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Both Are True
Influencers are OUT, words are IN, and tbd on 'lolcows' which i'm just now learning about talking internet with Katherine Dee
3 months ago
Krebs on Security
xAI Dev Leaks API Key for Private SpaceX, Tesla LLMs A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that...
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A employee at Elon Musk's artificial intelligence company xAI leaked a private key on GitHub that for the past two months could have allowed anyone to query private xAI large language models (LLMs) which appear to have been custom made for working with internal data from Musk's...
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Reign of Alexander III of Macedon, the Great? This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman...
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This week, in part as a follow-on to our series on the contest between Hellenistic armies and Roman legions, I wanted to take the opportunity to talk about Alexander III, who you almost certainly know as Alexander the Great. But I want to discuss his reign with that title, ‘the...
DYNOMIGHT
It’s probably just money: Why hosts do well at the Olympics They say that countries win more medals when they host the Olympics. But do they? And if so,...
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They say that countries win more medals when they host the Olympics. But do they? And if so, why? I’ve seen various theories: Jetlag. Maybe it’s because athletes from the host country don’t need to travel as far. Esprit de corps. Maybe athletes feel lifted up by the local crowd...
Joel Gascoigne
Does location really matter for your startup? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may...
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may know that I just left everything behind in the UK and together with my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] arrived in San Francisco to base ourselves and Buffer...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Scarcity Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Next he kicks the robot, and it moans in...
10 months ago
A Smart Bear
Selecting the right product metrics A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but...
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A novel system for selecting and presenting product KPIs, satisfying not only the product team, but also stakeholders, executives, and customers.
Rest of World -...
In Indonesia, social media is a “hunting ground” for religious minorities Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and...
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Conservative Muslim influencers spread hate speech to their millions of followers on TikTok and YouTube, with little pushback from authorities or platforms.
Louwrentius
Lion's FileVault does not support Bootcamp and external boot disks Read the comments as they may provide useful information for your particular situation I boot my...
over a year ago
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Read the comments as they may provide useful information for your particular situation I boot my iMac from an external FW800 SSD. I found out that it is impossible to encrypt this disk using the new FileVault as part of Lion. Furthermore, I also found out that if you have a disk...
Isabel Unraveled
Great Art is about being seen while remaining invisible when intuition breaks through ego
3 months ago
Common Edge
What’s to Become of the Mess That Is Penn Station? A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New...
a year ago
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a year ago
A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New York’s most conflicted transportation-entertainment site.
Ralph Ammer
Confucius – Why we need rituals This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius. The post Confucius – Why we...
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This is a quick introduction to the virtue philosophy of Confucius. The post Confucius – Why we need rituals appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Ben Borgers
Thursday, January 13, 2022
over a year ago
Londonist
The Barbi-Ken Line? The Ickeypoo Line? What If All Tubes Were Named Like Bakerloo? Waterloo to Bank presents some options.
a year ago
XO Capital - Field...
How to 10x an acquisition I'm going to break down how we more than 10x-ed ScreenshotAPI and why this acquisition worked when...
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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
Quanta Magazine
Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and...
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An exploration of how artificial intelligence is changing what it means to do science and math, and what it means to be a scientist. The post Science, Promise and Peril in the Age of AI first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of January 19, 2025 The key report this week is December Existing Home Sales. ----- Monday, January 20th ----- All US...
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The key report this week is December Existing Home Sales. ----- Monday, January 20th ----- All US markets will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr. ----- Tuesday,...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Brewed and baked Day 12: Sept 21, 2023 — I am predictable when visiting a reasonably sized city. I look for coffee, a...
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Day 12: Sept 21, 2023 — I am predictable when visiting a reasonably sized city. I look for coffee, a juice / smoothie shop, a natural foods store, a sourdough bakery, and a decent restaurant that serves up clean and fresh fare or some local delicacy. St. Louis fortunately checks...
computers are bad
2023-10-15 go.com Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email...
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Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email having a subject that made it sound like this post would be about the classic strategy game Go. It is actually about a failed website. I regret the error; the responsible people have...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Jessie de Salis I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print...
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I am Jessie de Salis. I run a screen printing textile business with my cousin, Alice. We print colourful patterned fabrics from a Somerset barn, a space we share with the sparrows and house-martins. What inspires you? I love bold and bright design. I always seem to come back to...
Josh Thompson
Bollards: Why & What author’s note: it’s always fun to see your own stuff on the Hacker News front page! This very post...
a year ago
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a year ago
author’s note: it’s always fun to see your own stuff on the Hacker News front page! This very post sparked >450 comments worth of conversation! I didn’t even know this got posted until days later! What are bollards The what and the why in a single image: The what and why in a...
Computer Things
What Mob Programming is Bad At Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has...
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Pairing is two people working together to write code, while mobbing is three or more. Pairing has been part of the programming milleau since at least the 90's (with extreme programming), while mobbing is more of a 10's thing. I'm going to use them interchangeably from here on out...
somethingaboutmaps
A New Take on an Old Style Gentle readers, I have some exciting things to share with you. After several months of tinkering and...
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Gentle readers, I have some exciting things to share with you. After several months of tinkering and toolmaking, I have created a series of posters of iconic peaks (and other terrain), illustrated in a sketch style inspired by old hachure drawings. There are 37 designs to choose...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Viva Las Vegas Day 25: Oct 4, 2023 — Today’s 8:30 a.m. Zoom motivates us awake. I’m fortunate to be able to work...
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a year ago
Day 25: Oct 4, 2023 — Today’s 8:30 a.m. Zoom motivates us awake. I’m fortunate to be able to work from the road, though it does require some planning and commitment. Planning in being present with reliable cell service, and commitment in doing the work I’m paid to do and to...
Arduino Blog
This disturbing Halloween doll was brought to life with Bottango Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near...
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Halloween is popular for a lot of reasons and it is safe to say that “creative expression” is near the top of the list. That extends beyond store-bought costumes and decorations to DIY projects. If you want an excuse to make something impractical, Halloween can provide that. And...
Christopher Butler
The Compound Interest of Small Ideas Many Small Ideas Are Worth More Than One Big One When it comes to thinking, we’ve been sold a...
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Many Small Ideas Are Worth More Than One Big One When it comes to thinking, we’ve been sold a high-risk investment strategy. Our cultural narratives around innovation celebrate the breakthrough, the paradigm shift, the disruptive, revolutionary * concept that changes everything...
HTMHell
Microdata for books by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us...
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6 months ago
by Alan Dalton Dive into marking up books Books are the best Christmas presents, especially for us web geeks. (I hope you’ll find a Web Accessibility Cookbook in your Christmas stocking, gentle reader.) Unfortunately, A Book Apart closed this year. Fortunately, the authors...
Sometimes It Works...
2024: Just the Start 2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023...
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2024 has overall been a great year for me personally. I believe it represents a turning point. 2023 was tough, but 2024 went some way to redressing the balance and I am even more positive about 2025 because of it. Here are a few highlights: We went to Japan! My first time in...
Posts on Made of...
Running Tensorflow on AWS GPUs I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that...
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I’ve been spending some time learning deep learning and tensorflow recently, and as part of that project I wanted to be able to train models using GPUs on EC2. This post contains some notes on what it took to get that working. As many people have commented, the environment setup...
Classical Wisdom
Plato On Knowledge What is True?
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
10 Corso Como store by 2050+ Very few brick and mortar stores have established a global influence as 10 Corso Como in Milan....
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Very few brick and mortar stores have established a global influence as 10 Corso Como in Milan. Founded in 1990...
Computer Things
Planning vs Model Checking New blogpost! Planner programming blows my mind, Patreon here. Next essay out should be the graph...
a year ago
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a year ago
New blogpost! Planner programming blows my mind, Patreon here. Next essay out should be the graph project. The post is about Picat and more specifically, planner programming. Planning very roughly is: You provide a start state, a set of goals, and a set of state transitions...
Yale e360
TIL: testing in the future using the faketime command Last week's blog post accidentally got published a few hours early1. One of the keen-eyed among you...
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11 months ago
Last week's blog post accidentally got published a few hours early1. One of the keen-eyed among you even submitted it to the orange site before it was officially up, since it was in my RSS feed briefly and was picked up by various RSS readers. Resolving that issue led me to...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Seeing Others in Data, But Not Ourselves Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human...
