Klepov as a...
useLayoutEffect is a bad place for deriving state Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Today we'll talk about updating state inside useLayoutEffect in reaction to prop changes. Will it work? Is it safe? Are there better ways to implement such state changes? TLDR: it works, but leaves you with an extra DOM update that may break stuff. As we all know, useLayoutEffect...
TheCollector
History of Gunpowder: An In-Depth Overview undefined
a year ago
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Collective knowledge systems I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the...
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over a year ago
I think you could make a strong argument that the most important technologies developed over the last decade are a set of systems that are…
Ognjen Regoje •...
Don't thank Chat GPT In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not...
a year ago
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a year ago
In fact, not only is thanking useless, and borderline harmful, but any kind of pleasantries are. Not only is there no logical reason to add pleasantries to your chat with GPT, but it also takes tokens for it to remove them and get to the point of your message. Don't thank Chat...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A type system for RCL: Implementing a typechecker in Rust
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TheCollector
Highway Dig Uncovers Prehistoric Monument in Czech Republic undefined
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5 analytics ideas for marketing teams using PostHog One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making...
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over a year ago
One of the great things about PostHog is that it democratizes your product strategy by making analytics accessible to more than just analysts. There’s…
TheCollector
5 Phases of Phenomenology and the Rise of Existentialism undefined
a year ago
Aaron's Essays
When to Shut Down Your Company I originally wrote this essay four years ago and published it over at YC's blog at the time. A...
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over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay four years ago and published it over at YC's blog at the time. A number of recent conversations I've had with founders made me realize that the framework below remains useful. As the market continues through its downswing, more founders will face...
Res Obscura
Simulating History with Multimodal AI: an Update Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history....
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Generative AI offers a new, more engaging (and, hopefully, more empathetic) way of teaching history. But how to use it?
Irrational...
How to get more headcount. One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A...
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One of the recurring challenges that teams face is getting headcount to support their initiatives. A similar problem is the idea that a team can’t get a favored project into their roadmap. In both cases, teams often create a story about how clueless executives don’t understand...
Left To Write
#11 Writemas: What I Read This Year I had two main reading goals for 2023: a) Slow down my reading b) Try to read books that are at...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had two main reading goals for 2023: a) Slow down my reading b) Try to read books that are at least 100 years old. Here’s the full list of my completed books this year, in case you were wondering… Ed Thorpe, A Man for All Markets (2017) Kahill Gibran,
Seth's Blog
The reluctant spammer “I don’t want to send this pitch to a list of every single podcaster in the world, but we have to...
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a year ago
“I don’t want to send this pitch to a list of every single podcaster in the world, but we have to get the word out.” “I don’t want to send an email to every one of our previous donors every three days until they unsubscribe, but our work is so important, it has to be […]
The Ruffian
Introducing 'John & Paul: A Love Story In Songs' Free To Read (This Post, Not the Book)
2 months ago
Posts on Nikita...
What's that touchscreen in my room? Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the...
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11 months ago
Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. Roughly a year ago I moved into my new apartment. One of the reasons I picked this apartment was age of the building. The construction was finished in 2015, which ensured pretty good thermal isolation for winters as well as small nice things...
Handprinted - Blog
Making a Stamp with Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block This new Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block enables you to carve your design and bake it in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This new Japanese Transparent Stamp Carving Block enables you to carve your design and bake it in the oven until it appears clear. Clear stamps are so handy as they let you see where you’re printing! This is great for repeat patterns, accurate registration, multi-colour designs...
TheCollector
A Travel Guide to Pompeii: Visiting the City in One Day undefined
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Deepfake Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really sad part is when they start deepfaking...
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10 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really sad part is when they start deepfaking themselves for affirmation. Today's News:
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 27-28 January 2024 A frost fair, snowdrops and an Australia Day party.
11 months ago
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #42: An Elizabeth Line extension, some mad planning law nonsense, and the world's most... Your regular round-up of interesting links
a month ago
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How to brand your startup so it isn't boring The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the...
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The world would be more fun if most startups hadn't undergone a personality vasectomy. Be it the human instinct for conformity, or the inevitable…
ben-mini
Buying a House Two days ago, I decided I want to buy my first house. My goal is to purchase it before the summer of...
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3 months ago
Two days ago, I decided I want to buy my first house. My goal is to purchase it before the summer of 2025. Why are you buying a house? To make money. I see this as an opportunity in a space that many friends and family consider a safe, high-return bet (if done right). When...
