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Willem's Blog
Optical vs chest strap heart rate monitors Understanding the differences in common HR monitors used in wearables, smartwatches and fitness...
over a year ago
IEEE Spectrum
How This Record Company Engineer Invented the CT Scanner The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer...
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The inspiration for computed tomography (CT) came from a chance conversation that research engineer Godfrey Hounsfield had with a doctor while on vacation in the 1960s. The physician complained that X-ray images of the brain were too grainy and only two-dimensional. Hounsfield...
Applied Cartography
Letters to a Young Bartender Every straight white male is forced, character-creation-screen-style, to choose one overtly...
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Every straight white male is forced, character-creation-screen-style, to choose one overtly consumptive hobby that in some small part defines their twenties and – God willing — their enduring adulthood. Some choose sourdough; many choose barbecue; I chose mixology. (A...
Retail Design Blog
Smalltalks Rosé Artistic Wine by the Labelmaker Background: Oriachovitza, a family-owned winery and a living icon of Bulgarian winemaking, stands...
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Background: Oriachovitza, a family-owned winery and a living icon of Bulgarian winemaking, stands proudly near Stara Zagora. Originally built in...
The Pragmatic...
Interesting startup idea: benchmarking cloud platform pricing A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing...
8 months ago
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A team of 3 developers built a neat platform called Spare Cores that makes cloud instance pricing more transparent. A deepdive on how exactly they did it.
The Rational Walk
The Digest #227 Final Issue: Bitcoin at $100K, Buffett and Munger Unscripted, Blue Chip Stamps, Flawed CPI...
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Final Issue: Bitcoin at $100K, Buffett and Munger Unscripted, Blue Chip Stamps, Flawed CPI Statistics, Ergodicity, The End of Shame, Notre Dame, Online Censorship, Healthcare Costs
cdixon.org RSS Feed
As elegantly produced as movies and as engaging as great novels MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is...
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MIT professor Woodie Flowers argues that higher education's current approach to online learning is misguided: We decided to assume that the…
Flashbak
Free Cannabis on Speakers Corner, September 2000 “I believe I have the birthright to cultivate and use the cannabis plant for all its uses. I have...
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3 months ago
“I believe I have the birthright to cultivate and use the cannabis plant for all its uses. I have used all the substances listed, with the possible exception of the MDMA (ecstasy), in a shamanic way.” – Mr Free Cannabis, Taunton Crown Court  September 2000   On 28, September,...
Joel Gascoigne
Does location really matter for your startup? * Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may...
over a year ago
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* Tweet [https://twitter.com/share] * * Buffer [http://bufferapp.com/add] * Some of you may know that I just left everything behind in the UK and together with my co-founder Leo [http://leostartsup.com] arrived in San Francisco to base ourselves and Buffer...
Common Edge
Gentle Density: A Housing Approach to Thwart NIMBY Resistance In the wake of the L.A. fires, a different strategy is required.
3 months ago
The Works in...
Three Maintenance Philosophies Fought for Control of the Auto Industry A new section from Stewart Brand's Maintenance on Books in Progress
over a year ago
Flashbak
A Native’s Look At New York City In The 1980s Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and...
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Photographer Ronnie Ginnever shares more of her pictures New York, this time from the late 1970s and 1980s. You can see her great photos form the city in the 1960s here. Now she takes us back to the MUDD club, shows us Susann Dalton’s jacket for the Palladium and we buy some...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
More weird rules in healthcare | Out-Of-Pocket 3 liters of blood, sequential billing, COBRA, and more
a year ago
The Wandering...
Making shaded relief directly from DEMs projected in degrees? In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make...
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In a presentation I gave at GeoIgnite 2021, I was explaining the process of using QGIS to make shaded relief from DEMs, more or less as detailed in this post. There wasn’t time to explain the process of re-projection, so I rather boldly asserted that you don’t need to re-project...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Ding Dong Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really weird part is he's been talking about it...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The really weird part is he's been talking about it non-stop for 50 years. Today's News:
The Honest Broker
The Four Horsemen of the Pop Culture Apocalypse Do I have a horse in this race?
2 months ago
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week #1 💡 Phil is the founder of my favorite email software and he’s 100% correct here. Google sucks for...
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#1 💡 Phil is the founder of my favorite email software and he’s 100% correct here. Google sucks for recommendations. The algorithm has been gamed to death. Just in the past two days I’ve asked GPT for recommendations on 2 high ticket decisions (job board in specific region,...
Seth's Blog
Better than Google I haven’t done a Google search in months. Perplexity is more powerful, more pleasant and more...
a year ago
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a year ago
I haven’t done a Google search in months. Perplexity is more powerful, more pleasant and more effective. Instead of being corrupted by invasive ads, surveillance and sneaky dark patterns, it presents you with a simple, footnoted explanation of exactly what you’re looking for....
Tinloof - Blog
Asynchronous JavaScript - what is it? (Promises, callbacks, async/await) JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a...
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over a year ago
JavaScript code is executed synchronously. In other words, from top to bottom and one line at a time. First, the code will execute the function and know what to return when getText() is called. Then it assigns the getText() function to the variable text.
Londonist
A Glimpse Of London's Future, From 1924 Trains over Tower Bridge, airships from Westminster...
a year ago
Confessions of a...
Binary Arithmetic and Bitwise Operations for Systems Programming Understand how computers represent numbers and perform operations at the bit level before diving...
3 months ago
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Reality Check Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Like this newsletter? Why not listen to the podcast version on Better Offline? Part 1 is out now (here're other links), and Part 2 comes out Friday May 2nd! I'm sick and god-damn tired of this! I have written tens of thousands of words about this
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
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Relax and Eat Seafood in Corpus Christi, TX
a year ago
Identity Designed
The Bond Designed by Common Curiosity, Birmingham, London.
a year ago
The Ruffian
Best of The Ruffian 2024 Catch-up service:
6 months ago
Opsbros
Pro-tip for Baristas If you've ever filled one of those 'Cheeki' coffee cups, or virtually any other reusable coffee cup,...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
If you've ever filled one of those 'Cheeki' coffee cups, or virtually any other reusable coffee cup, you've definitely come across the issue that when it's 'overfilled' it will overflow when the lid is put back on. There is a
Retail Design Blog
JM Café by B.L.U.E Architecture Studio The project is located in the old city zone of Xicheng District, Beijing, adjacent to the west side...
3 months ago
TheCollector
3 Hidden Gems in Occitanie, France: Off the Beaten Path In 2016, France created Occitanie from two smaller regions: Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées....
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In 2016, France created Occitanie from two smaller regions: Languedoc-Roussillon and Midi-Pyrénées. Its name comes from Occitan, the historical language of southwestern France. Although this region is home to important cities like Narbonne (the first Roman colony in France) and...
Musings on Markets
Sovereign Ratings, Default Risk and Markets: The Moody's Downgrade Aftermath! I was on a family vacation in August 2011 when I received an email from a journalist asking me what...
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I was on a family vacation in August 2011 when I received an email from a journalist asking me what I thought about the S&P ratings downgrade for the US. Since I stay blissfully unaware of most news stories and things related to markets when I am on the beach, I had to look up...
A Beautiful Site
A free HTML, CSS, and JavaScript beautifier Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best...
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Ten years ago, I launched DirtyMarkup to clean up dirty code. It was a fun little tool, but its best feature was that it was easy to use and didn't have intrusive advertisements. I sold DirtyMarkup a couple years ago, and since then the new owners slapped on a header that makes...
Blog of Simple...
CCPA and Data Protection: all there is to know
a year ago
Stephen Diehl
Countering the Crypto Lobbyists
over a year ago
Seth's Blog
The house painter and the architect We don’t design a book until after it’s written. Or cast the movie until the screenplay is complete....
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We don’t design a book until after it’s written. Or cast the movie until the screenplay is complete. The house painter has an important job, but it makes no sense to plan for the painting before the house is designed. This makes a lot of sense because some parts of a project have...
Quanta Magazine
To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the...
a year ago
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Quantum algorithms can find their way out of mazes exponentially faster than classical ones, at the cost of forgetting the path they took. A new result suggests that the trade-off may be inevitable. The post To Move Fast, Quantum Maze Solvers Must Forget the Past...
Asterisk
The Future of American Foreign Aid USAID has been slashed, and it is unclear what shape its predecessor will take. How might American...
3 months ago
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USAID has been slashed, and it is unclear what shape its predecessor will take. How might American foreign assistance be restructured to maintain critical functions? And how should we think about its future?
