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Implicit data and collaborative filtering A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right?...
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A lot of people these days know about collaborative filtering. It's that Netflix Prize thing, right? People rate things 1-5 stars and then you have to predict missing ratings. While there's no doubt that the Netflix Prize was successful, I think it created an illusion that all...
Noahpinion
Democrats fixed many of the problems of the early 2020s It's nice to have leaders who hear what people care about and deliver results.
10 months ago
Posts on Made of...
CVE-2007-4573: The Anatomy of a Kernel Exploit CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It...
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CVE-2007-4573 is two years old at this point, but it remains one of my favorite vulnerabilities. It was a local privilege-escalation vulnerability on all x86_64 kernels prior to v2.6.22.7. It’s very simple to understand with a little bit of background, and the exploit is...
Calculated Risk
Fed's Beige Book: "Overall economic activity rose slightly" Fed's Beige Book Overall economic activity rose slightly since mid-January. Six Districts reported...
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Fed's Beige Book Overall economic activity rose slightly since mid-January. Six Districts reported no change, four reported modest or moderate growth, and two noted slight contractions. Consumer spending was lower on balance, with reports of solid demand for essential goods mixed...
Marcus on AI
Sam Altman thinks that AGI is basically a solved problem. I don’t. Here’s why. Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we...
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Yesterday Sam Altman claimed in a new blog post that “We are now confident we how to build AGI as we have traditionally understood it”, alleging that OpenAI (which has not demonstrated AGI) was now on to new and better things.
Open Culture
The 1924 Soviet Chess Match Where The Chess Pieces Were Real Soldiers and Horses Let’s time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That’s when an unconventional...
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Let’s time travel back to Leningrad (aka St. Petersburg) in 1924. That’s when an unconventional chess match was played by Peter Romanovsky and Ilya Rabinovich, two chess masters of the day. Apparently, they called in their moves over the telephone. And then real-life chess...
Quanta Magazine
Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding...
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Rose Yu has a plan for how to make AI better, faster and smarter — and it’s already yielding results. The post Improving Deep Learning With a Little Help From Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The American Scholar
The Bears The post The Bears appeared first on The American Scholar.
7 months ago
Open Culture
Curious Alice — The 1971 Anti-Drug Movie Based on Alice in Wonderland That Oddly Made Drugs Look... The Reagan presidency was probably the golden age of anti-drug messaging. America’s school kids were...
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The Reagan presidency was probably the golden age of anti-drug messaging. America’s school kids were told that a brain was like an egg and drugs were like a frying pan. The First Lady told America’s school kids simply to “Just Say No.” The message was stupefyingly simple. Drugs,...
The DESK Magazine
People are talking about me, and I started it People talk about you the way you talk about yourself.
over a year ago
Confessions of a...
What Happens When Python Starts Up? CPython Runtime Internals CPython JIT Internals, Part 1: What is the Runtime and How is it initialized?
a year ago
Working Theorys
The Prestige-Prosperity Gap We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up...
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We expect prestige and wealth to grow in tandem. When status goes up, wealth goes up proportionately, and vice versa. But the modern world is a lot messier. There can be bizarre mismatches between prestige and prosperity. Some people have social or professional status far...
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Scaling Coding Communities People who can scale coding communities are 🔥 🔥 🔥
over a year ago
TheCollector
10 Mythological Figures With Chemical Elements Named After Them There are 118 chemical elements on the Periodic Table; 19 of these elements are named after real...
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There are 118 chemical elements on the Periodic Table; 19 of these elements are named after real historic figures. These include the likes of Einsteinium (named after Albert Einstein), Curium (Marie and Pierre Curie), and Nobelium (Alfred Nobel).   But on delving deeper into the...
99% Invisible
Orange Alternative [EPISODE] In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across...
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In the months following the invasion of Ukraine, cryptic anti-war graffiti began popping up across Russia. People started writing out the phrase “no war” using asterisks instead of the various letters in order to disguise the meaning of the message. Then back in September, a...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Review of Gitcoin Quadratic Funding Round 3
over a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Livelier in Pleasant Weather' Magazines have long been fond of asking well-known writers to recommend books appropriate to...
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Magazines have long been fond of asking well-known writers to recommend books appropriate to certain times of year, usually as Christmas gifts or so-called “beach reading.” The results tend to be surprisingly conventional and unrewarding, with pleasing exceptions. Consider...
