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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sunset Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hopefully you didn't laugh at this, because if you...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Hopefully you didn't laugh at this, because if you did you're using up around .01% of your laughs on just this one comic. Today's News: Thank you, thank you, thank you, I cannot thank you enough times. The response to Bea Wolf has...
Rest of World -...
Clickwork in Brazil: A mom balancing endless gigs with childcare Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job...
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a year ago
Through platforms like UHRS, Amazon Mechanical Turk and Appen, a clickworker takes on a job consisting of hundreds of quick, repetitive tasks.
Home on Erik...
Building a data team at a mid-stage startup: a short story I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a...
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I guess I should really call this a parable. The backdrop is: you have been brought in to grow a tiny data team (~4 people) at a mid-stage startup (~$10M annual revenue), although this story could take place at many different types of companies.
Seth's Blog
The missing post I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was...
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I had a great idea for a post, my best blogging of the year, in fact. I worked it all out when I was driving, but when I arrived, it was gone. Vanished. So I went searching for it, trying out dozens of possible ideas. I never found it. But I did find five other […]
Blog System/5
Bazel interview at Software Engineering Daily A detailed summary of the many topics we discussed during this fun interview
a year ago
Stoic Simple
Stoic Advice on Parenting & Children: 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...
mtlynch.io
Takeaways from Charles Marohn's "Escaping the Housing Trap" Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a...
7 months ago
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Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a free talk near my town the next morning. Marohn is the author of Strong Towns, one of my favorite books of the last few years. So, my wife and I attended the talk and enjoyed it. The...
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Greasy and the Bottleneck I asked my future boss what his role was in the company he founded. I wasn't sure if I wanted to...
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I asked my future boss what his role was in the company he founded. I wasn't sure if I wanted to work for him yet. He told me his job was to apply grease. That sounded good.
Retail Design Blog
Tan Mok Won Mixed Use Spaceby USER + NAUxLab Tan-Mok-Won is located on the site of a 2013 fire in Ulsan, South Korea. Such history defines the...
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Tan-Mok-Won is located on the site of a 2013 fire in Ulsan, South Korea. Such history defines the site’s locality,...
The Convivial...
Embrace Your Crookedness (Audio Version) Listen now | The Convivial Society: Vol. 4, No. 13 (supplement)
a year ago
Simply Explained
Preventing Cumulative Layout Shifts with lazy loaded images (Eleventy + markdown-it) There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button...
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There's nothing more annoying than a website shifting down just as you're about to click on a button or link. This is called a layout shift, and Google has declared war on them. They've added layout shifts to the Core Web Vitals, and if your website has a lot of them, it will get...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Waterfall The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they...
over a year ago
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The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they are completely ignorant of each other. I figured I would make a quick note to compare and contrast them!
Steve Klabnik
A 30 minute introduction to Rust
over a year ago
Notes on software...
Tail call elimination In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful, and how they can be eliminated...
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In this post we'll explore what tail calls are, why they are useful, and how they can be eliminated in an interpreter, a compiler targeting C++, and a compiler targeting LLVM IR. Tail calls A tail call is a function call made at the end of a block that returns the value of the...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1986/06 Australian Personal Computer Mag It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from...
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It’s that time of the month. This time let’s look at humor from down under. These comics are from the June 1986 issue of Australian Computer magazine. Enjoy! What computer ads would you like to see in the future? Please comment below. If you enjoyed it, please share it with your...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knowledge Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You're saying, hey, the last panel has a...
3 weeks ago
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3 weeks ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You're saying, hey, the last panel has a nonsensical perspective. Well, perspective is part of the post-Eden fallen world. Today's News:
Lighthouse Blog
A primer on view management
a year ago
Josh Comeau's blog
Snappy UI Optimization with useDeferredValue useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the...
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useDeferredValue is one of the most underrated React hooks. It allows us to dramatically improve the performance of our applications in certain contexts. I recently used it to solve a gnarly performance problem on this blog, and in this tutorial, I'll show you how! ⚡
Willem's Blog
Assembling a cargo bike How hard can it be to assemble a cargo bike? This posts shares my experience with assembling the...
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over a year ago
How hard can it be to assemble a cargo bike? This posts shares my experience with assembling the Babboe Big cargo bike.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cant Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: When did it become Hating on Pop Sci Week? Today's...
2 months ago
History Today Feed
Marcus Garvey Meets the KKK Marcus Garvey Meets the KKK JamesHoare Mon, 06/23/2025 - 08:06
a week ago
Anarchy Unfolds
Did we really just get taken over by fascists in less than a month? Red Round-up #2
4 months ago
TheCollector
Gunboat Diplomacy: How Military Power Reshaped Global Politics The use of military force to secure political and diplomatic objectives has been commonplace...
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The use of military force to secure political and diplomatic objectives has been commonplace throughout history, but gunboat diplomacy is used to refer to how European countries and the United States used threats of naval force to bully weaker countries into granting them...
Kevin Chen
SIGCSE 2018 notes SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE...
over a year ago
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SIGCSE attendees from Columbia’s Computer Science department. Over the weekend, I attended SIGCSE — the ACM’s conference on computer science education — with the teaching staff of Columbia’s Advanced Programming course. We learned about everything from rubric design to...
Breck's Blog
The Internal Comparison Trap
2 months ago
Society's Backend:...
Chinese AI is Less Expensive, What it's Like to Work in AI, an Evaluation Framework for Voice... Society's Backend Reading List 11-18-2024
7 months ago
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Lessons on thinking from large language models Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars...
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Large language models have gotten much better at thinking in the past few years. Billions of dollars have been spent to study how they think…
History Today Feed
Execution of the Thief-Taker General Execution of the Thief-Taker General JamesHoare Wed, 05/21/2025 - 09:15
a month ago
TokyoDev
How to Pass the Resume Screening Stage in Japan Do you feel that the number of applications needed to land a role has skyrocketed? If so, your...
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a month ago
Do you feel that the number of applications needed to land a role has skyrocketed? If so, your instincts are correct. According to a Workday Global Workforce Report in September 2024, job applications are growing at a rate four times faster than job openings. This growth is...
African History...
The complete history of Kano (999-1903) journal of African cities chapter 9
over a year ago
mtlynch.io
Want to Buy Is It Keto? I’m looking for someone to take over my old content website, Is It Keto. Is It Keto is for sale I...