Making software...
Working with `git` Patches in Apple Mail Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this...
a year ago
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a year ago
Working with git Patches in Apple Mail 2023-05-11 Before we begin: You could likely automate this process in a more streamlined way, but for most use cases this workflow should be fine. I recently covered how to work with git email patches in Evolution on Linux, so I thought it...
Steve Klabnik
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over a year ago
Maps Mania
Your Hour-By-Hour Guide to Election Night
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Netlify Environment Variables We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally...
over a year ago
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We usually use Environment Variables as (global) variables, but did you know they can literally configure your environments as well?
Londonist
London Overground Strikes Announced For February And March Plan ahead if you use the Ginger Line.
10 months ago
One from Nippon
Japan's Comfort Food: The Onigiri Walk into any Japanese convenience store and you will always find a shelf dedicated to one item:...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Walk into any Japanese convenience store and you will always find a shelf dedicated to one item: onigiri. The onigiri, often translated as “rice ball”, literally means “grasping a fistful” and is in many ways Japan's original fast food, before fast food. Quick to
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Live Missing Something' Four years late, I’ve read Gary Saul Morson’s “Poet of Loneliness,” his review of Fifty-Two Stories...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Four years late, I’ve read Gary Saul Morson’s “Poet of Loneliness,” his review of Fifty-Two Stories (Knopf, 2020), a Chekhov translation by Richard Pevear and Larissa Volokhonsky. I ordered the collection early in the COVID-19 lockdown and will always associate it with the other...
Entrepreneur's Edge
OKRs will never be enough Nuanced goal-setting frameworks to help manage the complexity in a growing company.
a year ago
David Heinemeier...
VSCode + WSL makes Windows awesome for web development I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I’m kinda shocked. Windows actually got good for web developers. Between VSCode, WSL, and Intel’s latest desktop chips, I’ve been living with a PC for over a week that runs my programming tests faster than an M3 Max, ships with an excellent window manager out-the-box, and...
Maps Mania
Intelligent Directions
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Odysseus Lands on the Moon December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 soft landed on the lunar surface, carrying astronauts Gene Cernan and...
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10 months ago
December 11, 1972, Apollo 17 soft landed on the lunar surface, carrying astronauts Gene Cernan and Harrison Schmitt. This was the last time anything American soft landed on the moon, over 50 years ago. It seems amazing that it’s been that long. On February 22, 2024, the Odysseus...
The American Scholar
Magic Men The post Magic Men appeared first on The American Scholar.
2 weeks ago
Light from Space
Lunar Eclipse Triptych A total lunar eclipse is (next to the much rarer solar eclipses) a spectacle to behold and one of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A total lunar eclipse is (next to the much rarer solar eclipses) a spectacle to behold and one of the few celestial events that happen in human timescales in the course of a few hours. In mid-May 2022 there was a beautiful eclipse visible from North America and I have
IEEE Spectrum
Why Simone Giertz, the Queen of Useless Robots, Got Serious On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
On YouTube she demonstrated a hilarious series of self-built mechanized devices that worked perfectly for ridiculous applications, such as a headboard-mounted alarm clock with a rubber hand to slap the user awake. This article is part of our special report, “Reinventing...
Maps Mania
The Carbon Bomb Map
a year ago
The Berkeley...
Rethinking Human-in-the-Loop for Artificial Augmented Intelligence How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How do we build and evaluate an AI system for real-world applications? In most AI research, the evaluation of AI methods involves a training-validation-testing process. The experiments usually stop when the models have good testing performance on the reported datasets because...
Flashbak
New York City’s NIGHT Magazine – 1978-79 Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s...
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5 months ago
Launched in September 1978, Anton Perich’s self-financed NIGHT magazine showcased New York City’s mix of fashion, art, and music at clubs like Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager’s Studio 54 and Howard Stein and Peppo Vanini’s Xenon, where nightlife and performance met. Distribution...
Construction Physics
The Long Road to Fiber Optics Over the past six decades, advances in computers and microprocessors have completely reshaped our...
3 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
We’re trying a 4-day workweek for the month of May Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Note: this was originally posted on the Buffer blog. For the month of May, Buffer will operate under a 4-day workweek (at full pay) across the whole 89-person team. We’re in a period of time where there’s a layer of added anxiety and stress in all
Math Is Still...
