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Bob Curl - it is possible to be successful and also a good person I went to a memorial service today at Rice for my late colleague Bob Curl, who died this past...
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I went to a memorial service today at Rice for my late colleague Bob Curl, who died this past summer, and it was a really nice event.  I met Bob almost immediately upon my arrival at Rice back in 2000 (though I’d heard about him from my thesis advisor, who’d met him at the Nobel...
TheCollector
Is IQ a Sham? Jay Gould on the Mismeasure of Man undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
How Did Andy Warhol Change the History of Cinema? undefined
6 months ago
Society's Backend
AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
2 months ago
Wuthering...
Books I read in November 2023 Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books. (Everything is going well, by the way,...
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Recovery from surgery leads to a long list of books. (Everything is going well, by the way, thanks).  My idea of a “comfort read” is a book on a subject about which I do not know much – start me over at the beginning – thus my enthusiastic Indian literature project, which is...
Retail Design Blog
Baby, it’s cold inside by Pavla Chuykina When it comes to vodka packaging, it’s important to highlight the product’s features and how best to...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
When it comes to vodka packaging, it’s important to highlight the product’s features and how best to enjoy it—like keeping...
TheCollector
History of Chariots: 10 Types from Ancient Cultures Explained undefined
a year ago
Open Culture
Neuroscience Shows That Viewing Art in Museums Engages the Brain More Than Reproductions We may appreciate living in an era that doesn’t require us to travel across the world to know what a...
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2 months ago
We may appreciate living in an era that doesn’t require us to travel across the world to know what a particular work of art looks like. At the same time, we may instinctively understand that regarding a work of art in its original form feels different than regarding even the most...
Ben Borgers
Gimme Back My Headphones
over a year ago
The Berkeley...
Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks TLDR: We propose the asymmetric...
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Asymmetric Certified Robustness via Feature-Convex Neural Networks TLDR: We propose the asymmetric certified robustness problem, which requires certified robustness for only one class and reflects real-world adversarial scenarios. This focused setting allows us to introduce...
Rest of World -...
How livestream realtors helped make Xishuangbanna a boom town Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming,...
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9 months ago
Real estate agents turn to Douyin and Kuaishou to show properties virtually through livestreaming, drawing the attention of out-of-town buyers.
Paul Graham: Essays
Good and Bad Procrastination
over a year ago
TheCollector
The Artist Winston Churchill: A Political Leader’s Side Hustle? undefined
a year ago
Rest of World -...
Doctor-influencers are going viral in China, provoking authorities Fueled by the pandemic, medical professionals have cashed in on Douyin, dispensing advice and...
a year ago
Noahpinion
If this is a bad economy, please tell me what a good economy would look like We should acknowledge that things are going well, even as we continue to look for problems to solve.
a year ago
TheCollector
Which Are the Best-known Castles and Churches in Trieste? undefined
11 months ago
Old Structures...
On The Spectrum Between Solid and Hole For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
For study, two photos of the elevated structure supporting the 2 and 5 trains in the Bronx. This piece of the subway system has a slightly odd history. The portion south of and up to 180th Street, at the south end of Bronx Park, was planned as part of the original IRT subway, but...
Style over Substance
Leitz Summicron 50mm f/2 rigid (type 2) lens My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron...
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My newest lens acquisition wasn’t actually originally on my wishlist. I already had a 50mm Summicron lens, though that was the first generation collapsible model known as a Type 1. This lens has lived on my Leica M3 permanently for the past few years, and I have enjoyed the hell...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.30.0 Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Brand new and faster user interface, automatic conversion signal detection with Correlation analysis, saving insights for future use and a fully revamped recordings playback experience and more than 350 improvements/fixes more.
Josh Comeau's blog
Effective Collaboration with Product and Design How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
How we work with design can have a tremendous impact on our overall output, and yet we don't always treat it as very important. A look at how collaborating with design can supercharge our own productivity.
axio.ms
32-bit hat, with LEDs Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Built in November 2015 (now-traditional multi-year writeup delay applied) A hat, bejewelled with 38 RGB LEDs Is this thing on..? It’s been a while since I’ve written one of these. So, the hat. It’s been on the writeup pile for almost 6 years, nagging away. Finally...
37signals Dev
Monitoring 10 Petabytes of data in Pure Storage As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of...
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yesterday
As the final part of our move out of the cloud, we are working on moving 10 petabytes of data out of AWS Simple Storage Service (S3). After exploring different alternatives, we decided to go with Pure Storage FlashBlade solution. We store different kinds of information on S3,...
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:
David Heinemeier...
Cookie banners show everything that's wrong with the EU Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no...
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5 months ago
Companies have spent billions on cookie banner compliance only to endlessly annoy users with no material improvement to their privacy, but this unsightly blight is still with us (and the rest of the internet!). All because the EU has no mechanism for self-correcting its...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Should Apple be more open? It is almost religious orthodoxy in the tech community that “open” is better than “closed.” For...
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over a year ago
It is almost religious orthodoxy in the tech community that “open” is better than “closed.” For example, there have widespread complaints…
Construction Physics
What Would It Take to Recreate Bell Labs? For most of the 20th century, AT&T was almost entirely responsible for building and operating...
