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Rest of World -...
New data reveals exactly when the Chinese government blocked ChatGPT and other AI sites  Rest of World received exclusive access to a platform that tracks patterns and timing of Chinese...
9 months ago
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New data reveals exactly when the Chinese government blocked ChatGPT and other AI sites 

from Rest of World - Global [alt+shift+b] in startups

9 months ago
Rest of World received exclusive access to a platform that tracks patterns and timing of Chinese online censorship.
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balajis.com
Gil Duran Faked A Quote For the New Republic Then they stealth edited the piece. They knew they'd committed libel.
a year ago
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Gil Duran Faked A Quote For the New Republic

from balajis.com [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Then they stealth edited the piece. They knew they'd committed libel.
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Nadia Asparouhova
Cultivating agency I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile,...
over a year ago
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Cultivating agency

from Nadia Asparouhova [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
I didn’t always know that I wanted to have kids. I wasn’t against it, necessarily – for awhile, there were just more reasons in the “why not” column than the “why”: uncertainty about whether I’d be a good parent, fear of losing my identity, a lack of maternal instinct. Those...
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Old Structures...
Nothing New For the end of the year, we’ve been doing some file reorganization – all digital, as our paper files...
6 months ago
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Nothing New

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

6 months ago
For the end of the year, we’ve been doing some file reorganization – all digital, as our paper files are only a memory – and it’s worth remembering that issues of logisitics and organization are nothing new. One of the sources for our filing system is the 1917 file classification...
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Calculated Risk
A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices Another update ... a few key points: 3) The seasonal swings have increased recently without a surge...
3 months ago
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A few comments on the Seasonal Pattern for House Prices

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
Another update ... a few key points: 3) The seasonal swings have increased recently without a surge in distressed sales. Click on graph for larger image. The second graph shows the seasonal factors for the Case-Shiller National index since 1987. The factors started to change...
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Andrej Karpathy blog
Self-driving as a case study for AGI Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI,...
a year ago
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Self-driving as a case study for AGI

from Andrej Karpathy blog [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
Sparked by progress in Large Language Models (LLMs), there’s a lot of chatter recently about AGI, its timelines, and what it might look like. Some of it is hopeful and optimistic, but a lot of it is fearful and doomy, to put it mildly. Unfortunately, a lot of it is also very...
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TheCollector
What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like? At the 8th Roman hour, or 2 pm, the Romans would finish their working day and head to one specific...
5 days ago
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What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

5 days ago
At the 8th Roman hour, or 2 pm, the Romans would finish their working day and head to one specific place to socialize, relax, and clean off the dirt of the day: the terme, or public baths. While some were lucky enough to have their own bath (balnea) at home, most headed to the...
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Seth's Blog
Doing it step by step I was surprised to discover that for many AI questions, if you add, “please figure this out step by...
11 months ago
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Doing it step by step

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

11 months ago
I was surprised to discover that for many AI questions, if you add, “please figure this out step by step,” the AI will provide a dramatically more accurate and useful answer. This works on simple questions like, “how many times does the letter ‘r’ appear in the word ‘strawberry'”...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Why you should visit Story Parlor in Asheville, NC
a year ago
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Why you should visit Story Parlor in Asheville, NC

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
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Both Are True
surely by now I'd have it figured out? Shirley?! + both are true town hall TODAY at 4p EST
3 months ago
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surely by now I'd have it figured out? Shirley?!

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3 months ago
+ both are true town hall TODAY at 4p EST
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RhysTranter.com
The Life of Saint Pambo Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390)...
over a year ago
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The Life of Saint Pambo

from RhysTranter.com [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Reading Butler's Lives of the Saints, I come across a passage on St Pambo, an Egyptian monk (c.390) thought to be a disciple of St Antony. I was struck by the following passage...
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder...
5 months ago
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Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

5 months ago
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer. Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed. In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the Pentium's floating point unit. This adder turns out to be a...
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Many Worlds
The Makeup of Red Dwarf Solar Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable Planets Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation...
over a year ago
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The Makeup of Red Dwarf Solar Systems May Seriously Limit the Formation of Habitable Planets

from Many Worlds [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
Jupiter is often described as the “big brother” planet of our solar system that made the formation and evolution of Earth possible. In the early days of the solar system, massive Jupiter helped the planet grow rapidly while serving as a gravity well that shielded the planet from...
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Dan Slimmon
Squeeze the hell out of the system you have When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra...
a year ago
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Squeeze the hell out of the system you have

from Dan Slimmon [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
When complexity leaps are on the table, there's usually also an opportunity to squeeze some extra juice out of the system you have. By tweaking the workload, tuning performance, or supplementing the system in some way, you may be able to add months or even years of runway. When...
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bt RSS Feed
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I’ve made the switch...
over a year ago
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Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Adventures in Creating a Minimal Alpine Linux Installer 2022-12-08 Introduction I’ve made the switch to Alpine Linux as my main laptop/desktop hybrid workstation and I love it - warts and all. This post will follow my process building my Alpine Linux “installer” I used for this...
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TokyoDev
A Horrifying User Experience After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious...
over a year ago
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A Horrifying User Experience

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
After years of living in a cramped Tokyo apartment, I'm going to move to a slightly more spacious one. Finding an apartment went smoother than I could have imagined, and in half-a-day, I had found a new apartment. The following day I set out to take care of the tasks surrounding...
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Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #125 Commonwealth Fusion, Off-grid Solar Microgrids, HORNET, Astranis , Technology Brothers
6 months ago
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Weekly Dose of Optimism #125

from Not Boring by Packy McCormick [alt+shift+b] in creative

6 months ago
Commonwealth Fusion, Off-grid Solar Microgrids, HORNET, Astranis , Technology Brothers
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Julia Evans
Dealing with diverged git branches Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch...
a year ago
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Dealing with diverged git branches

from Julia Evans [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
Hello! One of the most common problems I see folks struggling with in Git is when a local branch (like main) and a remote branch (maybe also called main) have diverged. There are two things that make this situation hard: If you’re not used to interpreting git’s error messages,...
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TokyoDev
Running a job board in Japan can land you in prison *Note, [new regulations were introduced in October 2022 regarding job...
over a year ago
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Running a job board in Japan can land you in prison

from TokyoDev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
*Note, [new regulations were introduced in October 2022 regarding job boards](/articles/keeping-job-board-legal-in-japan). While the principles for determining whether or not something is considered recruiting with regards to licensing is unchanged, there are additional...
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Steve Blank
Lean Meets Wicked Problems This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College...
a year ago
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Lean Meets Wicked Problems

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
This post previously appeared in Poets & Quants. I just spent a month and a half at Imperial College London co-teaching a “Wicked” Entrepreneurship class. In this case Wicked doesn’t mean morally evil, but refers to really complex problems, ones with multiple moving parts, where...
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Yale e360
Building Molecule Reader in one day Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when...
over a year ago
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Building Molecule Reader in one day

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Reading on screens is very difficult for me. I just cannot focus on the articles, especially when there are notifications coming in or even just other content on the screen1. I have a reMarkable tablet (RM), which I love dearly2 and much prefer to read on. But it's annoying...
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Thu Le
Presence over performance A reflection on curating an online persona and choosing to live a quieter life.
4 months ago
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Presence over performance

from Thu Le [alt+shift+b] in life

4 months ago
A reflection on curating an online persona and choosing to live a quieter life.
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Descent of Elon Musk Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive, ...
a year ago
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The Descent of Elon Musk

from Ed Zitron's Where's Your Ed At [alt+shift+b] in startups

a year ago
Money can't buy happiness, but it can get you pretty damn close. As the second richest man alive,  Elon Musk should be rolling electric coal down Rodeo Drive in a cybertruck, smugly aware of the fact that, despite what the haters say, he's kind of
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The Diff
Unskilled Labor and Ambient Media Plus! AI as the Flexible Funnel; Treasuries; The Long Tail; Competition; It's Gas
2 months ago
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Unskilled Labor and Ambient Media

from The Diff [alt+shift+b] in finance

2 months ago
Plus! AI as the Flexible Funnel; Treasuries; The Long Tail; Competition; It's Gas
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Oykun
The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo More details and reviews on Amazon This book has a different, more human approach to management and...
over a year ago
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The Making of a Manager by Julie Zhuo

from Oykun [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
More details and reviews on Amazon This book has a different, more human approach to management and leadership, unlike most books that are usually written by top-level CEOs. Julie's journey from IC role to Manager is more relatable, at least to me. 3 premises I got from the
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Letters of Note
You would be so proud Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey...
over a year ago
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You would be so proud

from Letters of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
Uhuru Houston was born in Brooklyn in 1969. He joined the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey Police Department in 1993, and three years later married Sonya, whom he had met when they were both students at Norfolk State University. In 1999, he was assigned to the World...
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Words and Buttons...
Honeycomb texture generator It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if...
over a year ago
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Honeycomb texture generator

from Words and Buttons Online [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
It generates a seamless black and white honeycomb texture. There are a few options in the UI but if you need more, there is some changeable code too. If you need more freedom, just get this thing on Github.
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Seth's Blog
On reading it in a book Mike Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, said of his career, “This is not stuff you can read...
over a year ago
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On reading it in a book

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
Mike Schur, co-creator of Parks and Recreation, said of his career, “This is not stuff you can read in a book,” he said. “This is stuff that you have to experience.” I think it’s also useful to flip it around. There are things you will have trouble experiencing until you read...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Saving Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Make sure to refrigerate, or it's a little too...
7 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Saving

from Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal [alt+shift+b] in comics

7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Make sure to refrigerate, or it's a little too scary. Today's News:
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Tikalon Blog by Dev...
A.I., Wine, and Beer There have been many studies using scientific instrumentation, mostly gas chromatography, in...
a year ago
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A.I., Wine, and Beer

from Tikalon Blog by Dev Gualtieri [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
There have been many studies using scientific instrumentation, mostly gas chromatography, in attempts to find what distinguishes a superb wine from an inexpensive house wine. A typical wine can contain more than 800 different aroma compounds. One study examined two Australian...
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Society's Backend:...
The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66% A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
a year ago
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The Method Google Used to Reduce LLM Size by 66%

from Society's Backend: Machine Learning for Software Engineers [alt+shift+b] in AI

a year ago
A brief overview of knowledge distillation and its capabilities
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Identity Designed
Apex Designed by Gold Front, San Francisco.
a year ago
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Apex

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a year ago
Designed by Gold Front, San Francisco.
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Contemporist...
This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi...
a year ago
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This Tall And Skinny House Also Has A Rooftop Pool

from Contemporist Newsletter [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Story Architecture has shared photos of a new tall and skinny home they recently completed in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam, for a family of four with two sons.
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TheCollector
The Iconography of Augustus’s Ara Pacis in Rome Rome’s first emperor Augustus erected the Ara Pacis, an altar dedicated to Pax Romana, in 13 BCE. It...
2 weeks ago
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The Iconography of Augustus’s Ara Pacis in Rome

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

2 weeks ago
Rome’s first emperor Augustus erected the Ara Pacis, an altar dedicated to Pax Romana, in 13 BCE. It celebrated that Augustus had brought peace to Rome following years of war, and its dedication coincided with a period during which Augustus promoted the importance of family and...
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Seth's Blog
Transforming two-sided markets AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in...
a year ago
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Transforming two-sided markets