TheCollector
Jean-Michel Basquiat’s Art: A Creative Evolution Cut Short American Neo-Expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat never studied art professionally but managed to...
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American Neo-Expressionist Jean-Michel Basquiat never studied art professionally but managed to become one of the most famous and influential artists of his age. He began his short career as a homeless street artist and, just a decade later, opened a series of one-man shows...
Rest of World -...
AI image generators have a moderation problem Tests carried out by Logically confirm these platforms accept 85% of prompts tailored for election...
a year ago
Making software...
Embracing Slow Tech Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux...
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Embracing Slow Tech 2022-11-22 I'm writing this post on my "new" X260 ThinkPad running Garuda Linux through Wayland/Sway and it is going well so far. Setting things up was much easier than I initially expected. There were only a few minor tweaks I had to make, such as setting vim...
RhysTranter.com
Rereading The Brothers Karamazov It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park,...
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It is now almost two decades since I first read The Brothers Karamazov. I began it in Bute Park, sitting under a tree overlooking the river. I remember that it was the Penguin Classics edition translated by David McDuff, and that I couldn’t put it down.
37signals Dev
Prometheus metrics with Rails and Kamal We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of...
a year ago
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We use Prometheus metrics quite heavily at 37signals nowadays. They’re used to monitor a variety of components in our infrastructure, such as MySQL, Redis and the servers hosting our applications. My colleague, Victor, previously wrote in detail about Prometheus metrics at...
Seth's Blog
Five lessons from week one of This is Strategy Once you decide to write a book about strategy, it raises the bar for having a strategy for the...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Once you decide to write a book about strategy, it raises the bar for having a strategy for the launch. People generally focus far too much on the launch of a project. Rocketships need a perfect launch, because just about everything after the launch is simply ballistic. But most...
Seth's Blog
Every tactic… Has a strategy behind it. Often unsaid, undiscussed and hidden. It’s easier to simply play with the...
2 months ago
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Has a strategy behind it. Often unsaid, undiscussed and hidden. It’s easier to simply play with the tactic of the moment. Tell me what your tactic is trying to accomplish and I’ll be halfway to understanding what your strategy is. But it makes a lot more sense to announce your...
CONTEMPORIST
Cascading Plants Cover This Home In Vietnam X11 Design Studio has shared photos of a home they completed in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, that includes a...
a year ago
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X11 Design Studio has shared photos of a home they completed in Quang Ninh, Vietnam, that includes a facade of cascading plants. The home has been designed for a three-generation family, who wanted optimal functionality and a connection between nature and people. To integrate...
Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Peter Mick Lessons from building and growing Copylime to 6 figures all in public
over a year ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Physicians and Pharma Marketing | Out-Of-Pocket oh we getting that drug money
a year ago
TheCollector
How Henry VII Took the English Throne & Founded the Tudors Henry VII often slips through the cracks of history, being sandwiched between the controversial...
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Henry VII often slips through the cracks of history, being sandwiched between the controversial Richard III, a Renaissance Machiavellian prince, and Henry VIII, an impossibly charismatic and epoch-shaping monarch. But without Henry VII, there would be no Henry VIII. It was Henry...
Evan Hahn's blog
UI tip: maybe don't round percentages to 0% or 100% In short: maybe don’t round to 0% or 100% in your UI. I am not a UI expert. But I sometimes build...
2 months ago
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In short: maybe don’t round to 0% or 100% in your UI. I am not a UI expert. But I sometimes build user interfaces, and I sometimes want to render a percentage to the user. For example, something like “you’ve downloaded 45% of this file”. In my experience, it’s often better to...
Calculated Risk
The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q4 Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q4 A brief...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: The "Home ATM" Mostly Closed in Q4 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...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
User Feedback I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user...
a year ago
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a year ago
I was listening to ShopTalkShow #544 where Dave mentions his craving for frank, almost brutal, user feedback on the app they’re building (Luro) and it reminded me of something I wanted to write down. At a previous gig, we hired a head of user research who helped formalize and...
The Berkeley...
GPT-4 + Stable-Diffusion = ?: Enhancing Prompt Understanding of Text-to-Image Diffusion Models with... TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable...
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TL;DR: Text Prompt -> LLM -> Intermediate Representation (such as an image layout) -> Stable Diffusion -> Image. Recent advancements in text-to-image generation with diffusion models have yielded remarkable results synthesizing highly realistic and diverse images. However,...
Greg Brockman
OpenAI Five intro The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch...
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The text of my speech introducing OpenAI Five at yesterday’s Benchmark event: “We’re here to watch humans and AI play Dota, but today’s match will have implications for the world. OpenAI’s mission is to ensure that when we can build machines as smart as humans, they will benefit...
DYNOMIGHT
Attitudes one can take towards people who have behaved badly Have you ever noticed that reality has some properties that are quite annoying? For example, have...
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Have you ever noticed that reality has some properties that are quite annoying? For example, have you noticed that some people do bad things? And yet those same people sometimes have interesting ideas? Occasionally, I’ll bring up an idea in conversation and someone will gently...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Multiple MagicBots Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
7 months ago
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. Humanoids Summit: 11–12 December...
RhysTranter.com
Visit to the Arvo Pärt Centre in Estonia In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the...
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In July, Jenn and I travelled to Estonia to visit the Arvo Pärt Centre in Laulasmaa. Pärt is the most-performed living composer in the world, and his life and work played a key role in the development of my faith. We even saw Arvo Pärt and his wife Nora shopping at their local...
Quantum Frontiers
My favorite rocket scientist Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is...
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Whenever someone protests, “I’m not a rocket scientist,” I think of my friend Jamie Rankin. Jamie is a researcher at Princeton University, and she showed me her lab this June. When I first met Jamie, she was testing instruments to … Continue reading →
Ryan Hoover's...
Let’s continue to build Product Hunt, together
over a year ago
Open Culture
Coursera Offers 30% Off of Coursera Plus (Until September 30), Giving You Unlimited Access to... As the new school year gets underway, millions of students are heading back to classrooms. And you...
10 months ago
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As the new school year gets underway, millions of students are heading back to classrooms. And you can too. From now until September 30, 2024, Coursera is offering a 30% discount on its annual subscription plan called “Coursera Plus.” Normally priced at $399, Coursera Plus...
Flashbak
Glasgow in the 1980s: ‘From An Insider’s Point of View’ The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place ...
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The Cranhill Arts Project has been collecting pictures of Glasgow, Scotland, to show the place  “from an insider’s point of view”. Among its growing collection of Glasgow peoples’ photographs are these from the 1980s. All these snapshots have been labelled by the people who...
Mazdak
Meta's Oakley Smart Glasses, TikTok's Revenue Nearly Doubled YouTube's Last Year, Hidden Hashtags on... “What if Elon Musk or Larry Ellison bought TikTok?”
5 months ago
macwright.com
Recently We went apple picking this month in New Jersey, and one of the farms had these two golden retrievers...
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We went apple picking this month in New Jersey, and one of the farms had these two golden retrievers in their own, private, enormous pen. It was a petting zoo, but with two golden retrievers. They defended their space against other dogs who wanted to say hi, but stayed near the...
Articles
Jason Fried wants to delete my backlog
over a year ago
TheCollector
Ulrich Zwingli: A Forgotten Pillar of the Reformation When discussing the Reformation, names like Martin Luther and John Calvin are often at the...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
When discussing the Reformation, names like Martin Luther and John Calvin are often at the forefront. However, Ulrich Zwingli, a Swiss reformer, also played a pivotal role in shaping Protestant theology and influencing religious history. Zwingli was instrumental in the Swiss...
Calculated Risk
Trade Deficit increased to $78.2 Billion in November The Census Bureau and the Bureau of Economic Analysis reported: The U.S. Census Bureau and the U.S....
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6 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 $78.2 billion in November, up $4.6 billion from $73.6 billion in October, revised. ...
Retail Design Blog
RACKS café by Kidz Online gaming is an integral part of lifestyle for the Millennial and Gen Z demographics, providing...
6 months ago
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Online gaming is an integral part of lifestyle for the Millennial and Gen Z demographics, providing both a level of...
Patterns in Humanity
The Effects of Immigration in Denmark First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an...
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over a year ago
First, I briefly summarize statistics on the fiscal impact of immigration in Denmark, taken from an official government report.
CONTEMPORIST
A Round House Design Inspired By A Tree Trunk Mobius Architekci has sent us photos of a home they designed in Izabelin, Poland, that has a round...