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For most of the 20th century, AT&T was almost entirely responsible for building and operating America’s telephone infrastructure. It manufactured the phones and electrical equipment, laid hundreds of millions of miles of wire across the country, and built and operated the...
Arduino Blog
Meet Mr. Wallplate, an animatronic wall plate that speaks to you Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual...
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Interactive robots always bring an element of intrigue, and even more so when they feature unusual parts and techniques to perform their actions. Mr. Wallplate, affectionately named by Tony K on Instructables, is one such robot that is contained within an electrical wall plate...
Maps Mania
NYC's Subway Stories
a month ago
Making software...
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal...
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over a year ago
The Lazy Developer's Dark Mode 2021-04-12 After recently jumping back to Jekyll for my personal blog, I decided to take a closer look at how I was supporting dark mode for my visitors. I was using the proper CSS query to target those who had system-wide dark mode enabled, but I...
journal – Winnie Lim
my experience on starting exercise from zero I don’t know if people know this, but I used to be extremely sedentary and I hated any form of...
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6 months ago
I don’t know if people know this, but I used to be extremely sedentary and I hated any form of physical activity. Only upon hindsight I realised it was probably related to...
Noahpinion
Interview: Chris Miller, historian and author of "Chip War" In which I consult an expert on the battle to control the semiconductor industry.
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Improve indoor air quality with Arduino When we think about air quality and pollution, it’s easy to conjure up images of smog-filled cities...
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8 months ago
When we think about air quality and pollution, it’s easy to conjure up images of smog-filled cities and power plants churning clouds of poison into the atmosphere. And while all this is still important, and has massive consequences for our health, it’s all too easy to overlook...
Josh Collinsworth
Impressions of the ZSA Moonlander at one month My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal...
a year ago
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a year ago
My thoughts, experience, and advice after using the Moonlander as my main keyboard for both personal and work projects for a full month
Oykun
The Almanac of Naval Ravikant My recommendation: MUST READ More details and reviews on Amazon This book took its place in my...
a year ago
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a year ago
My recommendation: MUST READ More details and reviews on Amazon This book took its place in my annual re-reading list. Lots of common sense practices in this book. I especially liked how Naval emphasises the importance of being a perpetual learner and reader which I greatly value...
Seth's Blog
Transitions are difficult They’re risky (unknown territory leads to unforeseen outcomes) and a very recent phenomenon. A kid...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
They’re risky (unknown territory leads to unforeseen outcomes) and a very recent phenomenon. A kid dropped off at pre-school, a new boss, a food you’re not familiar with. None of this was common for most of pre-history. When the transition occurs, we’re tempted to direct our...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 13 Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up...
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Highlights TinyPilot’s EU distributor is on track to begin sales by the end of August. I’ve freed up time by delegating responsibilities to my teammates. I miraculously became unstuck on two tasks that have been blocking work for months. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I...
Flashbak
Real Family Photos: A Mother of Photographs Her Seven Children’s Chaotic Coming Of Age “These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
“These photographs are mostly not posed: I just butted into my kids’ personal business and, a lot of times, they weren’t that happy about it. I went to three or four Lollapalooza concerts with my camera when they were there – I busted into things not to supervise them but to take...
Jonas Hietala
Before the Games: The Site I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve got some things I want to do before I start with my next game and they’re all about improving the site. The last week or so has been extremely productive with me throwing out a lot of wasted code, speeding up the site and adding/removing features and I want to continue with...
Seth's Blog
Modern apologies The AI driven voice mail system said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you.” Of course, there is no...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
The AI driven voice mail system said, “I’m sorry, I didn’t understand you.” Of course, there is no “I” and by most definitions of sorry, it’s not. But it made me feel better. The overworked and slightly bitter front desk person who was the frontline flotsam in a poorly designed...
Vitalik Buterin's...
The Triangle of Harm
over a year ago
Londonist
The London Of Doctor Who, Mapped All the key locations from Hartnell onwards.
a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Rails Testing I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around...
a year ago
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a year ago
I had to figure out how to run browser-based tests in Rails again. In part that meant working around my lack of Chrome. Rails System Tests with Safari. I also had some problems with Rails Turbo Drive taking over EVERYTHING, which required me to figure out how to deal with a Rails...
journal – Winnie Lim
why i love hong kong Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how...
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7 months ago
Hong Kong still seems like the same place in many ways, but it feels different. I don’t know how much of it is due to the changes in me or the changes...
journal – Winnie Lim
thoughts after the 2024 US election Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I...
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Sometime midway through the pandemic I felt like if I had any hope or optimism for humanity prior, I had lost it all witnessing how we responded towards a disabling virus. If...
TheCollector
Amun: The Egyptian God of Creation & King of the Gods undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
A History of the US House of Representatives undefined
a year ago
TheCollector
Colonial Mexican Art: 4 Key Formats and Themes undefined
10 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Tangram Interiors Showroom and Office Tangram Interiors‘ new Fresno showroom combines local motifs and modern design elements, creating a...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Tangram Interiors‘ new Fresno showroom combines local motifs and modern design elements, creating a functional and community-centered space with state-of-the-art...