11 months ago
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I’m looking for someone to take over my old content website, Is It Keto. Is It Keto is for sale I worked on the site on and off between 2019 and 2020, but I no longer have time for it, so it’s just been neglected for the past several years. Still, it consistently earns $1-2k/yr...
The Marginalian
The Dalai Lama’s Ethical and Ecological Philosophy for the Next Generation, Illustrated "We are all interconnected in the universe, and from this, universal responsibility arises......
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"We are all interconnected in the universe, and from this, universal responsibility arises... Everyone has the responsibility to develop a happier world."
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Detour to Ashtabula About two and a half years ago I planned to capture three unvisited counties at the far northeastern...
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About two and a half years ago I planned to capture three unvisited counties at the far northeastern corner of Ohio. Unfortunately it didn’t happen due to a snowstorm that dumped about a foot of snow on the target area. So instead I changed my plans and focused on Michigan’s...
Londonist
Sadiq Promises 'Bakerloop' Express Bus Route Mirroring the proposed Bakerloo line extension.
a year ago
Calculated Risk
Realtor.com Reports Active Inventory Up 27.6% YoY What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active...
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What this means: On a weekly basis, Realtor.com reports the year-over-year change in active inventory and new listings. On a monthly basis, they report total inventory. For January, Realtor.com reported inventory was up 24.6% YoY, but still down 24.8% compared to the 2017 to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Good Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Who's a morally relativist boy? It's you! Today's...
10 months ago
Jonas Hietala
The first (worst) post Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Well, here it is: The opening post. What will come here? Here’s where I’ll outline what the blog will be about and maybe, if I’m dedicated, it won’t die before Christmas you think. And sure, you’re right. I will run away to the corner in about two and a half months crying I never...
The Honest Broker
Is This the Dominant Personality Type of Our Time? Or how we all became Clint Eastwood
2 months ago
Working Theorys
Companionship Content is King | Theory No. 29 Why short-form video has a ceiling & how companionship content escapes it.
a year ago
This Space
The end of literature, part three On the evening of December 12th, 2019 a numbed grief descended over the land, and has lain there...
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On the evening of December 12th, 2019 a numbed grief descended over the land, and has lain there ever since. At that time a mild alternative to barbarism was being put to death. Back in 2015 when, against all odds, a lifelong socialist and campaigner against racism and...
TokyoDev
TokyoDev’s 2024 Recap: Challenges, Milestones, and the Road Ahead In 2023, I scaled TokyoDev from a one-man operation to a team. The idea was to get some tasks off my...
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In 2023, I scaled TokyoDev from a one-man operation to a team. The idea was to get some tasks off my plate, but while I’ve succeeded at passing off responsibilities to others, I somehow didn’t gain any more free time. This is because working with new people also created new ideas...
Ryan Mulligan
Web Components for Password Input Enhancements So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
So there I was, experimenting with HTML password inputs and Web Components. I'm not sure why the idea even came up but it quickly snowballed into a curious expedition. The result from the journey was a set of custom elements that provide extra functionality and information about...
Atoms vs Bits
Additive Domains, Multiplicative Domains 1 and 1 and 1 is 3, unless you're multiplying
9 months ago
davidyat.es
The many (bad) interfaces of Substack
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nature Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In a couple years it'll be time for the pro-robot...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: In a couple years it'll be time for the pro-robot anti-nature SMBC collection. Today's News:
History Today Feed
Wool Aliens of the British Empire Wool Aliens of the British Empire JamesHoare Tue, 04/01/2025 - 09:07
3 months ago
Christopher Butler
Knowledge Work, AI, and Fragile Egos On the connection between time, skills, ideas, and what makes us truly human. Knowledge workers...
a year ago
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a year ago
On the connection between time, skills, ideas, and what makes us truly human. Knowledge workers advance through economies by transitioning from selling time to selling labor to selling IP. The notion here is that narrowing the funnel increases the value: everyone has time,...
Arduino Blog
Arduino’s Alvik Robot shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025 in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, and Digital... We’re thrilled to announce that Arduino Education has been shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025,...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
We’re thrilled to announce that Arduino Education has been shortlisted for the Bett Awards 2025, this time in the AV, VR/AR, Robotics, or Digital Device category with our Alvik robot! This recognition highlights our dedication to innovation, inclusivity, and the advancement of...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Why Creator Clones Fail The Innovator's Dilemma according to MKBHD, applied to YouTube's attempt to clone TikTok
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Cool URIs Don’t Change — But Humans Do Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t...
a year ago
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Here are two ideas at odds with each other: You should have human-friendly URIs Cool URIs don’t change If a slug is going to be human-friendly, i.e. human-readable, then it's going to contain information that is subject to change because humans make errors. If “to err is human”...
Calculated Risk
LA Ports: Inbound Traffic Increased Sharply Year-over-year in December Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Container traffic gives us an idea about the volume of goods being exported and imported - and usually some hints about the trade report since LA area ports handle about 40% of the nation's container port traffic. Los Angeles and Long Beach in TEUs (TEUs: 20-foot equivalent units...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Leisure Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I look out the window and think of how...
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I look out the window and think of how many babies are now part of a personal brand. Today's News:
Dustin Curtis
Blocked A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture...
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A couple of years ago, I posted a slight criticism of Elon Musk that led prominent venture capitalist Marc Andreessen to block me. Since then, I have been unable to view his posts1, which is a shame because I valued his thoughts and opinions. Today, X engineering announced...
A Beautiful Site
Validating URLs and email addresses in PHP This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var()...
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over a year ago
This is a simple method for validating both email addresses and URLs. Using PHP's filter_var() function, it's actually very easy and doesn't require regular expressions. The following wrapper functions force a true boolean response, so you can use them safely in your logic. Email...
Open Culture
Explore Burj Al Babas, Turkey’s Abandoned Town of 587 Disney-Style Castles Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet....
7 months ago
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Burj Al Babas might have been constructed expressly to attract the attention of the internet. “Sitting near the Black Sea, the town is full of half-finished, fully abandoned mini castles — 587 of them to be exact,” write Architectural Digest’s Katherine McLaughlin and Jessica...
The Pragmatic...
The state of startup funding I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far,...
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I’ve crunched data from a variety of sources for a sense of how startup funding is trending. So far, it’s downwards. What does this mean for tech? My analysis.
Kevin Chen
How Cruise vehicles return to the garage autonomously in heavy rain Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC...
