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TheCollector
The Great Wall of Amazonian Pictographs Nobody Knows About undefined
5 months ago
Rest of World -...
Beyond a Barbie ban, Vietnam sets its censors on Netflix It’s not just the summer blockbuster that’s hit a nerve.
a year ago
TheCollector
Atlas Shrugged: Ayn Rand’s Most Famous Novel Explained undefined
a year ago
Seeking Wisdom
Neural Networks – Part 2 This is my sixth post in a series on building a toy GPT. I recommend that you read my previous posts...
a year ago
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a year ago
This is my sixth post in a series on building a toy GPT. I recommend that you read my previous posts before reading this one. When using linear and logistic regression, which involve just a single linear equation, calculating derivatives is easy since there is only one equation...
Product Identity
#3 Telegram - The mysterious messenger app Exploring the "new era of messaging"
a year ago
Common Edge
Is Mass Timber the Key Element in a Low Carbon Future? A new book highlights the promise—and lingering challenges—of this important material.
9 months ago
Retail Design Blog
Deokboon Korean Dining and Grill by FLYMINGO “Capturing the Warmth of the Time” : A cozy atmosphere that provides calmness to all, wherein a...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
“Capturing the Warmth of the Time” : A cozy atmosphere that provides calmness to all, wherein a delicious meal and...
TheCollector
Renovations Continue at Houston’s Rothko Chapel undefined
8 months ago
TheCollector
What Is Film Noir? A Definition, History, and Impact undefined
a year ago
NeuroLogica Blog
Unifying Cognitive Biases Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there...
a year ago
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a year ago
Are you familiar with the “lumper vs splitter” debate? This refers to any situation in which there is some controversy over exactly how to categorize complex phenomena, specifically whether or not to favor the fewest categories based on similarities, or the greatest number of...
balajis.com
The Elondrop Build the political support necessary to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Build the political support necessary to free Twitter with the largest airdrop in history.
Open Culture
The Romans Stashed Hallucinogenic Seeds in a Vial Made From an Animal Bone What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This...
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6 months ago
What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This phenomenon has become more difficult to notice in recent years, not because it’s slowed down, but because it’s sped way up, owing to near-instantaneous cultural diffusion on the internet....
Anecdotal Evidence
'Gleams Like a Warm Homestead Light' Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Here is epigram 1.33 by Marcus Valerius Martialis (c. 38-102 A.D.), better known in English as Martial:  “In private she mourns not the late-lamented; If someone’s by, her tears leap forth on call. Sorrow, my dear, is not so easily rented. They are true tears that without witness...
Common Edge
How the YIMBY-NIMBY Debate Worsened the Housing Crisis And how to change things for better results.
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
A blip in time
over a year ago
Musings on Maps
The Dystopia of Diagolon: Irrational Cartographies of Secession The quandary of our own abundant if not inexhaustible repertoire of mapping abilities and skills of...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The quandary of our own abundant if not inexhaustible repertoire of mapping abilities and skills of visualization are tried by the spread of COVID-19. As dashboards, news agencies, and media offered new maps and staked new skills of mapping, maps … Continue reading →
Open Culture
How the Hugely Acclaimed Shōgun TV Series Makes Translation Interesting Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Many of us grew up seeing hardback copies of Shōgun on various domestic bookshelves. Whether their owners ever actually got through James Clavell’s famously hefty novel of seventeenth-century Japan is open to question, but they may well have seen the first television adaptation,...
The Map is Mostly...
Audiobooks Are Books and They’re Also Practice Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing I’m very fond of audiobooks....
a year ago
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a year ago
Speak low if you speak love. — Shakespeare, Much Ado about Nothing I’m very fond of audiobooks. There is something endearing, maybe even romantic, about the act of listening. I get this same sense often in early photographs of radio listeners, that they appreciate the romance of...
Paul Graham: Essays
Having Kids
over a year ago
Oykun
Introvert Designer I’m an introvert. Unfortunately, I have discovered this term and its true meaning quite late in my...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I’m an introvert. Unfortunately, I have discovered this term and its true meaning quite late in my life. I have always been the person who talks less in a large group. I've always preferred to be either by myself or with a small number of people
Noahpinion
Interview: Dan Wang, China specialist We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and...
a year ago
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a year ago
We talk about China's economy, decoupling, export controls, industrial policy, state control, and lots more.