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Stanford psychologist Emily Pronin and her colleagues came up with an interesting study in human behavior. Subjects were given incomplete words and asked to complete them with the first word that came to mind. For example, you’re given the fragments B__T and CHE__ and you write...
Melissa Penfold
THE BEST STUFF FROM IKEA, ACCORDING TO MELISSA IKEA is the first stop for many people after they move into a new home or when they’re renovating an...
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a year ago
IKEA is the first stop for many people after they move into a new home or when they’re renovating an old one. Even for pros who spend their days sourcing rare marble and priceless antiques, it’s hard to resist a good-looking bargain—which is why IKEA products have long been...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Exits & Outcomes Is Good | Out-Of-Pocket moar newsletters
a year ago
The Works in...
How Airbus took off Why you can build a European airliner, but not a European Google
3 months ago
Old Structures...
Residential Conversion and a Mirror Office-to-residential conversion is a hot topic lately, the result of a tight housing market and the...
a year ago
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Office-to-residential conversion is a hot topic lately, the result of a tight housing market and the remote-work depression in commercial office space. The following is, at best, anecdata but gives a minor sense of that process for older buildings. I recently stayed in the Rand...
The Honest Broker
Jim Croce and Me 50 years ago today, the gifted singer-songwriter died in a plane crash
a year ago
A Beautiful Site
But we haven't even mastered Acid2! Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Safari was the first mainstream browser to pass the Acid2 Test now. Opera was a close second. Firefox finally nailed it down with version 3. Even Micrsoft, back in December, announced that IE8 passes the Acid2 Test. Web browsers have certainly come a long way towards standards...
csvbase blog
Parquet: more than just "Turbo CSV" Quicker, but also more convenient
over a year ago
SatPost by Trung...
Beware value capture Tech apps influence our behaviour through metrics. Don't follow them blindly.
a year ago
Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of...
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Topologists prove two new results that bring some order to the confoundingly difficult study of four-dimensional shapes. The post Mathematicians Marvel at ‘Crazy’ Cuts Through Four Dimensions first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Property Insurance Costs Rose at a Record Rate in 2024 At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. ICE...
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At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. ICE Mortgage Monitor: Property Insurance Costs Rose at a Record Rate in 2024 Fannie and Freddie: Single Family Serious Delinquency Rates Increased in January 1st Look at Local Housing...
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
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The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
Flashbak
The Life of Flowers In Vintage Found Photographs Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and...
3 months ago
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Flowers speak a language we understand. They tell us of time and its passing. They speak of life and death, enduring, waiting and survival. They speak of hope and renewal. “To be a flower,” Emily Dickinson wrote in Bloom, a poem, “is profound Responsibility”. We’re thinking of...
Open Culture
Was William Shakespeare’s Marriage Closer—and Less Estranged—Than We Thought?: A 17th-Century Letter... Image via Hereford Cathedral and Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust At this point, every aspect of William...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Image via Hereford Cathedral and Hereford Mappa Mundi Trust At this point, every aspect of William Shakespeare’s life has produced more speculation than any of us could digest in a lifetime. That goes for his professional life, of course, but also his even more scantily...
TheCollector
“To Be Is to Be Perceived”: The Concept of Berkeley’s Idealism Ever thought about whether the world is there only because you think it is? That’s what George...
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Ever thought about whether the world is there only because you think it is? That’s what George Berkeley meant with his philosophy of idealism. The 18th-century philosopher came up with a pretty wild idea: “To be is to be perceived.” According to him, we don’t find objects, and...
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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4 months ago
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...
Flashbak
A Fabulous Collection of Antique Espresso Coffee Machines “I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the...
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7 months ago
“I saw an ‘historical’ espresso machine for the first time in Arezzo in 1988 whilst visiting the oldest antiques market in Italy,” says collector Enrico Maltoni. His interest in antique espresso coffee makers became a labour of love means. He’s written extensively on the subject...
Old Structures...
Differences Real and Metaphorical There’s a nice piece in the Times about the Long Path, a very long hiking trail through New Jersey...
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There’s a nice piece in the Times about the Long Path, a very long hiking trail through New Jersey and New York running roughly parallel to the Hudson River: “Walking From Manhattan to the Catskills on the ‘Long Path’.” As it happens, I’ve walked a small piece of the path, from...
Jonas Hietala
Site restyle and update I’m not sure how I got started but I recently read an excellent book about typography: Butterick’s...
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I’m not sure how I got started but I recently read an excellent book about typography: Butterick’s Practical Typography. It’s free and there’s a section Typography in ten minutes if you want the important bits. He makes a pretty good case for why it matters when he points out the...
Piotr Migdał's Blog
D3.js workshop at ICM for KFnrD Interactive data visualization for high-school students of KFnrD (24-29 Jan 2016) - materials,...
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over a year ago
Interactive data visualization for high-school students of KFnrD (24-29 Jan 2016) - materials, results.
David Heinemeier...
Clear the barnacles The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at...
a year ago
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a year ago
The easiest way to squander your focus is by paying attention to a million inconsequential things at once. These little mental barnacles add up in imperceptible ways until you suddenly feel like you're getting nowhere, no matter how hard you push. You must keep scrubbing your...
The DESK Magazine
The difference between creative & uncreative people When witnessing something unusual or beautiful or otherwise striking today, our first instinct is to...
a year ago
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a year ago
When witnessing something unusual or beautiful or otherwise striking today, our first instinct is to capture it, share it or both.
Patrick Kayongo
Familiar Spirits The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the...
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over a year ago
The eerie cold breeze from Fourways Memorial Park cemetery slips into Daudi’s open window during the fourth watch of the night. The blue radiance of the moon and the stars fill in for the lights darkened by stage 5 loadshedding. As the nighttime creatures prepare for their...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Wow! How to discover videos on Facebook and Instagram! Wow! Just wow! Just wait for it ... View on my website
over a year ago
Stoic Simple
What Does it Mean to be a Stoic? Using Christianity to Explain Stoicism by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a...
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by Tanner Campbell What does it mean to be a Stoic? I think Christianity can be used as a quasi-parallel to help answer this question. What does it mean to be a Christian? I think the base-line of the faith is the belief that Jesus Christ is Lord and Savior.  In Stoicism that...
Herbert Lui
Teenage years, interfaces, and classic technology When I was a teenager, I spent hours trying to improve my computer’s interface. I can’t tell you how...
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5 months ago
When I was a teenager, I spent hours trying to improve my computer’s interface. I can’t tell you how many times I changed my Windows XP interface to try to look like a Mac.  When Windows Longhorn was out in beta, I spent many afternoons trying to get it to work too—even...
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Project Jessica Drew, in her Spider-Woman gear, visits Belvedere Castle. It’s reasonably clear that in the...
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a year ago
Jessica Drew, in her Spider-Woman gear, visits Belvedere Castle. It’s reasonably clear that in the frame on the right she’s standing in the pavillion looking across to the main tower.
Maps Mania
Biographical Mapping
5 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
From Render To Reality – A New Home Office And Laundry Room Alexander Butler | Design Services has shared renderings and photos of a small renovation project...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Alexander Butler | Design Services has shared renderings and photos of a small renovation project they completed in New York. The project included the creation of a home office and laundry room. We don’t often get to see the design stage of a project; usually, it’s just the...
Jake Zimmerman
Abstract singleton class methods are an abomination
a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Come for the tool, stay for the network A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to call “come for the tool, stay for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
A popular strategy for bootstrapping networks is what I like to call “come for the tool, stay for the network.” The idea is to initially…
AI Snake Oil
Students are acing their homework by turning in machine-generated essays. Good. Teachers adapted to the calculator. They can certainly adapt to language models.
over a year ago
Both Are True
well this is embarrassing when you're madsad about the caviar problems
a year ago
TheCollector
How South Sudan Won Its Independence South Sudan, which split from Sudan in 2011, is one of the youngest countries in the world and the...
2 months ago
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South Sudan, which split from Sudan in 2011, is one of the youngest countries in the world and the youngest in Africa.   It represents one of a handful of cases in which an independence movement has actually succeeded and generated a fully sovereign state recognized by the United...