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Mobius Architekci has sent us photos of a home they designed in Izabelin, Poland, that has a round design. The vast, sandy plot densely covered with a pine forest created a unique setting for the house, with the architect drawing inspiration from a tree trunk. The home has been...
Vadim Kravcenko
Should I quit my well-paid job to start a startup? Short answer: Do it in your spare time. Dip your toes into the startup world without going full...
a year ago
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a year ago
Short answer: Do it in your spare time. Dip your toes into the startup world without going full crazy. Test […] The post Should I quit my well-paid job to start a startup? appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
Flashbak
Manuel Orazi’s Occultist Magic Calendar Mil DCCCXCVI, 1895 This French occultist calendar illustrated in the Art Nouveau style by Italian artist and designer...
5 months ago
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This French occultist calendar illustrated in the Art Nouveau style by Italian artist and designer Manuel Orazi (1860 – 1934) was printed in an symbolic edition of 777 copies to commemorate magic for the coming year of 1896. Each double page uses the Christian calendar (name...
A Beautiful Site
Browser makers: where’s the new tab + homepage option? Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Ever since tabbed browsing hit the mainstream I've been hooked. It's rare to see less than a handful of tabs open in my web browser at any time. Whether I'm developing, checking email, or just surfing around, I can never seem to have enough tabs! But there's one thing about this...
bunnie's blog
Control and Autofocus Software for Chip-Level Microscopy This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through...
a year ago
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This post is part of a series about giving us a tangible reason to trust our hardware through non-destructive IRIS (Infra-Red, in-situ) inspection. Here’s the previous posts: This post will discuss the control software used to drive IRIS. Above is a screenshot of the IRIS machine...
Rest of World -...
The role of trust in building fintech for Africa Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government...
a year ago
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Yanmo Omorogbe of Nigerian wealth management firm Bamboo talks about navigating government regulations and the role of longevity.
Opsbros
Volumer I've always wanted a good USB volume control, so I decided to design one.
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Up like a Sun, Down like a Pancake I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I was looking forward to this weekend, for Ludum Dare and for me to finally make a game again. But it just don’t feel right to me. I’m not prepared, I feel a little bit stressed and I don’t really have faith in my game so I’m gonna step down this one as well. But it’s fine, Ludum...
cdixon.org RSS Feed
How bundling benefits sellers and buyers There is a widespread belief in technology circles that bundling of cable TV, newspaper, magazine...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There is a widespread belief in technology circles that bundling of cable TV, newspaper, magazine and other information goods will go away…
Birchtree
+ Why I quit Superhuman I appreciate the app, I just had to let it go.
4 months ago
Chris Nicholas
How to use Sandpack for code demos Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Sandpack allows you to take interactive code demos to the next level, supporting just about every JavaScript framework.
Yale E360
World's Richest 10 Percent Responsible for Two-Thirds of Warming The wealthiest 10 percent of people on Earth have fueled two-thirds of the warming since 1990,...
2 months ago
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The wealthiest 10 percent of people on Earth have fueled two-thirds of the warming since 1990, according to a new modeling study. Read more on E360 →
diamond geezer
Time Out are liars - official Time Out are liars - official blogpost highlighting Time Out's tendency to lift research from...
a month ago
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a month ago
Time Out are liars - official blogpost highlighting Time Out's tendency to lift research from dubious sources and then claim the information is 'official'. They did it again yesterday in a piece called "It’s official: 6 of the UK’s dirtiest beaches for water quality are near...
Londonist
10 Rather Shocking Images From A Victorian Tabloid Bread riots, carriage crashes, and tussling with bears.
a year ago
Paul Graham: Essays
The Four Quadrants of Conformism
over a year ago
Vitalik Buterin's...
Possible futures of the Ethereum protocol, part 3: The Scourge
8 months ago
The American Scholar
“Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first...
4 months ago
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4 months ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Faustina, or, Rock Roses” by Elizabeth Bishop appeared first on The American Scholar.
Maps Mania
Exploring the Amazon
3 months ago
TheCollector
What Were the Lyles Station Radiation Experiments? There is a painful history embedded in the southern part of Indiana, where the horrific Lyles...
3 months ago
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3 months ago
There is a painful history embedded in the southern part of Indiana, where the horrific Lyles radiation experiments took place. A handful of students from the Lyles Consolidated School were picked out at random and subjected to unusually high levels of radiation, under the...
Nelson's Weblog
Obsidian Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task,...
a year ago
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Obsidian is good software for taking and organizing notes. There are many apps for this task, Obsidian is my current favorite. In the past I’ve used a text file, SimpleNote, Standard Notes, Joplin. I never used emacs org-mode nor Evernote. Obsidian works reliably and is simple...
Computer Ads from...
Epyx Oil Barons Oil Barons. If You're Smart, You'll get Filthy Rich.
a month ago
Common Edge
Space to Dream: Reflections and Projections from a New Generation of Designers A Common Edge–led workshop engages architecture students to consider where they want to take the...
5 months ago
Arduino Blog
The new Auxivo EduExo Pro helps students with exoskeleton research Emerging technologies initially develop at a slow pace and that is due in large part to the lack of...
12 months ago
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12 months ago
Emerging technologies initially develop at a slow pace and that is due in large part to the lack of resources available to students. Complex technology is built on existing knowledge and higher education students need the tools to gain hands-on experience. To help educate the...
Rest of World -...
How a Ugandan startup wound up in Mexico Assak's unexpected entry into Mexico bodes well for international investment.
a year ago
journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes from busan I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the...
9 months ago
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9 months ago
I tend to forget about my photos once too much time had passed, so today I deliberately dug into the archive from my korea trip a couple months ago. It is an...
Open Culture
Why Most Ancient Civilizations Had No Word for the Color Blue In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag is waving or whether it’s the wind that...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
In an old Zen story, two monks argue over whether a flag is waving or whether it’s the wind that waves. Their teacher strikes them both dumb, saying, “It is your mind that moves.” The centuries-old koan illustrates a point Zen masters — and later philosophers, psychologists, and...
Prolost
Mac Studio and Studio Display Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and Apple Studio Display, running Cinema 4D and Redshift. In October of...
over a year ago
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Mac Studio with M1 Ultra and Apple Studio Display, running Cinema 4D and Redshift. In October of 2021 I got to test a 14″ MacBook Pro with M1 Max processor. It performed so well, that I, along with many Mac power-users, questioned whether it could replace my desktop Mac. Last...
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Building a Simple Chrome Extension with ChatGPT I’ve casually been learning some JS via Mimo and Udemy for the past couple of months. It is fun and...
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I’ve casually been learning some JS via Mimo and Udemy for the past couple of months. It is fun and I get some dopamine seeing a nice animation when completing a lesson on Mimo, however, it is pretty abstracted from a real environment. I learn things best under two conditions:...
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China’s industrial diplomacy, streetlights and crime, deorbiting Starlink satellites, a proposed canal across Thailand, a looming gas turbine shortage, and more.
Seth's Blog
Meaningfully informed Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we...
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Community requires individuals to have the option of speaking up. If we’re in this together, we ought to be able to chime in. But while every member of the community can speak out, the ones that are heard also have something useful to say. Being informed is a requirement to be...
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Worldcoin has a problem India already has a Worldcoin competitor, and other countries are taking note.
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Internal Tech Emails
Tim Cook's notes | Steve Jobs emails himself We made a fundamental error with the launch. Normal fan base focused on iPhone XS/XS Max. Momentum...
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We made a fundamental error with the launch. Normal fan base focused on iPhone XS/XS Max. Momentum from event wasn’t sustained. Didn’t need to be last year but in retrospect we should have done more to keep the buzz going.
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To C or not to C That's the dilemma at Twitter over the weekend
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Ecosystems vs. Artifacts: Don’t Break the Web Here’s Gordon Brander in an article titled “Don't fork the ecosystem”: Most of our software has been...
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Here’s Gordon Brander in an article titled “Don't fork the ecosystem”: Most of our software has been shaped by chance decisions made in haste by people who could not have predicted how the system would end up being used today. And if we could rebuild those systems today, knowing...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Placebos Are Getting Stronger | Out-Of-Pocket Should we incorporate them into clinical practice?
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Design explained using pie charts again Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately,...
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Design is hard. If only the process could be explained using simple pie charts again. Unfortunately, this still isn’t that: More Design in charts – HERE, and HERE and HERE and HERE
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Rumble In The Jungle Rematch Arrives In London Take your place ringside in this limited-run immersive show.