TheCollector
The Greek Mythology Behind Famous Constellations undefined
a year ago
Both Are True
Live, laugh, AND love? In THIS economy? With THESE Inflations?
4 months ago
African History...
Join me on Notes "On the Zanzibari envoy to 11th century china and the recent Swahili-Persian DNA study"
a year ago
xkcd.com
Definition of e
a year ago
Bits about Money
Demystifying financial leverage Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.
Maps Mania
Mythical Creatures of the World
a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Featherless Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I propose that we consider AI sentient when you...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I propose that we consider AI sentient when you feed it this comic and it is disappointed in you. Today's News:
diamond geezer
#generalelection w/e 23/05/24 10 things that happened this week #generalelection Data 2019 → 2024 Interest rates: 0.75% →...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
10 things that happened this week #generalelection Data 2019 → 2024 Interest rates: 0.75% → 5.25% Inflation: 1.3% → 2.3% (via 11.1%) Energy cap: £1179 → £1690 (via £4059) Unemployment: 3.8% → 4.3% Covid deaths: 0 → 230,000 FTSE: 7353 → 8367 (up 14%) Opinion polls: 11% CON lead →...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Chap Who Doesn't Care Much About Anything' Below the masthead of the August 19, 2024 issue of The Daily Chronicle is a brief, boxed...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Below the masthead of the August 19, 2024 issue of The Daily Chronicle is a brief, boxed announcement:  “Today is National Orangutan Day. The apes are the largest tree-dwelling animals on Earth. They spend 90 percent of their time in trees, even sleeping in leafy nests. No wonder...
Open Culture
High-Tech Analysis of Ancient Scroll Reveals Plato’s Burial Site and Final Hours Even if you can name only one ancient Greek, you can name Plato. You can also probably say at least...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Even if you can name only one ancient Greek, you can name Plato. You can also probably say at least a little about him, if only some of the things humanity has known since antiquity. Until recently, of course, that qualification would have been redundant. But now, thanks to an...
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Enablement vs Ownership Roles Two ways to approach responsibility in a company.
over a year ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chipmunks Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Conveniently they just pack the gold in boxes like...
a year ago
Raptitude.com
How It Seems vs How It Is The other day I replaced an old, cracked mirror in my bathroom. When I took the existing one down,...
2 weeks ago
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2 weeks ago
The other day I replaced an old, cracked mirror in my bathroom. When I took the existing one down, suddenly the room seemed to lose half its size. Turns out it’s just a claustrophobic little room with a toilet, sink, and tub. The sense that there’s open space in front of me while...
diamond geezer
September events diary 2024 It's almost September again but never fear, London's putting on a last flurry of events, activities...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
It's almost September again but never fear, London's putting on a last flurry of events, activities and happenings before the nights draw in and we're all invited. Here's my weekend-by-weekend guide to free September delights. All month Totally Thames (Sep 1-30): Once again a...
A Smart Bear
The Elephant in the room: The myth of exponential hypergrowth Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Fast-growing startups are frequently described as “exponential,” especially when the product is “viral.” This turns out to be incorrect, even for Facebook and Slack. If your model is incorrect, you don’t understand growth, which means you can’t control it, nor predict it. Here is...
FIRE v London
August ’24: From triumph to tragedy Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
Looking back on the month, it was more eventful than Augusts are reputed to be. In the UK we are getting used to our new government. And, in some cases, violently testing its boundaries with some summer rioting. We’ve seen some dreadful street behaviour, frequently of a racist /...
Marco.org
Overcast 5: Watch, Siri, search, and redesign! I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I apologize for the low battery level. Busy day. It all started with the watchOS volume widget. You see, Overcast’s previous Apple Watch app really sucked. I did my best with the capabilities of watchOS 1–4, but I couldn’t give people what they really wanted: Standalone podcast...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Same Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: By 2026, it's just all teleporter comics. Today's...
a year ago
Irrational...
ReadME contribution on reliability programs. I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was excited to contribute an article, Move past incident response to reliability to Github’s The ReadME project. This topic was particularly on my mind when I wrote it towards the end of last year, when I was focused on my Infrastructure Engineering project. That project is a...