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over a year ago
Cruise doesn’t carry passengers in heavy rain. The operational design domain (ODD) in their CPUC permit (PDF) only allows services in light rain. I’ve always wondered how they implement this operationally. For example, Waymo preemptively launches all cars with operators in the...
Cheese and Biscuits
Mamapen at the Sun and 13 Cantons, Soho There are a few pubs in London notable for their hosting of fledgling food businesses, giving...
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10 months ago
There are a few pubs in London notable for their hosting of fledgling food businesses, giving talented but cash-strapped teams a chance to test their market and their cooking skills without the risk and stress of opening a completely brand new restaurant. Over the years, you will...
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.20 - Horse Race New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
a month ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 🔀 The Law of Line Extension
9 months ago
Irrational...
Developing domain expertise: get your hands dirty. Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts...
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Recently, I’ve been thinking about developing domain expertise, and wanted to collect my thoughts here. Although I covered some parts of this in Your first 90 days as CTO (understanding product analytics, shadowing customer support, talking to customers, and talking with your...
One Useful Thing
My class required AI. Here's what I've learned so far. (Spoiler alert: it has been very successful, but there are some lessons to be learned)
over a year ago
Quanta Magazine
Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be...
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Three high schoolers and their mentor revisited a century-old theorem to prove that all knots can be found in a fractal called the Menger sponge. The post Teen Mathematicians Tie Knots Through a Mind-Blowing Fractal first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Vitalik Buterin's...
Na colusão
over a year ago
Piotr Migdał's Blog
What is the role of the logarithm in Shannon entropy?
over a year ago
TheCollector
Washington DC Street Named ‘Alma Thomas Way’ After Artist Alma Thomas (1891-1978) was a longtime educator and a prolific abstract painter who spent most of...
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Alma Thomas (1891-1978) was a longtime educator and a prolific abstract painter who spent most of her career in Washington, DC. Now, to honor her local legacy, the street on which she lived and worked for seven decades has been renamed Alma Thomas Way.   The Hometown Legacy of...
bunnie's blog
Non-Destructive Silicon Imaging (and Winner of Name that Ware December 2022) The ware for December 2022 is an AMD Radeon RX540 chip, part number 216-0905018. Congrats to SAM for...
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over a year ago
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...
Adventures In...
Vignettes for the Win! A vignette is a darkening (or lightening) of the edges of a composition, to subtly frame it and draw...
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A vignette is a darkening (or lightening) of the edges of a composition, to subtly frame it and draw the eye in to the middle. It’s an old photographer’s darkroom trick. Lucky for us, I’ve spent many hours in the darkroom and have grown to appreciate the charm and effectiveness...
The DESK Magazine
AIAIAI How tired are we collectively about AI? Are we over it yet? Can you even hear about it anymore? I'm...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
How tired are we collectively about AI? Are we over it yet? Can you even hear about it anymore? I'm sorry if you can't, because this essay will be entirely about it.
The Berkeley...
FIGS: Attaining XGBoost-level performance with the interpretability and speed of CART FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by...
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FIGS (Fast Interpretable Greedy-tree Sums): A method for building interpretable models by simultaneously growing an ensemble of decision trees in competition with one another. Recent machine-learning advances have led to increasingly complex predictive models, often at the cost...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Four Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sesame Street is to blame. Today's News:
over a year ago
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Thinking Big and Small It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s so easy to start with the question, “What should I do?” And end up with a discussion about other people and what they’re doing. Here’s Paul Ford: I’ll give you a good example. Do you go out and raise venture capital? Well, it would be nice to have more money. But then...
Strange Loop Canon
If AGI is the future, vibe coding is what we should all be doing ...plus the changing definitions of work
3 months ago
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Irresistible Obstacles The formula beneath any game that hooks players can be boiled down to the following. Voluntary...
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over a year ago
The formula beneath any game that hooks players can be boiled down to the following. Voluntary Obstacle + Rules + Feedback System = Leveling Up
PostHog's RSS Feed
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…
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.06 - Rich New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
3 weeks ago
Quantum Frontiers
A (quantum) complex legacy Early in the fourth year of my PhD, I received a most John-ish email from John Preskill, my PhD...
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over a year ago
Early in the fourth year of my PhD, I received a most John-ish email from John Preskill, my PhD advisor. The title read, “thermodynamics of complexity,” and the message was concise the way that the Amazon River is damp: “Might … Continue reading →
SubAnima
Evolution Isn't Always For The Best Evolution is not, I repeat, NOT natural selection
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'When the Heart is Full . . .' “You say truly, that death is only terrible to us as it separates us from those we love, but I...
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“You say truly, that death is only terrible to us as it separates us from those we love, but I really think those have the worst of it who are left by us, if we are true friends. I have felt more (I fancy) in the loss of Mr. Gay, than I shall suffer in the thought of going away...
Maps Mania
Serendipitous Street View Fun
a month ago
Liz Denys
National Gallery of Art "Walkway to east building," where arguably necessary conveyor belts come with sparkling lights.
over a year ago
Arduino Blog
This Arduino device helps ‘split the G’ on a pint of Guinness Guinness is one of those beers (specifically, a stout) that people take seriously and the Guinness...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Guinness is one of those beers (specifically, a stout) that people take seriously and the Guinness brand has taken full advantage of that in their marketing. They even sell a glass designed specifically for enjoying their flagship creation, which has led to a trend that the...
Tony Finch's blog
Purple PCBs for Keybird69 I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago,...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’m a beginner at PCB design, or rather, I haven’t made a PCB since I was at school 30 years ago, and a lot has changed since then! So my aim for Keybird69’s PCB was to learn my way around the design, manufacturing, and assembly process. microcontroller other components key...
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Optimising bank working hours Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash This is probably an out of date concept these days, however if...
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over a year ago
Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash This is probably an out of date concept these days, however if you ever ran a traditional business back in the 70’s, 80’s and 90’s as I did, one of the most frustrating things ever was trying to get my banking done over the counter. Almost...
Christopher Butler
Printing Everything and Owning Nothing Something is starting to happen. As of right now, 3D Printer ownership is niche. Many know what it...
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Something is starting to happen. As of right now, 3D Printer ownership is niche. Many know what it is, but very few people have one. This will change rapidly over the next few years. Plenty of contemporary sci-fi have depicted futures where everything is “printed.” The exact...
Open Culture
Destino: The Salvador Dalí — Disney Collaboration 57 Years in the Making In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a...
