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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.
a year ago
detreville
🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶 (A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: We can get sad alllll niiiiight lonnnnng Today's...
over a year ago
Citation Needed
Caroline Ellison: A woman with agency or a helpless pawn? Why did the former Alameda Research CEO receive only two years imprisonment for her role in the FTX...
9 months ago
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 1 (Choices) I’ve been to Canada a few times but never for very long. One time when I was a kid, maybe ten years...
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I’ve been to Canada a few times but never for very long. One time when I was a kid, maybe ten years old, we went to Toronto for a couple of days. It was so long ago that I can’t even remember most of the details anymore. However, every trip I’ve done afterwards lasted no […] The...
Ken Shirriff's blog
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard...
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5 months ago
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers. This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's "cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults. However, this metaphor has three major problems. First, the pop-culture depiction of cargo...
Paul Graham: Essays
A Way to Detect Bias
over a year ago
Josh Thompson
Exploring source code via Griddler and Griddler-Mailgun Proofpoint had a two-day “hack day” recently. My coworker John and I teamed up on a cool little...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Proofpoint had a two-day “hack day” recently. My coworker John and I teamed up on a cool little feature. I’ll give some context in a moment, but this post isn’t about the hack day, or email - it’s about exploring source code. Here’s the context: In my day-to-day, I work on a...
SatPost by Trung...
An Ode to Skype PLUS: Erewhon's $19 Strawberry, Citi's UX Problem.
4 months ago
The Works in...
The asbestos times How asbestos saved cities, before we realized its risks
a year ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
10 things we've learned about pricing for SaaS startups Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Originally published in our Substack newsletter, Product for Engineers . It's all about helping engineers and founders build better products, and…
TheCollector
10 Must-See Monuments on the Acropolis Athens, the cradle of Western civilization, has stood as a beacon of culture, philosophy, and...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Athens, the cradle of Western civilization, has stood as a beacon of culture, philosophy, and democracy for over 3,000 years. Once the heart of ancient Greece, this city flourished during the 5th century BCE, producing legendary figures like Socrates, Plato, and Pericles. Its...
Odds and Ends of...
Reels are destroying our brains and I hate them It's time for a new moral panic
2 months ago
Mazdak
How Public Company Executives Borrow Against Their Shares to Defer Taxes For ultra-wealthy individuals and executives of public companies, borrowing against their shares is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
For ultra-wealthy individuals and executives of public companies, borrowing against their shares is a powerful financial strategy.
Londonist
New Barbie Exhibition To Open In London Next Year Hi Barbie!
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
What in the Ethereum application ecosystem excites me
over a year ago
Tinloof - Blog
How to create & manage a Postgres database in NodeJS from scratch Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Notice: Before you jump in and start reading, it's important to understand that this is not a tutorial you'd read while sitting in public transportation or on your toilet seat. You might want to find a nice place to sit for an hour and follow the tutorial. We have 1 goal: set up...
bt RSS Feed
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting...
a year ago
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a year ago
Installing WordPress on NearlyFreeSpeech 2024-05-27 I recently went through the process of porting over my wife’s small business website (built off of WordPress + Woocommerce) from EasyWP to NearlyFreeSpeech. Although the process was fairly easy-going, I thought I would post my...
Open Culture
How a 16th-Century Explorer’s Sailing Ship Worked: An Animated Video Takes You on a Comprehensive... These days, it feels as if you can’t go very long at all before scrolling past another announcement...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
These days, it feels as if you can’t go very long at all before scrolling past another announcement about some new technological development (realized or scheduled) related to space exploration. Some react to this by wondering what could possibly be out there in the universe to...
Blog - Bitfield...
Catching grace Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Meditation is easy when you know what to do: absolutely nothing! It's hard at first, like trying to look at the back of your own head, but there's a knack to it.
HTMHell
#34 a button is not a link Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Bad code <button type="button" onclick="window.open('https://example.com/other-page')">Link target description</button> Issues and how to fix them A button opening a link will be unexpected behavior for screen reader users. No matter how it is styled. Links disguised as buttons...
Noahpinion
If and when you live in a dictatorship, how will you know? Trump's power is far from absolute, but he's always trying to see what he can get away with.
3 months ago
Common Edge
The Creative Power Produced by Embracing Paradox There is a keen sense of insight that comes from being in the in-between spaces of a largely binary...
a year ago
Artificial Ignorance
The Claude 4 System Card is a Wild Read The newest Claude, now with 84% more blackmail.
a month ago
Mazdak
Apple’s Next Big Bet? The Future of Robotics and the Smart Home For decades, Apple has been known for revolutionizing industries.
4 months ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thinking Big and Small It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give you a good example. Do you go out and raise venture capital? Well, it would be nice to have more money. But then...
Trying to Understand...
What Is This "War" Of Which You Speak? Do we mean what they mean?
2 months ago
Tech + Economics +...
The eternal victimhood of the right-wing mind. The right-wing has become obsessed with what they term the 'Victimhood Olympics.' Conservative...
a year ago
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a year ago
The right-wing has become obsessed with what they term the 'Victimhood Olympics.' Conservative politicians and pundits have made a cottage industry out of the idea that progressives indulge in a competitive display of grievances, vying for the spotlight of sympathy and the...
TheCollector
Escaping the Void: What Is the Human Paradox? The intellect has crowned the human being at the summit of the animal kingdom. With their...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The intellect has crowned the human being at the summit of the animal kingdom. With their unprecedently refined ability to rationalize, analyze, and self-reflect, humans could manipulate and control their environment like no other species. However, such an extraordinary gift of...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #216 Trading Berkshire, The Theban Plays, The laws of economics, Fed fairy tales, Buffett's "retirement",...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Trading Berkshire, The Theban Plays, The laws of economics, Fed fairy tales, Buffett's "retirement", Caro's writing process, Buffett's ground rules, Sherwin Williams, Mysterious owls
alexwlchan
Preserving pixels in Paris Last month, I was in Paris for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, a two-day event to discuss the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last month, I was in Paris for the IIPC Web Archiving Conference, a two-day event to discuss the preservation of websites and social media. It was my first time attending, and I was there with both a professional and a personal interest. This post has some thoughts and photos...
Ryan Hoover's...
Product Hunt + AngelList✌️😸
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Raking Sunlight Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer...
a year ago
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a year ago
Pro tip, as computer manuals said back when (a) everyone was not yet comfortable using a computer and (b) computer manuals still existed: environmental conditions can help in building investigation. For example, I like conducting facade inspections on very cold days because you...
