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Mazdak
The $50 Billion TikTok Dilemma: ByteDance’s Next Move in the U.S. In the world of social media, few platforms have experienced a meteoric rise like TikTok.
5 months ago
Jorge Arango
IA Fail: Which Kindle Edition? One of the goals of information architecture is making it possible for people to easily find what...
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One of the goals of information architecture is making it possible for people to easily find what they’re looking for. As a large and complex information environment, Amazon.com provides lots of examples of how to do it right – and how to do it wrong. This post highlights one of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Transforming HTML With Netlify Edge Functions I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can...
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2 weeks ago
I’ve long wanted the ability to create custom collections of icons from my icon gallery. Today I can browse collections of icons that share pre-defined metadata (e.g. “Show me all icons tagged as blue”) but I can’t create your own arbitrary collections of icons. That is, until...
Tony Dinh's...
April 2024 updates, new product! Traveled to Bali and Sydney, some updates on Typing Mind, and a new product.
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Building an app that uses AI to interpret dreams Pandemic isolation inspired Coco Chen to work on the spiritual health platform Dreamore.
a year ago
Londonist
Crown And Coronation: Regal Light Show To Be Projected Onto Tower Of London This one will be popular - and tickets are available now!
a year ago
Maps Mania
Jumbled Maps
5 months ago
Irrational...
Measuring an engineering organization. For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most...
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For the past several years, I’ve run a learning circle with engineering executives. The most frequent topic that comes up is career management–what should I do next? The second most frequent topic is measuring engineering teams and organizations–my CEO has asked me to report...
NeuroLogica Blog
Woman with Catatonia for Years Wakes After Treatment The story of a woman, in a severe state of catatonia for years and “waking up” after being treated...
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over a year ago
The story of a woman, in a severe state of catatonia for years and “waking up” after being treated for an autoimmune disease, is making the rounds and deserves a little bit of context. April Burrell was diagnosed with a severe form of schizophrenia resulting in catatonia, and has...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Talking to ChatGPT costs 5ml of water, not 500ml There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50...
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There’s a common claim on the internet that ChatGPT consumes half a litre of water for every 5-50 responses. Here are some randomly-chosen…
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 5-11 February 2024 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
Londonist
Revised Skyscraper Plans Could Make It Centimetres Taller Than The Shard One Undershaft is going up in the world.
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
3D Printed Rocket Launches This is one of those technology news stories where the implications of the technology is greater...
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over a year ago
This is one of those technology news stories where the implications of the technology is greater than the thing itself. Relativity Space, a rocket company based in California, launched their first Terran-1 rocket. The launch ultimately failed when the second stage failed to...
TokyoDev
Heroku + Travis CI: Tokyo Rubyist Meetup Report While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist...
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While I was initially a bit aprehensive at the classroom like setting for the last [Tokyo Rubyist Meetup](https://trbmeetup.doorkeeper.jp), thanks to all the great people who attended, we were able to turn it into a lively event. Anchoring the night were presentations about...
Quanta Magazine
The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of...
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While some fret about technology’s social impacts, Raj Reddy still believes in the power of artificial intelligence to improve lives. The post The AI Pioneer With Provocative Plans for Humanity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
American Civil War Uniforms: A Visual Journey Uniforms are used for identification as well as to provide a sense of unity during any conflict, and...
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2 months ago
Uniforms are used for identification as well as to provide a sense of unity during any conflict, and the American Civil War (1861-1865) was no exception. At their most basic level, Civil War uniforms distinguished Union troops from Confederate troops: Union troops wore blue while...
Retail Design Blog
Entain Offices by Oktra Oktra transformed Entain’s two-floor office in London into a top-tier workspace, focusing on...
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11 months ago
Oktra transformed Entain’s two-floor office in London into a top-tier workspace, focusing on sustainable design elements, sports integration, and biophilic...
Josh Collinsworth
Let's learn SvelteKit by building a static Markdown blog from scratch Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with...
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over a year ago
Learn the fundamentals of SvelteKit by building a statically generated blog from scratch, with Markdown support, Sass, an API, and an RSS feed.
Retail Design Blog
On Net Fibra Offices by Casbro Spa Casbro Spa designed the On Net Fibra offices in Santiago to embody innovation and collaboration,...
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Casbro Spa designed the On Net Fibra offices in Santiago to embody innovation and collaboration, featuring flexible spaces that enhance...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pain Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: That one guy is actually a robot designed to look like a human, so it's cool. Today's News:
seangoedecke.com RSS...
The good times in tech are over For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered...
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3 months ago
For most of the last decade, being a software engineer has been a lot of fun. Every company offered lots of perks, layoffs and firings were…
Tinker, Tamper,...
Making Good Bug Reports Many, many years ago, this was with Bugzilla in the early 2000s, I got my first automated lecture on...
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11 months ago
Many, many years ago, this was with Bugzilla in the early 2000s, I got my first automated lecture on what constitutes a good bug report. I probably didn’t pay attention. Since then, I’ve seen this list countless times, in various levels of detail, across a broad array of...
The Pragmatic...
Datadog’s $65M/year customer mystery solved The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in...
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The internet has been speculating the past few days on which crypto company spent $65M on Datadog in 2022. I confirmed it was Coinbase, and here are the details of what happened.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Beauty of Building Jan Miksovsky has an absolutely tremendous article about how he cobbled together some disparate...
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8 months ago
Jan Miksovsky has an absolutely tremendous article about how he cobbled together some disparate pieces of hardware and software in order to help improve the quality of life of his mother who has amnesia. Everything about this article illustrates what got me into making...
Old Structures...
New Year’s 1909 According to Puck, a trip to New York is the safety valve that keeps Brother Straightlace, leading...
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a year ago
According to Puck, a trip to New York is the safety valve that keeps Brother Straightlace, leading the simple life, from blowing up. Opinions vary.
IEEE Spectrum
How the Computer Graphics Industry Got Started at the University of Utah Animation has come a long way since 1900, when J. Stuart Blackton created The Enchanted Drawing, the...
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Animation has come a long way since 1900, when J. Stuart Blackton created The Enchanted Drawing, the earliest known animated film. The 90-second movie was created using stop-motion techniques, as flat characters, props, and backgrounds were drawn on an easel or made from...
Calculated Risk
NAR: Pending Home Sales Increase 2.2% in November; Up 6.9% Year-over-year From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of...
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From the NAR: Pending Home Sales Moved Up 2.2% in November, Fourth Straight Month of Increases Pending home sales gained 2.2% in November – the fourth consecutive month of increases and the highest level since February 2023 – according to the National Association of REALTORS®....
Computer Ads from...
E-Z Tax The Tax Break You've Been Looking for !
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
WebAssembly is more than just the web
over a year ago
Charles Chen
Vue 3x3 - A Mental Model for Building Fast A mental model for helping you get oriented with with Vue3 and Composition API
over a year ago
TheCollector
King Charles I: England’s Worst Monarch? Everyone knows that King Charles I was the least successful of England’s many Kings and Queens. The...
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a month ago
Everyone knows that King Charles I was the least successful of England’s many Kings and Queens. The idea is traditional, well-argued, and practically undisputed. The view that Charles’s rule was a complete failure, from start to finish, is shared by many notable modern...
oftwominds-Charles...
Lots of Solutions, But for Which Problems? If the "solutions" being offered are features of self-liquidating systems, they aren't solutions,...
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If the "solutions" being offered are features of self-liquidating systems, they aren't solutions, they're problems. Problems, problems, problems. No worries, we have solutions. Solutions abound, but the question is: are they actually resolving the core problems, or are...
Arduino Blog
Easy and fun block-based coding with the Alvik robot is here, now Chromebook compatible! At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners....
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8 months ago
At Arduino, we believe coding should be accessible to everyone – including the youngest learners. With this in mind, we’re thrilled to announce that the Arduino Alvik robot now officially supports block-based coding! Coding has never been easier thanks to Alvik’s seamless...
