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Math Is Still...
How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage How do immature egg cells maintain genetic quality for decades before they mature? Scientists find...
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How do immature egg cells maintain genetic quality for decades before they mature? Scientists find unusual safeguards in this quiescent cell that may inform research into fertility. The post How ‘Idle’ Egg Cells Defend Their DNA From Damage first appeared on Quanta...
xkcd.com
Sky Alarm
3 months ago
TheCollector
Beyond the Scream: 10 Lesser-Known Paintings by Edvard Munch undefined
3 months ago
Rest of World -...
Argentina’s Mercado Pago is like Venmo plus investing Latin America’s answer to Venmo helps Argentines survive sky-high inflation.
a year ago
Noahpinion
Why it's so hard to fix the information ecosystem Misinformation is a job; correcting misinformation is a hobby.
a year ago
Math Is Still...
A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity Mathematicians prove a theorem that illuminates the geometry of universes with tiny amounts of mass....
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a year ago
Mathematicians prove a theorem that illuminates the geometry of universes with tiny amounts of mass. The post A Century Later, New Math Smooths Out General Relativity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Scott DeLong
Weeks 48-52: My Final Update It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My...
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It's been fun (kinda). Here's where it ended up and where I'm going next. The post Weeks 48-52: My Final Update appeared first on Scott DeLong.
Astral Codex Ten
How Did You Do On The AI Art Turing Test? ...
a month ago
Oykun
Communicate Value over Long Hours of Work as a Designer The tagline for my newsletter goes as below:  Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow...
a year ago
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a year ago
The tagline for my newsletter goes as below:  Grow As Designer | Helping Designers Grow Their Value and Income. It's a bit unclear, right? What the heck is "Value" anyway? How can you grow it?  Well, there are many meanings to
Seth's Blog
Hiring for stuck Once an organization figures out a successful model, it begins to grow. And when it grows, it needs...
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2 months ago
Once an organization figures out a successful model, it begins to grow. And when it grows, it needs more staff. And they often hire for specific tasks and the skills that go with them. They need a person who will reliably and obediently deliver what they need right now. And...
Explorations of an...
Otamendi Reserve and Laguna Chiquita Mar January 11, 2023 Laura and I picked up our rental car from Enterprise in Buenos Aires as soon as...
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a year ago
January 11, 2023 Laura and I picked up our rental car from Enterprise in Buenos Aires as soon as they opened. The 9 AM start time meant that it was after 10 AM by the time that we had finally hit the open road. For the next six weeks, we are completing a big loop with the car,...
Louwrentius
The 'hidden' cost of using ZFS for your home NAS Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Introduction Update December 2023: In June, it was announced that iXsystems would sponsor implementing the VDEV expansion feature. A new pr has been created for this effort. The feature was merged into the code base, but may not be available to the general public before the end...
NeuroLogica Blog
New Type of Black Hole Discovered ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not...
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a year ago
ESA’s Gaia orbital telescope has recently discovered two new black holes. This, in itself, is not surprising, as that is Gaia’s mission – to precisely map the three-dimensional position of two billion objects in our galaxy, using three separate instruments. The process is called...
Seán Barry
Presentation: Building a High Volume Data Processing Pipeline in JavaScript There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There's more to JavaScript than e-commerce websites and web banners. This presentation is about an ETL pipeline I built with a microservice architecture in JavaScript and some of the lessons I learned as part of the process.
Common Edge
How FEMA’s New “Resilience Zone” Program Works “The goal is to ensure that the most at-risk...communities have the support, resources, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
“The goal is to ensure that the most at-risk...communities have the support, resources, and opportunities they need.”
ntietz.com blog
When to use cute names or descriptive names I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive. That post talks about...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I've previously written that project names should be cute, not descriptive. That post talks about services and does not talk at all about modules or variables. It's different in the latter context: those names should often be descriptive. What's the difference, and how do you...
The Gradient
Neural algorithmic reasoning In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found...
a year ago
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a year ago
In this article, we will talk about classical computation: the kind of computation typically found in an undergraduate Computer Science course on Algorithms and Data Structures [1]. Think shortest path-finding, sorting, clever ways to break problems down into simpler problems,...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Descent of Elon Musk Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive, ...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive,  Elon Musk should be rolling electric coal down Rodeo Drive in a cybertruck, smugly aware of the fact that, despite what the haters say, he's kind of
Seth's Blog
Productive assets and useful flows Assets are ownable. They are devices, skills, connections or properties that allow us to amplify our...
a year ago
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a year ago
Assets are ownable. They are devices, skills, connections or properties that allow us to amplify our effort and do our work with more impact. A drill press is an asset, so is your law degree. The permission you have to talk with your customers, the benefit of the doubt you get...
Platformer
Ten strategies for replacing Twitter from people who used to work there Announcing 'Extremely Hardcore,' Zoë Schiffer’s book on Musk’s Twitter takeover
a year ago
TheCollector
Newell Convers Wyeth Painting: From $4 to $191,000 undefined
a year ago
TokyoDev
RubyKaigi 2023 Recap It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s been more than 3 years since I attended a dev conference - the last time was pre-pandemic, and it was a [conference I helped organise](https://www.dddmelbourne.com). I didn’t know what to expect heading into Matsumoto for [RubyKaigi 2023](https://rubykaigi.org/2023/) this...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 036: The money pit October 13, 2023.
a year ago
Applied Cartography
Notebook as marketing primitive Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Earlier this week, I stumbled upon this brilliant marketing-slash-documentation idea from SingleStore — notebooks as a first-party page! There are a handful of nice things about this idea: Very easy to fan out. You're not going to really run out of sample notebooks from which you...