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
3 weeks ago
TokyoDev
A Proposal for the Translation of RubyKaigi [RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
[RubyKaigi](http://rubykaigi.org/) and more recently [Sapporo Ruby Kaigi](http://sapporo.rubykaigi.org/2012/en/) have been providing realtime translation services. The way this has worked is that volunteers listen to the speakers presentation, and simultaneously translate it to...
Joel Gascoigne
For the first few people, hire from your network * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky...
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * We’re lucky enough to have reached the stage with Buffer [http://bufferapp.com] where we have had to start to think about growing the team. For the first 10 months the team consisted of just...
Artificial Ignorance
Honey, I joined a cabal Or: Mainstream media still isn't great at covering tech and AI ideologies
6 months ago
TheCollector
Who Were the Top Allied Commanders of World War II? undefined
7 months ago
Londonist
Get Free Entry To The London Dungeon This Monday To cheer you up on 'Blue Monday'.
11 months ago
bt RSS Feed
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of...
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a year ago
Bringing dwm Shortcuts to GNOME 2023-11-02 The dwm window manager is my standard “go-to” for most of my personal laptop environments. For desktops with larger, higher resolution monitors I tend to lean towards using GNOME. The GNOME DE is fairly solid for my own purposes. This...
Uncharted...
Is Desalination Everywhere Realistic? Which countries are doing it already? Are they happy? Is desalinated water safe to drink? Does it...
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a month ago
Which countries are doing it already? Are they happy? Is desalinated water safe to drink? Does it taste good? Does it pollute too much? Can we shrink its cost?
Seth's Blog
Shields up Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly,...
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Years and years ago, I helped the Weekly World News make a book. While their periodical was weekly, it certainly wasn’t news. They were just four people in a small office in Florida. They gleefully made stuff up every week. They had a few filing cabinets of stock photos, and they...
pcloadletter
RSS is still pretty great I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information...
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10 months ago
I think a lot about information and information consumption. The way the Internet made information readily available is phenomenal. Sadly, the signal-to-noise ratio here is pretty low. For me, consuming RSS feeds[1] offers the best way to read the kind of high-quality information...
Nadia Asparouhova
Understanding science funding in tech, 2011-2021 For those who sit between science and tech, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of new...
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For those who sit between science and tech, it’s hard not to notice the proliferation of new initiatives launched in the last two years, aimed at making major improvements in the life sciences especially. While I don’t have a science background, nor any personal relationship to...
TheCollector
Where Are the Best Travel Destinations for Shakespeare Fans? undefined
4 months ago
Ben Borgers
Overwhelmed
over a year ago
Matt Mazur
Updates: Preceden Trends, Training Help Scout’s New Analytics Engineer, Don’t Look Up, and Ray... Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to...
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Preceden Recurring Revenue: In January 2021 I introduced automatically recurring annual plans to Preceden. Prior to that the annual plans did not renew automatically which was an intentional (but bad) choice I had made because most users did not user Preceden for more than a...
Maps Mania
Documenting Russian Crimes in Ukraine
a year ago
Good Enough
TIL: Listen for JavaScript events only once! A common thing I find myself doing in Javascript is adding some event driven behavior that I only...
a year ago
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a year ago
A common thing I find myself doing in Javascript is adding some event driven behavior that I only want to happen once. Let’s say I have a big button that starts the process of lowering a certain spy into a pool of certain doom — I don’t want a second button press to awkwardly...
Julia Evans
Behind "Hello World" on Linux Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on...
a year ago
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a year ago
Today I was thinking about – what happens when you run a simple “Hello World” Python program on Linux, like this one? print("hello world") Here’s what it looks like at the command line: $ python3 hello.py hello world But behind the scenes, there’s a lot more going on....
Charles Chen
.NET Task Parallel Library vs System.Threading.Channels Wondering which concurrency library is right for you? Let's dive in!
a year ago
Nadia Asparouhova
How to do the jhanas The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to...
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The jhanas are a series of eight (or nine) altered mental states, which progress from euphoria, to calm, to dissolution of reality – culminating in cessation, or loss of consciousness. They are induced via sustained concentration, without any external stimuli or substances. This...
Jonas Hietala
A Geek Valentine Yes! I made it! It’s 22:22 on the very last day of February and I’ve been programming virtually...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Yes! I made it! It’s 22:22 on the very last day of February and I’ve been programming virtually non-stop for the past two days, my brain feels like mashed potatoes. A Geek Valentine Controls Use spacebar to: Build the time machine Buy and place traps (Just face an empty square...
Liz Denys
New Loose Leaf Security series: More on authentication and password managers Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Three more episodes of Loose Leaf Security are out, a series about authentication and password managers: Using a password manager effectively In a deeper exploration of password manager browser extensions and features for sharing as well as a survey of alternatives to password...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Climbing the wrong hill I know a brilliant young kid who graduated from college a year ago and now works at a large...
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over a year ago
I know a brilliant young kid who graduated from college a year ago and now works at a large investment bank. He has decided he hates Wall…
Noahpinion
The new industrial policy, explained We're starting to learn what replaces the old free-trade consensus.
a year ago
Kevin Chen
Why autonomous trucking is harder than autonomous rideshare Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Recently, The Verge asked, “where are all the robot trucks?” It’s a good question. Trucking was supposed to be the ideal first application of autonomous driving. Freeways contain predictable, highly structured driving scenarios. An autonomous truck would not have to deal with the...