DYNOMIGHT
Rewarding ideas If you were in South America 12,000 years ago and you discovered where a bunch of glyptodonts were...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
If you were in South America 12,000 years ago and you discovered where a bunch of glyptodonts were hiding or you figured out a better glyptodont hunting method, you could tell your tribal band and later they would say, thank you for helping us kill these delicious glyptodonts we...
Asterisk
How to Prevent the Next Pandemic Modern technology makes bioterrorism seem increasingly likely. If we can get our act together, there...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Modern technology makes bioterrorism seem increasingly likely. If we can get our act together, there are smart ways to prevent it.
Internal Tech Emails
Elon Musk's texts I read the article. It is weak sauce and still makes me sound like a liar. It is filled with...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I read the article. It is weak sauce and still makes me sound like a liar. It is filled with equivocation and in no way indicates the strong interest you conveyed in person.
TokyoDev
Supporting communities that empower women in technology Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Every year, TokyoDev conducts a survey of international developers living in Japan. In the last survey's results, published in December 2022, I explored [the connection between gender and compensation](/insights/2022-developer-survey#salary-by-gender). The results were...
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course Week 14: Roman Decadence During week 14 of the humanities crash course, I explored foundational myths of Western Culture —...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
During week 14 of the humanities crash course, I explored foundational myths of Western Culture — written during the Roman Empire when decadence was setting in. I paired them with a classic film about social decadence set in mid-20th century Rome. Readings Gioa’s recommendations...
Paul Cudenec
Vote for Nobody! Nobody cares.
8 months ago
Londonist
300 Of Elton John's Photos Go On Display At V&A This Summer Marilyn Monroe, the AIDS crisis and 9/11 feature.
a year ago
Seth's Blog
PW 5: Measuring the right thing Last in the series… Most of us were indoctrinated to believe that completing chores is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last in the series… Most of us were indoctrinated to believe that completing chores is the appropriate measure of productivity. “I did all my homework.” Doing all your homework is a measure for industrial bosses. But what, precisely, did your homework ever do for you? The actual...
Home on Erik...
Never attribute to stupidity that which is adequately explained by opportunity cost Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hanlon's razor is a classic aphorism I'm sure you have heard before: Never attribute to malice that which can be adequately explained by stupidity. I've found that neither malice nor stupidity is the most common reason when you don't understand why something is in a certain way.
Posts on Made of...
Write testable code by writing generic code Alex Gaynor recently asked this question in an IRC channel I hang out in (a channel which contains...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Alex Gaynor recently asked this question in an IRC channel I hang out in (a channel which contains several software engineers nearly as obsessed with software testing as I am): uhh, so I’m writing some code to handle an econnreset… how do I test this? This is a good question!...
James Cheshire
If Data Could Talk Podcast We sat down with Andy Cotgreave for the If Data Could Talk podcast to give some behind the scenes...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We sat down with Andy Cotgreave for the If Data Could Talk podcast to give some behind the scenes insights about our collaborative process and some of the work that went into Atlas of the Invisible.
Quanta Magazine
Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results. The post Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Not Boring by Packy...
Hyperlegible 002: Utsav Mamoria How to live an intellectually rich life
3 months ago
Construction Physics
How to Build a $20 Billion Semiconductor Fab For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the last several decades, one avenue of technological progress has towered over nearly everything else: semiconductors. Semiconductors are materials that can have their conductivity varied by many orders of magnitude, which makes it possible to selectively block and allow the...
Marian's Blog
Aquarium Innensicht mit Gopro Wegen meinem Quadrocopter habe ich eine Gopro, die ja auch wasserfest ist. Da war es naheliegend,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Wegen meinem Quadrocopter habe ich eine Gopro, die ja auch wasserfest ist. Da war es naheliegend, die mal im Aquarium auszuprobieren. Bei dem Aquarium stand einiges an Arbeit an, da das Glasbecken undicht war, und alles komplett ausgeräumt werden muss, um das Becken...
Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI The Drumbeat of Releases Continues… Notebook Assistant Chat inside Any Notebook Bring Us Your...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The Drumbeat of Releases Continues… Notebook Assistant Chat inside Any Notebook Bring Us Your Gigabytes! Introducing Tabular Manipulating Data in Tabular Getting Data into Tabular Cleaning Data for Tabular The Structure of Tabular Tabular Everywhere Algebra with Symbolic Arrays...
Flashbak
Grant Wood: America The Sensual Grant Wood’s most famous picture is American Gothic (1930), that painting stepped in storytelling...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Grant Wood’s most famous picture is American Gothic (1930), that painting stepped in storytelling and subversive wit of two farmers looking lean, staid and weather-beaten as they stand guard before their lean and staid home. But there’s lot more to him that than hit. Wood was a...
Common Edge
Redefining Authorship: How AI Is Changing What It Means to Be an Architect The rise of artificial intelligence will challenge architects to rediscover their unique value.
3 months ago
Calculated Risk
ICE Mortgage Monitor: Home Prices Continue to Cool Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: ICE Mortgage Monitor: Home Prices Continue to Cool Brief...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Today, in the Real Estate Newsletter: ICE Mortgage Monitor: Home Prices Continue to Cool Brief excerpt: House Price Growth Continues to Slow • Improved inventory levels are providing more options and a softer price dynamic for homeowners shopping this spring There is much...
Rest of World -...
The little ride-hailing app that could catch Uber and Bolt in Kenya Founder Kamal Budhabhatti’s winning strategy targets corporate clients.
6 months ago
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Rise from the deep A comic about Twitter. View on my website
over a year ago
Blog of Simple...
HIPAA and mental health
a year ago
The Rational Walk
GEICO Prioritizes Profits Over Market Share Berkshire Hathaway's auto insurer has returned to consistent profitability in 2023 but at the price...
a year ago
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a year ago
Berkshire Hathaway's auto insurer has returned to consistent profitability in 2023 but at the price of ceding market share that will be costly to regain in the future.
Arduino Blog
This Arduino-controlled Spin Meister helps spin up the perfect pizza Dedicated pizza ovens are all the rage right now, as they provide a better-distributed and higher...
a year ago
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a year ago
Dedicated pizza ovens are all the rage right now, as they provide a better-distributed and higher heat that many find more preferable than a conventional kitchen oven. But even a nice gas-powered pizza oven like the Ooni Koda 12 will have some hot spots and cold spots. To get an...
Home on Erik...
Subway waiting math Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why does it suck to wait for things? In a previous post I analyzed a NYC subway dataset and found that at some point, quite early, it's worth just giving up. This isn't a proof that the subway doesn't run on time – in fact it might actually proves that the subway runs really...
Artificial Ignorance
LLMs are getting dumber and we have no idea why Five theories that could explain how chatbots are getting worse.
