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
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...
Koos Looijesteijn
Your app is not a product
8 months ago
Society's Backend
JAX is for More Than Just Machine Learning
What JAX is and its potential applications
6 months ago
What JAX is and its potential applications
CONTEMPORIST
A 1970s Four Bedroom Home Renovated For A Couple That Loves To Entertain
Architecture firm Side Angle Side, has shared photos of a 1970s ranch home they renovated in Austin,...
2 months ago
Architecture firm Side Angle Side, has shared photos of a 1970s ranch home they renovated in Austin, Texas, for their clients that wanted a home for entertaining. The transformation involved converting a four-bedroom floor plan into a spacious, open, one bedroom home. A long...
David Heinemeier...
Buying the seller
We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity...
a year ago
We've just moved the 37signals podcast to Buzzsprout. Podcast hosting is to some extent a commodity market, so this was less about pining for a specific feature or even working to reduce the bill. This was about buying from Tom Rossi, the technical cofounder of HigherPixels (who...
Archinect - Features
10 Ghost Towns With Unique Architecture
Cities are like living bodies, each one animated by the pulse of human life. People give a city...
a month ago
Cities are like living bodies, each one animated by the pulse of human life. People give a city purpose, identity, and movement. When a city is abandoned, its soul departs, leaving behind only the silent architecture, a skeletal remnant of what once was.
While such environments...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Beeing
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You ever think about how many STDs would go down...
4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You ever think about how many STDs would go down with us if there were an AI apocalypse?
Today's News:
TheCollector
5 Forgotten Female Artists You Should Know
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a year ago
mtlynch.io
My Third Year as a Solo Developer
Today is the third anniversary of quitting my job at Google to build my own software business. I...
over a year ago
Today is the third anniversary of quitting my job at Google to build my own software business. I posted updates at the end of my first and second years, so it’s time to share my progress.
The year things clicked into place In my first two years working for myself, I earned less...
Confessions of a...
The CAP Theorem of Clustering: Why Every Algorithm Must Sacrifice Something
No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
a month ago
No clustering algorithm is perfect and you must make a trade-off.
alexwlchan
Filtering out bogus requests from Netlify Analytics
I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance.
It’s...
a year ago
I host this site on Netlify, and I pay for Netlify Analytics to monitor its performance.
It’s essentially server-side logging with a dashboard on top, and it’s more than sufficient for the very limited analytics I want to do here.
One of the dashboard panels is “resources not...
Seth's Blog
Variety and the long tail
In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. The first has been...
11 months ago
In a We Are All Weird universe, there are two sorts of cultural disappointments. The first has been around since the dawn of cable: We don’t all watch the same thing. We don’t all talk about it, hits aren’t really hits, not like they used to be. There’s no comparison in the reach...
Diaries of Note
Only work can save me
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman was just eleven when his father took his own life, a...
a year ago
Pulitzer Prize-winning poet John Berryman was just eleven when his father took his own life, a trauma that profoundly affected Berryman and resulted in a lifelong struggle with mental illness and alcoholism. At thirty-two, while teaching at Princeton University and five years...
Words and Buttons...
Error codes are not numbers. But they are. Can we exploit that?
People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with...
over a year ago
People do it with different feelings. Sometimes with pride for a clever solution, sometimes with guilt for an obscure hack. Which is odd since there is nothing particularly hacky about it. The ISO/IEC 14882 is ok with it. The IEEE 754 is ok with it. So why is it a hack and not a...
The American Scholar
“water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton appeared first on The...
2 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton appeared first on The American Scholar.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Unsupervised Learning: Clustering
Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
over a year ago
Single Linkage, K-Means, Soft Clustering, and Kleinberg Impossibility
Map of the Week
Below the Ice
This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the...
11 months ago
This past fall scientists uncovered a vast landscape that has been "frozen in time" under the Antarctic Ice Shelf. Here is a nice graphic from phys.org.
The topography was determined by a combination of radio wave echoes and satellite images. This landscape, more than 2...
Farnam Street
Let Go of the Learning Baggage
We all want to learn better. That means retaining information, processing it, being able to use it...
over a year ago
We all want to learn better. That means retaining information, processing it, being able to use it when needed. More knowledge means better instincts; better insights into opportunities for both you and your organization. You will ultimately produce better work if you give...
Diaries of Note
Wonder, astonishment, and devotion
In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of...
a year ago
In December of 1831, HMS Beagle embarked on a historic voyage that would shape the course of scientific thought for generations to come. Aboard that ship, with a mere 22 years under his belt, was Charles Darwin, whose role would lead to remarkable discoveries about the natural...
Old Structures...
Not Saved
I vaguely know Fort Tilden – a former army base near the west end of the Rockaway peninsula – but...
3 months ago
I vaguely know Fort Tilden – a former army base near the west end of the Rockaway peninsula – but its remote location and the lack of anything there that really interests me mean that I don’t know it particularly well. So the headline “Time to pay last respects to the abandoned...
CONTEMPORIST
Natural Stone Provides A Base For This Modern Home
Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of...
a year ago
Bourgeois / Lechasseur architectes has recently completed a new home in Mauricie, a region of Canada’s Québec province between Montréal and Québec City. The home’s design is inspired by the region’s industrial heritage and the natural elements that surround it. The unusually...
Grow With Less
A 10-Minute Guide to Finding Low Competition, High Traffic Keywords
You may have heard of unicorn keywords: low competition, high volume keywords.
Some say they are...
over a year ago
You may have heard of unicorn keywords: low competition, high volume keywords.
Some say they are extinct. Others say they are so plentiful in some niches that any blog can easily rank without backlinks.
As often, the truth lies somewhere in between.
One thing is for certain...
The Works in...
Youtube Rules
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
a year ago
A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
./techtipsy
Turning leftover PC parts into a decent gaming PC
Introduction
About a year ago, I bought an used PC based off of
a Lenovo Erazer X510. It had a...
over a year ago
Introduction
About a year ago, I bought an used PC based off of
a Lenovo Erazer X510. It had a dual-core Intel Pentium
G3220 CPU, 4GB of DDR3 RAM, a crappy Codegen 400W power supply and a 60GB SSD. I added an Nvidia GTX 1050 and just like
that, a budget gaming PC was born. My...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread
Shanghai, Wrong, Returns, Nuclear, Employee Performance, Feedback Loops, Buffett
3 weeks ago
Shanghai, Wrong, Returns, Nuclear, Employee Performance, Feedback Loops, Buffett
CONTEMPORIST
A House Designed Like Two Barns Beside Each Other
Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that...
a year ago
Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that has a layout similar to two barns positioned side-by-side. The home has been designed to take advantage of the long and narrow lot, with the layout divided into two interconnected...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Glue and coprocessor architectures
3 months ago
diamond geezer
Regent Street
REGENT
STREET
£300
London's Monopoly Streets
REGENT STREET
Colour group: green
Purchase price:...
2 months ago
REGENT
STREET
£300
London's Monopoly Streets
REGENT STREET
Colour group: green
Purchase price: £300
Rent: £26
Length: 1300m
Borough: Westminster
Postcode: W1/SW1
Regent Street is one of the board's younger streets and a rarity for central London in that an architect drew a...
diamond geezer
Hinchley Wood
One Stop Beyond: Hinchley Wood
Hinchley Wood, one stop beyond Surbiton on the New Guildford...
4 months ago
One Stop Beyond: Hinchley Wood
Hinchley Wood, one stop beyond Surbiton on the New Guildford line.
unsung fields to the east of Esher, officially in the parish of Thames Ditton, sliced through by a non-stopping railway. What changed things was the arrival of the Kingston Bypass...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ritual
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd...
5 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I'm not saying you should do this, only that it'd be awesome.
Today's News:
David Heinemeier...
We once more have no full-time managers at 37signals
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to...
3 months ago
After experimenting with a number of management roles over the last few years, 37signals is back to its original configuration: None. We once more have no full-time managers whose sole function is to organize or direct the work of others. Everyone doing management here does so on...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Dark But Festive'
I grew up in
the Age of Magazines. My parents, who were not book readers, subscribed at
various...
7 months ago
I grew up in
the Age of Magazines. My parents, who were not book readers, subscribed at
various times to Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Time, Life, Look, Saturday Evening Post and National Geographic, not to mention those periodicals subscribed to by my
mother (McCall’s,...
diamond geezer
10 Centuries in 1 Day
One of the capital's best places to go walking is the City of London, and what's more they have the...