TheCollector
The Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882: Racism on a Federal Level undefined
8 months ago
Prolost
Jurassic Punk If you’re reading this blog, you probably know the story — at least, you think you do. As Steven...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you’re reading this blog, you probably know the story — at least, you think you do. As Steven Spielberg began production on 1993’s Jurassic Park, he and Industrial Light and Magic’s Dennis Muren planned to execute the all-important visual effects component of the film’s...
The Honest Broker
What Is Really Inside the Briefcase in 'Pulp Fiction'? Here's the latest installment of my book 'Music to Raise the Dead'—currently available only on...
8 months ago
Society's Backend
OpenAI's o1, Model Merging, California Approves AI Regulation, and More Machine learning resources and updates 2024-09-17
3 months ago
Contemporist...
A New Home In Costa Rica Designed To Highlight Its Surroundings Architecture firm Studio Saxe, has shared photos of a new home they completed in Costa Rica, that's...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Architecture firm Studio Saxe, has shared photos of a new home they completed in Costa Rica, that's designed to progressively highlight the wondrous ecological and topographical surroundings.
Oykun
Tackling FOMO-driven social media struggle with your new Designer Mindset You are a designer, working on your full-time job or your freelance projects. You go online Open X...
a year ago
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a year ago
You are a designer, working on your full-time job or your freelance projects. You go online Open X app You see  1. John released his Framer template  2. Fatma launches her “How To Make $100k As A Designer” course  3. Gary starts his subscription model
Tony Finch's blog
I made a keyboard! Another keyboard! HHKbeeb A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup to...
a year ago
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a year ago
Another keyboard! HHKbeeb A couple of years ago I made a BBC Micro tribute keyboard in the runup to the beeb’s 40th anniversary. I called it HHKBeeb: The HHKBeeb is made from: keycaps designed by me and printed by WASD Yiancar HS60 PCB generic HHKB aluminium / acrylic sandwich...
Rest of World -...
Google’s Gemini problem will be even worse outside the U.S. It’s hard to keep a stereotyping machine out of trouble.
9 months ago
This Space
At home he’s a tourist: The Moment by Peter Holm Jensen Such a modest, self-effacing title, barely relieved by the blanched map on the cover. In everyday...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Such a modest, self-effacing title, barely relieved by the blanched map on the cover. In everyday speech, a word or two is usually added to supplement the weedy noun: people say “At this moment in time”, which is when I ask: can a moment be in anything else; a moment in lampposts...
Build In Public...
Metal detector for hidden revenue 💰👀🔎 Meet Lasso, an AI-driven sales prospecting tool that'll help you find the B2B prospects your sales...
a month ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Profile Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is a deepfake. The real comic was way...
10 months ago
The Rational Walk
The Digest #204 Buffett buys more Occidental, Daily Journal annual meeting notes, Experts vs. Imitators, Slowing...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
Buffett buys more Occidental, Daily Journal annual meeting notes, Experts vs. Imitators, Slowing down time, Return of meme stocks, The U.S. Constitution, Gouverneur Morris, Cleopatra
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Conscious Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Panel 2 is the title of my autobiography. Today's...
a year ago
Noahpinion
Japan isn't quite "back", but it has a fighting chance Here are some ideas for what it can do to be truly "back".
10 months ago
Arduino Blog
Agitating homemade PCBs with ease If you want to make PCBs at home and you don’t happen to own a CNC mill, then you’ll probably need...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
If you want to make PCBs at home and you don’t happen to own a CNC mill, then you’ll probably need to turn to chemical etching. Use one of several different techniques to mask the blank PCB’s copper that you want to keep, then toss the whole thing into a bath to dissolve away the...
HTMHell
Revisiting Fundamentals - Semantic lists for Improved Accessibility by Winnie Bosibori Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when...
a year ago
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a year ago
by Winnie Bosibori Lists are one of the fundamental semantic HTML configurations that, when implemented appropriately can enhance accessibility. HTML Lists Refresher Whenever I visit any website, I have formed the habit of checking for any accessibility issues and delving deeper...
Classical Wisdom
Upcoming Events So you're in the know...
a year ago
Paolo Amoroso's...
