journal – Winnie Lim
chronic unease
Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate...
a year ago
Some people are good at denial, forgetting, and moving on. I am good at none of those. I accumulate trauma, remember them deeply like they are etched into my bones helpless as...
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...
a week ago
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...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Sim
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2 months ago
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The characters in the comic are, however, absolutely in a simulation.
Today's News:
diamond geezer
From eight to nine
Yesterday I undertook the not inconsequential task of buying a new laptop, something I'd been...
3 months ago
Yesterday I undertook the not inconsequential task of buying a new laptop, something I'd been putting off for a long time.
2020 and your collective advice was "if it's still working keep using it" so I did. It's got slower, as you'd expect, but I've worked around that and put up...
Math Is Still...
Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way
There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its...
a year ago
There once was a cosmic seed that sprouted the Milky Way galaxy. Astronomers have discovered its last surviving remnants.
The post Astronomers Dig Up the Stars That Birthed the Milky Way first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Flashbak
Gods From Space: When London Taxi Diver George King Met Jesus And Other Aliens
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’...
7 months ago
“Prepare yourself! You are to become the voice of Interplanetary Parliament” – ‘The Command’ received by George King from space, 1954 On May 8th 1954, London taxi driver George King was doing the household chores when he heard a voice. What came to be known as “The Command”...
42!
Optimising bank working hours
Photo by Museums Victoria on Unsplash
This is probably an out of date concept these days, however if...
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...
Contemporist...
Before & After - The Complete Renovation Of A Small Loft Apartment
New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a...
a month ago
New York City-based design studio beda (Brad Engelsman Design Architecture), has shared photos of a renovation project they completed of a small 500-square-foot (46 sqm) loft apartment.
Engineers Need Art
Move Fast and Abandon Things
For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside...
3 months ago
For every shareware game I released in the 1990's, another four were partially written but put aside and abandoned.
TheCollector
Women in the Celtic World: Everything You Should Know
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2 months ago
Probably...
How Does World Population Grow?
Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially,...
a year ago
Recently I posed this question on Twitter: “Since 1960, has world population grown exponentially, quadratically, linearly, or logarithmically?” Here are the responses: By a narrow margin, the most popular answer is correct — since 1960 world population growth has been roughly...
Tom Blomfield
Startup Series Part 3: You make what you measure
Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. If you want to make your user...
over a year ago
Merely measuring something has an uncanny tendency to improve it. If you want to make your user numbers go up, put a big piece of paper on your wall and every day plot the number of users. You’ll be delighted when it goes up and disappointed when it goes down. Pretty soon you’ll...
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
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...
nanoscale views
Strategic planning + departmental reviews
It's been a while since I've written a post about the ways of academia, so I thought it might be...
a year ago
It's been a while since I've written a post about the ways of academia, so I thought it might be time, though it's not exactly glamorous or exciting. There are certain cycles in research universities, and two interrelated ones are the cycle of departmental strategic planning and...
TheCollector
Who Exactly Were the Hospitallers?
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a month ago
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Kathryn Green
I am a textile artist and tutor, specialising in dye and print processes to create organic, layered...
10 months ago
I am a textile artist and tutor, specialising in dye and print processes to create organic, layered and textural art textile pieces for exhibition, in addition to capsule collections of wearable art and interior accessories.
Having obtained a First-class degree in textiles, I...
TheCollector
10 Facts About the Surreal Life of Antonio López de Santa Anna
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TheCollector
The Sad History of Canada’s Inuit High Arctic Relocations
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3 months ago
PostHog's RSS Feed
Solving the mystery of PostHog’s missing session recordings
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source...
over a year ago
Session Recording is one of PostHog's core features, and one of the few completely open source ression replay tools available. It allows you to see…
Seth's Blog
Bongo 4 – Thinking about power users (skive!)
Power users are tempting. They know what they want, they’re happy to share their preferences and...
3 weeks ago
Power users are tempting. They know what they want, they’re happy to share their preferences and they show up. But power users can also be a trap, because their specific needs might not match the market you seek to serve. When you pick your customers, you pick your future. Brooke...
Diaries of Note
I don’t want another swash to buckle
On 13th December 1960, mere months after winning an Oscar for his role in Ben Hur, Charlton Heston...
a year ago
On 13th December 1960, mere months after winning an Oscar for his role in Ben Hur, Charlton Heston almost met with disaster on the set of El Cid, an epic historical drama unfolding in the sun-drenched landscapes of Spain. While immersed in a demanding broadsword duel scene...
The Rational Walk
The Digest #176
Found Money, OpenAI drama, GLP-1 drug studies, Estée Lauder, Heart valve technology, Edwin Land,...
a year ago
Found Money, OpenAI drama, GLP-1 drug studies, Estée Lauder, Heart valve technology, Edwin Land, John Oliver skewers dollar stores, Apple regrets, The Great Books Journal
Old Structures...
Sort-Of Round
This is the 3333rd blog post published on the Old Structures web site. People are attracted to round...
6 months ago
This is the 3333rd blog post published on the Old Structures web site. People are attracted to round numbers, and I could just as easily have waited for the 4000th post to say something, but I like the “third of ten-thousand” aspect of the current number. Some housekeeping: some...
Letters of Note
I miss you so very much, Ryan
In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during...
over a year ago
In December of 1984, 13-year-old Ryan White was given 6 months to live after contracting AIDS during a contaminated treatment for hemophilia, a blood condition with which he had lived since birth. By June of 1985, keen to resume as normal a lifestyle as possible, Ryan attempted...
Business Brainstorms
Daily briefing AI, Hello Fresh but better, building in a cave, postcard lead gen, controllable input...
Hey, In this issue: idea for an AI-powered Gmail extension to streamline your digital life, private...
a year ago
Hey, In this issue: idea for an AI-powered Gmail extension to streamline your digital life, private prep cooks as a service, startup concepts inspired by Y Combinator data, prompt for SEO optimized articles. Plus, founder insights on the power of focus and advertising channels....
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Slack is Fumbling Developers
Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
over a year ago
Reflecting on the sudden switch away from Slack for Developer communities
The Ruffian
How Do You Solve a Problem Like Joe Biden?
Why It's Hard and What Will Happen
5 months ago
Why It's Hard and What Will Happen
Steve Blank
Is a $100 Million Enough?
Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a...
9 months ago
Capitalism has been good to me. After serving in the military during Vietnam, I came home and had a career in eight startups. I got to retire when I was 45. Over the last quarter century, in my third career, I helped create the methods entrepreneurs use to build new startups,...
A Beautiful Site
The Future of Frameworks
Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of...
over a year ago
Love them or hate them, web components ("custom elements") are making a huge dent in the world of front-end development. As of today, close to 18% of page views in Chrome are registering web components. That's an insane amount of usage!
The benefits of a framework-agnostic...
Contemporist...
An Elevated Room Surrounded By Trees In The Jungle
Mestizo Estudio Arquitectura has shared photos of a room they designed and built in the jungle in...
2 months ago
Mestizo Estudio Arquitectura has shared photos of a room they designed and built in the jungle in Ecuador, that features a sleeping area and bathroom.
Bits about Money
Credit card debt collection
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being...
a year ago
Credit card debt is the waste stream of consumer finance. The debt collection industry ends up being sordid, for complex structural and microeconomic reasons.
macwright.com
Hooking up search results from Astro Starlight in other sites
At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty...
8 months ago
At Val Town, we recently introduced a command-k menu, that “omni” menu that sites have. It’s pretty neat. One thing that I thought would be cool to include in it would be search results from our documentation site, which is authored using Astro Starlight. Our main application is...
TheCollector
Louis Althusser on the Link Between Ideology and the State Apparatus
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a year ago
Ralph Ammer
J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world
A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson...
over a year ago
A quick introduction for beginners to J.J. Gibson's ecological approach to visual perception. Gibson was an American pragmatist and psychologist.