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In 2003, Disney released a six minute animated short called Destino, finally bringing closure to a project that began 57 years earlier. The story of Destino goes way back to 1946 when two very different cultural icons, Walt Disney and Salvador Dalí, decided to work together on a...
latest projects -...
World's Smallest Molecules [Misc] If ever I had a complaint about molecule models, it's that they're too big.
2 months ago
Never Met a Science
Is The Best Social Science Good Enough? Note: this is the first of several posts discussing the 2020 Meta Election research partnership and...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
Note: this is the first of several posts discussing the 2020 Meta Election research partnership and the resulting papers, in advance of a keynote panel at IC2S2 on the topic next Thursday July 18.
Jonas Hietala
2016 in Review See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in...
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over a year ago
See the previous reviews. 2016 Geek Achievements Placed 2nd in Linköping’s Regional in Netrunner. Won a couple of smaller Netrunner tournaments. Got Veronica to play Game of Thrones with us. She beat us and she loved it! Programmed a little bit of Elixir and a tiny bit of front...
Londonist
Where To Volunteer In London At Christmas 2023 Make someone else's Christmas special.
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
It’s Not Possible – Until Suddenly It Is There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the...
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over a year ago
There are a couple of recent stories that remind me that perhaps the most powerful thing in the world is political will. Often politicians and motivational speakers will say something along the lines of, “We can do anything, if we put our minds to it.” While this sounds like...
Diaries of Note
A disgusting day! In April of 1891, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky made the long journey to New York where...
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In April of 1891, Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky made the long journey to New York where he was to play a pivotal role in the inauguration of the city’s new music hall, later known as Carnegie Hall—a momentous occasion and the first time he had set foot in the United...
A Smart Bear
Rare things become common at scale Software doesn't scale through architecture and automation alone. New, more difficult problems...
a year ago
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Software doesn't scale through architecture and automation alone. New, more difficult problems appear that didn't exist before, causing new downstream consequences.
Stephen Diehl
Facebook Libra is Architecturally Unsound
over a year ago
TokyoDev
Childcare Options in Japan Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available....
a year ago
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Though arranging childcare in Japan can be tricky, there are a wide variety of options available. Services will vary greatly depending on your location, the ages of your children, and the time of year. This article explores all of the most common childcare offerings, to get you...
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The real strategy behind tiered data plans Over the past year, Comcast and other broadband providers have been forcing tiered data plans on...
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Over the past year, Comcast and other broadband providers have been forcing tiered data plans on customers. The New York Times recently…
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Narrative debt HBO’s Watchmen is fantastic, as many have noted. It may be one of the most polished first drafts of...
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HBO’s Watchmen is fantastic, as many have noted. It may be one of the most polished first drafts of fan fiction to ever appear on the silver, errr, OLED screen. DC may lag behind the Marvel Universe in box office and audience acclaim, but it feels like DC is starting to find its...
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Alex Cooper: $0 to $160m in 6 years Breaking down the contracts that sent the "Call Her Daddy" podcaster from unemployed ($0) to...
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Breaking down the contracts that sent the "Call Her Daddy" podcaster from unemployed ($0) to Barstool Sports ($70k) to Spotify ($60m) and, now, SiriusXM ($100m) in 6 years.
Arduino Blog
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The field of neurotechnology has been advancing rapidly in recent years, opening up to safe and effective non-invasive interfaces that can deliver tiny milliamp currents to the right stimulation location on the head, neck or body. One example of the new players in this field is...
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Visions of the future Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of...
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Nothing gets me quite as fired up as discovering the future early and undistributed. That feeling of realizing that something is simply better, and the only reason it hasn't taken off yet is because the world hasn't realized it. It's amazing, and it's how I'm feeling about Linux...
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Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods ¶Why and how to override...
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Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods ¶Why and how to override Laravel’s built-in auth controller methods Maybe like me you like to do things the ‘Laravel way’. So let’s say you’re still using the out-of-the-box Auth flow (can anyone recommend an...
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McMansion Hell
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I. Often I find myself nostalgic for things that haven’t disappeared yet. This feeling is enhanced by the strange conviction that once I stop looking at these things, I will never see them again, that I am living in the last moment of looking. This is sense is strongest for me in...
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Pyunkangyul Cosmetic is an herbal medicine skincare brand that minimizes artificial ingredients and uses ingredients from nature to find the...
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Submitted by Browne, who says: UTA, the primary transit provider for northern Utah, has officially launched its newest BRT service, and with it, a new transit map. The OGX is a new BRT route from Ogden Central Station, downtown, Weber State University, and down to McKay-Dee...
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Betwixt Reason and Result I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling...
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I'm writing to you from a cheap hostel in downtown Toronto ([Hostelling International](https://reservations.hostellingtoronto.com/iqreservations/asp/IQHome.asp), highly recommend for solo travel, I have stayed in SF, LA, NY, PHL, TO, NZ and more I probably forget) where a cute...
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How Keith Jarrett Played on a Broken Piano & Turned a Potentially Disastrous Concert Into the... Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city...
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Nearly fifty years ago, the celebrated young pianist Keith Jarrett arrived in the West German city of Köln (better known in English as Cologne). Having just come off a 500-mile-long road trip from Switzerland, where he’d played a concert the previous day, he was left with barely...
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Oh no, not another agile article. But at least this one isn't attempting to teach or reconcile. I'm not going to talk about the difference between agile and Agile™ nor will I try to convince you of my favorite flavor of Agile™. Instead, I'm here to assert that agile is a tainted...
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Ilya Repin was one of the most versatile and talented artists of his day and age. More than a century has passed since Ilya Repin’s Ivan the Terrible and His Son Ivan on 16 November 1581 was revealed to the public, and yet the work still manages to scare, provoke, and spark...
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Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a good idea to give a brief bulleted list of updates regarding the NSF and associated issues: A court decision regarding who has the authority to fire probationary federal workers...
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This has been written as part of the Geek Mental Health Week – starting on Monday October 3rd 2016.  You can hear me read this as an audioblog – 8 minutes. T his time of year is a strange one…
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If your wife asks you if she looks overweight, you will utter “no” without flinching, whatever you actually think. On the other hand, all of us consider it morally wrong (under all circumstances) to make sexual advances on children. This fuzziness however creates some interesting...
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One year ago, in the first post of 2022, I shifted this blog from (almost) daily posts about architecture books to just once a week, changing the name of the blog to reflect that. In the fifth of five bullet points reasoning why that was happening, I wrote: "I'm planning on...