10 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
Why Denmark and Finland Are Must-Visits for Foodies
10 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
In-depth: PostHog vs Matomo PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
PostHog and Matomo are both open-source analytics platforms you can self-host on your own infrastructure, giving you complete control over your data…
Applied Cartography
Finding null JSON values in Postgres Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Postgres' JSONB functionality is fast and useful but when I find myself dropping down from the Django ORM into SQL to do weird things, the syntax strikes me as confusing and arcane. As such, when I need to do esoteric things it takes me longer time than I'd like, and in hopes...
The Elysian
Democrats Need a Mamdani-Type to Win If you're still talking about his rent freeze and grocery policies, you're missing the point.
a week ago
TheCollector
Remains of Ancient Roman Wall Paintings Found in Spain Spanish archaeologists unearthed over 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once decorated the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Spanish archaeologists unearthed over 4,000 fragments of wall paintings that once decorated the Roman villa of Barberes Sud in the town of Villajoyosa. By restoring and reassembling the painted pieces, conservators are beginning to reveal the rich decoration of the stately Roman...
A Collection of...
Collections: Phalanx’s Twilight, Legion’s Triumph, Part IVc: Perseus This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa,...
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This is the third part of the fourth part of our four(ish) part (Ia, Ib, IIa, IIb, IIIa, IIIb, IVa, IVb) look at the how the Roman military system and its manipular legion were able to defeat the Hellenistic military system and its Macedonian sarisa phalanx in the third and...
Rest of World -...
Illegal wildlife trafficking thrives in Facebook groups for “animal lovers” “It’s very easy to sell on Facebook, and very easy to earn money. Not to brag.”
over a year ago
Escaping Flatland
A funny thing about curiosity Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But to go there you have to do things that others will think stupid and embarrassing.
The Works in...
570 million Frenchmen France's decline coincided with a collapse in its birth rate – now we know why.
2 months ago
Working Theorys
The Co-Sign That Changes Everything Ascendancy in any domain is a game of two moves: self-made wins and high-status vouches. You...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Ascendancy in any domain is a game of two moves: self-made wins and high-status vouches. You alternate between the two, taking leaps from one step to the next, aiming for that mythical high point (before either crashing down or fading away under the same community’s judgment or,...
NeuroLogica Blog
3D Printing With Metallic Gel One of the futuristic technologies that I find most promising is 3D printing (additive...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One of the futuristic technologies that I find most promising is 3D printing (additive manufacturing). 3D printing has already created a revolution in manufacturing, but I think the general public does not have a high awareness of this technology because it is not yet at the...
The Diff
Why do Venture Funds Target a Particular Ownership Level? Plus! The Path of Deployment; The Long Tail; Non-News; Data; Models
2 months ago
The American Scholar
‘God-Knows-What-Kind-of-Classic’ Why shouldn’t America’s federal buildings speak to us in a language encompassing the old as well as...
a month ago
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a month ago
Why shouldn’t America’s federal buildings speak to us in a language encompassing the old as well as the new? The post ‘God-Knows-What-Kind-of-Classic’ appeared first on The American Scholar.
somenice
Russet Lake Early Summer An early canvas of Fissile mountain reflected in Russet Lake. This time early summer when there was...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
An early canvas of Fissile mountain reflected in Russet Lake. This time early summer when there was still a bit of ice on the lake and the mountain tops are covered with snow. The painting is framed in western red cedar. Russet Lake Early Summer by Andrew SmithAcrylic on canvas10...
Willem's Blog
Free from the iCloud: Escaping Apple Photos Recently I freed myself from Apple Photos, using free software to manage my photo library. Read...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Recently I freed myself from Apple Photos, using free software to manage my photo library. Read along to find out what software I use and how to make it play nice with your devices.
Piotr Migdał's Blog
DALL·E 2 and transcendence - generating esoteric images with AI Hint: end prompts with “religious art”, “stained glass”, “esoteric art”
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
The Indian EV startup navigating short-lived government subsidies Prashant Vashishtha is the founder and chairman of Sokudo Electric India.
a year ago
Machine Learning for...
Top AI Articles and Resources April 2025 A noise-free curated roundup of the best resources for machine learning engineers
2 months ago
alexwlchan
Getting faster Jekyll builds with caching in plugins This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for...
a year ago
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a year ago
This website is a static site built with Jekyll, and recently I overhauled the process for generating the site. This should be invisible if you’re just a reader, but it makes a big difference to me – like any software project, I’d accumulated cruft and complexity, and it was time...
Daniel Bourke
Apple M3 Machine Learning Speed Test I put my M1 Pro against Apple's new M3, M3 Pro, M3 Max, a NVIDIA GPU and Google Colab.
a year ago
Never Met a Science
There's Gold in Them Thar Reels Selling Gold Rushes
8 months ago
Joel Gascoigne
How to name your startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Choosing a name is one of the parts of a startup I find the most difficult. It’s also something you can easily get hung up on. We all know that the key thing is to move on to actually
African History...
A history of the south-western Saharan towns of Tichitt, Walata, Wadan and Chinguetti (800-1912) Trade and civilization on west-africa's desert frontier
over a year ago
Nothing Human
The Hero as Flexible Bureaucrat against efficiency and accountability
a week ago
Left To Write
The Narrative Fallacy How narratives can distort our perception of reality and what to do against it
a year ago
A Weekly Dose of...
Favorite Books of 2023 For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year,...
a year ago
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a year ago
For the fifteenth and last time on this blog, I'm highlighting my favorite books of the year, selected from the many books I reviewed or featured as "Book Briefs" on this blog, and the few titles that I reviewed at World-Architects. From the 86 books I featured in 2023, 15 (or...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Secrets of Crete
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
What sort of bicycle? While it’s likely that you own a bike, you probably don’t have a front-wheel recumbent bicycle in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While it’s likely that you own a bike, you probably don’t have a front-wheel recumbent bicycle in your garage. Even though it’s more efficient, more comfortable and often faster. How did that happen? In 1933, a twenty-year old speed record was broken by a racer on a recumbent...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quote Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This isn't quite on the level of the time Hemingway said 'Fuck literature' but it *is* more out-of-context. Today's News: Right here.
escape the algorithm
The Scan Artist What it means to copy the world
a year ago
Nela Dunato Art &...