The Modern House
Furnishing Futures: the charity improving the lives of domestic abuse survivors – one piece of... When a domestic abuse victim is given the keys to their new home, many will find that it comes...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
When a domestic abuse victim is given the keys to their new home, many will find that it comes unfurnished, often without even carpets on the floors. It can be the cause of much stress for these women, who have recently fled an abusive home […]
The Honest Broker
Get Ready to Pay More for Music The power brokers have already squeezed musicians—so fans will be next
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
There's More to Telluride Than Trails and Ski Lifts
3 weeks ago
Londonist
Tulips In London: When And Where To See Them In And Around The Capital Who needs Amsterdam?
a year ago
Posts on Made of...
A Go/C Polyglot Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might...
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over a year ago
Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might write a source file that’s both valid C and Go, commenting that it wasn’t immediately obvious if this was even possible. I got nerdsniped, and succeeded in producing one, which you can...
Quanta Magazine
Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are...
a year ago
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a year ago
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it. The post Physicists Observe ‘Unobservable’ Quantum Phase Transition first appeared on...
Making software...
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It's no secret that I'm passionate about open...
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over a year ago
Setting Up Fathom Analytics with Netlify 2021-01-19 It's no secret that I'm passionate about open source software, but I'm also extremely adamant about protecting the privacy of all users across the web. So when I decided to implement analytics on my own personal website, I ended...
Steve Klabnik
Building StoreEngine
over a year ago
The American Scholar
Going for Gold Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten The post...
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Joshua Prager on a forgotten Olympic gymnast whose 1904 record still hasn’t been beaten The post Going for Gold appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes. Today's News:
Willem's Blog
Outside the comfort zone: amateur acting This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I strapped myself with sensors during a little experiment outside my comfort zone: I debuted as amateur actor!
Trying to Understand...
What We Talk About, When We Talk About Talks. The End may be further away than you think.
4 months ago
alexwlchan
A day out at the Bure Valley Railway Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north...
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over a year ago
Last October, I had a day trip to the Bure Valley Railway, a narrow-gauge heritage railway in north Norfolk. I came across it quite by chance – I was driving through Aylsham to get to a B&B, and I spotted a sign pointing to the railway. I checked the website for a timetable,...
Calculated Risk
Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
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5 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025 A brief excerpt: Yesterday, in Part 1: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025 I reviewed home inventory, housing starts...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Overcomplicating Things Is So Easy Maciej Cegłowski writing about “The Lunacy of Artemis”: You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Maciej Cegłowski writing about “The Lunacy of Artemis”: You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to wonder what’s going on here. If we can put a man on the moon, then why can't we just go do it again? The moon hasn’t changed since the 1960’s, while every technology we used to get...
Willem's Blog
Creating a minimal road bike I wondered how hard it would be to make a bike from spare parts I had in my garage
over a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Mother's Day Quiz Mothers of Myth and History
a month ago
The Codist
Using Xcode's AI Is Like Pair Programming With A Monkey I've never used any other AI "assistant," although I've talked with those who have, most of whom are...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I've never used any other AI "assistant," although I've talked with those who have, most of whom are not very positive. My experience using Xcode's AI is that it occasionally offers a line of code that works, but you mostly get junk
Open Culture
The Romans Stashed Hallucinogenic Seeds in a Vial Made From an Animal Bone What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This...
a year ago
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a year ago
What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This phenomenon has become more difficult to notice in recent years, not because it’s slowed down, but because it’s sped way up, owing to near-instantaneous cultural diffusion on the internet....
Alice GG
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry. I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
Home on Erik...
Looking for smart people I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I haven't mentioned what I'm currently up to. Earlier this year I left Spotify to join a small startup called Better. We're going after one of the biggest industries in the world that also turns out to be completely broken.
Common Edge
Awesome and Affordable: Making the Case for Great Housing A new project in Los Angeles highlights the challenges—and the opportunities.
a year ago
The Marginalian
Starlings and the Magic of Murmurations: A Stunning Watercolor Celebration of One of Earth’s Living... Biking back to my rented cottage from CERN one autumn evening, having descended into the underworld...
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Biking back to my rented cottage from CERN one autumn evening, having descended into the underworld of matter for a visit to the world’s largest high-energy particle collider, a sight stopped me up short on the shore of Lake Geneva: In the orange sky over the orange water, a...
Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on...
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For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on publicly traded companies and sharing what I find with anyone who is interested. It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and...
High Signal
How Andrei built There's An AI For That Andrei is the creator of There's An AI For That (TAAFT), one of the first and biggest directories...
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Andrei is the creator of There's An AI For That (TAAFT), one of the first and biggest directories for AI tools.
Flashbak
26 Found Photos of Australian Life In the 1970s The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry...
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The best satire is never far removed from the truth it lampoons. In the 1970s, comedian Barry Humphries (17 February 1934 – 22 April 2023) created Sir Les Patterson and made him Australia’s cultural ambassador. Drunk, lecherous and offensive, after Sir Les made his debut...
cabel.com
My GDC ’24 Talk: The Playdate Story In January, I was invited to GDC, the Game Developers Conference, to give a talk about Playdate....
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In January, I was invited to GDC, the Game Developers Conference, to give a talk about Playdate. That talk — “The Playdate Story: What Was it Like to Make Handheld Video Game System Hardware?” — has been made available free for all to view. Now, it’s been 10 years since my last...
Christopher Butler
Periodical 14 – v DIY While you’re here, make the world your own. Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as...
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While you’re here, make the world your own. Hello from the makerspace, otherwise known as home. Home should be a makerspace! At any level — food, art, life, clothing, and on to more difficult craft like furniture and construction — everyone should have their hands in...
Ben Borgers
Customer Rewards Programs
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How to Be a Stoic
Were the ancient Stoics feminist? Should the modern ones be? The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the...
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The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the conclusion of a detailed analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and feminism published in a paper by Scott Aikin and Emily McGill-Rutherford in Symposion, 1, 1 (2014): 9-22....
Stephen Diehl
On Unintentional Scams
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Ethereum has blobs. Where do we go from here?
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moby Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you start to wonder about all those pale...
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Open Culture
The Invisible Horror of The Shining: How Music Makes Stanley Kubrick’s Iconic Film Even More... Inexplicable as it may sound to readers of this site, there are movie-lovers who claim not to enjoy...
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Inexplicable as it may sound to readers of this site, there are movie-lovers who claim not to enjoy the work of Stanley Kubrick. But even his most steadfast non-appreciators have to hand it to him for The Shining, his 1980 Stephen King adaptation widely considered one of the...
Asterisk
Does AI Progress Have a Speed Limit? A conversation about the factors that might slow down the pace of AI development, what could happen...
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A conversation about the factors that might slow down the pace of AI development, what could happen next, and whether we’ll be able to see it coming.
Mazdak
Threads Takes Europe!: Meta's Microblogging App Makes a Big Move Calling all European Tweeters! 🇪🇺 Meta's microblogging platform, Threads, is officially landing on...
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Calling all European Tweeters! 🇪🇺 Meta's microblogging platform, Threads, is officially landing on your shores. Months after its initial launch in the U.S., Threads is finally spreading its wings and embracing the vast and vibrant online communities of Europe. Mark Zuckerberg...
A Beautiful Site
Prefers Reduced Motion By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not...
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By now, most devs are familiar with the prefers-reduced-motion media query that tells whether or not a user prefers, well, reduced motion. You can use this to tone down (or turn off) transitions and animations in your stylesheet to accommodate users with vestibular motion...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
The Upfront Pricing Phenomenon | Out-Of-Pocket Imagine actually knowing what things cost in advance lmao
a year ago
Irrational...
Refreshed StaffEng.com and a few other sites Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in...
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Ahead of announcing the title and publisher of my thus-far-untitled book on engineering strategy in the next week or two, I put together a website for its content. That site is pretty much the same format as this blog, but with some improvements like better mobile rendering on /...
Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 30-31 December 2023 The best ways to spend the last weekend of 2023 in the capital.
a year ago
Old Structures...
Small Details In “How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly”, Jennifer Ouellette gives a good summary of a...
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In “How London’s Crystal Palace was built so quickly”, Jennifer Ouellette gives a good summary of a recent paper “Thread form at the Crystal Palace” by John Gardner and Ken Kiss. My even shorter summary: the 1851 Crystal Palace in London was made possible, in part, through the...
