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Math Is Still...
The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to...
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Cynthia Rudin wants machine learning models, responsible for increasingly important decisions, to show their work. The post The Computer Scientist Peering Inside AI’s Black Boxes first appeared on Quanta Magazine
anderegg.ca
Anzu Castle Gracula Turns out you can release a QBasic game on Steam if it’s packaged correctly. Beside being a nerdy...
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a month ago
Turns out you can release a QBasic game on Steam if it’s packaged correctly. Beside being a nerdy oddity, this game is extremely well made and quite fun! Lots of Castlevania II vibes going on here. Check out Anzu Castle Gracula on Steam, or give it a shot on Itch.io.
NeuroLogica Blog
Should Japan Release Radioactive Water Into The Pacific? Japan is planning on releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear accident into...
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a year ago
Japan is planning on releasing treated radioactive water from the Fukushima nuclear accident into the ocean. They claim this will be completely safe, but there are protests going on in both Japan and South Korea, and China has just placed a ban on seafood from Japan. In a perfect...
The Marginalian
Favorite Books of 2023 To look back on a year of reading is to be handed a clear mirror of your priorities and passions, of...
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To look back on a year of reading is to be handed a clear mirror of your priorities and passions, of the questions that live in you and the reckonings that keep you up at night. While the literature of the present comprises only a tiny fraction of my own reading, here are a...
Blog - Bitfield...
Cryptography in Go: AES implementation The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
The AES cipher is complicated in principle, but the code isn’t all that scary in practice. Let’s take a look at the implementation in the Go standard library. Even I can understand it!
Contemporist...
A' Design Awards & Competition - Call for Entries A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
A’ Design Award & Competition is the Worlds’ leading design accolade reaching design enthusiasts around the world, and showcasing 18,000 award winners from 139 different design disciplines.
The Elysian
I’d rather have an investor than a publishing contract In pursuit of a better book deal (and record deal and podcast deal...)
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the War of Jenkins’ Ear? undefined
10 months ago
Making software...
CSS Slope Graphs CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data...
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over a year ago
CSS Slope Graphs 2021-06-07 I am a huge sucker for simplistic and beautifully designed visual data on the web. Most data tends to be graphed via line or bar systems - which is fine - but I think slope graphs are highly underrated. Let's change that, shall we? The Demo I'm basing...
journal – Winnie Lim
drawing & painting as a form of meditation I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since...
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7 months ago
I just started drawing and painting again last week after stopping for a couple of months. Since then I’ve been trying to do it more regularly, hoping to incorporate it as a...
Neil Panchal
How to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When you install postgresql using apt-get, it runs initdb and automatically creates a main cluster. Typically, the default data directory location is in /var/lib/postgresql/<version>/<cluster>/. There are three ways to install PostgreSQL in a custom directory. Options 1 and 2 are...
Contemporist...
An Elevated Room Surrounded By Trees In The Jungle Mestizo Estudio Arquitectura has shared photos of a room they designed and built in the jungle in...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Mestizo Estudio Arquitectura has shared photos of a room they designed and built in the jungle in Ecuador, that features a sleeping area and bathroom.
TokyoDev
AI Disrupts The Traditional Hiring Process In the face of AI, there are two strategies: embrace the algorithm, or embrace being human. As a job...
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In the face of AI, there are two strategies: embrace the algorithm, or embrace being human. As a job board operator, this has been weighing on me. I see hints that AI will disrupt the industry and transform the hiring process, perhaps not for the better. Ultimately, I’ve decided...
Platformer
The TikTok bans are accelerating With a key vote scheduled for tonight, the company's options are growing limited
a year ago
Both Are True
we switched from a crib to a toddler bed on sleep transitions
9 months ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
In Defense of Bitcoin Maximalism
over a year ago
Matt Mullenweg
Bezos at Dealbook It looks like the Dealbook Summit had a number of great interviews this year, major props to Andrew...
a month ago
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a month 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.
Unpacked
IRS Direct Tax Filing: the end of Intuit's lobbying Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending...