To Defend the Genome, These Cells Destroy Their Own DNA Under a microscope, cells in a worm embryo deliberately eliminated one-third of their genome — an...
a year ago
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a year ago
Under a microscope, cells in a worm embryo deliberately eliminated one-third of their genome — an uncompromising tactic that may combat harmful genetic parasites. The post To Defend the Genome, These Cells Destroy Their Own DNA first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Math Is Still...
The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind...
a year ago
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a year ago
A new theory describes how particle interactions fuel fast magnetic reconnection, the process behind solar flares and other astrophysical jets. The post The Tiny Physics Behind Immense Cosmic Eruptions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
Writing your book I spent time this week with two authors who are showing up to share their lives, their insights, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
I spent time this week with two authors who are showing up to share their lives, their insights, and their generosity in the form of books. A good book will change the reader, but it makes an even bigger impact on the author. Here’s a classic episode of Akimbo. Book publishing...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
How To Self-Publish A Children's Book and How Much You Can Expect To Make | Out-Of-Pocket spoiler: you will make very little lol
a year ago
TheCollector
4 Nazi Massacres in Italy (and Their Memory) undefined
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NeuroLogica Blog
Biofrequency Gadgets are a Total Scam I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes...
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10 months ago
I was recently asked what I thought about the Solex AO Scan. The website for the product includes this claim: AO Scan Technology by Solex is an elegant, yet simple-to-use frequency technology based on Tesla, Einstein, and other prominent scientists’ discoveries. It uses delicate...
Math Is Still...
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
The Marginalian
Magnolias and the Meaning of Life: Science, Poetry, Existentialism On cruelty, kindness, and the song of life.
a year ago
Making software...
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own...
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over a year ago
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it's great when bloggers post their own personal "reading list" of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
TheCollector
The Metaphysics of Stoicism: 3 Key Tenets undefined
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TheCollector
7 Facts about Francis Drake, the English Pirate-Hero undefined
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.3.0 Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Another shiny new integration - PostHog now plays nicely with Android! Like what you see and self-hosting? Update your instance. Release notes…
Daniel Miessler
News & Analysis | NO. 349
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Rest of World -...
Mexican shoppers say Shein and Temu’s delivery partner is stealing their stuff Former employees at third-party logistics company J&T Express say the high volume of packages from...
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3 months ago
Former employees at third-party logistics company J&T Express say the high volume of packages from the two Chinese companies has become unmanageable.
NeuroLogica Blog
Giant Eels, Loch Ness, and Probability At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know,...
a year ago
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a year ago
At this point it is pretty clear that the Loch Ness Monster (Nessie) does not exist. I know, logically it is impossible to prove a negative, so if we want to be technical we can say that the probability of a large creature similar to that believed to be Nessie approaches zero....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Undergraduation
over a year ago
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How the Paris 2023 Protests are Impacting Travel
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
“Mission-driven” should be more specific | Out-Of-Pocket everything is a set of tradeoffs, let's be honest about that
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is the Will to Power? undefined
a year ago
Old Structures...
Scant Evidence A piece of a single sentence in the 1893 Baedeker description of New York sent me down a rabbit...
a week ago
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a week ago
A piece of a single sentence in the 1893 Baedeker description of New York sent me down a rabbit hole. In a proper library I believe that I’d find a hard answer but playing around on the internet from hime, I’m left with a partial guess. The phrase, under the heading of Theaters...
balajis.com
Global Crypto Regulation: Who’s Hot and Who’s Not? Global crypto regulation is confusing. So I surveyed the information available and created a...
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Constantine and the Queen of Carthage
a year ago
symmetry magazine
SAGE Journey program ignites interest in STEM Three SAGE alumni talk about their experiences with a program meant to broaden gender diversity in...
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Nothing Makes a Man More Reverent' I have never thought of reading as a “hobby.” I put the word in quotes because I sense a patronizing...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
I have never thought of reading as a “hobby.” I put the word in quotes because I sense a patronizing tinge to the word. A hobby is a lesser pastime than a job, something frivolous, a “leisure activity” that most people in the past couldn’t afford because they had to earn a...
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power undefined
8 months ago
Noahpinion
What should China do to revive its economy? There are a couple of aces that the government hasn't yet played.
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Regret After Transitioning In my last post I noted that even mentioning general vague support for the LGBTQ community was...
a year ago
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a year ago
In my last post I noted that even mentioning general vague support for the LGBTQ community was enough to trigger very specific feedback, often making erroneous scientific claims. Each claim requires a deep dive and article-length discussion. Even though the discussion that...