Melting Asphalt
The Elephant in the Brain It's finally here! The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life — my first book,...
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It's finally here! The Elephant in the Brain: Hidden Motives in Everyday Life — my first book, coauthored with Robin Hanson — is now widely available. You can find the ebook version on Kindle, Google Play, and iBooks. It's also… Read more ›
Seth's Blog
The Western Union trap When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get...
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When the telephone began to gain traction, the monopoly of the time, Western Union, decided to get even better at sending telegrams.
TheCollector
What Were the Main Topics of Socialist Realism? 7 Key Themes Socialist Realism was the official artistic ideology proclaimed in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. It...
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Socialist Realism was the official artistic ideology proclaimed in the 1930s in the Soviet Union. It rejected experimentations with non-objective painting and criticized intellectual art that was not understood by the masses. Socialist realism was supposed to celebrate honest...
Working Theorys
Trophy Jobs | Theory No. 12 We’ve all heard of the trophy wife or husband — a partner that’s valued heavily as a status symbol,...
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We’ve all heard of the trophy wife or husband — a partner that’s valued heavily as a status symbol, for superficial qualities over substance. Similarly, I’ve started to think about the idea of the trophy job — a job that people covet for its status more than its substance.
xkcd.com
Water Balloons
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #65: Everything is about everything Plus why Britain can't build things... except for the Lower Thames Crossing, apparently.
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Open Culture
Ancient Egyptian Pyramids May Have Been Built with Water: A New Study Explore the Use of Hydraulic... Image by Charles Sharp, via Wikimedia Commons The compelling but less-than-straightforward question...
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Image by Charles Sharp, via Wikimedia Commons The compelling but less-than-straightforward question of how the ancient Egyptians built the pyramids has inspired all manner of theory and speculation, grounded to varying degrees in physical reality. Sheer manpower must have played...
Artificial Ignorance
The Industrial Content Revolution A fundamental change in the structure the internet.
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Steve Klabnik
GitHub is anarchy for programmers
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Calculated Risk
December 27th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Increasing Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly. Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
Londonist
Plunge Into An Icy Brockwell Lido For Charity This Christmas The Icebreaker challenge is back.
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The Elysian
One year of my work, printed The Elysian Volume II is here.
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Londonist
Where To Go Pumpkin Picking Near London This Autumn Oh. My. GOURD.
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African History...
A history of the Lozi kingdom. ca. 1750-1911. state and society in south-central Africa
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Making software...
Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my...
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Replacing My Eero Mesh Network with Two Mangos 2023-03-09 It has been one week since I retired my Eero mesh network setup and replaced it with two Mango Mini Travel Routers (GL-MT300N-V2). There were some obvious reasons to make this switch but I was initially unsure how the...
Contemporist...
An Extension To This 1933 Home Creates A New Kitchen And Outdoor Terrace Heliotrope Architects has shared photos of a contemporary extension they completed for a home in...
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Heliotrope Architects has shared photos of a contemporary extension they completed for a home in Seattle, Washington, that was originally designed and built in 1933 by Norwegian boat captain Ole E. Nelson.
Classical Wisdom
The Dark Side of Love Euripides' Epic Battle between Love and Law
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Common Edge
A Model for a Healthier, Adaptive Approach to Community Development The Smiling Gecko project in Cambodia addresses a more complex and systemic view of community life.
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This Space
Dead Souls by Sam Riviere Even before one begins reading Sam Riviere’s first novel there is despondency as one registers that...
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Even before one begins reading Sam Riviere’s first novel there is despondency as one registers that the title is a duplication of the English translation of Nikolai Gogol’s Мёртвые души, the novel in which a character seeks to buy dead serfs from their owners but who have yet to...
Home on Erik...
When machine learning matters I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to...
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I joined Spotify in 2008 to focus on machine learning and music recommendations. It's easy to forget, but Spotify's key differentiator back then was the low-latency playback. People would say that it felt like they had the music on their own hard drive.
Ryan Hoover's...
How to come up with side project ideas
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Sharding Yourself An advanced tip for high-volume writers.
over a year ago
weird medieval guys
An 800 year prayer book that's decorated with puns Plus a little history of manuscript illustration
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IEEE Spectrum
This Little Mars Rover Stayed Home Sojourner sent back photos of the Martian surface during the summer of 1997. I was not alone. The...
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Sojourner sent back photos of the Martian surface during the summer of 1997. I was not alone. The servers at NASA’s Jet Propulsion Lab slowed to a crawl when they got more than 47 million hits (a record number!) from people attempting to download those early images of the Red...
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Solo founders with profitable businesses, collected stories People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is:...
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People sometimes wonder: can I have a successful business as a single founder? The answer is: yes. This is a collection of solo-preneur success stories (with occasional 2 people bands). I only include businesses generating significant revenues. In this context it’s around $5k/mo...
Seth's Blog
Adjacent but not relevant There’s a sale on band saw blades, including a really good deal on one that fits the saw you owned...
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There’s a sale on band saw blades, including a really good deal on one that fits the saw you owned years ago. The folks who live next door to the house you used to live in are having a raucous party. A guy with a name just like yours wins the lottery… These adjacencies can […]
Retail Design Blog
Vigdis Rosenkilde by Fibra Branding Vigdis Rosenkilde is a Norwegian fine chocolate brand using cacao from the Peruvian Amazon. Its...
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Vigdis Rosenkilde is a Norwegian fine chocolate brand using cacao from the Peruvian Amazon. Its rebranding aimed for greater visual...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
In Response To Google Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable....
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Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my response. (1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search
IEEE Spectrum
35 Years Ago, Researchers Used Brain Waves to Control a Robot Using the brain to directly control an object was long the stuff of science fiction, and in 1988 the...
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Using the brain to directly control an object was long the stuff of science fiction, and in 1988 the vision became a reality. IEEE Life Senior Member Stevo Bozinovski and Members Mihail Sestakov and Dr. Liljana Bozinovska used a student volunteer’s electroencephalogram (EEG)...
Citation Needed
Issue 85 – All the President’s tokens As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga”...
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As Trump’s web of crypto projects gets tangled up in itself, a regulator warns of “regulatory Jenga” in the crypto sector that echoes the 2008 financial crisis
The Marginalian
Edward Abbey on How to Live and How to Die: Immortal Wisdom from the Park Ranger Who Inspired... The summer after graduating high school, knowing he would face conscription into the military as...
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The summer after graduating high school, knowing he would face conscription into the military as soon as his eighteenth birthday arrived, Edward Abbey (January 29, 1927–March 14, 1989) set out to get to know the land he was being asked to die for. He hitchhiked and hopped freight...
Vadim Kravcenko
10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens Question: Answer: The post 10x Engineers vs -10x Burdens appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
a year ago
nanoscale views
Quick survey - machine shops and maker spaces Recent events are very dire for research at US universities, and I will write further about those,...
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Recent events are very dire for research at US universities, and I will write further about those, but first a quick unrelated survey for those at such institutions.  Back in the day, it was common for physics and some other (mechanical engineering?) departments to have machine...
NeuroLogica Blog
Tong Test for Artificial General Intelligence Most readers are probably familiar with the Turing Test – a concept proposed by early computing...
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Most readers are probably familiar with the Turing Test – a concept proposed by early computing expert Alan Turing in 1950, and originally called “The Imitation Game”. The original paper is enlightening to read. Turing was not trying to answer the question “can machines think”....
bt RSS Feed
Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I...
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Stripe Menu Dropdowns (CSS) 2020-03-31 In a previous article I wrote, Minimal CSS: Dropdown Menus, I showed how you could create a basic menu dropdown with only 121 bytes of CSS. While this demo is great for simple text-based menu dropdowns, it doesn’t show just how complex (in a...
xkcd.com
the Wrong Stuff
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Data Boutique
Network Effects: When Value Comes from Others Joining in ... and Data Boutique Partnership Program launch
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Londonist
The Great Fire Of London: 10 Key Sites To See Monument, Pudding Lane, the Golden Boy and more.
a year ago
Both Are True
comedic catastrophes (The Chatfield x Dobrenko Tapes) + why being mediocre at your art is the best way to not get copied by the AI
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bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
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This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
Calculated Risk
ISM® Manufacturing index Decreased to 50.3% in February (Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 50.3%...