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
AI agents are going to overhaul the way we think about buying and selling. Uber already did this in a small way. They organized the drivers, and now they organize the riders. Hailing a cab was already sort of anonymous, but with competition and structure, AI will continue to get...
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PostHog's RSS Feed
Remote companies can be too asynchronous Even when Tim (my cofounder) and I were doing a Y Combinator (YC) batch in 2020, we realized we...
over a year ago
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Remote companies can be too asynchronous

from PostHog's RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Even when Tim (my cofounder) and I were doing a Y Combinator (YC) batch in 2020, we realized we got more work done when we worked asynchronously…
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #197 Interest rates, Passive investing, Ben Graham as a young man, Daniel Kahneman, Ken Langone, Lawrence...
a year ago
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The Digest #197

from The Rational Walk [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
Interest rates, Passive investing, Ben Graham as a young man, Daniel Kahneman, Ken Langone, Lawrence Cunningham, Reed Hastings, Steve Eisman
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Mazdak
The Best Age to Start Taking Social Security: It's Not What You Think When you reach full retirement age (FRA), you can start taking Social Security benefits. But you may...
a year ago
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The Best Age to Start Taking Social Security: It's Not What You Think

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

a year ago
When you reach full retirement age (FRA), you can start taking Social Security benefits. But you may want to consider taking them sooner, even if it means a smaller monthly check. Here's why: Your benefits will grow by 8% per year for each year you delay taking them, up to age...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Have We Achieved General AI As I predicted the controversy over whether or not we have achieved general AI will likely exist for...
7 months ago
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Have We Achieved General AI

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

7 months ago
As I predicted the controversy over whether or not we have achieved general AI will likely exist for a long time before there is a consensus that we have. The latest round of this controversy comes from Vahid Kazemi from OpenAI. He posted on X: “In my opinion we have already...
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Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 366.666 ...
5 months ago
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Hidden Open Thread 366.666

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5 months ago
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Ink & Switch
End-user Programming A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has...
over a year ago
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End-user Programming

from Ink & Switch [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
A vision for empowered computing that reaches back forty years. Our research lab examines why it has been so hard to achieve.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Pricing to the demand curve Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students...
over a year ago
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Pricing to the demand curve

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Many college microeconomics courses include the following exercise. The teacher offers the students an imaginary trip to Hawaii, and asks…
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journal – Winnie Lim
my favourite things in hanoi I thought I’ll document my favourite things in hanoi in case some internet stranger finds it useful,...
over a year ago
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my favourite things in hanoi

from journal – Winnie Lim [alt+shift+b] in life

over a year ago
I thought I’ll document my favourite things in hanoi in case some internet stranger finds it useful, else I’ll just drown in nostalgia some time later when I look back upon this...
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Maps Mania
When is the sun directly overhead?
3 weeks ago
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When is the sun directly overhead?

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3 weeks ago
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oftwominds-Charles...
After the Tariff Earthquake The fires that have been ignited are not yet visible. There's a eerie calm after an...
3 months ago
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After the Tariff Earthquake

from oftwominds-Charles Hugh Smith [alt+shift+b] in finance

3 months ago
The fires that have been ignited are not yet visible. There's a eerie calm after an earthquake. Those trapped in collapsed buildings are aware of the consequences, but the majority experience a silence, as if the world stopped and has yet to restart. The full consequences...
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Quantum Frontiers
Explorations in Quantum TiqTaqToe Several years ago, while scrolling through YouTube, I came across a video of Paul Rudd playing...
a year ago
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Explorations in Quantum TiqTaqToe

from Quantum Frontiers [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Several years ago, while scrolling through YouTube, I came across a video of Paul Rudd playing something called “Quantum Chess.” I had no idea what it was, nor did I know that it would become one of the most gloriously … Continue reading →
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Retail Design Blog
Booz Allen Hamilton Offices by OTJ Architects OTJ Architects’ The Helix in Washington DC, reimagines Booz Allen Hamilton’s Innovation Center,...
a month ago
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Booz Allen Hamilton Offices by OTJ Architects

from Retail Design Blog [alt+shift+b] in design

a month ago
OTJ Architects’ The Helix in Washington DC, reimagines Booz Allen Hamilton’s Innovation Center, merging immersive design with technology to foster...
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Notes on software...
A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring...
over a year ago
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A single-node Kubernetes cluster without virtualization or a container registry

from Notes on software development [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
This post is a recipe for setting up a minimal Kubernetes cluster on Fedora without requiring virtualization or a container registry. These two features make the system cloud-agnostic and the cluster entirely self-contained. The post will end with us running a simple Flask...
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Have We Forgotten How to Listen to Lectures? Have We Forgotten How to Listen to Lectures? JamesHoare Wed, 03/26/2025 - 09:04
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Have We Forgotten How to Listen to Lectures?

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3 months ago
Have We Forgotten How to Listen to Lectures? JamesHoare Wed, 03/26/2025 - 09:04
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mtlynch.io
Experimenting with Lllama 3 via Ollama I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to...
a year ago
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Experimenting with Lllama 3 via Ollama

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a year ago
I saw that Meta released the Llama 3 AI model, and people seem excited about it, so I decided to give it a try. I don’t have much experience running open-source AI models, and I didn’t see a lot of documentation about how to run them. I tinkered with it for a few hours and got...
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This Space
The enigma for criticism To this day, I can learn only from bad films. The good ones I watch in the same spirit in which I...
a year ago
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The enigma for criticism

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a year ago
To this day, I can learn only from bad films. The good ones I watch in the same spirit in which I watched when I was a kid. The great ones, even when I see them many times, are just an enigma.  Werner Herzog describes a few "bad films" in his autobiography, all from his...
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Rozado’s Visual...
An Analysis of AI Political Preferences from a European Perspective Introduction
8 months ago
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An Analysis of AI Political Preferences from a European Perspective

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8 months ago
Introduction
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Sam Altman
Project Covalence Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support...
over a year ago
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Project Covalence

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over a year ago
Almost every company and non-profit working on COVID-19 that I offered to help asked for support with clinical trials—for companies focusing on developing novel drugs, vaccines, and diagnostics, rapidly spinning up trials is one of their biggest bottlenecks.  Science remains the...
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Maggie Appleton
New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast Illustrations made for a set of episodes of the Cultivated Meat podcast
over a year ago
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New Harvest & Illustrating the Cultivated Meat Podcast

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over a year ago
Illustrations made for a set of episodes of the Cultivated Meat podcast
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Open Culture
The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure Orson Welles directed the greatest movie ever made, Citizen Kane, at age 25, with only a limited...
11 months ago
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The Long Game of Creativity: If You Haven’t Created a Masterpiece at 30, You’re Not a Failure

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11 months ago
Orson Welles directed the greatest movie ever made, Citizen Kane, at age 25, with only a limited knowledge of the medium. When Paul McCartney was 25, he, along with his fellow Beatles, released the era-defining album Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band. By age 29, Pablo Picasso...
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Retail Design Blog
Bisiesto restaurant by Vang Studios It’s not only the good food, ditto drinks, and jolly banter—Bisiesto offers the full package,...
a month ago
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Bisiesto restaurant by Vang Studios

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a month ago
It’s not only the good food, ditto drinks, and jolly banter—Bisiesto offers the full package, offering a stylish setting which...
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Handprinted - Blog
Inking Methods for Etching Once you've made an etching plate, you may be ready to print an edition - or you might want to proof...
7 months ago
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Inking Methods for Etching

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7 months ago
Once you've made an etching plate, you may be ready to print an edition - or you might want to proof it to decide on further edits. Taking a print is the only way you’ll be able to see how your plate is progressing. This blog is part of a series featuring tips and techniques to...
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Wrong Side of...
Rome’s miserable fate The Year of the Plague #3
4 months ago
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Rome’s miserable fate

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4 months ago
The Year of the Plague #3
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Noahpinion
If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months Some guesses as to how long it will take the real pain to arrive.
2 months ago
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If you think Americans are mad now, just wait a few months

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2 months ago
Some guesses as to how long it will take the real pain to arrive.
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License:...
over a year ago
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Gestaltungsprobleme des Grafikers by Josef Müller-Brockmann

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over a year ago
Contributed by Florian Hardwig Source: www.theideaofthebook.com The Idea of the Book. License: All Rights Reserved. Book jacket (second edition by Niggli, Teufen, 1964) Dan Reynolds, esteemed friend of the site, writes on Mastodon: 125 years ago today – at exactly...
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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
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So Long, Prog21

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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...
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A Day In The Life...
A list of 100 opinions I hold A list of 100 opinions I hold
over a year ago
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A list of 100 opinions I hold

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over a year ago
A list of 100 opinions I hold
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Dan Cowell
Deadlines Work If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain,...
a year ago
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Deadlines Work

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a year ago
If you had told me that I'm capable of cycling 50km non-stop, soaked to the skin in torrential rain, eyes burning with sunblock, sweat and ocean spray, in sub-10°C conditions, I would have called you a filthy liar. Then yesterday happened. It was meant to be
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bad Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It suddenly became intersection of sex and...
11 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Bad

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11 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: It suddenly became intersection of sex and technology week? Today's News:
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Sam Altman
Three Observations Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of...
5 months ago
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Three Observations

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5 months ago
Our mission is to ensure that AGI (Artificial General Intelligence) benefits all of humanity.  Systems that start to point to AGI* are coming into view, and so we think it’s important to understand the moment we are in. AGI is a weakly defined term, but generally speaking we mean...
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Scarlet Ink
Three Tales from an Amazon Bar Raiser A few examples of situations I went through as a bar raiser, one of the most entertaining positions...
7 months ago
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Three Tales from an Amazon Bar Raiser

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7 months ago
A few examples of situations I went through as a bar raiser, one of the most entertaining positions at Amazon.
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: FOMC Meeting Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage...
2 months ago
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Wednesday: FOMC Meeting

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2 months ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. mortgage purchase applications index. FOMC Meeting Announcement. No change to to the Fed funds rate is expected at this meeting. Fed Chair Jerome Powell holds a press briefing following the FOMC...
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History Today Feed
‘Vietdamned’ by Clive Webb review ‘Vietdamned’ by Clive Webb review JamesHoare Mon, 03/24/2025 - 09:17
3 months ago
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‘Vietdamned’ by Clive Webb review

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3 months ago
‘Vietdamned’ by Clive Webb review JamesHoare Mon, 03/24/2025 - 09:17
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CONTEMPORIST
A Cafe Design That Draws Inspiration From The Flowers That Naturally Grow On-Site Architecture firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Curvy Dining, a modern sculptural cafe...
4 months ago
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A Cafe Design That Draws Inspiration From The Flowers That Naturally Grow On-Site

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4 months ago
Architecture firm Unknown Surface Studio has shared photos of Curvy Dining, a modern sculptural cafe in Bangkok, Thailand, whose design draws inspiration from the shape of flowers that naturally grow on the site. The delicate white dining cafe emerges within an industrial...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit...
over a year ago
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Ranking #1 on HN in Mid April

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over a year ago
I last wrote about Ranking #1 on HN in December, and wanted to offer an update from my mild hit today. I am now taking Latent Space (the new name enabled by the previous owner of that domain selling it to me in my first P2P domain purchase) a lot more seriously with the support...
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Left To Write
№ 73: Finding Faith How pursuing entrepreneurship taught me faith
a year ago
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№ 73: Finding Faith

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a year ago
How pursuing entrepreneurship taught me faith
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #177 Remembering Charlie Munger
a year ago
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The Digest #177

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a year ago
Remembering Charlie Munger
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The Changelog
A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since...
a year ago
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A Maze of Twisty Little Pixels, All Tiny