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Thirty-eight years since the launch of e-filing, the IRS will pilot its own tax filing system ending two decades of Intuit's regulatory capture of the tax software market
History Today Feed
Death of a Turkey Legend Death of a Turkey Legend JamesHoare Sun, 12/08/2024 - 00:00
a month ago
Commoncog
The Deming Paradox: Operationally Rigorous Companies Aren't Very Nice Places to Work Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same...
a year ago
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a year ago
Is it possible to be data driven and operationally rigorous and still be human centric at the same time? Deming — who came up with these data techniques — believe that it is possible. I'm not so sure.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fantasy Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, Orifices in the Void cannot be your new...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: No, Orifices in the Void cannot be your new band-name. Today's News: If you wanted to get A City on Mars but the prices was a little high, WELL Barnes and Noble is doing a 3 day 25% discount on preorders.
Tinker, Tamper,...
Auditing User Intent in Closed Source IoT Applications (Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and...
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(Header image under CC-BY by Gregory Varnum)Hardware-backed voice assistants like Amazon Alexa and Google Assistant have received some criticism for their handling of voice data behind the scenes. The companies had outsourced quality control/machine learning feedback to external...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 099: Apocalypse Not January 3, 2025.
a week ago
Rest of World -...
OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China A milestone in the militarization of AI.
6 months ago
Seth's Blog
The next one When asked what his favorite composition was, Duke Ellington said, “the next one.” This is the...
a year ago
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a year ago
When asked what his favorite composition was, Duke Ellington said, “the next one.” This is the essence of the artistic process. When we’re in the liminal space between now and what is about to come, we’re fully alive.
Style over Substance
Buienalarm / Buienradar Apple Watch complication using Home Assistant Living in the Netherlands, one of the things I really miss on my Apple Watch is a Buienradar...
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over a year ago
Living in the Netherlands, one of the things I really miss on my Apple Watch is a Buienradar complication. Buienradar, Dutch for rain radar, is a popular site here that uses weather radar images to predict if it’s going to rain in the next few hours. For many people living here,...
Calculated Risk
Question #3 for 2025: What will the unemployment rate be in December 2025? Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of...
a week ago
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a week ago
Earlier I posted some questions on my blog for next year: Ten Economic Questions for 2025. Some of these questions concern real estate (inventory, house prices, housing starts, new home sales), and I posted thoughts on those in the newsletter (others like GDP and employment will...
Maps Mania
The Butterfly Superhighway
a month ago
Aaron's Essays
Raise less money Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the last few years, I’ve noticed that good companies are increasingly over-diluting themselves in their seed and A rounds. Counterintuitively, dilution seems to rise along with price. One would expect the opposite correlation. Strong founders who command high prices should...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Teach Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later they just have their bots engage in a debate...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Later they just have their bots engage in a debate while they go get ice cream. Today's News:
Retail Design Blog
Moment Boutique Store by Modum Atelier Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
Moment boutique store is located in Cinnalane, Nanjing, where surrounded by a historic architectural complex, with the famous Ganxi Mansion...
Left To Write
#1 Writemas Prioritising time to think, write and publish
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Draper 1.0.0.beta2 release
over a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Retail Design Blog
Zhi Chi Dental by WEDO DESIGN Teeth are the cubes in the oral cavity. What surprises are hidden in this cubic space? Zhi Chi...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Teeth are the cubes in the oral cavity. What surprises are hidden in this cubic space? Zhi Chi Dental provides...
balajis.com
The Elondrop Build the political support necessary to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Build the political support necessary to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.
Liz Denys
Nefasta's Box, a low entropy song Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Seeded from low entropy to become roughly 8 minutes long. "For possibilities." Apologies for the clefs, but it was the least nasty way to span the piano. You can grab a full copy of the score.
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Rachael Haggerty Hello, I’m Rachael and I am a printmaker based in Bath, UK. I generally work with linocut and mainly...
a year ago
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Hello, I’m Rachael and I am a printmaker based in Bath, UK. I generally work with linocut and mainly print in monochrome or bright primary colours. My work celebrates family life, nature and the local area. Describe your printmaking process. I normally sketch out a composition...
mtlynch.io
Paternity Leave: Month 3 Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog...