The Ruffian
Last of the Curmudgeons Catch-up service:
3 months ago
A Weekly Dose of...
Places in Time II Last week dose explored three "places in time": St. Louis in the early decades of the 20th century;...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last week dose explored three "places in time": St. Louis in the early decades of the 20th century; Detroit between 1935 and 1985; and Chicago suburb Oak Park ca. 1906, when Frank Lloyd Wright completed Unity Temple. Those three US-centric books were split between two historical...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Candy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're...
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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Bet if you get close to those peppermints they're covered with dead flies. Today's News:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Brown Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon subscriber Ivan points out that effectively...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon subscriber Ivan points out that effectively his whole life became a football pull. I wonder if Lucy is watching from a distance. Today's News:
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 2 The VIC-20
a year ago
TheCollector
Who Won the First Battle of Bull Run in the Civil War? undefined
7 months ago
mtlynch.io
On Migrating from Cypress to Playwright Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov...
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over a year ago
Cypress is an open-source tool for testing web applications end-to-end. I first saw Gleb Bahmutov demo Cypress at a 2018 web dev meetup in New York, and I was blown away. I’ve been using Cypress since I saw it demoed at a dev meetup in 2018. Before discovering Cypress, I had...
Math Is Still...
The Quest for Simple Rules to Build a Microbial Community Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Microbiologists are searching for a universal theory of how bacteria form communities based not on their species but on the roles they play. The post The Quest for Simple Rules to Build a Microbial Community first appeared on Quanta Magazine
xkcd.com
Slingshots
3 months ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Is The Boring Company Useful? Elon Musk has a complicated legacy. Most people I encounter who bother to express an opinion tend to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Elon Musk has a complicated legacy. Most people I encounter who bother to express an opinion tend to be either a fan or hater. I am neither. He’s a complicated and flawed person who has accomplished some interesting things, but also has had some epic failures. People like a clean...
Diaries of Note
Now all is gone For a period of four years, beginning in 1860, William Henry Brewer travelled the length and breadth...
a year ago
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a year ago
For a period of four years, beginning in 1860, William Henry Brewer travelled the length and breadth of California as part of the state’s first official geological survey, his role as the survey’s principal assistant providing him with a unique vantage point from which to...
Retail Design Blog
RIDET office by RooMoo Design Studio Shanghai RIDET Technology is a pioneering company specializing in developing life sciences...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Shanghai RIDET Technology is a pioneering company specializing in developing life sciences instruments. RIDET’s office space on the first floor...
ntietz.com blog -...
Using Talon in a game jam I use Talon to control my computer some of the time. It's mostly voice control, but it has so many...
a month ago
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a month ago
I use Talon to control my computer some of the time. It's mostly voice control, but it has so many other controls built in! One lets you use an eye tracker as a mouse. I thought this sounded like a neat interaction for other situations too. When I mentioned this to a friend, he...
The Wandering...
Making shaded relief directly from DEMs projected in degrees? In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make shaded relief from DEMs, more or less as detailed in this post. There wasn’t time to explain the process of re-projection, so I rather boldly asserted that you don’t need to re-project...
The Rational Walk
Berkshire Hathaway’s Q3 2023 Results — Manufacturing, Service, and Retailing A review of Berkshire's large collection of non-insurance operating businesses, with a focus on...
a year ago
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a year ago
A review of Berkshire's large collection of non-insurance operating businesses, with a focus on results in Q3 2023 as well as a longer term view.
Nela Dunato Art &...
5 things you need before raising your prices Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that...
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Many freelancers feel like they “deserve” more money, but are confused about how to make that happen. The hard truth is, you may not be able to raise your prices overnight. But in this article I'll tell you exactly what you need to do in order to become appealing to higher-paying...
Quantum Frontiers
Astrobiology meets quantum computation? The origin of life appears to share little with quantum computation, apart from the difficulty of...
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The origin of life appears to share little with quantum computation, apart from the difficulty of achieving it and its potential for clickbait. Yet similar notions of complexity have recently garnered attention in both fields. Each topic’s researchers expect only … Continue...
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Reverse engineering a day’s worth of websites Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me....