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a year ago
Two years ago, I wrote Managing an External Display on Linux Shouldn’t Be This Hard. Happily, since I wrote that post, most of those issues have been resolved. But then you throw HiDPI into the mix and it all goes wonky. If you’re running X11, basically the story is that you can...
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Ink & Switch
05 · Edit groups “Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their...
a year ago
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05 · Edit groups

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a year ago
“Formality on demand” allows writers to choose the level of structure they want in their collaboration, and avoid needless ceremony.
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Ryan Hoover's...
Weekend Fund 2.0
over a year ago
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Weekend Fund 2.0

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over a year ago
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Common Edge
‘Even If a Project Fails, the Ideas Behind It Don’t Disappear’ A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
a year ago
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‘Even If a Project Fails, the Ideas Behind It Don’t Disappear’

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a year ago
A talk with Sam Lubell and Greg Goldin, authors of Atlas of Never Built Architecture.
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The Map is Mostly...
quests, failure, desire or: contra defensive postures
11 months ago
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quests, failure, desire

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11 months ago
or: contra defensive postures
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ByteofDev
State of the Web: Static Site Generators Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about...
over a year ago
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State of the Web: Static Site Generators

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over a year ago
Static Site Generators have been changing quickly with new trends like Jamstack. Learn more about the background of static site generators, why people use them, and the current state of them, with information on modern SSGs like Eleventy, Next.js, SvelteKit, and Astro.
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Retail Design Blog
Salon de Louis Premium Salon de Louis is a popular café among young women, with branches in Daikanyama and Omotesando, and...
10 months ago
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Salon de Louis Premium

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10 months ago
Salon de Louis is a popular café among young women, with branches in Daikanyama and Omotesando, and is a source...
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Laetitia@Work
5 things I find very interesting about the Boeing downfall Laetitia@Work #70
a year ago
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5 things I find very interesting about the Boeing downfall

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a year ago
Laetitia@Work #70
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Evan Jones -...
Huge Pages are a Good Idea Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to...
over a year ago
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Huge Pages are a Good Idea

from Evan Jones - Software Engineer | Computer Scientist [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Nearly all programs are written to access virtual memory addresses, which the CPU must translate to physical addresses. These translations are usually fast because the mappings are cached in the CPU's Translation Lookaside Buffer (TLB). Unfortunately, virtual memory on x86 has...
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AI Snake Oil
GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
over a year ago
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GPT-4 and professional benchmarks: the wrong answer to the wrong question

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over a year ago
OpenAI may have tested on the training data. Besides, human benchmarks are meaningless for bots.
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Calculated Risk
The Normal Seasonal Pattern for Median House Prices Last week, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter on March existing home sales, NAR:...
3 months ago
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The Normal Seasonal Pattern for Median House Prices

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3 months ago
Last week, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter on March existing home sales, NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.26 million SAAR in February; Down 1.2% YoY, I noted: On a month-over-month basis, median prices increased 1.3% from January and are now down 6.7% from...
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Calculated Risk
Trade Deficit increased to $131.4 Billion in January The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S....
4 months ago
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Trade Deficit increased to $131.4 Billion in January

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4 months ago
The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis announced today that the goods and services deficit was $131.4 billion in January, up $33.3 billion from $98.1 billion in December, revised. ...
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Words and Buttons...
Either your estimates suck or your job does This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to...
a year ago
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Either your estimates suck or your job does

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a year ago
This page uses polynomial modeling to show why software engineering tasks are often impossible to estimate.
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Londonist
Things To Do This Weekend In London: 4-5 November 2023 Fireworks displays, a reopened museum, a roller disco -- and more!
a year ago
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Things To Do This Weekend In London: 4-5 November 2023

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a year ago
Fireworks displays, a reopened museum, a roller disco -- and more!
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BLDGBLOG
World Store There was an article last year in the New York Times about a California start-up called Inversion...
over a year ago
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World Store

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over a year ago
There was an article last year in the New York Times about a California start-up called Inversion that wants to “speed delivery of important items by storing them in orbit.” Their goal is to build “earth-orbiting capsules”—“hundreds or thousands of containers”—that could “deliver...
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Open Culture
What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself More than 120 years after the end of the Victorian era, we might assume that we retain a more or...
7 months ago
43

What Victorian People Sounded Like: Hear Recordings of Florence Nightingale & Queen Victoria Herself

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7 months ago
More than 120 years after the end of the Victorian era, we might assume that we retain a more or less accurate cultural memory of the Victorians themselves: of their social mores, their aesthetic sensibilities, their ambitions great and small, their many and varied hang-ups. Some...
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Benny Kuriakose
Planning and Designing of Service Blocks in a School Service rooms are an absolute necessity in any building. When designing and planning such rooms, it...
over a year ago
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Planning and Designing of Service Blocks in a School

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over a year ago
Service rooms are an absolute necessity in any building. When designing and planning such rooms, it is important to understand the type...
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Liz Denys
A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted...
over a year ago
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A better grumpy fuzzball cake: just one of the many reasons I love buttercream more than fondant

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over a year ago
Last September, I baked a grumpy fuzzball cake for SIPB. That grumpy fuzzball cake was frosted primarily with rolled fondant, a dough-like frosting that is made with gelatin, food-grade glycerine, and the usual frosting suspects. But I don't love the taste or texture of fondant....
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Alex Meub
My Mac OSX Setup Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge...
over a year ago
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My Mac OSX Setup

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over a year ago
Application Installs Homebrew is a ridiculously good package management system for OSX. It’s a huge step above MacPorts and Fink when it comes to installing and managing open source software. Spectacle is a free window resizing utility that gives you keyboard shortcuts to resize...
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Rest of World -...
An Indian edtech that helps students live out their study-abroad dreams Leverage Edu, which has raised $70 million, is among the few profitable edtech companies in the...
a year ago
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An Indian edtech that helps students live out their study-abroad dreams

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a year ago
Leverage Edu, which has raised $70 million, is among the few profitable edtech companies in the country.
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TheCollector
Hidden Portrait Found Beneath Joan Miró Painting The Fundació Joan Miró revealed a surprising new insight into the Spanish-Catalan artist’s work. The...
3 months ago
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Hidden Portrait Found Beneath Joan Miró Painting

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3 months ago
The Fundació Joan Miró revealed a surprising new insight into the Spanish-Catalan artist’s work. The enigmatic composition Pintura, according to a press statement from the foundation, overlays an earlier portrait of Miró’s mother. This announcement comes nearly a century after...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that...
over a year ago
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Why I Won't Choose To Be A Manager

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over a year ago
I recently decided that I will not _choose_ to be a manager. This is how I arrived at that conclusion.
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Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
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Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp

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a year ago
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Epic Web Dev
Use Client Hints to Eliminate Content Layout Shift (tip) Learn how to eliminate CLS using client hints in the Epic Stack.
over a year ago
24

Use Client Hints to Eliminate Content Layout Shift (tip)

from Epic Web Dev [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Learn how to eliminate CLS using client hints in the Epic Stack.
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99% Invisible
Left to Write (1 of 3): Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing,...
2 months ago
5

Left to Write (1 of 3): Adaptive Keyboards & Writing Technologies for One-Handed Users

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2 months ago
Last year, an accident left my right arm and shoulder numb and paralyzed. After extensive testing, doctors determined that I had severely injured my right brachial plexus — a crucial nexus of nerve pathways carrying signals back and forth between my spinal column and right upper...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Let’s Talk About Cement Industry is responsible for 23% of carbon emissions, close to the amount of electricity production...
a year ago
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Let’s Talk About Cement

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

a year 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...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Security at Startup In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets...
a year ago
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Security at Startup

from Vadim Kravcenko [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
In my opinion, security is one of the most forgotten aspects of software engineering. It rarely gets focused on until […] The post Security at Startup appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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mtlynch.io
Takeaways from Charles Marohn's "Escaping the Housing Trap" Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a...
8 months ago
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Takeaways from Charles Marohn's "Escaping the Housing Trap"

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

8 months ago
Last week, I stumbled upon a reddit post announcing that the author, Charles Marohn, was giving a free talk near my town the next morning. Marohn is the author of Strong Towns, one of my favorite books of the last few years. So, my wife and I attended the talk and enjoyed it. The...
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The Marginalian
Silence, Solitude, and the Art of Surrender: Pico Iyer on Finding the World in a Benedictine... "Such a simple revolution: Yesterday I thought myself at the center of the world. Now the world...
3 weeks ago
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Silence, Solitude, and the Art of Surrender: Pico Iyer on Finding the World in a Benedictine Monastery

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3 weeks ago
"Such a simple revolution: Yesterday I thought myself at the center of the world. Now the world seems to sit at the center of me."
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diamond geezer
Dorset and Devonshire Sorry, couldn't resist. 45 45 Squared 17) DORSET SQUARE, NW1 Borough of Westminster,...
a month ago
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Dorset and Devonshire

from diamond geezer [alt+shift+b] in travel

a month ago
Sorry, couldn't resist. 45 45 Squared 17) DORSET SQUARE, NW1 Borough of Westminster, 100m×60m Dorset Square is the greenspace you pass if you walk the backroads between Marylebone and Baker Street stations. It's rectangular, Georgian, semi-private and generally unsung, yet...
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Quanta Magazine
The Two Faces of Space-Time A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time,...
9 months ago
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The Two Faces of Space-Time

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

9 months ago
A mysterious phenomenon known as duality often leads to new discoveries in physics. This time, space-time itself can sometimes be two things at once. The post The Two Faces of Space-Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Diaries of Note
Practically all were intact Frank Hurley was an audacious Australian photographer and adventurer best known for his remarkable...
a year ago
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Practically all were intact

from Diaries of Note [alt+shift+b] in life

a year ago
Frank Hurley was an audacious Australian photographer and adventurer best known for his remarkable images of Antarctica, particularly those he took on Sir Ernest Shackleton’s ill-fated Imperial Trans-Antarctic Expedition. When Hurley wrote this diary entry on 2nd November 1915,...
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ntietz.com blog -...
The five stages of incident response The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be...
2 months ago
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The five stages of incident response

from ntietz.com blog - technically a blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

2 months ago
The scene: you're on call for a web app, and your pager goes off. Denial. No no no, the app can't be down. There's no way it's down. Why would it be down? It isn't down. Sure, my pager went off. And sure, the metrics all say it's down and the customer is complaining that it's...
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Daniel Immke's Blog...
Tips for a successful WooCommerce project I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for...
over a year ago
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Tips for a successful WooCommerce project

from Daniel Immke's Blog Posts [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
I recently wrapped up a very large WooCommerce build that I am planning on writing a case study for next month. In the meantime, I thought I…
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Quanta Magazine
Physicists Discover ‘Unobservable’ Phase Transition in Quantum Entanglement Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are...
a year ago
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Physicists Discover ‘Unobservable’ Phase Transition in Quantum Entanglement

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Measurement and entanglement both have a “spooky” nonlocal flavor to them. Now physicists are harnessing that nonlocality to probe the spread of quantum information and control it. The post Physicists Discover ‘Unobservable’ Phase Transition in Quantum Entanglement...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spirit Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Leave before I throw my collection of wigs at...
8 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Spirit