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Highlights I’m finding it easier to balance my time as a new father. I moped about two of my blog posts doing poorly, and then they did well. I experimented with a stacked diff workflow for software development and liked it except for git’s weaknesses. Goal grades At the start of...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #165 Buffett on Inflation, Dollar General, Due Diligence, Personal Libraries, The role of AI in drug...
a year ago
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a year ago
Buffett on Inflation, Dollar General, Due Diligence, Personal Libraries, The role of AI in drug discovery, Small-cap opportunities, and interviews of Peter Brown, Bill Gross, Chris Bloomstran.
The Elysian
A grassroots political party for the middle The Forward Party, citizen's assemblies, and a creating better independence movement in the US.
3 weeks ago
diamond geezer
It's all downhill from here It's all downhill from here. This set of freak circumstances is never going to happen again. A...
6 months ago
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It's all downhill from here. This set of freak circumstances is never going to happen again. A Conservative party proven long-term incompetent by a sequence of abysmal Prime Ministers, a last minute intervention by Nigel Farage draining support away from the right, the Lib Dems...
escape the algorithm
The Scan Artist What it means to copy the world
11 months ago
diamond geezer
346 Last Saturday one bus route on the edge of east London disappeared and another quadrupled in length....
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Last Saturday one bus route on the edge of east London disappeared and another quadrupled in length. I didn't fancy spending my birthday in Upminster so left it a few days before taking a ride on the end result. • The 346 used to be one of London's shortest bus routes, a brief...
Ben Borgers
Publishing my Fall 2022 class notes
over a year ago
Open Culture
Why the Tavern Scene in Quentin Tarantino’s Inglourious Basterds Is a Master Class in Filmmaking Ideally, a viewer should be able to identify the work of a particular auteur from any one scene that...
3 days ago
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Ideally, a viewer should be able to identify the work of a particular auteur from any one scene that the auteur has directed. In reality, it’s not always possible to do so, even in the work of filmmakers with highly idiosyncratic styles. But in the case of Quentin Tarantino, it...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - What the Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Don't blame us - you're the one watching. Today's...
8 months ago
Jonas Hietala
Battling burnout Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Mamma Mia! Here we go again… Once again, I’m finding myself trying to recover from burnout, and after about a year I’m finally feeling more like myself. Even though I’ve been here before, it’s a difficult thing to recognize and avoid, so I’m writing this to maybe help you or my...
Josh Thompson
Setting up Application Performance Monitoring in DataDog in your Rails App When I write guides to things, I write them first and foremost for myself, and I tend to work...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When I write guides to things, I write them first and foremost for myself, and I tend to work through things in excruciating detail. You might find this to be a little too in-depth, or you might appreciate the detail. Either way, if you want a step-by-step guide, this should do...
Dreams of Space -...
A Book of Moon Rockets for You (1959 Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) Here is a great story of how we WANTED to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Happy People on the Moon day! (54 years since 1st landing) Here is a great story of how we WANTED to land on the Moon. It has wonderful illustrations and I am happy to share on this day of celebration of a landing. Branley, Franklyn M. Illustrated by Kessler, Leonard. A Book of...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Upgrading from Linux Mint 21.3 to 22: failure and success <![CDATA[I upgraded my System76 Merkaat mini PC from Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon to Mint 22 "Wilma". It...
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5 months ago
<![CDATA[I upgraded my System76 Merkaat mini PC from Linux Mint 21.3 Cinnamon to Mint 22 "Wilma". It didn't go as hoped but some extra effort eventually made Mint 22 run fine. I began by starting the upgrade process from Mint 21.3. I didn't get a good feel for the upgrade tool,...
Grow With Less
Here Is What a Disappointing Experiment Taught Me About Headline A/B Testing After reading about the huge conversion boosts many bloggers got after A/B testing their headlines,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After reading about the huge conversion boosts many bloggers got after A/B testing their headlines, I assumed A/B testing the headlines of 73 articles I have published on my language learning blog French Together would be a no brainer. I could already picture myself writing a...