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Every Web Performance Test Tool Check your site's speed quickly with a battery of tests
over a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn
Who is responsible for the impact of innovative products?
a year ago
Noahpinion
This is called "capital flight" It usually only happens to poor countries, and it never ends well.
3 months ago
xkcd.com
Unstoppable Force and Immovable Object
2 months ago
AI Snake Oil
Can AI automate computational reproducibility? A new benchmark to measure the impact of AI on improving science
9 months ago
xkcd.com
Tectonic Surfing
9 months ago
Eric Bailey
The possibilities of the color-adjust property
over a year ago
The American Scholar
“The Horses” by Edwin Muir Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “The Horses” by Edwin Muir appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
Ben Borgers
The TikTok Peer Group
over a year ago
The Elysian
No, KKR is not “equity washing” Contra Katie Boland on the private equity company’s employee-ownership model.
3 days ago
Seth's Blog
Culture, care and typography I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a...
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I’ve been fascinated by the way we set type since I did my first packaging forty years ago. It’s a combination of tech, art, systems, culture and most of all, deciding to put in the effort to get it right. [This is a long post, it would have been a podcast, but it doesn’t really...
Old Structures...
Helping The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has received a well-deserved award – a 2024 “Excellence...
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10 months ago
The Saratoga Springs Preservation Foundation has received a well-deserved award – a 2024 “Excellence in Historic Preservation Award” – from the Preservation League of NYS: here. It’s an interesting award in that the Foundation, which ordinarily funds projects and provides...
Mazdak
Inflation finally chills out! Americans rejoice & recession whispers fade as prices dip and spending... The good news just keeps coming! Prices finally took a breather in November, marking the first...
a year ago
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a year ago
The good news just keeps coming! Prices finally took a breather in November, marking the first decline since way back in 2020! This ain't no mirage, folks - inflation is cooling down, and the Fed's fight against skyrocketing prices is showing real results!
Eric Bailey
Presentation panic I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really...
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over a year ago
I used to get panic attacks when I had to give a client presentation. This was before I was really aware of my anxiety and depression—I didn’t know what they were or what caused them. Because of this, I spent way too much time fixating on the symptoms, and not the cause. Both my...
Quanta Magazine
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words....
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2 months ago
We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way. The post To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Willem's Blog
Working Offline First Dive into a digital blast from the past and learn how a 15-year-old ThinkPad X200 can revolutionise...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Dive into a digital blast from the past and learn how a 15-year-old ThinkPad X200 can revolutionise your workflow – join my cloud-free adventure today!
Max Rozen
Frustrated by Formik? Here's a simpler way to do forms in React Do you find yourself struggling for hours to solve problems with Formik? I've started using a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Do you find yourself struggling for hours to solve problems with Formik? I've started using a different library that's much simpler.
Noahpinion
Grading the economic schools of thought Who got the 2020s inflation right?
over a year ago
Matt Mazur
When LTD Purchasers Meet an Inactive User Policy Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last year I participated in a Lifetime Deal (LTD) promotion to offer Preceden to the AppSumo community. Maybe I’ll dive into my experience there in another post, but I wanted to share an interesting thing that’s happening now, a year after the deal ended. AppSumo has a policy...
Classical Wisdom
Respect the Spartan Woman! How was it for the ancient ladies?
a year ago
The Pragmatic...
A Tech Conference Listed Fake Speakers for Years: I Accidentally Noticed For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured...
a year ago
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a year ago
For 3 years straight, the DevTernity conference listed non-existent Coinbase employees as featured speakers. When were they added and what could have the motivation been?
mtlynch.io
Using Zig to Call C Code: Strings Zig is a new, open-source programming language designed to replace C. I’m still a Zig beginner, so...
a year ago
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a year ago
Zig is a new, open-source programming language designed to replace C. I’m still a Zig beginner, so I’m trying to learn the language by using Zig to rewrite parts of existing C applications. One of the first challenges I encountered with Zig is understanding strings. I couldn’t...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Experience Machine Thought Experiment In 1974 Robert Nozick published the book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, in which he posed the...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 1974 Robert Nozick published the book, Anarchy, State, and Utopia, in which he posed the following thought experiment: If you could be plugged into an “experience machine” (what we would likely call today a virtual reality or “Matrix”) that could perfectly replicate real-life...
diamond geezer
The most visited attractions in each English county The most visited attractions in each English county Visit England) [data is for 2024] Bedfordshire:...
6 days ago
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The most visited attractions in each English county Visit England) [data is for 2024] Bedfordshire: Whipsnade Zoo, Wrest Park, Shuttleworth Collection Berkshire: Windsor Great Park, Windsor Castle, Basildon Park Bristol: Arnos Vale Cemetery, Bristol Zoo, Wake the...
Christopher Butler
Investing in Creativity Investing in creativity is incremental effort and cumulative reward. Investing in creativity is...
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Investing in creativity is incremental effort and cumulative reward. Investing in creativity is incremental effort and cumulative reward. I realized this in two ways this year. 1 — More Input > More Output I made a resolution as 2023 closed out to make more art. Rather...
CrimethInc.
Festivals of Resistance : A Call for Gatherings the Weekend Before Trump Takes Office Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Along with others around the country, we invite you to join us in organizing festivals of resistance on the weekend of January 18, immediately before Donald Trump takes office. This is a crucial opportunity to engage in outreach, education, and action ahead of what it is sure to...
Herbert Lui
AI and living tutorials A couple of years ago, I published a post on how I thought AI would disrupt writing, editing, and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A couple of years ago, I published a post on how I thought AI would disrupt writing, editing, and marketing. I wrote, “The notion that people won’t get replaced with A.I., but people who work with A.I., rings true in each of these fields.” One reason this happens is because AI...
mtlynch.io
My Sixth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software...
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Six years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own bootstrapped software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. The best of them earned a few hundred dollars per month in revenue, but none were profitable. Halfway through my third...
swyx's site RSS Feed
10x-ing Svelte (Svelte Summit 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my Svelte Summit talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Keep The Scale In Mind Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been...
a year ago
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Here’s a photo from yesterday of Shaquana getting a good look at a brownstone finial that’s been removed during restoration work. This is a minor decorative element for the church it was removed from. It’s visually important, of course, and we’re not removing it to throw it away,...
The Marginalian
Don’t Waste Your Wildness "What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable,...
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"What is wild cannot be bought or sold, borrowed or copied. It is. Unmistakable, unforgettable, unshamable, elemental as earth and ice, water, fire and air, a quintessence, pure spirit, resolving into no constituents. Don't waste your wildness: it is precious and necessary. In...
alexwlchan
A blue plaque for Hester In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical...
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a year ago
In the last year, my theatre trips have been dominated by Operation Mincemeat, a comedy musical currently playing in the Fortune Theatre. The writing is clever, the songs are catchy, and it’s laugh-a-minute funny, but it can also be solemn and moving. The show is based on the...
Confessions of a...
The Pythonic Emptiness Why the Pythonic way of doing emptiness check on sequences is not necessarily ambiguous in most...
8 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
A Confession from Ghost-O-Meter’s Creator I released Ghost-O-Meter with a secret. I realize now that it was a mistake.
over a year ago
Birchtree
What people do with an empty text box I was listening to Hard Fork this weekend when Kevin Roose said this (emphasis mine): I think that...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
I was listening to Hard Fork this weekend when Kevin Roose said this (emphasis mine): I think that there is sort of a basic assumption if you're a heavy user of, say, ChatGPT, that there are certain things that it's good at and there are certain
charity.wtf
“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the...
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I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot topics drive clicks and eyeballs and attention en masse. Unfortunately, my internal...
Passing Time
What My Friends Have to Say About Me A Japanese proverb states that if the character of a man is not clear to you, look at his friends.
over a year ago
Ben Borgers
Publishing Class Notes
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Four years of Noahpinion What happened to the world in 2024, and what I wrote about it
7 months ago
Commoncog
You’re Always Selling to a Situation, Not an ICP One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
One simple idea that falls out of the Heart of Innovation book — that you can use immediately — is this idea of selling into situations, not selling to ideal customer profiles. It’s what the pros do anyway.
blag
Accepted to the Recurse Center! I got accepted into Recurse Center, wooo!