Seth's Blog
When the committee decides They’re almost always conservative. Whether it’s a governmental body, the strategy group at a big...
a year ago
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a year ago
They’re almost always conservative. Whether it’s a governmental body, the strategy group at a big company or the membership panel at the local country club, we can learn a lot by seeing what they approve and when they stall. Of course, each of us know a lot about our offering,...
The Honest Broker
Why Did Social Media Go to War Against Writers? And can we ever get along?
a year ago
Open Culture
Wes Anderson Directs & Stars in an Ad Celebrating the 100th Anniversary of Montblanc’s Signature Pen One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
One hardly has to be an expert on the films of Wes Anderson to imagine that the man writes with a fountain pen. Maybe back in the early nineteen-nineties, when he was shooting the black-and-white short that would become Bottle Rocket on the streets of Austin, he had to settle for...
Calculated Risk
December Vehicle Sales Forecast: 16.7 million SAAR, Up 5% YoY From WardsAuto: December U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Brighten Lackluster Year; Unusually High Drain on...
3 days ago
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3 days ago
From WardsAuto: December U.S. Light-Vehicle Sales Brighten Lackluster Year; Unusually High Drain on Inventory (pay content).  Brief excerpt: Improved affordability is the main thrust to the end-of-year improvement in demand, with higher consumer confidence also likely a...
Roberto Vitillo's...
Back of the envelope estimation hacks There are two types of engineers, the ones that can quickly do estimates and the ones that can't....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are two types of engineers, the ones that can quickly do estimates and the ones that can't. Are these people just smarter, or is there…
Londonist
The Massive (And Massively Controversial) Stratford Sphere Is Vegas coming to east London?
a year ago
Matt Mazur
Emergent Mind in The Atlantic One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The...
a year ago
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a year ago
One of the many people who saw the incorrect Google Quick Answer about Kenya was an editor at The Atlantic who asked Caroline Mimbs Nyce, one of their reporters, to look into it. Caroline interviewed me for the article they just published which focused on the challenges Google is...
IEEE Spectrum
The Meeting of the Minds That Launched AI The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Dartmouth Summer Research Project on Artificial Intelligence, held from 18 June through 17 August of 1956, is widely considered the event that kicked off AI as a research discipline. Organized by John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Claude Shannon, and Nathaniel Rochester, it...
Maps Mania
The EJAtlas: A Map for Environmental Justice
3 months ago
Rest of World -...
The entrepreneur navigating fintech’s ups and downs for 15 years Bipin Preet Singh is the co-founder and CEO of Indian fintech major MobiKwik.
9 months ago
The Universe of...
XKCD game theory question (Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.) This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
(Source: XKCD “Exam numbers”.) This post is about the bottom center panel, “Game Theory final exam”. I don't know much about game theory and I haven't seen any other discussion of this question. But I have a strategy I think is plausible and I'm somewhat pleased with. (I assume...
Left To Write
Write Like You Write And not how you speak
a year ago
Dan Slimmon
Why transaction order matters, even if you’re only reading There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
There are 4 isolation levels defined by the SQL standard, and Postgres supports them through the SET TRANSACTION statement. They are: This last guarantee is one against serialization anomalies. A serialization anomaly is any sequence of events that produces a result that would be...
History Today Feed
Kashmir: Prisoner of History? Kashmir: Prisoner of History? JamesHoare Wed, 12/18/2024 - 09:27
5 days ago
The Modern House
Old meets new at a masterfully renovated 400-year-old farmhouse in the South Downs
a year ago
History Today Feed
On the Spot: Alice Hunt On the Spot: Alice Hunt JamesHoare Tue, 09/03/2024 - 10:40
3 months ago
Notes on software...
Interpreting Go After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
After spending some time at work on tooling for keeping documentation in sync with Go struct definitions I had enough exposure to Go's built-in parsing package that next steps were clear: write an interpreter. It's a great way to get more comfortable with a language's AST. In...
bt RSS Feed
Building openring with Jekyll Build Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Building openring with Jekyll Build 2022-12-02 I think it’s great when bloggers post their own personal “reading list” of blogs they themselves follow. Whether this is a customized Blogroll page or footnotes in their individual articles, I find it really helpful to find more...
A Beautiful Site
The SimpleImage library for PHP If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you love working with PHP but hate the GD library, you'll love the Simple Image PHP class I'm releasing today. This class takes the headache out of dealing with images and features over 25 useful methods. The class is incredibly simple to use.  The following two lines will...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Biltmore Arizona: an Iconic Southwest Resort
5 months ago
journal – Winnie Lim
chronic unease Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate...
a year ago
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a year ago
Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate trauma, remember them deeply like they are etched into my bones helpless as...