The post J.J. Gibson—The meaning of the world appeared first on Ralph Ammer.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ding Dong
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a year ago
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The really weird part is he's been talking about it non-stop for 50 years.
Today's News:
The Elysian
The future according to artists
The Parisianer 2050's project to imagine the future in art.
8 months ago
The Parisianer 2050's project to imagine the future in art.
diamond geezer
TfL FoI requests in September 2024
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2024
1) The average e-scooter hire trip...
2 months ago
20 things we learnt from TfL FoI requests in September 2024
1) The average e-scooter hire trip lasts 16 minutes, is 1½ miles long and is undertaken at 6½ mph.
2) TfL plan to replace the Lodge Avenue flyover on the A13 with a like-for-like replacement, with construction starting...
Home on Erik...
Vote for our SXSW panel!
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and...
over a year ago
If you have a few minutes, you should check out mine and Chris Johnson‘s panel proposal. Go here and vote: http://panelpicker.sxsw.com/vote/24504
Algorithmic Music Discovery at Spotify
****Spotify crunches hundreds of billions of streams to analyze user's music taste and provide...
Rest of World -...
Apple should tell Indians what it knows about politicians’ phones being hacked
The Silicon Valley giant’s muted public response after several Indian opposition leaders received a...
a year ago
The Silicon Valley giant’s muted public response after several Indian opposition leaders received a message that their devices may be compromised is doing more harm.
Oykun
Design Your Way to Success: How task management can boost your career as a Designer
As designers, our days are filled with a variety of tasks and responsibilities.
Here is a likely...
a year ago
As designers, our days are filled with a variety of tasks and responsibilities.
Here is a likely scenario;
You wake up, go through your morning routine, and sit down at your desk to start working.
First, you see a flood of emails in your inbox. You start replying
Marcus on AI
Don’t Ride This Bike! Generative AI’s persistent trouble with compositionality and parts
When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us,...
a week ago
When the text-to-image AI generation system DALL-E2 was released in April 2022, the two of us, together with Scott Aaronson, ran some informal experiments to probe its abilities.
The American Scholar
For Want of Touch
The astonishing breadth of our passions
The post For Want of Touch appeared first on The American...
3 months ago
The astonishing breadth of our passions
The post For Want of Touch appeared first on The American Scholar.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Like a Wagon-Load of Monkeys'
“It is not
an accident that Gulliver has become
a child’s book; only a child could be so...
a year ago
“It is not
an accident that Gulliver has become
a child’s book; only a child could be so destructive, so irresponsible and so
cruel.”
And only a
parent could acknowledge the potential for raw nastiness in the heart of a child.
V.S. Pritchett had two children and few illusions...
TheCollector
L’Anse aux Meadows: The Viking Settlement of North America
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4 months ago
Blog System/5
20 years of blogging
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a...
6 months ago
A recap of my experience writing a blog for 20 years straight and the transition to writing a newsletter using Substack.
Odds and Ends of...
I'm pro-assisted dying in principle, but I'm not sure about the proposed law
Is no law better than a bad law?
a month ago
Is no law better than a bad law?
African History...
Historical links between the Ottoman empire and Sudanic Africa (1574-1880)
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
a year ago
travel and exchanges between Istanbul and the states of; Bornu, Funj, Darfur and Massina.
Old Structures...
A Different Definition of Speed
I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem...
2 months ago
I’ve mentioned the “Speedway” a few times in passing. It was a pleasure drive along the Harlem River, meant to provide a place for people with horses and horse carriages – i.e., the upper middle class and the wealthy – to have fun. There was nothing inherently terrible about...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Grounded
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3 months ago
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But you should see what happened to the first-born.
Today's News:
Evan Jones -...
gRPC is easy to misconfigure
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think...
over a year ago
Google's gRPC is an RPC system that supports many languages, and is relatively widely used. I think its popularity is due to being used for parts of Docker and Kubernetes. I think gRPC is mostly fine, but it is surprisingly easy to screw up by misconfiguring it. Part of that is...
TheCollector
Understanding 5 Famous Quotes by Descartes
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7 months ago
Diaries of Note
A veritable organ concert
It was May of 1967, and Che Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, was in Bolivia,...
a year ago
It was May of 1967, and Che Guevara, the Argentine-born Marxist revolutionary, was in Bolivia, leading a small band of guerrillas in an attempt to spread socialism across Latin America. Facing harsh environmental conditions and the pressure of the Bolivian military backed by US...
Tom Blomfield
Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry
Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of...
over a year ago
Apple’s latest announcement on payments has sparked some interesting debate but also a fair share of breathless pronouncements on a “revolution" in mobile payments.
To be clear - Apple Pay is a step forward in terms of end user experience - but it simply entrenches a...
Val Sopi
Where is blogstatic now?
<p>blogstatic is growing slowly at around 20% month-to-month.</p>
<p>Currently, it's hovering at...
a year ago
<p>blogstatic is growing slowly at around 20% month-to-month.</p>
<p>Currently, it's hovering at ~$700/month in revenue.</p>
<p>Since pricing is currently "yearly" only, each month starts from zero.</p>
<p>It will be interesting come October 2023 when the first yearly upgrades...
David Perell
Zena Hitz: Liberal Arts Thinking
My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in...
over a year ago
My guest today is Zena Hitz, a tutor at St John’s and the author of an excellent book called Lost in Thought: The Hidden Pleasures of an Intellectual Life. Her book explores the meaning and the value of learning for its own sake, through images and stories of bookworms,...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Chronic Independence of Mind'
“A chronic
independence of mind is unpardonable in any age; in our own it has certainly
been safer...
a month ago
“A chronic
independence of mind is unpardonable in any age; in our own it has certainly
been safer to praise independence than to exemplify it.”
Bracing
words from one of literature’s inveterate outsiders, English poet and critic C.H.
Sisson (1914-2003). He’s writing about...
Cheese and Biscuits
Jeune & Jolie, Carlsbad
To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a...
a month ago
To a visitor from lands afar (me) who sees this part of the world in little two-week periods twice a year, Jeune & Jolie feels like it did all the work of establishing itself as one of the best restaurants in California in a metaphorical blink of an eye, a few short months...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.35.0: Introducing SAML, world map view and new plugins
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are...
over a year ago
PostHog 1.35.0 introduces activity logs and a brand new way of visualizing where your users are coming from with the World Map. Additionally we now support organization-level SAML login on both Cloud and Self-Hosted instances. Plus check out your Project Homepage for a few...
Calculated Risk
Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in November
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in...
5 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in November
A brief excerpt:
From housing economist Tom Lawler:
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.09 million in November, up 3.3% from October’s preliminary pace and up 4.6% from...
latest projects -...
LED Matrix Earrings
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
10 months ago
[Hardware] Itsy bitsy teeny weeny yellow dot-matrix LED
Castles in the Sky
You're not Simon Sarris.
Castles in the Sky December 20, 2024
2 days ago
Castles in the Sky December 20, 2024
One Useful Thing
Not much is changing, a lot is changing
OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
a year ago
OpenAI, Microsoft, and the OpenOffspring
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Accident
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a year ago
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The really distressing part wasn't the 3 hours spent yanking her cheeks, but the variations in pace from time to time.
Today's News:
Society's Backend
The Step-by-Step Guide to Becoming a Machine Learning Engineer
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
11 months ago
And other practical guides to understand machine learning
PostHog's RSS Feed
Reflecting on YC, 2 years on
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program....
over a year ago
Y Combinator (YC) is seen as the world's best, and most prolific, three-month accelerator program. Upwards of 7,000 founders have taken part. Yet, no…
The Honest Broker
12 Outstanding New Albums by 12 Artists from 12 Countries
These under-the-radar records absolutely deserve your attention
a year ago
These under-the-radar records absolutely deserve your attention
Probably...
Hazard and Survival
Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. If I have a tumor that I’ve been told has a...
3 weeks ago
Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. If I have a tumor that I’ve been told has a malignancy rate of 2% per year, does that compound? So after 5 years there’s a 10% chance it will turn malignant? This turns out to be an interesting question, because the answer...