7 months ago
One of the capital's best places to go walking is the City of London, and what's more they have the wherewithal to have created all sorts of self-guided walks for you to follow. 21 downloadable walks are listed on their old website (although they're increasingly hard to find...
Musings on Markets
The School Bell Rings: Time for Class!
Continuing an annual ritual of long standing, ahead of starting my spring teaching at NYU starting...
11 months ago
Continuing an annual ritual of long standing, ahead of starting my spring teaching at NYU starting in a couple of weeks, I would like to invite you, if you are interested, to come along for the ride. I know! I know! Most of you are not enrolled at NYU, paying nosebleed prices,...
The Turn Signal RSS...
The Struggle to Find Out How Cars Manage Your Personal Data
Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only...
over a year ago
Cars today collect more than 200 different data points. Most of these data points are not only interesting to car manufacturers themselves.…
Old Structures...
Boarding
Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different...
8 months ago
Sometimes the degree to which the past was simultaneously similar to the present and different catches me by suprise. I was in the far west Village a few days ago and this building caught my eye. It’s a nice 1890s semi-industrial building turned into apartments There’s a sign...
Old Structures...
A Survivor
From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is...
2 months ago
From a New York Public Library scrapbook, “Small apartment buildings”, dated 1915: The address is given as 1763-1769 Townsend Avenue, in the Bronx, which is good because it’s not like I could ever have identified this just from the photo. The site is less isolated than the photo...
NeuroLogica Blog
Liquid Organic Hydrogen Carriers as Fuel
The press release for a recent study declares: “New catalyst could provide liquid hydrogen fuel of...
a year ago
The press release for a recent study declares: “New catalyst could provide liquid hydrogen fuel of the future.” But don’t get excited – the optimism is more than a bit gratuitous. I have written about hydrogen fuel before, and the reasons I am not optimistic about hydrogen as a...
Maps Mania
170 Years of American Immigration
4 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Putting your Keyboard on Steroids with Karabiner Elements
I did a livestream with John Lindquist from Egghead.io today, and he blew my mind on how much...
over a year ago
I did a livestream with John Lindquist from Egghead.io today, and he blew my mind on how much mileage you can get out of your keyboard!
Commoncog
Executing on Becoming Data Driven
Every analytics project consists of two parts. The technical part, and then the 'get the...
a year ago
Every analytics project consists of two parts. The technical part, and then the 'get the organisation on board' part. We talk about why the latter is the real challenge.
Luxagraf:...
Wagoneer
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed...
a year ago
My favorite way to travel is with everyone in the bus, no other vehicle involved.
As we've slowed down our travels though, spending more time in an area makes it nice to have a car to go exploring, run errands, and get to places the bus can't. For that reason we bought a 2006...
Classical Wisdom
Ancient Greek Art
Through the Ages
3 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
Introducing BIND9 dnssec-policy
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature
to sign a DNS zone that is...
7 months ago
Here are some notes about using BIND’s new-ish dnssec-policy feature
to sign a DNS zone that is currently unsigned.
I am in the process of migrating my DNS zones from BIND’s old
auto-dnssec to its new dnssec-policy, and writing a blog post
about it. These introductory sections...
NeuroLogica Blog
Localizing Hidden Consciousness
What’s going on in the minds of people who appear to be comatose? This has been an enduring...
a year ago
What’s going on in the minds of people who appear to be comatose? This has been an enduring neurological question from the beginning of neurology as a discipline. Recent technological advances have completely changed the game in terms of evaluating comatose patients, and now a...
Mazdak
Anthropic's AI Breakthrough & Boeing's Q3 Disaster
Boeing's Q3 earnings report reveals a massive loss, while Anthropic's Claude AI showcases...
a month ago
Boeing's Q3 earnings report reveals a massive loss, while Anthropic's Claude AI showcases mind-blowing new capabilities.
CONTEMPORIST
Bamboo And Traditional Craftsmanship Weave Nature Into The Design Of This Retail And Exhibition...
Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as...
2 months ago
Design firm llLab., has shared photos of a sculptural bamboo installation they recently completed as part of the Element pop-up store at HKRI Taikoo Hui in Shanghai, China. Aligned with Element’s sustainable branding philosophy, this project embraces bamboo to explore a spatial...
TheCollector
Plato’s Dialogue Crito: Should Socrates Have Escaped His Execution?
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10 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Time Is Tight'
My brother is
dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is...
4 months ago
My brother is
dying as he lived – stubbornly. He has been in hospice for two weeks and is failing
incrementally. On Monday we were swapping memories and he stopped talking on
Tuesday, the same day he stopped eating. He lies on his back on the hospice
bed, mouth open, eyes staring...
Arduino Blog
A stroopwafel doneness detection device
If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a...
5 months ago
If you’re lucky enough to visit the Netherlands and you order a hot drink, you’ll likely be given a sweet treat as well. That is a stroopwafel, a crispy little waffle-syrup sandwich that the Dutch like to rest on top of their drink so that the rising heat will soften the pastry....
Weighty Thoughts
Why did the Prior Generations of AI Fail?
Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
3 months ago
Diving into the History—Which is Kind of a Circle
The Honest Broker
How to Know If You're Living in a Doom Loop
Let's look at the warning signs
4 months ago
Let's look at the warning signs
TheCollector
How Did the Industrial Revolution Transform Social Structures & Living Conditions?
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a month ago
Maggie Appleton
JavaScript Bits You Skipped the First Time Around
over a year ago
Adventures In...
Historical Topo Map Explorer (beta)
The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is getting an update, and you can try out this new beta...
a year ago
The USGS Historical Topographic Map Explorer is getting an update, and you can try out this new beta version, here: LivingAtlas.ArcGIS.com/TopoMapExplorer The United States Geological Survey has a rich history of creating exquisite topographic quadrangle maps. These topo maps are...
TheCollector
Chicago Art Institute Can Keep Egon Schiele Work
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9 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
September 11th from Singapore
just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
over a year ago
just some memories 20 years after 9/11.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Counting to Ten
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to...
a year ago
We’re sitting around the dinner table discussing what happened at school today and it leads us to the subject of counting to ten.
Realizing everyone in the family can count to ten in a language unique to them at this moment in their life, we go around the table to do it...
devonzuegel.com
OWD #3: Disney World & other underworlds
Every place has some dirty secrets, even Disney World. We all have to get rid of waste somehow! In...
over a year ago
Every place has some dirty secrets, even Disney World. We all have to get rid of waste somehow! In this episode, the Bertauds and I discuss methods of sanitation and waste management from around the world, and how these hidden systems shape our cities.
RSS · Apple Podcasts ·...
Basta’s Notes
All the bullshit I did as a kid (part 1?)
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
11 months ago
My first computer, and the first computer I called a server
Math Is Still...
‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient
Locally correctable codes need barely any information to fix errors, but they’re extremely long. Now...
11 months ago
Locally correctable codes need barely any information to fix errors, but they’re extremely long. Now we know that the simplest versions can’t get any shorter.
The post ‘Magical’ Error Correction Scheme Proved Inherently Inefficient first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Londonist
12 Spring Day Trips From London: March 2024
Daffodils, dinosaurs and British fashion icons.
9 months ago
Daffodils, dinosaurs and British fashion icons.
Open Culture
The Page That Changed Comics Forever: Discover the Innovative 1950s Comic Book That Almost Went...
If you grew up reading American comic books during the second half of the twentieth century, you’ll...
5 months ago
If you grew up reading American comic books during the second half of the twentieth century, you’ll be familiar with the seal of the Comics Code Authority. I remember seeing it stamped onto the upper-right corner of issues of titles from The Amazing Spider-Man to reprints of Carl...
The American Scholar
The Baritone as Democrat
How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today
The post The Baritone as...
a month ago
How Lawrence Tibbett prophesied the Metropolitan Opera crisis of today
The post The Baritone as Democrat appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
A History Lover’s Guide to New Mexico
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7 months ago
Left To Write
The Spread of Misinformation & Existential Risk of AI
Continuing my AI conversation with Asad
a year ago
Continuing my AI conversation with Asad
Left To Write
№ 71: You Had A Sh*t Day But Tomorrow Is A New Day
I didn’t have the greatest start to 2023. My emails were being ignored, offers rescinded, a bout of...
a year ago
I didn’t have the greatest start to 2023. My emails were being ignored, offers rescinded, a bout of writer’s block, and I struggled to complete any climbing projects. Pipe in a layer of never feeling enough, feeling behind, and financial struggles and what you’ve got is a...