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2000-Year-Old Bottle of White Wine Found in a Roman Burial Site Image via Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Back in 2017, we featured the oldest unopened...
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Image via Journal of Archaeological Science: Reports Back in 2017, we featured the oldest unopened bottle of wine in the world here on Open Culture. Found in Speyer, Germany, in 1867, it dates from 350 AD, making it a venerable vintage indeed, but one recently outdone by a bottle...
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The Marginalian
How to Bless Each Other: Poet and Philosopher John O’Donohue on the Light Within Us and Between Us "The structures of our experience are the windows into the divine. When we are true to the call of...
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You Should Watch More Canceled TV Shows An argument against the Lindy Effect. How can we sample from the long tail?
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Classical Wisdom
Enheduanna A VERY Ancient Snapshot
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New View of IO from JUNO! From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on...
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From processor Ted Styrk, “The Juno Jupiter orbiter flew by Io, Jupiter's super-volcanic moon, on May 16, returning arguably the best imagery of the moon since the Galileo Orbiter around the beginning of this century. Definitely the best since New Horizons in 2006.”
Alex Meub
Building an E-Ink Joke of the Day Fridge Magnet My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t...
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My 6-year-old is obsessed with jokes and often asks me for any new ones I’ve heard. I usually can’t remember many, which gave me the idea of creating a fridge magnet to display jokes in our kitchen. This is the finished product: I wanted a highly readable and battery-efficient...
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The Ruffian
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Feds Link $150M Cyberheist to 2022 LastPass Hacks In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a...
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In September 2023, KrebsOnSecurity published findings from security researchers who concluded that a series of six-figure cyberheists across dozens of victims resulted from thieves cracking master passwords stolen from the password manager service LastPass in 2022. In a court...
xkcd.com
Net Rotations
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Jonas Hietala
Hearthstone on Wine I like Hearthstone and recently the next expansion Goblins vs Gnomes so I wanted to install and play...
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I like Hearthstone and recently the next expansion Goblins vs Gnomes so I wanted to install and play it. It didn’t work in vanilla wine, with a “time out error”, but I found a bug report which makes it work. Here’s a short summary: Get wine source from git. My version was...
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Think, to Read, to Meditate, to React' Often, I think of the late Adam Zagajewski urging young poets – and by extension, the rest of us --...
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Often, I think of the late Adam Zagajewski urging young poets – and by extension, the rest of us -- to “read everything.” The suggestion is not dictatorial. The Pole even admits he is a “chaotic reader,” as most of us are. I’ve never been systematic about much of anything...
Londonist
Sadiq Stops The Ball Rolling On Controversial Stratford Sphere Massive Vegas-style venue would be " bulky, unduly dominant and incongruous".
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The Marginalian
The Art of Lying Fallow: Psychoanalyst Masud Khan on the Existential Salve for the Age of Cultish... On inviting the state of being that "allows for that larval inner experience which distinguishes...
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Hundred Rabbits
a home for pino We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd...
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We left Shimizu on a sunny morning, pushing off the dock at 6am. Early. We wanted to make sure we'd arrive at our destination on time. There was 126nm between us and Shima Yacht harbor, a distance we needed to do in part at night. This wasn't ideal. We knew that. Many people...
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TinyAgent: Function Calling at the Edge The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic...
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The ability of LLMs to execute commands through plain language (e.g. English) has enabled agentic systems that can complete a user query by orchestrating the right set of tools (e.g. ToolFormer, Gorilla). This, along with the recent multi-modal efforts such as the GPT-4o or...
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The fastest-growing shopping app in the world Meesho is taking on Amazon and Walmart with its focuse on cheaper goods for small-town consumers.
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How Zimbabwe’s biggest fast-food company became a popular fintech solution Innbucks started as an app to receive loose change at some restaurants. Now, it’s a licensed...
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This road is broken – and nobody can fix it The spiders aren't the only thing stopping Ebbsfleet's development
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Water, not lithium, is the resource Latin America should worry about The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without...
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The region’s chances of becoming a “climate tech” protagonist will be thrown into disarray without the most important resource of them all.
Code Of Honor
The StarCraft path-finding hack Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite...
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Game-unit path-finding is something that most players never notice until it doesn’t work quite right, and then that minor issue becomes a rage-inducing, end-of-the-world problem. During the development of StarCraft there were times when path-finding just didn’t work at all. As...
Farnam Street
Reciprocity: Getting What You Give This article is an excerpt from the bestselling book The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics,...
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This article is an excerpt from the bestselling book The Great Mental Models Volume 2: Physics, Chemistry and Biology Reciprocity teaches us why win-win relationships are the way to go, why waiters leave candies with the bill, why it’s a good idea to use the least force possible...
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The secret to Rails OO design
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AI as an answer key One of the first things I learned in high school was that my math textbook had an answer key at the...
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One of the first things I learned in high school was that my math textbook had an answer key at the back.  Which was weird. My impulse was I could shortcut my homework simply by writing the answer key down on a piece of paper. Of course, the teacher required us to show our work...
Paul Graham: Essays
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The Marginalian
The Work of Wonder: Phillip Glass on Art, Science, and the Most Important Quality of a Visionary Epoch after epoch, we humans have tried to raise ourselves above other animals with distinctions...
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Epoch after epoch, we humans have tried to raise ourselves above other animals with distinctions that have turned out false — consciousness is not ours alone, nor is grief, nor is play. If there is anything singular about us, it is our capacity to be wonder-smitten by the world...
Weighty Thoughts
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Why use feature flags? Benefits, types and use cases, explained What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your...
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What is a feature flag? Feature flags (aka feature toggles) are a powerful tool to help improve your product. They enable engineering teams to…
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Myths (and truths) I've learned from 10 years of startup hiring I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired...
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I've spent over a decade hiring for startups, especially early-stage ones. I've managed and hired for teams across engineering, ops, people, marketing…
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Why The BBC Wanted To Keep George Orwell Off The Radio “I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell...
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“I am quite seriously worried about the situation and about the wisdom of our keeping Orwell personally on the air.” – the BBC controller outlines his reasons for keeping George Orwell off the air     In his his lifetime, George Orwell (25 June 1903 – 21 January 1950) was thought...
Quanta Magazine
How Is Flocking Like Computing? Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. From chaotic assemblies of life, order somehow emerges. In...
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Birds flock. Locusts swarm. Fish school. From chaotic assemblies of life, order somehow emerges. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz interviews the evolutionary ecologist Iain Couzin about how and why collective behaviors arise. The post How Is Flocking Like...
Noahpinion
In which British writers scold America on trade If you don't acknowledge the point of tariffs, how can you hope to criticize them?
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Steve Klabnik
Cards for dad - follow-up
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Abstract Pickup
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Seth's Blog
The first person “I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so...
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“I” is first person. “You” is second person. “She” “They” “It” are all third person. So far, so good. But how can ChatGPT use the word “I”? And when we talk about ChatGPT, is it “he” or “she” or “they” or “it”? Because anything that is an “it” shouldn’t be able to say “I”. We […]
The Oatmeal - Comics...
Rage A comic about a rat View on my website
3 months ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Lovely Lightness of Spirit' My understanding of “deliquescing” goes back to high-school chemistry: a solid melts or becomes...
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My understanding of “deliquescing” goes back to high-school chemistry: a solid melts or becomes liquid by absorbing moisture from the air. Kay Ryan uses the word in an unexpectedly metaphorical way in her review of This Craft of Verse (2002), a transcript of the lectures Jorge...
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Frank Lloyd Wright and Kitchen Toilet Camo Don't let anyone say you can't have a toilet in your kitchen. You can. It isn't about aesthetics, a...
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Don't let anyone say you can't have a toilet in your kitchen. You can. It isn't about aesthetics, a kitchen toilet is all about utility. It is about convenience. It is about value add. Efficiency. Optimization. ROI. If your architect tries to talk you out of that request that's...
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U.S tech giants are building dozens of huge data centers in Chile. Locals are fighting back Multiple groups are working to keep Amazon, Google, and Microsoft from doubling the number of...
a year ago
TheCollector
The Puzzling Origins & Meaning of the Nazca Lines The Nazca Lines in southern Peru fascinate history enthusiasts worldwide. Since these glyphs first...
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The Nazca Lines in southern Peru fascinate history enthusiasts worldwide. Since these glyphs first began to be studied in the early 20th century, the theories for their origin and purpose have ranged from astronomical markers to representations of the Nazca people’s mythology and...