Seth's Blog
Doing presentations virtually
A few years ago, I posted about the hardware setup you can use to look better and feel better when...
a year ago
A few years ago, I posted about the hardware setup you can use to look better and feel better when working in a distributed organization. Since then, I’ve tried many hacks for how to integrate Keynote presentations into this environment. I used some fancy software that was...
TheCollector
The Mystery of Agnes Martin in 7 Facts
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9 months ago
The Marginalian
The Work of Art: Inside the Creative Process of Beloved Artists, Poets, Musicians, and Other Makes...
“The true artist,” Beethoven wrote in his touching letter of advice to a young girl aspiring to be...
7 months ago
“The true artist,” Beethoven wrote in his touching letter of advice to a young girl aspiring to be an artist, “is sad not to have reached that point to which his better genius only appears as a distant, guiding sun.” The choreographer Martha Graham called this particular shade of...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
The complete guide to safe type narrowing in TypeScript
Say I'm building a TODO app with two tabs: done and pending tasks. To make the app routable, I put...
a year ago
Say I'm building a TODO app with two tabs: done and pending tasks. To make the app routable, I put the active tab into the ?tab query parameter, so that mytodo.io?tab=done takes me directly to the done tasks. I implement routing like this (pardon my hand-coded querystring...
Willem's Blog
The Problem With Bitcoin
Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
a week ago
Some thoughts on the long term viability of Bitcoin's rising value.
AFAR Media - Travel...
Discover Portugal’s Wellness Havens with TAP Air’s Stopover
a month ago
Flashbak
Oscar Newman Designs For An Atomic City Beneath Manhattan, 1969
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004)...
8 months ago
In 1969, the Canadian-born American architect Oscar Newman (30 September 1935 – 14 April 2004) designed a nuclear bomb-proof city beneath Manhattan. In a vast spherical space itself created by a series of nuclear explosions, he’d build a city pretty much like the one above, with...
On the Arts
Istanbul's Blue Tile Paradise
The Hidden Mosque of Rüstem Pasha
a year ago
The Hidden Mosque of Rüstem Pasha
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Classical Wisdom Books
a year ago
macwright.com
Placemark is going open source and shutting down
also on placemark.io/blog
The company and product side of Placemark didn’t work out.
Some fantastic,...
a year ago
also on placemark.io/blog
The company and product side of Placemark didn’t work out.
Some fantastic, friendly people used it, but I couldn’t find a way to make it work
as a sustainable bootstrapped startup. Building it was incredibly fun.
Failing to find success and...
Stephen Wolfram...
ChatGPT Gets Its “Wolfram Superpowers”!
See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described...
a year ago
See also: “What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work?” » To enable the functionality described here, select and install the Wolfram plugin from within ChatGPT. Note that this capability is so far available only to some ChatGPT Plus users; for more information, see...
The Marginalian
From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation
We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the...
a year ago
We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the possible in motion. And yet here we are, atoms with consciousness, each of us a living improbability forged of chaos and dead stars. Children of chance, we have made ourselves into...
Mark Manson
3 Hard Truths You Need to Hear
Welcome to the realm of uncomfortable truths, where I, Mark Manson, will make you question...
a year ago
Welcome to the realm of uncomfortable truths, where I, Mark Manson, will make you question everything you've ever believed in.
Buckle up, buttercup. Let's dive into the rabbit hole of reality.
Remember the past you? The one with embarrassing beliefs and naïve ideas? Well, guess...
The Honest Broker
My Lost Gumby Essay
Or how I overcame ontological horror with the help of a rubbery toy
a year ago
Or how I overcame ontological horror with the help of a rubbery toy
Arduino Blog
DIY ECU controls Honda Insight’s Kubota diesel engine
The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort...
6 months ago
The Honda Insight was the first hybrid car released in North America and Honda put serious effort into making it as efficient as was practical at the time. That meant aerodynamic streamlining, which is why the first-generation Insight had very distinct covers over the rear...
./techtipsy
Why you might not want to publicly self-host a Wikipedia clone
A while ago I wrote about how easy it is to download an archive of Wikipedia and host it...
a year ago
A while ago I wrote about how easy it is to download an archive of Wikipedia and host it anywhere
you want using Kiwix.
I’m still hosting Kiwix sites publicly, but here are a few things you might want
to consider before doing so yourself.
The spam
I have a specific e-mail address...
Programming in the...
So Long, Prog21
I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry...
over a year ago
I always intended "Programming in the 21st Century" to have a limited run. I knew since the entry from January 1, 2010, that I needed to end it. It just took a while.Recovering Programmer
And now, an explanation.
I started this blog to talk about issues tangentially related to...
abdz.do - Have you...
Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School
Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School
...
a year ago
Thought-provoking series of 3D numbers for the Imperial Business School
abduzeedo0428—23
OPX Studio recently created a series of 3D numbers for an education-focused publication, designed by Made Up Studio, that is both visually stunning and...
TheCollector
Audrey Flack, Pioneer of Photorealism, Dies at 93
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5 months ago
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to narrate video with Sora, GPT-Vision, and ElevenLabs
The future of entertainment is going to be a wild ride.
9 months ago
The future of entertainment is going to be a wild ride.
Retail Design Blog
Chun Sheng Jewelry by Aurora Design
Aurora Design has received a renovation project for an old residential building located in an old...
5 months ago
Aurora Design has received a renovation project for an old residential building located in an old neighborhood in the center...
History Today Feed
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
5 months ago
Interrail: The Trans Europe Express
JamesHoare
Mon, 07/22/2024 - 10:41
Transit Maps
Historical Maps: Private Railways and Extra-urban Tramways of Italy, 1936
I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below –...
a year ago
I stumbled across this atlas of maps the other day and had to share. A few sample pages are below – head to the originating website to view all 20 of them. Enjoy! Source: Stagniweb.it
balajis.com
Bond Villain
When Powell devalued bonds, he destroyed the economy.
a year ago
When Powell devalued bonds, he destroyed the economy.
Blog - Practical...
Why Are Cooling Towers Shaped Like That?
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is not smoke. And this...
a month ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
This is not smoke. And this isn’t a smoke stack (at least not the kind we normally think of). It serves a totally different purpose at a power plant than smoke stacks whose job is moving combustion products...
TheCollector
What Was Négritude?
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3 months ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
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At 11:58 am on Saturday, 1 September 1923, the Kanto region of Japan started to shake. The...
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At 11:58 am on Saturday, 1 September 1923, the Kanto region of Japan started to shake. The earthquake began with a violent horizontal back-and-forth motion, followed by two vertical jolts, and then another horizontal shock even stronger than the first. The intensity of the tremor...
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In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the most-performed living composer in the world, and his life and work played a key role in the development of my faith. We even saw Arvo Pärt and his wife Nora shopping at their local...
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The Fall of Singapore: The Largest Defeat in British Military History
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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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Next stop: a hearty lunch for as little at £4!
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> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and
reflect." - Mark...
over a year ago
> "Whenever you find yourself on the side of the majority, it’s time to pause and
reflect." - Mark Twain
When you’re building a startup, it’s very important to question assumptions. I
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steps people
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Ink & Switch
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Artificial Ignorance
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Dividing free and paid features in “freemium” products
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This is it, the final stop on the Asia-Pacific series, and this one is especially for me. I always have mixed feelings about the brewery articles because they’re rather self-indulgent. So viewers should feel free to skip past this one and wait until the next series begins because...
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Particular Adroitness and Off-hand Readiness'
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tried working my way through John Dryden’s prolific...
a year ago
For years, with plenty of interruptions, I’ve
tried working my way through John Dryden’s prolific output – poems, plays,
translations, essays, letters. Much of it is lost on me, especially among the plays. His
verse and essays are what I most enjoy, but a play, Amphitryon,or the...
diamond geezer
The December 2024 tube map
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It's...
a week ago
The introduction of six Overground line names continues to have unfortunate repercussions.