Steve Klabnik
On the eve of #m1gs
over a year ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Skydio I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m excited to announce today that Andreessen Horowitz is leading a $3M financing of Skydio, a startup developing artificial intelligence…
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Eternal September Plus: A little TPOT and a very good Christmas song
3 weeks ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gills Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: So Zach, what do you do when not making children's...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: So Zach, what do you do when not making children's books? Today's News: Hey geeks, I'll be speaking a Proton Prom with a bunch of people who are more important than me!
37signals Dev
Building Basecamp project stacks with Hotwire It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been two decades since Rails changed the way we build web apps. As the demand for richer and richer UIs grew, teams came up with different frontends to deliver on those expectations. Client-side frameworks such as Angular, Ember, and React emerged as popular choices. One of...
Christopher Butler
Periodical – 10 Interaction design is two things. managing attention persuasion Once you come to the...
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Interaction design is two things. managing attention persuasion Once you come to the realization/acceptance that no one – not even the interested, motivated, and committed — has the kind of focused attention available for your thing that you assume they have, you will...
TheCollector
Face to Face Exhibit Offers Face Time With Fayum Portraits undefined
9 months ago
Louwrentius
Is the iPhone OS a threat to our freedom? There is one fundamental flaw with both the iPhone and the iPad. As a user, you do not have full...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is one fundamental flaw with both the iPhone and the iPad. As a user, you do not have full control over your device. You can only install or run software that is approved by Apple. This is something that is unprecedented. All major platforms, Windows, Linux, Mac OS X do...
Aaron's Essays
VCs are Scared When They Should be Greedy I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've...
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over a year ago
I originally wrote this essay for The Information, where it was published on July 6, 2022. I've read a lot of the advice that venture capitalists have given founders on the current state of the markets. Most of that advice focuses on how founders need to adjust to survive the...
Math Is Still...
In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the...
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The puzzling behavior of black hole interiors has led researchers to propose a new physical law: the second law of quantum complexity. The post In New Paradox, Black Holes Appear to Evade Heat Death first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Tech and Tea
On the path to thriving In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even...
2 months ago
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In this post-post-partum period, I'm starting to feel like myself again. But what does that even mean?
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grablex Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Slightly worried some of these are actual...
a year ago
Ink & Switch
03 · Fine-grained provenance Connecting parts of source and build files as a universal primitive
3 months ago
McMansion Hell
New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, &ldquo;wonderful&rdquo; rooms!&ldquo; new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey...
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a month ago
new jersey bonus post: 5 additional, wonderful rooms | McMansionHell New on Patreon: New Jersey Bonus Post (5 additional, “wonderful” rooms!“
Global Inequality...
The world according to Garegnani I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I have not thought of this until I had lunch with Anwar Shaikh today. I have personally known Anwar for at least ten years. But only today it struck me that I was meeting a hero of my early intellectual life, although the difference in age between Anwar and me is not that great....
The Honest Broker
What Is Really Inside the Briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'? Here's the latest installment of my book 'Music to Raise the Dead'—currently available only on...
8 months ago
Applied Cartography
Globals in Histoire Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Histoire, like so many other tools in the Vue ecosystem, is a bit of a neglected younger sibling to Storybook — a little bit uglier, with worse documentation and a couple rough edges, but much more tightly integrated with Vue and Vite. [1] One thing that was not particularly...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Hallmark of What Is Truly Priceless' “. . . what literature is really about: our very survival as human beings.”  A bit melodramatic, no?...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
“. . . what literature is really about: our very survival as human beings.”  A bit melodramatic, no? Grandiose? Perhaps expressed by a writer worried about sales or a reader boosting his self-esteem? Could be. But there’s something to it. Maybe it amounts to more than...
ntietz.com blog
Recovering from a lost disk: how I setup, backup, and restore dev machines Last Wednesday just before 3pm, I went pack up my laptop to get ready to drive 7 hours to visit my...
a year ago
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a year ago
Last Wednesday just before 3pm, I went pack up my laptop to get ready to drive 7 hours to visit my family in Ohio. Fedora had some updates to apply and when it went to come back on after those, I saw the words no one wants to see: Default Boot Device Missing or Boot Failed....