TheCollector
What Is First Corinthians About?
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a month ago
Diaries of Note
Nothing can be less beautiful than the first sight of London
Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with...
a year ago
Emily Shore was just nineteen when she died of tuberculosis—a short life, but one brimming with intellectual curiosity. Born in Suffolk, England in 1819, her now-celebrated journal contains not just her intricate observations of the natural world, but also thoughtful reflections...
Contemporist...
This Home Has A Living Room That Extends Over The Swimming Pool Below
Daniel Marshall Architect (DMA) has shared photos of a new home they designed in New Zealand, that...
a year ago
Daniel Marshall Architect (DMA) has shared photos of a new home they designed in New Zealand, that includes a cantilevered living room.
Res Obscura
"He spoke of computers with some awe"
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
9 months ago
Margaret Mead, John von Neumann, and the prehistory of AI
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#13)
Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness,...
a year ago
Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness, historical data, and some Star Trek recommendations
Engineer’s Codex
How to burnout a software engineer, in 3 easy steps
The Burnout Playbook for software engineers
a year ago
The Burnout Playbook for software engineers
History Today Feed
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
11 months ago
‘American Journey’ by Wes Davis review
j.hoare
Wed, 01/17/2024 - 09:43
Trying to Understand...
Don't Give Peace Too Many Chances.
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
over a year ago
Nothing is more dangerous than a flawed peace treaty.
Cognitive...
Playing with ChatGPT API
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code...
a year ago
I thought I would try out ChatGPT's new API, so I decided to write a command line interface. My code is located here:
I wanted it to be conversational, so it will remember your conversation history as you type.
Similar to chatgpt-wrapper. ...
Archinect - Features
Archinect Celebrates 20 Must-Watch Emerging U.S.-Based Architecture Practices
In celebration of July 4th, Archinect recognizes the work of U.S.-based architecture firms by...
a year ago
In celebration of July 4th, Archinect recognizes the work of U.S.-based architecture firms by bringing attention to a selection of emerging studios establishing themselves as changemakers and design leaders within the industry.
From coast to coast, we've explored several...
TokyoDev
Mental Health in the Japanese Tech Industry
Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a...
a year ago
Working in a fast-paced environment such as tech, combined with moving to a homogenous country as a foreigner (such as Japan where standing out is not considered to be an exceptionally good thing) understandably takes a toll on someone’s mental health. At the same time, language...
Seth's Blog
Knowing your customers
In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences....
4 months ago
In the very small business, the freelancer knows each customer. By name, by volume, by preferences. And in the huge business, expensive software, data analysts and relentless margin seeking pushes organizations to increase their yield. But most businesses (and non-profits and...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some thoughts on SEO
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via...
over a year ago
“SEO” (==”Search Engine Optimization”) is a term widely used to mean “getting users to your site via organic search traffic.” I don’t like…
Flashbak
The Devil’s Dictionary: The 50-ish Best Descriptions From The Cynic’s Word Book, 1906
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka...
6 months ago
Written by American journalist Ambrose Bierce (24 June 1842 – c.1914), The Devil’s Dictionary, aka The Cynic’s Word Book, consists of common words followed by humorous and satirical definitions. The book was a compilation of Bierce’s columns for The Wasp (1881–1860 plus) and The...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Adieu! for Once Again the Fierce Dispute'
Among John
Keats’ closest friends was the modestly gifted poet John Hamilton Reynolds...
a year ago
Among John
Keats’ closest friends was the modestly gifted poet John Hamilton Reynolds (1794-1852).
It was to Reynolds that Keats wrote in a February 3, 1818 letter:
“We hate
poetry that has a palpable design upon us—and if we do not agree, seems to put
its hand in its breeches...
Laetitia@Work
Future of Work: 9 books I read in 2023
Laetitia@Work #65
11 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The rise of enterprise marketing
Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software...
over a year ago
Building an enterprise software company used to be largely about sales, because enterprise software was sourced and purchased by high-level…
Tinloof - Blog
How to build a stopwatch with HTML, CSS, and plain JavaScript (Part 1)
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user...
over a year ago
This series of articles is made out of two parts:
In this first part, we build the stopwatch's user interface with HTML and CSS.
In the second part, we'll make the user interface functional with JavaScript (the stopwatch works).
Rest of World -...
The church of Roblox: How young Filipino Catholics are building more inclusive spaces
Though not officially sanctioned, the role-playing clergy encourage young people to go deeper into...
6 months ago
Though not officially sanctioned, the role-playing clergy encourage young people to go deeper into their faith while providing a safe space for queer Catholics.
TheCollector
What Was the Vickers Wellington Bomber?
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6 months ago
Noahpinion
The Middle East is getting older
Why I'm optimistic about the waning of conflict in the region.
a year ago
Why I'm optimistic about the waning of conflict in the region.
TheCollector
Understanding Post-War Australian History in 3 Artworks
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5 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Placebos Are Getting Stronger | Out-Of-Pocket
Should we incorporate them into clinical practice?
a year ago
Should we incorporate them into clinical practice?
Flashbak
SoHo And New York City In The 1980s
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,”...
4 months ago
Gérard Monger has been taking photos for more than 56 years. “I wanted to become a photojournalist,” he tells us, “but I became a computer scientist. I lived for a long time in the suburbs of Paris, Colombes and then Maisons Laffitte. Now I live in the center of France in Nevers....
Londonist
Paws On The Wharf: Free Guide Dogs Sculpture Trail Coming To London
Another free art trail for a fantastic cause.
10 months ago
Another free art trail for a fantastic cause.
The Great Discontent...
Mira Nakashima
In 1970, Mira Nakashima joined the family business run by her father, renowned furniture designer...
10 months ago
In 1970, Mira Nakashima joined the family business run by her father, renowned furniture designer and craftsman George Nakashima. Since his death in 1990, Mira has helmed Nakashima Woodworkers, now a 21-building complex and National Historic Landmark nestled among the trees in...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Implacable, Bewildered, It Moves Among Us'
Some sixteen
years ago David Ferry thanked me for a post I had written about some of the lines by...
a year ago
Some sixteen
years ago David Ferry thanked me for a post I had written about some of the lines by Dr. Johnson interpolated into his poems. That email is long gone but
I remember being touched by his buoyant sense of gratitude. That a man in his
eighties, much honored as a poet,...
CONTEMPORIST
This Japanese Restaurant Uses Washi-Inspired Acrylic Panels To Create A Cozy Atmosphere
odd design has shared photos of a Japanese restaurant they recently completed in Beijing, China,...
3 months ago
odd design has shared photos of a Japanese restaurant they recently completed in Beijing, China, that uses textural materials to create a quiet, relaxing, and cozy atmosphere. The open entrance consists of a light box and two sets of low-wall partitions, allowing the space to be...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Nor, Quitted Once, Can It Be Quite Recalled'
I think we have
fetishized age thirteen. It’s linguistic: the first -teen, as though that were some...
3 weeks ago
I think we have
fetishized age thirteen. It’s linguistic: the first -teen, as though that were some rite of passage. I remember awaiting
that age with trepidation, uncertain what was expected of me. I knew
contemporaries who were already shaving and one who was pregnant. (Where...
TheCollector
Tom Thomson Painting Attacked by Protesters in Canada
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Reversing the Web-@nywhere Watch: browse fragments of the Web on your wrist
In the halcyon days of analogue modems and POTS dialup Internet, when the only wireless connection...
11 months ago
In the halcyon days of analogue modems and POTS dialup Internet, when the only wireless connection in your house was between the cordless phone and the wall, anything having to do with the Web was best consumed in small bites (pun intended). If you wanted to take data with you,...
Neil Madden
The square roots of all evil
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all...
2 weeks ago
Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
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Joel Gascoigne
The paradox of how bugs and downtime can be a good thing
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Often if I give a talk or I speak with someone about getting their idea off the
ground, the topic of how solid the product should be comes up. In particular,
people very frequently wait far too...
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Than Documentary'
“Literariness,
as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of...
3 months ago
“Literariness,
as I understand it, does not necessarily entail any particular set of formal
qualities. What makes a work literary is the ability to be understood and
appreciated outside the context of its origin. That is why a literary work, however
valuable as a document of its...
Saturday Morning...
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8 months ago
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'It's okay,' God assured him. 'I was automated years ago too.'
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Hey Austin, come see me at UT. 1:30pm April 5 2024 RLP 1.302E. I'll be talking space!