Free Mixed Media Art Supplies Compatibility Chart Behold: the most detailed free art mediums compatibility reference! The chart shows how different...
a year ago
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a year ago
Behold: the most detailed free art mediums compatibility reference! The chart shows how different art mediums interact together and whether they can be safely layered on top of each other.
mtlynch.io
My $6k Advance as a Self-Published Technical Author I just received $5,947 in advance sales for my first technical book, even though it’s only 25%...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I just received $5,947 in advance sales for my first technical book, even though it’s only 25% complete, and I’m self-publishing it. The book is called Refactoring English, and it’s a guide for software developers to improve their writing. In March, I ran a three-week pre-sale...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Ontario, Day 4 (Penetanguishene and Beyond) I had absolutely no idea how to pronounce Penetanguishene, and I still don’t. Typing it isn’t any...
a week ago
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a week ago
I had absolutely no idea how to pronounce Penetanguishene, and I still don’t. Typing it isn’t any easier. I had to cut-and-paste the name to make sure I got it right. Nonetheless, that’s where we pointed the car on our fourth day in Ontario, about an hour northeast of...
mtlynch.io
Go Programming Blueprints by Mat Ryer I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program in Go. I found the book hit or miss. Some chapters were fascinating and taught me valuable Go lessons, while others felt boring and got too bogged down in the minutiae of...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Do you really need to set a theme color to color Safari's UI? When it was announced that websites can change the color of Safari’s UI, I was eager to try it...
over a year ago
Eric Bailey
<code>aria-label</code> is a code smell The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA)...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The aria-label property is made available to us by the Accessible Rich Internet Applications (ARIA) standard. It allows a property/value declaration in HTML as a way of providing an accessible name for an interactive element. Accessible names Accessible names use text to identify...
Irrational...
No Wrong Doors. Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some governmental agencies have started to adopt No Wrong Door policies, which aim to provide help–often health or mental health services–to individuals even if they show up to the wrong agency to request help. The core insight is that the employees at those agencies are far...
Computer Things
What does "Undecidable" mean, anyway Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and...
a month ago
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a month ago
Systems Distributed I'll be speaking at Systems Distributed next month! The talk is brand new and will aim to showcase some of the formal methods mental models that would be useful in mainstream software development. It has added some extra stress on my schedule, though, so...
A Beautiful Site
Flushing DNS cache on macOS Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here's the best way to flush DNS cache on macOS: sudo dscacheutil -flushcache; sudo killall -HUP mDNSResponder; say cache flushed Notice that last part — that's why this is the best method. You get an audible "cache flushed" almost instantaneously, and the whole process becomes...
Open Culture
Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in... Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been...
5 months ago
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Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been more widely known. “With his distinctive hair, gentle voice, and signature expressions such as ‘happy little trees,’ he’s an enduring icon,” writes Michael J. Mooney in an...
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Making code reusable is not an art, it's a job Extensibility of software is a weird phenomenon, very poorly understood in the software industry. This might seem strange to say, as you are reading this in a web browser, on an operating system, desktop or mobile. They are by all...
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Check 1, 2 is the mic on? Most AI doom scenarios are nonsense. The idea of a rogue computer behaving in a way no humans want never made sense to me, only to Hollywood who doesn’t know all that much about computers. Paul Christiano has one of my favorite takes, that the creation...
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Gordon Bell passed on this month. I was a latecomer in Gordon Bell’s life.  But he made a lasting impact on mine. The first time I laid eyes on Gordon Bell was in 1984 outside a restaurant in a Boston suburb when he pulled up in a Porsche. I was the head of Marketing for […]
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Introducing TagVault Security Mount for AirTag Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It...
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Having had our skis stolen, we wanted to design the ultimate AirTag ski and snowboard mount. It needed to be ultra-tough so it couldn't get knocked off, waterproof, hard to remove, and discreet. After a lot of design, testing, and iteration, we have TagVault Security Mount for...
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After 2003’s Metro Maps of the World and 2015’s Transit Maps of the World (our review here), this is Mark Ovenden’s third offering on the subject of global transit maps and diagrams. The question to be asked, then, is simply – is a new book on the same subject worth it? In a...
Computer Things
Texttools dot py I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain...
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I make a lot of personal software tools. One of these is "texttools.py", which is easiest to explain with an image: Paste text in the top box, choose a transform, output appears in the bottom box. I can already do most of these transformations in vim, or with one of the many...
Stoic Simple
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In today's tumultuous world, it's easy to feel overwhelmed by the constant barrage of events, emotions, and distractions around us. Many of us seek a sense of inner peace, a place of refuge from the chaos of the outside world. While there are many paths to inner peace, one...
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The current T-34 keyboard layout I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is...
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I’ve been documenting my own keyboard layout in a series for a while now. But as the layout is constantly changing it’s been difficult to piece together how the layout currently looks like, so this post tries to show how the layout looks right now in it’s entirety. If you want to...
Seth's Blog
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Peter Drucker didn’t say “culture eats strategy for breakfast,” but reality rarely gets in the way of a good quote. But what does it mean? I think what ‘not Drucker’ meant was that MBA tactics will always be subverted by the power of systems, and that systems disguise themselves...
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After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally...
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Britta Späth has dedicated her career to proving a single, central conjecture. She’s finally succeeded, alongside her partner, Marc Cabanes. The post After 20 Years, Math Couple Solves Major Group Theory Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Languages you can run in the browser, part 1: Python, JavaScript, SQLite This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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May 2022: $7,839 MRR, travel, experiments, and a new app. Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates...
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Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates in May that I want to share with you all. Let’s go! Welcome 128 new subscribers since the last issue! If you are new here, this is a monthly newsletter of my indie hacking journey....
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Kathmandu is making taxi drivers switch to EVs. Not all drivers can afford one The Xpres-T, made by Indian carmaker Tata, is the only EV approved for use as a taxi in Nepal. It...
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For the past few months I’ve been heads down building an AI-powered timeline generator tool for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker software: The tool – which is free to use and available on Preceden’s homepage – lets you type in a topic or detailed description of a timeline and it...
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patch-package can bail you out of some bad situations by Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your...
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Let’s say you’re running some web application and suddenly you hit a bug in one of your dependencies. It’s all deployed, lots of people are seeing the downtime, but you can’t just push an update because the bug is in something you’ve installed from npm. Remember patch-package....
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We must radically reduce carbon emissions by 2030 in order to avoid the most catastrophic damage of climate change. How can you help? We have only 5 years left to do something about climate change. Depending upon how you define “do something,” we have even less time,...
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The human is a creature of paradox When he wrote the following diary entry in 1973, 30-year-old Arthur Ashe had already carved out a...
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When he wrote the following diary entry in 1973, 30-year-old Arthur Ashe had already carved out a distinguished place in sporting history, not just as a formidable tennis player, but also as a pioneering African-American athlete in a predominantly white sport. With the US Open...
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Hard drives are still the default choice for many homelab and data hoarding enthusiasts. They still hold the gigabytes per dollar advantage over SSD-s (for now), and if you buy the big external drives and take the drives out of the enclosures, you can get a pretty good...