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(Posted with permission). The ISM manufacturing index indicated expansion. The PMI® was at 50.3% in February, down from 50.9% in January. The employment index was at 47.6%, down from 50.3% the previous month, and the new orders index was at 48.6%, down from...
History Today Feed
‘The Sun Rising’ by Anna Whitelock review ‘The Sun Rising’ by Anna Whitelock review JamesHoare Wed, 05/28/2025 - 09:21
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Retail Design Blog
Purple Garden Restaurant Located near Hangzhou’s famed West Lake, the project takes inspiration from Ming Dynasty gardens and...
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Located near Hangzhou’s famed West Lake, the project takes inspiration from Ming Dynasty gardens and fuses them with a contemporary...
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Commodore, Part 1 Chuck Peddle, the 6502, MOS, and the PET
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sylph Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Locking down the graph joke/obscure word enthusiast...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Locking down the graph joke/obscure word enthusiast crossover crowd. 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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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…
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...
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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...
Making software...
Adaptable Flexbox Grid Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and...
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Adaptable Flexbox Grid 2018-11-22 You can use flexbox for many tricky layout "hacks" and implementing a grid layout is no different. Check out the CodePen below to see how you can implement a flexbox grid system that adapts automatically based on how many items you insert per row...
Both Are True
happy father's day (the color) on failures and fathers and color and country
a year ago
Matt Mazur
My Indie SaaS Revenue has Grown 37% per Year for 13 Years Unlike many indie founders, I’ve never shared revenue numbers for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker...
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Unlike many indie founders, I’ve never shared revenue numbers for Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker tool. Even if they were remarkable – which they are not really – I just don’t think there are many good reasons to publicly share revenue numbers, and there are lots of downsides....
Aaron's Essays
Conflicted Capital I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of...
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I’ve spent a long time wrestling with how to advise founders about investors and the conflicts of interest generated by opposing incentives.[1] These considerations are especially important when a founder thinks about fundraising. The founder needs to figure out how to treat...
the singularity is...
Three Class Society I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t...
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I heard something during the trucker protest in Canada along the lines of: “Most people here don’t want to live in a free society. A free society requires personal responsiblity. People here want to be managed. They want a ruling class.” I heard something similar once from a...
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...
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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...
The American Scholar
The Bears The post The Bears appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 months ago
Irrational...
Steps to build an engineering strategy. Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Often you’ll see a disorganized collection of ideas labeled as a “strategy.” Even when they’re dense with ideas, these can be hard to parse, and are a major reason why most engineers will claim their company doesn’t have a clear strategy even though my experience is that all...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Inside-out vs. outside-in: the adoption of new technologies There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in....
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There are broadly two adoption paths for new computing technologies: inside-out and outside-in. Inside-out technologies are pioneered by…
Old Structures...
Travelog: Far From Home Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects...
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Traveling to another country usually gets you views of a built environment that is in some respects fundamentally different than the one you’re used to. London is, for a New Yorker, the worst place in the UK to get that feeling because of the many similarities between the two...
FIRE v London
June ’24: Election fever June was busy. I travelled more than usual in June. Partly in the UK – visiting Glasgow, the west...
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June was busy. I travelled more than usual in June. Partly in the UK – visiting Glasgow, the west country, the south coast and the Isle of Wight; partly overseas – I visited Ibiza for a few days of R&R. Meanwhile, the election campaigns were in full swing. Nigel Farage did his...
Seth's Blog
Early next week… It’s going to get busy around here. I wanted to share some upcoming events (online and in person) so...
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It’s going to get busy around here. I wanted to share some upcoming events (online and in person) so you can plan ahead… there are five more for the end of the week, but here we go: Linda Rottenberg is joining me on LinkedIn on Monday. She’s built an extraordinary organization...
👋 Hello, I'm...
Why I’m leaving the Shopify Apps business
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
The end of my childhood
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Eat Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation with Phil Plait, whom I...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Based on a conversation with Phil Plait, whom I wish to associate with the above subject. Today's News:
Seth's Blog
The catfight and the construction site We’re quick to stop to see the car wreck, the billionaire having a meltdown, or the professional...
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We’re quick to stop to see the car wreck, the billionaire having a meltdown, or the professional wrestlers pretending to be political leaders. But it often seems more difficult to take a moment to watch people building something that matters instead. We’ll probably spend billions...
Matt Mullenweg
Bezos at Dealbook It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew...
7 months ago
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It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew Ross Sorkin, but this one with Jeff Bezos was particularly good.
Classical Wisdom
Is Subjective Equal to Objective? Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the...
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a year ago
Dear Classical Wisdom Reader, I remember the day vividly. I had moved to Moscow unwisely in the middle of winter, and finally, around four months later, the first real spring day had arrived. The sun bore her rays magnificently, forcing the city’s residents into an ant-like...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grandfather Paradox Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel three is my contribution to World Literature. Today's News: We hit 2000 backers! Announcement of new free stuff incoming.
TheCollector
How Did Dutch Golden Age Art Demonstrate Protestant Values? The art created throughout the Dutch Golden Age shone a light on the lives of ordinary individuals....
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The art created throughout the Dutch Golden Age shone a light on the lives of ordinary individuals. This art not only represented everyday commonplace activities but also demonstrated the values, morals, and expectations of a Calvinist/Protestant life.   Domestic Settings of the...
Both Are True
A link to my daily log as a person who is offline here it is
a year ago
wingolog
here we go again Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my...
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Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my mid-fourties, and so I have seen some garbage governments in my time; one of the worst was Trump’s election in 2016. My heart ached in so many ways, but most of all for immigrants in the US....
Blog - Bitfield...
Getting nothing done You don't need a special place, or a special time, or even special clothes, to meditate. It's just...
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You don't need a special place, or a special time, or even special clothes, to meditate. It's just letting the mind rest when it's not needed, and that's the case more often than you might think.
Neocha – Culture &...
Peace, Love, & Ass
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Best Commute Ever The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel...
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The conference I am currently attending is at ETH, the famous engineering school in Zurich. My hotel is not far away in a two-dimensional sense. I picked it some months ago by looking at a map and thinking that it was a short walk from campus. It’s a short flight to campus if...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Building an all-remote company from scratch Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started...
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Many companies are currently having to adjust to remote work, but what about the ones that started this way from scratch? PostHog has a team of 12, 1…
Flashbak
Gigs, Fights And An Alien Sex Fiend: Posters In London, c. 1990 Alien Sex Fiend played at Camden Palace on February 13, 1990, as part of the venue’s Feet First...
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Alien Sex Fiend played at Camden Palace on February 13, 1990, as part of the venue’s Feet First indie nights. Posters advertising the show went up around the area in other parts of London, featuring the faces of lead singer Nicholas Wade (aka Nik Fiend) and Christine Wade (Mrs...
Seth's Blog
Taxonomy as a service When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out...
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When the truck makes a delivery at the nearby True Value hardware store, Danny needs to figure out which shelf to put it on. Should the extension cords go next to the hoses? After all, they both do the same thing, one with electricity and one with water… The purpose of putting...
Blog - Practical...
When Natural Gas Had No Smell [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Excitement and hope permeated...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Excitement and hope permeated the crowds gathered in a dusty farm carved from the piney woods in east Texas. The rumor was that Columbus Joiner had struck oil. At 70 years old, Joiner had already won and lost...
This Space
A rare sort of writer Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've...
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Today is Gabriel Josipovici's 80th birthday. To mark the occasion, I'll link to various posts I've written over the years – after a brief interlude. I read him first in July 1988 after borrowing The Lessons of Modernism from the second floor of Portsmouth Central Library because...
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Branding Bundles The best way to communicate a group of benefits is to slap a label on it.
over a year ago
Londonist
At The Smithfield Memorial To Scottish Hero William Wallace Still receiving flowers over 700 years on.
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Max Rozen
How to style react-select with styled-components or emotion Styling react-select can be annoying. Here's a quick guide on how to do it with popular CSS-in-JS...
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Londonist
Christmas Gift Guide: London Themed Presents To Buy For London Lovers! Books, booze and unique stocking fillers.
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Supersymmetry
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Bits about Money
The Bond villain compliance strategy Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out...
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Jurisdictional gamesmanship is a common strategy for crypto businesses. Here is how it worked out for Binance and its CEO. Spoiler: poorly.