Maggie Appleton
Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History
7 months ago
The Marginalian
Wholeness and the Implicate Order: Physicist David Bohm on Bridging Consciousness and Reality
How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided,...
a year ago
How to "include everything coherently and harmoniously in an overall whole that is undivided, unbroken, and without a border."
Saturday Morning...
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Elsewhere, a species with 20 fingers per hand will believe pretty much anything is true.
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To my intense horror, many of you have purchased the new book. And so, the bonus updates continue.
Retail Design Blog
Vialto Partners office by Woodalls
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration....
3 months ago
The space portrays Vialto Partners passion for new ideas, different perspectives, and collaboration. These core values were the inspiration and...
Seth's Blog
Plasticity
It’s pretty easy for some kids to switch gears. They can go from sad to ebullient in seconds, and...
5 months ago
It’s pretty easy for some kids to switch gears. They can go from sad to ebullient in seconds, and switch contexts without much fuss. Others have more trouble. As we get older, our natural ability to thrive in a new situation can decrease. But, like a muscle or a skill, it...
Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
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Looking at this again, Terrible Elk-God would be a great He-Man character.
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Mazdak
The Future of Healthcare: Your AI Health Pod is Here! 🩺
Get ready for a revolution in healthcare! Say goodbye to long waits and crowded waiting rooms, and...
a year ago
Get ready for a revolution in healthcare! Say goodbye to long waits and crowded waiting rooms, and hello to the CarePod, your self-contained doctor's office powered by artificial intelligence. Imagine: Stepping into a futuristic pod at your local mall, gym, or even office...
TheCollector
What Are the Most Noteworthy Museums in Amsterdam?
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Acko.net
The GPU Banana Stand
Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream
I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my...
over a year ago
Freshly whipped WebGPU, with ice cream
I recently rolled out version 0.7 of Use.GPU, my declarative/reactive WebGPU library.
This includes features and goodies by itself. But most important are the code patterns which are all nicely slotting into place. This continues to be...
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye
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4 months ago
The Berkeley...
On the Stepwise Nature of <br> Self-Supervised Learning
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we...
a year ago
Figure 1: stepwise behavior in self-supervised learning. When training common SSL algorithms, we find that the loss descends in a stepwise fashion (top left) and the learned embeddings iteratively increase in dimensionality (bottom left). Direct visualization of embeddings...
Jonas Hietala
The End of the Tunnel
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from...
over a year ago
Lately I’ve been feeling like there’s been a shit-ton of stuff going on, quite a turn-around from the last time.
One course about data structure and algorithms (super fun to be honest) has wrapped up. We thought we were ahead with the assignments but in the end it got very...
lcamtuf’s thing
Analog filters, part 2: let it ring
A continuation of the gentle intro to analog signal filtering. In today's episode: the Sallen-Key...
2 months ago
A continuation of the gentle intro to analog signal filtering. In today's episode: the Sallen-Key topology.
The American Scholar
Up Close
The post Up Close appeared first on The American Scholar.
3 months ago
The post Up Close appeared first on The American Scholar.
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JAMstack or 'Pilha de Atolamento'? i18n in Gatsby + Netlify
_Originally published on...
over a year ago
_Originally published on [Scotch.io](https://scotch.io/@sw-yx/jamstack-or-pilha-de-atolamento-let-your-user-decide-i18n-in-gatsby-netlify)_
Seth's Blog
What’s a “techie”?
A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this...
a year ago
A friend’s email said, “I know many of my readers aren’t techies and you’re thinking of putting this newsletter aside…” We should get clear about what we’re talking about when we say “techie.” I’m going to argue that involves a combination of two things: But someone who says,...
Luxagraf:...
Greenfield Village
It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan,...
a year ago
It's always seems slightly perverse to me to head east in a country that once lived by the slogan, go west. Whatever the case, we're eastbound again and when planning our route we ran across something called Greenfield Village.
Greenfield Village is difficult to describe, but...
TheCollector
How the Vietnam War Divided the US
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Open Culture
The 11 Censored Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies Cartoons That Haven’t Been Aired Since 1968
For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a...
3 months ago
For decades and decades, Warner Bros.’ Looney Tunes and Merrie Melodies cartoons have served as a kind of default children’s entertainment. Originally conceived for theatrical exhibition in the nineteen-thirties, they were animated to a standard that held its own against the...
David Heinemeier...
It’s easier to forgive a human than a robot
One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our...
10 months ago
One of the reasons I think AI is going to have a hard time taking over all our driving duties, our medical care, or even just our customer support interactions, is that being as good as a human isn’t good enough for a robot. They need to be computer good. That is, virtually...
Arduino Blog
Light up the holiday season, with a new Plug and Make Kit tutorial!
Looking for a fun and creative way to brighten up the holiday season? With the Arduino Plug and Make...
2 weeks ago
Looking for a fun and creative way to brighten up the holiday season? With the Arduino Plug and Make Kit, you can build an interactive LED light installation that reacts when someone walks by – perfect for spreading cheer and adding a high-tech twist to your decorations. This...
TheCollector
Rome Considers Entry Fee for Famed Trevi Fountain
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Matt Blewitt
Table Stakes
This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise....
over a year ago
This is a short post on what I see are table stakes for any new user-facing service, security-wise. Mostly focused on user-focused, rather than intra-service, considerations.
Artificial Ignorance
Has YC hit peak AI? (F24)
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
2 weeks ago
The latest batch is up to 86% AI startups.
swyx's site RSS Feed
What if your Index Page was Smart?
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
over a year ago
Let's rethink the humble Index Page from first principles.
This Space
"Every day I have to invoke the absent god again"*
I really enjoy this YouTube channel despite my general lack of interest in films. The presenter’s...
over a year ago
I really enjoy this YouTube channel despite my general lack of interest in films. The presenter’s restrained voice-over is ideal for one approaching its concerns; imagine a lullaby sung by Werner Herzog. I envy him the medium for its music, its visuals, even its potential for...
Julia Evans
What helps people get comfortable on the command line?
Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are
intimidated by it. I never...
a year ago
Sometimes I talk to friends who need to use the command line, but are
intimidated by it. I never really feel like I have good advice (I’ve been using
the command line for too long), and so I asked some people on Mastodon:
if you just stopped being scared of the command line in...
Old Structures...
A Different Definition of Speed
I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem...
2 months ago
I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem River, meant to provide a place for people with horses and horse carriages – i.e., the upper middle class and the wealthy – to have fun. There was nothing inherently terrible about...
Blog - Guerrilla...
We are Survivors. We are Stardust.
STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an...
over a year ago
STARLIGHT AND AN AEROSPACE ENGINEER
This map wouldn’t exist without an igniting spark from an aerospace engineer. I was visiting with a friend (said engineer) when the theme for the Atlas in a Day Challenge was announced. Upon hearing the theme of Community, she shared that the...
Anecdotal Evidence
'More Talkative But Less Writative'
Lately I’ve been
reading the Swift/Pope correspondence. Long ago I adopted the author of Gulliver’s...
a year ago
Lately I’ve been
reading the Swift/Pope correspondence. Long ago I adopted the author of Gulliver’s Travels as the most useful
model for prose style in English. It’s not the only way to write but it’s the best
if we judge clarity the supreme virtue. Sloppy prose, unless...
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 4-10 September 2023
Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
Things to do for under a fiver.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
App store shenanigans
I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps. One thing that I’ve noticed is that...
over a year ago
I’ve downloaded and tested a few hundred iPhone and iPad apps. One thing that I’ve noticed is that many of the top rated and ranked apps…
Engineer’s Codex
Clever code is probably the worst code you could write
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
a year ago
And clear, readable code is probably the hardest code to write
Yazin Alirhayim
Part 1: Will greater access to capital spark Bahrain’s economy?
Today, I was on a panel discussing lending and access to capital (not a wooden panel, mind you — but...
over a year ago
Today, I was on a panel discussing lending and access to capital (not a wooden panel, mind you — but a panel of speakers. Now that I think about it, we may have been sitting on wooden panel flooring).
At any rate, the discussion covered alot of ground, all as part of the larger...
Londonist
Hello Brain! At The Crick Probes Secrets Of The Mind... With Knitting
See the latest brain research while you wait for a train.
9 months ago
See the latest brain research while you wait for a train.
Inverted Passion
You can’t jail an AI
Here’s why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue their goals...
7 months ago
Here’s why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue their goals (of profit, power, etc.) as long as they know they can get away with it, without negative consequences. We have had Hitlers, and insider traders. But the world keeps them in check...