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Some light reverse-engineering of websites has been a source of entertainment and knowledge for me. I’ll poke around in the Chrome DevTools and figure out the basics of how popular websites work. Sure, it’s common to compress JavaScript and other resources, and the HTML source of...
Rest of World -...
Writers and publishers in Singapore reject a government plan to train AI on their work Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their...
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Singapore's literary community is pushing back against an official effort to train LLMs using their published works, part of a growing global resistance.
Open Culture
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“It’s interesting that some people find science so easy, and others find it kind of dull and difficult,” says Richard Feynman at the beginning of his 1983 BBC series Fun to Imagine. “One of the things that makes it very difficult is that it takes a lot of imagination. It’s very...
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Wisdom is not what you know The hallmark of great wisdom is not what you know, but what you know and can put to use. The globe...
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The hallmark of great wisdom is not what you know, but what you know and can put to use. The globe is full of learned idiots, unable or incapable of following the wisdom they have accumulated. There's no prize for a closet full of axioms or insights, if you leave it all in there,...
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These women fell in love with an AI-voiced chatbot. Then it died An AI-voiced virtual lover called users every morning. Its shutdown left them heartbroken.
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Liz Denys
Butternut squash with cinnamon sage brown butter I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than...
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I don't blog that much about savory food: savory food for me is even more technique-based than recipe-based, so I find it limiting to discuss one dish because it's a particular combination of techniques on a very particular set of ingredients. But I really enjoyed this particular...
Artificial Ignorance
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Foams can be great examples of mechanical metamaterials.   Adapted from TOC figure of this paper Consider my shaving cream.  You might imagine that the (mostly water) material would just pool as a homogeneous liquid, since water molecules have a strong attraction for one...
Willem Pennings
Fixing my heating system The heating system in my apartment building consists of a group of heat pumps that deliver warm...
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The heating system in my apartment building consists of a group of heat pumps that deliver warm water to the underfloor heating system of about a dozen apartments, including mine. During the warm summer months, the system supplies cool water instead. The heat pumps figure out...
The Berkeley...
Generating 3D Molecular Conformers via Equivariant Coarse-Graining and Aggregated Attention --> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the...
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--> Figure 1: CoarsenConf architecture. (I) The encoder $q_\phi(z| X, \mathcal{R})$ takes the fine-grained (FG) ground truth conformer $X$, RDKit approximate conformer $\mathcal{R}$ , and coarse-grained (CG) conformer $\mathcal{C}$ as inputs (derived from $X$ and a predefined...
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Liam Young was once described by the BBC as “the man designing our future.” In 2023, with open letters penned on the risks of extinction posed by artificial intelligence, such a role should be in high demand. Young’s speculations on the future take the form of fictional stories...
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Semaphores are one of the oldest concurrency primitives in computing, invented over 60 years ago. They are weird: usually the only numbers of concurrent processes we care about are zero, one, or many – but semaphores deal with those fussy finite numbers in between. Yesterday I...
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My Addressbook? Keep it. Telephone numbers are a disgrace to our generation. There is all this talk going on about Path uploading address books and privacy here privacy there. I...
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Spoon & Tamago
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images courtesy Death Fes April 14th is the unofficial “day of good death” in Japan. The date 4-1-4 can be pronounced yo-i-shi, or good death, making today the perfect day to kick-off the Death Fes, an event aimed at encouraging people to think and talk about their inevitable...
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Open source (and self-hosted) alternatives to Hotjar & FullStory Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture....
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Analytics is great when you need hard numbers, but hard numbers don't give you the full picture. What else do you need to do? Talk to users ? Sure…
Retail Design Blog
ramencraft restaurant by SOA architekti Quite similar to coffee, ramen has gained an extensive global reach, becoming even a culinary...
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Quite similar to coffee, ramen has gained an extensive global reach, becoming even a culinary routine in the lifestyle of...
History Today Feed
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The National Gallery first threw open its doors 200 years ago today. It wasn't in Trafalgar Square at the time, that hadn't been built yet, but at 100 Pall Mall in a dead banker's townhouse. Here John Julius Angerstein's small collection of Old Masters was displayed, slowly...
Moneyness
Will the digital euro be like cash? The European Union published its proposal for a digital euro late last month, which will be issued...
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The European Union published its proposal for a digital euro late last month, which will be issued by the European Central Bank (ECB) if it goes ahead. There's plenty to digest in the 62-page document, but the one area I want to focus on in this post is privacy. Digital euros...