Quanta Magazine
The Year in Math Landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of...
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Landmark results in Ramsey theory and a remarkably simple aperiodic tile capped a year of mathematical delight and discovery. The post The Year in Math first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - River Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some of the comics are written just so Corey Mohler...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Some of the comics are written just so Corey Mohler will look at his screen, shake his head, and sigh. Today's News:
Left To Write
№ 77: Reflecting on 2023 Doubt, love and growing more into myself.
a year ago
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Recharge: Park City’s Mindful Escapes
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Are Data Unions the Future of Data? Illustrated notes on how data unions work and what problems they might solve
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Londonist
Fenwick Is Reopening As A Charity Shop For Two Weeks Maybe you'll score some cheap Dior.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'At a Quarter a Tome' I owe a significant chunk of my education to the existence of paperback books. By “education” I...
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I owe a significant chunk of my education to the existence of paperback books. By “education” I don’t mean what I pretended to do while in the company of professors, though many of them assigned books published in soft covers. I mean self-assigned literature, beginning as a kid...
Beautiful Public...
The Style Guide for America’s Highways: The Manual on Uniform Traffic Control Devices Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and...
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Driving across America, you will encounter a wide variety of cultures, landscapes, people and animals. But the one consistent thing that will stay the same from Maine to California are the signs you pass on the highway. That is because America’s roads and highways have a big, fat...
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Potsdamer Sea [Image: From Kiessling’s Grosser Verkehrs-Plan von Berlin (1920).] It’s funny to be back in Berlin,...
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[Image: From Kiessling’s Grosser Verkehrs-Plan von Berlin (1920).] It’s funny to be back in Berlin, a city where I once thought I’d spend the rest of my life, first arriving here as a backpacker in 1998 and temporarily moving in with a woman 14 years older than me, who practiced...
Open Culture
Leo Tolstoy’s Family Recipe for Mac and Cheese In 1874, Stepan Andreevich Bers published The Cookbook and gave it as a gift to his sister, countess...
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In 1874, Stepan Andreevich Bers published The Cookbook and gave it as a gift to his sister, countess Sophia Andreevna Tolstaya, the wife of the great Russian novelist, Leo Tolstoy. The book contained a collection of Tolstoy family recipes, the dishes they served to their family...
CONTEMPORIST
A Curved Green Roof Allows This Winery To Blend Into The Landscape Architecture studio Aleš Fiala has recently completed the design of Gurdau Winery in the Czech...
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Architecture studio Aleš Fiala has recently completed the design of Gurdau Winery in the Czech Republic, which includes a unique curved green roof. The building’s location in the open countryside naturally brought with it high demands for architectural and landscape integration....
TokyoDev
Winning a Coding Contest Got Me a Free Trip to Japan I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland...
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I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
Liz Denys
What's in, what's out, how it tells your story, and failing to parallel Hamilton's subversive... Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an...
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over a year ago
Content warning: rape, anti-abortion rhetoric On June 26, I left Richard Rodgers Theatre with an embarrassingly big grin - after all, I had just experienced Hamilton. Like many others, I'd listened to the soundtrack many times before even acquiring tickets to the musical, and I'd...
Sometimes It Works...
A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? For a change, why not try this? Let’s run some numbers… Now for the...
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over a year ago
A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? For a change, why not try this? Let’s run some numbers… Now for the other option ¶A New Way to Hire Tech Talent? Hiring goes a little something like this: Hire traditionally — firewall interviewing (resumé culling, technical testing, group...
somenice
Mount Sproattember
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Contemporist...
This Elevated Home Allows Plants To Be Grown Underneath Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton,...
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Bates Masi + Architects has sent us photos of a new home they recently completed in Bridgehampton, New York, that has its living spaces elevated above the ground.
Res Obscura
Why I love etymologies Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words...
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Telephones popularized "hello," "lox" is 8,000 years old, and other reasons why the history of words matters
Retail Design Blog
Junshanye x Gugo Brand – The national tea aesthetics of Valley Creation Walking in secret places, talking to mountains and seas Transcribing the original power of nature...
6 months ago
Diaries of Note
My love of solitude is growing with my growth Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an eminent 19th-century British poet most famous for her two-volume...
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Elizabeth Barrett Browning was an eminent 19th-century British poet most famous for her two-volume collection, Poems, published in 1844, and the verse novel Aurora Leigh, which came out in 1856. It was in 1831, three years after the death of her mother, that Barrett Browning kept...
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Fast Fourier Transforms
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Retail Design Blog
Tamburins flagship store Similar to affiliated eyewear brand Gentle Monster, Tamburins resonates extremely well with...
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Similar to affiliated eyewear brand Gentle Monster, Tamburins resonates extremely well with Millennial and Gen Z demographics both at home...
Open Culture
The Story of Lee Miller: From the Cover of Vogue to Hitler’s Bathtub In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the...
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a year ago
In late-twenties Manhattan, a nineteen-year-old woman named Elizabeth “Lee” Miller stepped off the curb and into the path of a car. She was pulled back to safety by none other than the magnate Condé Nast, founder of the eponymous publishing company. Not long thereafter, Miller,...
Calculated Risk
PCE Measure of Shelter Decreases to 4.3% YoY in February Here is a graph of the year-over-year change in shelter from the CPI report and housing from the PCE...
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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 February 2025. CPI Shelter was up 4.2% year-over-year in February, down from 4.4% in January, and down from the cycle peak of 8.2% in March...
Contemporist...
Inside a Brooklyn Townhouse Where Every Room Is Designed to Impress Moody tones, sculptural shapes, and richly veined marbles set the tone for this bold Boerum Hill...
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Moody tones, sculptural shapes, and richly veined marbles set the tone for this bold Boerum Hill townhouse, a home designed around the rhythms of entertaining and everyday life. Designed by BAAO (Barker Architecture Office), for a social family of three, each space plays with...
Darek Kay
Building a photography website Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of...
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Last year, I started a photography hobby. Soon after, I've created a place where I can share some of my work, without any attention-driven algorithms dictating the terms. Here's a technical write-up of my journey. Table of...
Willem's Blog
The Problem With Bitcoin Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
7 months ago
99% Invisible
RoboUmp [EPISODE] In the major leagues, there are four umpires on the field — one behind each base, and one behind...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
In the major leagues, there are four umpires on the field — one behind each base, and one behind home plate, who has arguably the most important job, calling balls and strikes. A strike is basically any hittable pitch — something over the plate, between the batter’s chest and his...
Josh Comeau's blog
The Importance of Learning CSS I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I know so many super-talented developers who share the same achilles heel: CSS. Instead of trying to “outrun” CSS, this article explores why leaning in and going deeper can be a tremendous boon for your development life and your career.
The Marginalian
God, Human, Animal, Machine: Consciousness and Our Search for Meaning in the Age of Artificial... An inquiry into the eternal enchantment of why the world exists.
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Real Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Godel proved you can't prove anything. Don't think about it too hard. Today's News: Happy New Year,
Stephen Diehl
Exotic Programming Ideas: Part 3 (Effect Systems)
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cooperation Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cooperation is when we hurt people...
over a year ago
High Signal
The ultimate guide to bootstrapping a business Bootstrapping a business has come back into fashion lately, especially as investment from venture...
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Bootstrapping a business has come back into fashion lately, especially as investment from venture capitalists is drying up and people want to increase their income due to the cost of living crisis. This article will teach you everything you need to know about bootstrapping a...
Steve Klabnik
I invented hypermedia APIs by accident
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
Taiwan is creating an offshore wind industry to fuel its semiconductor factories The island’s offshore wind ambitions are creating a new class of cable engineers.
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TheCollector
Post-Modern Stoics? The Revival of Stoicism in the Late 20th Century It probably should not be too much of a surprise that Stoicism, one of the most deviant and...
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It probably should not be too much of a surprise that Stoicism, one of the most deviant and uncharacteristic branches of ancient philosophy (the Cynics notwithstanding), should attract the attention of late 20th-century intelligentsia. Even Plotinus spoke of the Stoics as being...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Decentralizing Journals and Peer Review DAOs | Out-Of-Pocket the evolution of legitimacy in scientific publishing
a year ago
Open Culture
Public.Work: A Smoothly Searchable Archive of 100,000+ “Copyright-Free” Images We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our...