Global Inequality...
On general futility of political discussions with people Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people...
a year ago
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a year ago
Over the years I have had political and ideological discussions with at least three groups of people and have concluded that these discussions are, almost entirely, futile in making people either see things differently, or acknowledge that others may see things differently, or...
Anarchy Unfolds
Genshin Impact & the appeal of open-world games I’ve been playing a lot of Genshin Impact lately.
2 months ago
Rest of World -...
Alibaba.com’s U.S. expansion hinges on wooing mom-and-pop shops President Kuo Zhang tells Rest of World in an exclusive interview that the company is bullish about...
3 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
Improbable: enabling the development of large-scale simulated worlds Over the past decade, computing resources that were previously available only to large...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Over the past decade, computing resources that were previously available only to large organizations became available to almost anyone…
TheCollector
Lipka Tatars: Muslims in Poland? undefined
a month ago
Retail Design Blog
Eterno Health Studio: A Holistic Wellness Hub with Café, Sauna, and Fitness in Frankfurt Eterno Health Studio in Frankfurt introduces an innovative approach to wellness, merging holistic...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Eterno Health Studio in Frankfurt introduces an innovative approach to wellness, merging holistic health services with a modern, thoughtfully designed...
Map of the Week
The New Acadian Heritage Room On my recent trip to Nova Scotia, I stumbled upon the grand opening of the New Acadian Heritage Room...
a year ago
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a year ago
On my recent trip to Nova Scotia, I stumbled upon the grand opening of the New Acadian Heritage Room at the O’Dell House Museum in Annapolis Royal. I had not known anything about it, but was in the right place on the right day. The room is primarily a collection of maps from the...
Anarchy Unfolds
3 Pieces for Rethinking Identity Politics Mental health, neurodivergence, orientation, and the path ahead
2 months ago
Londonist
When A Plague Of Millions Of Rats Gnawed Its Way Through Central London They even ate the window frames...
a year ago
Marcus on AI
An AI rumor you won’t want to miss Converging evidence that the core hypothesis driving generative AI may be wrong
a month ago
IEEE Spectrum
Boston Dynamics and Toyota Research Team Up on Robots Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Today, Boston Dynamics and the Toyota Research Institute (TRI) announced a new partnership “to accelerate the development of general-purpose humanoid robots utilizing TRI’s Large Behavior Models and Boston Dynamics’ Atlas robot.” Committing to working towards a general purpose...
Math Is Still...
The Two Faces of Space-Time A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time,...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once. The post The Two Faces of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
CONTEMPORIST
This Modern House Sits On Top Of Stilts In The Forest Architects Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, and Igor Macedo of Tetro have designed a new home in Nova...
a year ago
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a year ago
Architects Carlos Maia, Débora Mendes, and Igor Macedo of Tetro have designed a new home in Nova Lima, Brazil, that’s immersed in lush Atlantic Rainforest nature that includes large leafy trees, foliage, shrubs, birds, and wild animals. The house, white in color and with a unique...
The Ruffian
On Certain Asymmetries A few thoughts on how we talk about the Israel-Hamas war
a year ago
On the Arts
From Gothic Invaders to Mall Goths How an ancient Germanic tribe gave its name to a modern subculture.
a year ago
Spoon & Tamago
Senko Hanabi Earrings are the Perfect Summer Accessory Summer in Japan is not summer in Japan without fireworks. The tradition originated over 280 years...
a year ago
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a year ago
Summer in Japan is not summer in Japan without fireworks. The tradition originated over 280 years ago as a means of warding off epidemics and today, no matter where you are in Japan, you can be sure to encounter fireworks festivals both large and small. And while the grand...
Maps Mania
Mapping Water Scarcity
a year ago
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 45 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
8 months ago
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-110k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Rest of World -...
The chatbot answering modern-day questions about an ancient religion JainGPT answers inquiries ranging from “What is Jainism?” to “What happens after we die?”
3 months ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
Mise en Place Writing How to write more, faster, and better by decoupling writing from pre-writing
over a year ago
Londonist
Free And Cheap Things To Do This Week In London: 13-19 November 2023 Things to do for under a fiver.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Was Négritude? undefined
4 months ago
Old Structures...
Happy Christmas I’m not so sure about that vest.
a week ago
xkcd.com
Beam of Light
5 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
That Inspiration Stuck in Your Teeth Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Remember the last time inspiration blessed you with its divine presence? The clouds parted, angels sang, and an idea descended like a holy dove. What, it doesn't happen that way for you? Me neither.
Daniel Bourke
My book Charlie Walks: A Novel is now available worldwide Charlie Walks: A Novel now shipping paperback copies worldwide.
over a year ago
The Modern House
How Abby Lee, founder of Mambow, is modernising Malaysian cuisine
a year ago
swyx's site RSS Feed
The UX of Proving Our Humanity To Machines What happens when we can't convince machines that we are human?
over a year ago
Flashbak
Scenes From The Second City: Pictures of Birmingham 1980-1986 A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
A while back in Trendy OK?’ – Pictures of Birmingham 1976-1987, we looked at England’s second city before there was a  Selfridges or Harvey Nichols, and no Bullring as we know it today. Birmingham was a place of subway shops and underground passages that are now filled in and...