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HEX Projects is a typographic company founded by Nick Sherman that makes fonts and websites. — Nick Sherman Gah, Nick Sherman's typefaces are lovely. HEX Franklin is used in a few places I've spotted but I'm particularly interested in Manifold, NYC Sans, Jubilee, and...
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After spending a while in the city we moved to the mountains for a bit. Previously I had avoided any trips that involved long vehicle rides because of covid risk, but I...
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What Were Pre-Colonial Brazil’s Religions and Spiritual Practices? Brazil is widely known for its cultural and religious diversity. Home to a varied range of religions...
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Brazil is widely known for its cultural and religious diversity. Home to a varied range of religions that often mix Indigenous, African, and Christian themes, religious diversity was also prevalent in this region prior to colonization. Often revolving around concepts like animism...
TheCollector
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In just under two millennia, Christianity has grown from a fledgling religion to the biggest in the world, with around 2.3 billion adherents. With so many Christians and such a long time during which Christian theology has developed and refined, it is surprising that there is no...
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn’t something developers have a need to do very...
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Using Multiple CSS Background Images 2018-09-28 It isn’t something developers have a need to do very often, but you can set multiple background images on a single element. Example: .element { background: url('image_path') center repeat, linear-gradient(transparent 0%, #000...
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Notes on selling books via Instagram stories, fighting with Elon, and which platform is best at shielding users from harassment
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really freaky part is when you hear about this going on in medical research. Today's News:
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How Marcus Aurelius Influenced Famous American Military Leaders When the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote down his personal memoirs while on a campaign against...
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When the Roman Emperor Marcus Aurelius wrote down his personal memoirs while on a campaign against barbarian tribes in Germany, he could not have fathomed how practicing his Stoicism would help determine the outcome of battles across the globe far into the future. From Ulysses S....
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I’m a bootstrapped founder of a six-person company, and I spent this week testing different tools for hiring candidates. This post summarizes my experience with the applicant tracking systems (ATS) I found and how well they serve small, bootstrapped businesses. Note: This isn’t...
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One of the most immersive steampunk novels I’ve read winks at an experiment performed in a university I visited this month. The Watchmaker of Filigree Street, by Natasha Pulley, features a budding scientist named Grace Carrow. Grace attends Oxford as … Continue reading →
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The Toghrol Tower is a 20 meters high tower located in the city of Rey in Iran made of bricks and Sarooj, a water-resistant mortar. It was erected in 1063, and according to some sources, it was conceived as the tomb of Tuğrul Beg, the founder of the Seljuk dynasty. Other scholars...
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The two bicycle errors Momentum activities like public speaking, board sports and leadership all share an attribute with...
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Momentum activities like public speaking, board sports and leadership all share an attribute with riding a bicycle: It gets easier when you get good at it. The first error we often make is believing that someone (even us) will never be good at riding a bike, because riding a bike...
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The tech layoffs continue A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta,...
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A quarter of a million tech workers were laid off last year from the likes of Google, Amazon, Meta, Microsoft, and thousands of other big and small companies in the industry. And it looks like this year is not going to bring any relief. Google just announced more layoffs, Twitch...
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Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * A short while ago I wrote about one of the ways I think people could bootstrap a startup from zero funds. I called it "working in waves" [https://joel.is/post/2106915988/bootstrapping-waves]. Of...
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Stoicism is a school of ancient Greek philosophy that aims to teach individuals how to live a good life by focusing on rationality, self-control, and mindfulness. Despite its ancient roots, Stoicism has seen a resurgence in popularity in recent years as people look to improve...
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Group Analytics is now available in PostHog Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale /...
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Today, we’re excited to announce that PostHog has launched Group Analytics for both PostHog Scale / Enterprise users and those on PostHog Cloud…
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Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic games; Super Mario, Lemmings, Tetris, GTA, The Sims, Counterstrike, Theme Hospital, SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon… Damn - when you count them like this you’ll see how many great...
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Finding Odysseus’ Homeland There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
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Why have bacteria never evolved complex multicellularity? A new hypothesis suggests that it could come down to how prokaryotic genomes respond to a small population size. The post The Mystery of the Missing Multicellular Prokaryotes first appeared on Quanta...
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Sprawling Los Angeles is vastly different from the French capital, but it can still find ways to take a cue from the City of Lights’ embrace of the local.
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How my great-grandfather invented himself at the end of Reconstruction The post Riding With Mr. Washington appeared first on The American Scholar.
Open Culture
A Playlist of the 3,300 Best Films & Documentaries on Youtube, Including Works by Hitchcock,... ?si=yCx1pqpcATHND90L Once upon a time, the most convenient means of discovering movies was cable...
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?si=yCx1pqpcATHND90L Once upon a time, the most convenient means of discovering movies was cable television. This held especially true for those of us who happened to be adolescents on a break from school, ready and willing morning, midday, or night to sit through the...
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It burns The first time we had to evacuate Malibu this season was during the Franklin fire in early December....
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The first time we had to evacuate Malibu this season was during the Franklin fire in early December. We went to bed with our bags packed, thinking they'd probably get it under control. But by 2am, the roaring blades of fire choppers shaking the house got us up. As we sped down...
Classical Wisdom
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I've been both a supporter and I believe friend to Google and its senior management through all these years, but I must say I'm on the edge of revolt now that Google's actions are so punitive, not just for Expedia, but also for IAC and all the players that depend upon something...
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The Crazy-Reasonably Priced Cafe Hidden In A Waterloo Bus Garage Next stop: a hearty lunch for as little at £4!
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Martin Mull (RIP) Satirically Interviews a Young Tom Waits on Fernwood 2 Night (1977) These days, references to seventies television increasingly require prefatory explanation. Who under...
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These days, references to seventies television increasingly require prefatory explanation. Who under the age of 60 recalls, for example, the cultural phenomenon that was Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman, an absurdist satire so faithful to the soap-opera form it parodied that it aired...
TokyoDev
Don't Start With a Prototype for Your MVP Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable...
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Eric Ries [defines a minimum viable product](http://www.startuplessonslearned.com/2009/08/minimum-viable-product-guide.html) as > that version of a new product which allows a team to collect the maximum amount of validated learning about customers with the least effort As a...
Retail Design Blog
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“The Shell” is born from a blend of diverse creative approaches, functional necessities, and spatial dynamics. It embodies Highsnobiety’s refined...
Arduino Blog
Exercise while you game with this interactive treadmill add-on Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of...