High Signal
Selling Unicorn Platform for $800k I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder,...
a year ago
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I was thrilled to see recently Alex Isora make $800k by selling Unicorn Platform, a website builder, as I previously interviewed him about learning to code without a CS degree. Alex has stayed on at Mars, the company which has acquired him and unlike a lot of founders, will stay
A Beautiful Site
The next version of PHP may very well be 7 We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We've been hearing about PHP 6 since 2005, but nothing has been brought to fruition yet. In fact, the project was so plagued with problems that in 2010, it was abandoned. It almost felt like PHP would be perpetually stuck at version 5. Except now there's talk about another major...
Maps Mania
The Five Minute Fantasy Map Maker
10 months ago
Essays - Benedict...
Leaving Twitter I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be...
a year ago
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I was on Twitter since 2007, and built a meaningful part of my career on it, and I won’t be posting at all for the foreseeable future
Anarchy Unfolds
The hope of anarchy Letters to an anarchist - Part 6
a month ago
diamond geezer
Wildlife & Wellbeing Trail #10001 ✅ Places Footpath 47, the desolate estuarine footpath at Barking Riverside. In good news...
a year ago
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a year ago
#10001 ✅ Places Footpath 47, the desolate estuarine footpath at Barking Riverside. In good news it's still there and ten thousand flats haven't yet encroached close enough to wreck it. But that day draws closer, and a couple of recent changes are a hint that local developers are...
Home on Erik...
ML at Twitter I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I recently came across this paper describing how they do ML at Twitter. TL;DR Their approach is pretty interesting. Everything is a Pig workflow and then they do everything as UDF's. This approach seems pretty interesting.
TheCollector
Simon the Zealot of the Twelve Disciples: Bio, Legacy, and Death undefined
a week ago
Maps Mania
Mapping Damage in Gaza
a year ago
History Today Feed
New Year, Old Books New Year, Old Books JamesHoare Tue, 12/17/2024 - 09:14
6 days ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Mother’s Day in the United States? undefined
7 months ago
./techtipsy
I encourage you to write a blog It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90...
3 months ago
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It’s been over 4 years since my first post on this blog. During those 4 years I’ve written over 90 posts, received over 1 million clicks, a dozen legitimate reader e-mails and thousands of spam e-mails. And I love it! I’ve found that writing can be very fulfilling and I encourage...
TheCollector
The Art of Fear: What Is Italian Giallo? undefined
8 months ago
Kat Snyder
Using Design Sprints for Data-Informed Design Improvements Background Problem A phone app to “troubleshoot your home wireless system” needs careful upfront...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Background Problem A phone app to “troubleshoot your home wireless system” needs careful upfront definition, prioritization and scoping...
Diaries of Note
BlooOOP, blooOOP In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff...
a year ago
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a year ago
In 1949, as she searched for obscure books to feed her reading habit, American author Helene Hanff struck up a correspondence with Frank Doel, chief buyer for Marks & Co., an antiquarian bookshop nestled at 84, Charing Cross Road in London. These letters, filled with Hanff’s...
Math Is Still...
What Is the Nature of Consciousness? Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as...
a year ago
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a year ago
Consciousness, our experience of being in the world, is one of the mind’s greatest mysteries, but as the neuroscientist Anil Seth explains to Steven Strogatz, research is making progress in understanding this elusive phenomenon. The post What Is the Nature of...
A Beautiful Site
The Term "Headless Component" is a Misnomer You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid,...
a year ago
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a year ago
You've likely heard the term "headless component" tossed around. The idea is you get solid, accessible components without any styles. A clean slate to style from scratch! But the structure (bones) and logic (head) are there. You're mostly adding styles. They should be called...
Old Structures...
Yet Another Blue-Sky Proposal From a magazine I can’t readily find (the February 28, 1891 edition of Architecture and Building),...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
From a magazine I can’t readily find (the February 28, 1891 edition of Architecture and Building), via a scrapbook at the New York Public Library: a very involved railroad and boulevard system that I doubt anyone wanted and had zero chance of being built: This proposal is along...
Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of the London Accent Over 660 Years: From 1346 to 2006 Read a novel by Charles Dickens, and you’ll still today feel transported back to the London of the...
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4 months ago
Read a novel by Charles Dickens, and you’ll still today feel transported back to the London of the eighteen-twenties. Some of that experience owes to his lavishly reportorial descriptive skills, but even more to his way with dialogue. Dickens faithfully captured the vocabulary of...
The Honest Broker
A Tale of Three Songwriters: Duke Ellington, Joni Mitchell & Johnny Green Will Friedwald looks at popular composers who found fulfillment beyond commercial hits
a year ago
Seth's Blog
When the sun is shining Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Our job as professionals is to show up and do the work. Not simply respond to incoming or do the chores, but to create and innovate. And yet, some days feel more conducive than others. There are moments when it simply flows. When the surf’s up, cancel everything else. Don’t waste...
Notes on software...
Metaprogramming in Zig and parsing CSS I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it....
a year ago
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a year ago
I knew Zig supported some sort of reflection on types. But I had been confused about how to use it. What's the difference between @typeInfo and @TypeOf? I ignored this aspect of Zig until a problem came up at work where reflection made sense. The situation was parsing and storing...