Handprinted - Blog
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We've been looking back on all our studio highlights for 2023, and what a year it's been! If you took part in one of our Fab Fridays, attended a workshop, or used the studio for open access - thanks for being a part of our studio! We hope to see you back again in 2024! Workshops...
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Immortality always sounded like a curse to me. But especially now, having passed the halfway point of the average wealthy male life expectancy. Another scoop of life as big as the one I've already been served seems more than enough, thank you very much. Does that strike you as...
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How LLMs work Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is...
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Over the last few weeks I’ve been playing around with the excellent llama2.c repository, which is basically a simple one-file C…
NeuroLogica Blog
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DARPA, the US Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency, is now working on developing a magnet-driven silent water propulsion system – the magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) drive. The primary reason is to develop silent military naval craft. Imagine a nuclear submarine with an MHD drive,...
Nelson's Weblog
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Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day. I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
Patterns in Humanity
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Fire Mario not fire flowers
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The first Indian scientist to join CERN was recently recognized with the highest honor of India for overseas citizens.
Win Vector LLC
Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
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I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a classroom appropriate tool for discussing allocating assets in the presence of risk. The usual Kelly betting on coin-flips is too high variance to expect successful classroom...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Edward Hopper From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting...
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From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks”: I’m a fan of Hopper, but this is his most famous work, so it’s not like it was all that difficult to place the reference. In his words, it’s a simplified version of reality...
Classical Wisdom
The Mysterious Death of Alexander The Great How Exactly did the Famed Conqueror Die?
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Diaries of Note
The greatest crime on the largest scale known in modern history George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of...
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George Templeton Strong was a 19th-century New York lawyer deeply involved in the civic fabric of his city, but his lasting impact extends far beyond the legal world. From 1835 to 1875, Strong meticulously recorded his observations and insights in a diary that has since become an...
TheCollector
When Were Camels Used in the Old West? Sometimes difficult circumstances occasionally require some out-of-the-box thinking. Such was the...
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Sometimes difficult circumstances occasionally require some out-of-the-box thinking. Such was the history of camels in the Old West. The vast, arid desert conditions in America’s Southwest challenged most 19th-century explorers and settlers. So, in the 1850s, the American...
Calculated Risk
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This is something to watch again. Here is another monthly update on lumber prices. SPECIAL NOTE: The CME group discontinued the Random Length Lumber Futures contract on May 16, 2023.  I switched to a physically-delivered Lumber Futures contract that was started in August 2022. ...
Londonist
Behind The Blue Doors Of Brixton's Georgian Almshouse Free exhibition comes to Lambeth Archives.
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David Crawshaw
2016-01-01 "It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34...
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"It’s a Cortex M4F MCU with extraordinarily-low current consumption. How low? They’re quoting 34 uA/MHz running from flash." www.embedded.com/electronics-blogs/break-points/4441091/Subthreshold-transistors-and-MCUs
The American Scholar
A Forgotten Turner Classic Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games? The...
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Who was George Eyser, the one-legged German-American gymnast who astounded at the Olympic Games? The post A Forgotten Turner Classic appeared first on The American Scholar.
The Marginalian
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Born into a World War to live through another, Albert Camus (November 7, 1913–January 4, 1960) died in a car crash with an unused train ticket to the same destination in his pocket. Just three years earlier, he had become the second-youngest laureate of the Nobel Prize, awarded...
Elevation Lab - Blog
Jet Black - New Experimental finish ::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even...
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::Update:: - The manufacturing fallout from making these fingerprint-loving docks was too high, even after a dozen process revisions, so we're not continuing making these after our second run. Recommend going with the Matte Black finish, it's super beautiful with all color...
cabel.com
The Forged Apple Employee Badge Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught...
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Here’s a quick and cautionary tale. This eBay auction, spotted by Eric Vitiello, immediately caught my eye: Wow. Someone was selling Apple Employee #10’s employee badge?! What an incredible piece of Apple history! Sure, it’s not Steve Jobs’ badge (despite the auction title), but...
Asterisk
The Transistor Cliff Moore’s law may be coming to an end. What happens to AI progress if it does?
over a year ago
Elad Blog
Fireside: Satya Nadella, CEO Microsoft live in SF Monday Nov 6, 11:30am - sign up now on link below
a year ago
Quantum Frontiers
What is the logical gate speed of a photonic quantum computer? Terry Rudolph, PsiQuantum & Imperial College London During a recent visit to the wild western town...
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Terry Rudolph, PsiQuantum & Imperial College London During a recent visit to the wild western town of Pasadena I got into a shootout at high-noon trying to explain the nuances of this question to a colleague. Here is a more … Continue reading →
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 18 Highlights I’ve launched a new TinyPilot product and debuted a new logo. TinyPilot’s revenue...
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Highlights I’ve launched a new TinyPilot product and debuted a new logo. TinyPilot’s revenue finished the year strong at $55k for December. I’ve learned to manage design projects more aggressively. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
Neil Madden
On PBKDF2 iterations There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to...
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There has been a lot of discussion recently around the LastPass breach, especially with regards to the number of PBKDF2 iterations applied to the master password to derive the vault encryption key. Other people have already dissected this particular breach, but I want to more...
Open Culture
Meet Jesse Welles, the Folk Singer Who Turns News into Folk Music, Writing Songs on Elections, Plane... At first glance, Jesse Welles resembles nothing so much as a time traveler from the year 1968....
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At first glance, Jesse Welles resembles nothing so much as a time traveler from the year 1968. That’s how I would open a profile about him, but The New York Times’ David Peisner takes a different approach, describing him recording a song in his home studio. “Welles, a...
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Why Richmond Has The Best Art and Music Scene
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The Honest Broker
We Need More Jazz Vinyl Cafés And I have a hunch we will get them
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Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
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Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
The personal website...
Ballet dancers and shot putters Starting a career in design is like crash-landing on Mars. You may have studied it through a...
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Starting a career in design is like crash-landing on Mars. You may have studied it through a telescope, but nothing can prepare you for actually being there. One of the biggest surprises many new designers experience is that design isn’t always about coming up with the most...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
My Free Introductory Astronomy Textbook Hits a Milestone This time I am posting something a bit personal. I am the lead author of a free book that is part of...
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This time I am posting something a bit personal. I am the lead author of a free book that is part of a nonprofit experiment to help students with the costs of college. Here is the news from our publisher: OpenStax, the open textbook publisher based at Rice University, is pleased...
macwright.com
Web pages and video games An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are...
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An evergreen topic is something like “why are websites so big and slow and hard and video games are so amazing and fast?” I’ve thought about it more than I’d like. Anyway, here are some reasons: Web pages are just-in-time delivered, with no installation required. Modern video...