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
over a year ago
John Reynolds -...
HOUSE Video Title: HOUSE Year: 2023 --
over a year ago
Noahpinion
Why America's future could hinge on Elon Musk Iron Man, or Dr. Doom?
8 months ago
The American Scholar
Keepers of the Old Ways Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive The post Keepers of the Old Ways...
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5 months ago
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive The post Keepers of the Old Ways appeared first on The American Scholar.
Asterisk
Are AIs People? Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they...
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4 months ago
Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they are, how would we know?
Rest of World -...
The winners of Rest of World’s photography contest From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries around the world,...
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From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries around the world, featuring everything from sprawling mines to biometric facial scans.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Virtue Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is one of those rare places where after...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is one of those rare places where after talking to practitioners I had my perspective deeply changed. Perhaps you will too? Today's News:
Quanta Magazine
Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent...
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The visual systems of an obscure group of mollusks provide a rare natural example of path-dependent evolution, in which a critical fork in the creatures’ past determined their evolutionary futures. The post Mollusk Eyes Reveal How Future Evolution Depends on the Past...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Introducing Phil Leggetter, our new head of Developer Relations We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog....
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over a year ago
We’re proud to announce a new hire; Phil Leggetter will head up Developer Relations at PostHog. Developer relations sits at the intersection of…
Calculated Risk
2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in January Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in January A...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 2nd Look at Local Housing Markets in January A brief excerpt: NOTE: The tables for active listings, new listings and closed sales all include a comparison to January 2019 for each local market (some 2019 data is not...
The Works in...
Issue 11: Nuclear sandboxes Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick...
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Plus: Why Britain can’t seem to fix its housing market, gene-edited super-rice, and one weird trick to reverse climate change.
Seth's Blog
Just looking Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game...
a year ago
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a year ago
Lots of people go to the beach but very few get in the water. 3,000 students go to the football game to watch 20 of their peers play. And we go to a conference to meet people and connect, and then spend most of our time hoping someone else will see us and care enough […]
CONTEMPORIST
LED Lighting Is Hidden Throughout This Home To Create A Soft Warm Glow Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in...
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Interior design studio, Pure AW’s Designers Ltd, has shared a modern apartment they completed in Kowloon, Hong Kong, that combines warm woods and soft lighting. Designed for a couple with two children, the apartment’s interior is influenced by traditional Nordic aesthetics and...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven 2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
6 months ago
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2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months. It’s also...
./techtipsy
HoloISO: the unofficial Steam Deck experience on your PC If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably heard about the Steam...
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over a year ago
If you have spent any time in gaming hardware circles, then you’ve probably heard about the Steam Deck, the Linux-based handheld gaming PC built by Valve. Yes, you heard that right: not Windows, but Linux. I’ve had my fair share of attempts at gaming on Linux. When it works,...
ByteofDev
10 ways to speed up JavaScript loading JavaScript is one of the biggest contributors to long website loading times. This article will show...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
JavaScript is one of the biggest contributors to long website loading times. This article will show you how to speed up your JavaScript loading.
Retail Design Blog
Bisiesto restaurant by Vang Studios It’s not only the good food, ditto drinks, and jolly banter—Bisiesto offers the full package,...
a month ago
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a month ago
It’s not only the good food, ditto drinks, and jolly banter—Bisiesto offers the full package, offering a stylish setting which...
Matt Mullenweg
WordCamp Asia and Maha Kumbh Mela It’s been fantastic being in the Philippines for this year’s WordCamp Asia. We have attendees from...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
It’s been fantastic being in the Philippines for this year’s WordCamp Asia. We have attendees from 71 countries, over 1,800 tickets sold, and contributor day had over 700 people! It’s an interesting contrast to US and EU WordCamps as well in that the audience is definitely a lot...
There are two types...
My Comments at the Midtown South Social Equity and Music Festival Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only...
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Fifty-one years ago, the Pennsylvania Railroad tragically tore down Pennsylvania Station. Not only is it the best building ever torn down in New York, but in the combined Penn Station and Madison Square Garden, we got the worst building in … Continue reading → The post My...
Oykun
The Almanac of Naval Ravikant My recommendation: MUST READ More details and reviews on Amazon This book took its place in my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My recommendation: MUST READ More details and reviews on Amazon This book took its place in my annual re-reading list. Lots of common sense practices in this book. I especially liked how Naval emphasises the importance of being a perpetual learner and reader which I greatly value...
Musings on Maps
The Office of the Geographer and Art of the Deal There is plenty of blame going round this election cycle on the Democratic Party for having given...
8 months ago
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There is plenty of blame going round this election cycle on the Democratic Party for having given material assistance–if not tacitly supported–the bombing Palestinian inhabitants and settlements in Gaza by Israeli Defense Forces. The drumbeat of disquiet about the Democratic …...
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why does it matter that Twitter is supplanting RSS? The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The other day I claimed that Twitter is supplanting RSS, and that long term that’s a bad thing.  Andrew Weissman had a very reasonable…
Marcus on AI
AGI versus “broad, shallow intelligence” The BSI we have now, versus the AGI we want
6 months ago
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I'm going to break down how we more than 10x-ed ScreenshotAPI and why this acquisition worked when others didn't. Not everything here is generalizable, but I'll pull out what worked well from our first interactions with the seller to the deal closing a few
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Every once in a while, I’ll have a post gain traction over on ye ole’ orange site (Hacker News). I find out about it because my analytics digest will get a yuge uptick in page views. What’s interesting is all the referral sources that show up in my analytics. The Hacker News is...
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The challenge of N + 1 “Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win...
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“Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win every race, every argument, every bank balance competition. Sometimes this is simply a self challenge, not designed to hurt others, but the problem with never being satisfied is...
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The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afros Aaah feels good having a game ready after the last month’s failure! This time it’s a small...
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Aaah feels good having a game ready after the last month’s failure! This time it’s a small shooter. The Chronicles of Bim: The 100 Fake Afro Bullet masher - can you keep up with 100 enemies at the screen? Instruction W: up Credits Music: The Last Prophecy - Matthew Le Blanc...
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Five themes I am optimistic about for the next decade - and more open questions I have no idea about.
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How Tesla’s Mexico plans stalled out When the Monterrey factory finally arrives, will Elon still want it?
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: New Home Sales Decrease to 657,000 Annual Rate in January Brief excerpt: The Census Bureau reported New Home Sales in January were at a seasonally adjusted annual rate (SAAR) of 657 thousand. The previous three months were...
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The Tragic Case of Intel AI Intel is sitting on a huge amount of card inventory they can’t move, largely because of bad...
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Intel is sitting on a huge amount of card inventory they can’t move, largely because of bad software. Most of this is a summary of the public #intel-hardware channel in the tinygrad discord. Intel currently is sitting on: 15,000 Gaudi 2 cards (with baseboards) 5,100 Intel Data...
Jason Fried
A company is a language Companies are akin to complex languages, each with its own unique dialect and cultural...
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Companies are akin to complex languages, each with its own unique dialect and cultural nuances. And I think this explains why it’s so hard for executives — especially executives — to come in from outside an organization and find their way. At lower levels within an...
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A Swan-song For Europe It didn't have to be this way.
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Collections: The Problem with Sci-Fi Body Armor This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at...
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This week we’re covering the winning topic from the latest ACOUP Senate poll, which is a look at some of the odd designs and mechanics for futuristic science fiction body armor, particularly rigid ‘hardsuits.’ Naturally, this post isn’t going to cover every variety of armor that...
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Most days, I write and I don’t think about it much. Some days, I write and it doesn’t come out as nice as I’d like for it to. I publish it anyway, though I wonder if I hit a plateau. It makes me reconsider this whole practice. Maybe this isn’t helping me write better. Maybe...
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A Postcard From The Far Side of Despair. Or, a meditation on bloody-mindedness for Ash Wednesday.
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The industry behind the industry behind AI It’s outsourcing all the way down.