Laying the foundation of WebCard <![CDATA[The initial Interlisp code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project, defines the new type...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
<![CDATA[The initial Interlisp code of WebCard, my RetroChallenge 2024 project, defines the new type "Web" of NoteCards card. It's the first step for extending NoteCards to visit websites. The main code is in the function WCD.CreateWebCardType, a thin wrapper around the...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Paradigm Lost (CascadiaJS 2022 Talk Notes) Some show notes for my CascadiaJS talk for those who are looking for all the references and cut...
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
How Songs Created Western Rational Thinking And Socrates sends me on a mad chase into the wild world of musical dreams
a year ago
Internal Tech Emails
Microsoft exec on the iPod: "Apple is just so far ahead" I bought the high end creative labs portable player. It was the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra. I have to...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I bought the high end creative labs portable player. It was the NOMAD Jukebox Zen Xtra. I have to tell you my experience with our software and this device is really terrible.
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 June 17 - July 05 Make it bigger. portals birthday eve exploring...
5 months ago
Global Inequality...
Why not Keynes? Keynes’ uneasy relationship with income distribution
8 months ago
TheCollector
Why Did Lord Byron Die in Greece? undefined
8 months ago
pcloadletter
Quality is a hard sell in big tech I have noticed a trend in a handful of products I've worked on at big tech companies. I have friends...
10 months ago
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10 months ago
I have noticed a trend in a handful of products I've worked on at big tech companies. I have friends at other big tech companies that have noticed a similar trend: The products are kind of crummy. Here are some experiences that I have often encountered: the UI is flakey and/or...
Ferd.ca
The Review Is the Action Item 2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own...
6 months ago
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6 months ago
2024/05/30 The Review Is the Action Item I like to consider running an incident review to be its own action item. Other follow-ups emerging from it are a plus, but the point is to learn from incidents, and the review gives room for that to happen. This is not surprising advice if...
Handprinted - Blog
Screen Printing a Repeat Pattern Printing a length of your own designed fabric is so exciting but most of us do not have the luxury...
a year ago
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a year ago
Printing a length of your own designed fabric is so exciting but most of us do not have the luxury of a fabric registration table. Here's an easy step by step guide to printing a repeat pattern on a length of fabric using an A4 43T screen. Draw the design motifs onto...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Foam Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The guy opens a coat to reveal respectable...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The guy opens a coat to reveal respectable employment with opportunity for promotion. Today's News:
EXPLAIN EXTENDED
Happy New Year: a stereogram in SQL I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I'm spending this New Year holiday in sunny Florida. One of its most beautiful places is the Everglades: the endless sea of grass, extending to the horizon, as far as the eye can see and beyond, and teeming with life. There are all kinds of animals there. Herons, egrets,...
Math Is Still...
Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
The Joy of Why podcast returns for a third season, with two co-hosts, 24 brilliant guests and 24 all-new episodes. The post Why Locusts Swarm, Humans Do Good and Time Marches On first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Nothing Human
Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
a year ago
Tyler Cipriani: blog
Writing raft ✏️⚡🔪 The club that’s write or die. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
✏️⚡🔪 The club that’s write or die. If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. – Stephen King, “On Writing” In 2022, I made a Ulysses pact to force myself to write—either write or feel the white-hot shame of (temporary)...
Moneyness
Thoughts on Privacy Pools and the law Here's my quick first-pass take on Privacy Pools, the heir apparent to privacy tool Tornado Cash. My...
a year ago
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a year ago
Here's my quick first-pass take on Privacy Pools, the heir apparent to privacy tool Tornado Cash. My comments are on the legal side, and less so the technical side, although the two aren't mutually exclusive.  I've already written a bunch of times about Tornado Cash on this blog....
Passing Time
Backcountry Skiers and Venture Capitalists Skiing in the proverbial River
3 months ago
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
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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...
Vladimir Klepov as a...
Zero-setup bundle size checker We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that —...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
We all love keeping bundle size under control. There are many great tools that help you with that — webpack-bundle-analyzer, bundlesize, size-limit, what not. But sometimes you you're lazy, or you're stuck choosing the tool, or the project is too small to justify spending extra...
Common Edge
Great American Cities That Teach Architecture Learning about urban planning and design outside the studio.
10 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Everything is Singing, Blooming and Sparkling' In a May 4, 1889 letter to his friend and editor Alexi Suvorin, Chekhov complains of taking no...