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Motion-based controls for games have been around for decades, but even with the latest generation of virtual reality headsets, gaming is still done with relatively limited movement unless one has access to an expensive VR walking/running setup. As an effort to get more physical...
tomcritchlow.com
Building an Interactive Blog Map I love a good diagram. So a while back I made a “blog map” for my website homepage that looked a bit...
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I love a good diagram. So a while back I made a “blog map” for my website homepage that looked a bit like this:
Seth's Blog
The challenge of N + 1 “Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win...
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“Just a little more,” might be a useful way to self motivate, until it isn’t. N + 1 pushes us to win every race, every argument, every bank balance competition. Sometimes this is simply a self challenge, not designed to hurt others, but the problem with never being satisfied is...
TokyoDev
You’re Too Old For That: Age Discrimination in Japan Tech You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know...
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You’ve got the skills and the drive for the job, but how old are you again? Age matters. We all know it. The trick is knowing what you’re up against, why these obstacles persist, who might be able to help, and how far you may be required to shift your perspective from where it...
DYNOMIGHT
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What is this? I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful. How will it work? We will meet three times for 30 minutes. During those sessions, I’ll try to help you do whatever it is you’re trying to do. Then I’ll sit back and...
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This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engineering teams” . It was later picked up by IEEE Spectrum (!!!), who scrapped most of the...
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Introducing HogQL: Direct SQL access for PostHog Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your...
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Today, we're releasing a major new feature as a public beta: the ability to directly query your PostHog data using SQL . We call this HogQL because…
Asterisk
Automating Math Computers can already help verify proofs. One day soon, they may be able to come up with new ones.
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I turned another year older. A collection of small moments and choices that let me be me. One guidepost for each year I've been alive — some I've practiced for decades, and a few new ones. Feel out the day and go where your energy wants you to. Your energy is precious. Don’t let...
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alexwlchan
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Last year I wrote about using static websites for tiny archives. The idea is that I create tiny websites to store and describe my digital collections. There are several reasons I like this approach: HTML is flexible and lets me display data in a variety of ways; it’s likely to...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Dave Luebke informs me that the upper bound should just be infinity. Today's News: Hot damn an embarrassingly flattering review in Science.
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The Swipe Files Strategy for Part Time Creators Swipe Files are underrated, passively compounding sources of personal leverage for your creator...
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Time Zone crossings in the United States generally happen at state borders which of course are easily recognizable landmarks. So you simply cross the state line and you change your watch. No big deal. Unfortunately Time Zones cut right through the middle of some states, like...
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A few years ago, I found out I grind me teeth at night. Kristi says it sounds like I’m chewing marbles. Others who grind their teeth give themselves headaches, or wake themselves up at night. You can’t really stop yourself from grinding your teeth, since you’re asleep. You can...
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Christmas Cards from the Architects 2024 It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their...
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It’s that time again. It is the time of year when the architects turn their attention from their Dec. 25th deadline to thoughts of Christmas. Here we are, sitting by the floor-to-ceiling glass storefronts in our offices, staring out at the rolling hills covered with snow,...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Superconductor Flap of 2023 If you are at all interested in science and technology news, you have probably heard that a team...
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If you are at all interested in science and technology news, you have probably heard that a team from South Korea claims to have developed a material that is a superconductor at room temperature and ambient pressure. Interestingly, if you are someone who does not follow such...
Londonist
Get 2-For-1 Tickets To This Cracker Of A Christmas Fair Timeless festive cheer, guaranteed.
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Google should open source what actually matters: their search ranking algorithm Websites live or die based on how a small group of programmers at Google decide their sites should...
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Websites live or die based on how a small group of programmers at Google decide their sites should rank in Google’s main search results.  As…
The Honest Broker
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My reading list for reviving human values in today's digital desert and liberating yourself from tech overreach
Seth's Blog
A finite ordered set of interesting objects The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul,...
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The alphabet is one. 26 letters, no more. One order, that’s it. The Beatles are another. John, Paul, George and then Ringo. The Marx Brothers, the Three Stooges, The Supremes. The astrological zodiac gets us to twelve, but I’m having a really difficult time finding a memorable...
Open Culture
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Note: Yesterday, Marianne Faithfull passed away at age 78. In her memory, we’re bringing back a favorite from deep in our archive. It originally appeared on our site in June 2012. When you want to learn a thing or two about Jean-Luc Godard, you turn to New Yorker film critic...
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There is a common perception that science is a modern invention with roots in the ancient Greek world. While the Greeks pioneered the kind of theoretical thinking that characterizes modern science, before the Greeks, people used practical science. The ancient Egyptians developed...
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It’s harder to refactor a large Python codebase. Type hints won’t save you, and you need a lot of unit tests. But how does that work in practice? Is Python fast to ship?
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Bes mug by USF Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx) on Sketchfab If ZZ Top have a favorite ancient Egyptian deity, that deity is surely Bes, whom the New York Times’ Alexander Nazaryan quotes curator and scholar Branko van Oppen de Ruiter as calling “a beer drinker and a...
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With discerning taste and a sprawling Park Avenue apartment to fill, American philanthropists Jordan and Thomas A. Saunders III spent decades acquiring a storied collection of European Old Master paintings. Now, this collection is heading to Sotheby’s, where it is likely to set...
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We spend almost no time teaching toddlers about freedom. Instead, the lessons we teach (and learn) for our entire lives are about responsibility. It’s easy to teach freedom, but important to teach responsibility. Because if you get the responsibility taken care of, often the...
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This has been somewhat of a quiet revolution, but a new law in England may bring it to the foreground. The Precision Breeding Act will now allow gene-edited plants to be developed and marketed in England (not Northern Ireland, Wales, or Scotland). The innovation is that the law...
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A generation of physicists has referred to the dark energy that permeates the universe as “the cosmological constant.” Now the largest map of the cosmos to date hints that this mysterious energy has been changing over billions of years. The post Dark Energy May Be...
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It’s thrilling when someone reads our minds. Sometimes we call it hospitality, or smart user interface design. Sometimes, it simply feels like being seen. The person or the system knows what you need, perhaps before you even realize what that might be. This is a special sort of...
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We all know that the future of manufacturing lies in IoT — yet the path to adoption can sometimes feel daunting. But what if you could simplify the process and start seeing results quickly? That’s exactly what we’re going to explore in our upcoming Arduino Cloud Café webinar on...