NeuroLogica Blog
Birds Separately Evolved Complex Brains The evolution of the human brain is a fascinating subject. The brain is arguably the most complex...
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The evolution of the human brain is a fascinating subject. The brain is arguably the most complex structure in the known (to us) universe, and is the feature that makes humanity unique and has allowed us to dominate (for good or ill) the fate of this planet. But of course we are...
alexwlchan
Changing the bulb in a Meridian Lighting CIR100B ceiling light I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which...
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I moved into my house a couple of years ago, and for all that time I’ve had a porch light which doesn’t work. I’ve tried taking it apart a couple of times to replace the bulb, but to no avail. Although it’s a simple cylinder with only a black base and a clear cover, I couldn’t...
Tikalon Blog by Dev...
Quantum Year 2025 Children decide early in life to become scientists when they find that topics such as the...
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Children decide early in life to become scientists when they find that topics such as the Pythagorean theorem and the hydrological cycle are more interesting and more important than knowing which state is noted for corn. My childhood was notable for witnessing the launch of the...
Odds and Ends of...
Keir Starmer needs to prepare for a world without America Today's empires, tomorrow's ashes.
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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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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...
TheCollector
What Is “Lebensraum” and Why Did Hitler Promote It? The German geographer Friedrich Ratzel first introduced the term Lebensraum in his 1897 book...
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The German geographer Friedrich Ratzel first introduced the term Lebensraum in his 1897 book Politische Geographie (Political Geography). According to Ratzel, a nation-state should become self-sufficient by acquiring resources and territories in order to maintain independence and...
Seth's Blog
Productivity, AI and pushback Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some...
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Typesetters did not like the laser printer. Wedding photographers still hate the iphone. And some musicians are outraged that AI is now making mediocre pop music. One group of esteemed authors is demanding that book publishers refuse to use AI in designing book covers, recording...
The Pragmatic...
The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter in 2023 The articles you enjoyed most this year, my personal favorites, and a recap of an unusually...
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Overcoming Bias
Can Humanity Choose Its Future? For all my lifetime, futurists have had a dream, of humanity coming together to consciously decide...
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For all my lifetime, futurists have had a dream, of humanity coming together to consciously decide its fate.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Community Heat, or Why You Should Get Good at Events A piece of advice I heard about marketing and community that I've repeated to founders ever since -...
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Open Culture
When Slavoj Žižek and Jordan Peterson Debated Capitalism Versus Marxism Karl Marx was a German philosopher-historian (with a few other pursuits besides) who wrote in...
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Karl Marx was a German philosopher-historian (with a few other pursuits besides) who wrote in pursuit of an understanding of industrial society as he knew it in the nineteenth century and what its future evolution held in store. There are good reasons to read his work still...
Eric Bailey
How to build a cloud-hosted accessibility testing Windows computer using Amazon WorkSpaces
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Joel Gascoigne
Creating order from chaos in a startup * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I’ve been pondering recently about how my latest venture has very much felt like cycling between creating order from chaos and then ending up with chaos again. I wanted to share my experiences and...
Quanta Magazine
The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential New Particles If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles....
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If the electron’s charge wasn’t perfectly round, it could reveal the existence of hidden particles. A new measurement approaches perfection. The post The Electron Is So Round That It’s Ruling Out Potential New Particles first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Roberto Vitillo's...
The second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems is out In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at...
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In the second chapter of Understanding Distributed Systems , I explore the core building blocks at the heart of many distributed systems…
Arduino Blog
Get 3 months of Arduino Cloud Free with your UNO R4 WiFi! If you own an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi or plan to get one, there’s a special reward waiting for you....
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If you own an Arduino UNO R4 WiFi or plan to get one, there’s a special reward waiting for you. Register your board on the Arduino website and receive three months of free access to the Arduino Cloud Maker plan. This offer gives you everything you need to start creating smarter,...
alexwlchan
*Spy for Spy*, at Riverside Studios Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a...
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Last night I went to see the second preview of Spy For Spy, which I very much enjoyed. It’s a romance story with a clever narrative twist – it’s being told in the wrong order. Aside from the prologue and epilogue, the show is split into six scenes from the Molly and Sarah’s...
Jonas Hietala
Preventing Firefox from creating Desktop directories With a fresh firefox installation I found that it kept creating a ~/Desktop directory. But I found...
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With a fresh firefox installation I found that it kept creating a ~/Desktop directory. But I found how to turn it off. Edit ~/.config/user-dirs.dirs...
Archinect - Features
Your Architecture Work Sample Isn’t Your Portfolio. 10 Creative Tips To Keep in Mind When Job... In many cases, your work sample is the first visual evidence you will offer a prospective employer...
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In many cases, your work sample is the first visual evidence you will offer a prospective employer when applying for a new architectural position. What you include in your sample, as well as how you structure and present it, is therefore important for creating a good first...
Londonist
At A Glance: What's Happening With London's Transport In 2024 New trains! New stations! Major closures!
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The Bizarre Paths of Groundwater Around Structures [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In 2015, an unusual incident...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In 2015, an unusual incident happened on the construction site for a sewage lift station in British Columbia, Canada. WorksafeBC, the provincial health and safety agency, posted a summary of the event on...
Quanta Magazine
Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash...
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A young computer scientist and two colleagues show that searches within data structures called hash tables can be much faster than previously deemed possible. The post Undergraduate Upends a 40-Year-Old Data Science Conjecture first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Don't Worry About...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Patreon subscribers were pretty quick to suggest a tree that poisons the area around it. Really, I've attracted a beautiful audience here. Today's News: Stay tuned for an incoming bonus update thanks to buyers of my new book!
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"The great ideas have come from people who weren’t paid to have great ideas" It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable....
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable. It seems the height of unreason to…
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This is a follow-up to my previous post where I covered the VFIO setup in general. For many people that would have been good enough, but my goal with this setup was to have a powerful gaming setup that I could access from my living room PC with 20 meters of Ethernet cables...
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No one is entitled to anyone else’s attention. Sometimes I think that may be the most important insight beneath any design decision. Not to be combatted with manipulations, tricks, or just being a nuisance — but to be respected. The attention economy needs degrowth, too. We...
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Robert Chandler has rescued, through translation, much of Russian literature for the Anglophone world – Pushkin, Andrey Plantonov, Teffi, Lev Ozerov and Vasily Grossman, among others. Most of Chandler’s own prose I've read has been in the form of brief introductions and...
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If you find yourself asking whether to use functional components with Hooks over class components, you'll find a lot of outdated information out there. Let's settle this once and for all in this article.
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Anything you build has to compete for attention with the other available options. If someone can just as easily buy a similar product from a more trusted brand for the same price, why would they choose you? To compete with established brands, you’ll need to figure out how to...