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We live in an age, we’re often told, when our ability to conjure up an image is limited only by our imagination. These days, this notion tends to refer to artificial intelligence-powered systems that generate visual material from text prompts, like DALL‑E and the many others that...
Paul Cudenec
The Global Gang Running Our World and Ruining Our Lives My understanding of the world in which we live has undoubtedly increased greatly since I wrote the...
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3 months ago
My understanding of the world in which we live has undoubtedly increased greatly since I wrote the material which formed the first of a series of compilations, Fascism rebranded: exposing the Great Reset, a selection of essays from 2018 to 2021.
Adventures In...
Vignettes for the Win! A vignette is a darkening (or lightening) of the edges of a composition, to subtly frame it and draw...
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A vignette is a darkening (or lightening) of the edges of a composition, to subtly frame it and draw the eye in to the middle. It’s an old photographer’s darkroom trick. Lucky for us, I’ve spent many hours in the darkroom and have grown to appreciate the charm and effectiveness...
AFAR Media - Travel...
3 Ideas for a Family or Group Trip in Florida
11 months ago
Herbert Lui
The vessel heuristic What if, when you made art, you weren’t expressing yourself? What if you were a vessel for something...
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7 months ago
What if, when you made art, you weren’t expressing yourself? What if you were a vessel for something greater to express themselves through? “The human mind is literally an antenna,” Pharrell says. “It picks up waves and transmissions from the ultimate source, from the ether.”...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Rediscovering Your Stride I felt the pain before I could see the wart. I thought it was a bruise, one of the many little tiny...
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over a year ago
I felt the pain before I could see the wart. I thought it was a bruise, one of the many little tiny injuries that come and go as part of any runner’s training routine. But the little nemesis on the ball of my foot stuck around. It put up a good fight, injecting pain into my runs,...
The Honest Broker
How I Learned About Great Literature from Comic Books Over the course of 169 issues, Classics Illustrated gave me a taste for mind-expanding reading that...
2 months ago
Old Structures...
More Bragging But Usefully So In two weeks, I’ll be giving a talk in Philadelphia for the Delaware Valley Association of...
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In two weeks, I’ll be giving a talk in Philadelphia for the Delaware Valley Association of Structural Engineers, which is the eastern-Pennsylvania chapter of the Structural Engineers Association of Pennsylvania. The topic is “Engineers’ Guidelines for Historic Buildings” and I’m...
brr
South Pole Water Infrastructure Fresh water from snow, at 70 below!
a year ago
Birchtree
The "essential" iPhone Today marks day 13 of using the iPhone 16e as my primary phone, and after this review goes live,...
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3 months ago
Today marks day 13 of using the iPhone 16e as my primary phone, and after this review goes live, I'll be moving my eSIM back to the 16 Pro that I use day to day. I intended to use this phone for a month before going back to
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Stepping Back from Black Friday The psychological warfare that is Black Friday. It is a time when consumerism is manipulated so...
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over a year ago
The psychological warfare that is Black Friday. It is a time when consumerism is manipulated so intensely that people lose control of themselves, as well as their wallets. This excessive sales day has even evolved into a Black Friday sales week, which doesn’t really make much...
csvbase blog
DuckDB isn't just fast A whistlestop tour of the cool bits of DuckDB
a year ago
Yale e360
Exposure to Air Pollution Can Make It Harder to Focus, Study Finds A person’s ability to focus on everyday tasks is affected by short-term exposure to air pollution, a...
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A person’s ability to focus on everyday tasks is affected by short-term exposure to air pollution, a study has found. Read more on E360 →
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Vladislav Zubok On the Spot: Vladislav Zubok JamesHoare Mon, 05/12/2025 - 09:13
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Blog - Mac Pierce
10 Billion Minus 1 - Making a 10 digit 7 segment display for Lovepop The process and steps of making a multi-digit display.
over a year ago
Flashbak
Dear Dead Heads: Vintage Skull Postcards Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve...
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a year ago
Ever since we happened upon L’amour de Pierrot (above), an anonymous artwork made in 1905, we’ve been on the look out for more of these type of memento mori optical illusions. And now we’ve an entire set of skull postcards – many of which are available as postcards in the shop.  ...
Avestura's Blog
Using Tor outside of the Tor Browser This post shows how to run Tor with a simple PowerShell script and use it in other apps like...
over a year ago
Oykun
1 Simple Approach to Discover Your Design Career Path As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from...
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over a year ago
As designers, we can sometimes feel lost in our design career and it applies to all of us from Junior to Senior levels. We either have no idea where we are going or get lazy and lost in our comfort zone. If I've based the advice purely on
Rest of World -...
19 books to read in 2023 Rest of World's staff favorites, from around the globe to add to your must-read pile.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for the middle of your week (#11) "Bullshit jobs", racial depolarization, the YIMBY-union alliance, China's last boosters, Biden's...
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"Bullshit jobs", racial depolarization, the YIMBY-union alliance, China's last boosters, Biden's foreign policy, low-carbon steel, and Javier Milei
Ryan Hoover's...
From Rejection to Product Hunt
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End of Year Book Review (2022) I enjoy books (more so audio books than reading), but I don't consume them very much or as often as...
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I enjoy books (more so audio books than reading), but I don't consume them very much or as often as I'd like. At least in my own mind I don't get through many, but what's the global average? I don't honestly care. This year I wanted to make a concerted effort to consume more...
Cremieux Recueil
National IQs Are Valid National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
5 months ago
Articles
It's not us, it's them
over a year ago
Home on Erik...
The eigenvector of "Why we moved from language X to language Y" I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I...
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over a year ago
I was reading yet another blog post titled “Why our team moved from <language X> to <language Y>” (I forgot which one) and I started wondering if you can generalize it a bit. Is it possible to generate a N * N contingency table of moving from language X to language Y?
xkcd.com
Cold Air
7 months ago
Mahmoud Felfel's...
Abstract Syntax Trees by example Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Babel is a very powerful code generator and parser, but the documentation doesn't have many examples of how to use it for parsing, generating, and manipulating abstract syntax trees, I'm collecting some here from my own usage of it.
Passing Time
27 Things I know
a year ago
Diaries of Note
Beginning of Classes In 1911, having recently become interested in the field of psychoanalysis, 50-year-old German writer...
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a year ago
In 1911, having recently become interested in the field of psychoanalysis, 50-year-old German writer Lou Andreas-Salomé attended the Third Psychoanalytical Congress in Weimar and met, amongst other leading figures, Sigmund Freud. A year later, in September of 1912, she wrote to...
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Memento Vivere Remember what life can do.
over a year ago
David Heinemeier...
Negative visualization in practice The most counterintuitive of the Stoic mental exercises is that of negative visualization. Willfully...
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a year ago
The most counterintuitive of the Stoic mental exercises is that of negative visualization. Willfully imagining all manner of terrible things that might befall you, but haven't yet. Described like this, it sorta sounds like a fancy word of anxiety, but if you look closer, it's in...
Jonas Hietala
Microfeatures in my blog xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and...
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a year ago
xkcd: Nerd sniping A while I ago I encountered a blog post called Microfeatures I Love in Blogs and Personal Websites, and together with the related Hacker News discussion I got nerd sniped. (I spent more time than I care to admit implementing new and exciting microfeatures for...
Weighty Thoughts
Fear and Loathing in 7nm How much does Huawei and SMIC's new chip matter? And what should the US do?
a year ago
TheCollector
Amaterasu, the Mercurial Goddess of the Sun in Japanese Mythology When something is 100% certain, we often say that it’s “as sure as the sun rises in the east.”...
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When something is 100% certain, we often say that it’s “as sure as the sun rises in the east.” That’s because the sun is the most dependable thing in all of human history. Except perhaps in Japanese mythology. Personified by the goddess Amaterasu (lit. “Heaven Shining”), one of...
CONTEMPORIST
Metal Cladding Wraps Around The Large Gable Roof Of This House BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the...
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BLA Design Group has shared photos of their latest project, a unique modern home that marries the West and the East, linking a Chinese-Canadian family’s present lifestyle to their past memories. Located in Vancouver, Canada, the home has a prominent gable form that floats atop...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests from March 2025 25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in March 2025 1) On average the seat moquette on a New...
