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Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Weighty Thoughts
Commentary on Technology, Startups, and Investing Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Welcome to Weighty Thoughts by me, James Wang. General Partner at Creative Ventures. Ex-Bridgewater and Google X. Co-Founder Lioness. Sign up now so you don’t miss the first issue. In the meantime, tell your friends!
The Ruffian
The Ad That Radicalised Me Britain's Assisted Dying Debate
3 weeks ago
Ben Borgers
How ChatGPT spoiled my semester
2 months ago
diamond geezer
St Paul's Cathedral On Lord Mayor's Show day entrance to St Paul's Cathedral is free. Today's post comes free with 30...
a year ago
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a year ago
On Lord Mayor's Show day entrance to St Paul's Cathedral is free. Today's post comes free with 30 photos on Flickr. n.b. Doors open at 8.30am, so if you get there early you can get minimal people in your photos. 20 things to see inside St Paul's Cathedral Nave 1) The font...
macwright.com
Make a ViewPlugin configurable in CodeMirror by () ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror...
a year ago
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a year ago
ViewPlugin.fromClass only allows the class constructor to take a single argument with the CodeMirror view. You use a Facet. Great example in JupyterLab. Like everything in CodeMirror, this lets you be super flexible with how configuration works - it is designed with multiple...
Christopher Butler
Out-Random the AI If you are a creative person, AI is frightening. It should be. It is yet another technology that we...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
If you are a creative person, AI is frightening. It should be. It is yet another technology that we know more than enough to not pursue, but will anyway because our culture is an untethered, nihilistic avarice addiction cloud in which we are all entrapped. The truth is that...
TheCollector
Who Were the Successors of Charlemagne? undefined
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hold Up Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: From this angle you can't see the Habsburg...
3 months ago
TheCollector
Why Has Stoicism Gained Popularity in Modern Times? undefined
a year ago
Math Is Still...
New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable...
a year ago
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a year ago
Recent efforts to map every cell in the human body have researchers floored by unfathomable diversity, with many thousands of subtly different types of cells in the human brain alone. The post New Cell Atlases Reveal Untold Variety in the Brain and Beyond first...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
News is a lousy business for Google too There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a widespread myth that search engines have taken profits away from news websites. A few months ago, Rupert Murdoch said: “Google…
Christopher Butler
Designing for (Realistic) Attention The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a...
a year ago
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a year ago
The average person is capable of reading 250 words per minute. When I advise that a webpage — like a service detail page — have a maximum main body word-count of 150 words, I’m really recommending that it ask a reader to commit to 30 seconds. To put that in perspective, a...
Vadim Kravcenko
Stand Out and Dare to Disagree Question: Answer: The post Stand Out and Dare to Disagree appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
7 months ago
Mazdak
Google's Gemini Enters the AI Arena: Ready to Take on OpenAI? Get ready for a new contender in the world of large language models (LLMs): Google's Gemini! This...
a year ago
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a year ago
Get ready for a new contender in the world of large language models (LLMs): Google's Gemini! This powerful AI is set to shake things up, potentially rivaling big names like OpenAI and Microsoft. What's the Buzz About Gemini? Gemini comes in three flavors:
diamond geezer
The City Wall at Vine Street Other Vine Streets are available. The City Wall at Vine Street Location: Vine Street, EC3N 2HT...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Other Vine Streets are available. The City Wall at Vine Street Location: Vine Street, EC3N 2HT [map] Open: 9am - 6pm (bank holidays excepted) Admission: free Seven word summary: a very old wall and some rubbish Website: citywallvinestreet.org Time to set aside: half an hour The...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Hands Down Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Wings would also be acceptable, as would a thousand gibbering eyes. Today's News:
Weighty Thoughts
One Definite Sign of a Bad Startup Idea If you can’t tell anyone about your startup idea, it's not a good idea
over a year ago
TheCollector
How Do I Know I’m Not the Only Conscious Being in the Universe? undefined
a year ago
Londonist
Artist Will Lie On Tower Bridge's Glass Walkway All Day This Saturday Thought-provoking work from Anahita Harding.
9 months ago
Londonist
Multicultural Soho Shines In This AI-Enhanced Video From The 1950s Super-sharp footage of 50s Soho.
9 months ago
Classical Wisdom
[Ebook] The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius...
a year ago
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a year ago
The Meditations of Marcus Aurelius The Meditations (or Things to One’s Self) of Marcus Aurelius (121-180 AD) gives you a prescribed way in which you can actually reduce genuine suffering in your life because Rome’s great “philosopher king” lays out a very compelling, very...
Christopher Butler
sketchbook – 2024 March 9 - March 16 Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Putting these up on my website is a new thing I am doing! Either nothing is magic or everything is. We are doing solar this year! The back is better than the front.
AFAR Media - Travel...
These Are the 7 Best Hotels for Watching the Perseid Meteor Shower—and You Can Still Book Them
a year ago
Data Boutique
Scrape Or Buy? The Zalando Case Study Cost of Web Data in a Real-Life Example
a year ago
Daniel Marino
How to Process Customer Criticism Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?!...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Why do us product designers opt into a career where we’re regularly challenged to be vulnerable?! Design is super subjective, and everyone is a critic! Regardless of your education or how sharp your design eye is, you’ll never be able to please everyone. This is especially true...
Open Culture
How a 16th-Century Explorer’s Sailing Ship Worked: An Animated Video Takes You on a Comprehensive... These days, it feels as if you can’t go very long at all before scrolling past another announcement...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
These days, it feels as if you can’t go very long at all before scrolling past another announcement about some new technological development (realized or scheduled) related to space exploration. Some react to this by wondering what could possibly be out there in the universe to...
Build In Public...
No-Code is Hitting an Inflection Point. Are You Ready? Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy....
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Here’s a long-form article I co-authored on the state of the no-code that I thought you might enjoy. Let me know if you have any feedback or questions :) Much like Shopify ‘armed the rebels’ by allowing anyone to build an e-commerce store, a slew of no-code tools are empowering...
journal – Winnie Lim
“ugly” drawings from korea The first couple of days in korea we stumbled into a 3-storey stationery shop called Object. There...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
The first couple of days in korea we stumbled into a 3-storey stationery shop called Object. There was a particular section where they sell stationery and stickers by a particular artist with...
African History...
a brief note on African agency in its historical contacts with the rest of the world. the indigenous and the foreign in Benin art
7 months ago
Seth's Blog
Thoughts on audiobooks I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
I’m listening more than reading these days, and I find that a good audiobook can make a real impact on the way I absorb and learn from a book. It’s a once in a century sort of shift in this medium. My new book is now available in audio. It’s not on Audible, at least […]
Build In Public...