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About a month ago, the CPython project merged a new implementation strategy for their bytecode interpreter. The initial headline results were very impressive, showing a 10-15% performance improvement on average across a wide range of benchmarks across a variety of...
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The Pragmatic Engineer: Cyber Monday Deals It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The...
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By now most people have heard that on Saturday there was a failed assassination attempt on candidate Trump at a rally. While it has only been a few days, preliminary investigation has found that 20-year-old Thomas Matthew Crooks, using a AR style rifle purchased legally by his...
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Indonesia, home to the world’s largest nickel reserves, struggles to achieve its EV dreams China’s growing involvement and the rapid shift to lithium batteries dissuade investors.
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This system is no longer operational and has been decomissioned (2017) This is my NAS storage server based on Debian Linux. It uses software RAID and 20 one terrabyte hard drives. It provides a total usable storage capacity of 18 terrabytes in a single RAID 6 array. One of the...
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James Stavridis, chairman of the Rockefeller Foundation’s board of trustees, projects a wholesome and all-American image for the organisation, with his impressive list of military decorations.
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Phanpy is good software for reading Mastodon or other Fediverse posts. Astonishingly it’s an open source passion project from a single developer, Chee Aun. Its quality is extraordinary, better than most commercial social media software. There’s so many good things about Phanpy...
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Power users are tempting. They know what they want, they’re happy to share their preferences and they show up. But power users can also be a trap, because their specific needs might not match the market you seek to serve. When you pick your customers, you pick your future. Brooke...
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It Looked Familiar: Famous and Less So On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at...
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On the left, Steve Rogers jogs off the Brooklyn Brige onto a walkway that doesn’t actually exist at the foot of the bridge. The S-curved pickets in the handrail above a stone base look very much like the walkway along the Hudson River in Battery Park City, on the other side of...
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A Sculptural Brick Exterior Creates A Unique Expression For This Home In Toronto Photography by Younes Bounhar Design firm PARTISANS has designed a home for a family in Toronto,...
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Photography by Younes Bounhar Design firm PARTISANS has designed a home for a family in Toronto, Canada, that features a sculptural brick facade. Photography by Younes Bounhar The design of the Canvas House has been inspired by the homeowners’ love of contemporary art, with the...
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The best designers are artists As a young designer, I would have done everything to convince you that designers are not artists.
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From 1908, a stereograph of the construction of the tower of the Singer Building: The title is accurate – “Four hundred ft. above the street – iron worker on the Singer Tower, New York, U.S.A.” but it doesn’t tell us what we’re actually looking at. For example, the steel we’re...
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The older sister of Bao-yu, the boy, now a young teen, who was born with the jade stone in his mouth, is an Imperial Concubine, a high prestige slave of the Emperor.  She is likely herself still a teen when we learn, in Chapter 16 of The Story of the Stone, that she has been...
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Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about safely browsing the web: The history of the Web and an introduction to browser security The web can be a scary place - but once you get to know it a little better, it doesn't feel as scary. Liz and Geoffrey go...
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It is so easy to take for granted, the ease of a relationship that has lasted 106 months. That is almost 9 years, a little less than a quarter of my life....
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Exterior Lighting Illuminates The Landscaping Around This Modern House In Los Angeles Paul McClean Of McClean Design has completed a new home in Los Angeles, California, whose design is...
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Paul McClean Of McClean Design has completed a new home in Los Angeles, California, whose design is showcased with the inclusion of exterior lighting.
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Researchers have shown that a problem relating to the energy of a quantum system is easy for quantum computers but hard for classical ones. The post Physicists Finally Find a Problem That Only Quantum Computers Can Do first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big deal to have all these preorders in place. Today's News: More info here. God bless the 3 of you still using RSS who actually read this thing.
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This week I had the joy of taking a group of students to the University of Oxford open day. In a few quiet moments, I had an opportunity to pray at the Oxford Oratory on Woodstock Road
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My First Million I had a great chat with Sam Parr and Shaan Puri on their podcast, My First Million.
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World's First Intra-Space Stamp Album (1953) A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It...
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A re-scan of an old favorite. This may be the oddest piece of space ephemera I have ever found. It is a stamp album of imaginary space stamps commemorating the planets and the atomic powered intra-solar rocket service that serves those planets. It was intended for "space...
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First, “Facade, 317 Broadway” from Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York Project”, taken in 1936. Second, a street view photo of 319 Broadway, today. 317 Broadway is at the southwest corner of Thomas Street and Broadway; 319 at the northwest corner. So unless this building moved...
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Why 'Product Engineer' is the most fun role I've had in tech In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any...
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In my career so far (admittedly not that long, though no one mistakes me for a college kid any longer, womp womp) I've done a little bit of a lot…
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Satyrs were creatures linked strongly with Dionysus, the Greek god of wine, pleasure, and theater. These party-loving, mischievous, and uninhibited creatures were an exception in ancient Greek art because there was no solid mythological tradition around satyrs. Instead, they were...
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What Court Rules Did Marie Antoinette Have to Follow? With privilege comes specific obligations, or so it would seem in the 1700 French royal court of...
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With privilege comes specific obligations, or so it would seem in the 1700 French royal court of Versailles. In order to reinforce the hierarchy and culture the French royal family had specific rules and pageantry attached to regular every day occurrences that Marie Antoinette...
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Oktra designed a purpose-built office space for Bear Capital in Richmond, transitioning from angular to curved architecture to enhance flow...
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It has been many years since I’ve written code. I’ve hacked around in HTML and CSS a bit on this blog and a few other places. But I have not actually written an application in a very long time. I think it might be thirty years since I’ve done any real programming. Over the...
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This autonomous go-kart only needs a camera to navigate a workshop circuit Autonomous vehicles, and self-driving cars in particular, are probably one of the most enticing...
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Autonomous vehicles, and self-driving cars in particular, are probably one of the most enticing technologies of the 21st century. But despite a great deal of R&D and even more speculation, we have yet to see a self-driving car that can actually operate on real public roads...
Anecdotal Evidence
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“[P]oets are a very worthless, wicked set of people.”  How did William Cowper, himself a fine and neglected poet, come to this conclusion? In a letter to Rev. John Newton, written March 15, 1784, Cowper tells his friend he has just finished reading the eight volumes of Dr....
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Exploring the balance between health data and intuition, this blog post delves into how personal well-being and fitness goals shape our relationship with technology and self-awareness.
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February gets Themed: Rejection The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t...
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The Experimental Gameplay Project has announced their next theme - and shame on me if I wouldn’t follow suite! With valentine coming up I might just have found a pretty nice idea, just now, writing this… Booyah!!