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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Leave before I throw my collection of wigs at you! Today's News:
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Vitalik Buterin's...
Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth
over a year ago
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Gitcoin Grants Round 9: The Next Phase of Growth

from Vitalik Buterin's website [alt+shift+b] in technology

over a year ago
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bt RSS Feed
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest...
a year ago
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The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
The X220 ThinkPad is the Best Laptop in the World 2023-09-26 The X220 ThinkPad is the greatest laptop ever made and you’re wrong if you think otherwise. No laptop hardware has since surpassed the nearly perfect build of the X220. New devices continue to get thinner and more...
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Arduino Blog
DexteriSync lets you walk a mile in the gloves of a user with manual disability Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with...
8 months ago
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DexteriSync lets you walk a mile in the gloves of a user with manual disability

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
Good designers prioritize the user experience — particularly the experience of users with disabilities that affect their perception and fine motor skills. A young person without disabilities, for example, may feel that jars are easy to open, while an elderly person with reduced...
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The Marginalian
Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love "All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building...
a year ago
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Anne Morrow Lindbergh on Embracing Change in Relationships and the Key Pattern for Nourishing Love

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a year ago
"All living relationships are in process of change, of expansion, and must perpetually be building themselves new forms."
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Astral Codex Ten
Open Thread 371.5 ...
4 months ago
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Open Thread 371.5

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4 months ago
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Ferd.ca
A Commentary on Defining Observability 2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great...
a year ago
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A Commentary on Defining Observability

from Ferd.ca [alt+shift+b] in programming

a year ago
2024/03/19 A Commentary on Defining Observability Recently, Hazel Weakly has published a great article titled Redefining Observability. In it, she covers competing classical definitions observability, weaknesses they have, and offers a practical reframing of the concept in the...
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Calculated Risk
The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 A brief...
6 months ago
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The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q3 A brief excerpt: During the housing bubble, many homeowners borrowed heavily against their perceived home equity - jokingly calling it the “Home ATM” - and this contributed to the subsequent...
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Londonist
Two 24-Hour Tube Strikes Planned For April And May 2024 Aslef members say they're 'working harder and longer for less'.
a year ago
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Two 24-Hour Tube Strikes Planned For April And May 2024

from Londonist [alt+shift+b] in travel

a year ago
Aslef members say they're 'working harder and longer for less'.
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Global Inequality...
How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles (but forgot to mention it)
6 months ago
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How the mainstream abandoned universal economic principles

from Global Inequality and More 3.0 [alt+shift+b] in history

6 months ago
(but forgot to mention it)
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HTMHell
Grouping form fields by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about...
6 months ago
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Grouping form fields

from HTMHell [alt+shift+b] in programming

6 months ago
by Matthias Kittsteiner When I first stumbled upon fieldset and legend, I didn’t know much about HTML and especially not about accessibility. Everything I noticed was the special way a legend is displayed inside a fieldset – or rather: alongside the border of a fieldset. Fast...
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Marian's Blog
ESA ExoMars Rover 3D model This is one of my first 3D modeling projects in Blender and my biggest 3D modeling project so...
over a year ago
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ESA ExoMars Rover 3D model

from Marian's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

over a year ago
This is one of my first 3D modeling projects in Blender and my biggest 3D modeling project so far. It's a model of ESA's ExoMars rover. You can have a closer look at the model on Sketchfab: There is also a download option on Sketchfab so you can get the original .blend file and...
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Classical Wisdom
Do Individuals Move the Course of History? Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
8 months ago
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Do Individuals Move the Course of History?

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8 months ago
Or Do They Just Ride the Wave?
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xkcd.com
Modern
a month ago
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Modern

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a month ago
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The Marginalian
Do Not Spare Yourself The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often...
6 months ago
105

Do Not Spare Yourself

from The Marginalian [alt+shift+b] in literature

6 months ago
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly...
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Ryan Mulligan
Style Review Donut dessert lollipop dragée pudding marzipan jelly Danish icing cake sugar plum chocolate bar...
over a year ago
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Style Review

from Ryan Mulligan [alt+shift+b] in design

over a year ago
Donut dessert lollipop dragée pudding marzipan jelly Danish icing cake sugar plum chocolate bar candy canes macaroon pie. Bear claw bear claw biscuit fruitcake icing brownie. Jelly-o pudding tart cake ice cream jelly-o. Danish sugar plum chocolate cake wafer cake pudding sweet...
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The Universe of...
Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For...
9 months ago
25

Everyday examples of morphisms with one-sided inverses

from The Universe of Discourse [alt+shift+b] in comics

9 months ago
Like almost everyone except Alexander Grothendieck, I understand things better with examples. For instance, how do you explain that $$(f\circ g)^{-1} = g^{-1} \circ f^{-1}?$$ Oh, that's easy. Let be putting on your shoes and be taking off your shoes. And let be putting...
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lcamtuf’s thing
What's root mean square voltage? And how do we derive its value for sine waves?
4 months ago
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What's root mean square voltage?

from lcamtuf’s thing [alt+shift+b] in technology

4 months ago
And how do we derive its value for sine waves?
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The American Scholar
Red Tide Warning Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and...
a year ago
96

Red Tide Warning

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

a year ago
Living on Florida’s Gulf Coast means having to coexist with pervasive and toxic algal blooms—and neighbors who don’t always believe what they see The post Red Tide Warning appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Noahpinion
All futurism is Afrofuturism A repost, with some optimistic updates.
a year ago
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All futurism is Afrofuturism

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a year ago
A repost, with some optimistic updates.
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Sometimes It Works...
Starting Today Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but...
over a year ago
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Starting Today

from Sometimes It Works :: simonhamp.me [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Starting Today ¶Starting Today I’m 30 today. Some would say I’m past my prime. But I can’t help but feel an overwhelming sense of positivity towards the rest of my life. The first 30 years have been filled with growth, learning, angst, pressure and a bundle of other wonderfully...
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Abishek Muthian
No more global micro-SaaS from India Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which...
11 months ago
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No more global micro-SaaS from India

from Abishek Muthian [alt+shift+b] in technology

11 months ago
Reserve Bank of India has published draft regulatory guidelines for payment aggregators1 which requires payment aggregators to perform physical KYC on small & medium sized merchants, verify their bank accounts among other regulations. Stripe, sighting the aforementioned...
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A Day In The Life...
Go maps vs switches Go maps vs switches
over a year ago
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Go maps vs switches

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over a year ago
Go maps vs switches
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Quanta Magazine
Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding...
a year ago
107

Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack?

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Two mathematicians have proved a long-standing conjecture that is a step on the way toward finding the worst shape for packing the plane. The post Why Is This Shape So Terrible to Pack? first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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Quanta Magazine
Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better Neuroscientists recently discovered that small numbers have a different neural signature than larger...
a year ago
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Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
Neuroscientists recently discovered that small numbers have a different neural signature than larger ones, offering a new look into the brain’s number system and its connections to memory and mathematics. The post Why the Human Brain Perceives Small Numbers Better...
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bt RSS Feed
Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
over a year ago
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Cut Your Forms in Half

from bt RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don’t pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
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Quanta Magazine
Will AI Ever Have Common Sense? Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has...
11 months ago
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Will AI Ever Have Common Sense?

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

11 months ago
Common sense has been viewed as one of the hardest challenges in AI. That said, ChatGPT4 has acquired what some believe is an impressive sense of humanity. How is this possible? Listen to this week’s “The Joy of Why” with co-host Steven Strogatz. The post Will AI Ever...
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Good Enough
Yes, Facebook Is Terrible, but Also… I’m not on Facebook. It was eight or ten years ago when I left for good. While there were some good...
a year ago
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Yes, Facebook Is Terrible, but Also…

from Good Enough [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
I’m not on Facebook. It was eight or ten years ago when I left for good. While there were some good and useful interactions, the algorithm brought me down, I didn’t have a lot of desire to keep up with old acquaintances, and hearing everyone’s political stance was not good for...
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Classical Wisdom
Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like? I Dare You...
11 months ago
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Do We NEED to Hear Opinions We Don’t Like?

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11 months ago
I Dare You...
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Seth's Blog
The Santa problem An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from...
a year ago
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The Santa problem

from Seth's Blog [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse. It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have confidence in their view of the world, or to social or political gatherings. We...
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Win Vector LLC
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
4 months ago
36

Best Before Dates by Bass

from Win Vector LLC [alt+shift+b] in AI

4 months ago
I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
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Mind Prison: Notes...
Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
9 months ago
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Everything Is a Spy Device and OpenAI’s New o1 Model

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9 months ago
Notes From the Desk: No. 35 - 2024.10.03
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The American Scholar
“In the Summer” by Nizar Qabbani Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “In the Summer” by Nizar Qabbani appeared first on The...
a month ago
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“In the Summer” by Nizar Qabbani

from The American Scholar [alt+shift+b] in literature

a month ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “In the Summer” by Nizar Qabbani appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry...
a year ago
18

Standard cells: Looking at individual gates in the Pentium processor

from Ken Shirriff's blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

a year ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, a chip to "separate the really power-hungry folks from ordinary mortals." The original Pentium was followed by the Pentium Pro, the Pentium II, and others, spawning a long-running brand of high-performance processors, Intel's...
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Platformer
Reddit doubles down Delaying its API changes would benefit everyone — but users have other options, too
over a year ago
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Reddit doubles down

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over a year ago
Delaying its API changes would benefit everyone — but users have other options, too
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Mazdak
Buffett's $325 Billion Warning Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway,...
8 months ago
35

Buffett's $325 Billion Warning

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

8 months ago
Is the legendary investor Warren Buffett sounding the alarm on the market? Berkshire Hathaway, Buffett's company, is sitting on a record $325 billion in cash after selling off major chunks of Apple and Bank of America stock.
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Mazdak
Workspace AI Features Now Included for Free Google has just dropped a major announcement that’s set to reshape how we use AI-powered...
5 months ago
43

Workspace AI Features Now Included for Free

from Mazdak [alt+shift+b] in finance

5 months ago
Google has just dropped a major announcement that’s set to reshape how we use AI-powered productivity tools.
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Scott DeLong
Weeks 44-47: The end is near As this challenge comes to an end, it feels good to be at a point where I'm about as immune as...
a year ago
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Weeks 44-47: The end is near

from Scott DeLong [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

a year ago
As this challenge comes to an end, it feels good to be at a point where I'm about as immune as possible to looming threats The post Weeks 44-47: The end is near appeared first on Scott DeLong.
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Nothing Human
Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
a year ago
84

Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust

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a year ago
why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
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The Pragmatic...
Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years? Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more...
over a year ago
42

Why did Google close its coding competitions after 20 years?

from The Pragmatic Engineer [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Why did the company do so? I’ve talked with people involved in organizing the competition for more details
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computers are bad
2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of...
11 months ago
92

2024-07-31 just disconnect the internet

from computers are bad [alt+shift+b] in technology

11 months ago
So, let's say that a security vendor, we'll call them ClownStrike, accidentally takes down most of their Windows install base with a poorly tested content update. Rough day at the office, huh? There are lots of things you could say about this, lots of reasons it happens this way,...
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Noahpinion
How Latin America started to beat inequality It can be done.
a year ago
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How Latin America started to beat inequality

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a year ago
It can be done.
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Seth's Blog
Customer service is a choice It’s either part of your strategy or you’re paying for your mistake. 800 numbers changed the way...
a year ago
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Customer service is a choice

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It’s either part of your strategy or you’re paying for your mistake. 800 numbers changed the way large brands dealt with the public. Instantly, and for free, a consumer could contact a company about a product or service and they would work to make it right. It was more than...
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The American Scholar
Doing Nothing Is Everything An areligious writer finds peace in a Benedictine monastery The post Doing Nothing Is Everything...
3 months ago
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Doing Nothing Is Everything