7 months ago
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7 months ago
In a May 4, 1889 letter to his friend and editor Alexi Suvorin, Chekhov complains of taking no interest in “reviews, conversations about literature, gossip, successes, failures, high royalties,” and adds: “[I]n short, I’ve become a damn fool. My soul seems to be stagnating. I...
David Perell
The Microwave Economy America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
America has become a Microwave Economy. We’ve overwhelmingly used our wealth to make the world cheaper instead of more beautiful, more functional instead of more meaningful. The post The Microwave Economy appeared first on David Perell.
Open Culture
The Internet Archive Rescues MTV News’ Web Site, Making 460,000+ of Its Pages Searchable Again Image via Internet Archive Last month, MTV News’ web site went missing. Or at least almost all of it...
5 months ago
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5 months ago
Image via Internet Archive Last month, MTV News’ web site went missing. Or at least almost all of it did, including an archive of stories going back to 1997. To some of us, and especially to those of us old enough to have grown up watching MTV on actual television, that won’t...
Maps Mania
Piecing the World Back Together
4 months ago
Seth's Blog
The low-stakes argument It’s tempting and fun to argue about the logo. About the way the toilet paper is hung. About how to...
a year ago
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a year ago
It’s tempting and fun to argue about the logo. About the way the toilet paper is hung. About how to load the trunk of the car. These sorts of arguments work precisely because they don’t matter. At all. And they distract us from the incredibly difficult work of discussing the...
TheCollector
Achaian War: How the Romans Defeated the Last Free State in Greece undefined
a year ago
Josh Collinsworth
The quiet, pervasive devaluation of frontend I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals,...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I keep noticing those of us in the frontend field being treated much the same as nurses, paralegals, and executive assistants. Our work is seen as important, certainly, but just not the same as, or as important as, the “real” work.
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
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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
Londonist
Where To Be Scottish In London Kilty pleasures
a year ago
Open Culture
The Rolling Stones Introduce Bluesman Howlin’ Wolf on US TV, One of the “Greatest Cultural Moments... Howlin’ Wolf may well have been the greatest blues singer of the 20th century. Certainly many people...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Howlin’ Wolf may well have been the greatest blues singer of the 20th century. Certainly many people have said so, but there are other measurements than mere opinion, though it’s one I happen to share. The man born Chester Arthur Burnett also had a profound historical effect on...
Mazdak
Jury Delivers Major Blow to Google in Antitrust Case: Play Store Deemed Illegal Monopoly In a historic ruling that could shake the foundations of the mobile app ecosystem, a federal jury...
a year ago
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a year ago
In a historic ruling that could shake the foundations of the mobile app ecosystem, a federal jury has found Google Play guilty of violating antitrust laws in a lawsuit brought by Epic Games. This landmark decision has sent shockwaves through the tech industry and raised questions...
Business Brainstorms
Operational Minimalism, Zero shame in pulling the plug, OpenAI blog posts, ... Welcome to another edition of Business Brainstorms - your weekly dose of invaluable insights, trends...
a year ago
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a year ago
Welcome to another edition of Business Brainstorms - your weekly dose of invaluable insights, trends and opportunities served up fresh from the cerebral kitchen of Jakob Greenfeld. Time to brainstorm! 💡 Opportunities “Whoever can find out how to crack the operational hurdles of...
Words and Buttons...
Challenge your performance intuition with C++ sine One more interactive quiz. This time, it's all about the sine function. Which one is faster and...
over a year ago
TheCollector
Las Vegas Gallery to Sell $100 Million Leonardo Sculpture undefined
3 weeks ago
escape the algorithm
howdidyoufind.me a website about how people found this website
2 months ago
Math Is Still...
The Experimental Cosmologist Hunting for the First Sunrise To catch even a whiff of the universe’s earliest epochs — an age of darkness, and one of new light —...
a year ago
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a year ago
To catch even a whiff of the universe’s earliest epochs — an age of darkness, and one of new light — Cynthia Chiang builds her own equipment. Then she deploys it at the ends of the Earth. The post The Experimental Cosmologist Hunting for the First Sunrise first...