Map of the Week
Artwork of Mary Edna Fraser Those who have read this blog over the years know that I love the intersection of art and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Those who have read this blog over the years know that I love the intersection of art and cartography. One of my recent discoveries is artist Mary Edna Fraser. Her textile work (from silks to rugs) and paintings range from the continental scale, East Coast, US-batik on...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Things That Pass' Among the books and magazines for sale in our neighborhood library I found the Winter 1985 issue of...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Among the books and magazines for sale in our neighborhood library I found the Winter 1985 issue of The American Scholar, which I bought for a quarter. Joseph Epstein was still the editor. On Page 97 is a poem, “Old Man Sitting in a Shopping Mall,” by a writer whose name was...
TheCollector
The Good and Bad in Nolan’s Oppenheimer (Critic’s Review) undefined
a year ago
Maps Mania
The Manhole Card Collectors Map
4 months ago
TheCollector
How Were Plato and Aristotle Interpreted During the Renaissance? undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
10 Ancient Sites in New Mexico You Should Visit undefined
a week ago
Society's Backend
AI Reading List 1: Understand Transformers, Reflection-70B Update, and LLMs Still Cannot Reason Society's Backend Reading List 10-07-2024
2 months ago
African History...
A history of Horses in the southern half of Africa ca. 1498-1900. Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies...
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a month ago
Horses and humans have shared a long history in Africa since the emergence of equestrian societies across the continent during the bronze age.
AVC
The Annual Computer Science Fair Ten years ago, a small group of folks in the K12 Computer Science Education community in NYC decided...
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Ten years ago, a small group of folks in the K12 Computer Science Education community in NYC decided to put on a “mock job fair” for high school students who were taking computer science classes in the NYC public schools. That was the start of an annual day of engagement and...
Stephen Diehl
Influential Books
over a year ago
Posts on Made of...
Two Perspectives on the End-to-End Principle Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Back when I was an undergraduate, as part of a class called “Computer Systems Engineering”, we read numerous classic papers of systems design. I enjoyed and learned a great deal from many of these papers, but one that paper that has stuck with me in particular was Saltzer et al’s...
Seth's Blog
Better pockets Every coat needs better pockets. There are categories of products or services where there’s a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Every coat needs better pockets. There are categories of products or services where there’s a universal area for improvement. When in doubt, make the pockets better. The interesting work is in realizing that you might offer a product or service where there are non-universal...
Irrational...
Video of Solving the Eng Strategy crisis. A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy...
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A few weeks ago, I shared my script for my latest talk, Solving the Engineering Strategy crisis, which I gave at QCon last week. They’ll have the conference video up in a few weeks, but I also decided to do a recording of the final version (albeit a few weeks after the talk, so...
Matt Mullenweg
RIP Quincy Jones Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is...
a month ago
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a month ago
Quincy Jones had such an impact on the culture that it’s impossible to summarize. His discography is amazing. I feel so lucky to have met him in 2012 when I was much earlier in my career, and he didn’t have any reason to give me time, but he treated everyone as if they were...
TheCollector
Food & Diet in Ancient Egypt: An Interview with Dr. Sarah Doherty undefined
5 months ago
Ryan Mulligan
Center Items in First Row with CSS Grid Imagine the following section on a website: A collection of elements, like a series of cards with...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Imagine the following section on a website: A collection of elements, like a series of cards with marketing information, are presented in a grid display. The elements are arranged in rows of three. When there are an odd number of elements left over, they will be center-aligned...
Seth's Blog
Important problems Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower,...
a month ago
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a month ago
Some problems are easy to solve, others are difficult, requiring a lot more labor, willpower, resources and coordination. Some problems have simple solutions, while others are complex in what it takes to move forward. The trivial problems are fun. They’re simple to solve and...
Steve Klabnik
Ten Years of Ru...ewriting my website
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conlang Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Constructing the 30,000-tone language for Anne was...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Constructing the 30,000-tone language for Anne was more challenging. Today's News:
NeuroLogica Blog
The Fight over Education There is an ongoing culture war, and not just in the US, over the content of childhood education,...
a year ago
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a year ago
There is an ongoing culture war, and not just in the US, over the content of childhood education, both public and private. This seems to be flaring up recently, but is never truly gone. Republicans in the US have recently escalated this war by banning over 500 books in several...
David Heinemeier...
Villains may live long enough to become heroes The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of...
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8 months ago
The first tech company I ever really despised was Microsoft. This was back in the 1990s, the era of "cutting off the air supply", of embrace-extend-extinguish, of open source as a "cancer", and of Bill Gates before he sought reputational refugee in philanthropy. What made the...
Maps Mania
The Global Impact of El Niño
a year ago
The Ruffian
Why London's Famous Penguin Pool Has No Penguins In It A Tale From My Trip To The Zoo
8 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
A Guide to Art and Culture Destinations in Kansas City
a year ago
The Rational Walk
Coffee Can Investing Sometimes an investing approach that is not necessarily "rational" from an economic perspective can...
a year ago
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a year ago
Sometimes an investing approach that is not necessarily "rational" from an economic perspective can produce superior results when one accounts for human nature.
Wuthering...
Plato's Republic - justice, fantasy and censorship - We'll ask Homer not to be angry I had ambitions to write about Plato’s Republic with some thoroughness, but I guess I will just...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had ambitions to write about Plato’s Republic with some thoroughness, but I guess I will just pursue one point.  Good enough. I have been separating Socrates from Plato, an imaginative exercise based on circular criteria.  The more Socratic of the Socratic dialogues are...