Start here ⤵️ Hey everyone 👋 Welcome to the Build In Public Hub , a beginner-friendly newsletter to help you go...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hey everyone 👋 Welcome to the Build In Public Hub , a beginner-friendly newsletter to help you go from zero to pro in the art of building in public. Curated & created with love ❤️ by The ‘Build In Public’ Guy → KP Starting Jan 2023, this newsletter will have a combination of:
A Collection of...
Gap Week: August 2, 2024 Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one)...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Hey folks. We’re talking a mulligan this week, as the pedant household has gotten (one by one) whatever fresh COVID-19 variant is going around. Everyone is fine, but being sick left me pretty exhausted over the past few days with fewer productive writing hours available. Since I...
Laetitia@Work
The Authority Gap Laetitia@Work #47
over a year ago
AVC
Open Office Hours at NYC Tech Week NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and...
a year ago
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a year ago
NYC Tech Week is next week. It will be a week filled with events for the tech sector to engage and connect with each other. A particularly great part of tech week is VC Open Office Hours. There are over 100 VC investors signed up to participate next week. Here is how it works: 1/...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 052: AI, EO, DPA February 2, 2024.
10 months ago
Noahpinion
On immigration, what Americans want is democratic control Nations - even democratic ones - are exclusive clubs. And that's OK.
a month ago
History Today Feed
Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England Life and Land in Anglo-Saxon England JamesHoare Thu, 04/18/2024 - 17:32
8 months ago
Maps Mania
The WaterwayMap
6 days ago
Commoncog
Eric Nehrlich on the Art of Executive Coaching and Forecasting Cedric talks to Eric Nehrlich about driving down the error rate for Google's revenue forecasting...
a year ago
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a year ago
Cedric talks to Eric Nehrlich about driving down the error rate for Google's revenue forecasting from 10-20% down to 0.5%, his approach to executive coaching, and how to come up with small experiments for personal growth.
Common Edge
Why Does America Provide More Space for Storing Cars Than Housing People? Paved Paradise recounts parking’s pivotal history, exposing its environmental, economic, and social...
a year ago
Elad Blog
Fireside chat with Reid Hoffman on AI, Big Tech, & Society Notion was kind enough to host a fireside chat between myself and Reid Hoffman on AI. Transcript and...
a year ago
diamond geezer
The beetle After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my...
a year ago
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a year ago
After I boarded my train home from Surrey on Sunday I noticed that a beetle had hitched a ride on my rucksack. It could have jumped from a bush I'd brushed against, it could have worked its way up from my boots or it could have crawled on when I put my rucksack down on the...
mtlynch.io
End-to-End Testing Web Apps: The Painless Way Okay, I know you’re skeptical. Other guides have promised you painless web app tests only to reveal...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Okay, I know you’re skeptical. Other guides have promised you painless web app tests only to reveal that their solution requires some hyper-specific tech stack or a paid third-party service. I won’t do that to you. This guide provides a straightforward and flexible template for...
Diaries of Note
Demented with grief Franz Baermann Steiner was a Czech-born anthropologist and poet whose life was tragically cut short...
a year ago
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a year ago
Franz Baermann Steiner was a Czech-born anthropologist and poet whose life was tragically cut short in 1952 by a heart attack—the final blow in a series of health struggles since his parents were claimed by the Holocaust. His enduring trauma from this profound loss had been a...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Immortal Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When you add in the Stalin potential it gets really...
8 months ago
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...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
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....
TheCollector
Top 7 Dutch Golden Age Artists to Know undefined
a year ago
Classical Wisdom
Should Drugs be Criminalized? Do mind and mood alternating substances help, harm or inspire?
2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Directions Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just wait till we have the heads up display that...
a year ago
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Just wait till we have the heads up display that tells you which children are yours without you having to remember. Today's News:
Old Structures...
Getting Repetative The heat wave is back. Technically it left for a few days, but given that I hate hot weather, it...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
The heat wave is back. Technically it left for a few days, but given that I hate hot weather, it didn’t seem like that to me. As bad as it is, even people without a/c can cool off in various public places. The most amusing is the subway, which, when I was commuting to school […]
nanoscale views
Items of interest A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week: There is long been an interest in...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
A couple of interesting papers that I came across this week: There is long been an interest in purely electronic cooling techniques (no moving parts!) that would work at cryogenic temperatures.  You're familiar with ordinary evaporative cooling - that's what helps cool down...
The Honest Broker
How I Take Notes In response to reader requests, I share my 3 levels of note-taking
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 2 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
./techtipsy
The optimization treadmill: why I keep changing my computing setup all the time I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I have a bad habit of changing my computing setups all the time. I tend to see new gear, then I get some new ideas, and then I obsessively think about it for weeks and months until I just buy it. And then the cycle repeats. I’ve had time to think about why that keeps happening...
👋 Hello, I'm...
Bootstrapping to €600k MRR and getting killed by Shopify. The story of Checkout X. ...
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
what does it mean to live well A while ago an old friend texted me that an unexpected event had once again reminded her how...
a year ago
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a year ago
A while ago an old friend texted me that an unexpected event had once again reminded her how transient life can be, and she thought of me because I was one of...
The Great Discontent...
Rick Garzon Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Emergence Issue: TGD’s fifth issue features a dynamic group of 15 creators who are deeply committed to addressing systematic challenges in their communities through creativity and emerging ideologies. Buy Now Let’s start by talking a little bit about your origins. Where did you...
Copper • A blog...
The journey to controlling external monitors on M1 Macs One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
One lazy evening in November 2020, I watched how Tim Cook announced a fanless MacBook Air with a CPU faster than the latest 16 inch MacBook, while my work-provided 15 inch 2019 MacBook Pro was slowly frying my lap and annoying my wife with its constant fan noise. I had to get my...
Londonist
TfL Moves To A Bigger Lost Property Office The network's only getting bigger, after all.
a year ago
Folklore.org:...
Revolution in the Valley The story of how this site turned into a book
a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Embeds and Quotations in Writing Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Chris wrote “0 KB Social Media Embeds” and it got me thinking about my own approach to embeds and quotations in my writing. A lot of my blogging is quoting other people. I remember debating the use of social embeds on my blog because I quoted a lot of things on Twitter. But I...
xkcd.com
March Madness
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The challenge of nonprofit fundraising When someone starts a business, they spend a bunch of time with a business plan, working to raise...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
When someone starts a business, they spend a bunch of time with a business plan, working to raise funds and get it off the ground. After that, though, the purpose of the business is completely aligned with the idea of not running out of money. We run a business to make money, not...