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3 months ago
An areligious writer finds peace in a Benedictine monastery The post Doing Nothing Is Everything appeared first on The American Scholar.
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PostHog's RSS Feed
The 6 best free and open-source A/B testing tools Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your...
over a year ago
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The 6 best free and open-source A/B testing tools

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over a year ago
Also known as split testing or multivariate testing, A/B testing is the practice of splitting your audience to test variations of a product design…
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Passing Time
The Asymmetry of Destruction It's easier to destroy than to create
a week ago
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The Asymmetry of Destruction

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a week ago
It's easier to destroy than to create
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Seth's Blog
Long form AI The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can...
a year ago
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Long form AI

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a year ago
The new version of Claude can read a document of up to 400 pages in about three minutes. You can then ask it for criticism, summaries or other insights. I wouldn’t use it on a piece of literature, but if you’re reading for work (aren’t we all), it will dramatically increase how...
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Willem's Blog
Business in a bag After much testing I have selected a bag and set of cases to fit my entire business, wherever I go.
over a year ago
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Business in a bag

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over a year ago
After much testing I have selected a bag and set of cases to fit my entire business, wherever I go.
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SatPost by Trung...
Las Vegas, F1 and the sport's long history in America PLUS: An unexpected Netflix hit and the world's most popular artist.
a year ago
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Las Vegas, F1 and the sport's long history in America

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a year ago
PLUS: An unexpected Netflix hit and the world's most popular artist.
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journal – Winnie Lim
getting closer to my darkness I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months....
a year ago
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getting closer to my darkness

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a year ago
I have always struggled with my mind, but the intensity seemed to worsen in the past few months. Tracing back, I think it was since my covid infection.  I wasn’t surprised to...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Show Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I believe if we get a fog machine and some cleverly...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Show

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I believe if we get a fog machine and some cleverly placed sheets we can have some sort of sex. Today's News:
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Tech and Tea
Under the Old Ginkgo Everything I’m learning about uselessness, thriving, and not needing to scale from our backyard...
5 months ago
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Under the Old Ginkgo

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5 months ago
Everything I’m learning about uselessness, thriving, and not needing to scale from our backyard ginkgo tree.
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Code Of Honor
Stay Awhile and Listen Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for...
over a year ago
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Stay Awhile and Listen

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over a year ago
Developing games is a full-time occupation, so it is no surprise that I’ve had less time for blogging as I’ve started creating a new game. After a two-year stint helping other folks publish their games I’m back to coding and game design full-time and having a wonderful time. But...
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bt RSS Feed
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I...
over a year ago
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Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll

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over a year ago
Improving Tufte CSS for Jekyll 2019-11-01 After creating the ET-Jekyll theme almost two years ago, I finally got around to revamping the structure and improving a lot of minor performance issues. Items that have been surely needing of updates for the last couple of...
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Ink & Switch
Slow Software What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
over a year ago
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Slow Software

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over a year ago
What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
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xkcd.com
Factorial Numbers
a year ago
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Factorial Numbers

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a year ago
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computers are bad
2023-03-24 docker Lately I tend to stick to topics that are historic by at least twenty years, and that does have a...
over a year ago
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2023-03-24 docker

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over a year ago
Lately I tend to stick to topics that are historic by at least twenty years, and that does have a lot of advantages. But I am supposedly a DevOps professional, and so I will occasionally indulge in giving DevOps advice... or at least opinions, which are sort of like advice but...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gills Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: So Zach, what do you do when not making children's...
over a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Gills

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over a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: So Zach, what do you do when not making children's books? Today's News: Hey geeks, I'll be speaking a Proton Prom with a bunch of people who are more important than me!
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The Marginalian
A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts,... "The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be...
over a year ago
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A Taste of How It Feels to Be Free: Pioneering Psychoanalyst Karen Horney on Our Inner Conflicts, the Psychology of Hopelessness, and the Path to Wholeness

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over a year ago
"The most comprehensive formulation of therapeutic goals is the striving for wholeheartedness: to be without pretense, to be emotionally sincere, to be able to put the whole of oneself into one’s feelings, one’s work, one’s beliefs. It can be approximated only to the extent that...
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Elevation Lab - Blog
Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags...
7 months ago
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Introducing TagVault Universal for AirTag

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7 months ago
We wanted an ultra-secure AirTag case that could be mounted to anything. Easy to change AirTags battery. Waterproof. Robust. And discreet. So we designed TagVault Universal Mount for AirTag. It has mounting holes for screws, rivets, and slots for zip ties. Or just epoxy it down....
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SatPost by Trung...
Garmin's ~$40B Pivot The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
5 months ago
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Garmin's ~$40B Pivot

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5 months ago
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Where You Can Explore the World's Rivers And Protect Them
a year ago
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Where You Can Explore the World's Rivers And Protect Them

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a year ago
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Maggie Appleton
A Short History of Bi-Directional Links Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual...
over a year ago
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A Short History of Bi-Directional Links

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over a year ago
Seventy years ago we dreamed up links that would allow us to create two-way, contextual conversations. Why don't we use them on the web?
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Academic Literature and its Increasing Emphasis on Prejudice and Social Justice Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked...
over a year ago
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The Academic Literature and its Increasing Emphasis on Prejudice and Social Justice

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over a year ago
Published article Twitter thread In previous scholarly work (here and here), I documented a marked increase of references to prejudice in US, UK and Spanish news media content. The work summarized here investigates the prevalence dynamics of prejudice-denoting terms in 175...
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High Signal
Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of...
a year ago
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Making $1m ARR with social media scheduling

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a year ago
Davis is the co-founder of OneUp, a tool for scheduling social media posts across a range of platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, TikTok, LinkedIn and many more. The business is now doing over $1m in annual revenue! Davis joined me for an interview about joining the...
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Noahpinion
We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
a week ago
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We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich

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a week ago
Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
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bt RSS Feed
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown...
over a year ago
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Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch

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over a year ago
Yet Another Static Site Generator Switch 2022-07-06 If you’re an RSS subscriber, I’ve probably blown up your feed reader (again). This seems to be an on-going theme with this blog. I can’t help it. This website now uses my new Pandoc-based static blog generator: pblog. I won’t go...
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bunnie's blog
Formlabs Form 4 Teardown Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of...
a year ago
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Formlabs Form 4 Teardown

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a year ago
Formlabs has recently launched the fourth edition of their flagship SLA printer line, the Form 4. Of course, I jumped on the chance to do a teardown of the printer; I’m grateful that I was able to do the same for the Form 1, Form 2, and Form 3 generations. In addition to learning...
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A Collection of...
Collections: On Bread and Circuses Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place...
6 months ago
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Collections: On Bread and Circuses

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6 months ago
Coming off of some of the discussion of Gladiator II (I, II), this week I want to discuss the place of ‘bread and circuses’ in the narrative of Roman decadence and decline. This is one of those phrases which long ago entered the standard lexicon, but which gets used and...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Set Explicit Help Timeouts A simple way to normalize asking for help.
over a year ago
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Set Explicit Help Timeouts

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over a year ago
A simple way to normalize asking for help.
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Yale e360
In a First, California Tribe May Freely Burn Its Ancestral Lands In California, a state increasingly beset by devastating wildfires, the Karuk Tribe will be able to...
4 months ago
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In a First, California Tribe May Freely Burn Its Ancestral Lands

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4 months ago
In California, a state increasingly beset by devastating wildfires, the Karuk Tribe will be able to freely set controlled burns, helping to clear the dense underbrush that fuels larger and more destructive fires. Read more on E360 →
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Making software...
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about...
over a year ago
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Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both?

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over a year ago
Bidirectional Scrolling: Why Not Both? 2020-11-09 I recently came across Adam Silver's post about the merits and pitfalls of bidirectional scrolling and found myself conflicted with the design arguments put forth in the article. It's a very good article overall, and I suggest...
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Josh Thompson
Blocks and Closures in Ruby Continuing on from yesterday’s post about method_missing, I’m moving on to a part of Ruby’s language...
over a year ago
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Blocks and Closures in Ruby

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over a year ago
Continuing on from yesterday’s post about method_missing, I’m moving on to a part of Ruby’s language that has been a bit of a mystery for me for quite some time. I’m still working through Metaprogramming in Ruby. It’s the concept of lambdas, procs, blocks, and more. I also hope...
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Classical Wisdom
Should We Try to Control Nature? Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
11 months ago
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Should We Try to Control Nature?

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11 months ago
Thoughts from the edge of a hurricane
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Herbert Lui
Optimism vs. delusion Making the choice to be optimistic is always worth it, especially when it’s the more difficult...
2 months ago
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Optimism vs. delusion

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2 months ago
Making the choice to be optimistic is always worth it, especially when it’s the more difficult decision to make. As Bob Iger, who leads Disney, puts it, optimism is the ability to focus on what matters—steering your team towards the best possible outcome, and moving forward in...
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Wait But Why
The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate Jeez The post The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
a year ago
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The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate

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a year ago
Jeez The post The 2024 Trump-Biden Debate appeared first on Wait But Why.
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stare Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I expect this comic to be amusing until roughly...
8 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Stare

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8 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I expect this comic to be amusing until roughly 2029. Today's News:
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Rest of World -...
How Tesla’s Mexico plans stalled out When the Monterrey factory finally arrives, will Elon still want it?
a year ago
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How Tesla’s Mexico plans stalled out

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a year ago
When the Monterrey factory finally arrives, will Elon still want it?
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Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 1 I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week...
6 months ago
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Humanities Crash Course: Week 1

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6 months ago
I’m embarking on a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 1. Readings Following Gioia’s plan, I read six of Plato’s dialogues: Euthypro, Apology, Crito, Phaedo, and Books I and VII of The Republic. I used the beautiful edition published (for free)...
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Maps Mania
Some Musical Maps in Motion
2 months ago
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Some Musical Maps in Motion

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2 months ago
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Passing Time
Incommensurate Goods in ESG When values conflict, how do you choose what to prioritize?
over a year ago
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Incommensurate Goods in ESG

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over a year ago
When values conflict, how do you choose what to prioritize?
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The Ruffian
Why Are We So Bad at Grasping Difficult Things? The British State's Dependency On Louise Casey
2 weeks ago
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Why Are We So Bad at Grasping Difficult Things?

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2 weeks ago
The British State's Dependency On Louise Casey
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Retail Design Blog
Barnes & Thornburg LLP Offices by ASD|SKY ASD|SKY designed Barnes & Thornburg’s new Nashville office in the Broadwest Building, featuring a...
3 months ago
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Barnes & Thornburg LLP Offices by ASD|SKY

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3 months ago
ASD|SKY designed Barnes & Thornburg’s new Nashville office in the Broadwest Building, featuring a flexible and client-focused space with a...
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Paul Graham: Essays
Modeling a Wealth Tax
over a year ago
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Modeling a Wealth Tax

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over a year ago
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Trying to Understand...
Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete. You don't need to know that.
a year ago
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Tune Out, Turn Off, Delete.

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a year ago
You don't need to know that.
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TheCollector
What Is “The Word” in the Bible? In Greek, the “Word” is logos. In the Bible, logos is much more than just a single distinct...
a month ago
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What Is “The Word” in the Bible?