The Modern House
Four flawless apartments provide surprising sanctuary in Peckham Rye
6 months ago
TheCollector
What Was the Gospel of Thomas? undefined
4 months ago
Classical Wisdom
Finding Odysseus’ Homeland There is no time like the present to truly understand the past...
2 months ago
A Smart Bear
Productive meeting activities: Leverage the team, empower the individual Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Meetings are most productive when we create something that none of us could have created alone. How can we leverage the wisdom of the crowd, while ensuring that decisions and responsibilities continue to reside with an individual?
Cartogrammar
Land by latitude and longitude, or, a pile of continents Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Bill Rankin’s graphs of world population by latitude and longitude popped into mind for no particular reason the other day, followed by a silly-sounding question: “but, like, what about land area by latitude and longitude?” Silly because, duh, a chart of land area by latitude and...
Rest of World -...
Traditional sellers in Vietnam still aren’t sold on e-commerce As online shopping booms, local merchants are struggling to adapt, despite government help.
a month ago
Transit Maps
New Official Map: San Francisco Muni Metro Map with Central Subway This map has actually been out for a while, but today – celebrating the full opening of the Central...
a year ago
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a year ago
This map has actually been out for a while, but today – celebrating the full opening of the Central Subway – seemed like the appropriate day to post about it. Design-wise, this is very much an evolution of previous efforts (see my review of the post-COVID resumption of service...
Mazdak
AI Energy Fears: Overblown or the Next Crisis? Is the fear of AI's energy consumption a tempest in a teapot or a sign of a looming energy crisis?
a month ago
African History...
a brief note on the intellectual contributions of African scholars in the diaspora the biography of a West African mathematician in Cairo.
8 months ago
Blog System/5
Why do I know shell, and how can you? My personal story with this ancient language and some tips to learn it
a year ago
TheCollector
Ancient Marble Zeus Head Unearthed in Türkiye undefined
4 months ago
TheCollector
5 Iconic Artworks by Wassily Kandinsky undefined
10 months ago
Diaries of Note
I can’t find the words Andy Horwitz had been sitting at his desk for a quarter of an hour when a loud bang shattered the...
a year ago
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a year ago
Andy Horwitz had been sitting at his desk for a quarter of an hour when a loud bang shattered the morning calm. The time was 8:46 a.m., and the first of two planes had just been flown into the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center that stood two blocks from his office. But soon...
Atoms vs Bits
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Blend modes can be a complex thing to wrap one’s head around. Experimentation is the best teacher, but even then there are lots of variabilities involved, depending on the layer you use to experiment. The Blend Mode Helper Map (and its constituent Blend Mode Helper layer) reduces...
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I manifested a "State of Diffusion++" meetup yesterday that I felt was a success. 200 people signed up! Here are some photos!
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The name I remembered but not what he had written, which is hardly unusual when the writer in question was first encountered in childhood and his readability hasn’t survived into adulthood. Very young children pay attention to the work, not its author. In this case, “Wynken,...
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A couple of weeks ago, I saw a tweet asking: "If Linux is so good, why aren't more people using it?" And it's a fair question! It intuitively rings true until you give it a moment's consideration. Linux is even free, so what's stopping mass adoption, if it's actually better? My...
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Red Giant, where I’ve been Chief Creative Officer for a couple of years now, but making filmmaking tools for you for 17 years, is merging with Maxon, makers of Cinema 4D. From the Red Giant blog: Hi folks — by now you’ve probably heard the news that Maxon and Red Giant are...
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Call me a pedant, but I'm not a fan of the word "crypto". It may have been a serviceable category back in 2011 when there was only one type of crypto thingy – bitcoin. But it's ceased to be a meaningful term and, if anything, it causes a regression in understanding. Source:...
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Omniview Design has completed the Golf Apartments, a high-end residential development adjacent to a famous golf course in Glyfada, Greece. Key to the design of the building are the curvilinear balconies that alternate directions creating a lively facade. In the evening, lighting...
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On Monday November 28th, 1994, the police riot squad arrived to evacuate Claremont Road in the so-called “autonomous republic” of “Wanstonia”. The protest against the demolition of housing to make way for the M11 Link Road was lost. Harry Cohen, MP for Leyton said “the Department...