Home on Erik...
Pareto efficency Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Pareto efficiency is a useful concept I like to think about. It often comes up when you compare items on multiple dimensions. Say you want to buy a new TV. To simplify it let's assume you only care about two factors: price and quality.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Tech Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow it came the week of jokes about...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Somehow it came the week of jokes about dissociating from reality with VR. Today's News:
Contemporist...
An Exposed Structure Shows Off This House Design That Wraps Around A Pool Architecture firm Apiacas Arquitetos, has shared photos of a home they completed in Sao Paulo,...
4 months ago
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Architecture firm Apiacas Arquitetos, has shared photos of a home they completed in Sao Paulo, Brazil, that was designed with a single-story layout that wraps around a swimming pool.
Classical Wisdom
Oops! I did it again... Getting our events straight...
a year ago
Passing Time
Why Write? Other than the egotism, of course…
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with house prices in 2025? Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: Question #9 for 2025: What will happen with...
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I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to give it a try. I don’t have much experience running open-source AI models, and I didn’t see a lot of documentation about how to run them. I tinkered with it for a few hours and got...
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Writing a resume for your native language and culture is a sizable challenge for many, especially for software developers. The stakes are high (a job you want!), but the advice is uncountable and often contradictory. While many people may first think that it would be natural to...
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Back in the day, centering an element was one of the trickiest things in CSS. As the language has evolved, we’ve been given lots of new tools we can use… But how do we pick the best option? When do we use Flexbox, or CSS Grid, or something else? Let's dig into it.
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I want to start off this post by saying, “Thank you!” to our now over 250 sponsors on GitHub for helping us reach 20% of our monthly funding goal! I’ve been seeing a ton of demand for Early Access which is super exciting. If you’re not already in Early Access, you can be among...
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Care ethics is closely related to the rise of feminist voices in philosophy starting in the 1970s. Writers at the time were inspired by the vanguard of feminism — Mary Astell in 1694, Mary Wollstonecraft in 1792, and Harriet Taylor Mill in 1869. They pointed out the dominance of...
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This week is the 2023 DOE experimental condensed matter physics PI meeting - in the past I’ve written up highlights of these here (2021), here (2019), here (2017), here (2015), and here (2013).  This year, I am going to have to present remotely, however, because I am giving a...
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This summer I had the opportunity to attend DEFCON 30, a cybersecurity conference gathering around 27000 hackers in the fabulous city of Las Vegas, Nevada. With more than 30 villages and 3 main conference tracks, the event managed to cover pretty much every subject from malware...
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Recently I’ve been having a dozen ideas and projects I’ve been poking around with: I wrote a simple lua, later perl, which announced when a new day9 episode has come. Later I expanded it to search for new manga episodes, but now it’s broken and unfinished. In an attempt to learn...
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There are several things that I’ve learned this past year regarding work-life balance. The first thing is that the Chinese […] The post 📈 The Toxic Grind appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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When Leonardo da Vinci was 42 years old, he hadn’t yet completed any major publicly viewable work. Not that he’d been idle: in that same era, while working for the Duke of Milan, Ludovico Sforza, he “developed, organized, and directed productions for festival pageants, triumphal...
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We are excited to be back at Maker Faire Rome as a Gold Sponsor of the 12th edition (October 25-27, 2024), with some exciting experiences lined up for all makers, innovators, and creators who attend! Learn by playing at our booth  Visit us at the fair for a playful, interactive...
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People pay me to hack them, provided I'll explain how I did it. Read along to learn how hackers use security holes to hack your app, webshop or website!
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All the programmers love to promote their favourite language, or to hate on others. Now I read a post which claimes my favourite language is not good enough! But he’s correct of course, there is no one language to rule them all. You should always choose the mest language for the...
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Up until recently, culture has been thought of as a primarily human characteristic. However, recent studies shine a light on the fact that non-human animals including Cetaceans (dolphins and whales), may also possess it. They live in tightly-knit social communities, exhibit...
Flashbak
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“We are the cats inside. We are the cats who cannot walk alone, and for us there is only one place” – William S. Burroughs   It wasn’t all writing, drug taking, walks among the mysteries, cut ups, fomenting revolution, guns and launching assaults on Soho coffee bars in a typical...
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It is only afterward that a new idea seems reasonable. To begin with, it usually seems unreasonable. It seems the height of unreason to…
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For half a century my brother earned his living making picture frames, some of which were themselves works of art. In later years he relied more on accounts with hotel chains and the glass office buildings in downtown Cleveland. Frames for these corporate accounts he called...
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The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for guessing the ware; email me for your prize. The image is from Fritzchen Fritz’s Flickr feed; I recommend checking out his photos (or you can follow him on twitter). Even if you...
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by Jason Benn & Devon Zuegel So, you’ve been invited to an unconference! Maybe you’re not entirely sure what that means (did the organizers misspell "conference"?), or maybe you’ve been to dozens of these before and you’re looking for some ideas for how to run an awesome...
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Basic Gulp Build for Sass 2019-01-15 Some designers might shy away from build tools when first starting out and I can understand the reasoning - task runners like gulp and grunt can seem daunting at first. So, I’ve decided to showcase my go-to setup for gulp and explain what the...