Map of the Week
Nicknames of the States
Here's a strange one: An 1884 promotional map for a company that manufactured hog rings (like nose...
7 months ago
Here's a strange one: An 1884 promotional map for a company that manufactured hog rings (like nose rings for hogs, you can read more about those here, if you can stomach a little animal cruelty).
Each state is shown with a representative ring-wearing hog.
Complete with a...
Computer Ads from...
Creative Computing Magazine Interviews Clive Sinclair (1980)
This British inventor speaking about his ZX-80 computer system
2 weeks ago
This British inventor speaking about his ZX-80 computer system
Saturday Morning...
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a year ago
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Thanks again, early buyers! It is a sincerely big deal to have all these preorders in place.
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More info here. God bless the 3 of you still using RSS who actually read this thing.
The Rational Walk
My Years with General Motors
General Motors, under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, capitalized on the mistakes of Henry Ford...
a year ago
General Motors, under the leadership of Alfred P. Sloan, capitalized on the mistakes of Henry Ford in the 1920s to become the dominant American automaker.
Londonist
The Lost Trees Of London
The biggest and best trees that are no more.
a year ago
The biggest and best trees that are no more.
Rest of World -...
Casualties of the Chip War
The biggest threat to Nvidia isn’t coming from China
a year ago
The biggest threat to Nvidia isn’t coming from China
Irrational...
Safe defaults.
Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice...
a year ago
Back in 2018, when I first wrote about sizing engineering teams, I was surprised how much my advice rankled a colleague. He wanted to spin up a new engineering team of two people, which I thought was a bad idea. It would be a fragile team that would fall apart quickly if it...
TheCollector
What Happened at the Battle of Kyiv in WWII?
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4 months ago
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Seven habits of bad interviewers
I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes...
over a year ago
I’ve been to plenty of bad interviews. Sometimes, only some questions are bad, but usually it goes further than that. Bizarre questions like “what’s the difference between a number and an array” are just a symptom of deeper issues.
Let’s take a step back — why are we...
Identity Designed
Atypical
Designed by Behalf, Saigon.
over a year ago
Designed by Behalf, Saigon.
The American Scholar
Bards Behind Bars
Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison
The post Bards Behind Bars appeared first on...
6 months ago
Reading Sartre aloud inside a maximum-security prison
The post Bards Behind Bars appeared first on The American Scholar.
Society's Backend
Run Your Own Race
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
8 months ago
What Bluey can teach us about machine learning
Vadim Kravcenko
📈 The Toxic Grind
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first...
over a year ago
There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […]
The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
TheCollector
Abkhazia’s National Art Gallery Works Destroyed by Fire
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11 months ago
Noahpinion
In which I rebut Nate Silver on the economy and Matt Yglesias on nuclear
Bloggers love to argue.
2 months ago
The Rational Walk
A Seamless Web of Deserved Trust
Trust is earned over many years. Seamless trust requires decades.
11 months ago
Trust is earned over many years. Seamless trust requires decades.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Match Day and the Unmatched | Out-Of-Pocket
an underutilized workforce?
a year ago
an underutilized workforce?
bt RSS Feed
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air...
over a year ago
Audio Hotkeys on Linux Mint
2020-06-14
I recently switched out the OS on my old 2011 MacBook Air with Linux Mint. It’s a distro I’ve used a few times in the past, but never set it as one of my main daily drivers until now.
Setting up all my go-to applications (Sublime, LocalWP,...
Rest of World -...
WhatsApp voice notes are revolutionizing farming in Senegal
For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world...
a year ago
For farmers in Senegal who struggle to read or write, sending voice notes has unlocked a new world of collaboration across the industry.
The Honest Broker
The Final Triumph of Cormac McCarthy (1933-2023)
The novelist delivered an end-of-life masterpiece, but the culture machine was barely interested
a year ago
The novelist delivered an end-of-life masterpiece, but the culture machine was barely interested
The Codist
Has Anyone Noticed How Bloated The Internet Has Become?
I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my...
a year ago
I was on a cruise recently, and trying to read anything online was painful since thousands shared my internet connection at sea. Reading a relatively lightweight site like Google News generally gave me time to get an ice cream cone before the page appeared.
Has everyone abandoned...
TheCollector
The 21st Amendment: The Only Amendment That Repealed Another
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TheCollector
The Curse of the Tower of Babel & the Gift of Tongues
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a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
My ChromeOS to Linux migration: requirements and setup
<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS.
In 2015 I had been using Linux for a...
5 months ago
<![CDATA[I'm going back to Linux after nine years of ChromeOS.
In 2015 I had been using Linux for a couple of decades. Exasperated by the frequent maintenance issues, that year I migrated to ChromeOS. I was living in the browser anyway and ChromeOS seemed like a stable...
bt RSS Feed
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-29
A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a...
over a year ago
SOMA Inspired Terminal Display with CSS
2021-05-29
A few years back I played (and loved) SOMA, a first-person sci-fi horror-adventure game. The story was intriguing and the developers nailed the overall atmosphere of Pathos-II. Though both those aspects were great, what I found...
On the Arts
What is the Demoscene?
An Interview with Filipe Cruz on the Influential but Obscure Art Form
a year ago
An Interview with Filipe Cruz on the Influential but Obscure Art Form
Working Theorys
The Prestige-Prosperity Gap
We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up...
5 months ago
We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up proportionately, and vice versa. But the modern world is a lot messier. There can be bizarre mismatches between prestige and prosperity. Some people have social or professional status far...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 034: Meta Connect
September 29, 2023
a year ago
A small freedom area...
Invert a function using Newton iterations
Newton's method is probably one of the most popular algorithm for finding the
roots of a function...
over a year ago
Newton's method is probably one of the most popular algorithm for finding the
roots of a function through successive numeric approximations. In less cryptic
words, if you have an opaque function f(x), and you need to solve f(x)=0
(finding where the function crosses the x-axis),...
Atoms vs Bits
I Rarely Saw The Plots Resolve
What (doesn't) happen next will shock you
a month ago
What (doesn't) happen next will shock you
Seth's Blog
Our homunculus is showing
The little person at the control panel, the one who sees what the retina produces, the one who...
a year ago
The little person at the control panel, the one who sees what the retina produces, the one who decides, the one who speaks up… (This is the dualist solution to the free will problem–yes, I have a physical body, they say, but I also have a little human inside of me that gets to...
mtlynch.io
Why does a extraneous build step make my Zig app 10x faster?
For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and...
9 months ago
For the past few months, I’ve been curious about two technologies: the Zig programming language and Ethereum cryptocurrency. To learn more about both, I’ve been using Zig to write a bytecode interpreter for the Ethereum Virtual Machine.
Zig is a great language for performance...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: The new conservative era (#53)
Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better...
3 weeks ago
Conservative poll shift; Democratic machine politics; science and politics; some good news; better teachers; the AI slowdown; consumer confidence
Platformer
Why Substack is at a crossroads
Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis
11 months ago
Some thoughts on platforms and Nazis
Oykun
3 skills that will get you ahead ~90% of Designers in 2023
Technical skills will get you so far in Design. You need to focus on soft skills such as...
a year ago
Technical skills will get you so far in Design. You need to focus on soft skills such as Communication, Time Management if you want to grow and stand out.
SatPost by Trung...
Beware value capture
Tech apps influence our behaviour through metrics. Don't follow them blindly.
11 months ago
Tech apps influence our behaviour through metrics. Don't follow them blindly.
99% Invisible
Cautionary Tales of the Sydney Opera House [EPISODE]
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings in the world — but it...
a year ago
The Sydney Opera House is one of the most iconic and distinctive buildings in the world — but it took a relative newcomer and architectural outsider to dream up. The making of this future world heritage landmark is a tale for the ages — a cautionary tale, for which we turn to Tim...
History Today Feed
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
2 months ago
‘The Scapegoat’ by Lucy Hughes-Hallett review
JamesHoare
Mon, 09/30/2024 - 10:39
The Modern House
How Cobbie Yates and Joseph Hyland maximised space in their compact Deptford apartment
a year ago
Blog posts of...
🇪🇺 Dear Europe, please wake up – eu/acc
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe...
7 months ago
Europe is special to me as I consider myself a proud European, but damn we need to talk. Europe please wake up.
Retail Design Blog
Meowho by Canwei Lai
Meowho is an innovative brand specializing in pet food, dedicated to providing pets with a healthy,...
3 months ago
Meowho is an innovative brand specializing in pet food, dedicated to providing pets with a healthy, delicious, and enjoyable dining...