It's unfortunate because the last tube map was only released three weeks ago. Alas it included a typo so the decision was taken to withdraw the entire batch pending a reprint, and here...
ntietz.com blog
Reasons to write design docs
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English.
It's half...
3 months ago
Sometimes I joke that as a principal engineer, my main programming language is English.
It's half true, though, since my job is as much about people and communciation as it is about technology.
Probably more, actually.
Writing is useful at all levels of software engineering.
It's...
Open Culture
How Georges Méliès A Trip to the Moon Became the First Sci-Fi Film & Changed Cinema Forever (1902)
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3 weeks ago
If you happen to visit the Cinémathèque Française in Paris, do take the time to see the Musée Méliès located inside it. Dedicated to la Magie du cinéma, it contains artifacts from throughout the history of film-as-spectacle, which includes such pictures as 2001: A Space Odyssey...
bt RSS Feed
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
News Websites Are Dumpster Fires
2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users...
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2019-05-29
Online news outlets are a dying breed and many users have decided to consume information elsewhere. Why? Because the news industry has become a cesspool of anti-consumer and blackhat practices that has eroded trust for the sake of...
The Marginalian
Thank You, Everything: An Illustrated Love Letter to the World
We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe....
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We forget that none of this had to exist — that we weren’t owed mountains and music by the universe. And maybe we have to forget — or we would be too stupefied with gratitude for every raindrop and every eyelash to get through the daily tasks punctuating the unbidden wonder of...
NeuroLogica Blog
Let’s Talk About Cement
Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production...
6 months ago
Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production (25%) and transportation (28%). We talk a lot about transportation and energy, but industrial carbon is a harder nut to crack. Also, the 23% is direct carbon release from industrial...
Style over Substance
My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition)
For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
a year ago
For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
The Marginalian
May Sarton on Generosity
“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her...
a year ago
“Anything you do not give freely and abundantly becomes lost to you,” Annie Dillard wrote in her beautiful essay on generosity. “You open your safe and find ashes.” I feel this truth deeply, daily — for nearly two decades of offering these writings freely, I have lived by the...
FIRE v London
Jan ’23: Mr Market defuses my tax bombshell
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a year ago
January is always a miserable month to be in London. Thankfully I managed to get away a bit during the month (not to Davos, no), and enjoy myself in London despite the wintry weather. What you’re paying for in Mayfair these days Market movements in January The markets on the...
Commoncog
Building a Valuable Business? It's How You Spend It That Matters
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a year ago
The skill of capital allocation — a mysterious, under-discussed element of remarkable business performance.
One Useful Thing
Using AI to make teaching easier & more impactful
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Here are five strategies and prompts that work for GPT-3.5 & GPT-4
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My Journey from No CS Degree to AWS from Age 30 - 34
I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!
over a year ago
I was interviewed by Pete from No CS Degree on my journey, here are some extracts!
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things for your weekend (#13)
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a year ago
Climate messaging, antitrust, Chinese consumption, the Fed and inflation, marriage and happiness, historical data, and some Star Trek recommendations
Open Culture
Hokusai’s The Great Wave off Kanagawa Now Appears on Japanese Banknotes
If you’ve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that...
5 months ago
If you’ve lived or traveled in Japan, you know full well how much of daily life in that cash-intensive society involves the use of thousand-yen bills. Once considered the equivalent of the American ten-spot, the yen’s lately having fallen to its lowest value in decades means that...
alexwlchan
Some experiments with circle-based art
The header of this site is made of tiling squares in slightly varying shades of red.
It’s meant to...
over a year ago
The header of this site is made of tiling squares in slightly varying shades of red.
It’s meant to be subtle, but I think it still gives the site a unique look:
I think of this as the “new” header, even though my screenshot library tells me I added it in 2016 (!), as does the...
Open Culture
George Harrison Explains Why Everyone Should Play the Ukulele
George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can...
2 months ago
George Harrison loved the ukulele, and really, what’s not to love? For its dainty size, the uke can make a powerfully cheerful sound, and it’s an instrument both beginners and expert players can learn and easily carry around. As Harrison’s old friend Joe Brown remarked, “You can...
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...
over a year ago
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...
David Heinemeier...
Software estimates have never worked and never will
Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and...
4 months ago
Since the dawn of computing, humans have sought to estimate how long it takes to build software, and for just as long, they've consistently failed. Estimating even medium-sized projects is devilishly difficult, and estimating large projects is virtually impossible. Yet the...
Trying to Understand...
Understanding What's Happening in France.
The kinetic phase may come next.
a year ago
The kinetic phase may come next.
Koos Looijesteijn -...
Design and art
In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too...
over a year ago
In high school I wanted to become someone who draws comics or cartoons for a living. I wasn’t too concerned...
Open Culture
André Breton’s Surrealist Manifesto Turns 100 This Year
People don’t seem to write a lot of manifestos these days. Or if they do write manifestos, they...
7 months ago
People don’t seem to write a lot of manifestos these days. Or if they do write manifestos, they don’t make the impact that they would have a century ago. In fact, this year marks the hundredth anniversary of the Manifeste du surréalisme, or Surrealist Manifesto, one of the most...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Faster Connectivity !== Faster Websites
This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect...
8 months ago
This post from Dan Luu discussing how web bloat impacts users with slow devices caused me to reflect on the supposition that faster connectivity means faster websites.
I grew up in an era when slow internet was the primary limiting factor to a great experience on the web. I was...
Entrepreneur's Edge
OKRs will never be enough
Nuanced goal-setting frameworks to help manage the complexity in a growing company.
a year ago
Nuanced goal-setting frameworks to help manage the complexity in a growing company.
Classical Wisdom
How to Handle Financial Worries - Just in Time for the Holidays
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
a year ago
Advice from Dale Carnegie and the Stoics
TheCollector
From Legends to Ballads: What Is Folklore?
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2 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Destiny
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Interestingly, it seems like whoever has the best...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Interestingly, it seems like whoever has the best weapon systems is destined by fate for victory.
Today's News:
Ed Zitron's Where's...
In Response To Google
Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable....
8 months ago
Google has chosen to send a response to my article to Barry Schwartz of Search Engine Roundtable. Here is my response.
(1) On the March 2019 core update claim in the piece: This is baseless speculation. The March 2019 core update was designed to improve the quality of our search
Anecdotal Evidence
'One of the Finest of Human Creatures'
Turnstile One (1948) is a slender anthology of poems,
stories, essays and reviews edited by V.S...
10 months ago
Turnstile One (1948) is a slender anthology of poems,
stories, essays and reviews edited by V.S Pritchett and drawn from The New Statesman and Nation. Founded in
1913 by the Webbs and others associated with the Fabian Society, the magazine’s
politics were left-wing and many of...
Old Structures...
Smooth
Still in Montreal, the roof of a now enclosed, formerly (I think) open areaway in front of a high...
a month ago
Still in Montreal, the roof of a now enclosed, formerly (I think) open areaway in front of a high rise: In case that’s difficult to make out, it’s a glass slab roof supported on laminated glass beams. The hand belongs to Will Teron, who was standing on the same stair landing I...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
7 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago:
@solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
Adventures In...
Dashing Maps
There are lots of reasons why cartographers use dashed lines in their maps. Sometimes there are a...
a month ago
There are lots of reasons why cartographers use dashed lines in their maps. Sometimes there are a lot of different sorts of lines going around and it’s the best way to differentiate between different categories of things. Or we can embed meaning into them, like a dashed line...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Answers: Too much money in digital health? | Out-Of-Pocket
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a year ago
Here's what some of you had to say
TheCollector
Istanbul’s Top 7 Historic Gems
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8 months ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
My second year of blogging with Write.as
<![CDATA[Two years ago these days I announced my blog Paolo Amoroso's Journal hosted at Write.as....
10 months ago
<![CDATA[Two years ago these days I announced my blog Paolo Amoroso's Journal hosted at Write.as. Write.as is a paid instance of the lightweight, federated, open source blogging platform WriteFreely.