Daniel Immke's Blog...
My time fighting COVID-19 as a CDC software engineer Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Disclaimer: I am a contractor at the CDC not an employee. These opinions and thoughts are entirely my own. Early in my career, I did…
Cremieux Recueil
2024 SAT Data Drop The College Board has just released the latest SAT data. Here's a review.
2 months ago
TokyoDev
The Downside of Thanking Security Contributors My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
My startup is an popular event management platform within the Japan tech community. We've occasionally gotten reports about security issues, and although we're a two-person company, we still take security seriously, so we decided to create security and responsible disclosure...
symmetry magazine
SAGE Journey program ignites interest in STEM Three SAGE alumni talk about their experiences with a program meant to broaden gender diversity in...
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Innovative new tactile sensor helps assess fine motor skills Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Fine motor skills correlate strongly with cognition and the accurate assessment of an individual’s motor skills can be critical in diagnosing and treating a variety of conditions. But objective evaluation has been a challenge, as suitable sensors weren’t available. To help...
Rest of World -...
What’s trending on Spotify in Africa? Jocelyne Muhutu-Remy talks about the most surprising user behavior on the music streaming app.
6 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup Does Marcus Matter?
11 months ago
Noahpinion
How Latin America started to beat inequality It can be done.
8 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Dad Joke Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: As I post this, I'm suddenly worried Kris Wilson...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: As I post this, I'm suddenly worried Kris Wilson did it years ago, and if he did well fuck him for putting me in this terrible position. Today's News:
diamond geezer
Open House (2) For Open House Day Two I zipped around the capital and visited seven different and quite varied...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
For Open House Day Two I zipped around the capital and visited seven different and quite varied properties. It was a long day. I therefore don't have the time or energy to write about them all, not right now, so instead I've prioritised selecting some good photos and uploading...
Steve Klabnik
I'm going writeonly on Twitter for a while
over a year ago
TheCollector
Fae Abduction or Family Secret: What Is a Changeling? undefined
7 months ago
balajis.com
Too Fake to Tell US government stats aren't reliable. More importantly, neither are US government bonds.
a year ago
computers are bad
2023-08-07 STIRred AND SHAKEN In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a couple of days, I pack up my bags to head for DEFCON. In a rare moment of pre-planning, perhaps spurred by boredom, I looked through the schedule to see what's in store in the world of telephony. There is a workshop on SS7, of course [1], plenty of content on cellular, but...
Old Structures...
A Depressing Follow-Up Seven years ago, I said of the SS United States “Without a use and without a lot of money, it will...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Seven years ago, I said of the SS United States “Without a use and without a lot of money, it will be gone forever. And if that happens, the world won’t end but it will be poorer for the loss.” Neither a use nor the money was found and as of September 12 this coming fall, the […]
TheCollector
Who Was Susan Sontag? undefined
a year ago
Dreams of Space -...
Distant Worlds (1932) An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.  Borrowing from a book-seller...
a week ago
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a week ago
An early children's science fiction book about spaceflight.  Borrowing from a book-seller description: Friedrick Mader, "the German Jules Verne" according to Sam Moskowitz, was a popular author of fantastic romances in post-World War One Germany. DISTANT WORLDS is his only novel...
Commoncog
Focus Is Saying No To Good Ideas Several stories about one of the hardest maxims to put to practice in business.
over a year ago
Inverted Passion
Usefulness grounds truth Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Are LLMs intelligent? Debates on this question often, but not always, devolve into debates on what LLMs can or cannot do. To a limited extent, the original question is useful because it creates an opening for people to go into specific. But, beyond that initial use, the question...
Blog posts of...
Mindshare 🧠 The hard part now, is to get mindshare with customers.
9 months ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Makers 2022 We've featured some fantastic makers on our Meet the Maker blog this year! Thank you to all that...
a year ago
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a year ago
We've featured some fantastic makers on our Meet the Maker blog this year! Thank you to all that have been involved and those that are yet to come in 2023! We love reading about your printmaking practices and hearing your beautiful words of advice. Grab yourself a drink, pop...
Castles in the Sky
Foom Anxiety Castles in the Sky #41
a year ago
Londonist
Ice Cream And Gelato Galore At Covent Garden's Frozen Festival Feat. a Wes Anderson-inspired pop up.
a year ago
Frank’s Ramblings
Vision Transformers are Overrated Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Vision transformers (ViTs) have seen an incredible rise in the past four years. They have an obvious upside: in a visual recognition setting, the receptive field of a pure ViT is effectively the entire image 1. In particular, vanilla ViTs maintain the quadratic time complexity...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Raiders Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Okay, but you should see the thing that gets 2...
5 months ago
Tony Finch's blog
Moaning about YAML frontmatter As is typical for static site generators, each page on this web site is generated from a file...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
As is typical for static site generators, each page on this web site is generated from a file containing markdown with YAML frontmatter. Neither markdown nor YAML are good. Markdown is very much the worse-is-better of markup languages; YAML, on the other hand, is more like...
Posts on Made of...
Some Android reverse-engineering tools I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’ve spent a lot of time this last week staring at decompiled Dalvik assembly. In the process, I created a couple of useful tools that I figure are worth sharing. I’ve been using dedexer instead of baksmali, honestly mainly because the former’s output has fewer blank lines and so...
Nelson's Weblog
Relaxation Dynamics of a Lattice Spin System Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Way back in 1994 I wrote an undergraduate thesis for my math degree at Reed College. It was a fun project, studying a discrete dynamic system that was an extension of the Ising model. Sort of cellular automata meets statistical mechanics. It's the only significant thing I've...
TheCollector
The History of the Ancient Olympics: Footraces in the Nude undefined
a year ago
The Modern House
Jewellery designer Anna Jewsbury on turning a former pub into a treasured family home in Marylebone
a year ago
tonsky.me
Logo: Squint Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Squint is a light-weight dialect of ClojureScript with a compiler and standard library. “The idea is that when you squint, it still looks like CLJS”.
Applied Cartography
Projects are things with steps Lots of kind words poured in as a response to My approach to GTD and PKM, and one question was asked...
a month ago
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a month ago
Lots of kind words poured in as a response to My approach to GTD and PKM, and one question was asked so frequently that I decided to write about it. Why is “Get mom a birthday present” a project and not a task? GTD is very orthodox in what a “project” is: it’s anything that: you...
TheCollector
Orange Free State, South Africa: A History undefined
11 months ago
Escaping Flatland
Talking to part of a friend Finding an authentic connection based on who you are now, not who you were in the past
a year ago
Sarah Parmenter
Jo Malone Candle
over a year ago
The Ruffian
A Ruffian Catch-Up In Case You Missed...
a year ago
TheCollector
What Is the History of Valentine’s Day? undefined
10 months ago
Tony Dinh's...