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25 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in March 2025 1) On average the seat moquette on a New Routemaster bus lasts 7.3 years before replacement. Used moquette is recycled by foreign aid charities. 2) Only 0.003% of Elizabeth Line journeys result in Delay Repay payments even...
TheCollector
How Is Greek Mythology Still Relevant Today? Even in ancient times, ancient Greece was recognized as a leader in culture, philosophy, and...
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2 months ago
Even in ancient times, ancient Greece was recognized as a leader in culture, philosophy, and politics. When the Romans brought Greece into their Empire, they were highly influenced by their art, literature, politics, and more. They even integrated Greek religion into their own,...
Strange Loop Canon
The agent principal problem "Show me the incentive and I will show you the outcome."
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Carbon Fiber Structural Battery I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I have written previously about the concept of structural batteries, such as this recent post on a concrete battery. The basic idea is a battery made out of material that is strong enough that it can bare a load. Essentially we’re asking the material to do two things at once – be...
Articles
Who wants this today?
over a year ago
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Find programming work by increasing luck surface area Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote...
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Antonio asked on HN: How do I earn a small amount of money to sustain myself as a developer? I wrote a response centered around increasing luck surface area. This essay expands on it because I’ve seen this a few times now: good developers asking how to find work while botching...
diamond geezer
Local news I've battled the pop-ups to bring you this list of important stories from local news websites,...
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I've battled the pop-ups to bring you this list of important stories from local news websites, county by county. Bedfordshire: "Idiotic" driver crashes after showing off during car meet Berkshire: Independent pasta restaurant changes its name after one year Bristol: 'Bonkers'...
Birchtree
Oh my gosh, I can try the horse browser! Listen or watch now! Niléane brings a spicy browser extension, Chris works through some iPad...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Listen or watch now! Niléane brings a spicy browser extension, Chris works through some iPad feelings, and Matt made the gang decide what app they consider "undefeated". We want to hear from you! How would you have done our challenges? How would you answer the question
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Sleep is so weird Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full...
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Ian Dyball Our bodies are designed such that we need to lose consciousness, entirely, for a full third of every day. This is evidently necessary for some kind of regular brain maintenance, maybe forming long term memories, who knows what else. If we don’t sleep, we quickly become...
Tyler Cipriani: blog
A case for stacked patches 📚 I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds,...
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a year ago
I’m wondering why you talk about “branches” at all. No such thing should exist. – Linus Torvalds, 2005, git@vger.kernel.org Git branches are hard to think about. But “GitHub” forces you to think about branches. A lot. Instead of futzing with GitHub’s feature branches, many...
Strange Loop Canon
Mind the Gap from empire to umpire
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
Out Of Control. Fear the worst, hope for the best.
9 months ago
Quanta Magazine
The Year in Biology Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and...
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Biologists used artificial intelligence to make discoveries about molecules and the brain, and overturned long-held assumptions about the immune system and RNA. The post The Year in Biology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seth's Blog
How to win an argument with a toddler You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in...
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You can’t. That’s because toddlers don’t understand what an argument is and aren’t interesting in having one. Toddlers (which includes defensive bureaucrats, bullies, flat earthers, folks committed to a specific agenda and radio talk show hosts) may indicate that they’d like to...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Color Theory Scams, Exposing How Designers Manipulate You With Color I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time...
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over a year ago
I am here to give you permission to call them out next time you hear color jargon. It is time someone exposed the babble for what it is, manipulation.
lcamtuf’s thing
My approach to teaching electronics Explaining the reasoning behind my series of articles on electronics -- and asking for your...
2 months ago
SubAnima
What is a biological individual? Some individuals have no clear boundaries. Here’s an assortment of some of the most interesting...
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Some individuals have no clear boundaries. Here’s an assortment of some of the most interesting problem cases
Maps Mania
Mapping the Cultural Impact of Gentrification
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Mazdak
Move Your Business Abroad: A Step-by-Step Guide for Entrepreneurs Expanding your business abroad can be a great way to reach new markets, increase revenue, and...
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Expanding your business abroad can be a great way to reach new markets, increase revenue, and diversify your portfolio. However, it's important to do your research and take the necessary steps to ensure a successful transition. Here are some practical tips for entrepreneurs...
IEEE Spectrum
Kyiv Start-Up Tests Unified Controller for Robots and Drones Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming...
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Ukraine’s young tech entrepreneurs think that a combination of robots and lessons from war-gaming could turn the tide in the war against Russia. They are developing an intelligent operating system to enable a single controller to remotely operate swarms of interconnected drones...
Londonist
Multicultural Soho Shines In This AI-Enhanced Video From The 1950s Super-sharp footage of 50s Soho.
a year ago
Open Culture
Johnny Cash & The Clash’s Joe Strummer Sing Bob Marley’s “Redemption Song” (2002) In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs...
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In 1958, Merle Haggard saw Johnny Cash play in San Quentin, and went on to sing honest country songs for country outlaws. In 1982, future Rage Against the Machine guitarist Tom Morello saw Joe Strummer play with The Clash in Chicago and went on to play angry righteous rock for...
Grant Slatton
Ghost Side Control Escape System (BJJ) A video instructional on my preferred side control escape system
10 months ago
Lighthouse Blog
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a year ago
Old Structures...
Four Months Later, I Finish The Thought I wrote a blog post in April about the grotesques in the lobby of the Woolworth Building. As I...
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I wrote a blog post in April about the grotesques in the lobby of the Woolworth Building. As I mentioned then, they are grotesques because they are purely decorative figures; gargoyles are decorative figures that are generally water spouts and are part of a roof drainage system....
Notes on software...
Standard ML in 2020 Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML#...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Incredibly, Standard ML implementations are still actively developed. MLton, Poly/ML, MLKit, SML# and SML/NJ are the most prominent. Discussion on the future direction of Standard ML remains healthy as well. And somehow OCaml's lesser known cousin still beats out OCaml...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Moat Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For any problem there's a set of solutions that...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: For any problem there's a set of solutions that would actually work but would be too weird to be accepted. Today's News:
Calculated Risk
Goldman on Employment Report and FOMC A few excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note: Nonfarm payrolls rose 256k in December, well...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
A few excerpts from a Goldman Sachs research note: Nonfarm payrolls rose 256k in December, well above consensus expectations. ... The household survey was also strong. The unemployment rate fell 0.15pp to 4.09%, reflecting a 478k gain in household employment and an unchanged...
DYNOMIGHT
Please show lots of digits Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve brought you here today to ask a favor. Say you wrote something like this: There were 446 students tested. The left-handed students passed 5.67664% more often than right-handed...
Calculated Risk
3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in March Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in March A...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 3rd Look at Local Housing Markets in March A brief excerpt: This is the third look at several early reporting local markets in March. I’m tracking over 40 local housing markets in the US. Some of the 40 markets are states,...
Open Culture
The Big Map of Who Lived When Shows Which Cultural Figures Walked the Earth at the Same Time: From... We could call the time in which we live the “Information Age.” Or we could describe it more vividly...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
We could call the time in which we live the “Information Age.” Or we could describe it more vividly as the era of Bill Gates and Jeff Bezos, Martin Scorsese and Steven Spielberg, Oprah Winfrey and Martha Stewart, Beyoncé and Bob Dylan. Whatever you think of the work of any of...
Cognitive...
Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way -...
a year ago
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a year ago
Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way - Ollama. install ollama. after you finsh you should be able to run ollama from the command line. Also you will see the ollama icon up top like this: Iff you are curious - anytime you see that...
Maps Mania
Mapping the Revolutionary War
a week ago
sancho.dev
Don't use Tailwind for your Design System
over a year ago
Londonist
Best Of Londonist: 25 September-1 October 2023 The best articles from the past week.
a year ago
tomcritchlow.com
9 Years on the Road October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I...
a year ago
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a year ago
October 24th is my indie-versary, the anniversary of quitting my last full time job. Every year I write a set of reflections about this strange and magical journey.
NeuroLogica Blog
Harvesting Energy from Water Vapor I did not plan to write yet another post about energy, but this popped up and I had to write about...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I did not plan to write yet another post about energy, but this popped up and I had to write about it. UMASS researchers have produced a device that generates electricity by harvesting charge from water vapor. They write: The common feature of these materials is that they are...