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a month ago
In Greek, the “Word” is logos. In the Bible, logos is much more than just a single distinct meaningful element of speech or writing. It encapsulates much broader concepts and has much deeper meaning and implications. In a sense, logos is what the Bible is all about. It connects...
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Maps Mania
Is it Hot Right Now?
a month ago
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Is it Hot Right Now?

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a month ago
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Birchtree
So much time and money for a minor vibe shift Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no...
4 months ago
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So much time and money for a minor vibe shift

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4 months ago
Gary Marcus: Hot Take: GPT 4.5 Is a Nothing Burger Half a trillion dollars later, there is still no viable business model, profits are modest at best for everyone except Nvidia and some consulting forms, there’s still basically no moat, and still no GPT-5. Any reasonable person
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The Diff
AI Assistants Will Be Great (Especially for the Biggest Companies) Plus! Short Selling; Crypto Treasury Gresham's Law; The Joy of Higher Rates; Labor Substitution;...
4 months ago
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AI Assistants Will Be Great (Especially for the Biggest Companies)

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4 months ago
Plus! Short Selling; Crypto Treasury Gresham's Law; The Joy of Higher Rates; Labor Substitution; Pricing Black Swans
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DYNOMIGHT
Using axis lines for good or evil Say you want to plot some data. You could just plot it by itself: Or you could put lines on the...
a year ago
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Using axis lines for good or evil

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a year ago
Say you want to plot some data. You could just plot it by itself: Or you could put lines on the left and bottom: Or you could put lines everywhere: Or you could be weird: Which is right? Many people treat this as an aesthetic choice. But I’d like to suggest an unambiguous...
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Quanta Magazine
‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and...
a year ago
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‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity

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a year ago
The recipient of the 2024 Crafoord Prize in Mathematics discusses math as art, math as language, and math as abstract thought. The post ‘The Rest of the World Disappears’: Claire Voisin on Mathematical Creativity first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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mtlynch.io
The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt The Goal is an attempt to reevaluate business management from first principles. The book explains...
over a year ago
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The Goal by Eliyahu M. Goldratt

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over a year ago
The Goal is an attempt to reevaluate business management from first principles. The book explains Goldratt’s Theory of Constraints, which states that in any business, the sole determinant of output is the bottleneck resource. To grow, a business has to identify its bottlenecks...
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Londonist
Things To Do In London On New Year's Eve 31 December events and parties in London.
a year ago
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Things To Do In London On New Year's Eve

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a year ago
31 December events and parties in London.
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./techtipsy
Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS) For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5...
8 months ago
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Your Wi-Fi might be terrible because of Dynamic Frequency Selection (DFS)

from ./techtipsy [alt+shift+b] in technology

8 months ago
For a few months, I had issues with my Wi-Fi network. The 2.4 GHz network would be fine, but the 5 GHz one would suddenly stop working and completely disappear from the available Wi-Fi networks. OpenWRT upgrades also didn’t improve the situation. This was very annoying. After...
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The Ruffian
What 'Adolescence' Doesn't Tell Us About Boys Impressive Entertainment, Not Sure About the Social Commentary
3 months ago
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What 'Adolescence' Doesn't Tell Us About Boys

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3 months ago
Impressive Entertainment, Not Sure About the Social Commentary
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Calculated Risk
Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.3% in February The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI. Click on graph for larger...
3 months ago
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Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.3% in February

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3 months ago
The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI. Click on graph for larger image. On a year-over-year basis, the median CPI rose 3.5% (down from 3.6% YoY in January), the trimmed-mean CPI rose 3.1% (unchanged from 3.1%), and the CPI less food and energy rose...
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TheCollector
4 Infamous Rulers of the Neo-Assyrian Empire The Neo-Assyrian Empire dominated the landscape of the ancient Near East from 911 BCE until its fall...
4 days ago
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4 Infamous Rulers of the Neo-Assyrian Empire

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

4 days ago
The Neo-Assyrian Empire dominated the landscape of the ancient Near East from 911 BCE until its fall in 609 BCE. The Old Assyrian period saw the Assyrian city-state become somewhat independent around 2025 BCE, and it gradually increased in strength until its penultimate period,...
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CONTEMPORIST
6,000 Pieces Of Discarded Whiskey Barrels Were Used In The Design Of This Bar Roomoo Design Studio has shared photos of their latest project, the Laizhou Bar in Shanghai, China,...
over a year ago
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6,000 Pieces Of Discarded Whiskey Barrels Were Used In The Design Of This Bar

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over a year ago
Roomoo Design Studio has shared photos of their latest project, the Laizhou Bar in Shanghai, China, which features recycled whiskey barrels throughout its design. The designers used around 6,000 pieces of discarded wooden barrels dismantled from the whiskey barrels of a...
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Diaries of Note
I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was...
a year ago
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I won’t marry Jo to Laurie to please any one

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a year ago
Now considered a seminal work in both American literature and feminist canon, Little Women was originally published in the 1860s as two separate volumes, the first of which Louisa May Alcott completed in two months after being asked by her publisher to “write a girl’s book.” The...
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Rest of World -...
A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM Awarri has been tapped to help increase the representation of Nigerian languages in AI.
a year ago
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A little-known AI startup is behind Nigeria’s first government-backed LLM

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a year ago
Awarri has been tapped to help increase the representation of Nigerian languages in AI.
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Wuthering...
Heraclitus and Empedocles - Everything flows - eyes roamed alone My rummage through the early Greek philosophers has been rewarding, but it is a strange exercise. ...
over a year ago
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Heraclitus and Empedocles - Everything flows - eyes roamed alone

from Wuthering Expectations [alt+shift+b] in literature

over a year ago
My rummage through the early Greek philosophers has been rewarding, but it is a strange exercise.  “Readers of this book will, I suspect, be frequently perplexed and sometimes annoyed” write Jonathan Barnes in Early Greek Philosophy, a collection with commentary of the most...
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Vadim Kravcenko
Can an offshore dev agency steal your code? Congrats on becoming a CTO and on immediately thinking of dipping your toes into the world of...
a year ago
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Can an offshore dev agency steal your code?

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a year ago
Congrats on becoming a CTO and on immediately thinking of dipping your toes into the world of offshore development agencies. […] The post Can an offshore dev agency steal your code? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
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sancho.dev
Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf
over a year ago
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Run yarn/npm scripts with fzf

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over a year ago
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Marcus on AI
Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment? Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we...
6 months ago
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Humanity’s “Oh shit!” AI moment?

from Marcus on AI [alt+shift+b] in AI

6 months ago
Not yet, but it could come sooner than you think. Not because we are close to AGI, but because we already have machines that can say one thing and do something else altogether.
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Joel Gascoigne
The highs and lows of startup life * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently...
over a year ago
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The highs and lows of startup life

from Joel Gascoigne [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * I was recently back in the UK for two weeks and had the chance to speak at an event in London about the incredible journey with my startup in the last two years. When I speak, I try my best
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Boo

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Let this strip-club ghost joke convince you that I don't plan for holiday comics. Today's News:
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Noahpinion
Where does libertarianism go from here? Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
over a year ago
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Where does libertarianism go from here?

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over a year ago
Deregulation, state capacity, and growth-oriented centrism.
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Arduino Blog
What if robots could communicate with humans by emitting scents? Almost all human-robot interaction (HRI) approaches today rely on three senses: hearing, sight, and...
12 months ago
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What if robots could communicate with humans by emitting scents?

from Arduino Blog [alt+shift+b] in technology

12 months ago
Almost all human-robot interaction (HRI) approaches today rely on three senses: hearing, sight, and touch. Your robot vacuum might beep at you, or play recorded or synthesized speech. An LED on its enclosure might blink to red to signify a problem. And cutting-edge humanoid...
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NeuroLogica Blog
Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a...
6 months ago
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Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a huge and complicated question, and one with massive implications for our civilization. I think we are still at the point where we cannot count on fusion reactors coming online...
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mtlynch.io
The Perils of Outsourcing Your MVP A few months ago, I had a brilliant idea for a website. Then, I had an even brillianter idea: build...
over a year ago
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The Perils of Outsourcing Your MVP

from mtlynch.io [alt+shift+b] in indiehacker

over a year ago
A few months ago, I had a brilliant idea for a website. Then, I had an even brillianter idea: build the website, but outsource all the work. Every great website starts with an MVP: the minimum viable product. It demonstrates the idea in its simplest form to test whether anyone is...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trajectoid Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: With profound hope that the authors of the original...
7 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Trajectoid

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7 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: With profound hope that the authors of the original paper do not read this. Today's News:
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The Honest Broker
Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence? Am I crazy? Let's find out...
8 months ago
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Am I Wrong About the Live Music Resurgence?

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8 months ago
Am I crazy? Let's find out...
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weird medieval guys
Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
over a year ago
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Medieval Muslims loved their cats so much

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over a year ago
Cat shelters, cat shoes, cat jewellery, and more from the Islamic Middle Ages
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Common Edge
Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a New Monthly Podcast Episode 1: Witold Rybcynzki and Kurt Andersen explore the age-old question, “What is ugly?”
4 months ago
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Our Buildings, Our Selves: Humanity in Architecture, a New Monthly Podcast

from Common Edge [alt+shift+b] in architecture

4 months ago
Episode 1: Witold Rybcynzki and Kurt Andersen explore the age-old question, “What is ugly?”
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The Elysian
Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
10 months ago
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Founders will get much richer by exiting to employees

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10 months ago
This is how we create a wave of employee ownership.
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AFAR Media - Travel...
What to Do On Padre Island if You Love Nature
over a year ago
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What to Do On Padre Island if You Love Nature

from AFAR Media - Travel Stories, News, Reviews, Tips + Guides [alt+shift+b] in travel

over a year ago
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Bartosz Ciechanowski
Moon In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial...
6 months ago
74

Moon

from Bartosz Ciechanowski [alt+shift+b] in science

6 months ago
In the vastness of empty space surrounding Earth, the Moon is our closest celestial neighbor. Its face, periodically filled with light and devoured by darkness, has an ever-changing, but dependable presence in our skies. In this article, we’ll learn about the Moon and its path...
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TheCollector
Who (or What) Was Ma’at in Ancient Egypt? Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness...
3 months ago
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Who (or What) Was Ma’at in Ancient Egypt?

from TheCollector [alt+shift+b] in history

3 months ago
Ma’at was a fundamental concept in ancient Egyptian society. It can be understood as “the rightness of things” and was a mixture of order, harmony, and justice. As with many important concepts in the Egyptian world, Ma’at was considered to be a divine force fundamental within...
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Flashbak
Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and...
a year ago
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Vintage Illustrations Of Japanese Anthropomorphic Frogs and Toads

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a year ago
The Japanese phrase kimo-kawaii translates into ‘cute and ugly’. It can be applied to frogs and toads, often portrayed in Japanese art in anthropomorphic fashion as they engage in fighting, marching with spirits (yokai) and casting spells. Here we look at a range of prints...
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Yale e360
Paper review: The Gamma Database Project Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper...
over a year ago
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Paper review: The Gamma Database Project

from Yale e360 [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Last week, I read "The Gamma Database Project" for a Red Book reading group. Unlike the last paper for this group, this one was a lot more approachable in length: 19 pages. I'm putting up some of my notes here from reading the paper. If you read through to the end, there's...
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Retail Design Blog
ThiLa Bistro & Café by 3fconcept A Nostalgic Touch in the Heart of Da Nang – Da Nang is a dynamic, modern city, yet it sits...
3 months ago
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ThiLa Bistro & Café by 3fconcept