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Parenting is a challenging, rewarding, and ever-evolving journey. Sometimes, it can be difficult to navigate the ups and downs of raising children, especially when it comes to managing difficult emotions and maintaining a positive relationship with them. That's where Stoic...
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Every programmer knows Donald Knuth’s famous quote that “premature optimization is the root of all evil”, from his 1974 Turing Award lecture (pdf). A fuller quotation of the surrounding context gives a rounder view: I am sorry to say that many people nowadays are condemning...
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Courtesy of Wired, historian Alexander Bevilacqua (Williams College) answers the internet’s burning questions about the cultural rebirth that came to be known as The Renaissance. In 30+ minutes, Bevilacqua covers an array of questions, including: When did The Renaissance begin?...
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Just finished reading Magic Words by Jonah Berger and my notes follow. 1/ Most of us spend a significant amount of time in assembling the thoughts we want to convey, but assume the words to convey them as a given. 2/ This book – written by a professor of business – takes the view...
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What makes tech fun? When asking this question, I'm not really thinking too literally. For instance, I'm not asking,...
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When asking this question, I'm not really thinking too literally. For instance, I'm not asking, "what is a fun piece of tech?" Because the answer to that would be simple: any game, gaming device, or immersive VR experience that's engineered to be fun to use. That's far too...
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Why I went into the mortgage industry I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same...
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I just realized last Thursday that I have spent two full years at Better, incidentally on the same day as we announced a $15M round led by Kleiner Perkins. So it was a good point to reflect a bit and think back – what the F led me to abandon my role managing the machine learning...
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What changing the CPU on a laptop looks like This post illustrates something that is not common on modern laptops: changing the...
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This post illustrates something that is not common on modern laptops: changing the CPU. Background One of the modifications that you can do to a ThinkPad T430 laptop is changing the CPU to a more powerful quad core model. That’s exactly what I did back in 2017, but due to the...
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Why scons is cool I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not...
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I’ve recently started playing with scons a little for some small personal projects. It’s not perfect, but I’ve rapidly come to the conclusion that it’s a probably far better choice than make in many cases. The main exceptions would be cases where you need to integrate into legacy...
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First things first, congratulations to Ubuntu on releasing version 24.04! If you’re not already aware, we build elementary OS releases from the Ubuntu software repositories, so we now have a stable upstream to work from. That means it’s time for us to focus in on finishing up...
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“This is what we are about”: The Romero Prayer A beautiful prayer about vocation by Bishop Ken Untener of Saginaw, often attributed to St Óscar...
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A little-understood role in a global VC could also be one of the most influential Ana Jiménez, 500 Global’s chief of staff for Latin America, on building a relationship of trust and...
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Ana Jiménez, 500 Global’s chief of staff for Latin America, on building a relationship of trust and strategic vision with her organization’s leader.
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Leadenhall Market Is Wrapped In Giant Purple Tentacles Again And other Halloweeny fun to be had, too.
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Monsoon Season In Arizona, Part 3: Hunter Canyon to Portal September 2, 2024 We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used...
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September 2, 2024 We awoke to another beautiful sunrise in the Huachuca Mountains. I could get used to this view. View from Beatty's Guest Ranch - Miller Canyon, Cochise County, Arizona This was our final morning in this region; we had plans to make the long drive eastwards...
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Netflix was founded in 1997 and went public in 2002. The $500B+ company's trajectory changed with three crucial pre-IPO negotiations.
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When TECOM decided to renovate their Management offices in Dubai Knowledge Park, the brief was to create a contemporary space...
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As I suspected my energy for writing in August was diverted to more important things.  Plenty of energy to read, though. With a respite in September, I should soon be able to write a bit on the Greek philosophers I have been reading.  The Cynics, Epicureans, and Stoics work...
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by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about HTML and especially not about accessibility. Everything I noticed was the special way a legend is displayed inside a fieldset – or rather: alongside the border of a fieldset. Fast...
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If you’re just looking for implementation instructions, skip my ramblings and go straight to the code here. I’m currently working on my first project after deciding that I needed to fail more and practice finishing projects instead of abandoning them midway once they got...
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What makes a person entrepreneurial? Professor Saras D. Sarasvathy believes the distinguishing factor is in the reasoning process. She identifies two types of reasoning: When you think with causal reasoning, you focus on what you want to do—the desired end goal, or the...
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iOS 17.2 gained the capability to start Live Activities from a server, which is pretty cool and handy! I’ve been playing around with it a bit and found some parts a bit confusing, so I thought I’d do a little write up for future me as well as anyone else who could benefit! (For...
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In the west, our ideas of harm are largely anchored to an individual being harmed by a particular action at a discrete moment in time. Yet the harms caused by algorithmic systems are often collective and communal.
A Smart Bear
The Iterative-Hypothesis customer development method A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what...
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A simple but effective system for generating insights about how your potential customers think, what they need, and what they’ll buy. This method has been used both to reject startup ideas and to validate WP Engine before it had any customers (it is now a Unicorn).
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Newsweek opinion piece Follow-up: Prevalence of Prejudice-Denoting Words in News Media Discourse Over the last five years, poll after poll has found that the GOP base has grown warmer towards Blacks, Hispanics, immigrants and Muslims. They’ve simultaneously become
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The tech industry has craved a messiah since the death of Steve Jobs, but in OpenAI CEO Sam Altman they’ve discovered more of a false prophet — a seedy grifter that uses his remarkable ability to impress and manipulate Silicon Valley’s elite to mask a total
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Writing a Go/C polyglot Someone on a Slack I’m on recently raised the question of how you might write a source file that’s both valid C and Go, commenting that it wasn’t immediately obvious if this was even possible. I got nerdsniped, and succeeded in producing one, which you can...
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Picking up rust by writing a QR code generator I wanted to pick up rust again after having used it many years ago. After around 5 years or so I...
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I wanted to pick up rust again after having used it many years ago. After around 5 years or so I didn’t really know where to start? Approaches to picking up a language When learning, or as in this case re-learning, a programming language there are different approaches. For...
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Notes on the acquisition process Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely...
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Ten years ago, startup financing was an insider’s game. Since then, the topic has been widely discussed on blogs, to the great benefit of…
One Useful Thing
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Truncating timedeltas in Django Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for...
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Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance. class Post(models.Model): created_at = models.DateTimeField() class Event(models.Model): post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE) created_at =...
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How to Be a Stoic
Were the ancient Stoics feminist? Should the modern ones be? The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the...