Jan 2022 updates: 4K MRR, new release, new features, new learnings Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of features for Black Magic, reached $4K MRR, and learned a ton! Here comes the monthly update! Hope you like it! 🧩 New DevUtils release: 1.13 The latest release of DevUtils comes...
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...
a year ago
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a year ago
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
Seth's Blog
Glib One of the valid complaints about some AI systems is that they make stuff up, with confidence, and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
One of the valid complaints about some AI systems is that they make stuff up, with confidence, and without sourcing, and then argue when challenged. Unsurprisingly, this sounds a lot like people. We often end up with what we are willing to tolerate. Show your work and ask for...
diamond geezer
Poverest This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
This is a sponsored post on behalf of the Poverest Tourist Board Visit Poverest - London's Secret Leisure Destination Poverest, the charming outer London suburb handily located on the Chislehurst Road, where a good time is always on offer. [map] Ask anyone in Poverest where...
Joel Gascoigne
The power of ignoring mainstream news * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The man who...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * > "The man who reads nothing at all is better educated than the man who reads nothing but newspapers." - Thomas Jefferson [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson] Around 2 years ago I...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 074: Amazon's Adept acquisition July 5, 2024.
5 months ago
General Robots
What's With All the Humanoid Robots? If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
If you follow robotics at all you may have noticed that there has been an explosion of humanoid robot startups. What's with that? Why humanoids? Why now?
Alex MacCaw
Predictions of the future A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions,...
over a year ago
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A new year and a new decade: What does the future have in store for us? Information revolutions, medical advances, AI? How will humanity tackle its largest problems? I guess we shall just have to wait and see (or get busy inventing it!). I've jotted down some of
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The coronavirus pandemic had a drastic and immediate impact on Yuichiro Shimizu’s taxi business. As early as January 2020, Nichiei Taxi, a local business that has been servicing Saitama prefecture for over 50 years, saw their revenue drop by a staggering 80%. To save the company,...
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In 1807, three years after shooting Alexander Hamilton dead in a duel, former Vice President of the United States Aaron Burr was indicted for a second time, for treason. Having once been at the pinnacle of American politics, he was now accused of plotting to carve out his own...
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It's Cyber Monday: and I'm offering one-day, one-off discounts on my ebooks, as well as on The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter. Here they are: The Pragmatic Engineer Newsletter: 20% off, for the first year, for annual subscriptions. Claim it here. See more details, and read reviews...
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When we’re in the middle of a cultural swirl, it’s normal to believe that everyone else is too. That’s part of the magic of a cultural swirl–it’s our friends, our work, our world. Most of these moments are actually tiny pockets. An episode of the much-talked-about TV show...
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Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are getting used to our new government. And, in some cases, violently testing its boundaries with some summer rioting. We’ve seen some dreadful street behaviour, frequently of a racist /...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Formula 1 is, by many accounts, the pinnacle of car racing. F1 cars are among the fastest in the world, particularly around the tight corners of the various paved tracks across the globe. Drivers can experience...
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South of the Border. These signs are impossible to miss. Today, over 175 South of the Border signs remain along the interstate; when I was a child making a two-day road trip from Boston to Florida, there were more than 250. Spotting them, reading them, and counting them made...
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Following my previous post on rate limiting with GCRA, leaky buckets without the buckets, I reviewed my old notes on rate limiting for Exim. I thought I should do a new write-up of the ideas that I hope will be more broadly interesting. Exponential rate limiting uses an...
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Here's a shot of the little village where we lived for several years. It was nestled on the banks of the Koyukuk River, just above the Arctic Circle, not too far South of Gates of the Arctic National Park. There were no roads to the village. You could only get there by airplane...
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My reading took an interesting Russian turn that I will write about, soon, tomorrow, there, I said it out loud so maybe I will really do it. November is Norwegian month at Dolce Bellezza.  I will be joining her by reading at least the first novel, The Other Name (2019), of Jon...
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When you reach full retirement age (FRA), you can start taking Social Security benefits. But you may want to consider taking them sooner, even if it means a smaller monthly check. Here's why: Your benefits will grow by 8% per year for each year you delay taking them, up to age...
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Nobody asks you to design a bridge, write a sonnet or do open heart surgery. We leave these essential tasks to trained professionals. But many job descriptions carry the unstated addendum, “and write.” Write memos, proposals, and even instruction manuals. The local supermarket is...
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In the days when hunting was a more common pursuit than it is today, those involved in the job cultivated a taxonomy for the various droppings they might encounter and use for tracking. Thus, rather than merely looking out for scat, those stalking deer would keep an eye peeled...
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Bus Route Of The Day 167: Ilford to Loughton Quadrant: London northeast Length of journey: 8 miles, 50 minutes Because it's 16th July I've been out riding the 167, because that's the Bus Route Of The Day. Let's hit the Home Counties. 167 extends far enough to properly enter...
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Most major cities in the US experienced a major fire sometime between 1860 and 1920. Actually these fires, called conflagrations, have been occurring since colonial times and into the middle of the 20th century, but saw a peak in the late 19th and early 20th century. Many cities...
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When Arata Isozaki died at the end of 2022 at the age of 91, nearly all of the news stories and obituaries mentioned that he was a Pritzker Architecture Prize laureate, and quite a few also included mention of the Pritzker Prize in the headline. Although the Pritzker has long...
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Hey, this is Jakob Greenfeld, author of the Business Brainstorms newsletter - every week I write this email to share the most interesting trends, frameworks, opportunities, and ideas with you. Let's dive in! 💡 Opportunities “There is a desperate need for new software devs in the...
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Sumayya Vally is a South African architect whose star is in the ascendant. At the age of 30, she became the youngest architect to receive the prestigious annual summer pavilion commission at the Serpentine Gallery in London. A slew of accolades and honoraries followed and […]
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This map, via Smithsonian, shows the main passageways that the enslaved took southwards to freedom. The southern Underground Railroad was less traveled and much less well documented, but Mexico after gaining independence passed strong anti-slavery laws. Even before that the...
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More than a decade ago, I typed up a few paragraphs of notes, titled it “Building Technical Leverage,” and proceeded to forget about it. Those notes were from a meeting with Kevin Scott, then SVP Engineering at LinkedIn, while we wandered the Valley trying to convince potential...
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Some people go to the gym for health and energy. Some go to lift more weight than they did yesterday (or more than the person next to them). You can start a company to make an impact and surround yourself with people on a similar journey, or you can seek to maximize the stock...