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3 months ago
A Nostalgic Touch in the Heart of Da Nang – Da Nang is a dynamic, modern city, yet it sits...
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David Heinemeier...
Wisdom is not what you know The hallmark of great wisdom is not what you know, but what you know and can put to use. The globe...
over a year ago
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Wisdom is not what you know

from David Heinemeier Hansson [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
The hallmark of great wisdom is not what you know, but what you know and can put to use. The globe is full of learned idiots, unable or incapable of following the wisdom they have accumulated. There's no prize for a closet full of axioms or insights, if you leave it all in there,...
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Flashbak
The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook, 1961 First published in 1961, The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook shares 220 recipes by 55 painters, 61...
a month ago
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The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook, 1961

from Flashbak [alt+shift+b] in history

a month ago
First published in 1961, The Artists’ & Writers’ Cookbook shares 220 recipes by 55 painters, 61 novelists, 15 sculptors and 19 poets. Dedicated to the art of imperfection in the kithc”, it’s a fun book in which wit and wine feature heavily.   American novelist William Styron...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clapping Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is actually the answer to most Zen...
9 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Clapping

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9 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is actually the answer to most Zen koans. Today's News:
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The Tao Of Wealth
How To Develop Extreme Resilience 1. There is no destination. Only the journey. Have you ever said something like, “If I had a higher...
over a year ago
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How To Develop Extreme Resilience

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over a year ago
1. There is no destination. Only the journey. Have you ever said something like, “If I had a higher salary, then I would be happy”or “I’ll be satisfied when I get this promotion”? Many people don’t find out in time that “when” never comes. Stress appears in our life when we let...
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Charlie Becker
Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023] Big, Big News!
over a year ago
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Castles in the Sky 33 [May 2023]

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over a year ago
Big, Big News!
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The Honest Broker
Why I Take Gifts Seriously The digital economy is built on the unpaid labor of the gifted. What can we do to protect them?
3 days ago
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Why I Take Gifts Seriously

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3 days ago
The digital economy is built on the unpaid labor of the gifted. What can we do to protect them?
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Rest of World -...
How a Japanese entrepreneur built Ethiopia’s fastest-growing EV maker Dodai is building 300 battery-swapping stations to cut costs and make EVs more accessible.
3 months ago
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How a Japanese entrepreneur built Ethiopia’s fastest-growing EV maker

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3 months ago
Dodai is building 300 battery-swapping stations to cut costs and make EVs more accessible.
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NeuroLogica Blog
AI Humor It’s been less than two years (November 2022) since ChatGPT launched. In some ways the new large...
10 months ago
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AI Humor

from NeuroLogica Blog [alt+shift+b] in science

10 months ago
It’s been less than two years (November 2022) since ChatGPT launched. In some ways the new large language model (LLM) type of artificial intelligence (AI) applications have been on the steep part of the improvement curve. And yet, they are still LLMs with the same limitations. In...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Buds Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find...
a year ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Buds

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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Free movie idea: guy goes on a road trip to find himself, keeps asexually creating duplicates. Title: Buds Today's News:
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TheCollector
9 Facts About Sam Gilliam, the Great Abstract Artist Sam Gilliam was a famous American abstract painter known for his suspended canvases, soaked in...
a month ago
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9 Facts About Sam Gilliam, the Great Abstract Artist

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a month ago
Sam Gilliam was a famous American abstract painter known for his suspended canvases, soaked in acrylic paint. As a young artist, Gilliam was inspired to experiment with the Abstract Expressionist scene that dominated the art market. However, in his works he went much further,...
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Jason Fried
High and Low Problems are often described by their size. "Hey, that's a big problem". Or "Eh, that's just a...
8 months ago
14

High and Low

from Jason Fried [alt+shift+b] in life

8 months ago
Problems are often described by their size. "Hey, that's a big problem". Or "Eh, that's just a little issue, no big deal." And if you do hear someone say “serious” you immediately think huge. It’s still about size. I sometimes still use those descriptors, but I'm trying to use...
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Stephen Wolfram...
A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second...
over a year ago
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A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics

from Stephen Wolfram Writings [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
This is part 2 in a 3-part series about the Second Law: 1. Computational Foundations for the Second Law of Thermodynamics (forthcoming) 2. A 50-Year Quest: My Personal Journey with the Second Law of Thermodynamics 3. How Did We Get Here? The Tangled History of the Second Law of...
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Old Structures...
Imagine Standing There Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like...
a year ago
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Imagine Standing There

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

a year ago
Every so often, I mention New York’s industrial past. Compared to a truly industrial city like Philadelphia or Chicago, it’s small-scale stuff, but compared to the present it’s astonishing. Looking at one of the parts of the city devoted to industry before 1920, it’s hard to...
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bunnie's blog
Winner, Name that Ware June 2024 The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top...
11 months ago
64

Winner, Name that Ware June 2024

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11 months ago
The Ware for June 2024 is a hash board from an Antminer S19 generation bitcoin miner, with the top side heatsinks removed. I’ll give the prize to Alex, for the thoughtful details related in the comments. Congrats, email me for your prize! I chose this portion of the miner to...
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Open Culture
Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful &... In 1849, a little over 175 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under...
a year ago
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Hear Edgar Allan Poe Stories Read by Iggy Pop, Jeff Buckley, Christopher Walken, Marianne Faithful & More

from Open Culture [alt+shift+b] in creative

a year ago
In 1849, a little over 175 years ago, Edgar Allan Poe was found dead in a Baltimore gutter under mysterious circumstances very likely related to violent election fraud. It was an ignominious end to a life marked by hardship, alcoholism, and loss. After struggling for years as the...
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Steve Blank
Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF...
over a year ago
54

Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning– Explained

from Steve Blank [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Artificial Intelligence is a once-in-a lifetime commercial and defense game changer (download a PDF of this article here) Hundreds of billions in public and private capital is being invested in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning companies. The number of patents...
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swyx's site RSS Feed
Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main Notes I have collected on how to renaming the Git default/primary branch
over a year ago
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Cheatsheet for moving from Master to Main

from swyx's site RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
Notes I have collected on how to renaming the Git default/primary branch
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IEEE Spectrum
The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet CES) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. ARPANET...
over a year ago
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The Do-or-Die Moments That Determined the Fate of the Internet

from IEEE Spectrum [alt+shift+b] in science

over a year ago
CES) and the Game Developers Conference have become regular features of the digital world. ARPANET in 1972, or the mid-1980s conferences now known as Interop, alerted experts to new technologies, and, in some cases, altered the balance between competing approaches. Packet...
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Ink & Switch
Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a...
a month ago
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Dispatch 011: Automerge 3.0 Beta, Sketchy Calendar, and a lab website refresh

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a month ago
Some major updates to our open-source Automerge library, an introduction to Sketchy Calendars, and a peek at our work on collaborative game development. Also some meta content—a refreshed website, and a talk about how we work.
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Quanta Magazine
A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of...
a year ago
93

A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology

from Quanta Magazine [alt+shift+b] in science

a year ago
This past October, dozens of mathematicians gathered in Pasadena to create the third version of “Kirby’s list” — a compendium of the most important unsolved problems in the field. The post A New Agenda for Low-Dimensional Topology first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
Once you take money, the clock starts ticking One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that...
over a year ago
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Once you take money, the clock starts ticking

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over a year ago
One of the interesting things about having been investing in startups for a number of years is that at any moment you get an inside peek at…
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Onions Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for...
12 months ago
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Onions

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12 months ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Drawing all those stupid onions was worth it for the phrase keystone onion. Today's News:
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Adventures In...
Vintage Retro Old-School 1890s Basemap for ArcGIS Pro Here’s how to stack up some tile layers and blend them up to concoct a basemap that wouldn’t look...
10 months ago
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Vintage Retro Old-School 1890s Basemap for ArcGIS Pro

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10 months ago
Here’s how to stack up some tile layers and blend them up to concoct a basemap that wouldn’t look out of place in 1890. Except that you wouldn’t have anywhere to plug in your monitor so it would be hard to show it to people back then. Ok bring a small generator. Wait, all these …
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TheCollector
What Is the Song of Solomon About? The Song of Solomon is different from any other book in the Bible. Some people are surprised at its...
2 months ago
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What Is the Song of Solomon About?

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2 months ago
The Song of Solomon is different from any other book in the Bible. Some people are surprised at its content. It seems like letters two lovers wrote one another where the male and female describe the other from their perspective. The poems express excitement at the thought of the...
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Essays - Benedict...
The FTC versus tech M&A The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and...
over a year ago
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The FTC versus tech M&A

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over a year ago
The US is fundamentally rethinking its approach to regulating competition, and M&A, and tech, and big tech buying startups. The FTC’s attempt to block Meta from buying Within is a test case for all of this. So, how many interesting problems can we count?
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Ink & Switch
Slow Software What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
over a year ago
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Slow Software

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over a year ago
What it means for software to be fast, and why most software is not.
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xkcd.com
Room Code
a year ago
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Room Code

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Open Culture
Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Explained in One of the Earliest Science Films Ever Made (1923) Albert Einstein developed his theory of special relativity in 1905, and then mentally mapped out his...
a year ago
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Einstein’s Theory of Relativity Explained in One of the Earliest Science Films Ever Made (1923)

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a year ago
Albert Einstein developed his theory of special relativity in 1905, and then mentally mapped out his theory of general relativity between 1907 and 1915. For years to come, the rest of the world would try to catch up with Einstein, trying to understand the gist, let alone the full...
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things to start your week (#23) SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok...
a year ago
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At least five interesting things to start your week (#23)

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a year ago
SF's Market Street debacle, the debate over real wages, why U.S. growth has gotten smoother, TikTok as a propaganda engine, and California homelessness
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
Make Fun Of Them Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his...
a week ago
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Make Fun Of Them

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a week ago
Have you ever heard Sam Altman speak? I’m serious, have you ever heard this man say words from his mouth?  Here is but one of the trenchant insights from Sam Altman in his agonizing 37-minute-long podcast conversation with his brother Jack Altman from last week: “I
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This Space
39 Books: 2021 I lived in Brighton for 30 years. One of the many painful aspects of leaving in 2021 was losing the...
a year ago
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39 Books: 2021

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a year ago
I lived in Brighton for 30 years. One of the many painful aspects of leaving in 2021 was losing the many second-hand bookshops, all within walking distance. Many have closed over the years, such as Sandpiper, a remaindered bookshop in Kensington Gardens. It had a backroom in...
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Alex Meub
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
over a year ago
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A Look at Portland Car2Go Data

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over a year ago
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
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Rest of World -...
Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
6 months ago
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Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries

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6 months ago
In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
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Drew Ex Machina
Recollections of NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission Like a lot of kids who grew up during the ‘60s and ‘70s, I had a fascination with spaceflight. This...
11 months ago
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Recollections of NASA’s Apollo 11 Mission

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11 months ago
Like a lot of kids who grew up during the ‘60s and ‘70s, I had a fascination with spaceflight. This interest started honestly enough back around […]
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Musings on Markets
Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and...
11 months ago
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Country Risk: My 2024 Data Update

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11 months ago
After the 2008 market crisis, I resolved that I would be far more organized in my assessments and updating of equity risk premiums, in the United States and abroad, as I looked at the damage that can be inflicted on intrinsic value by significant shifts in risk premiums, i.e., my...
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Applied Cartography
Typesafe routes in Vue I watched Gary Bernhardt's talk on static routing back a few years ago and — I'm not sure if I would...
a year ago
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Typesafe routes in Vue