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Prediction Markets: Tales from the Election
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Open Culture
Ridley Scott’s Cinematic TV Commercials: An 80-Minute Compilation Spanning 1968–2023 “In the future, e‑mail will make the written word a thing of the past,” declares the narration of a...
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“In the future, e‑mail will make the written word a thing of the past,” declares the narration of a 1999 television commercial for Orange, the French telecom giant. “In the future, we won’t have to travel; we’ll meet on video. In the future, we won’t need to play in the wind and...
bookbear express
How They Made It: Todd and Elaine of Dandelion Chocolate on work and marriage for all the people who fantasize about working with their spouse
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Open Culture
Hear Moby Dick Read in Its Entirety by Benedict Cumberbatch, Tilda Swinton, John Waters, Stephen Fry... Image of Moby Dick by David Austen. In 2013, Plymouth University kicked off Moby Dick The Big Read,...
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Image of Moby Dick by David Austen. In 2013, Plymouth University kicked off Moby Dick The Big Read, promising a full audiobook of Herman Melville’s influential novel, with famous (and not so famous) voices taking on a chapter each. When we first wrote about it here, only six...
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Guide to content creation with Sanity We go through how Sanity can be used as a headless CMS to create and manage content.
over a year ago
The Turn Signal RSS...
How Waymo Uses Design to Create Trust in Driverless Cars In regular taxi rides, there is a form of trust between the passenger and the driver. Most of it is...
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In regular taxi rides, there is a form of trust between the passenger and the driver. Most of it is established through communication, both…
Both Are True
you don't need everyone to like your work (2018) revisiting something i wrote years ago
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TheCollector
Prohibition & Bootlegging: The 18th Amendment, Organized Crime, & More The Prohibition period lasted from January 1920 to December 1933. Its supporters wanted to end the...
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The Prohibition period lasted from January 1920 to December 1933. Its supporters wanted to end the consumption of alcohol, which brought suffering to many families. However, Prohibition was ultimately unsuccessful, and instead, allowed government corruption, widespread criminal...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup The Story of Thebes
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Fonts In Use – Blog...
“Sisterhood is Blooming” poster Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved. The...
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Contributed by Nick Sherman Source: collections.museumca.org License: All Rights Reserved. The “Sisterhood is Blooming / Springtime Will Never Be the Same” poster was originally produced in the early 1970s by the Chicago Women's Graphics Collective, an organization founded...
Open Culture
How Frank Lloyd Wright’s Architecture Evolved Over 70 Years and Changed America In the new Architectural Digest video above, Michael Wyetzner talks about a fair few buildings we’ve...
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In the new Architectural Digest video above, Michael Wyetzner talks about a fair few buildings we’ve featured over the years here on Open Culture: the Imperial Hotel, the Ennis House, Taliesin, Fallingwater. These are all, of course, the work of Frank Lloyd Wright, who still...
PostHog's RSS Feed
The 4 best HIPAA-compliant analytics tools Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal...
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Passed in 1996, HIPAA (aka Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act) defines the legal requirements for securing and handling health…
Noahpinion
If this is a bad economy, please tell me what a good economy would look like We should acknowledge that things are going well, even as we continue to look for problems to solve.
a year ago
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Waterfall The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they...
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The worlds of software, business, and music use the word "Waterfall" incredibly differently and they are completely ignorant of each other. I figured I would make a quick note to compare and contrast them!
Old Structures...
An APT Webinar I’m giving a webinar on February 27 for the Association for Preservation Technology on our analysis...
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I’m giving a webinar on February 27 for the Association for Preservation Technology on our analysis of a somewhat weird building with concrete and masonry structure, and the implications for investigation and analysis of buildings with old concrete structure. More information...
Seth's Blog
Out of control It’s negative when we say that someone is out of control. They’ve lost their self-restraint, and...
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It’s negative when we say that someone is out of control. They’ve lost their self-restraint, and they’re doing things that they’ll regret later. And it’s honest when we acknowledge that just about everything is out of our control. We can work to influence it, we can practice...
A Collection of...
New Acquisitions: 1933 and the Definition of Fascism Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if...
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Today we’re going to look at definitions of fascism and ask the question – you may have guessed – if Donald Trump is running for President as a fascist. Worry not, this isn’t me shifting to full-time political pundit, nor is this the formal end of the hiatus (which will happen on...
IEEE Spectrum
The Invention That Let Fiber Optics Span the Globe Plenty of big stories from the year 1985 had their moment in the sun and are now all but forgotten:...
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a year ago
Plenty of big stories from the year 1985 had their moment in the sun and are now all but forgotten: New Coke, “We Are the World,” the rise of desktop publishing. But one at-the-time obscure invention from that year has long eclipsed the frothy headlines of its time, because it...
Astral Codex Ten
Hidden Open Thread 360.5 ...
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Joshua Smith
Chapel Street Photobooth Based on the Iconic photobooth located on Chapel Street, South Yarra, Melbourne. Exhibited at...
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Based on the Iconic photobooth located on Chapel Street, South Yarra, Melbourne. Exhibited at Beinart Gallery, Brunswick, Melbourne, Australia, June 2019. 1/12 Scale Scratchbuilt miniature using Paper, Cardboard, MDF, Wood, Styrene, Plastic, Wire, Working LED’s. Photography...
Calculated Risk
Weekly Initial Unemployment Claims Increase to 242,000 The DOL reported: emphasis added The following graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly...
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The DOL reported: emphasis added The following graph shows the 4-week moving average of weekly claims since 1971. Click on graph for larger image. The dashed line on the graph is the current 4-week average. The four-week average of weekly unemployment claims increased to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cooperation Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Cooperation is when we hurt people...
over a year ago
Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.05.26 - Late for Work New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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Artificial Ignorance
Small newsletters, big ideas A subscriber showcase full of hidden gems on Substack.
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Product Identity
Inside the dark forests of the internet This is the second part of a series on the identity of social networks:
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The Marginalian
From Stardust to Sapiens: A Stunning Serenade to Our Cosmic Origins and Our Ongoing Self-Creation We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the...
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We were never promised any of it — this world of cottonwoods and clouds — when the Big Bang set the possible in motion. And yet here we are, atoms with consciousness, each of us a living improbability forged of chaos and dead stars. Children of chance, we have made ourselves into...
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Great Euthanasia' I can’t think of another poet who wrote so often or so amusingly about death as Thomas Disch. I once...
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a week ago
I can’t think of another poet who wrote so often or so amusingly about death as Thomas Disch. I once tried tallying his death-themed poems and lost count. Here’s a sample: “How to Behave When Dead,” “Symbols of Love and Death,” “In Defense of Forest Lawn,” “At the Tomb of the...
The Rational Walk
The Power of Investment Journals Writing down the rationale for investment decisions is a prerequisite for success. This articles...
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a year ago
Writing down the rationale for investment decisions is a prerequisite for success. This articles explores lessons I learned dating back to 2009.
Seth's Blog
Learning from the Amazon gift card snafu Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake...
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Millions of people got this email last night: It’s legitimate, but it’s a mistake. A mistake because: We can learn a lot about what not to do from this. First, if you make a mistake by email, fix it. Fix it by email AND fix it on your site. Let everyone who got the wrong […]
Yale E360
RC Week 8: Life happens, and databases are hard I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last...
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over a year ago
I'm two-thirds of the way done with my RC batch now. Eight weeks down, four weeks to go. The last two weeks have been difficult for me because of life happening. Week 7 was hard because I had some travel to help my parents, and that just takes me out of my routine and is...
Artificial Ignorance
AI and the workplace How employees and CEOs alike can plan for the future.
a year ago
Map of the Week
Los Angeles Wildfire Extent The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in...
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The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very detailed maps showing the extent of destruction. Here is a close up of Altadena from the Hurst Fire. via New York Times -...
Mind Prison: Notes...
Studio Ghibli - AI's Latest Art Crisis Notes From the Desk: No. 43 - 2025.03.28
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Musings on Maps
Counterfeit Puppets: Hustler’s University, Red Pills and the Manosphere HU–“Huster’s University”–bills itself as the only real access to a world of Money Makers where they...
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HU–“Huster’s University”–bills itself as the only real access to a world of Money Makers where they can lead a fulfilling life, able to lead those who enter to an alternative reality, mentoring users who ar able to click on “the … Continue reading →
Abishek Muthian
False Accusation False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can...