Open Culture
How Olivetti Designed the First Personal Computer in History, the Programma 101 (1965)
If you were to come across an Olivetti Programma 101, you probably wouldn’t recognize it as a...
4 months ago
If you were to come across an Olivetti Programma 101, you probably wouldn’t recognize it as a computer. With its 36 keys and its paper-strip printer, it might strike you as some kind of oversized adding machine, albeit an unusually handsome one. But then, you’d expect that...
Math Is Still...
The Two Faces of Space-Time
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time,...
2 months ago
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once.
The post The Two Faces of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Paul Graham: Essays
Coronavirus and Credibility
over a year ago
The Marginalian
Everything Is Happening All the Time: Legendary Physicist John Archibald Wheeler on Death and the...
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of...
2 months ago
“To die is different from what any one supposed, and luckier,” Walt Whitman writes in the prime of life. “What happens when you get to the end of things?” four-year-old Johnny in Ohio asks his mother from the bathtub while Whitman’s borrowed atoms are becoming young grass in a...
Alex Meub
How To Quiet Down Your 3D Printer
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent...
12 months ago
When I first got my 3D printer, I built an enclosure to protect it from dust, maintain a consistent temperature, and minimize noise. I was surprised to find that the enclosure didn’t reduce noise that significantly. I then placed a patio paver under my printer, which made it...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Some tips for interacting with the press
Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years about the best ways for entrepreneurs to interact...
over a year ago
Here are a few things I’ve learned over the years about the best ways for entrepreneurs to interact with the press (by press I mean blogs as…
The Marginalian
Into the Blue Beyond: William Beebe’s Dazzling Account of Becoming the First Human Being to See the...
"It was stranger than any imagination could have conceived... an indefinable translucent blue quite...
a year ago
"It was stranger than any imagination could have conceived... an indefinable translucent blue quite unlike anything I have ever seen in the upper world."
Anecdotal Evidence
'Entertain As Well As Illuminate'
“Here’s a
thought: literary criticism ought to entertain as well as illuminate.”
Bracing
words to...
a year ago
“Here’s a
thought: literary criticism ought to entertain as well as illuminate.”
Bracing
words to encounter while writing a book review. The writer is the poet
David Mason. Quoted is the opening sentence of his review/essay “Two Poet-Critics,” devoted to Clive James and John...
Ink & Switch
Provenance for science papers, local-first access control
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments...
3 months ago
In this Dispatch, we'll introduce you to two new projects at the lab: exploring writing environments for science papers and local-first access control. We also have some updates on WASM packaging for Automerge, and a new researcher-in-residence.
Matt Mullenweg
Bezos at Dealbook
It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew...
2 weeks ago
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.
The Modern House
Laurence Quinn, architect and founder of Modern Works, on the power of production
a year ago
Andrej Karpathy blog
Biohacking Lite
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew...
over a year ago
Throughout my life I never paid too much attention to health, exercise, diet or nutrition. I knew that you’re supposed to get some exercise and eat vegetables or something, but it stopped at that (“mom said”-) level of abstraction. I also knew that I can probably get away with...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Why decentralization matters
The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the...
over a year ago
The first two eras of the internet During the first era of the internet — from the 1980s through the early 2000s — internet services were…
Dan Slimmon
Podcast appearance: The Debrief from Incident.io
I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical...
7 months ago
I’m so grateful to Incident.io for the opportunity to shout from their rooftop about Clinical troubleshooting, which I firmly believe is the way we should all be diagnosing system failures. Enjoy the full episode!
HTMHell
The road to HTMHell is paved with semantics
by Vadim Makeev
HTML semantics is a nice idea, but does it really make a difference? There’s a huge...
a year ago
by Vadim Makeev
HTML semantics is a nice idea, but does it really make a difference? There’s a huge gap between HTML spec’s good intentions and what browsers and screen readers are willing to implement. Writing semantic markup only because the good spec is a spec, and it is good,...
devonzuegel.com
Property values should be normalized by acre
In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without...
5 months ago
In the US, it's common for local governments to focus on tax revenue produced by a property, without considering the costs it adds to the city's budget. This is like measuring how far a car can drive without considering how much gas it uses to get there.
Different properties...
TheCollector
Artists Expressed Concerns on Banning TikTok in the U.S.
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9 months ago
A Smart Bear
Fermi ROI: Fixing the ROI rubric
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail...
over a year ago
“Maximum value in minimum time.” Sounds good in theory, but traditional rubrics surreptitiously fail to produce the best answers, and fail to create explanations that help others understand why they’re the best answers. This system works.
bt RSS Feed
Clickable Links Inside XML
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I...
over a year ago
Clickable Links Inside XML
2022-06-20
With the recent patch1 to the Shinobi Website project, I thought it would be best to share my experience implementing clickable links inside a rendered XML RSS file directly through a browser. This is made possible thanks to the awesome power...
Tony Dinh's...
Just two things
Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you...
over a year ago
Hello everyone! Tony here 👋 This is not a typical monthly update, I just want to quickly let you know about 2 important things I’m working on that are time-sensitive! 1. DevUtils Black Friday Deal: 30% OFF Once a year, I run a promotion for DevUtils on Black Friday and Cyber...
Internal Tech Emails
Sam Altman emails Elon Musk
The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the...
9 months ago
The mission would be to create the first general Al and use it for individual empowerment—ie, the distributed version of the future that seems the safest.
TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations
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a year ago
Londonist
Things To Do In The Borough Of Bexley
Sound baths, Pre-Raphaelites and a gorgeous sewage pumping station.
9 months ago
Sound baths, Pre-Raphaelites and a gorgeous sewage pumping station.
Strange Loop Canon
I wrote a book!
AI enables us to, finally, get "soft" APIs
a year ago
AI enables us to, finally, get "soft" APIs
elementary Blog
Visualizing The Finish Line
First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already...
7 months ago
First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
latest projects -...
Talking Tines
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
5 months ago
[Concept] Tuning forks that talk
Old Structures...
Iconic
The Third Avenue elevated, looking north from 23rd Street or so. (The street sign at the lower right...
5 months ago
The Third Avenue elevated, looking north from 23rd Street or so. (The street sign at the lower right reads East 24th Street.) My guess is that the photographer was standing at the north end of the northbound platform of the 23rd Street station. Off in the distance, we’ve got the...
The Gradient
Mamba Explained
Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a...
8 months ago
Is Attention all you need? Mamba, a novel AI model based on State Space Models (SSMs), emerges as a formidable alternative to the widely used Transformer models, addressing their inefficiency in processing long sequences.
Londonist
Christmas In London 2023: A Guide To Festive Events, Food And Drink In The Capital This Winter
Top tips for spending Christmas in the capital.
a year ago
Top tips for spending Christmas in the capital.
Wuthering...
Ovid's Amores and Marlowe's Ovid - Love slack’d my muse
Since it is Valentine’s Day, I’ll riffle through Ovid’s
Amores (16 BCE), as translated by Peter...
10 months ago
Since it is Valentine’s Day, I’ll riffle through Ovid’s
Amores (16 BCE), as translated by Peter Green in The Erotic Poems
(1982) and Christopher Marlowe as Ovid’s Elegies (1599). A statement of purpose:
I, Ovid, poet of my wantonness,
Born at Peligny, to write more address.
So...
Benny Kuriakose
Designing Student Amenities That Encourage Creative Growth
Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests,...
a year ago
Providing spaces in schools that promote extracurricular activities in children and grow interests, hobbies, and talents is highly...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Logical Properties and Ease
I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party.
The purist in me loves the idea because it...
a year ago
I’ll admit, I’m late to the logical properties party.
The purist in me loves the idea because it makes CSS more internally consistent with its design to be a language-agnostic framework for uni-directional layout. Chris gets at this in his recent post, “Why aren’t logical...
The American Scholar
Verde
Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense...
2 weeks ago
Learning a foreign language isn’t just about improving cognitive function—it can teach us to sense the world anew
The post Verde appeared first on The American Scholar.
Tech + Economics +...
A decade of discontent is coming.
The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for
large-scale upheaval and...
a year ago
The 10 years ahead will see dramatic, radical change. The potential for
large-scale upheaval and the reordering of societal structures is
significant. We are already witnessing the dismantling of long-standing
institutions and the rise of new paradigms. The struggle between...
African History...
Join me on Notes
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
"On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
Retail Design Blog
Purple Garden Restaurant
Located near Hangzhou’s famed West Lake, the project takes inspiration from Ming Dynasty gardens and...