Deciding on a blogging platform that meets my needs wasn't easy but going with...
Rozado’s Visual...
The Increasing Frequency of Terms Denoting Political Extremism in U.S. and U.K. News Media
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with...
over a year ago
Published manuscript Twitter Thread Introduction I summarize here a published study co-authored with Eric Kaufmann where we examine longitudinally the prevalence of terms denoting far-right and far-left political extremism in more than 30 million written news and opinion articles...
Map of the Week
Summer of Extremes
It's been a summer of extremes around the world. Here is the United States we have dangerous...
a year ago
It's been a summer of extremes around the world. Here is the United States we have dangerous heat,
via Washington Post
droughts and floods, existing in close proximity in places,
US Drought Monitor
and wildfire smoke covering much of the country.
via...
On the Arts
How do you actually create AI art?
A Walkthrough of Using Midjourney, a Popular AI Art Creation App
a year ago
A Walkthrough of Using Midjourney, a Popular AI Art Creation App
Diaries of Note
A very wonderfull scene
In 1768, British botanist Joseph Banks was one of nearly a hundred crew members to join Captain...
a year ago
In 1768, British botanist Joseph Banks was one of nearly a hundred crew members to join Captain James Cook on the first of three historic voyages of exploration. For three years they journeyed, visiting South America, Tahiti, New Zealand, Australia and Java as they...
TheCollector
The Philosophy of Doomsday Preppers: What Would You Do to Survive?
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99% Invisible
Chick Tracts [EPISODE]
Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There...
a year ago
Since Chick Publications started in the mid 1960s, it has sold more than one billion tracts. There are two hundred and seventy different Chick Tracts, with titles like “The Death Cookie,” “Kidnapped!,” “Mean Momma,” “The Sissy?,” and “Satan Comes To Salem.” Many of these are...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Let the Words Glide Through the Air'
Some years
ago, out of the blue, a reader whose name I have forgotten sent me a copy of No Earthly...
a year ago
Some years
ago, out of the blue, a reader whose name I have forgotten sent me a copy of No Earthly Estate: The Religious Poetry of
Patrick Kavanagh (The Columba Press, Dublin, 2002) by Father Tom Stack. I was grateful because it sent me back to the Irish poet (1904-67) who seems...
Stephen Wolfram...
The Story Continues: Announcing Version 14 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in...
11 months ago
Version 14.0 of Wolfram Language and Mathematica is available immediately both on the desktop and in the cloud. See also more detailed information on Version 13.1, Version 13.2 and Version 13.3. Building Something Greater and Greater… for 35 Years and Counting Today we celebrate...
The DESK Magazine
5 hard truths for young designers
Stop reading right now if you’re looking for feel-good advice. This is not going to be that kind of...
6 months ago
Stop reading right now if you’re looking for feel-good advice. This is not going to be that kind of article.
Tech + Economics +...
Copyright is both vital and obsolete.
The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.?
For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights...
11 months ago
The New Yorker: Is A.I. the Death of I.P.?
For you (probably) and me (definitely), the rights to our creations are
not worth much money to anyone but ourselves. But, if you are the guy
who wrote “Born to Run,” it is prudent to assign your rights to an
entity...
Alex MacCaw
The Manager's Handbook
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The...
over a year ago
I've been writing a book on management for the last two years. Today it's getting released! The paperback and Kindle versions are now available on Amazon (along with the free web version).
If you've read and enjoyed it, please Tweet about how it'
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Partner
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Hovertext:
Humans are the only social animal that is creating...
a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Humans are the only social animal that is creating fake partners so they don't have to be social anymore.
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CONTEMPORIST
Exposed Wood Beams Create A Rustic Yet Modern Aesthetic For This Accessory Dwelling Unit
Obreval together with Catch Architecture, has recently completed a modern ADU (accessory dwelling...
12 months ago
Obreval together with Catch Architecture, has recently completed a modern ADU (accessory dwelling unit) in Carpenteria, California, whose design curves around a circular patio. The semicircular cutout that envelops the dwelling, invites an abundance of natural light into every...
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How to Build an Online Empire by Yourself (Without Any Hacks)
Let's cut the cr*p
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Oxide Computer...
Remembering Charles Beeler
We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor
in Oxide, passed
away...
a month ago
We are heartbroken to relay that Charles Beeler, a friend and early investor
in Oxide, passed
away in September after a battle with cancer. We lost Charles far too soon;
he had a tremendous influence on the careers of us both.
Our relationship with Charles dates back nearly two...
TheCollector
What is Speciesism According to Peter Singer?
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Londonist
UEFA Euro 2024 Screenings: Where To Watch Matches In London
3 x 🦁 + 👕 = ⚽
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A Smart Bear
Being who you are, while becoming better
We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means...
6 months ago
We're told "be yourself" to seek happiness and success. But what if "being yourself" also means striving to become better? What is "yourself?"
Liz Denys
Marbled V60-style coffee cone, 2023
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
a year ago
Sedimentary rock / canyons / weathering and erosion
Mazdak
The Rise of Nvidia and the Fall of Intel
For 25 years, Intel held a coveted spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a testament to its...
a month ago
For 25 years, Intel held a coveted spot in the Dow Jones Industrial Average, a testament to its influence in the tech world.
Classical Wisdom
The Fall of a Republic
Cato and Caesar
a year ago
Stories by Andrej...
A Peek at Trends in Machine Learning
over a year ago
African History...
A history of Women's political power and matriliny in the kingdom of Kongo.
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which...
a year ago
In the 19th century, anthropologists were fascinated by the concept of matrilineal descent in which kinship is traced through the female line. Matriliny was often confounded with matriarchy as a supposedly earlier stage of social evolution than patriarchy. Matriliny thus became a...
Spoon & Tamago
Photographer Meticulously Recreates Images of Chickens Painted by Edo-Era Artist Ito Jakuchu
Edo-era painter Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800) excelled at capturing the flora and fauna of the natural...
6 months ago
Edo-era painter Ito Jakuchu (1716-1800) excelled at capturing the flora and fauna of the natural world, a skill that extended to remarkable depictions of birds. In particular, chickens were a common theme for the artist and it was said that Jakuchu owned many of them, and allowed...
A Beautiful Site
Stop trying to build the next unicorn
So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy...
over a year ago
So, you're building the next big thing? You say you're going to make millions and have a fancy office building out in the valley? That's cool. By the same odds we'll both be rich, because I'm holding tonight's winning lotto ticket.
Your idea probably won't be the next big thing...
PHD Comics
07/12/21 PHD comic: 'James Webb Telescope'
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
...
over a year ago
Piled Higher
& Deeper by Jorge
Cham
www.phdcomics.com
title:
"James Webb Telescope" - originally published
7/12/2021
For the latest news in PHD Comics, CLICK HERE!
Retail Design Blog
The Mix Restaurant and Café by The Bloom architects
“Mix” is a restaurant and café project designed with the philosophy of blending nature and...
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“Mix” is a restaurant and café project designed with the philosophy of blending nature and architecture. The main highlight of...
Platformer
How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents
Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
a year ago
Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
Liz Denys
The 'doing good' framework: a manifesto against saying 'good people' and 'bad people'
I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I...
over a year ago
I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives:
Mr....
swyx's site RSS Feed
Solve CORS once and for all with Netlify Dev
_Published on [Alligator.io](https://alligator.io/nodejs/solve-cors-once-and-for-all-netlify-dev/)_
over a year ago
_Published on [Alligator.io](https://alligator.io/nodejs/solve-cors-once-and-for-all-netlify-dev/)_
Uncharted...
Why Could Lebanon Be Rich, but Is so Chaotic?
Mountains, seas, and a shitty region
2 months ago
Mountains, seas, and a shitty region
Paolo Amoroso's...