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Please Let Me Monetize My Hobbies Please, let me monetize my hobbies. After all, what’s the point of doing something purely for fun...
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Please, let me monetize my hobbies. After all, what’s the point of doing something purely for fun when I could be making money off it? Please, let me turn my relaxing gaming sessions into high-pressure performances with commentary. Who wouldn’t enjoy transforming a leisurely...
The Works in...
Links in Progress: All the single people And how China will lose 51 million people in 10 years
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Diaries of Note
You have to see it On 6th December 1912, at the ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, a team led by German...
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On 6th December 1912, at the ancient site of Tell el-Amarna in Egypt, a team led by German Egyptologist Ludwig Borchardt made a remarkable discovery: they uncovered a workshop once belonging to Thutmose—more formally known as ‘The King’s Favorite and Master of Works, the Sculptor...
Bits about Money
Payroll providers, Power, Respect Payroll processors exist to provide financial infrastructure and because political economy is...
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Name that Ware, August 2024 The Ware for August 2024 is shown below. Thanks to Howie M for contributing this ware!
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Calculated Risk
December 20th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm...
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Sean Carroll
Johns Hopkins As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school,...
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As far as I remember, the first time I stepped onto a university campus was in junior high school, when I visited Johns Hopkins for an awards ceremony for the Study of Mathematically Precocious Youth. (I grew up in an environment that didn’t involve spending a lot of time on...
Liz Denys
The Patriarchy as an otherworldly patron As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I...
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As we all know, the patriarchy is just a figment of feminist imagination. My friend Geoffrey and I feel that such figments of the imagination are well suited for becoming otherworldly patrons for Dungeons & Dragons 5e warlocks, so we created a variant otherworldly patron for the...
Tony Dinh's...
Apr 2023: I sold Black Magic And other updates in April 2023
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Making software...
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...
The American Scholar
The Next New Thing In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before The...
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In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before The post The Next New Thing appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
The Shape of Wonder: N.J. Berrill on the Universe, the Deepest Meaning of Beauty, and the Highest... "We, each of us, you and I, exhibit more of the true nature of the universe than any dead Saturn or...
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The Big Issue Seller Outside St Paul's Who Became An Icon Of The Occupy Protests A very different Christmas play for you to watch this festive season.
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The Best Things to Do in Abu Dhabi
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TheCollector
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Wanderingspace
We don’t post enough Mars Scenic Views I mean… we don’t post enough in general.
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Using Datasette for an ELT Personal Twitter Data Warehouse EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple...
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EDA tools like Datasette dramatically lower the cost of data analysis, with a surprisingly simple ELT contract - You handle the Extract phase, it handles the Load, and exposes a standard UI for you to do dynamic Transforms.
Maggie Appleton
The Pattern Language of Project Xanadu
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Retail Design Blog
The Visitor by Altavia ODG The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International...
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The Visitor is a groundbreaking addition to the retail landscape at the King Abdulaziz International Airport in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia....
Old Structures...
The Shapes Arise Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project,...
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Nearly every day, I walk past the construction of the South Battery Park City Resiliency Project, part of protecting lower Manhattan from the kind of flooding that occurred during Hurricane Sandy. Much of it is relatively straightforward: there’s a big berm being added to the...
Mazdak
The Rise of Nvidia and the Fall of Intel For 25 years, Intel held a coveted spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a testament to its...
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For 25 years, Intel held a coveted spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a testament to its influence in the tech world.
Maps Mania
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Serverless Functions are Stateful A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy...
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A reminder that serverless functions actually have a lot of state, and how the "function" analogy breaks down when you look through the abstraction
Oxide Computer...
Exploiting Undocumented Hardware Blocks in the LPC55S69 At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we...
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At Oxide Computer, we are designing a new computer system from the ground up. Along the way we carefully review all hardware selected to ensure it meets not only functional needs but our security needs as well. This work includes reverse engineering where necessary to get a full...
CONTEMPORIST
A Stepped Brick Extension Makes Space For A Soft Warm Blush Kitchen Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in...
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Architecture and interior design firm Bradley Van Der Straeten, has shared photos of a home in England that received a new stepped brick extension with views of the garden. When the front door is open, you can see all the way through to the rear garden. A stepped form took shape...
The Ruffian
Are You Charismatic Or Charming? Time To Decide
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Throwable
How To Estimate An Engineering Project (Or Really Any Project) There is apparently a cabal of engineers who want you to know that estimating is impossible. Don't...