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The short answers to the title questions are: not really, and of course yes. At least, that’s the conclusion of a detailed analysis of the relationship between Stoicism and feminism published in a paper by Scott Aikin and Emily McGill-Rutherford in Symposion, 1, 1 (2014): 9-22....
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Changes and Not I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s...
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I almost missed this 1938 entry in Berenice Abbott’s “Changing New York” project, because it’s mislabelled at the New York Public Library web site as “Vista, Thomas Street”. We all make mistakes, and whomever confused Thames and Thomas hid the location of this photo by accident....
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When the firefighters arrive at the blazing building, they don't need to explain the fire. They need to put it out. It doesn't matter whether a toaster malfunctioned, or a cat knocked over a candle, or a smoker fell asleep watching The Voice. But when PagerDuty blows up and we...
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Warren Buffett’s Canvas Berkshire Hathaway continues to evolve as Warren Buffett celebrates his 93rd birthday with no signs...
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Berkshire Hathaway continues to evolve as Warren Buffett celebrates his 93rd birthday with no signs of putting down his paintbrush anytime soon.
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Job Screening Blog Post Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between...
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Take a look at these two animated gifs. First: Second: Can you tell the difference between them? Do you care? If not, we might not be a good fit. #designEngineering Email :: Mastodon :: Twitter #designEngineer
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The AI project pushing local languages to replace French in Mali’s schools RobotsMali uses ChatGPT, Google Translate, and other AI tools in hopes of helping young students...
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Give it 30 days Do you have any big audacious goal you want to accomplish? If you think back to Jan 1, 2016, what...
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Do you have any big audacious goal you want to accomplish? If you think back to Jan 1, 2016, what were your goals? Lose weight/get in shape Make more money/start budgeting Learn a language Learn a skill Read more Stop doing something (smoking, drinking) Statistically, all of...
TheCollector
6 Famous Artworks That Are Lost Forever For centuries, humans have considered pieces of art important enough to preserve and cherish despite...
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For centuries, humans have considered pieces of art important enough to preserve and cherish despite their seeming impracticality. Still, in spite of our efforts to keep them intact, works of art too often fall victim to tragic accidents. Some pieces remain known only in art...
Flashbak
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“There seems to be no crime too low for these Penguins” – Dr. George Murray Levick, notes on the sexual habits of the Adélie penguin, Antarctica, 1911     Back in 1911, a select group of readers learned of the “astonishing depravity” and “hooligan males” of the Adélie penguins...
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Job Opportunities at Benny Kuriakose and Associates in 2024 Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of...
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Every month, we receive a large number of applications for job positions and internships. Most of them sent the application three or more...
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Is China Taking Over US Retail? Yes. Let me explain. Amazon made it easy for Chinese companies to sell their products directly to...
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Yes. Let me explain. Amazon made it easy for Chinese companies to sell their products directly to American consumers. In response, the Chinese, after having hollowed out American manufacturing, have moved up the value chain to do the same thing to American wholesale and retail....
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A Cute Application of the Yoneda Lemma Every few weeks recently I’ve been putting a new fun problem on one of the whiteboards in the first...
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Every few weeks recently I’ve been putting a new fun problem on one of the whiteboards in the first year office. These are often inspired by something I saw on MSE, and I’m usually choosing problems that force you to understand something fundamental really well. Then I usually...
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Llama Does Not Look Good 4 Anything Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active...
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Llama Scout (17B active parameters, 16 experts, 109B total) and Llama Maverick (17B active parameters, 128 experts, 400B total), released on Saturday, look deeply disappointing.
Classical Wisdom
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In the end, judgment comes first. And that means hiring is a gut decision. As much science as people want to try to pour into the hiring process, art always floats to the top. This is especially true when hiring at the executive level. The people who make the final calls — the...
Quanta Magazine
Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t...
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The reshuffling of neurons during fruit fly metamorphosis suggests that larval memories don’t persist in adults. The post Why Insect Memories May Not Survive Metamorphosis first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Old Structures...
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From 1875, the “New Tribune Building”: In my opinion, this was not the first skyscraper, pretty much because I don’t believe there was a “first skyscraper.” The deveopment of skyscrapers was an evolutionary process and this was one of the early steps. In any case, the main roof...
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I currently host this site on Netlify’s Starter plan, which means I can serve 100GB of bandwidth per month. That’s usually plenty, and I’ve only exceeded it a few times – this site is mostly text, and I only have a modest audience. I can see how much bandwidth I’ve used in the...
The Marginalian
Favorite Books of the Year: Art, Science, Poetry, Psychology, Children’s, and More Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back...
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Because I read for the same reason I write — to fathom my life and deepen my living — looking back on a year of life has always been looking back on a year of reading. This year was different — a time of such profound pain and profound transformation that it fused reading and...
The Elysian
Three classic utopian novels—now collectibles More than 100 years ago, three thinkers imagined what a utopian future might look like in the year...
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More than 100 years ago, three thinkers imagined what a utopian future might look like in the year 2000. Now, their novels are available as a collectible set.
Retail Design Blog
Marie Curie building by Proof of the sum Pivot Park in Oss is an inspiring campus for open innovation in the life sciences. For starters and...
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Pivot Park in Oss is an inspiring campus for open innovation in the life sciences. For starters and existing companies....
Open Culture
Revisit Pop-Up Video: The VH1 Series That Reinvented Music Videos & Pop Culture In the eighties, people lamented the attention-span-shortening “MTV-ization” of visual culture. By...
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In the eighties, people lamented the attention-span-shortening “MTV-ization” of visual culture. By the mid-nineties, networks were trying to figure out how to get viewers to sit through music videos at all. A solution arrived in the form of Pop-Up Video, a program pitched by...
Max Rozen
How to choose a median result when running Google Lighthouse multiple times Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you...
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Running Google Lighthouse five times will half the variability of your test results. So how do you figure out which run is the median?
Entrepreneur's Edge
Your Name is an Ad Creative that is Everywhere, All at Once Learn how to leverage cognitive science to create an instant brand advantage.
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Classical Wisdom
The Best Eclipses of the Ancient World War Stoppers and God Makers
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Open Culture
Hear the Evolution of Electronic Music: A Sonic Journey from 1929 to 2019 It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not...
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It’s easy to get the impression that enthusiasts of electronic music listen to nothing else. (Not that it isn’t true for some of them, who tend to relegate themselves to smaller subgenres: consult Ishkur’s Guide to Electronic Music for a map of the sonic territory.) And it’s...