Contemporist...
A Stepped Design For This Renovated Century-Old Edwardian House In San Francisco Andrew Mann Architecture has shared photos of a century-old Edwardian house they renovated in a...
7 months ago
TheCollector
5 Key Takeaways from Susan Sontag’s Famous Essay On Style undefined
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The commonweal Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of...
a year ago
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a year ago
Thanks to everyone who has read, talked about and taken action around my new book, The Song of Signficance. If you have a chance to post a review, that would be great. And you can find the podcasts here. The first step in making things better is talking about it.
Seth's Blog
Different kinds of people It’s a tempting shortcut. Different kinds of people prefer pop tarts to pizza, or prefer expensive...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s a tempting shortcut. Different kinds of people prefer pop tarts to pizza, or prefer expensive wine to beer, or prefer amusement parks to bowling. Except everyone is the same and everyone is different. What’s actually useful is to realize that in this moment, under these...
Liz Denys
The 'doing good' framework: a manifesto against saying 'good people' and 'bad people' I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives: Mr....
Home on Erik...
Ping the world I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here's the result: Some...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I just pinged a few million random IP addresses from my apartment in NYC. Here's the result: Some notes: What's going on with Sweden? Too much torrenting? Ireland is likewise super slow, but not Northern Ireland Eastern Ukraine is also super slow, maybe not surprising given...
Math Is Still...
The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Russell Impagliazzo studies hard problems, the limits of cryptography, the nature of randomness and more. The post The Researcher Who Explores Computation by Conjuring New Worlds first appeared on Quanta Magazine
SatPost by Trung...
I want Apple's Vision Pro The Apple Vision Pro has a very appealing use case: "the workplace of your dreams".
a year ago
TheCollector
The 8 Largest Cities of the Medieval World undefined
7 months ago
alexwlchan
My favourite books from 2022 I read 71 books this year, which is the most I’ve read in a single year since I started keeping...
a year ago
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I had a bad feeling pulling out of Washburn. The bus had sat for nearly four months. The bus hates sitting. I had time to drive it to the upholstery shop and back and that was the extent of my test driving. I was hoping, whatever was going to break, would do it in a populous area...
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Part of the luxury of living near the ocean or the mountains is that you can be picky. If the surf or the powder isn’t great, leave it for the tourists. Good is insufficient, wait for the great moments… When we’re young, or the project is going really well, it’s easy to waste the...
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I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects of window management right out of the box.  They're pretty easy to remember too: Win + Up - Maximize the current window Win + Down - Restore a maximized window, otherwise minimize...
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The first few moves of a chess game give the player almost unlimited freedom. There are countless legal moves, and nothing to constrain the choices that a player makes among them. But as we add leverage to our culture and our organizations, the choices aren’t as easy. Jerry...
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From 1908, a stereograph of the construction of the tower of the Singer Building: The title is accurate – “Four hundred ft. above the street – iron worker on the Singer Tower, New York, U.S.A.” but it doesn’t tell us what we’re actually looking at. For example, the steel we’re...
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Diaries of Note
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Of the many first-person accounts of World War I, the diary of Edwin Campion Vaughan stands as one of the most vivid and harrowing ever kept. Joining the Royal Warwickshire Regiment on 19th June 1916 as a second lieutenant, eighteen-year-old Vaughan soon found himself on the...
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Carlos Castanheira of CC&CB Architects has shared photos of a home they designed in Porto, Portugal, that uses wood and copper throughout its design. The home’s exterior has a copper-clad roof and matching copper siding, while the exposed timber structure connects with the rest...
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As software engineers, we routinely estimate our work. Our most common brush with estimates is when we estimate individual tasks within a sprint. Usually, we do that with abstract points, and that's the wrong way about it. We should be cutting to the chase and estimating directly...
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Highlights I paused TinyPilot sales to address a design problem. I’m manufacturing a custom USB power connector for TinyPilot. Revenue across all my projects was among my strongest ever, at $3.6k total. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to...
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I just added Open Graph support to this Pelican-generated site so pretty previews would show up when people shared my posts, and I figured I'd share the fairly tidy way I went about it in case other people were interested. I only added support for articles, my journal entries,...
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Somewhere along the way of life, we learn that love means very different things to different people, and yet all personal love is but a fractal of a larger universal love. Some call it God. I call it wonder. Dante called it “the Love that moves the Sun and the other stars.”...
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Speaking of anthologies, I again picked up Books and Libraries (2021), published as part of the Everyman's Library Pocket Poets Series. I’ve browsed in several of these attractively compact volumes and they are a very mixed bag, as any thematic anthology must be. You can sense...
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A five-year “adversarial collaboration” of consciousness theorists led to a stagy showdown in front of an audience. It crowned no winners — but it can still claim progress. The post What a Contest of Consciousness Theories Really Proved first appeared on Quanta...
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A founder recently asked me how to stop caring what other people think. I didn’t have an answer, and after reflecting on it more, I think it's the wrong question. Almost everyone cares what someone thinks (though caring what everyone thinks is definitely a mistake), and it's...
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As you undoubtedly know, the 2023 Nobel in physics has been awarded to Pierre Agostini, Ferenc Krausz, and Anne L'Huillier, for the development of techniques associated with attosecond-scale optical pulses.  Here is the more popular write-up about this (including a good handwave...