One from Nippon
$450 for a School Bag?! Every year, around March, a curious social custom occurs in Japanese families. Parents of kids...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every year, around March, a curious social custom occurs in Japanese families. Parents of kids entering elementary school visit the grandparents and gingerly tread the topic of buying the kids a very expensive item: a randoseru. And gingerly they must tread. The randoseru, a...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Ejectable Defaults Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Borrowing heavily from Gatsby Themes to improve the Sapper developer experience, and a discussion of how Ejectable Defaults fits with the Zero Config movement
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from Pen & Teller’s Masterclass I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
I quite enjoyed Pen & Teller’s Masterclass (paywall, sorry!). I learned some practical card tricks that came in handy while we sitting in the airport waiting for a connecting fight with restless kids. I also really enjoyed Pen & Teller’s reflections on the art of their craft....
David Heinemeier...
Le Mans 2024 This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
This will be my 11th attempt. The first time I showed up on the grid at Le Mans was in 2012 -- some five years after I had first driven a real race car, and even less time since I made participating in the world's greatest endurance race the ultimate goal. But it almost didn't...
Julia Evans
Some blogging myths A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was...
a year ago
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a year ago
A few years ago I gave a short talk (slides) about myths that discourage people from blogging. I was chatting with a friend about blogging the other day and it made me want to write up that talk as a blog post. here are the myths: myth: you need to be original myth: you need to...
Wuthering...
Naming the garden in The Story of the Stone - the pleasures of incomprehension The older sister of Bao-yu, the boy, now a young teen, who was born with the jade stone in his...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
The older sister of Bao-yu, the boy, now a young teen, who was born with the jade stone in his mouth, is an Imperial Concubine, a high prestige slave of the Emperor.  She is likely herself still a teen when we learn, in Chapter 16 of The Story of the Stone, that she has been...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ants Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You're in pillar of salt territory here,...
6 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Judge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying the delightfully...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Written after enjoying the delightfully controversial book Status and Culture. Today's News:
Blog - Guerrilla...
Can You Stay? Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Can You Stay? examines one discrete variable among many complex and converging issues concerning housing precarity, focusing on a part of the world with unique geography and social issues. Project Background This map is cut from the cloth of a capstone project I did in 2018 at...
Luxagraf:...
Pensacola History From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge,...
a year ago
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a year ago
From Fort Pickens we came around the entirety of Pensacola Bay to a small park on the western edge, Big Lagoon. From our campsite there it was a short car ride to Perdido Key, which is another part of Gulf Islands National Seashore. Although it takes the better part of two hours...
Flashbak
British Artist Finds An Incredible Album Of Found Photos Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Seeking vintage photographs as a source of inspiration for her work, British artist Emily Loveridge came upon this album of pictures. “I find images that resonate with me and then with that I try to bring their characters to life in my work,” she tells us. “I bought the slides on...
The Modern House
The lavish restoration of a Lisbon townhouse
a year ago
History Today Feed
What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? What Do We Get Wrong About the Byzantine Empire? JamesHoare Thu, 02/22/2024 - 01:00
10 months ago
Home on Erik...
Microsoft's new marketing strategy: give up I think it's funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there's no reason to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I think it's funny how MS at some point realized they are not the cool kids and there's no reason to appeal to that target audience. Their new marketing strategy finally admits what's been long known: the correlation between “business casual” and using Microsoft products:
NeuroLogica Blog
Podcast Pseudoscience A recent BBC article highlights some of the risk of the new age of social media we have crafted for...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
A recent BBC article highlights some of the risk of the new age of social media we have crafted for ourselves. The BBC investigated the number one ranked UK podcast, Diary of a CEO with host Steven Bartlett, for the accuracy of the medical claims recently made on the show. While...