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Take Back The City On a recent episode of Billions, the New York Attorney General stands on the roof a car in the...
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On a recent episode of Billions, the New York Attorney General stands on the roof a car in the middle of a New York City street with a bullhorn. Why? Vecause he’s positioned himself near a meeting on the Highline … Continue reading → The post Take Back The City appeared first on...
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2D embedding of 5k artists = WIN I'm at KDD in Chicago for a few days. We have a Spotify booth tomorrow, and I wanted to put together...
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I'm at KDD in Chicago for a few days. We have a Spotify booth tomorrow, and I wanted to put together some cool graphics to show. I've been thinking about doing a 2D embedding of the top artists forever since I read about t-SNE and other papers so this was a perfect opportunity to...
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DeepSeek: Frequently Asked Questions Share this with your friends and family.
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While writing about Git, I’ve noticed that a lot of folks struggle with Git’s error messages. I’ve had many years to get used to these error messages so it took me a really long time to understand why folks were confused, but having thought about it much more, I’ve realized...
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Animated Radio Tab Toggles 2021-01-05 In this demo tutorial, we are making the assumption that we need to create a radio slide toggle for our made-up payment options. For this we want to display 3 simple payment choices to the user: One-time payment Recurring payment Free tier...
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The Next New Thing In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before The...
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In architecture, the gulf between the traditional and the modern seems wider than ever before The post The Next New Thing appeared first on The American Scholar.
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As Bird Flu Spreads, Vaccine Shows Promise for Protecting Cattle Since bird flu was first discovered in U.S. cattle last year, the virus has spread to more than...
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Since bird flu was first discovered in U.S. cattle last year, the virus has spread to more than 1,000 herds across the country. A new vaccine for cattle has performed well in early tests, raising hopes that it could protect livestock and help prevent an outbreak in humans. Read...
Quanta Magazine
Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard...
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Recent results show that large language models struggle with compositional tasks, suggesting a hard limit to their abilities. The post Chatbot Software Begins to Face Fundamental Limitations first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Calculated Risk
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Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE report this morning, both through January 2025. CPI Shelter was up 4.4% year-over-year in January, down from 4.6% in December, and down from the cycle peak of 8.2% in March...
xkcd.com
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We're moving from Slack to Discord so we can involve our community more. Here's how we did it and more importantly, why.
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New Proof Threads the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem A new proof marks major progress toward solving the Kakeya conjecture, a deceptively simple question...
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A new proof marks major progress toward solving the Kakeya conjecture, a deceptively simple question that underpins a tower of conjectures. The post New Proof Threads the Needle on a Sticky Geometry Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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I had the privilege of speaking to some Berkeley students last week. Below is the talk reprinted in full: If you could call yourself 10 years ago and speak for a minute, what would you say? That's the thought that was going through my mind when I got
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Hi everyone: I&rsquo;ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from... The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on...
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The McMansion as Harbinger of the American Apocalypse Hi everyone: I’ve written a long deep-dive on the present state of the McMansion, from farmhouse chic to imminent environmental collapse. If you’ve been seeing an inordinate number of big ugly houses pop up in your...
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Facebook data transfers declared illegal
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a home for pino We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash This is probably an out of date concept these days, however if you ever ran a traditional business back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s as I did, one of the most frustrating things ever was trying to get my banking done over the counter. Almost...
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Transforming two-sided markets AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in...
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AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in a small way. They organized the drivers, and now they organize the riders. Hailing a cab was already sort of anonymous, but with competition and structure, AI will continue to get...
Rest of World -...
Catching a break: How gig workers find rest Rest of World asked over 100 gig workers across 10 cities how they take a break between tasks.
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Classical Wisdom
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In War-Torn Sudan, a Gold Mining Boom Takes a Human Toll As civil war rages in Sudan, a surge in gold production is helping finance and arm the warring...
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As civil war rages in Sudan, a surge in gold production is helping finance and arm the warring factions. Most of the mining is done on a small scale by villagers who process the gold using mercury and cyanide, posing serious threats to their health and to the environment. Read...
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Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages [EPISODE] Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her...
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Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie...
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Is Google Analytics HIPAA compliant? HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how...
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HIPAA, which stands for the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act, regulates how individuals and organizations are required to secure…
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Although its history dates back to the Neolithic, the Roman Empire, and Moorish rule, it was Portuguese Royalty who made it famous. Sintra’s romantic palaces and mystical aura have served as an inspiration to poets and artists throughout the years. In Sintra, you can wander the...
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Gil Duran Faked A Quote For the New Republic Then they stealth edited the piece. They knew they'd committed libel.
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Not As Giants Love Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I...
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Not As Giants Love Short story, ~2000 words A week ago, when I asked you if you still loved me, I thought the most painful thing you could’ve said was no. I don’t know if you remember, but when you said “Of course I still love you” and asked if I still loved you, I started to...
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Waste Your Time, Your Life May Depend On It The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 8
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Map of the Week
Latitude Twins This map, on Reddit shows major North American cities replaced by European or Middle Eastern ones...
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This map, on Reddit shows major North American cities replaced by European or Middle Eastern ones with the same approximate latitude. It illustrates the interesting climate fact that because of the Gulf Stream, Europe is much warmer further north. Thus Chicago is equivalent to...
Retail Design Blog
Shisui hotel by TAISEI DESIGN Planners Architects & Engineers + Kengo Kuma & Associates Nara is known worldwide as the place where Japanese culture originated. Located at the western edge...
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Citation Needed
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In December, not long after the Department of Justice announced charges against cryptocurrency giant Binance and its CEO Changpeng "CZ" Zhao, I started writing up an overview of everything that had happened to the company over the past few years. I'd written separately about a...
Noahpinion
Why not put TSMC and Samsung fabs in Canada? A solution that's almost too perfect.
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Confessions of a...
Substack has Failed Indian Creators Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the...
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Dear subscribers, This is not my usual deep technical post, it’s going to be a rant about the problems I (and many other Indian writers) have faced in monetizing their writing on Substack, even after being here for years, bringing in thousands of new readers and producing...
Londonist
The Curling Club Has Slid Into South Bank For A Winter-Long Après-Ski Party Unleash your inner Winter Olympian.
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
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Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
The American Scholar
“Three Things Enchanted Him …” by Anna Akhmatova Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Three Things Enchanted Him …” by Anna Akhmatova appeared...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Three Things Enchanted Him …” by Anna Akhmatova appeared first on The American Scholar.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Seven Ways to Vacation in The Rocky Mountains
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Londonist
The Colony Room: Soho's Infamous Drinking Den is Back From The Dead... Sort Of Drinks will be at 2008 prices too.
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