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HLGstudio reimagined the NFIB offices in Nashville, creating a vibrant, collaborative environment that maximizes natural daylight and promotes productivity and...
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Why There's a Legal Price for a Human Life [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the very first...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the very first documented engineering disasters happened in 27 AD in the early days of the Roman Empire. A freed slave named Atilius built a wooden amphitheater in a town called Fidenae outside of Rome....
markround.com
DevOps for the Sinclair Spectrum - Part 4 In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I...
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In Part 3 I covered the backend server processes and protocols, CI/CD pipelines and unit tests I used to build the TNFS site. In this (much shorter) part, I’d like to take a step back from the hardcore geekery, and wrap up with my thoughts on the whole thing. Other Sites But...
charity.wtf
How Hard Should Your Employer Work To Retain You? Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to...
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Recently we learned that Google spent $2.7 billion to re-hire a single AI researcher who had left to start his own company. As Charlie Brown would say: “Good grief.” 🙄 This is an (incredibly!) extreme example. But back in the halcyon days of the zero interest rate phenomenon...
Old Structures...
Travelog: Damage and Weirdness Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty...
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Just because a building is cute, doesn’t mean it won’t have damage. Someone has done a pretty thorough job of strapping the corners of this small building in Bath, as well as installing some kind of pinning at the middle of the side wall. It’s not clear which way the floor spans...
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Let's evaluate Kamala Harris' entire economic policy program! Fun!!
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The Strange Case of the Danish Aarhus Mafia Why are so many CS pioneers from Denmark?
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Market-rate housing will make your city cheaper Yes, market-rate!
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Artificial Ignorance
Who in their right mind would do an AI hardware startup From megaFLOPS to mega flops.
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Adventures in Homelab: Part 1 If you work in tech, and you use the cloud in any way, you've probably heard of Kubernetes. It's...
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If you work in tech, and you use the cloud in any way, you've probably heard of Kubernetes. It's inescapable now, and there's no shortage of takes on it. I've worked in a few companies that have used Kubernetes, but never been close to it. I've used in-house tools that...
Seth's Blog
Kash’s garden She doesn’t grow plants. The plants grow themselves. Her job is to create conditions for the plants...
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She doesn’t grow plants. The plants grow themselves. Her job is to create conditions for the plants to grow. The soil, the water, the light, the weeds… these are the conditions. But none of it happens if the plants don’t do the thing they want to do in the first place. This is...
Computer Things
Paradigms succeed when you can strip them for parts I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about...
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I'm speaking at DDD Europe about Empirical Software Engineering!1 I have complicated thoughts about ESE and foolishly decided to update my talk to cover studies on DDD, so I'm going to be spending a lot of time doing research. Newsletters for the next few weeks may be light. The...
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The Unlikely Connection Between Fiction and Travel Castles in the Sky #44
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Hunter-Gatherers and Childcare What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused...
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What is “natural” for humans? It’s often hard to say, and in my opinion this is a highly overused concept. Primarily this is because humans are adaptable – we adapt to our environment, our situation, and our culture. So it is “natural” for us not to have a natural state. But this...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day April 11, 2025.
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African History...
When Africa discovered Europe *my article for New Lines Magazine
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Open Culture
When the Dutch Tried to Live in Concrete Spheres: An Introduction to the Bolwoningen in the... In the decades after the Second World War, many countries faced the challenge of rebuilding their...
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In the decades after the Second World War, many countries faced the challenge of rebuilding their housing and infrastructure while also having to accommodate a fast-arriving baby boom. The government of the Netherlands got more creative than most, putting money toward...
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you're wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
High Signal
Making over $10k a month from a timer app Lukas is making over $10,000 a month just from a timer app. It's totally bootstrapped and there are...
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Lukas is making over $10,000 a month just from a timer app. It's totally bootstrapped and there are no investors.
Seth's Blog
Misunderstanding bigness IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three...
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IBM spent a fortune fighting calls for them to be broken up. So did AT&T and Microsoft. In all three cases, there’s plenty of evidence that they would have been better off if they had simply broken themselves up. Microsoft is still recovering and IBM never will. One computer...
blag
Recurse Center Day 12: Isolation Anomalies Anomalies which define transaction isolation levels
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Old Structures...
Buildings Are Not Static It can’t be said often enough that buildings move in various ways, from the effect of environmental...
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It can’t be said often enough that buildings move in various ways, from the effect of environmental conditions. You’ve got gross structural movement from gravity and lateral loads; up, down, and sideways movement from changes in soil volume from water movement; expansion and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Even Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really distressing part is that he keeps saying...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really distressing part is that he keeps saying names for approximately 6 hours. Today's News:
Retail Design Blog
EMKA store EMKA Store in Salaris is a unique project by Sinitsa Bureau, spanning 250 m². The concept emerged...
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EMKA Store in Salaris is a unique project by Sinitsa Bureau, spanning 250 m². The concept emerged from a deep...
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Conexus Studio designed Sartorius’ regional office in Singapore, integrating agility, innovation, biophilic elements, and collaborative spaces, prioritizing a vibrant yet...
The Honest Broker
AI Is Defeated in Hollywood—But What About Music? I describe a legit pathway to victory, but we need a general to lead the battle
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Arduino Blog
GLEWBOT scales buildings like a gecko to inspect wall tiles A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the...
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A great deal of building maintenance expenses are the result of simple inaccessibility. Cleaning the windows are your house is a trivial chore, but cleaning the windows on a skyscraper is serious undertaking that needs specialized equipment and training. To make exterior wall...
Frank’s Ramblings
My Experience Living and Working in China, Part II: COVID Stories In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in...
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In this four-part article, I’ll go over some of the lessons I learned living and doing business in China’s tech industry. During my time in China, I’ve led a team of 10+ engineers to develop a location-based IoT and sensing platform, co-founded an open-source project called...
Posts on Made of...
6.170, CVS, and SVN I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but...
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I’m taking 6.170 Lab in Software Engineering this semester. The course sucks in various ways, but one of the most egregious, in my opinion, is that they force you to use CVS for your version control. Problem sets are distributed by the TAs importing them into your repository, and...
Londonist
The Must-See London Exhibitions To Look Forward To In 2024 A glance ahead to the capital's upcoming blockbuster exhibitions.
a year ago
Londonist
A Brief History Of The Metropolitan Line The world's first underground railway.
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Marine Madness
Book Club: ‘The Island of Sea Women’ by Lisa See Little is known about Jeju- a Korean island- occupied by brutal Japanese troops in the 1930s and...
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Little is known about Jeju- a Korean island- occupied by brutal Japanese troops in the 1930s and ’40s, later liberated by US forces and turned over to the even more barbarous Korean regime whose wrongdoings were overlooked by both American and U.N. occupiers. Lisa See travels...
Jonas Hietala
Netrunner ID draft Örebro I entered an ID draft tournament in Netrunner hosted in Örebro and this is a brief overview of what...
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over a year ago
I entered an ID draft tournament in Netrunner hosted in Örebro and this is a brief overview of what happened. Disclaimer: My memory is a little bit fuzzy and the events may or may not correspond to what actually happened. The draft The idea was to randomly sort all entrants and...
ByteofDev
Migrating ByteofDev from SvelteKit to Astro Why and how I rebuilt my blog in Astro
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Naz Hamid
Less Precious Social networking is about reach. It started small: your friends first, then grew outwards towards...
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Social networking is about reach. It started small: your friends first, then grew outwards towards acquaintances and your professional life. It grew out to people who might follow you because of some shared interest, and then to complete strangers. Social media likes to tell you...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Where You Give Your Energy I had just turned 40. I was feeling increasingly stagnant at VSCO and recognized the need for a...
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a year ago
I had just turned 40. I was feeling increasingly stagnant at VSCO and recognized the need for a change. I began discussions with leadership about my desire for greater involvement. It was straight-up politicking, with my objective being a title change to formally lead the product...
brr
Snowdrifts 4 days of blown snow into a doorway.
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Arduino Blog
This spinning water contraption is actually a functional battery If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like...