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False accusation for children especially if the accusation goes totally against their values can have profound negative consequences. When I was in grade school(early 2000, India), I went out to take a photo-copy(xerox) of a study material in a shop nearby school. After I...
Old Structures...
Uncluttered From 1946, a view from 501 Madison Avenue looking southwest past St. Patrick’s Cathedral to...
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From 1946, a view from 501 Madison Avenue looking southwest past St. Patrick’s Cathedral to Rockefeller Center. The International Building on the right partially blocks the view of the taller RCA Building, with the (old) Time-Life building off to the left. The construction site...
Willem's Blog
Riding with Omata One If you're looking for an alternative for common cycling computers, the Omata One is something truely...
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over a year ago
If you're looking for an alternative for common cycling computers, the Omata One is something truely special: it indicates your speed, distance, ascent and time ridden using mechanical hands!
Josh Thompson
Talent is Overrated Talent is Overrated In Talent is Overrated, the author argues that world-class performers are not...
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Talent is Overrated In Talent is Overrated, the author argues that world-class performers are not genetically gifted. The difference between world-class performers and the rest of us? Lots of deliberate practice. (Read the article.) I have no interest in becoming Mozart, or Tiger...
A Beautiful Site
Creating stylesheets for handheld devices It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at...
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over a year ago
It's not uncommon so see someone surfing the net with their cell phone or PDA these days or, at least, trying to. Unfortunately, portable technologies still have a long way to go before they conquer the web with their tiny screens. The good news is that, with a little help from...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Magic Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that temperature and weather will...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: The good news is that temperature and weather will moderate as everyone starves to death. Today's News:
Paul Graham: Essays
Beating the Averages
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Common Edge
In Praise of a Great Mentor: Working With Geoffrey Bawa Life-long lessons from the father of Tropical Modernism.
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Yale E360
Global Economy More Vulnerable to Warming Than Previously Thought A new study finds warming could inflict far more damage to the global economy than previously...
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Mystery Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ten years from now, during my Unreadable Mystery...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Ten years from now, during my Unreadable Mystery Author phase, this will be the first thing I work on. Today's News:
Quanta Magazine
She Tracks the DNA of Elusive Species That Hide in Harsh Places On Mount Everest and in the Peruvian Andes, Tracie Seimon uses DNA to study how species and...
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On Mount Everest and in the Peruvian Andes, Tracie Seimon uses DNA to study how species and ecosystems respond to climate change, pathogens and other influences. The post She Tracks the DNA of Elusive Species That Hide in Harsh Places first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Things I’m watching in healthcare 2023 | Out-Of-Pocket it's been a weird year
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Mazdak
Adobe Scraps $20 Billion Figma Deal Adobe's blockbuster $20 billion bid for Figma, the web-based design darling, is officially off the...
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Adobe's blockbuster $20 billion bid for Figma, the web-based design darling, is officially off the table! This dramatic pivot throws a spotlight on the tightening grip of global regulators on tech mergers, leaving investors and industry players to wonder:
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Altruism Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is also why he keeps letting Robin get...
11 months ago
Res Obscura
Role-playing with AI will be a powerful tool for writers and educators Or, how well can GPT-4 simulate an acid trip in 1963?
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Daniel Bourke
A Quick Introduction to PyTorch 2.0 PyTorch 2.0 is out! And it comes with plenty of updates. Also NVIDIA GTC March 2023 is around the...
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PyTorch 2.0 is out! And it comes with plenty of updates. Also NVIDIA GTC March 2023 is around the corner, to celebrate they've given me an RTX 4080 to giveaway!
The Marginalian
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In his little-known correspondence with Freud about war and human nature, Einstein observed that every great moral and spiritual leader in the history of our civilization has shared “the great goal of the internal and external liberation of man* from the evils of war” as Freud...
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In Search of Dupree Bolton How I tracked down the most mysterious musician in the history of West Coast jazz
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The unannounced updates to Facebook’s Social Plugins and how to use them! Since the launch of platform, Facebook has the approach of shipping features early, very early. They...
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In 2015, Meagan Abell was shopping in Richmond, Virginia when she spotted four sets of medium-format negatives protected in plastic sleeves in a box of vintage photographs. Abell bought the negatives, scanned them and saw the beautiful pictures of two young women standing on a...
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How the Much-Maligned Porch Supports Walkable, Sustainable Communities Its aesthetic detractors don’t understand the porch’s ability to create community.
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Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
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Open Culture
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When Jon Pertwee reincarnated into Tom Baker in 1974, the Fourth Doctor of the popular sci-fi show Doctor Who ditched the foppish look of velvet jackets and frilly shirts, and went for the “Romantic adventurer” style, with floppy felt hat, long overcoats and, most iconically, his...
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Day 4: Sept 13, 2023 — Yesterday’s overstimulation resonates throughout the night, so neither of us sleep well. A truck with an RV trailer shows up at 2:30 a.m. While they are on the other end of the campground, there’s enough noise to make me poke my head out of the tent. Given...
Ink & Switch
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The great problem of consciousness is that all it knows is itself, and only dimly. We can override this elemental self-reference only with constant vigilance, reminding ourselves again and again as we forget over and over how difficult it is — how nigh impossible — to know what...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: On the other hand, lately I have a real fondness for conspiracy theories that don't involve politics. Today's News:
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Situated a one-hour car drive south from Seoul, the city of Cheonan may be much smaller, but it’s an important...
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Why we need wide adoption of social recovery wallets
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Escaping Flatland
Don’t sacrifice the wrong thing I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter...
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I began emailing essays into the void on 30 May 2021, 53 days before Rebecka, our youngest daughter was born. This writing experiment has followed roughly the same trajectory as the baby. In 2021, Escaping Flatland's prime achievement was putting a few toys in its mouth (a...
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Deep learning for… chess (addendum) My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple...
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My previous blog post about deep learning for chess blew up and made it to Hacker News and a couple of other places. One pretty amazing thing was that the Github repo got 150 stars overnight.
Many Worlds
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The Search for Extraterrestrial Intelligence (SETI) began decades ago as an effort to pick up radio signals from distant civilizations.  The effort was centered at the Green Bank Observatory in West Virginia and was by today’s standards quite rudimentary. A much broader search...
Nelson's Weblog
Kagi is a good search engine Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been...
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Google search is overwhelmed with spam these days. Back in January I switched to Kagi and have been happy with it. It’s not free but there’s a limited trial to check it out. I pay $10/mo for unlimited access. Turns out I do about 50 searches a day. I’m unclear on how Kagi works...
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New York City is poised for a tech revival One thing that was puzzling about the “web 2.0 boom” from 2003-2008 was how irrelevant the East...
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One thing that was puzzling about the “web 2.0 boom” from 2003-2008 was how irrelevant the East Coast, and particular New York City, was…
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: There is no Steve-in-Itself! There's not even a thing that believes it is Steve, now help me decide what's for dinner! Today's News:
Melissa Penfold
IF YOU WANT TO SELL YOUR HOUSE, FIGURE OUT WHAT TO RENOVATE FIRST You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The...
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You want to sell your home, but the kids have scuffed up the floors and chipped the paint. The kitchen could use a face-lift and the lawn has seen better days. Every seller has to decide whether to sink money into their home before listing it, and how much. Lately, the stakes...
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Travelog: Minimal Observation How much can you determine about a building in a minute or two? The short answer is “not much” but...
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How much can you determine about a building in a minute or two? The short answer is “not much” but sometimes you can get useful information about the structure from the street. It’s certainly easier if you know the history of the area – I am far more efficient at building...
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'Linux: monitor a directory for files' Inotify is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that reports when a file system event occurs. The...
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Inotify is a mechanism in the Linux kernel that reports when a file system event occurs. The inotifywait comand line utility can be used in shell scripts to monitor directories for new files. It can also be used to monitor files for changes. Inotifywait must be installed and is...
Ink & Switch
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Collaboration on rich text is hard to model with plain-text approaches. We review the challenges and how to construct a CRDT for rich text.
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Construction Physics
Is Land-Use Regulation Holding Back Construction Productivity? Ed Glaeser is perhaps the pre-eminent urban economist working today, and I’ve cited his work...
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Ed Glaeser is perhaps the pre-eminent urban economist working today, and I’ve cited his work repeatedly when looking at land-use restrictions and burdens on new development.
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The Man Who Nearly Woke Up. Narrative found hidden in an HR Textbook.
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<p><i><a href="https://subsection.io/" target="_blank">Subsection</a> is an app that helps create support docs, such as user guides, knowledge bases, documentation, and changelogs.&nbsp;</i></p><p><i>Below I describe the launch of Subsection of <a...