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Das Neue Universum (The New Universe) was a German science annual series aimed at older children. From the German Wikipedia site (translated) : "The New Universe is a German children's literature series with themes in the fields of knowledge , research , adventure and...
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In this standalone episode we’re doing a sponsored interview with Scott Kuffer, co-founder and COO of Nucleus Security. I was already excited by this vendor just based on the research I did to allow them to be a sponsor, but the conversation with them really made me think they’re...
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Last week, we started our nitpicking of Gladiator II (2024) by looking at the problems with the films chronology and its portrayal of the Roman army of the early third century, both in its equipment and in its battle tactics. This week, we’re going to move forward to the main...
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Here's a bash script that will zip all folders in the current directory into separate .zip files: for i in */; do zip -r "${i%/}.zip" "$i"; done I had to do this to 75+ folders today and this definitely saved me some time. It works on macOS too!
The Gradient
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Once considered a forbidden topic in the AI community, discussions around the concept of AI consciousness are now taking center stage, marking a significant shift since the current AI resurgence began over a decade ago.
CONTEMPORIST
A House Designed Like Two Barns Beside Each Other Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that...
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Exterio Studio has shared photos of a modern home they designed in the Kujawy region of Poland, that has a layout similar to two barns positioned side-by-side. The home has been designed to take advantage of the long and narrow lot, with the layout divided into two interconnected...
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With a recent blast of winter I noticed a few hummingbirds already here so I put up the feeder.Not 30 seconds later, this fella showed up.
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Minimalist Weave Pattern artwork for your wall abduzeedo0124—23 I’ve been making some of the artwork we created on the site available as limited digital art for purchase on Etsy (only 100). There’s something about printed work that is...
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Prominent crypto venture capitalist Chris Dixon provides an unconvincing bible for blockchain solutionists.
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Astronomers are scouring the cosmos for fingerprints of the invisible — tiny clumps of pure dark matter that might solve a long-standing cosmic mystery. The post In a Monster Star’s Light, a Hint of Darkness first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Senko hanabi, literally meaning ‘incense fireworks,’ are small and subtle sparklers that are packed with about 10 seconds of delicate pyrotechnics. Typically sold alongside other handheld fireworks, the unspoken rule is that senko hanabi are reserved for the grand finale....
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This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this post, we’ll be answering the question: what is React? We’ll look into its origins, usage, explain key terminology and also cover how and why...
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On March 15 I tweeted, “If America hadn’t decided to create a new national transportation system based on individuals in private cars driving everywhere for everything, climate change would be a very different—and smaller—problem than it is.” I posted the … Continue reading → The...
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The Marginalian was born on October 23, 2006, under an outgrown name, to an outgrown self that feels to me now almost like a different species of consciousness. (It can only be so — if we don’t continually outgrow ourselves, if we don’t wince a little at our former ideas, ideals,...
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I’ve been writing Go pretty casually for years – the backends for all of my playgrounds (nginx, dns, memory, more DNS) are written in Go, but many of those projects are just a few hundred lines and I don’t come back to those codebases much. I thought I more or less understood the...
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Perhaps these might make a great game more fun: Maximize total score: Exactly the same rules as regular Scrabble, but focus on increasing the total score of all players instead of defeating the others. It’s subtle, it can be challenging for a good player, and it creates more...
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In deepest East Sussex, on the edge of Ashdown Forest, is a famous bridge where a six year-old boy and a fictional bear invented a waterborne race. There was a broad track, almost as broad as a road, leading from the Outland to the Forest, but before it could come to the...
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Tinder’s parent company attended an unprecedented meeting with the U.S. Embassy and local authorities in Colombia to curb attacks against foreigners.
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] In May of 1992, the Space Shuttle Endeavour launched to low earth orbit on its very first flight. That first mission was a big one: the crew captured a wayward communications satellite stuck in the wrong orbit,...
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We’ve seen the outside of many London cafes in the 1980s and 1990s, first here then more. Now Peter Marshall pokes his camera inside London’s lost cafes and shows us around. We see lots of formica counters, brightly coloured chairs, the stainless steel urns for ready-made coffee...
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I've never understood the common obsession with chocolatey baked goods that aren't insanely rich. Don't get me wrong - I like chocolate - but that's just it, I like chocolate, not a pinch of cocoa flavor. Chocolate chip cookies always tasted better to me with the chips on the...
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To make progress on one of number theory’s most elementary questions, two mathematicians turned to an unlikely source. The post Mathematicians Uncover a New Way to Count Prime Numbers first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Easy, but easy to f*ck up. 3 Rules to Setup Analytics Tools correctly. As a consultant for analytics i see a fair share of integrations of analytics tools. One of the most...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Maker's Schedule, Manager's Schedule
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Flashbak
How The Charlie Brown Christmas Special Got Jazz And Came Alive “We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news...
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“We’re living in times where so much is done to manipulate us. And things last for, what, a news cycle? A few minutes? This [album] is something that’s lasted 50 years. And not only lasted, but grown … I think there’s just a humanness” — Jerry Granelli, drummer with the Vince...
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Five Unique Experiences at Harajuku’s Latest Development Harakado Harakado, opened on April 17, 2024 at the Jingumae intersection along Omotesando Street in central...
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Harakado, opened on April 17, 2024 at the Jingumae intersection along Omotesando Street in central Tokyo. The shiny, brand new facility was designed by architect Akihisa Hirata, whose interest in tangled, organic structures, is on full display in his rendering of the facade and...
Construction Physics
Goolsbee and Syverson on Construction Productivity Several people have asked me about a new NBER working paper that takes a look at construction...
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Several people have asked me about a new NBER working paper that takes a look at construction productivity (a popular topic around here), “The Strange and Awful Path of Productivity in the US Construction Sector,” by Austan Goolsbee and Chad Syverson. This paper doesn’t bring any...
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Introducing Hurl, a terrible (but cute) idea for a language Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting...
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Sometimes we have ideas that are bad but demand to enter reality. A few months ago, while chatting with a friend, we toyed around with the idea of a language where the only control flow you get is error handling. This idea embedded itself in my brain and wouldn't let me go, so I...
TheCollector
A Guide to Santa Fe’s Museum Hill (5 Museums to Explore) undefined
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The Modern House
House Style with Gennaro Leone and Tessa Vermeulen in Stoke Newington
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Seth's Blog
Confused about good How often do we assume that popular things are good, and that good things become popular? If your...