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If you ask someone to think of a battery, they’re probably going to picture a chemical battery, like a AA alkaline or a rechargeable lithium-ion battery. But there are other kinds of batteries that store energy without any fancy chemistry at all. If you find a way to save energy...
SOCKS
“I called them Ghosts”. Visual Poems and Sequences by George Wylesol George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like...
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George Wylesol is a Baltimore-based artist who primarily produces illustrations and comic-like sequences of drawings, often accompanied by written text in the form of short poems. His works blend mundane objects and settings with surreal plots and visual associations, resulting...
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VC is a tool, not a religion We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1...
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We raised over $27,000,000 then realized we should be growing out of our own revenue instead. Day 1 – We started bootstrapping, then changed our minds…
Basta’s Notes
🌈 Pride 2023 #1: Miles As a gay man, I am uniquely qualified to provide these details
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CONTEMPORIST
Stone Snakes Around The Curved Exterior Of This Modern Home Adrian James Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Oxfordshire,...
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a year ago
Adrian James Architects has shared photos of a contemporary home they completed in Oxfordshire, England, that has a sculptural form which sprouts organically from its hillside setting. The home’s design is inspired by the crinkle-crankle Cotswold stone wall, with ribbons of cast...
Dan Slimmon
Fix tomorrow’s problems by fixing today’s problems A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have...
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over a year ago
A bug in our deployment system causes O(N²) latency with respect to the number of deploys that have been performed. At first, it’s too minuscule to notice. But the average deploy latency grows over time. Eventually, deploys start randomly timing out. The deploy pipeline grinds to...
Dylan Huang Blog
I Built My Resume In Markdown Resume creation is often overcomplicated with clunky word processors and
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AFAR Media - Travel...
New United Lounge in Newark Airport's Terminal A Now Open
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GeoCurrents
Adding New “Continents” to the Map of the World – and thus Approaching the World-Regional Model Almost all maps found in online image searches of “continents map” depict the standard...
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Almost all maps found in online image searches of “continents map” depict the standard seven-continent model of the U.S. educational establishment. A few, however, deviate from the scheme by adding additional continents. Such adjustments are understandable, as the standard model...
Dustin Curtis
How to host a static website with HTTPS on AWS, using S3 and CloudFront Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast,...
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over a year ago
Amazon’s AWS is an inexpensive and limitlessly scalable platform that can be ideal for hosting fast, secure, and reliable static websites. I host several sites using the method described below, and it costs me pennies per month. The only problem is that getting things set...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Notes on Puzzles 1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a...
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1. I mostly don’t play chess anymore — it’s too addictive, and tends to take over your brain in a way I don’t like — but one habit I’ve retained is solving puzzles.
The Solarchitecture...
Follow up to circadian rhythm post Let's use the tools that Substack gave us!
over a year ago
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Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS Tutorial on Deploying a Create-React-App Website to Netlify with HTTPS
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Calculated Risk
Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Brief excerpt:...
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Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: Asking Rents Mostly Unchanged Year-over-year Brief excerpt: Another monthly update on rents. Apartment List: Asking Rent Growth -0.4% Year-over-year ... On the supply side of the rental market, our national vacancy index now sits at 6.9...
David Gerrells
love is work and so is css I love css. And well, to love something, it is not always rainbows :rainbow: and sunshine :sunny:
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Got a brand problem? Put a bird on it. The story behind why there weren’t any logos on the thousands of RVs that were sent to the victims...
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The story behind why there weren’t any logos on the thousands of RVs that were sent to the victims of hurricane Katrina?
GeoCurrents
GeoCurrents Listed as One of the 100 Best GIS Blogs and Websites in 2025 I am pleased to report that GeoCurrents has been selected by FeedSpot as one of the “100 Best GIS...
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I am pleased to report that GeoCurrents has been selected by FeedSpot as one of the “100 Best GIS Blogs” for 2025. It is an honor to receive this recognition and I give my sincere thanks to FeedSpot for the acknowledgement, although I do have to say that GeoCurrents is more a...
Open Culture
The Fake Buildings of New York: What Happens Inside Their Mysterious Walls You can’t go on a walk with a serious enthusiast of New York history without hearing the stories...
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8 months ago
You can’t go on a walk with a serious enthusiast of New York history without hearing the stories behind at least a few notable, beautiful, or downright strange buildings. Yet most longtime New Yorkers, famed for tuning out their surroundings to better strive for their goals of...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Spring Vacation at This Historic Arizona Hotel
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Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security episode: Two-factor authentication and account recovery The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and...
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over a year ago
The second episode of Loose Leaf Security came out today, about two-factor authentication and account recovery: Two-factor authentication and account recovery Last time we talked about strong passwords, but what if there was a better way to secure your account? We look at options...
Val Sopi
High productivity in a workday <p>On a given workday, you only have a few hours at your disposal to create.</p> <p>Commit to...
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<p>On a given workday, you only have a few hours at your disposal to create.</p> <p>Commit to relaxed focused work in two blocks of 3-hours each.</p> <p>Take a 1-hour break in between.&nbsp;Meditating 11 minutes. Walking the rest.</p> <p>Drink plenty of water. Coffee and...
TheCollector
10 Must-See UNESCO Heritage Sites in India UNESCO World Heritage Sites are globally recognized landmarks celebrated for their cultural,...
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UNESCO World Heritage Sites are globally recognized landmarks celebrated for their cultural, historical, artistic, or environmental significance. From ancient cities and architectural wonders to biodiversity hotspots, these sites are legally protected to preserve their legacy for...
Birchtree
More YouTube goodies? More YouTube goodies. Here we go again! This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV On the other...
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6 months ago
Here we go again! This is a fascinating look at trying to find the biggest tube TV On the other end of things, here's a QVC presenter destroying a TV live on camera. Cybertruck reveal vibes here too If you've tried Balatro and haven't
Scarlet Ink
A Time When I Was Tricked Into Being Honest — Bringing Facts Into Work Discussions Moving discussions from emotional interpretations to facts and metrics can move a group from...
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Seth's Blog
PW1: Two hats for productivity Welcome to 2024. Back to work, here we go. So it’s Productivity Week on the blog. Productivity is...
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a year ago
Welcome to 2024. Back to work, here we go. So it’s Productivity Week on the blog. Productivity is the measure of the output (value) we get for the time or money we spend. Two hats for productivity: When I’m clearing my inbox, responding to comments in a doc, cooking lunch–these...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ensembles vs Committees A useful dichotomy for team dynamics.
over a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Avoiding Flash of Unthemed Code If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before...
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over a year ago
If your site has a dark mode or custom theme, you might have a flash of the default theme before JavaScript loads. Here is the solution.
Blog System/5
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Josh Collinsworth
A New Headless Site with Gridsome A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the...
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over a year ago
A lengthy write-up diving into what headless means, its advantages and disadvantages, some of the techniques and gotchas involved, and, finally, the new design of this site specifically.
How to Be a Stoic
Stoic advice: can a salesperson be a Stoic? [Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org....
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[Feel free to submit a question for this column, addressing it at massimo at howtobeastoic dot org. However, consider that I have a significant backlog, and I may not get to your question for some time, or at all.] D. writes: How should a practising Stoic ethically approach their...
Retail Design Blog
Louis Vuitton store + café by THEVERYMANY As you know, Louis Vuitton has started dabbling in hospitality for a little while now, and it looks...
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One Useful Thing
Personality and Persuasion Learning from Sycophants
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oftwominds-Charles...
The Global Trade Game: Jokers Are Wild There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome....
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There may be no winners of the game of Global Domination (tm), and that is likely the best outcome. Okay, players: jokers are wild, but with a twist: the entire deck is jokers. Since everyone at the table will have five Aces, nobody wins. Welcome to the Trade War Poker...
History Today Feed
The First Men’s Cricket World Cup The First Men’s Cricket World Cup JamesHoare Wed, 06/18/2025 - 08:00
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L’Oréal Office by M Moser Associates L’Oréal, a global leader in the beauty industry, recently collaborated with us to bring a new image...
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L’Oréal, a global leader in the beauty industry, recently collaborated with us to bring a new image and vision to...