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Diaries of Note
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The other day I replaced an old, cracked mirror in my bathroom. When I took the existing one down, suddenly the room seemed to lose half its size. Turns out it’s just a claustrophobic little room with a toilet, sink, and tub. The sense that there’s open space in front of me while...
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While looking for unrelated items I came across this 1920's Protein Survey Map of Western Canada. Wondering what any of this means, I did some research and discovered that protein refers to the gluten content of wheat. In the early 1900's flour mills began classifying their...
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Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms. The post Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Christopher Butler
4 Levels of Grids for Web Designers Grids are very, very useful. I just published an essay on how anchoring the most important...
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Grids are very, very useful. I just published an essay on how anchoring the most important information on a web page to the Y-axis will help viewer’s focus on it and pay closer attention. It’s a pretty basic idea, really, but somehow I found myself writing over 1,000 words to...
Common Edge
How Might We Talk About the Shoreline of San Francisco? Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can...
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Bay Lexicon continues Jane Wolff’s exploration of landscapes and how finding a common language can enable better conversations about them.
TheCollector
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Math Is Still...
Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A...
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Why does natural selection appear to happen slowly on long timescales and quickly on short ones? A multigenerational study of four lizard species addresses biology’s “paradox of stasis.” The post Evolution: Fast or Slow? Lizards Help Resolve a Paradox. first appeared...
One Useful Thing
Not much is changing, a lot is changing OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
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Seafaring, trade and travel in the African Atlantic. ca. 1100-1900. historical links between West Africa and Central Africa. (Africans exploring Africa chapter 4)
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blogstatic numbers for November <p>Coming from <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022">October</a>, November...
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<p>Coming from <a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022">October</a>, November was again another solid month.<a href="https://valsopi.com/blogstatic-numbers-october-2022"></a></p> <table><tbody><tr><td><b>blogstatic</b></td><td><b>October...
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Land Engineering This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th...
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This map shows the proposed street layout in Manhattan from the original northern boundary at 155th Street (on the left, where the blocks are shown as featureless white rectangles) to the northern tip of the island (on the right). I mentioned two days ago that the street layout...
Laetitia@Work
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A Recipe for Training Neural Networks Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common...
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Some few weeks ago I posted a tweet on “the most common neural net mistakes”, listing a few common gotchas related to training neural nets. The tweet got quite a bit more engagement than I anticipated (including a webinar :)). Clearly, a lot of people have personally encountered...
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"This business is like bird spotting" One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely...
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One of my favorite quotes about startups/VC, from legendary VC Mike Moritz of Sequoia: I rarely think about big themes. This business is…
Flashbak
Les Malheurs des immortels, 1922: Max Ernst and Paul Éluard’s Surreal Collaboration Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by...
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Misfortunes of the Immortals (Les Malheurs des immortels) is an early illustrated book by German-American-French artist and founder of the Dada movement Max Ernst (2 April 1891 – 1 April 1976). The book, which marks the beginning of his close friendship with French poet Paul...
Christopher Butler
Link – Luke Mitchell's personal website interroban.gg is a beautifully-designed personal website.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bot Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The humanoid body is important to achieving maximum...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The humanoid body is important to achieving maximum self-loathing. Today's News:
RhysTranter.com
Easter 2022: A Roman Pilgrimage This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the...
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This Easter, my wife and I headed to Rome. What follows is a simple journal that records some of the things that we did, with a selection of photographs from each day.
Seth's Blog
Complaints The best way to complain is to make things better. Complaining can be a form of intimacy. It’s a...
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The best way to complain is to make things better. Complaining can be a form of intimacy. It’s a useful way to explain our behavior. And best of all, it gives us a way to communicate as we work to create community action. The rest sort of complaint requires generosity and...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pino Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am prepared for your call Hollywood. It's...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you! Today's...
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Acko.net
The Coddling of the Professional Mind "The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The...
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"The problem isn't that Johnny can't read. The problem isn't even that Johnny can't think. The problem is that Johnny doesn't know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling." – Thomas Sowell I'm not one to miss an important milestone, so let me draw your attention...
Math Is Still...
Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary...
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Ana Caraiani and James Newton have extended an important result in number theory to the imaginary realm. The post Elliptic Curves Yield Their Secrets in a New Number System first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Modern House
Contrast is king at this Camberwell townhouse
a year ago
Castles in the Sky
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Society's Backend
No One Should Be GPU Poor For everyone to have access to AGI, everyone must also have access to the compute to use it
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Vitalik Buterin's...
An Incomplete Guide to Rollups
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The only college major that matters If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of...
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If you want to work in venture capital focusing on internet/software companies, or start one of those companies, or work as an employee in…
TheCollector
Mao’s Great Leap Forward & How It Killed Millions undefined
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Why I kept my startup job for seven years (and counting) Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing...
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Software engineers typically don't stay anywhere for very long. If you're not moving, you're losing out on opportunities1. And yet, I've made the choice to join and stay at one company for seven years. That's more than half my career to date. Why did I do that? And would I do it...
Oykun
2023 Letter with 10 Lessons Write I've been writing for years, however, I gave the focus it deserved in 2023 as I felt the urge...