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How often do we assume that popular things are good, and that good things become popular? If your work doesn’t catch on, does that mean it wasn’t good? In almost every field, people with insight, taste and experience admire and emulate good things that aren’t popular, and are...
Steve Blank
Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition – 2023 Wrap Up We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class...
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We just wrapped up the third year of our Technology, Innovation, and Great Power Competition class –part of Stanford’s Gordian Knot Center for National Security Innovation. Joe Felter, Mike Brown and I teach the class to: Give our students an appreciation of the challenges and...
abdz.do - Have you...
Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka AoiroStudio0126—23 ...
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Exploring the Boundaries of 3D with Peter Tarka AoiroStudio0126—23 Let me start by saying, there is only one 'Peter Tarka' and he has been inspiring us for years now. Peter Tarka is an Art Director and 3D artist based in London, UK, his series...
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Counties visited Now that my blog is really old, I thought it might be interesting from time to time to go back and...
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Now that my blog is really old, I thought it might be interesting from time to time to go back and revisit a post from 20 years ago. Ideally exactly 20 years ago, which in this case would be 8th February 2004. When I asked this.  Sunday, February 08, 2004   I've visited the...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it,...
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My Static Blog Publishing Setup and an Apology to RSS Subscribers 2022-03-21 In case you missed it, this website is now generated with pure HTML & CSS. Although, generated isn’t the proper way to describe it anymore. Written is a better description. No more Markdown files. No...
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List of Goals and Rules for 2021 Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six...
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Publish 6 long-form essays↳ Instead of publishing a new post each week, I want to focus on six in-depth essays this year. Quality over quantity. ████ ██ █████ ██ ████ ██████ Read 20 books ↳ You can follow my progress here Go for a swim at least once per week ↳ If covid rules...
Daniel Miessler
Using Custom Searches in Safari (in 2022) I’ve just started using Safari again after being on Chrome for a while, and one of the things I miss...
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I’ve just started using Safari again after being on Chrome for a while, and one of the things I miss most from Chrome is custom searches. There you can search Amazon directly from the address bar by doing: You can change the search prompts to be single letters like ‘a’ for...
Explorations of an...
Borneo: Ridiculous Mothing At Trus Madi Entomology Camp When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and...
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When doing research on the few possible "lifer" birds that I could find on this trip to Sabah, and in particular, looking for sites to find the Bornean Frogmouth, I read about the Trus Madi Entomology Camp. This piqued my interest, as there is almost nothing I like more than...
David Perell
Hugging the X-Axis I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience...
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I’ve always struggled with commitment. In a world as grand as ours, shouldn’t we try to experience it all? Change it up. Visit every country. Try a bunch of careers. The menu of life is vast, and it’d be a shame to only order a single entrée.  When I say I was allergic to...
Contemporist...
An Undulating Wood Ceiling Inspired By Ocean Waves And Nearby Mountains ARRCC has shared photos of a remodel they recently completed for a home in Cape Town, South Africa,...
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ARRCC has shared photos of a remodel they recently completed for a home in Cape Town, South Africa, that retained the original footprint, and received a contemporary update with a new undulating cast in-place concrete roof lined with wood on the inside.
macwright.com
Incentives My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives....
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My friend Forest has been making some good thoughts about open source and incentives. Coincidentally, this month saw a new wave of open source spam because of the tea.xyz project, which encouraged people to try and claim ‘ownership’ of existing open source projects, to get crypto...
Anecdotal Evidence
Kenneth C. Kurp 1955-2024 My brother died Saturday afternoon in the hospice in Cleveland, Ohio where he spent the last two...
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My brother died Saturday afternoon in the hospice in Cleveland, Ohio where he spent the last two weeks of his life. He was age sixty-nine. I was with him as was his son, Abraham Kurp. I watched as his eyes closed and he stopped breathing. There was another sense, too, of a sudden...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Mandelstam Dances Barefoot in the Snow Alone' “In the end like all great poets he became a jester”  Not the usual encomium one expects for Osip...
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“In the end like all great poets he became a jester”  Not the usual encomium one expects for Osip Mandelstam, dead at age forty-seven in a Soviet camp, but the eulogist is Zbigniew Herbert, a congenitally ironic poet, ever aware of the comic in the appalling. For my birthday I...
A Beautiful Site
If Edgar Allan Poe was into Design Systems Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping,...
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Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary, While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, "'Tis a design system," I muttered, "bringing order to the core— Ah, distinctly I remember, every button, every splendor, Each component, standardized,...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Environmentalism: What Stoicism Teaches on Ethics & Environment Stoicism, a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece, has gained significant attention in modern...
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Stoicism, a philosophy that originated in ancient Greece, has gained significant attention in modern times for its practical and pragmatic approach to life. While Stoicism is often associated with personal ethics and self-improvement, its principles can also be applied to...
devonzuegel.com
Podcasts & conferences I've spoken at I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the...
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I haven't done a great job of tracking these, so this list is non-comprehensive: Urbanism and the Future of Cities (Jan 2023) – Narratives podcast Inflation, Argentina, and Crypto (Oct 2022) – EconTalk podcast Devon Zuegel on Startup Cities (June 2022) Devon Zuegel, creator...
Seth's Blog
Sudare sette camicie Sweating through seven shirts… That was the definition of work when work was the same thing as...
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Sweating through seven shirts… That was the definition of work when work was the same thing as physical labor. For many of us, the physical labor is no longer the way we add value. And it’s tempting to imagine that we simply have to show up for the coffee. But it’s still called...
Cheese and Biscuits
Dream Xi'an, Tower Hill There are lots of good Chinese restaurants in the Holborn/Bloomsbury area of London. Most seem to...
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There are lots of good Chinese restaurants in the Holborn/Bloomsbury area of London. Most seem to have popped up in the last decade or so, I assume alongside an influx of Chinese students attending the many nearby high-profile universities and colleges, because I'm fairly sure...
Tech + Economics +...
The internet is broken. Here’s how we fix it. In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the...
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In 1971, Ray Tomlinson, an engineer working on the ARPANET project — the predecessor to the Internet — sent the first email. The message was nothing profound; it was a series of random characters that looked more like the utterance of a toddler on a typewriter than a...
Math Is Still...
The Surprisingly Simple Math Behind Puzzling Matchups If Anna beats Benji in a game and Benji beats Carl, will Anna beat Carl? The post The...
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If Anna beats Benji in a game and Benji beats Carl, will Anna beat Carl? The post The Surprisingly Simple Math Behind Puzzling Matchups first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Honest Broker
The Rise of the Anonymous Music Star Do streaming platforms view famous artists as a threat to their brands?