6 months ago
Located near Hangzhou’s famed West Lake, the project takes inspiration from Ming Dynasty gardens and fuses them with a contemporary...
Essays - Benedict...
AI and problems of scale
Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now
become practical to...
7 months ago
Generative AI means things that were always possible at a small scale now
become practical to automate at a massive scale. Sometimes a change in
scale is a change in principle.
Alex Meub
Material Rewards for Motivation
Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term...
over a year ago
Setting material rewards for myself has helped me stay motivated and focused on important long-term goals. This isn’t a new idea but I’ve found it to be really helpful in keeping me on track and giving me that extra push to follow through on my goals.
Set SMART Goals
In order to...
Stephen Diehl
The Intellectual Incoherence of Cryptoassets
over a year ago
Commoncog
Setting the Business Expertise Series Free
Removing the paywall on The Business Expertise Series, which covers the work of Lia DiBello and her...
a year ago
Removing the paywall on The Business Expertise Series, which covers the work of Lia DiBello and her collaborators.
FIRE v London
Aug ’23: …
A belated write-up of the month of August. Thinking back a month, two stories pop out for me. One...
a year ago
A belated write-up of the month of August. Thinking back a month, two stories pop out for me. One was the death of Russian mutineer Yevgeny Prigozhin – a larger-than-life modern day warlord, responsible for the ‘little green men’ at the start of the Russian/Ukraine war in 2014,...
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to narrate video with Sora, GPT-Vision, and ElevenLabs
The future of entertainment is going to be a wild ride.
9 months ago
The future of entertainment is going to be a wild ride.
Tony Finch's blog
nsnotifyd-2.1 released
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and...
6 months ago
I have made
a new release of nsnotifyd,
a tiny DNS server that just listens for NOTIFY messages
and runs a script when one of your zones changes.
This nsnotifyd-2.1 release includes a few bugfixes:
more lenient handling of trailing . in domain names on the command line
avoid...
Blog - Practical...
Every Kind of Bridge Explained in 15 Minutes
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
The Earth is pretty cool and...
7 months ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
The Earth is pretty cool and all, but many of its most magnificent features make it tough for us to get around. When the topography is too wet, steep, treacherous, or prone to disaster, sometimes the only way...
Tech and Tea
Some thoughts on interviewing
Recent experience interviewing candidates, reflections on the job market, and the shift in how...
10 months ago
Recent experience interviewing candidates, reflections on the job market, and the shift in how people are seeing work fitting into their lives
The Honest Broker
My 10 Most Popular Articles of 2023
Number one will surprise you
11 months ago
Number one will surprise you
Avestura's Blog
Understanding zero-knowledge proofs
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
over a year ago
What are zero-knowledge proofs, really?
David Heinemeier...
Children of You
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low...
3 months ago
The birth rate is dropping all over the world. In some places, like South Korea (0.72), it is so low people are starting to worry about a national extinction. In other places, including all of Europe (average 1.5, Spain 1.29), it's merely bad and alarming. And nobody seems to...
The Modern House
Sumayya Vally: the South African architect on how growing up in a township defined her sense of...
Sumayya Vally is a South African architect whose star is in the ascendant. At the age of 30, she...
8 months ago
Sumayya Vally is a South African architect whose star is in the ascendant. At the age of 30, she became the youngest architect to receive the prestigious annual summer pavilion commission at the Serpentine Gallery in London. A slew of accolades and honoraries followed and […]
somenice
Golden Glide Silhouette
This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to...
over a year ago
This Golden Eagle soared past me today and I managed to capture a couple of frames. Magnificent to watch.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Found-Money Startups
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of...
over a year ago
'I will find free money for you' is one of my favorite business models. Here's a quick definition of Found-Money Startups and a short list I've been keeping.
Global Inequality...
Is “neo-imperialism” the only path to development?
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
a year ago
On Bill Warren's "Imperialism: Pioneer of Capitalism"
Handprinted - Blog
Spooktacular Screen Printing Projects!
Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween screen printing project! Create t-shirts, tote bags, and...
2 months ago
Get into the spooky spirit with a Halloween screen printing project! Create t-shirts, tote bags, and poster prints that’re hauntingly fun and frightfully easy!
Party Prints - Speedball Night Glo Acrylic Ink on Paper!
If you’re a Halloween lover this project is for you! Using...
The Turn Signal RSS...
Why Car Companies Need More Interaction Designers
The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre,...
over a year ago
The Citroën DS was designed by Flavio Bertoni who, together with aviation engineer André Lèfebvre, created some of the most influential…
Wanderingspace
Dust Storm On Mars
A dust storm in Olympia Planum's north polar dune fields was triggered by a late Martian summer cold...
8 months ago
A dust storm in Olympia Planum's north polar dune fields was triggered by a late Martian summer cold front. As the northern polar cap shrinks fast, it releases cold air that sometimes moves south, like on Earth. These cold fronts strengthen in late summer and early fall due to...
Londonist
More Train Strikes Announced For January-February 2024
Members of the ASLEF union are striking, with several train companies affected.
11 months ago
Members of the ASLEF union are striking, with several train companies affected.
Anecdotal Evidence
'If the Nation Is to Be Saved From This Menace'
“To the
thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we
are becoming...
10 months ago
“To the
thinking man there are few things more disturbing than the realization that we
are becoming a nation of minor poets.”
P.G.
Wodehouse is being kind. He wrote “The Alarming Spread of Poetry” in 1916 when
the blight was fresh and perhaps still reversible. His Exhibit A is...
NeuroLogica Blog
Hybrid Biopolymer Transistors – Implications for Brain Machine Interface
There are several technologies which seem likely to be transformative in the coming decades. Genetic...
a year ago
There are several technologies which seem likely to be transformative in the coming decades. Genetic bioengineering gives us the ability to control the basic machinery of life, including ourselves. Artificial intelligence is a suite of active, learning, information tools....
Nadia Asparouhova
The New American University
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president,...
over a year ago
I had the pleasure of stumbling upon the work of Michael Crow, Arizona State University’s president, earlier this year, and I so enjoyed his thoughts on knowledge production that I immediately wondered how his philosophy would translate to ASU as an organization. Turns out,...
Ruud van Asseldonk
Model facts, not your problem domain
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Garage Transformed Into An Apartment With A Home Office
YR Architecture + Design has shared photos of a modern 575 square foot (53 sqm) live/work studio in...
a year ago
YR Architecture + Design has shared photos of a modern 575 square foot (53 sqm) live/work studio in Columbus, OH, that was once a 2-car garage. The homeowners were determined for their two-car garage to be an asset, with the couple seeking to maximize their property, and at the...
Noahpinion
Why Americans fear the AI future
Five decades of rising inequality and slow growth have made us a less optimistic country.
a year ago
Five decades of rising inequality and slow growth have made us a less optimistic country.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Jawing
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Massive eternal regret for deciding evolution had...
4 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Massive eternal regret for deciding evolution had elaborate speech bubbles.
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TheCollector
What is Theodor Adorno’s Negative Dialectics?
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a year ago
Classical Wisdom
A Few Spots Left
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
a month ago
Secure Seats for the In Search of Homer Trip
mtlynch.io
Why Good Developers Write Bad Unit Tests
Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You...
over a year ago
Congratulations! You’ve finally written so many lines of code that you can afford a beach house. You hire Peter Keating, an architect world-famous for his skyscrapers, who assures you that he has brilliant plans for your beachfront property.
Months later, you arrive at the grand...
diamond geezer
Redbridge Museum reopens
The London borough of Redbridge has boasted a solid mid-table museum since 2000, housed in a bespoke...
3 months ago
The London borough of Redbridge has boasted a solid mid-table museum since 2000, housed in a bespoke corner on the second floor of Ilford's main library. But it's needed a bit of a refresh for a while so they used lockdown as a chance to start updating it with lottery money and...
Max Rozen
What is the difference between style-loader and mini-css-extract-plugin?
Looking to optimise your webpack config? Understanding the difference between style-loader and...
over a year ago
Looking to optimise your webpack config? Understanding the difference between style-loader and mini-css-extract-plugin can help you speed up your page loads.
Seth's Blog
The half apology
What a waste. Something went wrong, and the other person cared enough about the relationship to let...
6 months ago
What a waste. Something went wrong, and the other person cared enough about the relationship to let you know. Perhaps they’re hoping that you can rebuild a bridge. That you can see what they see and care enough to do something about it. A half apology is a little like half a...