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Write I've been writing for years, however, I gave the focus it deserved in 2023 as I felt the urge to express my ideas more in words than colours and shapes. I didn’t resist the urge and I have seen amazing benefits. Articulating my ideas, feelings,
tomcritchlow.com
Digital Bricolage & Web Foraging When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme:...
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When I reflect on the various lines of inquiry that light me up, there’s one consistent theme: digital bricolage. Bricolage is “the skill of using whatever is at hand and recombining them to create something new.”
Willem's Blog
Flying in a C47-A (DC-3) classic plane Flying in a C47-A Skytrain over The Netherlands is one magnificent birthday gift I received,...
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Flying in a C47-A Skytrain over The Netherlands is one magnificent birthday gift I received, experiencing aviation history unlike anything else!
The Modern House
Mia Castenskjold and Stefan Zschernitz’s self-built sanctuary in Hackney
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Fonts In Use: Blog...
Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License:...
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Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon: 125 years ago today – at exactly...
xkcd.com
Number Shortage
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diamond geezer
London's wind turbines I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered How many wind turbines are there in...
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I was in Dagenham and I saw this wind turbine and I wondered How many wind turbines are there in London? So I made a map using OpenStreetMap and OverpassTurbo. It produced a map showing 44 wind turbines in the Greater London area. Except I looked a bit closer and some of...
Alex MacCaw
Nothing matters I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying...
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over a year ago
I'd just like to take a second to point out how absurd all this is. We're monkeys on a rock flying through space who've decided to climb down from the trees, put on costumes, and makeup names for each other. We didn't
TheCollector
The Mythical Green Anaconda of the Amazon Rainforest undefined
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Blog - Practical...
How The Channel Tunnel Works [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] 2024 marks thirty years since...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] 2024 marks thirty years since the opening of the channel tunnel, or chunnel, or as they say in Calais, Le tunnel sous la Manche. This underground/undersea railroad tunnel connects England with France, crossing...
Diaries of Note
When a shot goes badly, I feel like a useless object Catherine Deneuve’s film career has been prolific and illustrious. Since her big screen debut in...
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Catherine Deneuve’s film career has been prolific and illustrious. Since her big screen debut in 1957 she has starred in close to 130 movies and garnered 14 César Award nominations, of which she has won two, cementing her as one of France’s most acclaimed actresses. Yet, even the...
Probably...
Bootstrapping a Proportion It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
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It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. How do I use bootstrapping to generate confidence intervals for a...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
100 ways to slightly improve your life without really trying "1 Exercise on a Monday night (nothing fun happens on a Monday night).2 On the fence about a...
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"1 Exercise on a Monday night (nothing fun happens on a Monday night).2 On the fence about a purchase? Wait 72 hours before you buy it.3 Tip: the quickest supermarket queue is always behind the fullest trolley (greeting, paying and packing take longer than you think).4 Bring...
TheCollector
What Was the Relationship Between Gauguin and Van Gogh? undefined
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Retail Design Blog
Talking Machines Museum by UMA Collective The Museu das Máquinas Falantes (Talking Machines Museum) in Alcobaça, whose project began in 2017,...
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The Museu das Máquinas Falantes (Talking Machines Museum) in Alcobaça, whose project began in 2017, was inaugurated on 25 April...
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...
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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.
TheCollector
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Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: A Project Tony Stark and Emma Frost – currently in a sham marriage – take a stroll: Bridge 28 in Central Park...
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Tony Stark and Emma Frost – currently in a sham marriage – take a stroll: Bridge 28 in Central Park – currently in restoration – where we’re working: If you don’t see it, look at the iron handrail.
AVC
NFT Art CDMX We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the...
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We spent this past weekend in Mexico City at Bright Moment’s NFT Art CDMX. Bright Moments is the premier NFT art “gallery” in the world. I use that term in parentheses because Bright Moments is much more than a gallery but that word is well understood. USV is a member of the...
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in July 2024 20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in July 2024 1) TfL will not reveal the maximum speed on...
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20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in July 2024 1) TfL will not reveal the maximum speed on each tube line because "disclosure of the information you have requested would be likely to adversely affect the safety and security of TfL employees and members of the general...
TheCollector
Why Was The Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe Hall Put on Trial? undefined
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Vadim Kravcenko
Security at Startup In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets...
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In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until […] The post Security at Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Old Structures...
We Become Accustomed – Part 3 Having discussed the steel framing and the basic curtain wall of an incredibly-average 1926 office...
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a year ago
Having discussed the steel framing and the basic curtain wall of an incredibly-average 1926 office building, I want to take a look at the end of the work. The picture above shows the building, just about on completion: a middle-of-the-road, mid-sized office building, with its...
nanoscale views
Things I learned at the Packard Foundation meeting Early in my career, I was incredibly fortunate to be awarded a David and Lucille Packard Foundation...
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Early in my career, I was incredibly fortunate to be awarded a David and Lucille Packard Foundation fellowship, and this week I attended the meeting in honor of the 35th anniversary of the fellowship program.  Packard fellowships are amazing, with awardees spanning the sciences...
Londonist
The Coca-Cola Christmas Truck Drives Into London This Week Merry fizz-mas!
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
[Talk] Scaling Graphs On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
On March 22, 2016, I talked about scaling up graphs at Scale Tech. It was recorded and is viewable on YouTube: If you have thoughts on scaling graphs or big data in general, please reach out to me! I'm always happy to talk about this.
diamond geezer
Postcards from Norwich Postcards from Norwich ✉ Goldsmith Street five years ago it went to council housing in Norwich....