A Smart Bear
How repositioning a product allows you to 8x its price You can charge much more than you think, if you reposition your value-proposition. Here's how.
over a year ago
Greater Still by...
Finance, Fairer Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small...
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Sharing our investment in Jia, which turns crypto liquidity into working capital for small businesses in every corner of the world.
diamond geezer
Upper East Bromley-by-Bow has a new tower block and unusually it's not along the A12 or the River Lea, it's in...
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Bromley-by-Bow has a new tower block and unusually it's not along the A12 or the River Lea, it's in the historic part. It replaces a drab council block which the local housing association was keen to wipe away, and rightly so, as part of a long-term project to replace Stroudley...
Londonist
The London Of Doctor Who, Mapped All the key locations from Hartnell onwards.
over a year ago
Rest of World -...
India’s open arms approach to AI The Modi government has dedicated $1.2 billion to building the country’s AI capabilities, and U.S....
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The Modi government has dedicated $1.2 billion to building the country’s AI capabilities, and U.S. firms are receiving a warm welcome.
Anecdotal Evidence
'Only a Facsimile That Is Called Literature' I’ve learned with time that my mind has periods of attentiveness followed by drifts into passive,...
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I’ve learned with time that my mind has periods of attentiveness followed by drifts into passive, relaxed states of consciousness. I’m awake but almost empty. I might be taking a shower or staring out the window at nothing. That’s when I occasionally find myself in an old song or...
Quanta Magazine
What Can a Cell Remember? A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing...
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A small but enthusiastic group of neuroscientists is exhuming overlooked experiments and performing new ones to explore whether cells record past experiences — fundamentally challenging what memory is. The post What Can a Cell Remember? first appeared on Quanta...
The Ruffian
The Biden Conundrum On the president's prospects, plus a rattle bag of stimulants and delights
a year ago
Seth's Blog
The color-coded wires Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was...
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Have you ever wondered what the wiring layout behind the control panels at Abbey Road studios was like? Neither have I. The Beatles recorded some of their best work there, and I have no idea if it was a rat’s nest of tangled wires, or if each wire was labeled, coded and perfectly...
The Honest Broker
Stoicism in the Gioia Family My brother Dana tells how our LA childhood gave us a direct connection to an ancient Roman worldview
a year ago
Notes on software...
Notes from Neal Gabler's Walt Disney Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though...
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Disney was a celebrity by his mid-30s, Disney the company was famous by 1930s. Even though politically the 1930s was considered the decade of Roosevelt (elected President in 1933), culturally the 1930s was considered the decade of Mickey Mouse. Almost every new...
the singularity is...
The Soul ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you...
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ugh the deep state didn’t come for me I just realized that what gets engagement is so boring. you wish there was a deep state that came for me. then at least there would be some adults in the room. I used to fantasize about being or kissing Skrillex the whole album is bangers...
Yale E360
Turning Farmland Back to Peatland: Can It Slow CO2 Emissions? Farmers have long drained peatlands for agriculture, but the dried-out soils release vast quantities...
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Farmers have long drained peatlands for agriculture, but the dried-out soils release vast quantities of CO2. To halt this process, new initiatives in Germany are not only rewetting peatlands but also creating markets for the native grasses, reeds, and sedges they support. Read...
Mazdak
In the AI Race: Embrace Commoditization, Focus on Customer Value The world of AI is a fast-paced and ever-evolving landscape, where startups are constantly vying for...
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The world of AI is a fast-paced and ever-evolving landscape, where startups are constantly vying for attention and a slice of the market pie. In this competitive environment, it's easy to get caught up in the pursuit of proprietary components and cutting-edge algorithms,...
blag
Installing Transmission (remote and CLI) client on Raspberry Pi This tutorial will explain you how to install Transmission client on Raspberry Pi running Raspbian.
over a year ago
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
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After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
FIRE v London
A stupid decision to sell my rental property I sold my rental property last year, after owning it over 20 years. It’s a lovely property, worth...
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I sold my rental property last year, after owning it over 20 years. It’s a lovely property, worth around £1m, right in the heart of London – near the middle of the map below. I used to live in it, I travel past it regularly, I know its neighbourhood well. The Modern Flat has...
David Perell
Ambitious People Need Each Other Ambitious people don’t just need peers. They need mentors. They need people who will encourage them...