Setting up Medley for TableBrowser development
<![CDATA[Although Medley's documentation and published material is scattered across several archives...
a year ago
<![CDATA[Although Medley's documentation and published material is scattered across several archives and sources, and doesn't cover all the system facilities, once I find the right document I get most of the information I need on a specific feature.
But sometimes the information...
Noahpinion
Macroeconomics: The predator of foolish regimes
One thing no ruler can control.
3 days ago
One thing no ruler can control.
Rest of World -...
Forget Quibi. Chinese streamers are hooking Americans with werewolf love triangles
Billionaire werewolf love triangles, that is.
a year ago
Billionaire werewolf love triangles, that is.
NeuroLogica Blog
New Whale Fossil – Possibly Heaviest Animal Ever
The largest and heaviest animal to ever live on the Earth, as far as we know, is the blue whale,...
a year ago
The largest and heaviest animal to ever live on the Earth, as far as we know, is the blue whale, which is extant today. The blue whale is larger than any dinosaur, even the giant sauropods. The average weight of a blue whale is 160 tons, with the largest specimen being 190 tons,...
devonzuegel.com
OWD #0: Welcome to Order Without Design
I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know:...
over a year ago
I'm starting a new podcast called Order Without Design with the most interesting couple I know: Alain & Marie-Agnes Bertaud.
This project is an extension of their book, Order Without Design: How Markets Shape Cities. With its focus on economic theory, you might not realize that...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 057: Claude 3
March 8, 2024.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
More thoughts consumerization in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket
tales from other countries, industries, and more
3 months ago
tales from other countries, industries, and more
Farnam Street
Learning Through Play
Play is an essential way of learning about the world. Doing things we enjoy without a goal in mind...
over a year ago
Play is an essential way of learning about the world. Doing things we enjoy without a goal in mind leads us to find new information, better understand our own capabilities, and find unexpected beauty around us. Arithmetic is one example of an area we can explore through play....
Math Is Still...
Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage
New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about...
7 months ago
New experiments reveal how the brain chooses which memories to save and add credence to advice about the importance of rest.
The post Electric ‘Ripples’ in the Resting Brain Tag Memories for Storage first appeared on Quanta Magazine
ntietz.com blog
Where are we going from here? Software engineering needs formal methods
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to...
over a year ago
The job of a software engineer is not to produce code, but to solve problems; we just happen to solve most of those problems by producing code. Ultimately, producing code is hard, and we need help. That's why GitHub's Copilot is exciting, but it's far from ideal, and it's the tip...
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Oculus
I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the...
over a year ago
I've seen a handful of technology demos in my life that made me feel like I was glimpsing into the future. The best ones were: the Apple II…
Open Culture
Binge-Watch Classic Television Programs Free: The Dick Van Dyke Show, The Lone Ranger, Dragnet, That...
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music...
a week ago
Earlier this week, we featured the 99-year-old Dick Van Dyke’s performance in Coldplay’s new music video, full of visual references to the sitcom that made him a household name in the early nineteen-sixties. And a household name he remains these six decades later, though one does...
NeuroLogica Blog
The Fight over Education
There is an ongoing culture war, and not just in the US, over the content of childhood education,...
a year ago
There is an ongoing culture war, and not just in the US, over the content of childhood education, both public and private. This seems to be flaring up recently, but is never truly gone. Republicans in the US have recently escalated this war by banning over 500 books in several...
Diaries of Note
They have to fight an eagle on the top of the Empire State Building
Michael Palin, born in Sheffield on 5th May 1943, is best known as a member of Monty Python, the...
a year ago
Michael Palin, born in Sheffield on 5th May 1943, is best known as a member of Monty Python, the iconic comedy group who redefined the world of comedy with their surreal, subversive humour and innovative performances. However, Palin’s career extends beyond comedy thanks to...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Colder Here Than Organized Charity'
Hugh Kenner’s
first extant letter to Guy Davenport is dated March 7, 1958. Its manner is at
once...
9 months ago
Hugh Kenner’s
first extant letter to Guy Davenport is dated March 7, 1958. Its manner is at
once business-like and chatty: “I hope subsequent activities haven’t yet
sufficed to obliterate our Boston dinner last fall from your memory.” The men had
first met in 1953 when each...
Map of the Week
Buffalo in 50 Maps
New from Belt Publishing - the third book of their "50 Maps" series, Buffalo in 50 Maps is now out....
a year ago
New from Belt Publishing - the third book of their "50 Maps" series, Buffalo in 50 Maps is now out. Previous books on Cleveland and Detroit have been briefly covered on previous blog posts. The author, cartographer Victoria Johnson-Dahl was kind enough to send me an advance copy...
diamond geezer
Push Your Luck
New campaign to make your Tube journey cheaper
The Off Peak Fridays trial ends this Friday, after...
6 months ago
New campaign to make your Tube journey cheaper
The Off Peak Fridays trial ends this Friday, after which pay as you go single fares will return to their original peak values every weekday. But cheaper travel for deserving Londoners remains one of the key mission goals of the...
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Timing your startup
I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would...
over a year ago
I never had the opportunity to invest in YouTube but I have to admit that if I did I probably would have passed (which of course would have…
TheCollector
Italian Police Thwart “Tomb Raiders” at Etruscan Burial Site
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TheCollector
4 Celtic Hillforts and Oppida from the Iron Age
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Common Edge
Jane Jacobs, Cyclist
We should have known the famed urbanist loved the bike.
7 months ago
We should have known the famed urbanist loved the bike.
Irrational...
Modeling impact of LLMs on Developer Experience.
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how
LLMs might impact a...
2 months ago
In How should you adopt Large Language Models? (LLMs), we considered how
LLMs might impact a company’s developer experience. To support that exploration, I’ve developed a system model of
the developing software at the company.
In this chapter, we’ll work through:
Summary results...
Jonas Hietala
Design for Hackers has arrived!
Design for Hackers
It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will...
over a year ago
Design for Hackers
It’s here! After about a month of waiting I’ve finally gotten the book that will make me a design god! Or at least make me aware of something called design. Joking aside I’m really terrible at design and making things look good. Admittedly my programming art...
SOCKS
From Videogame Landscapes to Embrodery Canvas: La Sentinelle by Marine Beaufils (2022-24)
Marine Beaufils is a French embroidery artist whose meticulous work draws on the analogy between...
a month ago
Marine Beaufils is a French embroidery artist whose meticulous work draws on the analogy between pixels and needlepoints, as she translates scenes from her favorite video games, movies, or scientific imagery from screen to embroidery canvas. This process freezes a fragment of a...
Diaries of Note
Last day of shoot
Emma Thompson spent five years crafting the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, a period that...
a year ago
Emma Thompson spent five years crafting the screenplay for Sense and Sensibility, a period that might be described as part love affair with Jane Austen’s novel, part wrestling match with the challenge of adapting it for the big screen. When finally released in 1995, boasting a...
The Rational Walk
The Iliad
Homer's epic poem has much to teach us about human nature if we first take the time to gain an...
8 months ago
Homer's epic poem has much to teach us about human nature if we first take the time to gain an understanding of Greek mythology.
Maps Mania
Flip Off the World with Street View
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - LLM
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a year ago
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Classical Wisdom
Marcus Aurelius VS Diogenes
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
a year ago
Comparing the Stoics and the Cynics...
Blog - Guerrilla...
What a GIS & Map Librarian does all day
The two most common responses I get when I tell people that I’m a map librarian at UC Berkeley are:...
over a year ago
The two most common responses I get when I tell people that I’m a map librarian at UC Berkeley are:
I didn’t know that was a job?! and
I love maps!
These are both fair reactions. It’s not a very common job. And maps are very cool. Just like a typical librarian’s work does not...
TheCollector
Who Was Pasquale Paoli, the (Other) Corsican Revolutionary?
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Rozado’s Visual...
Is the Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part I: Some Multifaceted Evidence from Twitter Content
There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham...
a year ago
There has been some discussion lately by Eric Kaufmann, Tyler Cowen, Balaji Srinivasan, Paul Graham and Musa Al Gharbi as to whether The Great Awokening is winding down. I’m going to write a series of blog entries about this topic to contribute to the discussion. In order to do...