Construction Physics
The dream of deregulation - the grid part III For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically...
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over a year ago
For most of the industry’s history, electric power in the US had largely been provided by vertically integrated utility companies that handled every part of the electricity supply: generating it, transmitting it, distributing it to customers, and managing the overall system....
Articles
You don't learn until you ship
over a year ago
Scarlet Ink
Dave's Path to Amazon — And He Makes Fun of the Midwest My path to Amazon wasn't obvious, or all that intentional. But it changed my life forever.
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One Useful Thing
"Do not fear AI, puny humans... that is not meant as a threat." What we can learn from a completely AI written & illustrated lecture
over a year ago
Marian's Blog
16×16 LED Matrix This is a 16×16 RGB LED matrix, made of 256 WS2812B LEDs. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and can...
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over a year ago
This is a 16×16 RGB LED matrix, made of 256 WS2812B LEDs. It’s powered by a Raspberry Pi and can display images and animations. With a game controller attached, it can play games. The pictures below show how I built the frame. Painting the base plate Drawing...
Product Identity
The identity of Product Identity A premiere launching letter
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Birchtree
The worst product Marques Brownlee ever reviewed dies after 10 months Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI...
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4 months ago
Jay Peters for The Verge: HP Is Buying Humane and Shutting Down the AI Pin Humane is selling “key AI capabilities” to HP for $116 million and will stop selling AI Pin, the company announced today. AI Pins that have already been purchased will continue to function normally
Vadim Kravcenko
Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return Question: Answer: The post Valueless CTO: High Salary, No Return appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
Articles
Why I would pay for Twitter
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TokyoDev
The Difficulties of Getting a Software Developer Job in Japan in 2023 Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan...
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Given the current climate in tech globally, people often ask me what the current situation in Japan is. Overall, my impression is that it is nowhere as bad as places like the US, but nevertheless I have been hearing stories of developers struggling to get jobs here. In this...
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I've been biking in Brooklyn for a few years now! It's hard for me to believe it, but I'm now one of the people other bicyclists ask questions to now. I decided to make a zine that answers the most common of those questions: Bike Brooklyn! is a zine that touches on everything I...
The Honest Broker
Investment Funds Are Now Selling the Rock Songs They Bought They will even take less than "fair market value"
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Hear the Isolated Vocals of Peter Gabriel & Kate Bush in “Don’t Give Up”: The Power of Perseverance Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give...
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Just by chance, could you use a song about perseverance and overcoming adversity? Something to give you a little encouragement and reassurance? Then we submit to you “Don’t Give Up,” featuring the isolated vocals of Peter Gabriel and Kate Bush. When he released the song on his...
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Thinking in packages Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in...
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Thinking in packages Path repository Override PSR-4 Autoloading ¶Thinking in packages If you’re in the mindset of writing and using your own Composer packages, no doubt you’ve come across the following problem: “How do I keep the (frequently updated) package code in the main...
Londonist
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Artificial Ignorance
The MCP Revolution Why this open standard is becoming essential infrastructure for AI agents.
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Long before he wrote his masterly novels, Stendhal was transformed by the power of music The post Nights at the Opera appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Could There Be Laws Of Biology? Physics has such nice equations and universal laws. Could we ever expect to find similar principles...
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Physics has such nice equations and universal laws. Could we ever expect to find similar principles or axioms for biology?
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Using Genetic Engineering To Fight Malaria Despite robust efforts to fight it, malaria remains one of the most significant infectious diseases...
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Despite robust efforts to fight it, malaria remains one of the most significant infectious diseases affecting humans. According to UNICEF – ” In 2021, there were 247 million malaria cases globally that led to 619,000 deaths in total. Of these deaths, 77 per cent were children...
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Incentives as selection effects When you apply a new incentive, you select for a new population that prefers the incentive.
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Landmark results in geometry and number theory marked an exciting year for mathematics, at a time when advances in artificial intelligence are starting to transform the subject’s future. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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“I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell personally on the air.” – the BBC controller outlines his reasons for keeping George Orwell off the air     In his his lifetime, George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was thought...
The Marginalian
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Every night, for every human being that ever was and ever will be, the Moon rises to remind us how improbably lucky we are, each of its craters a monument of the odds we prevailed against to exist, a reliquary of the violent collisions that forged our rocky planet lush with life...
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There were thousands of reports: strange aircraft, floating through the sky. A retrospective sum of press accounts finds that some 100,000 people were reported to have witnessed aerial intruders. Despite the scant details associated with most reports, an eager press repeated the...
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
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Interactive navigation in embedding space tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today:...
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tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today: interactive navigation in embedding space. Right now, you prompt most generative models with human language. That works, but it’s imprecise and coarse. If you’re generating an image of an...
Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg on Messenger To get people to ditch WhatsApp and switch to Messenger, it will never be sufficient to be 10%...
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To get people to ditch WhatsApp and switch to Messenger, it will never be sufficient to be 10% better than them or add fun gimmicks on any existing attribute or feature. We will have to offer some new fundamental use case that becomes important to people’s daily lives.
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Soul None Dare Forgive' You know what you’re in for just by reading the title and acknowledging the author: “A Love Song in...
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You know what you’re in for just by reading the title and acknowledging the author: “A Love Song in the Modern Taste” (1733) by Jonathan Swift. For once, the excremental stuff is absent. The poem amounts to a catalog of clichés about love, a sort of anti-Valentine’s Day card....
Making software...
Over-Nesting Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new...
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Over-Nesting 2019-01-06 I think since our design industry moves so quickly and exciting new technologies get released almost daily, that we often forget some of the basics when writing CSS. I bring this up because I've recently worked on a few projects that show a slight...
Londonist
Sadiq Stops The Ball Rolling On Controversial Stratford Sphere Massive Vegas-style venue would be " bulky, unduly dominant and incongruous".
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diamond geezer
100 things I saw yesterday 100 things I saw while I was out yesterday I should probably write a full blogpost about the green...
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100 things I saw while I was out yesterday I should probably write a full blogpost about the green Flibco bus. The new Lynx premium fragrances are Cherry Spritz, Peach Infusion, Cocoa Velvet and Watermelon Freeze. They join Black Vanilla, Blue Lavender, Aqua Bergamot, Emerald...
Seth's Blog
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The scam era is upon us. Aided by AI, borderless currency and the internet of things, there are more people than ever before making a living hustling to steal, impersonate, defraud and otherwise violate our trust. When the world was inconvenient, this was difficult. The banker...
Paul Graham: Essays
The Top Idea in Your Mind
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Retail Design Blog
SHANGXIA Tea store The Shangxia tea space located on the ground floor of Oneitc in Shanghai aims to reinterpret...
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The Shangxia tea space located on the ground floor of Oneitc in Shanghai aims to reinterpret traditional Chinese tea spaces...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Miscellaneous Thoughts on Visual Design Prodded By The Sameness of AI Company Logos Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like...
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Radek Sienkiewicz in a funny-because-its-true piece titled “Why do AI company logos look like buttholes?“: We made a circular shape [logo] with some angles because it looked nice, then wrote flowery language to justify why our…design is actually profound. As someone who has grown...
Old Structures...
Future Site An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the...
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An 1890 view of the south side of the intersection of 23rd Street, Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the narrow triangular block that would, a dozen years later, be the site of the construction of the Flatiron Buidling. My first thought was “would you really want a dentist who...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Upfront Pricing Phenomenon | Out-Of-Pocket Imagine actually knowing what things cost in advance lmao
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Open Culture
Where The Simpsons Began: Discover the Original Shorts That Appeared on The Tracey Ullman Show... When it first went on air in the late nineteen-eighties, Fox had to prove itself capable of playing...
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When it first went on air in the late nineteen-eighties, Fox had to prove itself capable of playing in a televisual league with the likes of NBC, CBS, and ABC. To that end, it began building its prime-time lineup with two original programs more thematically and aesthetically...
somenice
Whistler High Note Trail Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail...
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Gorgeous clear day around the back of Whistler Mountain yesterday. Hiked the High Note Trail backwards from Harmony Lake Loop up to the Peak chair.