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Seth's Blog
Tricked (again) If you knew then what you know now, would you have made the same decision? In the last fifty years,...
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If you knew then what you know now, would you have made the same decision? In the last fifty years, more than 25,000,000 Americans have died prematurely due to cigarette smoking. Worldwide, it’s significantly higher. That’s fifty times as many U.S. citizens as died in World War...
Noahpinion
Three more books about the technology wars "The Wires of War", "Four Battlegrounds", and "The Digital Silk Road"
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Common Edge
Sharon Egretta Sutton on the Democratic Power of “Place-Based Activism” A talk with the self-proclaimed activist scholar.
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Rest of World -...
Movie stars, matchmakers, and aunties: How WhatsApp became an unstoppable cultural force The world’s most popular messaging platform is synonymous with the internet for millions of people.
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TheCollector
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Moved—Stopp’d--Shall I Go On?—No' The professor asked me to write a paper on Tristram Shandy, the novel she had introduced to us in...
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The professor asked me to write a paper on Tristram Shandy, the novel she had introduced to us in her eighteenth-century English fiction class. It was her favorite novel. Its bawdy humor matched her own. For me it was love at first sight – for the novel, I mean. I was already a...
NeuroLogica Blog
Will Hydrogen BEV Hybrids Be A Thing? I recently recorded a YouTube video on the notion of hydrogen fuel cell cars (it will be posted...
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I recently recorded a YouTube video on the notion of hydrogen fuel cell cars (it will be posted soon, and I will add the link when it’s up). One question I did not get into in the video, but which is an interesting thought experiment, is hydrogen – plug-in battery hybrid...
Essays - Benedict...
Vision Pro What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500?...
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What has Apple built, what is it for, what does it mean for Meta, and why does it cost $3,500? Check back in 2025.
nanoscale views
Materials families: Halide perovskites Looking back, I realized that I haven't written much about halide perovskites, which is quite an...
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Looking back, I realized that I haven't written much about halide perovskites, which is quite an oversight given how much research impact they're having.  I'm not an expert, and there are multiple extensive review articles out there (e.g. here, here, here, here, here), so this...
Noahpinion
Manufacturing is a war now And the democracies are losing.
2 weeks ago
The American Scholar
Kat Wiese Taking flight The post Kat Wiese appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Retail Design Blog
32do Younghee Café and Restaurant by stof. + FFFAAARRR A new multi-dining space has opened in Seminyak, one of the most vibrant areas in Bali, Indonesia....
4 months ago
Christopher Butler
Blogging Is Not Publishing It's Therapy I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate...
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I keep a NOTES.txt document as a catch-all for any ideas I jot down that don’t have an immediate place elsewhere. It is a digital container that is at least 15 years old at this point. I’ve carried it from machine to machine. Every now and then I go back through it to see if...
Josh Comeau's blog
Building a Magical 3D Button Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every action we take on the web starts with a button click, and yet most buttons are ho-hum and uninspired. In this tutorial, we'll build an animated 3D button with HTML and CSS that sparks joy.
Paul Graham: Essays
Web 2.0
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This Space
"When now?" Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on...
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Out of curiosity, I read a few novels that over the last year have received the highest praise on social media and literary podcasts, and have appeared multiple times in newspaper Books of the Year choices and on prize shortlists, and one that even won a prize. I wanted to see...
TheCollector
8 Women Artists Who Were Inspired by Conceptual Art undefined
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Rest of World -...
Overworked and unable to quit: Delivery drivers in Brazil found something worse than gig work Trapped in a subcontracting nightmare, some delivery drivers are facing grueling hours, low pay, and...
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
Automating my backups with restic and anacron I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set...
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I've been running my backups by hand1 every week on my laptop for as long as they've been set up. Automating them was something important but was on the back burner, because, well, it never felt very important. Then I lost a few days of work when my SSD died, and it felt more...
Steve Klabnik
I invented hypermedia APIs by accident
over a year ago
TheCollector
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Open Culture
Patti Smith Reads Her Final Letter to Robert Mapplethorpe, Calling Him “the Most Beautiful Work of... If you go to hear Patti Smith in concert, you expect her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,”...
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If you go to hear Patti Smith in concert, you expect her to sing “Beneath the Southern Cross,” “Because the Night,” and almost certainly “People Have the Power,” the hit single from Dream of Life. Like her 1975 debut Horses, that album had a cover photo by Robert...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Blind Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The great part is it gets funnier every time it's...