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Postcards from Norwich ✉ Goldsmith Street five years ago it went to council housing in Norwich. They could have built flats but instead they packed 105 energy-efficient houses into a handful of dense terraced streets, aligned east-west to maximise solar gain. Extra-thick walls...
Tech and Tea
Small steps, Big dreams proudly announcing Tech and Tea
a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
The end of my childhood
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Both Are True
most hated essays from last year (also the ones you loved fine) 2023's flops and favs, bombs and bangers, yucks and yums, duds and dopes, bads and goods, letdowns...
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Making software...
Web Development on a $200 Chromebook Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested...
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Web Development on a $200 Chromebook 2020-01-07 This blog post was written, edited and tested locally on a cheap $200 Chromebook. The article draft was composed in Sublime Text. Jekyll (the SSG this website uses) was generated via the Linux Beta Terminal running alongside Chrome...
Luxagraf:...
Low Oak leaves shimmer and dance in the wind. Morning sunlight filters in through the trees, the rays...
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Oak leaves shimmer and dance in the wind. Morning sunlight filters in through the trees, the rays fighting their way through wisps of Spanish moss. You can find this scene anywhere in South Carolina below the fall line, a vague geographic boundary that runs along the southeastern...
TheCollector
Top Five Painters To Watch in 2024 undefined
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Retail Design Blog
If Zara Home rebrands as luxury Imagine a complete transformation of Zara Home. Stepping through the threshold, you’re no longer...
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Imagine a complete transformation of Zara Home. Stepping through the threshold, you’re no longer greeted by the familiar retail layout....
TheCollector
It’s Complicated: Edward VIII & Wallis Simpson’s Scandalous Romance undefined
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Epic Web Dev
Upgrade to Conform V1 (tip) Upgrade to Conform V1 and experience simplified form setup, enhanced error handling, and exciting...
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Upgrade to Conform V1 and experience simplified form setup, enhanced error handling, and exciting new features.
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F1, Sport and Reality TV It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi...
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over a year ago
It’s been two days now since I stayed up late to watch the final race of the F1 season in Abu Dhabi with my sons. Full disclosure, we are all team Hamilton fans here, and were excited to watch the final deciding race as to who would take out the 2021 World Driver’s...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Social Anxiety: Ask Marcus Aurelius Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from...
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Previous Next Using Marcus Aurelius's writing in his Meditations and experiences inferred from historical records, we created an AI digital personality that spoke with us about how to practice Stoicism in our modern world. This AI persona literally thinks that it's Marcus...
Irrational...
Mailbag: What should you do if you report to an underperforming executive? Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming...
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Recently, an email came in asking what to do when you report into a mediocre or underperforming executive. I’ve gotten variants of this question a number of times over the years, and it’s worth digging into a bit: Have you written anything about working in middle management where...
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...
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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...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
The things we do to ship desktop software I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I wrote a small utility for Windows. It indexes a hard-drive and allows to find a file by name in under a second. It might surprise you that I spent more time on things that are not related to core functionality. Let’s call it a tax of shipping desktop software. Here are some of...
Ognjen Regoje •...
Not wanting to work remotely is now a competitive advantage As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is...
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As much as working remotely is a competitive hiring advantage again, not wanting to work remotely is now an advantage for getting hired. A lot of companies are mandating returns to the office. Many more are scrapping fully remote positions, with some even rescinding fully-remote...
Artificial Ignorance
How to fine-tune ChatGPT No GPU cluster required.
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Friday: Personal Income & Outlays Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. Personal Income and Outlays for November. The consensus is for a 0.4% increase in personal income, and for a 0.5% increase in personal spending. And for the PCE price index to increase 0.2%, and...
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A 1960s Split-Level Turned Three-Story Home In Seattle Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a remodel project they completed in Seattle,...
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a year ago
Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a remodel project they completed in Seattle, Washington, that transformed a 1960s split-level home into an updated design for a family of five. The project’s goals were to modernize the space, add a third floor, relocate the...
PostHog's RSS Feed
How we’re improving performance by combining persons and events In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle...
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over a year ago
In a previous product update we announced a beta for a substantial change to the way we handle persons and events on PostHog. Today, after gathering…
Irrational...
Engineering’s role in Mergers & Acquisitions. I managed the engineering team at Digg as we ran out of money, and were eventually acquired. It was...
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I managed the engineering team at Digg as we ran out of money, and were eventually acquired. It was an eye opening experience, and I learned a great deal about the reality and the optics of selling a company, particularly one with no money and a shrinking user base. Humbling was...
Maps Mania
Crowdsourcing Neighborhood Borders
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Electronics etc…
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Society's Backend
How to Use Benchmarks to Build Successful Machine Learning Systems And what benchmarks mean for real-world applications
4 months ago
Posts on Nikita...
Family Photos vs 256 Kb RAM Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my...
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Discussion on HackerNews and Lobsters. A while ago I was thinking about making something nice for my wife as a present for the Valentine’s Day. My eye caught a rather cool-looking 7-color eInk display with Raspberry Pico W on board - Pimoroni Inky Frame. From the first glance it...
TheCollector
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