TheCollector
What Is the History of Constitution Day in the US?
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2 months ago
alexwlchan
flapi.sh: a tiny command-line tool for exploring the Flickr API →
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job.
Within the first week, I bashed together a...
8 months ago
I use the Flickr API pretty much every day in my day job.
Within the first week, I bashed together a couple of command-line tools to make a simple tool for exploring the API.
They’re not meant for building “proper” apps, more for quick experiments and seeing what API responses...
The Honest Broker
Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls?
It was cool to hang out at the mall—until it wasn't
a week ago
It was cool to hang out at the mall—until it wasn't
The Modern House
A Day Well Spent with Isabella Burley
a year ago
TheCollector
Everything You Need To Know About Hecate (Maiden, Mother, Crone)
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6 months ago
Ink & Switch
05 · Edit groups
“Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their...
9 months ago
“Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their collaboration, and avoid needless ceremony.
TheCollector
How Fur Trade Resulted in All-Out War: The Algonquin vs. The Iroquois
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8 months ago
Citation Needed
Issue 53 – Choose rich
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
9 months ago
Euphoria has risen along with crypto prices, but nothing has changed from the last bubble.
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Cool Ideas For Dentistry + Medicine With Nisarg Patel | Out-Of-Pocket
plus what actually happens in the operating room?
a year ago
plus what actually happens in the operating room?
Musings on Markets
Good (Bad) Banks and Good (Bad) Investments: At the right price...
In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used a simple banking framework to advance...
a year ago
In my last post, I looked at banking as a business, and used a simple banking framework to advance the notion that the key ingredient tying together the banks that have failed so far in 2023 is an absence of stickiness in deposits, created partially by depositor and deposit...
The American Scholar
Turning the World to Powder
Jay Owens on the tiny particles that float through our lives
The post Turning the World to Powder...
5 months ago
Jay Owens on the tiny particles that float through our lives
The post Turning the World to Powder appeared first on The American Scholar.
Seth's Blog
A small shopping list (floss and more)
Here are some books and household items that I wanted to share. I’m mostly into audiobooks these...
a year ago
Here are some books and household items that I wanted to share. I’m mostly into audiobooks these days–a good narrator combined with a good author is pretty rare and wonderful… It turns out that a breakthrough rice cooker is a bargain, even if it seems expensive at first. The...
Londonist
The Top Exhibitions To See In London In September 2023
A crystal dinner and chic couture in this month's top shows to see in London.
a year ago
A crystal dinner and chic couture in this month's top shows to see in London.
cdixon.org RSS Feed
The experience economy
Before World War 2, the middle-class in the developed world struggled to afford basic needs. In the...
over a year ago
Before World War 2, the middle-class in the developed world struggled to afford basic needs. In the post-war boom, standards of living rose…
Home on Erik...
ML+Hadoop at NYC Predictive Analytics
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning...
over a year ago
I was just at the NYC Predictive Analytics meetup talking about how we build machine learning algorithms using Hadoop to power music recommendations.
Great meetup, where we had two speakers, me and Blake Shaw from Foursquare.
TheCollector
4 Key Works by Mordecai Richler You Should Be Reading
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2 months ago
mtlynch.io
Import from a URL in Nix
I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts...
a year ago
I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts of my configuration.nix file under source control.
My goal I’d like for my Nix configuration files to be modular and reusable, so depending on the system or flake, I can pull in...
Lennart Koopmann
Documentation Belongs in Engineering
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point,...
a year ago
Many product companies start out with a very heavy focus on their engineering teams. At some point, many companies move the hosting and writing of documentation out of engineering and into a separate part of the company. It could be marketing, it could be customer success. This...
The Marginalian
An Almanac of Birds: Divinations for Uncertain Days
I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously...
4 months ago
I have found that the surest way of seeing the wondrous in something ordinary, something previously underappreciated, is coming to love someone who loves it. As we enter each other’s worlds in love — whatever its shape or species — we double our way of seeing, broaden our way of...
A small freedom area...
Porting OkLab colorspace to integer arithmetic
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform...
over a year ago
For reasons I'll explain in a futur write-up, I needed to make use of a
perceptually uniform colorspace in some computer vision code. OkLab from Björn
Ottosson was a great candidate given how simple the implementation is.
But there is a plot twist: I needed the code to be...
TheCollector
Was Vincent van Gogh Religious?
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9 months ago
TheCollector
Night Witches: The Female Russian Combat Unions of the Sky
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a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dowsing
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Hovertext:
I can detect sky with my eyes closed.
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
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I can detect sky with my eyes closed.
Today's News:
Arduino Blog
Making fire detection more accurate with ML sensor fusion
The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable,...
4 months ago
The mere presence of a flame in a controlled environment, such as a candle, is perfectly acceptable, but when tasked with determining if there is cause for alarm solely using vision data, embedded AI models can struggle with false positives. Solomon Githu’s project aims to lower...
Artificial Ignorance
Stop begging for JSON
How OpenAI's Structured Outputs makes building with AI much more reliable.
a week ago
How OpenAI's Structured Outputs makes building with AI much more reliable.
The Modern House
Nice Modernism: introducing the friendly face of modernist architecture
After almost a hundred years of modernist architecture, the writer and critic Alan Powers argues...
4 months ago
After almost a hundred years of modernist architecture, the writer and critic Alan Powers argues that the canon is ripe for reappraisal. Here, he makes the case for “Nice Modernism” – an altogether gentler strand of architecture that emerged in the 1930s and is typified […]
journal – Winnie Lim
from creativity to activity
I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt...
10 months ago
I started making websites and dabbling in photoshop when I first got my computer at 15. I never felt particularly creative as a child and I hated art classes so when that...
Christian Selig
Apollo for Reddit 1.9
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really...
over a year ago
Apollo 1.9’s a massive update to Apollo that’s taken months and months to complete, but I’m really happy with the result, and it brings together a ton of ideas from the community to make Apollo even nicer to use. The update includes a variety of features around crossposts, flair,...
Londonist
London's Best Christmas Markets And Festive Fairs For 2023
Christmas shopping events in the capital, for gifts, decorations, festive food and more.
a year ago
Christmas shopping events in the capital, for gifts, decorations, festive food and more.
diamond geezer
Hayling Island
Seaside postcard: Hayling Island
Hayling Island lies just off the south coast near the mouth of the...
4 months ago
Seaside postcard: Hayling Island
Hayling Island lies just off the south coast near the mouth of the Solent, just east of Portsmouth. It's England's 7th largest offshore island and 5th most populous, some way behind Wight and Portsea respectively, both of which are nextdoor. It...
The American Scholar
Queen of the Night
Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark
The post Queen of the Night appeared...
3 months ago
Leigh Ann Henion embraces the creatures that light up the dark
The post Queen of the Night appeared first on The American Scholar.
Flashbak
Finding Mom in 1970s New York City – Rich Allen’s Portraits Roll Back The Years
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to...
5 months ago
Thanks to Rich Allen and his brilliant pictures of New York City in the 1970s, Lisa Murray got to see a picture of her late mother. We’re going to share some more of Rich’s portraits of people of 1970s NYC after we’ve heard from Lisa. “I am so grateful for Rich Allen for taking...
The American Scholar
Stereotypes and the City
What to make of HBO’s attempts to diversify an iconic show?
The post Stereotypes and the City...
8 months ago
What to make of HBO’s attempts to diversify an iconic show?
The post Stereotypes and the City appeared first on The American Scholar.
Anecdotal Evidence
'We Toated Him'
R.L. Barth,
a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, has written a new poem, “Exercise”:
“The...
a year ago
R.L. Barth,
a Marine Corps veteran of the Vietnam War, has written a new poem, “Exercise”:
“The chopper
landed; in full combat gear
We loaded
single file to practice rappelling
Into a
jungle lacking an LZ.
The exercise
aborted when a cherry,
Some private
with a couple weeks...
Londonist
Shoreditch Has A New Secret Garden... On A Viaduct
Get eye-level with Village Underground's tube trains.
a year ago
Get eye-level with Village Underground's tube trains.
NeuroLogica Blog
Bill Gates Backs Nuclear
No one ever said that nuclear power is simple or easy. It’s a tricky and expensive technology. But...
6 months ago
No one ever said that nuclear power is simple or easy. It’s a tricky and expensive technology. But it also has tremendous potential to create large amounts of reliable green low carbon energy, and many believe that we cannot ignore this potential if we are going to tackle climate...
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