Patrick Kayongo
On Leaving Coffee It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s not the smell of the brew that you miss most Though the scent certainly does do something It’s not the memory of the dark beans that haunt your thoughts Though their beauty can’t be unseen It’s not the burst of energy from the first sip Though it’s hard to find other means...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.15.0 Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey there! It's been a while... With our last release being over a month ago, this new release has the largest changelog to date, with 175 PRs merged…
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cool URIs Don’t Change — But Humans Do Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t change If a slug is going to be human-friendly, i.e. human-readable, then it's going to contain information that is subject to change because humans make errors. If “to err is human”...
Josh Thompson
My terminal setup note: this is a draft. Please ping me in slack/email with questions, spots where this is unclear....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
note: this is a draft. Please ping me in slack/email with questions, spots where this is unclear. I’ll answer your question, and update this post. Here’s some quick notes on how I have my terminal setup. First, I use Zsh. If you’re on a new Macbook Pro, you also are using...
Society's Backend
LLM Research Recap of 2024, Fine-tuning LLM Judges, Amazon's Nova Models, Google's Genie 2, and More Society's Backend Reading List 12-10-2024
a month ago
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
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I enjoyed listening to [Des and Paul's discussion of keyboard-first apps on their podcast today](https://art19.com/shows/intercom-on-product/episodes/10ee6fbe-13ef-48c6-af5e-3477bdbe87e3). They discussed the rise of the `cmd+K` UI paradigm in apps like:
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I had to replace my Coolermaster PSU and after some searching on the interweb, I chose the Corsair CMPSU-750HX. One of the reasons is that Corsair states that this PSU can withstand 50 degree Celcius in continuous operation on full load. The package is very, clean, with all the...
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The The Experimental Gameplay Project drives on with the Art Game theme which will last the rest of this year but that’s something we can’t accept! I’ve done my game and I didn’t force myself out from the Haskell world just to do nuthin so here’s a new little theme for me :) What...
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Image Courtesy of NASA/JPL-Caltech/SwRI The brightest spot is a radiation signature, but all the rest are thought to be active volcanos on the Io surface. The moons are not a primary target of the Juno mission, but they do occasionally take a peek to try and monitor such...
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<![CDATA[Now that I entered the RetroChallenge 2024 the next step is to flesh out the scope and details of my WebCard project, a NoteCards extension for visiting websites. What will WebCard do? How will it work? Specification In NoteCards the area of a card or filebox that...
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William MacAskill’s latest book presents itself as an introduction to the burgeoning longtermist movement. But his views are eccentric – even within the movement he founded.
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“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her beautiful essay on generosity. “You open your safe and find ashes.” I feel this truth deeply, daily — for nearly two decades of offering these writings freely, I have lived by the...
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A growing body of research indicates there are potentially large health benefits to improving indoor air quality. Indoor spaces are often poorly ventilated and expose occupants to high levels of contaminants, such as pathogens, particulates, and other pollutants. Because people...
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…choose your future. It’s an odd way to think about your project, your job, your startup, but there’s little that matters more. There are two key elements: At one extreme is the first few years of Google’s growth. The salesforce didn’t matter–the customers showed up on their own,...
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7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action pairs: (S_t, A_t) Train a supervised model f(S_t) -> A_t Drive cars with that model. The exact original formulation was a model that predicts steering angle from image, then used a...
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Lately I've converted a lot of class components to functional. One question left me curious every time — why do I feel like splitting the old class state into so many useState(atom) — one for each state key? Is there any real benefit in it? Should I just leave a single...
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Platform Engineering offers a unique value prop to engineering orgs by focusing its attention on the holistic system. This in contrast to and in direct support of teams which focus on a narrower domain. In doing so, platform teams elevate and accelerate the work of their peers...
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I’ve been using just for a lot of my projects. It helps a bunch with the context-switching: I can open most project directories and run just dev, and it’ll boot up the server that I need. For example, the blog’s justfile has: dev: bundle exec jekyll serve --watch --live...
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The British love for animals is clear in this weird and wonderful collection of Christmas cards produced during the Victorian era. There are dead birds, massive insects being tortured by small children and any number of humanised animals eating each other, eating people and...
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See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in Netrunner. Won a couple of smaller Netrunner tournaments. Got Veronica to play Game of Thrones with us. She beat us and she loved it! Programmed a little bit of Elixir and a tiny bit of front...