DYNOMIGHT
Please show lots of digits
Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve...
a month ago
Hi there. It’s me, the person who stares very hard at the numbers in the papers you write. I’ve brought you here today to ask a favor.
Say you wrote something like this:
There were 446 students tested. The left-handed students passed 5.67664% more often than right-handed...
Londonist
"There's A Mullet For Everyone" - How The Marmite Hairstyle Conquered Queer, Creative London
What gave rise to the mullet in London's hippest circles?
10 months ago
What gave rise to the mullet in London's hippest circles?
Anecdotal Evidence
'A University Education, Uncorrupted'
A human being
is “born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process...
a week ago
A human being
is “born an heir to an inheritance to which he can succeed only in a process of
learning.” Aristotle didn't get it quite right when he thought we could be defined by our capacity
for speech and even, on occasion, rational discourse. No, it’s learning that
makes us...
nanoscale views
Very brief end of the year round-up
It's hard to believe that it's already the end of 2023. It's been a busy year for condensed matter;...
11 months ago
It's hard to believe that it's already the end of 2023. It's been a busy year for condensed matter; it's unfortunate that two of the biggest stories (problems with high pressure superconductivity papers; the brief excitement about LK99, the not-actually-a-superconductor) were...
ᕕ( ᐛ )ᕗ Herman's...
The two kinds of writing
There are two kinds of writing. Writing for yourself, and writing for others. Both of these can,...
11 months ago
There are two kinds of writing. Writing for yourself, and writing for others. Both of these can, naturally, be broken down into various subcategories. For example:
Personal
Journaling
Note-taking
Poetry (although this can be public)
Public
Blogging
Academic papers
Letter...
Open Culture
Scientists Discover that Ancient Egyptians Drank Hallucinogenic Cocktails from 2,300 Year-Old Mug
Bes mug by USF Institute for Digital Exploration (IDEx) on Sketchfab If ZZ Top have a favorite...
2 weeks ago
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...
Louwrentius
Switching away from Debian to Ubuntu LTS
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years....
over a year ago
Over the last couple of years, Debian Linux has released new stable versions about every two years. This pace is great for progress, but there is a serious problem. This problem is related to their support for older Debian stable versions.
If you read the quote below from the...
Internal Tech Emails
Google looks at acquiring YouTube
can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
over a year ago
can I get a quick analysis of the likely cost of acquiring youtube? Eric
TheCollector
What Are the 5 Longest Rivers in the World?
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a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Modern Addition Is Perched Above This Home In Texas
Architect Nicole Blair has shared photos of a modern addition that was built above an existing...
6 months ago
Architect Nicole Blair has shared photos of a modern addition that was built above an existing bungalow in Austin, Texas. Owners Dylan and Annie, a landscape designer and a hairstylist, wanted to keep their backyard intact, and not move during construction nor disrupt the mature...
TheCollector
Rise and Legacy: Who Was Harry Truman?
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Moneyness
In praise of anti-money laundering thresholds
Two seemingly separate stories, a crypto and a banking story, have a common thread in anti-money...
a year ago
Two seemingly separate stories, a crypto and a banking story, have a common thread in anti-money laundering thresholds.
In the first story, the New York Times shows how regular folks are increasingly losing their bank accounts because their bank perceives them to be engaging in...
Londonist
The Great Fire Of London: 10 Key Sites To See
Monument, Pudding Lane, the Golden Boy and more.
a year ago
Monument, Pudding Lane, the Golden Boy and more.
Rest of World -...
Chinese smartphone maker Transsion’s strategy to win hearts and wallets in small-town India
After big successes in Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, China's Transsion Holdings sets its sights...
9 months ago
After big successes in Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh, China's Transsion Holdings sets its sights on India.
99% Invisible
Planet Money: Zombie 2nd Mortgages [EPISODE]
Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her...
3 months ago
Karen MacDonough had paid her mortgage for years, raised her family, and lived a quiet life in her Quincy, Massachusetts home—until one day, a group of strangers appeared on her lawn, claiming her house was up for foreclosure. What followed was a surreal discovery of “zombie...
Londonist
London's Working Class History Celebrated With 8 Exciting New Projects
Historic England announces new funding.
10 months ago
Historic England announces new funding.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Weeee!
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a year ago
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re: yesterday's comic - I have never gotten more hatemail than the time I insulted wild blueberries. Deal with it, bros.
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The Marginalian
Stunning Century-Old Illustrations of Tibetan Fairy Tales from the Artist Who Created Bambi
Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
a year ago
Soulful art from stories that speak "to the childhood of all times and all races."
Calculated Risk
FOMC Preview: Fed to Cut Rates 25bp
Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp...
a week ago
Most analysts expect the FOMC will cut the federal funds rate at the meeting this week by 25bp lowering the target range to 4 1/4 to 4 1/2 percent. However, most market participants now expect the FOMC to pause in January and are split on a rate cut at the March...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Creating an employee-friendly startup share option scheme
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into...
over a year ago
If you’ve ever worked for a startup, or read about a Unicorn tech company turning employees into multi-millionaires overnight, chances are you've…
TheCollector
What Makes Salvador Dali So Famous?
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CONTEMPORIST
A Home Office Was Hidden Behind A Wall That Folds Open
BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in...
11 months ago
BENT Architecture has sent us photos of a renovation and extension they completed for a house in Hawthorn, Australia. One design detail that caught our attention is the home office hidden in plain sight in the dining room behind a wood accent wall. The floor-to-ceiling wood...
Archinect - Features
Quilian Riano at Pratt: 'Believing in the Power of an Architectural Education' for the Next...
Archinect's Deans List series offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the minds shaping the future...
a year ago
Archinect's Deans List series offers readers an exclusive glimpse into the minds shaping the future of architectural education. This series not only delves into the unique programming of each school but also uncovers the philosophies and approaches that define their educational...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Notes from “An approach to computing and sustainability inspired from permaculture” by Devine...
I am interested in computers as a way to do more than consume.
That’s how Devine starts their talk...
11 months ago
I am interested in computers as a way to do more than consume.
That’s how Devine starts their talk from Strangeloop. I’ve linked to them before, as they have an interesting perspective on computing in the 21st century (given, in part, their environment of living on a boat).
I...
The Honest Broker
A Landlubber’s Guide to Sea Shanties
You don't need to be a sailor to put these songs to work
a year ago
You don't need to be a sailor to put these songs to work
Seth's Blog
Return on effort
It’s a pretty simple calculation. How much value per dollar does a freelancer produce for you?...
6 months ago
It’s a pretty simple calculation. How much value per dollar does a freelancer produce for you? What’s the psychic reward for the time you put into your favorite hobby? That machine that takes time and money to set up and run… what does it create when it’s operating? Not...
Tech + Economics +...
“Walking meetings” are not going to bring people back to the office.
Joy Adan, senior thought leadership manager at Reward Gateway, an
Australian human resource...
a year ago
Joy Adan, senior thought leadership manager at Reward Gateway, an
Australian human resource consulting company, said that connecting with
co-workers and building those relationships were a critical part of
work and should not be trivialised.
“Coffee badging...
James Cheshire
Anxiety and Mapping the Climate Crisis
Many of the maps I have created in recent years address the climate crisis and I’ve been asked a...
over a year ago
Many of the maps I have created in recent years address the climate crisis and I’ve been asked a number of times about if I feel powerless in the face of the data I’m showing. I reflect on this here with Kit Rackley. Our chat also in part inspired this article in The...
TheCollector
5 Notable Books by Ernest Hemingway
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Which Standard Deviation?
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous...
6 months ago
It’s another installment in Data Q&A: Answering the real questions with Python. Previous installments are available from the Data Q&A landing page. standard_dev Which Standard Deviation¶ Here’s a question from the Reddit statistics forum. When do we use N and when N-1 for...