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In case you think I am pointing fingers from my ivory tower, today I want to confess my own contribution to this mess.
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Situated right in downtown Mumbai, India is an area of about 55 acres of dense, overgrown forest. In one of the most populous cities in the world, this is a place where peacocks roam freely — a space out of time. This forest is protected by a religious community. It has survived...
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Imitation Learning 7 years ago I started comma.ai with a simple idea. Gather tons of human driving data, state action...
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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...
The Elysian
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The first book I ever read was The Brief History of Time by Stephen Hawking. I liked it so much that I re-read it 8 times. As a young boy, the book had made a lasting impression on me, making me fall in love with ideas such as the arrow of time, black holes, entropy,… Read...
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For 2023 I wanted to do something different than usual—I wanted to start playing computer games again. So I gave myself a late Christmas gift and bought a Steam Deck (and like any self-serving gentleman I took care to pitch it as being for my kids) and I started loading it up...
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People don’t read as much as they say they do. This trend is accelerating too. I’m in a friend group of intellectually curious people, and just about everybody says they’re reading fewer books than they used to. But at the risk of sounding like your 5th grade English teacher,...
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Note: Click any diagram to get Wolfram Language code to reproduce it. Wolfram Language code for training the neural nets used here is also available (requires GPU). Won’t AI Eventually Be Able to Do Everything? Particularly given its recent surprise successes, there’s a somewhat...
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The know-it-all can never be surprised. Everything he learns is an appendix to some distant education. What little new insight is gained is but a footnote to that framework of original knowledge, the dusty document of knowledge canonized long ago when his education was...
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The terminal for the 21st century "Warp is a blazingly fast, rust-based terminal reimagined from the ground up to work like a modern...
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The Modern House
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TokyoDev
From Paperclip to Active Storage: An incremental, zero-downtime approach I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using...
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I recently switched [Doorkeeper](https://www.doorkeeper.jp) from using [Paperclip](https://github.com/thoughtbot/paperclip) to [Active Storage](https://guides.rubyonrails.org/active_storage_overview.html) for storing and processing uploaded files. The approach we took was a bit...
TheCollector
Discover Caravaggio’s Saint Matthew Series undefined
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Castles in the Sky
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A new blog for 2024 It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024,...
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It’s been a long time since I’ve published a blog post. Two whole years. Now we’ve reached 2024, it’s time for a complete refresh.
Londonist
London Almost Had Another Public Aquarium - In Silvertown Docks Ever heard of 'Biota!'?
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Jake Zimmerman
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ntietz.com blog
Throw away your first draft of your code The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then...
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The next time you start on a major project, I want you to write code for a couple of days and then delete it all. Just throw it away. I'm serious. And you should probably have some of your best engineers doing this throwaway work. It's going to save you time in the long run. The...
Jonas Hietala
Site restyle and update I’m not sure how I got started but I recently read an excellent book about typography: Butterick’s...
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over a year ago
I’m not sure how I got started but I recently read an excellent book about typography: Butterick’s Practical Typography. It’s free and there’s a section Typography in ten minutes if you want the important bits. He makes a pretty good case for why it matters when he points out the...
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The Political Biases of Google Bard It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system...
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It is probably only a matter of time until a nation state purposely builds a biased AI system designed to advance government interests
Asterisk
Aperitif
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Tinker, Tamper,...
KY-040 Rotary Encoder with Linux on the Raspberry Pi For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a...
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For a project I with a Raspberry Pi (Zero W) needed a simple and easy input device to change a numerical value. So I bought some rotary encoders off Amazon.If you search the Internet for information/tutorials on how to use a “KY-040” rotary encoder with Linux and the Raspberry...
TheCollector
Two Paintings Once Stolen by Nazis Are Donated to the Louvre Museum undefined
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Classical Wisdom
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Londonist
Flotilla Led By Royal Barge To Carry Atomic Clock Along The Thames This Weekend Watch time literally travel.
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One from Nippon
Emoji Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for...
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Open your phone’s keyboard and go to the emojis. Scroll past the same five emojis you’ve used for years and see what others exist. You will soon see 🍡 🈸 🍙 and other weird-looking pictures. What the hell are these things, and why are they in
Rest of World -...
Sing your way to learning a new language Unlike apps like Duolingo, Beelinguapp focuses on storytelling and song to engage its over 5 million...
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mtlynch.io
Nonviolent Communication by Marshall B. Rosenberg, Ph.D. Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and...
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Nonviolent Communication describes a communication style centered around sharing vulnerability and offering empathy. One of its biggest strengths is in how it highlights common patterns of lazy communication that exclude personal feelings or critical thinking. I also found its...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Inside the mechanical Bendix Air Data Computer, part 5: motor/tachometers The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses gears...
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The Bendix Central Air Data Computer (CADC) is an electromechanical analog computer that uses gears and cams for its mathematics. It was a key part of military planes such as the F-101 and the F-111 fighters, computing airspeed, Mach number, and other "air data". The rotating...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Meaningless Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cosmos 4,982,112 was trash but 4,982,113 is going to get things perfect, I'm sure. Today's News:
mtlynch.io
Chaos Monkeys by Antonio García Martínez An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it...