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Ambitious people don’t just need peers. They need mentors. They need people who will encourage them to pursue hard and meaningful projects.  The post Ambitious People Need Each Other appeared first on David Perell.
Christopher Butler
visual journal – 2024 April 13 - April 19 The faces are back, a new book, calm, beauty, civil war. The faces are back. Feels like...
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The faces are back, a new book, calm, beauty, civil war. The faces are back. Feels like something is happening here. This ^ is the start of a new book. “We need more calm companies.” — Justin Jackson What is beautiful? Another...
A Smart Bear
Finding Fulfillment What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a...
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What creates a fulfilling existence? Exploring the question from different directions leads to a framework I’ve used for years for myself and the people around me. I hope it helps you too.
Yale E360
In Uganda, Deadly Landslides Force an Agricultural Reckoning As growing populations denude its slopes and heavy rain intensifies, Mount Elgon has become...
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As growing populations denude its slopes and heavy rain intensifies, Mount Elgon has become increasingly vulnerable to landslides. In response, Ugandan farmers are planting native trees and changing the crops they plant in efforts to build resilience against future...
TokyoDev
Unbricking my MacBook took an email to Tim Cook I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on...
a year ago
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I previously wrote about [how my lost MacBook was returned to me with an Activation Lock on it](https://www.tokyodev.com/articles/not-setting-up-find-my-bricked-my-macbook), and how Apple refused to unlock it for me. Well, I did manage to finally get it unlocked. All it took was...
Londonist
The Killer 1962 Smog Of London And no, we don't mean 1952.
a year ago
lcamtuf’s thing
Electric chainsaws and the gorge of misery Lithium batteries are great -- so why do mid-size electric power tools suck in 2024?
a year ago
Ferd.ca
My Blog Engine is the Erlang Build Tool From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist...
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From time to time, people ask me what I use to power my blog, maybe because they like the minimalist form it has. I tell them it’s a bad idea and that I use the Erlang compiler infrastructure for it, and they agree to look elsewhere. After launching my notes section, I had to...
Tinloof - Blog
Yeah hooks are good, but have you tried faster React Components? This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on...
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This article is not meant to perf-shame you. If you’re a beginner in React, don’t focus on performance issues but rather on getting comfortable and productive with it. The performance of a React application can be defined by how long the user should wait before seeing the UI...
This Space
A mighty contagious absence, part two On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature   To great writers, finished works weigh...
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On submission and resistance to AI-generated literature   To great writers, finished works weigh lighter than those fragments on which they work throughout their lives. For only the more feeble and distracted take an inimitable pleasure in conclusions, feeling themselves...
Liz Denys
The 'doing good' framework: a manifesto against saying 'good people' and 'bad people' I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I...
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I remember the first time I reflected on "doing good": I was watching the final scene of a sitcom I grew up with, Boy Meets World. The main characters, who've now come of age, speak with the teacher that has been with them through every phase of their educations and lives: Mr....
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The Radiating Circles of DX Architecture > This post was originally published on my new dedicated DX site: https://dx.tips/circles
over a year ago
Old Structures...
Colorful and Accurate The map above, from 1884, shows the planned line of the new Croton Aqueduct from the reservoir on...
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The map above, from 1884, shows the planned line of the new Croton Aqueduct from the reservoir on the right (to the north) to New York City on the left. The new aqueduct runs on a much straighter line than the old, which required more tunneling, and therefore reflects the more...
Birchtree
Who's using AI in the workplace? Pew has a new report out where they talked to workers in the US and asked them how they were using...
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Pew has a new report out where they talked to workers in the US and asked them how they were using AI at work. The data is really interesting in a few places, so I wanted to share the most notable insights in my view. First off, only 16% of
Blog - Amy Goodchild
Maplands Maplands is a long-form generative art project I released on fxhash on 5th Jan 2022. It sold out...
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Maplands is a long-form generative art project I released on fxhash on 5th Jan 2022. It sold out 256 pieces in exactly 2 minutes.
Adrian Hanft, III:...
Regaining Write-Access to Your Brain For us the world is mostly predictable, but the child's reality is still expanding. What if you...
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For us the world is mostly predictable, but the child's reality is still expanding. What if you could get back there, recapture the joy you felt when everything was still waiting for you to discover it?