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This was a reprint of a 1961 Russian book translated into Estonian in 1963.  It is mostly an anthology of stories for children but with space art on the cover and a couple of space illustrations within I needed to share it. Jarunkova, Klara. Illustrated by Eesti Riiklik...
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<p>I have never really given blogstatic a real chance to succeed.</p> <p><b>Up to now, I've said a version of any of the following.</b></p> <ul><li>"It's a side project..."</li><li>"I did it in ~30 hours..."</li><li>"It's growing slowly without much marketing..."</li></ul> <p>And...
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As a founder, one of the most surprisingly important skills I've realized I have is hitting the front page of Hacker News . Out of five posts that I…
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The DOJ is going after specific anti-competitive mechanisms, and the specifics of Google's onerous Android deals might be the smoking gun
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“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...
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Perhaps your wedding package includes a cake. It’s paid for, better eat it. Even if you’re allergic to wheat. Perhaps the amusement park includes as many rides as you like, even if you’re feeling sick or have had quite enough for today. The thing about included is that it’s free....
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One of my private repos depends on LangChain, so I got a lovely email from GitHub this morning: Ooh, a high severity remote-code execution vulnerability in LangChain? On the one hand, I'm not entirely shocked that a framework that includes the ability to run LLM-generated code...
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I’m a big fan of documentation. I think it’s my favorite boring thing to do after coding. It brings the […] The post The Surprising Power of Documentation appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Domination through iteration. Be sure to continue adapting and maximize your current audience rather than chase more pageviews. The post Weeks 35-39: A $526 Day and a Breakthrough appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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Bad code <div tabindex="-1"> <div role="button"> <svg width="28" height="24"> … </svg> </div> </div> Issues and how to fix them Setting button semantics explicitly using the role attribute isn’t necessary, there’s an element for that (button). You don’t need the tabindex...
Old Vintage...
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Recently, I was talking to a friend of mine who had recently joined a small startup. He and I shared […] The post What questions to ask a startup before joining them? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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Exploring the tension between order and disorder When Kurasu, the specialty coffee brand from Kyoto, entered Indonesia, its first home...
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Structural steel and composite steel deck used with concrete slabs need to be fireproofed. Ducts, pipes, lights, and electrical conduits do not.
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I don't have a TV. I haven't been watching TV for more than 10 years. But I love to watch movies or great series like Dexter and Game of Thrones. Until recently, I watched movies or series on my 27" iMac. Twenty-seven inch is large for a computer screen but for a TV, it's quite...
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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...
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Recently I found myself needing to generate a HTTPS Server Certificate and Private Key for an iOS app using OpenSSL, what surprised me was the total lack of documentation for OpenSSL. While there is plenty of function documentation, what OpenSSL really lacks is examples of how it...
The Oatmeal - Comics...
I made some animated shorts Watch the very first Oatmeal cartoons. View on my website
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The Marginalian
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Among the paradoxes of friendship is this: All friendships of depth and durability are based on a profound knowledge of each other, of the soul beneath the costume of personality — that lovely Celtic notion of anam cara. We bring this knowledge, this mutual understanding, to...
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Citation Needed
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Coinbase’s Stand With Crypto Alliance fudges the numbers, a (former) crypto industry CEO has a meltdown, and another exchange suffers a nine-figure hack.
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Putney Gets New Embankment And Boat Race Marker First of seven riverside improvements from the supersewer.
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In this post, we introduce Koala, a chatbot trained by fine-tuning Meta’s LLaMA on dialogue data gathered from the web. We describe the dataset curation and training process of our model, and also present the results of a user study that compares our model to ChatGPT and...
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By Haseeb Qureshi and Leland Lee After the DAO hack of 2016, the Ethereum community was faced with an existential quandary: should the community roll back the chain to revert the DAO hack, or let the hacker get away? Those who said yes forked away to what is now called Ethereum....
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In his Substack this week, Dave Karpf concludes that the trajectory of any emerging technology bends toward money. Of course it does. Because, capitalism. Karpf is in the midst of a chronological reread of the entire WIRED magazine corpus — of great interest to me, of...
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Reporter Emmett Fitzgerald was used to hearing people call his home state of Vermont a “climate haven.” But last summer, he got a wake up call in the form of a devastating flood. All throughout the United States, people are watching the places they love change in unpredictable...