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An insider’s story about Facebook in the years leading up to its IPO. It’s surprisingly candid — it names names and exposes internal Facebook discussions that were never meant to be public. An engaging read, but the narrator is painfully obnoxious.
Math Is Still...
The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein’s Relativity Problem Tensors are used all over math and science to reveal hidden geometric truths. What are they? ...
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Tensors are used all over math and science to reveal hidden geometric truths. What are they? The post The Geometric Tool That Solved Einstein’s Relativity Problem first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Stephen Diehl
The Complete Argument Against Crypto
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Alex Meub
Indeterminate Checkboxes While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can...
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over a year ago
While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can actually have up to four different visual states: checked, unchecked, disabled and indeterminate. What is indeterminate? It’s defined by the W3C this way: If the element’s...
journal – Winnie Lim
what a physical notebook provokes I’ve been a digital-first person for as long as I can remember. Typing words on a keyboard onto a...
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I’ve been a digital-first person for as long as I can remember. Typing words on a keyboard onto a screen had always felt more intuitive than moving a pen with my hands....
Anecdotal Evidence
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Yvor Winters published his final book, Forms of Discovery, in October 1967, three months before his death from cancer at age sixty-seven on January 25, 1968. Read his late correspondence in The Selected Letters of Yvor Winters (ed. R.L. Barth, 2000) for an understanding of the...
Londonist
Brewery Taprooms In London: A List Of Every Single One Of 'Em Have we got brews for you.
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Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
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Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
Londonist
A Tim Burton Exhibition Is Coming To The Design Museum In 2024 Illustrator, painter, photographer, author - what doesn't he do?
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Diaries of Note
There is no human being in the world whom he loves and trusts Biographer and historian Iris Origo was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1902 to an American...
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Biographer and historian Iris Origo was born in Gloucestershire, England in 1902 to an American multi-millionaire and an Anglo-Irish aristocrat, and spent much of her adult life in Italy after her mother’s remarriage to an Italian nobleman. In 1924, she and her husband bought La...
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Using User-Select Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple...
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Using User-Select 2019-06-04 Highlighting text in order to copy, cut or paste content is a staple action across the web. Now, what if I told you the ability to control what a user can select is configurable with a single CSS property? Introducing the CSS property Simply put, the...
blag
Zero Disk Architecture State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In...
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State is pain. The next generation of infrastructure tools will be built on diskless paradigm. In this short post I will explain what is Diskless / Zero Disk Architecture
Sam Altman
Researchers and Founders I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always...
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I spent many years working with founders and now I work with researchers. Although there are always individual exceptions, on average it’s surprising to me how different the best people in these groups are (including in some qualities that I had assumed were present in great...
Rest of World -...
The rise and fall of Koo, India’s once-thriving Twitter alternative The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international...
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The microblogging platform — India’s first in over 10 languages — went from booming international expansion to near closure in just four years.
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How to Find Podcasts That Have Been Deleted TLDR, https://megaphone.spotify.com/ rehosts all mp3s
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Array 1.11.0 Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many...
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Annotations, filtering all functionality by cohorts, retention table filtering and many, many bugfixes. It's all in this PostHog update. If you're…
TheCollector
The Red Army Choir: A History of Russian Soft Power undefined
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Beautiful Public...
Visualizing Rivers and Floodplains with USGS Data Using USGS elevation data to visualize stunning views of the flow of water through rivers and...
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Louwrentius
Linux Software RAID benchmarking script Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use...
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over a year ago
Just a small post. To benchmark your Linux software RAID array as setup with MDADM, please use my new benchmark script. I used this script to create these results. You may need to configure some values within the header of this file to make it fit your enviroment. ...
Both Are True
this is what it sounds like when dads cry Sad Dad, Mad Dad, and the headbangers bawl
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Andrew Jackson’s Genocidal Legacy undefined
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How I learned to love feedback loops (and make better products) I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my...
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over a year ago
I recently wrote a blog post for my personal site about the lessons I'd learned from leading my first two projects as a Software Engineer at PostHog…
NeuroLogica Blog
What Policies Affect Climate Change? What is the potential for climate change policy to affect climate change? I often discuss, here and...
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a year ago
What is the potential for climate change policy to affect climate change? I often discuss, here and on the SGU, the science of climate change, and specifically focus on what we can do about it, mostly by reducing our CO2 emissions. Often I get push back explicitly promoting the...
abdz.do - Have you...
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Celebrating Valentine's Day with a simple animation in Figma: a radar that spots love around abduzeedo0212—23 Valentine's Day is a time to celebrate love and remind us that it is all around us. This year, instead of buying generic gifts, why...
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My 2020 Annual Review
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Contemporist...
A Modern Brick Home Designed Around The Original Placement Of Trees Exterio architects have shared photos of a new home they completed in Warsaw, Poland, that's...
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Louwrentius
Why VMware vSphere replication is changing the game If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you are running a serious VMware environment, chances are you do have a SAN. Often with smaller setups, many people do employ multiple VMware hosts, but the SAN is a single point of failure. SANs are often fully redundant devices, with redundant PSUs, storage controllers,...
Quantum Frontiers
Building a Visceral Understanding of Quantum Phenomena A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the...