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Protecting VMware ESXi In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to...
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In response to a possible security breach on a VMware ESXi host machine, I search for a way to improve security of the management console using NGINX and a firewall
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Old VC firms: get ready to be disrupted If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for...
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If the U.S. economy were a company, the VC industry would be the R&D department. The financing for the VC industry comes from so-called LPs…
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Illegal gold mining influencers are tearing up the Amazon Creators share tips on YouTube and TikTok to bring new miners into the fold and turn criminal...
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Creators share tips on YouTube and TikTok to bring new miners into the fold and turn criminal behavior into money-making content.
A Beautiful Site
Getting proportionally-resized dimensions of an image This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of...
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This is extremely useful when you need to scale down an image within a certain pair of dimensions. get_resized_dimensions() # Parameters # $width - The width of the image to be resized $height - The height of the image to be resized $max_width - The maximum allowed width of the...
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Recurse Center Day 10: Learning Distributed Systems How does one start learning to build distributed systems?
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Dealing With Foreigners ... Is more complicated than you might think.
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Resurrecting Nexus 6P from bootloop of death Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android...
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Nexus Before the Pixel there was Nexus, smartphones and tablets to showcase the latest in android with the brand of the manufacturer. They packed in latest android version with top end specifications and pathetic camera (processed image/video) quality; no wonder they didn't take...
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The Sleazy World of Reddit Marketing, Everything is Fake I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of...
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I’m going to show you how to cash grab as a Reddit moderator. 5 minutes of work, then thousands of dollars per month for doing nothing. Maybe tens of thousands. With a 100% real example. I’ve edited nothing. When you’re a Reddit mod, you have a TON of power in that subreddit. You...
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Homographic Spoofing: a new Ruby toolkit What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters,...
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What is an homograph attack Homograph characters look the same or very similar to other characters, but are different. For example, the letters “l” and “ӏ” (Cyrrilic “ӏ”) look the same but are different characters. A homograph attack is a phishing attack where the attacker uses...
TheCollector
African Americans in Art: A Legacy of Creativity and Resistance For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant...
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For a long period of American history, art created by African Americans was considered irrelevant and unworthy of appreciation. Still, even in the conditions of slavery, segregation, and oppression, African American creatives managed to build and preserve artistic tradition. Some...
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In / Out 2025 for me, will be: In blogging 3D modelling prototyping experimental design endurance...
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2025 for me, will be: In blogging 3D modelling prototyping experimental design endurance climbing single session training days swimming saving self-care selling investing uniform long hair house + techno sound design Out comparison shyness dishes in sink trends (especially...
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2025 Summer Architecture Programs for Adults and High School Graduates Archinect’s 2025 roundup of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, focusing on...
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Archinect’s 2025 roundup of summer architecture programs continues with Part 2, focusing on opportunities for high school graduates, college students, and adults of all experience levels. Whether you're exploring architecture for the first time or seeking to deepen your knowledge...
Calculated Risk
CoStar: US inbound international travel takes 12% hit From CoStar: US inbound international travel takes 12% hit as economists postpone pre-pandemic...
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From CoStar: US inbound international travel takes 12% hit as economists postpone pre-pandemic recovery to 2029 Whatever hopes the travel industry had in a full recovery to 2019 levels of travel bookings this year have officially been dashed, according to one economist. "What...
The Gradient
Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record...
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A collection of the best technical, social, and economic arguments Humans have a good track record of innovation. The mechanization of agriculture, steam engines, electricity, modern medicine, computers, and the internet—these technologies radically changed the world. Still, the...
Seth's Blog
Which agenda? Every day matters. It seems like a waste to spend one as a to-do list item on someone else’s agenda....
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Every day matters. It seems like a waste to spend one as a to-do list item on someone else’s agenda. It’s easy to become so focused on checking the boxes that we forget that there are people involved. Peers, colleagues and friends that with something human to offer, if we only...
Jonas Hietala
Ludum Dare 22 Timelapse Here’s the timelapse for my entry to Ludum Dare 22,...
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Here’s the timelapse for my entry to Ludum Dare 22, Sat-E. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eoKDyhxCVm0 This time I managed to record one screen every minute, which is very suboptimal to say the least but I slowed it down a bit so you can at least see something being done there.
Lars Lofgren
How Live Chat Tools Impact Conversions and Why I Launched a Bad Variant Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing...
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Do those live chat tools actually help your business? Will they get you more customers by allowing your visitors to chat directly with your team? Like most tests, you can come up with theories that sound great for both sides. Pro Live Chat Theory: Having a live chat tool helps...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And then the professor demonstrated the Wiener-Kolmogorov helicopter. Today's News:
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The Marginalian
The Paradox of Free Will The neuroscience, physics, and philosophy of freedom in a universe of fixed laws.
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: This is why artists and mathematicians were ahead of the curve on madness. You are all us now. Today's News:
devonzuegel.com
My questions about Próspera, answered I recently visited Próspera, a Honduran startup city. I had a ton of questions and figured others...
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I recently visited Próspera, a Honduran startup city. I had a ton of questions and figured others might too, so I wrote an FAQ to share what I learned: Próspera FAQ This FAQ is intended as a reference, covering the basic facts and current status of the project. My hope is that...
Jonas Hietala
Why make games Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic...
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Why did I start making games? Because I like to play them of course. Think of all the fantastic games; Super Mario, Lemmings, Tetris, GTA, The Sims, Counterstrike, Theme Hospital, SimCity and Rollercoaster Tycoon… Damn - when you count them like this you’ll see how many great...
Sam Altman
How To Be Successful I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of...
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I’ve observed thousands of founders and thought a lot about what it takes to make a huge amount of money or to create something important. Usually, people start off wanting the former and end up wanting the latter. Here are 13 thoughts about how to achieve such outlier...
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Blockchain explained simply A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases....
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A blockchain is a distributed database. Bitcoin, Ethereum and Dogecoin are all different databases. A blockchain node is a computer with an…
TheCollector
Who Was Rudolf Steiner? (Life and Philosophy) Do you ever think about the people who have changed our world and how we think? Rudolf Steiner was...
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Do you ever think about the people who have changed our world and how we think? Rudolf Steiner was one such person. He wasn’t just a philosopher or writer, he was an innovative educator, esotericist, artist, and original thinker whose ideas still astound us today. Steiner’s...
On Test Automation
I am tired of AI Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same...
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Unless you have been living under a rock for the last few years, you probably have seen the same massive surge I’ve seen in the application of artificial intelligence (AI) to pretty much every problem out there, in software testing, in software development, and in life in...
Mind Prison: Notes...
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Dr Alun Withey
Packing the Essentials!: Preparing to Travel in the 18th Century. Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here –...
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Now that Covid restrictions have finally been lifted, and summer is at least theoretically here – it’s raining outside as I write! – many people are returning to travel and undertaking the holidays that have had to be postponed over the past couple of years. The pandemic aside,...
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Apple approves the HEY Calendar I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s...
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I’ll admit it was a bit cheeky to make our new HEY Calendar app “do something” by including Apple’s own history as a preview for people who don’t have an account. And I didn’t give the gambit better than 30% odds of succeeding, but lo and behold, it did! Apple has approved our...
Calculated Risk
Retail Sales Increased 1.4% in March On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 1.4% from February to March (seasonally adjusted), and...
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On a monthly basis, retail sales increased 1.4% from February to March (seasonally adjusted), and sales were up 4.6 percent from March 2024. report: Advance estimates of U.S. retail and food services sales for March 2025, adjusted for seasonal variation and holiday and...
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Masterpiece Hallucinations What can you see through blurry eyes that you can't see with 20/20 vision?
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Ink & Switch
OS of the future and universal version control In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing...
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In this dispatch we're spotlighting Alexander Obenauer's work on the future of personal computing and introducing our new research project.
HTMHell
#19 heading in the wrong direction Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product...
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Context: A simple page that displays the availability of a product. Bad code <h1>Product Status</h1> <h2>Is the product available?</h2> <div> <h3> <div> <div> <i> <h3 class="message is-success"> It‘s <a>available</a>. </h3> ...
Max Rozen
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Chicken Noodle Soup Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, soup matters a lot more to my life than...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Honestly, soup matters a lot more to my life than love or bravery. Today's News: Behold! (slightly NSFW)
Calculated Risk
Sunday Night Futures Weekend: Schedule for Week of April 6, 2025 Recession Watch Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures...