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With the partial exception of industrial buildings, you can always distinguish buildings constructed before the 1950s from their later counterparts by looking for light courts. If your lights are, at best, incandescent bulbs, and your ventilation is mostly or entirely though...
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Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day. I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
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Beijing shop of the Japanese street-style fashion brand well known by the iconic “dual pistols” logo, whose main shop is...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. IROS 2024: 14–18 October 2024, ABU...
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Making sure your digital photos aren't leaking your location or other information is one of the most important technology-related privacy issues influencing your physical safety, so make sure to catch the latest episode of Loose Leaf Security: Digital photos and privacy Digital...
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CRISPR has been big scientific news since it was introduced in 2012. The science actually goes back to 1987, but the CRISPR/Cas9 system was patented in 2012, and the developers won the Noble Prize in Chemistry in 2020. The system gives researchers the ability to quickly and...
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A decade-long effort to build a machine to unlock the promise of nuclear fusion fell victim to budget constraints and competing science, and was shut down the day it was dedicated. It was never turned on.
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Nearly All US Job Growth in November Came From Just 3 Sectors! Did you know? The US economy added 199,000 jobs in November, slightly more than expected. But what's...
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Did you know? The US economy added 199,000 jobs in November, slightly more than expected. But what's even more interesting is that nearly all of this job growth came from just three sectors! So, which sectors are we talking about? Healthcare: Leading the pack with a steady demand...
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*Since writing this article, I've written [Getting your first programming job in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan), which goes into a lot more detail than this one.* When I was first looking for a job in Japan, I was surprised by the lack of entry level positions....
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Long-term thinking is one of the most valuable traits of successful individuals. It demands that you forego the rewards of the immediate future and position yourself for lasting success. But long-term thinking is impossible without patience; it’s what made John D. Rockefeller one...
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I sometimes get asked what my process is for researching and writing Substack posts. I always enjoy reading other people’s discussions of their writing process, so I thought it would be worthwhile to explain mine. First, some background. In school I was a competent but...
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PostHog 1.22 is out with awesome new features, usability and performance improvements, and the usual bug squashing. Community MVP The community MVP…
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I believe Matt Mullenweg's abuses of his unilateral, unchecked powers prove that it is in the best interest of the entire WordPress community that he be removed from power immediately.
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CONTEMPORIST
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Ujigawa Ohzono Architects has shared photos of a small wood-lined office they designed in Kyoto, Japan, that was once a parking lot. The owner of the land, who had been running a construction company in the local area for a long time, decided to create a place where dialogue can...
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A periodic fascination on this blog is figuring out better ways to get better screenshots of our classic systems, which often hail from the Wild Wild West/East in terms of video standards (read all entries in this series). Naturally the best way is a bitwise direct grab of the...
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Senate hearings, a post office ban, the resignation of the director of the National Bureau of Standards, and his reinstatement after more than 400 scientists threatened to resign. Who knew a little box of salt could stir up such drama? What was AD-X2? It all started in 1947 when...
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"Because mystery is horrible to us, we have agreed for the most part to live in a world of labels; to make of them the current coin of experience, and ignore their merely symbolic character, the infinite gradation of values which they misrepresent."
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The beloved rural Chinese influencer talks about finding fame, the health effects of all that beer, and what videos he wants to make next.
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Great restaurants often involve a great journey, and the journey to Crocadon, for everyone involved, staff and guests, is greater than most. Dan Cox was head chef at Fera at Claridges when I last sampled his cooking, and although the restaurant eventually turned out to be a bit...
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I'm happy to announce that Chickadee 0.6.0 has been released! Chickadee is a game development toolkit for Guile. Chickadee aims to provide all the features that parenthetically inclined game developers need to make 2D and 3D games in Scheme. As Chickadee is still alpha software,...
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This North American City Is Basically A Big Old Copy-And-Paste Of London Copy our homework much, folks?