8 months ago
Liz Denys
Crafting a recipe: creamy Vidalia onion soup I often find myself cooking, or sometimes even baking, without recipes or even measuring cups and...
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I often find myself cooking, or sometimes even baking, without recipes or even measuring cups and spoons. The latter, especially with baking, is some linear combination of adventurousness - things haven't gone badly yet as I have always managed to produce the results I've wanted...
alexwlchan
Spotting spam in our CloudFront logs About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote...
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About two months ago, I wrote about some Python code I’d written to parse CloudFront logs. I wrote this code to help with analysing some searches on wellcomecollection.org, and I thought it would be useful to explain a bit more of what I was doing. There’s a lot of spam in the...
Prolost
Linear Light, Gamma, and ACES Imagine a digital 50% gray card. In 0–255 RGB values, it’s 127, 127, 127. On the RGB parade scope,...
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Imagine a digital 50% gray card. In 0–255 RGB values, it’s 127, 127, 127. On the RGB parade scope, the card is a perfect plateau at 50%. Now imagine increasing the exposure of this scene by one stop. “Stops” of light are an exponential scale, meaning that subtracting one stop is...
TheCollector
6 Key Artists of the New Objectivity Movement undefined
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TheCollector
What Is the Philosophy of Cynicism? undefined
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Construction Physics
Boeing Reading List Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts:...
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Unlike most topics that I write about, the aircraft industry is an industry that has enthusiasts: lots and lots of people are interested in following various aspects of the commercial aircraft world for fun (example: not only are there extremely accurate flight simulators, but...
Willem's Blog
The Problem With Bitcoin Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
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petnames and Zooko's fan Recently the Spritely Institute published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to...
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Recently the Spritely Institute published an introduction to Petnames, A humane approach to secure, decentralized naming. I have long been a fan of petnames, and graph naming systems in general. I first learned about them in the context of Mark Miller’s E programming language...
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Their Enemies The Russians But what about the rest of us?
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Home on Erik...
Interview with a Data Scientist: Erik Bernhardsson I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is...
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I was featured in Peadar Coyle's interview series interviewing various “data scientists” – which is kind of arguable since (a) all the other ppl in that series are much cooler than me (b) I'm not really a data scientist.
Diaries of Note
 How utterly mad it all is Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was...
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Although her life was cut tragically short, Lorraine Hansberry’s influence on American theatre was profound. Raised amid the racial turbulence of 1930s Chicago, she channelled her experiences into A Raisin in the Sun, a groundbreaking play that earned her three distinctions: the...
A Collection of...
Collections: How to Roman Republic, Part IIIc: Ten Tribunes, Two Censors and Twenty-Six Guys This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb)...
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This is the third section of the third part of our our planned five part series (I, II, IIIa, IIIb) on the structure of the Roman Republic during the third and second centuries, the ‘Middle’ Republic.’ Last time we looked at the top of the Roman political career in the republic,...
Diaries of Note
The days are full of anxious expectation Nina Kosterina was born to the world of revolution and upheaval on her mother’s birthday, 8th April...
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Nina Kosterina was born to the world of revolution and upheaval on her mother’s birthday, 8th April 1921, at a revolutionary camp by the Caspian Sea. Her life unfolded alongside the formative years of the Soviet Union—from the passing of Lenin to the ruthless ascent of Stalin. It...
journal – Winnie Lim
the ability to our selves as who we are My tcm (traditional chinese medicine) appointment a couple of weeks ago was postponed because my...
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My tcm (traditional chinese medicine) appointment a couple of weeks ago was postponed because my physician was sick. I thought it would be fine to go a couple of weeks without, but...
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Is Gesture Interaction a Valid Alternative To Touch Interaction in Cars? Interacting with in-car controls requires drivers to divert visual attention from the road to the...
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Interacting with in-car controls requires drivers to divert visual attention from the road to the dashboard. For example, adjusting the…
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How to Be (Reasonably) Hard on Yourself The mantra
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Laetitia@Work
Why AI can make work painful: see customer service Laetitia@Work #71
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Maps Mania
The Spookiest Places in the USA
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NeuroLogica Blog
UFOs – Has the Narrative Shifted In an interview for Newsweek, Michio Kaku was asked about UFOs. Here’s his response: Well, first of...
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In an interview for Newsweek, Michio Kaku was asked about UFOs. Here’s his response: Well, first of all, I think that there’s been a game changer. In the old days, the burden of proof was on the true believers to prove that what they saw last night was a flying saucer of some...
On Life and Lisp
Conformant OpenGL 4.6 on the M1 For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full...
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For years, the M1 has only supported OpenGL 4.1. That changes today – with our release of full OpenGL® 4.6 and OpenGL® ES 3.2! Install Fedora for the latest M1/M2-series drivers. Already installed? Just dnf –refresh upgrade. Unlike the vendor’s non-conformant 4.1 drivers, our...
Math Is Still...
Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24...
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The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24 all-new episodes. The post Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On first appeared on Quanta Magazine
bunnie's blog
A Kinematically Coupled, Nanometer-Resolution Piezo Focus Stage This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through...
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This post is part of a series about giving users a tangible reason to trust their hardware through my IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) technique for the non-destructive inspection of chips. Previously, I discussed the process of designing the IRIS light source in some detail, as well as...
TheCollector
10 Historic Landmarks in Argentina You Should Visit undefined
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What Is the History of the Guitar? undefined
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My Robotic Mower Woes My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my...
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My Robotic Mower Woes 2023-05-19 A Brief Background I’m no stranger to robotic lawnmowers. When my wife and I moved into our rural home just over five years ago, we picked up the Husqvarna 450X Automower since I was far too lazy to manually mow my property and the cost was equal...
Map of the Week
Ice Flows in Greenland The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s...
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The Atlas of the Invisible was published a few years ago. The maps show trends in the earth’s climate and demographics that are largely hidden to the naked eye. I never got a chance to review it but was recently struck by this visualization. A detailed description of the...
TheCollector
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Fever
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What jobs are users hiring your product to perform? One of Clay Christensen’s favorite concepts is that instead of dividing your customers into segments...
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One of Clay Christensen’s favorite concepts is that instead of dividing your customers into segments and asking which features each segment…
Working Theorys
The "High Potential" Handicap | Theory No. 20 "Smart" kids are always praised for their high potential. They’re deemed inherently capable of so...
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"Smart" kids are always praised for their high potential. They’re deemed inherently capable of so much, largely because of their natural talents. They can do anything they want, if they just try.
Stephen Diehl
Blockchainism
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Arduino Blog
Introducing Arduino Academy: your path to becoming an Arduino-Certified Engineer begins! Want to upgrade your skills and become a certified Arduino engineer? Welcome to the Arduino Academy,...