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a year ago
I watched Gary Bernhardt's talk on static routing back a few years ago and — I'm not sure if I would call it formative, but it stuck in my craw as a platonic ideal of sorts, as something I couldn't really justify adopting within Buttondown but really wanted. I built out and...
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Not Boring by Packy...
Base Power Company: Chapter 2 Violently Executing to Build America's Next Generation Power Company
2 months ago
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Base Power Company: Chapter 2

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2 months ago
Violently Executing to Build America's Next Generation Power Company
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xkcd.com
Pendulum Types
a year ago
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Pendulum Types

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a year ago
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James Cheshire
COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips James Cheshire, UCL and Rob Davidson, UCL In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific...
a year ago
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COVID inquiry heard Boris Johnson ‘struggled’ with graphs – if you do too, here are some tips

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a year ago
James Cheshire, UCL and Rob Davidson, UCL In March 2020, the UK government’s chief scientific adviser, Patrick Vallance, presented to the nation a graph showing “the shape of an epidemic”. The red line depicting the number of predicted COVID cases rose to a steep peak before...
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Adrian Hanft, III:...
Fingerprints on the Feculence If you don’t claim responsibility for the user experience who will? Is there a stronger advocate for...
over a year ago
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Fingerprints on the Feculence

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over a year ago
If you don’t claim responsibility for the user experience who will? Is there a stronger advocate for quality, anyone more in touch with good taste than you? It is time to fess up to poor UX.
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Articles
Pessimism vs Optimism
over a year ago
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Pessimism vs Optimism

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over a year ago
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Ben Goodman Hello. I’m a wood engraver and printmaker who specialises in portraiture. I work from my studio in...
8 hours ago
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Meet The Maker: Ben Goodman

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8 hours ago
Hello. I’m a wood engraver and printmaker who specialises in portraiture. I work from my studio in South Bristol where I’m lucky enough to have an old Albion Press. I’ve lived in Bristol for 18 years and love the friendly and open-minded spirit which it seems to...
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TheCollector
What Was the Cause of Henry VIII’s Fertility Issues? Henry VIII’s reign is often remembered for his many marriages and his relentless pursuit of a...
2 months ago
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What Was the Cause of Henry VIII’s Fertility Issues?

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2 months ago
Henry VIII’s reign is often remembered for his many marriages and his relentless pursuit of a legitimate heir. While his marital antics have become the stuff of legend, less attention is paid to the potential medical reasons behind his inability to ensure the Tudor hold on power....
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Rest of World -...
The most important news from Apple isn’t about AI Reuniting the world’s text messages — one app at a time.
a year ago
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The most important news from Apple isn’t about AI

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a year ago
Reuniting the world’s text messages — one app at a time.
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Notes on software...
An explosion of transitive dependencies A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive...
5 months ago
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An explosion of transitive dependencies

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5 months ago
A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive standard library helps you minimize dependencies. Don't misunderstand me: in a real-world project, it is practically impossible to have zero dependencies. Armin Ronacher called for a vibe...
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Components and LEGOs “We’re going to build a component library — which are like a bunch of LEGOs — so...
over a year ago
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Components and LEGOs

from Jim Nielsen’s Blog [alt+shift+b] in programming

over a year ago
“We’re going to build a component library — which are like a bunch of LEGOs — so designers/developers can just pick a prefabricated component off the shelf and build with consistency and coherence.” It’s a nice thought, if you don’t think about it too much. But I recently read...
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xkcd.com
Baker's Units
a month ago
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Baker's Units

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a month ago
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Confessions of a...
My Top 15 OS Books: From Theory and Implementation to Systems Programming A personal guide to the most useful books for understanding operating systems
4 months ago
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My Top 15 OS Books: From Theory and Implementation to Systems Programming

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4 months ago
A personal guide to the most useful books for understanding operating systems
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Applied Cartography
Applied Cartography × Val Town Had a blast live-coding some experimentations with Steve and Shovel yesterday using Val Town. (If...
8 months ago
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Applied Cartography × Val Town

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8 months ago
Had a blast live-coding some experimentations with Steve and Shovel yesterday using Val Town. (If you haven't used Val, well, watch the stream — think live, zero-deploy code snippets that can be arbitrarily extended and executed.) Reflecting on the experience, the most exciting...
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Steve Klabnik
A Happy Day for Rust
4 months ago
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A Happy Day for Rust

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4 months ago
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Don't Worry About...
The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit It doesn’t look good.
4 months ago
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The Paris AI Anti-Safety Summit

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4 months ago
It doesn’t look good.
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The American Scholar
From Las Cosas Nuevas by Ennio Moltedo The post From <em>Las Cosas Nuevas</em> by Ennio Moltedo appeared first on The American Scholar.
a year ago
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From Las Cosas Nuevas by Ennio Moltedo

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a year ago
The post From <em>Las Cosas Nuevas</em> by Ennio Moltedo appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The Honest Broker
Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?
10 months ago
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Doctors Raise a Patient from a Deathlike State with Electronic Music

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10 months ago
Is ultrasound the healing song of the 21st century?
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Rest of World -...
How Chile’s stolen babies are finding their biological families after decades apart Thousands of Chileans, illegally adopted during the Pinochet dictatorship, are now relying on tech...
over a year ago
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How Chile’s stolen babies are finding their biological families after decades apart

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over a year ago
Thousands of Chileans, illegally adopted during the Pinochet dictatorship, are now relying on tech to trace their biological families.
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TheCollector
The Arch of Titus in Rome: Iconography and Ideology The Arch of Titus is one of the most magnificent ancient monuments surviving in Rome and offers a...
3 months ago
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The Arch of Titus in Rome: Iconography and Ideology

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3 months ago
The Arch of Titus is one of the most magnificent ancient monuments surviving in Rome and offers a fascinating insight into one of the most volatile periods in Roman imperial history. The Flavians bridged the end of Augustus’s Julio-Claudian Dynasty, when the Romans still...
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The Honest Broker
My Rule of the 6 Spheres Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very...
a year ago
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My Rule of the 6 Spheres

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a year ago
Like most people, I'm reluctant to discuss personal matters, but I take this rule very seriously—it's at the heart of my worldview and keeps me on the right path
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OH8HUB’s Substack
Albert's Nature Reserve Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
2 months ago
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Albert's Nature Reserve

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2 months ago
Spring is here. Time to get radio active.
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Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in... At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. New Home...
6 months ago
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Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November

from Calculated Risk [alt+shift+b] in finance

6 months ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week: Click on graph for larger image. New Home Sales Increase to 664,000 Annual Rate in November FHFA’s National Mortgage Database: Outstanding Mortgage Rates, LTV and Credit Scores Lawler: New Census Population Estimates Show...
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Seth's Blog
Honesty about better “I don’t want to learn to be better,” is something we rarely admit. We don’t say: I don’t want to...
5 months ago
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Honesty about better

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5 months ago
“I don’t want to learn to be better,” is something we rarely admit. We don’t say: I don’t want to learn statistics, even though it will dramatically improve my decision making. I don’t want to learn a new programming language, even though it will get me a better job. I don’t want...
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Retail Design Blog
Hempure by Jose Manuel Vega Hempure is one of those projects that, unfortunately, didn’t come to fruition, but that deserves to...
5 months ago
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Hempure by Jose Manuel Vega

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5 months ago
Hempure is one of those projects that, unfortunately, didn’t come to fruition, but that deserves to be seen and appreciated....
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The Last...
Randi Zuckerberg Thinks We Should Untangle Our Wired Lives how hard could it be, none of those circles are actually connected Randi Zuckerberg is...
over a year ago
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Randi Zuckerberg Thinks We Should Untangle Our Wired Lives

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over a year ago
how hard could it be, none of those circles are actually connected Randi Zuckerberg is CEO of Zuckerberg Media, which, according to its 10-K, is an iphone.  If you have no idea who she is, and you shouldn't, then the answer to your one and only question is yes. In her...
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 098: Flash Thinking December 20, 2024.
6 months ago
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AI Roundup 098: Flash Thinking

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6 months ago
December 20, 2024.
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cdixon.org RSS Feed
How to disrupt Wall Street Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she argues that the internet is finally...
over a year ago
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How to disrupt Wall Street

from cdixon.org RSS Feed [alt+shift+b] in startups

over a year ago
Sarah Lacy has a very interesting post on TechCrunch where she argues that the internet is finally starting to disrupt Wall Street. I’d love…
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Herbert Lui
You meet ten people… Two will like you. There is potential to become best friends. Seven will feel indifferent towards...
2 months ago
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You meet ten people…

from Herbert Lui [alt+shift+b] in travel

2 months ago
Two will like you. There is potential to become best friends. Seven will feel indifferent towards you. You will become acquaintances at best. One will dislike you. At best, you will both treat each other with civility. You can’t please everyone. Sometimes—perhaps many times—in...
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Marco.org
The Overcast Redesign: Part One Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus...
over a year ago
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The Overcast Redesign: Part One

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over a year ago
Overcast’s latest update (2022.2) brings the largest redesign in its nearly-eight-year history, plus many of the most frequently requested features and lots of under-the-hood improvements. I’m pretty proud of this one. For this first and largest phase of the redesign, I focused...
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Jonas Hietala
Building my ultimate keyboard The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate...
7 months ago
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Building my ultimate keyboard

from Jonas Hietala [alt+shift+b] in technology

7 months ago
The Cybershard keyboard. What comes to mind when you see the description “the ultimate keyboard”? There are many keyboards in this world; here are some that might fit the “ultimate” moniker: Das Keyboard 4 Ultimate mechanical keyboard DataHand Ergodox EZ Glove80 Happy...
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Old Structures...
Not Famous Is Good Theater fires were among the worst building-related events of the nineteenth and early-twentieth...
11 months ago
60

Not Famous Is Good

from Old Structures Engineering [alt+shift+b] in architecture

11 months ago
Theater fires were among the worst building-related events of the nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries in the US. The Iroquois Theater fire in Chicago killed over 600 people; closer to home, the Brooklyn Theater fire killed about 280. I serious do not recommend reading about...
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The Marginalian
The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with... "We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather...
a year ago
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The Bird in the Heart: Terry Tempest Williams on the Paradox of Transformation and How to Live with Uncertainty

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a year ago
"We can change, evolve, and transform our own conditioning. We can choose to move like water rather than be molded like clay."
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Flashbak
The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW) “I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures...
6 months ago
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The Prostitutes’ Gaze: The Integrity of Mid-Century Sex Workers (NSFW)

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6 months ago
“I take photos to amuse myself” – Georges Thiry     Georges Thiry (1906 – 19940 took many pictures in his native Belgium. From 1935 to 1975, he produced 40,000 negatives, almost as many contact sheets and a number of prints. His focus was on artist, chiefly Surrealists – René...
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TheCollector
What Is The Jungian Model of The Psyche? Carl Jung’s greatest contribution to psychology was his intricate understanding of the human mind....
a week ago
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What Is The Jungian Model of The Psyche?

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a week ago
Carl Jung’s greatest contribution to psychology was his intricate understanding of the human mind. His model of the psyche is a holistic and dynamic representation of our inner architecture, with all the seemingly contradictory layers that make us who we are. Decoding the Jungian...
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The 2025 Australian Election Map

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Stress And Programming Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern...
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Stress And Programming

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Having spent four decades as a programmer in various industries and situations, I know that modern software development processes are far more stressful than when I started. It's not simply that developing software today is more complex than it was back in 1981. In that early...
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