Paul Graham: Essays
Founder Control
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War Room — using the native date picker
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Old Structures...
Visible To The Naked Eye Here’s the side wall of a building constructed about twenty-five years ago: I used this building not...
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Here’s the side wall of a building constructed about twenty-five years ago: I used this building not because its construction was particularly bad – it is not – but because the glazed brick veneer on this side wall does a nice job of catching the raking sunlight. The brick color...
Herbert Lui
More responsibility, more failure In the 2010s, Amazon launched a phone. It was a spectacular failure. When a journalist asked CEO...
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In the 2010s, Amazon launched a phone. It was a spectacular failure. When a journalist asked CEO Jeff Bezos about it, Jeff replied, “If you think that’s a big failure, we’re working on much bigger failures right now — and I am not kidding. Some of them are going to make the Fire...
High Signal
Making $15k a month from an AI app Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a...
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Daniel Nguyen is a Vietnamese solo founder making $15,000 a month from his AI app, BoltAI. This is a Mac desktop app which lets you use LLMs straight from your Apple machine. I talked to Daniel about his tips for learning to code, how he made BoltAI and the
Seth's Blog
“Usualing” This is not a real word, but it’s useful nonetheless. When we default to doing what we did without...
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This is not a real word, but it’s useful nonetheless. When we default to doing what we did without examining our options, we’re ‘usualing.’ It’s a helpful way to save time, because we can’t re-examine every possible option or we’d never get out the door in the morning. We wear...
Mark Manson
Why Skills Matter More Than Goals Welcome to the first Monday of the new year. It’s 2022 and if you’re like me, it still feels like...
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Welcome to the first Monday of the new year. It’s 2022 and if you’re like me, it still feels like 2019 was last year. Talk about a mindfuck. This is that time of year where most productive and growth-minded people sit down and focus on their goals, their identity, and who they...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Thermo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: +10 Internet points if you can identify all...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: +10 Internet points if you can identify all three. Today's News: Tomorrow.
Old Structures...
A Survivor From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is...
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From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is given as 1763-1769 Townsend Avenue, in the Bronx, which is good because it’s not like I could ever have identified this just from the photo. The site is less isolated than the photo...
CONTEMPORIST
This Wood-Framed Glass Box Is The Ultimate Backyard Office Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of a backyard office they designed for their...
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Architecture firm SWATT + PARTNERS has shared photos of a backyard office they designed for their clients in Dry Creek Valley, California. The wood-framed glass box hovers above the rugged terrain, it’s placed west of the main house, is partially above a narrow level pad, and...
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Farklı ZK-EVM Türleri
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How to Find Podcasts That Have Been Deleted TLDR, https://megaphone.spotify.com/ rehosts all mp3s
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The Marginalian
Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Continuum From Static to Dynamic Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and...
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Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and “dynamic” don’t have to be binaries that describe an entire application architecture. As Dan describes in his post, “static” or “dynamic” it’s all just computers doing stuff. Computer A...
Vadim Kravcenko
How much equity should a CTO ask for? This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s...
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This is one of the top questions I hear from founders. Being a co-founder is great, and it’s especially awesome […] The post How much equity should a CTO ask for? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Dan Quach Blog
Europe These are a mix of stories from Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia from some past trips. Make Serbia...
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These are a mix of stories from Norway, Croatia, and Slovenia from some past trips. Make Serbia Great Again Our first stop is the city of Dubrovnik in Croatia, which has become well known being the primary filming location for Game of Thrones seasons 2 – 8.  I watched the series,...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
Closing Quantum Flytrap
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Christopher Butler
The Art Secret Behind All Great Design Composition Speaks Before Content When I was a young child, I would often pull books off of my...
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Composition Speaks Before Content When I was a young child, I would often pull books off of my father’s shelf and stare at their pages. In a clip from a 1987 home video that has established itself in our family canon — my father opens our apartment door, welcoming my newborn...
Style over Substance
Peak Design quick-connect Leash and Cuff straps My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster...
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My camera collection has been growing steadily over the years, but it’s been expanding even faster during the COVID-19 lockdowns. Online shopping therapy keeps me sane while I’m cooped up at home, and with easy access to eBay and other auction sites my GAS – photographers...
Marcus on AI
Meta pirated at least 101 of my books and articles, and tens of millions of others And they knew perfectly well what they were doing
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Seth's Blog
Birthing tech No one knows the name of the maternity nurse who helped with the delivery of Marie Curie or...
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No one knows the name of the maternity nurse who helped with the delivery of Marie Curie or Esperanza Spaulding. You might grow up to be a genius, but the team that helped your mom give birth don’t have to be geniuses–they simply have to be pretty good at their craft. The same is...
Mark Manson
4 Fascinating Psychological Theories That Explain Your Whole Life Welcome, dear readers, to a mind-bending adventure into the labyrinth of the human psyche. We're...
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Welcome, dear readers, to a mind-bending adventure into the labyrinth of the human psyche. We're going to embark on an odyssey through the catacombs of cognition, the jungles of the subconscious, and a wild ride into the boundless depths of human behavior—with four psychological...
The American Scholar
Brown Wasps The post Brown Wasps appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Yale E360
Why do companies hire people to be idle a lot of the time? The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000...
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The biggest tech companies employ a lot of engineers. In 2021, Microsoft employed over 100,000 software engineers. That is just mind boggling scale to me. It's roughly as many people as the whole county I grew up in. They are paying a lot of engineers. Some of them do very...
the singularity is...
Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
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Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
Louwrentius
Building a RAID 6 array of mixed drives To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect...
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To be honest, 4 TB of storage isn't really necessary for home usage. However, I like to collect movies in full DVD or HD quality and so I need some storage. I decided to build myself a NAS box based on Debian Etch. Samba is used to allow clients to access the data. The machine...
The Universe of...
David McShane's mural with 18 Franks, revealed Yesterday I offered Gentle Readers a chance to identify the 18 famous Franks in David McShane's...
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Yesterday I offered Gentle Readers a chance to identify the 18 famous Franks in David McShane's mural. Benjamin Franklin Frankie Avalon Detail of ornament from the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts building, designed by architect Frank Furness A frankfurter Aretha...
Sean Carroll
The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion Just in case there are any blog readers out there who haven’t heard from other channels: I have a...
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Just in case there are any blog readers out there who haven’t heard from other channels: I have a new book out! The Biggest Ideas in the Universe: Space, Time, and Motion is Volume One of a planned three-volume series. It grew out of the videos that I did in 2020, trying to offer...
CONTEMPORIST
20 Award Winning Architectural Designs From A Design Award & Competition This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award &...
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This article has been brought to you by A’ Design Award and Competition. A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing award winners from 114 different design disciplines. A’ Design Award winning...
Ruud van Asseldonk
A perspective shift on automated market makers through MEV
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Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: we are the 99%! In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
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In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2020.
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The Network School We’re starting a new school near Singapore for the dark talent of the world. Apply online at...
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We’re starting a new school near Singapore for the dark talent of the world. Apply online at ns.com/apply.
On Life and Lisp
Software freedom isn't about licenses -- it's about power. A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When...
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A restrictive end-user license agreement is one way a company can exert power over the user. When the free software movement was founded thirty years ago, these restrictive licenses were the primary user-hostile power dynamic, so permissive and copyleft licenses emerged as...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Bulletproof Method to Solving Problems Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll...
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Step 1: Write down the problem in a message you plan to send to a co-worker. Most of the time you’ll solve the problem before you’re done with Step 1. However, if you complete Step 1 and still have the problem, continue to Step 2. Step 2: Hit the “Send” button. Shortly after...
Commoncog
Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators?...
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How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.
Notes on software...
Writing a simple JSON parser Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format...
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Writing a JSON parser is one of the easiest ways to get familiar with parsing techniques. The format is extremely simple. It's defined recursively so you get a slight challenge compared to, say, parsing Brainfuck; and you probably already use JSON. Aside from that last point,...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 030: OpenAI's $1B revenue September 1, 2023
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Noahpinion
My sci-fi novel recommendations A repost with some updates, just in time for the holidays.
a year ago
Wrong Side of...