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Want to upgrade your skills and become a certified Arduino engineer? Welcome to the Arduino Academy, the go-to platform for hands-on, interactive learning designed to prepare you for the future of technology. Whether you’re just starting or looking to advance your career, the...
Adventures In...
Analysis in the Browser Here is a two-pack with some small adventures with data in ArcGIS Online. The first is a smashing of...
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Here is a two-pack with some small adventures with data in ArcGIS Online. The first is a smashing of two fields into a new frankenfield ready for mapping, and the second shows how to create entirely new map layers and cram them with meaningful attributes. … Sometimes you have all...
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to...
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One man came to Mozart and asked him how to write a symphony. Mozart replied, “You are too young to write a symphony.” The man said, “You…
Open Culture
Free: Download Over 33,000 Sounds from the BBC Sound Effects Archive There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the...
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There may be a few young people in Britain today who recognize the name Ludwig Koch, but in the nineteen-forties, he constituted something of a cultural phenomenon unto himself. He “started recording sounds and voices in the 1880s when he was still a child” in his native Germany,...
Common Edge
What Would Jane Jacobs Do? Toward a New Model for Houses of Worship Cities need to prepare for a wave of declining churches.
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A Smart Bear
For probabilities, use Fermi numbers, not words Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and...
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Don't use phrases like "unlikely" or "almost certainly." Here's real-world data showing why not, and what to do instead.
Londonist
The Lost Trees Of London The biggest and best trees that are no more.
a year ago
The Marginalian
How to Tell Love from Desire: José Ortega y Gasset on the Chronic Confusions of Our Longing "Loving is perennial vivification... a centrifugal act of the soul in constant flux that goes toward...
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"Loving is perennial vivification... a centrifugal act of the soul in constant flux that goes toward the object and envelops it in warm corroboration, uniting us with it and positively affirming its being."
Paolo Amoroso's...
A demo notefile for WebCard <![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file...
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<![CDATA[To complete WebCard for my RetroChallenge 2024 project I created a demo notefile, a file that stores the data of a NoteCards hypertext. The notefile WCDEMO.NOTEFILE contains exmples of Web cards filed into various types of containers and cards such as fileboxes and Text...
Seth's Blog
A treaty Successful treaties calm things down and let us get back to what’s really important. Sometimes, the...
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Successful treaties calm things down and let us get back to what’s really important. Sometimes, the fight becomes the entire point. Not surprisingly, when we’re busy fighting a war in our head about a previous injustice or slight, we can effectively consummate a treaty without...
The Pragmatic...
Inside Agoda’s Private Cloud - Exclusive An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud...
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An overview of the hardware the company uses inside its private cloud, a summary of their cloud strategy, and whether or not to onboard to the cloud.
TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know undefined
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Marble Head of Apollo Discovered in Greece undefined
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IEEE Spectrum
Drones with Legs Can Walk, Hop, and Jump into the Air “Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or...
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“Whenever I encountered crows on the EPFL campus, I would observe how they walked, hopped over or jumped on obstacles, and jumped for take-offs,” says Won Dong Shin, a doctoral student at EPFL’s Laboratory of Intelligent Systems. “What I consistently observed was that they always...
Old Structures...
Solving A Non-Existent Problem This drawing by William Barclay Parsons, from 1887, is quite something. It shows a 12-span viaduct...
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This drawing by William Barclay Parsons, from 1887, is quite something. It shows a 12-span viaduct with two bridges to carry a street from the top of a hill gradually down to the lower grade over a mile to the north. This is the same northern portion of Manhattan of which I said...
the singularity is...
Disrupt the Government I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by...
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I watched this video about South Africa and it clarified the plan. You disrupt the government by providing 10x better versions of all of the services that it provides. The key thing the government is supposed to be able to do is infrastructure. Most of the wealth that we give to...
Cheese and Biscuits
Peckham Cellars, Peckham Though it's always flattering to be invited to try the latest and greatest of London restaurants,...
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Though it's always flattering to be invited to try the latest and greatest of London restaurants, and more often than not I'm happy to play a part in the tricky first few weeks of a new operation to help get it off the ground, or to refocus attention on an established place...
Ink & Switch
06 · Simple branching Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how...
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Branches are a powerful concept for source control systems. This Patchwork experiment explores how writers can use branches to try variations on a document.
Probably...
The Political Gender Gap is Not Growing In a previous article, I used data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to see if there is a growing...
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In a previous article, I used data from the General Social Survey (GSS) to see if there is a growing gender gap among young people in political alignment, party affiliation, or political attitudes. So far, the answer is no. Ryan Burge has done a similar analysis with data from...
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How to Blow Up a Category - Netlify's new era and The End of the Road for JAMstack note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish...
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note - this is a hasty written braindump of feelings as emotions as I don't have the time to polish this essay up to my usual standards, but still wanted to capture this important moment and end in my life. pardon any poorly phrased and organized thoughts.
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Ultimate Guide to Budapest’s Historic Thermal Baths and Spas
a year ago
Seth's Blog
Informed consent (rarely is) Adults make choices and live with the consequences. No one else should tell us what flavor of ice...
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Adults make choices and live with the consequences. No one else should tell us what flavor of ice cream we prefer, or what career to choose. We’re good at knowing what we want. In practice, this works really well for certain kinds of decisions. But when we add the network effect,...
Maps Mania
Tory Candidates Violently Attacked
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xkcd.com
Brassica
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Anecdotal Evidence
'In Itself and Forever Shipwreck' I’ve just finished rereading William Maxwell’s final novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, published in...
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I’ve just finished rereading William Maxwell’s final novel, So Long, See You Tomorrow, published in two issues of The New Yorker in 1979 and as a book the following year. I read it in the magazine and I’ve since read the book – Maxwell’s finest, written when he was seventy years...
Notes on software...
Writing a storage engine for Postgres: an in-memory Table Access Method With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This...
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With Postgres 12, released in 2019, it became possible to swap out Postgres's storage engine. This is a feature MySQL has supported for a long time. There are at least 8 different built-in engines you can pick from. MyRocks, MySQL on RocksDB, is another popular third-party...
Seth's Blog
Choose your fuel wisely If worrying about paying the mortgage gets you motivated to lean hard into the next project, don’t...
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If worrying about paying the mortgage gets you motivated to lean hard into the next project, don’t be surprised if that sort of fear arises every time you have hard work to do. If your goal is to teach the naysayers a lesson, remember that you’ll need to find people who you want...
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Divorce, Separations & Breakups: 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...