Mazdak
The 7 Steps to Becoming a Top Investor
Do you want to become a great investor? If so, you're in the right place. In this article, I'm going...
a year ago
Do you want to become a great investor? If so, you're in the right place. In this article, I'm going to share with you the seven steps that I believe are essential for becoming a top investor. Step 1: Develop a Clear Investment Philosophy The first step to becoming a great...
Archinect - Features
'AI Is a Dangerous Distraction From the Pressing Issues Defining Our Generation'; A...
Liam Young was once described by the BBC as “the man designing our future.” In 2023, with open...
a year ago
Liam Young was once described by the BBC as “the man designing our future.” In 2023, with open letters penned on the risks of extinction posed by artificial intelligence, such a role should be in high demand.
Young’s speculations on the future take the form of fictional stories...
Dreams of Space -...
Johnny's Space Trip (1954)
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures...
a year ago
A re-run--
Back to the imaginative past and Johnny's Space Trip. This 1954 fictional book captures the spirit of doing it for yourself as Johnny and his friends build (and dream of) a spaceship for a journey from their backyard. It is pure fantasy but as you will see there is a...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Sam Altman Is Full Of Shit
Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook...
7 months ago
Note: In my last newsletter, I said that my next post would be the second part of my Facebook autopsy. Don’t worry, that’s still coming, but given the recent drama between Sam Altman, OpenAI, and Scarlett Johansson, I felt the need to write something. Don’
TheCollector
Which Countries Have the Most Official Languages?
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A Beautiful Site
Installing Shoelace in a React App
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library...
over a year ago
Although Shoelace is a web component library, it ships React wrappers that lets you use the library idiomatically in React. This video shows you how to install Shoelace in a brand new Create React App.
If you found this video helpful, please subscribe to my channel on YouTube...
The American Scholar
Femmes Fantastiques
Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing
The post Femmes Fantastiques appeared first on The American...
6 months ago
Mickalene Thomas and the art of remixing
The post Femmes Fantastiques appeared first on The American Scholar.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Social Media
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a year ago
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Flashbak
Nick Cave’s Script For Gladiator 2
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the...
a year ago
Before Ridley Scott’s Gladiator 2, Nick Cave wrote his original sequel to Gladiator (2000) at the behest of the film’s star, Russell Crowe. It’s not known is David Scarpa, who wrote Scott’s version, read Cave’s script first, but if he did there will be no allegation of...
Seth's Blog
Valuable contributions
We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many...
a year ago
We actually don’t really know. Netflix just released their first-ever detailed analysis of how many hours of engagement the top 15,000+ most watched shows on the network received over a six month period. Here’s the file. Who won? That question is actually the lesson here. The...
PostHog's RSS Feed
Array 1.14.0
Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of...
over a year ago
Over the past three weeks, there was one word on everyone's mind: feedback. We did a bunch of interviews with users and had a lot of discussions with…
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Injecting Caution Into Media Reports of Northern Lights as far South as California
Friday, May 10, there was a lot of discussion on the news, on social media, and on different web...
7 months ago
Friday, May 10, there was a lot of discussion on the news, on social media, and on different web sites about storms on the Sun that are unleashing great outbursts of radiation and particles, some of them toward Earth. The fact that we are seeing such “space weather” now certainly...
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 7
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
a year ago
In which I pay for people to check out OnlineOrNot to test my landing pages.
Musings on Markets
Data Update 6 for 2023: A Wake up call for the Indebted?
We have an uneasy relationship with debt, both in our personal and business lives. While it is a...
a year ago
We have an uneasy relationship with debt, both in our personal and business lives. While it is a financial decision, it is one that is freighted with moral overtones, since almost every religion inveighs against debt's sins, labeling those who lend as sinners and those who borrow...
Koos Looijesteijn -...
SVG Turbulance Effect for Text
This approach allows for some next level design options!
over a year ago
This approach allows for some next level design options!
TheCollector
The Colombia Banana Massacre of 1928: The Shocking Story
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Tech + Economics +...
Real estate grifters are creating unlivable conditions.
TikTok Real Estate Influencers and ‘Grifters’ Are in Deep Trouble, Short
Seller Says
Philip...
11 months ago
TikTok Real Estate Influencers and ‘Grifters’ Are in Deep Trouble, Short
Seller Says
Philip Garboden, a professor of affordable housing at the University of
Hawaii who has studied the rise of small real estate investors, said
the effects of reckless lending on...
CONTEMPORIST
Steel Symphony: A Madrid Home’s Unique Design With Weathered Elegance
Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in...
8 months ago
Borja Lomas of Voluar Arquitectura has designed a new home in Madrid, Spain, that’s covered in weathering steel and has a uniquely shaped design. The shape of the home showcases various areas that branch out in different directions, some of which are cantilevered away from the...
The Pragmatic...
The Pulse: VanMoof files for bankruptcy protection
The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike...
a year ago
The electric bike company raised close to $200M, but now closed all its service points. For bike owners, they could face the risk of their bikes being bricked if they don't take prompt action.
Data Boutique
5 Reasons You Should Stop Web Scraping
An approach to web data as a service
a year ago
An approach to web data as a service
Andrej Karpathy blog
Short Story on AI: Forward Pass
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over a year ago
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The inspiration for this short story came to me while reading Kevin Lacker’s Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test. It is probably worth it (though not required) to skim this post to get...
RhysTranter.com
“Be zealous in amending your whole life”: Vincent Van Gogh on The Imitation of Christ
In the years leading up to my conversion, I gradually became fascinated by Thomas á Kempis’s...
7 months ago
In the years leading up to my conversion, I gradually became fascinated by Thomas á Kempis’s devotional text, The Imitation of Christ. I encountered it first in the letters of the young Samuel Beckett, and next in the interviews of Estonian composer Arvo Pärt, and then in all...
Posts on Made of...
Two kinds of testing
While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to...
over a year ago
While talking about thinking about tests and testing in software engineering recently, I’ve come to the conclusion that there are (at least) two major ideas and goals that people have when they test or talk about testing. This post aims to outline what I see as these two schools,...
Arduino Blog
Enhance your IoT dashboards with Arduino Cloud’s new Image widget
At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited...
3 months ago
At Arduino, we’re constantly working to improve your IoT management experience. Today, we’re excited to announce a new feature for Arduino Cloud that will allow you to enhance your IoT dashboards: the Image widget. The new Image widget The Image widget is a simple yet powerful...
Overcoming Bias
The Two Big Games
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities...
2 weeks ago
Imagine a business meeting which will decide if a new project goes forward, or decide key priorities about it.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Die on It
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a year ago
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Later, the robot learns to nod its head and keep the truth inside.
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Sharing The Things We Use
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include...
over a year ago
Sharing The Things We Use
2021-07-24
I always love stumbling across personal websites that include some form of a "uses" page. A place where the author lists out all the tools they use on a regular basis - whether it be hardware, software or something else entirely. It allows...
Kagi Blog
Kagi for Teams
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams...
2 weeks ago
To satisfy the growing demand for our services in work environments, we are launching Kagi for Teams ( https://kagi.com/teams ) - bringing our unmatched quality, privacy-focused search and AI tools to businesses worldwide.
The American Scholar
“water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton appeared first on The...
2 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “water sign woman” by Lucille Clifton appeared first on The American Scholar.
Electronics etc…
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Introduction
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by...
11 months ago
Introduction
Hideo Okawara’s Mixed Signal Lecture Series
Frequency/Phase Movement Analysis by Orthogonal Demodulation
Misc
Introduction
While researching a DSP related topic, Google dug up an excellent article,
written by Hideo Okawara, that is just one part of a series of ~53. I...
The Marginalian
A Spell Against Stagnation: John O’Donohue on Beginnings
"Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning."
11 months ago
"Our very life here depends directly on continuous acts of beginning."
Classical Wisdom
The Immortals
...and the feared Persian Army
a year ago
...and the feared Persian Army
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