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Prototyping is an indispensable step in the development of particle physics experiments like DUNE and projects like PIP-II. When complete, the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment, or DUNE, will be the world’s most comprehensive neutrino experiment—and...
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In the last couple of weeks, I’ve spent much more time commuting than normal. I mostly work remotely these days, for clients both in the Netherlands and abroad. And I like it that way. Don’t get me wrong, I like to drive, but commuting takes up a lot of time, time I would rather...
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One of the most underappreciated, least talked about aspects of repair is the hierarchy. There are repair wizards and there are newbies and there are the rest of us, somewhere between those two poles. This hierarchy of skill and experience requires that you earn your way to the...
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Back in January of 2012, Russ Cox posted an excellent blog post detailing how Google Code Search had worked, using a trigram index. By that point, I’d already implemented early versions of my own livegrep source-code search engine, using a different indexing approach that I...
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I’ve taken this post down. I’ve been attacked so much the past few days; the most vicious, personal, hateful words poisoned my brain, and the original version of this post was mean. I am so sorry. I shouldn’t let this stuff get to me, but it clearly did, and I took it out on DHH,...
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After my first day with the new 16-inch MacBook Pro, I’m very optimistic about it. 🎧  Hear more on today’s Accidental Tech Podcast! Two years ago, I wrote a wishlist to fix the MacBook Pro, and the 16-inch doesn’t actually deliver most of it. But time and technological progress...
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Ah the simple pleasures of the World Imagery basemap. So much earth. So much imagery. So many corners of this world to explore. How can we take something so verdant and charming and just ratchet it up to eleven? We’ll use a water mask and some layer effects, that’s how! 0:00...
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The concept of a "Snapshot" In computing, a snapshot is a point-in-time copy of data or state of a machine. You ever end up doing something like this? Each one of these files is a snapshot, as it's a copy of your essay at the point-in-time when you saved it. Snapshots provide us...
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In 2015, I amused myself by training a neural network to generate poems in the style of various poets I knew and submitted the results to a fanzine.
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Scam call centre on CCTV, via BBC. Here's a question for you. Should banks be required to reimburse customers who have been scammed? I was recently reading a CBC article about a 63-year old Toronto man who responded to a phone call from a scammer claiming to be a Bank of...
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We’ve just open-sourced Solid Cache, a new ActiveRecord::Cache::Store that we use in Basecamp and HEY. Solid Cache uses a SQL database as its cache store. We get a much larger cache at a fraction of the storage costs of memory caches like Redis or Memcached. For us, that’s a...
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The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a webpage — like a service detail page — have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I’m really recommending that it ask a reader to commit to 30 seconds. To put that in perspective, a...
TheCollector
New Pompeii Excavations Reveal Decorated “Tiny House” undefined
2 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Scabrous Memory Writhes Here, Underneath' I’ve just learned that some thirty percent of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, is paved,...
a month ago
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a month ago
I’ve just learned that some thirty percent of Houston, the nation’s fourth-largest city, is paved, covered in concrete and asphalt. That doesn’t count buildings and other structures. It amounts to roughly 384 square miles of ground surface that is “case-hardened, carapaced,” to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaning Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Meaning is for 18 year olds. I'm ready for...
a month ago
The DESK Magazine
The AI tool for ADHD/ADD? Our tool, mymind, is created for all kinds of real minds.
a year ago
Overcoming Bias
Who You Are Vs. What You Control If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
If people can't think clearly about anything that has become part of their identity, then all other things being equal, the best plan is to let as few things into your identity as possible.
TheCollector
Signed Dalí Prints Worth Thousands Found in London Garage undefined
4 months ago
xkcd.com
Black Holes vs Regular Holes
a year ago
Koos Looijesteijn -...
You're making me buy a new phone My iPhone SE 2016 is a good one. It’s easy to handle with one hand. The screen is more than...
a year ago
Willem's Blog
Updating Snake '97 This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This month I bit the bullet big time: I redesigned the game engine of the wildly popular Snake '97 game. Read about the design challenges in this blog post.
Home on Erik...
Luigi Presentation @ NYC Data Science, Dec 16, 2014 More Luigi presentations!
over a year ago