Welcoming the stranger Caldwell's 'Reflections on the Revolution in Europe', Part Two
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Arduino Blog
MicroPython programming on Arduino just got easier If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this...
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If you’ve been exploring MicroPython on Arduino, you already know how powerful and flexible this Python-based language can be for microcontroller programming. Whether you’re a pro or just starting out, MicroPython opens up a new world of quick prototyping and clean, readable...
Jonas Hietala
We can build things! Finally we have some sort of progress! We can now build rooms and place and remove objects! Yay!!...
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Finally we have some sort of progress! We can now build rooms and place and remove objects! Yay!! But we still haven’t even begun with the game logic, resource management, the actual mining mechanic, multiple levels, actual tasks for our workers. But it’s something.
Rest of World -...
Starlink is coming to India. Here’s what to know An alliance with Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos, opens the door for Elon Musk’s satellite...
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An alliance with Airtel, one of India’s largest telcos, opens the door for Elon Musk’s satellite giant to access the world’s second-largest internet user base.
Retail Design Blog
LE LABO KYOTO MACHIYA store by Jo Nagasaka / Schemata Architects Le Labo is a fragrance brand from New York. I first became aware of the brand in 2016, when many...
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TheCollector
Yoko Ono’s Tate Modern Retrospective Heads to US After a sell-out stint at London’s Tate Modern, a major Yoko Ono retrospective is hopping across the...
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After a sell-out stint at London’s Tate Modern, a major Yoko Ono retrospective is hopping across the pond. The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago announced it will be the only American institution to host Yoko Ono: Music of the Mind. The exhibition will open on October 18, 2025,...
TheCollector
Sir Lancelot: King Arthur’s Greatest Knight and Betrayer In the Arthurian legends, King Arthur is portrayed as having a large group of loyal knights. Perhaps...
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In the Arthurian legends, King Arthur is portrayed as having a large group of loyal knights. Perhaps the most famous of all these knights today is Lancelot. He is generally portrayed in the legends as the greatest of Arthur’s knights, on almost equal standing with Arthur himself....
diamond geezer
London Wetland Centre I'm a firm believer that if you wait long enough a lot of expensive places can eventually be visited...
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I'm a firm believer that if you wait long enough a lot of expensive places can eventually be visited for free. So it is with the London Wetland Centre, indeed all WWT reserves, which are offering free entry this week to celebrate World Wetlands Day. I last visited in 2006 when...
diamond geezer
Charles Holden 150 Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Holden, tube station builder extraordinaire,...
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Today is the 150th anniversary of the birth of Charles Holden, tube station builder extraordinaire, on 12th May 1875. I might have written a full-on 150th birthday post, but I'm still in Dorset following my nephew's wedding and Charles didn't build anything round here. As far...
The American Scholar
Reborn in the City of Light At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make...
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At a time when Paris was an incubator of modernism, a group of bold American women arrived to make art out of their lives The post Reborn in the City of Light appeared first on The American Scholar.
This Space
Proust regained I recommend very highly for anyone who has read or not read In Search of Lost Time Brian Nelson's...
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I recommend very highly for anyone who has read or not read In Search of Lost Time Brian Nelson's The Swann Way, the first volume in a new translation of the entire novel by diverse hands, in this fine paperback from Oxford World's Classics. His translation of the chapter Swann...
Retail Design Blog
Matsuri restaurant renewal Founded in 1986 by a French entrepreneur Eric Woog, Matsuri introduced kaiten sushi, or conveyor...
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Founded in 1986 by a French entrepreneur Eric Woog, Matsuri introduced kaiten sushi, or conveyor belt sushi, to Paris with...
Flashbak
Clubbers And Youth Tribes in Post-Punk London : 1978-1986 “As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those...
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“As a photographer, I go as the casual observer and stand in the shadows. When I first went to those Tuesday nights at Billy’s [1978] it was like walking into a Hieronymous Bosch painting – furtive but lively, very decadent reflecting what they were into, and yet with a sense of...
Josh Thompson
Preparing to adopt a habit There are many habits I wish I had. More times than I can count, I have tried to get up early. I...
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There are many habits I wish I had. More times than I can count, I have tried to get up early. I faithfully set my alarm for some crack-of-dawn time that leaves me with a reasonable amount of sleep, but gives me time to myself before I have to get ready for work. Almost as many...
Jonas Hietala
Postmortem: Jonas IceCream Stand Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it!...
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Ah my latest game Jonas IceCream Stand is finished and up and running and I’m really proud of it! And thanks for the feedback guys, it’s always welcome. I spent almost exactly fifty hours on this game and that’s by far the most I’ve spent on a 7day project. To be honest it’s...
Applied Cartography
Notes on 'Founder Mode' / Lieutenancy In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom...
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In Paul Graham’s latest essay, he writes: The theme of Brian's talk was that the conventional wisdom about how to run larger companies is mistaken. As Airbnb grew, well-meaning people advised him that he had to run the company in a certain way for it to scale. Their advice could...
mtlynch.io
Educational Products: Month 9 Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm...
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Highlights I look for ways to limit the number of half-complete tasks I’m juggling. I brainstorm ways to talk with more of my early readers. I have trouble accepting a design decision in the Gleam language. Goal grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
What's next after the AI bubble bursts? In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five...
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In the mid-1800s, America went mad for rail. Over thirty thousand miles of rail were built in a five year period. This was all largely…
xkcd.com
Sheet Bend
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Why Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, this is not my best comic, this is THE best...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, this is not my best comic, this is THE best comic. Today's News: Thanks geeks of Austin for coming to see me!
TheCollector
John Smith: Champion of Jamestown or Tall-Tale Weaver? There is no denying that Captain John Smith led an extraordinary life. From humble beginnings on a...
a month ago
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a month ago
There is no denying that Captain John Smith led an extraordinary life. From humble beginnings on a farm to life as a soldier and later a founding member of Jamestown’s Virginia Colony, Smith’s existence was rife with adventure and accomplishments. Contemporary accounts, then...
Blog - Practical...
Which Power Plant Does My Electricity Come From? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2000, the power...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In June of 2000, the power shut off across much of the San Francisco Bay area. There simply wasn’t enough electricity to meet demands, so more than a million customers were disconnected in California's largest...
Rest of World -...
U.S. tariffs threaten Mexico’s booming EV sector Despite the government's efforts to protect local businesses, geopolitical tensions could derail...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Despite the government's efforts to protect local businesses, geopolitical tensions could derail Mexico's ambitions to become a major EV manufacturing hub.
The Berkeley...
How to Evaluate Jailbreak Methods: A Case Study with the StrongREJECT Benchmark When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
When we began studying jailbreak evaluations, we found a fascinating paper claiming that you could jailbreak frontier LLMs simply by translating forbidden prompts into obscure languages. Excited by this result, we attempted to reproduce it and found something unexpected. The...
Christopher Butler
Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World) As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of human interaction with information is evolving. Machines are becoming our primary intermediaries for searching, synthesizing, and summarizing information, often performing these tasks...
The Universe of...
My reply to the people who want to designate my neighborhood a "historic district" Last week I received a widely circulated email that began: With tall apartment buildings being...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Last week I received a widely circulated email that began: With tall apartment buildings being erected all around, we feel it is ever more important to preserve our community. I sent this reply. I have been a Spruce Hill homeowner for 16 years. I had to miss the June 26...
Seth's Blog
ChatGPT for you AI is a mystery. To many, it’s a threat. It turns out that understanding a mystery not only makes it...
a year ago
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a year ago
AI is a mystery. To many, it’s a threat. It turns out that understanding a mystery not only makes it feel less like a threat, it gives us the confidence to make it into something better. I use ChatGPT4 just about every day, and I’m often surprised at how frequently it surprises...
Seth's Blog
The missing post I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was driving, but when I arrived, it was gone. Vanished. So I went searching for it, trying out dozens of possible ideas. I never found it. But I did find five other […]