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Diaries of Note
BlooOOP, blooOOP In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff...
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In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff struck up a correspondence with Frank Doel, chief buyer for Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop nestled at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. These letters, filled with Hanff’s...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
OOP Slack final reminder | Out-Of-Pocket it's the final countdownnnnn
9 months ago
Old Structures...
Unhidden From 1900, a photo of the future site of the New York Public Library and the past site of the Croton...
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From 1900, a photo of the future site of the New York Public Library and the past site of the Croton Distributing Reservoir. The photo is labelled at the NYPL as “The Croton Reservoir ruins, looking north,” which means the photographer was on or near 40th Street and Fifth Avenue...
Florian Bellmann |...
How to switch from Tmux to WezTerm Tutorial on how to switch your terminal multiplexer from Tmux to WezTerm
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The Marginalian
Doris: A Watercolor Serenade to the Courage of Authenticity and the Art of Connection “There is no insurmountable solitude,” Pablo Neruda asserted in his stirring Nobel Prize acceptance...
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“There is no insurmountable solitude,” Pablo Neruda asserted in his stirring Nobel Prize acceptance speech. “All paths lead to the same goal: to convey to others what we are. And we must pass through solitude and difficulty, isolation and silence in order to reach forth to the...
The DESK Magazine
The illusion of productivity "Productivity" is dead.
a year ago
TheCollector
The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art undefined
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TheCollector
7 Famous Impressionist Artists Who Achieved Greatness undefined
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IEEE Spectrum
Why Are We Still Doing What Simon Says? In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show...
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In 1976, Ralph Baer and Howard Morrison, two game designers, happened to see a trade show demonstration of an Atari arcade game called Touch Me. The game’s waist-high cabinet featured four large buttons on the top, which lit up in random sequence; the player had to push the...
tomcritchlow.com
Becoming Creative I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few...
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I just launched a new thing (the NEW MBA) so starting and launching is on my mind. Here are a few links that I deeply love about starting, finishing and promoting creative acts…
Tony Dinh's...
Feb 2023 updates: Twitter API, ChatGPT API, Hackaigon. It was a such a short month!
a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Huh! as a signal We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict,...
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We can never predict with certainty what the next system failure will be. But we can predict, because painful experience has taught us, that some or all of the causes of that failure will be surprising. We can use that!
Londonist
BFI Flare: Huge LGBTQIA+ Film Festival Lands In London This March Feat. Layla, Close To You and All Of Us Strangers.
10 months ago
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Visionaries Have Democratised Remote Network Access - Citrix Virtual Apps and Desktops... Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive...
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Well, we’re back again, with yet another fresh-off-the-press bug chain (and associated Interactive Artifact Generator). This time, it’s in Citrix’s “Virtual Apps and Desktops” offering. This is a tech stack that enables end-users (and likely, your friendly neighbourhood...
Rest of World -...
China is betting on battery swaps to tackle EV chargers shortage Rarely seen globally, there are already thousands of battery swap stations across China.
8 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Six Healthcare Startup Ideas | Out-Of-Pocket In collaboration with The Generalist
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History Today Feed
Free French Bombers Over France Free French Bombers Over France JamesHoare Mon, 09/16/2024 - 07:00
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nanoscale views
Items of interest For the first post of the new calendar year, here are a few items that I thought were...
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For the first post of the new calendar year, here are a few items that I thought were interesting: Here is a feature article in Science that talks about the experimental quest for detecting Majorana fermions in solid state systems, bookended by the story of Majorana's...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sack Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: If you used 52 it'd be obvious what the point was. Today's News: Click back for today's bonus update. Also buy my book!
Diaries of Note
At times I feel that I could write endlessly Born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer with more than 50 novels and numerous literary...
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Born in 1938, Joyce Carol Oates is an American writer with more than 50 novels and numerous literary awards to her name. Since the age of 21 Oates has kept a journal of some kind, but it was in 1973, aged 35, that she began the 5,000 pages now housed at the Joyce Carol Oates […]
Ink & Switch
11 · Universal comments We experiment with adding a universal comment system that works across different apps.
5 months ago
Saturday Morning...
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TheCollector
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Noahpinion
The Middle East is getting older Why I'm optimistic about the waning of conflict in the region.
a year ago