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Weekend: Schedule for Week of April 6, 2025 Recession Watch Pre-Market Data and Bloomberg futures S&P 500 are down 200 and DOW futures are down 1,200 (fair value). WTI futures at $61.99 per barrel and Brent at $65.58 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $88, and Brent was at $93 -...
Home on Erik...
Running Theano on EC2 Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning...
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Inspired by Sander Dieleman's internship at Spotify, I've been playing around with deep learning using Theano. Theano is this Python package that lets you define symbolic expressions (cool), does automatic differentiation (really cool), and compiles it down into bytecode to run...
Blog posts of...
How i make investment decisions 🏝 The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps...
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The goal of this article is to break down how i make investment decisions in the hope that it helps founders to see their fundraising effort from the “other side”.
diamond geezer
ChatGPT's London Quiz I wondered whether ChatGPT would be able to come up with a good London quiz, so I asked it...
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I wondered whether ChatGPT would be able to come up with a good London quiz, so I asked it for...  A difficult quiz about London (10 questions) where all the questions have seven words or fewer  1. Oldest pub in London? I told it this was a poor, ambiguous quiz and proceeded...
TheCollector
Maria Edgeworth’s Educational Philosophy in 5 Core Concepts Maria Edgeworth was ahead of her time in educational philosophy. She supported new teaching methods...
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Maria Edgeworth was ahead of her time in educational philosophy. She supported new teaching methods that remain important today. Her interesting ideas included practical education, moral instruction, critical thinking skills, individualized learning, and more parental involvement...
Marcus on AI
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devonzuegel.com
Independence for whom? I recently spent a day at Sea Ranch, a strange and beautiful place. Sea Ranch is a planned community...
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I recently spent a day at Sea Ranch, a strange and beautiful place. Sea Ranch is a planned community with a distinctive architectural style: simple timber-frame structures clad in wooden siding, and gardens all planted with native flora. The Sea Ranch Design Committee enforces...
Arduino Blog
This Arduino device helps ‘split the G’ on a pint of Guinness Guinness is one of those beers (specifically, a stout) that people take seriously and the Guinness...
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Guinness is one of those beers (specifically, a stout) that people take seriously and the Guinness brand has taken full advantage of that in their marketing. They even sell a glass designed specifically for enjoying their flagship creation, which has led to a trend that the...
IEEE Spectrum
Meet the “First Lady of Engineering” For more than a century, women and racial minorities have fought for access to education and...
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For more than a century, women and racial minorities have fought for access to education and employment opportunities once reserved exclusively for white men. The life of Yvonne Young “Y.Y.” Clark is a testament to the power of perseverance in that fight. As a smart Black woman...
journal – Winnie Lim
a hole in my soul I didn’t actually feel like writing today, but I’m worried if I don’t write I would forget the...
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I didn’t actually feel like writing today, but I’m worried if I don’t write I would forget the feelings and thoughts I have at this point in time. It doesn’t seem right...
NeuroLogica Blog
Is Music Getting Simpler I don’t think I know anyone personally who doesn’t have strong opinions about music – which genres...
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I don’t think I know anyone personally who doesn’t have strong opinions about music – which genres they like, and how the quality of music may have changed over time. My own sense is that music as a cultural phenomenon is incredibly complex, no one (in my social group) really...
Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 1.4% Year-over-year This will be something to watch. The Top 3 countries for tourist visits to the US in 2023...
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This will be something to watch. The Top 3 countries for tourist visits to the US in 2023 were: “We've already started the process of where that capacity is coming out.  A lot of it transborder, big drop in Canadian traffic to go into the U.S.”. This could impact hotel occupancy...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 3 Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a...
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Highlights TinyPilot generated $3,800 in revenue with zero marketing. I went from zero to a complete, custom manufactured product in 26 days. I’m still struggling to manage my inventory. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I...
Laetitia@Work
Mind the Exponential Gap Listen now (54 mins) | Laetitia@Work #42
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Stat Significant
Which Countries Have the Most Unique Taste in Music? A Statistical Analysis Which nations have the most distinct music tastes?
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computers are bad
2024-03-09 the purple streetscape Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights...
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Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
Handprinted - Blog
How Much Detail on Exposed Screens? When designing artwork for exposed screens it can be very difficult to figure out what level of...
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When designing artwork for exposed screens it can be very difficult to figure out what level of detail you can include. Different mesh counts will be able to handle different levels of detail. The mesh number relates to how many threads there are per cm of mesh: 32T has 32...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
“The macOS App Icon Book” IRL Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it...
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Guess what I received in the mail today? You likely guessed it from the title, but I’ll say it anyway: The macOS App Icon Book. (If you didn’t catch it, I’ve written previously about my contribution to its prequel.) This one got funded on Kickstarter a few months back and,...
Naz Hamid — Journal...
✏️ Hoja Santa On our first visit to Mexico City, and because we're often weary of lines, we opted out on the...
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On our first visit to Mexico City, and because we're often weary of lines, we opted out on the well-known Panaderia Rosetta. We even skipped eating the infamous Mexican pastry concha! But on this trip, after having a delicious chocolate one from Delirio, and seeing the location...
Hidden History
A Tale of Kale (And Cabbage, and Brussels Sprouts, and Broccoli, and Cauliflower…) These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may...
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These vegetables (and Kohlrabi, and Collard Greens, and Gai Lan, and Bok Choy, and Red Cabbage) may be familiar in the kitchen, but they do not exist anywhere in nature—and they are all the same species of plant. The Brassica is a very large and diverse family of plants, with...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Maternity Care and Payer Contracting with Marta Bralic Kerns | Out-Of-Pocket and some good tips for consultants working at startups
a year ago
The Marginalian
Kafka’s Creative Block and the Four Psychological Hindrances That Keep the Talented from Manifesting... The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it...
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The most paradoxical thing about creative work is that it is both a way in and a way out, that it plunges you into the depths of your being and at the same time takes you out of yourself. Writing is the best instrument I have for metabolizing my experience and clarifying my own...
Rest of World -...
OpenAI cuts its last and most important link to China A milestone in the militarization of AI.
a year ago
TheCollector
What Do We Actually Know about Hieronymus Bosch? Unlike some artists, Hieronymus Bosch was famous in his own time and inspired a generation of...
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Unlike some artists, Hieronymus Bosch was famous in his own time and inspired a generation of artists with his groundbreaking style and unusual subject matter. Even in his pieces that seem more straightforward and less fantastical, Bosch often wove in nuanced layers of meaning,...
Oykun
The Coaching Habit by Michael Bungay Stainer My recommendation: 7/10 More details and reviews on Amazon Focusing on the good you can do for...
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My recommendation: 7/10 More details and reviews on Amazon Focusing on the good you can do for others than yourself was an interesting perspective to build habits. I found the practical tips about how to phrase some questions useful such as using "What..." instead of "Why.
Londonist
Christmas Carol Concerts In London To Make You Feel All Warm And Fuzzy Inside This December Including one with dogs. Woof!
a year ago
Steve Klabnik
Should you learn C to "learn how the computer works"?
over a year ago
Jonas Hietala
Robot Project Start So it has begun, the long road until christmas when we’re supposed to have a working warrior robot....
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over a year ago
So it has begun, the long road until christmas when we’re supposed to have a working warrior robot. We’re gonna do battle with infrared lasers instead of axes but it might be fun anyway. Luckily for me I’m responsible for software and nothing harder than that! w00p! We could...
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Understanding your market Some startups become huge sensations without requiring any active marketing – YouTube, Skype, and...
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Some startups become huge sensations without requiring any active marketing – YouTube, Skype, and Twitter come to mind. However, the vast…
Open Culture
Download Issues of “Weird Tales” (1923–1954): The Pioneering Pulp Horror Magazine Features Original... We live in an era of genre. Browse through TV shows of the last decade to see what I mean: Horror,...
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We live in an era of genre. Browse through TV shows of the last decade to see what I mean: Horror, sci-fi, fantasy, superheroes, futuristic dystopias…. Take a casual glance at the burgeoning global film franchises or merchandising empires. Where in earlier decades, horror and...
Tinloof - Blog
Explain Like I'm Five: Website speed This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and...
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This post is part of the series Explain Like I'm Five (#eli5), which aims to make tech concepts and terms easy to understand. In this two minutes read, we'll explain why website speed matters, how to measure it, and how to improve it. Why website speed matters
The American Scholar
Last Laugh The post Last Laugh appeared first on The American Scholar.
12 months ago