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A great childhood memory that I have comes from first playing “The Incredible Machine” on PC in the early 90’s. For those not in the know, this is a physics-based puzzle game about building Rube Goldberg style contraptions to achieve … Continue reading →
The American Scholar
“Peter Quince at the Clavier” by Wallace Stevens Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Peter Quince at the Clavier” by Wallace Stevens appeared...
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Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Peter Quince at the Clavier” by Wallace Stevens appeared first on The American Scholar.
Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2024 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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10 months ago
Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added gimballed stove, open pantry, Little Ninj and LPG fume detection system. Updated galley refit and Western Canada(includes tidal/current...
Rest of World -...
Building an app that uses AI to interpret dreams Pandemic isolation inspired Coco Chen to work on the spiritual health platform Dreamore.
a year ago
The Modern House
TV presenter Will Best's space-smart Hackney home for three
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Louwrentius
24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical controller, providing 28 TB of storage: Take a look here The main difference is that this person uses 1.5 TB disk, thus achieving more storage.
Home on Erik...
Luigi Presentation @ NYC Data Science, Dec 16, 2014 More Luigi presentations!
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Is It Keto: Month 6 Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress....
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over a year ago
Highlights Is It Keto’s user visits plateaued in February, but that still represents progress. Revenues fell substantially and missed targets for the month. I’m going to shelve the project unless I achieve my targets for March. Goal Grades At the start of the month, I laid out...
xkcd.com
Supergroup
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The Marginalian
In the Dark: A Lyrical Illustrated Invitation to Find the Light Behind the Fear The mind is a camera obscura constantly trying to render an image of reality on the back wall of...
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a year ago
The mind is a camera obscura constantly trying to render an image of reality on the back wall of consciousness through the pinhole of awareness, its aperture narrowed by our selective attention, honed on our hopes and fears. In consequence, the projection we see inside the dark...
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to change custom domain on Substack Since September, I've been running my AI newsletter on https://lspace.swyx.io
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Computer Things
Stroustrop's Rule Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic...
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Just finished two weeks of workshops and am exhausted, so this one will be light. Hanuka Sale Logic for Programmers is on sale until the end of Chanukah! That's Jan 2nd if you're not Jewish. Get it for 40% off here. Stroustrop's Rule I first encountered Stroustrop's Rule on this...
Herbert Lui
Confidence vs. trusting the process “This might not work,” Seth Godin writes in his blog post, “Out on a limb.” (It’s one of my...
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“This might not work,” Seth Godin writes in his blog post, “Out on a limb.” (It’s one of my favorites, alongside “Talker’s Block.” ) It’s fascinating to see this idea make it into a key part of his book The Practice, which I recently picked up and find myself liking a lot. If you...
Londonist
Tram Strikes And Engineering Works Will Affect Network Heavily In March and April 2024 Disruption double whammy.
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TheCollector
What Are Carl Jung’s Anima and Animus Archetypes? undefined
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Liz Denys
Route: annoying insurance upsell or online shopping data aggregator? I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart...
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over a year ago
I've been increasingly seeing an item for Route Package Protection automatically added to my cart when I purchase things online: I went partially through the checkout flow of a shop that uses Route with a $278 item I have no interest in purchasing to illustrate this...
TheCollector
Rare Ancient Coin Collection Found in Jordan Valley undefined
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Old Structures...
Personal History Revisited A few years ago I pointed out all the differences 170 years had made in Flushing, where I grew up. I...
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A few years ago I pointed out all the differences 170 years had made in Flushing, where I grew up. I recently came a cross a more recent map, titled “Map of the village of Flushing, Queens County, New York”, from 1894. This was four years before the western half of Queens County...
Lennart Koopmann
Moving to Mastodon After the recent events of Elon Musk taking over, I and many others started using Mastodon and...
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over a year ago
After the recent events of Elon Musk taking over, I and many others started using Mastodon and reduced Twitter activity. I avoid calling this a "switch" because I do not plan to remove my account on Twitter.
A Beautiful Site
New shortcut keys in Windows 7 I was happy to learn that Windows 7 has some new shortcut keys that let you control certain aspects...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
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...
Classical Wisdom
What is the WORD? How can we understand Logos? Do Words Matter?
a year ago
Blog - Guerrilla...
Shelter of Man With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I...
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over a year ago
With the publication of Shelter of Man in Guerrila Cartography’s forthcoming Shelter: An Atlas, I can officially call myself a guerrilla cartographer. I’m not just an artist anymore. My relationship with cartography developed while studying architecture in Australia. I might have...
Notes on software...
One year as a solo dev building open-source data tools without funding This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
The Marginalian
The Power of a Thin Skin "To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that...
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a year ago
"To be thin-skinned is to feel keenly, to perceive things that might go unseen, unnoticed, that others might prefer not to notice."
Nat Eliason's...
How I Finally Found the Magic of Meditation You're Approaching it Backwards
a year ago
Ink & Switch
05 · Edit groups “Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their...
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“Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their collaboration, and avoid needless ceremony.
The Rational Walk
American Scripture A review of Pauline Maier's book, "American Scripture", which details the conditions leading up to...
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A review of Pauline Maier's book, "American Scripture", which details the conditions leading up to the drafting of the Declaration of Independence.