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The Marginalian
Leonard Cohen on the Antidote to Anger and the Meaning of Resistance One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do...
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One of the commonest and most corrosive human reflexes is to react to helplessness with anger. We do it in our personal lives and we do it in our political lives. We are living through a time of uncommon helplessness and uncertainty, touching every aspect of our lives, and in...
AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Celebrate Pride in Washington, D.C.
a year ago
diamond geezer
Denham Green As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. n.b. there are four...
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As unexpected street names go, this is right up there. n.b. there are four Denhams. Specifically Stanley Kubrick Road is in Denham Green. Three things to see in Denham Green 1) Denham Film Studios Alexander Korda opened his film studios just north of Denham in 1935. Some...
Londonist
Tram Strikes And Engineering Works Will Affect Network Heavily In March and April 2024 Disruption double whammy.
9 months ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Cues Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: At some point I realized it'd be more accurate for...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: At some point I realized it'd be more accurate for me to say I understand 98% of social cues, but the 2% is where all the important ones are. Today's News: In case you missed it, I've been posting some old well-liked SMBCs to...
Maps Mania
Who Speaks Your Language?
a year ago
AVC
My Year-End Playlist Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and...
a year ago
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a year ago
Every year I put together a playlist at the end of the year with some of the new music I found and got into. Most of these songs are under the radar which is my favorite kind of music. So I hope you find something new that you like in here.
AI Snake Oil
I set up a ChatGPT voice interface for my 3-year old. Here’s how it went. Chatbots are likely to revive familiar debates about kids and apps
a year ago
Jonas Hietala
We can build things! Finally we have some sort of progress! We can now build rooms and place and remove objects! Yay!!...
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Finally we have some sort of progress! We can now build rooms and place and remove objects! Yay!! But we still haven’t even begun with the game logic, resource management, the actual mining mechanic, multiple levels, actual tasks for our workers. But it’s something.
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Celebrating the Centennial of Galaxies January 1 2025 On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer...
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On January 1, 1925, at a meeting of the American Astronomical Society in Washington, DC, astronomer Henry N. Russell read a paper contributed by a young astronomer named Edwin Hubble (who was too junior to earn a trip across the country from the California observatory where he...
Beautiful Public...
FAA Aviation Maps Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a...
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Among all of the visual information published by the U.S. government, there may be no product with a higher information density than the Federal Aviation Administration’s aviation maps.
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Moai undefined
10 months ago
Vadim Kravcenko
The Dark Side of Remote Work: Interview Scam Epidemic Once the pandemic hit and employers started to embrace remote work more openly, a new phenomenon...
a year ago
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Once the pandemic hit and employers started to embrace remote work more openly, a new phenomenon gained momentum — Interviews-as-a-service. […] The post The Dark Side of Remote Work: Interview Scam Epidemic appeared first on Vadim Kravcenko.
latest projects -...
Smallest USB-C MIDI Synth [Hardware] The smallest and silliest MIDI synth yet
a year ago
Oykun
Why Visual Design Matters Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX,...
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a year ago
Visual Design often doesn't receive the respect it deserves among other disciplines such as UX, Development, and so on. I have faced situations like: Devs have already started the development based on UX. Just spend a few hours adding colours, please. We do not need visual...
Nothing Human
Metrics, Cowardice, and Mistrust why we need better ideologies than "data driven decision making"
a year ago
symmetry magazine
Listening to the radio on the far side of the moon LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive...
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LuSEE-Night will demonstrate whether an experiment to search for ancient radio signals can survive the moon’s unforgiving environment.
diamond geezer
Another tube map typo Would you like to see another tube map typo? It's not a spelling mistake it's a missing word, if...
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a month ago
Would you like to see another tube map typo? It's not a spelling mistake it's a missing word, if that helps you spot it. Nobody at TfL spotted it, nor anybody at the printers, or if they did they just thought never mind let's use these duff maps anyway. I've checked other...
Ben Borgers
Customer Rewards Programs
over a year ago
The Honest Broker
A Failed Rock Adaption of Dune Might Have Starred Mick Jagger, Orson Welles & Salvador Dalí (with... This gets the top spot on my list of never-made films I'd like to see
10 months ago
Old Structures...
Bragging Combined With Public Service I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker,...
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a month ago
I highly recommend the soon-to-be-released book The Elements of Construction: N. Clifford Ricker, Architecture, and the University of Illinois and not just because I wrote on chapter of it. Marci Uihlein, the editor, an architect and engineer, and a professor of architecture at...
Open Culture
Pink Floyd Plays in Venice on a Massive Floating Stage in 1989; Forces the Mayor & City Council to... When Roger Waters left Pink Floyd after 1983’s The Final Cut, the remaining members had good reason...
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8 months ago
When Roger Waters left Pink Floyd after 1983’s The Final Cut, the remaining members had good reason to assume the band was truly, as Waters proclaimed, “a spent force.” After releasing solo projects in the next few years, David Gilmour, Nick Mason, and Richard Wright soon...
Probably...
Multiple Regression with StatsModels This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from...
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This is the third is a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science which available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s from Chapter 10, which is about multiple regression. You can read the complete chapter here, or run the Jupyter notebook on Colab. In the previous...
TheCollector
D.W. Griffith: The Legacy of a Problematic Pioneer undefined
11 months ago
Trying to Understand...
No Left Turn Workers and Peasants we are not.
5 months ago
Dreams of Space -...
New Treasury for Young Readers (1963) More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one...
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More or less a "housekeeping" post today. I wanted to scan this book after finding the other one just for balance. Some fine illustration is a lost bit of space flight for children. New Treasury for Young Readers. Reader’s Digest. Pleasantville, NY. Reader’s Digest Association....
Explorations of an...
Borneo: Quest for the Bornean Peacock-Pheasant October 19, 2024 Laura and I were up dark and early from our accommodations in Ranau. I filled my...
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2 weeks ago
October 19, 2024 Laura and I were up dark and early from our accommodations in Ranau. I filled my thermos with coffee, we quickly packed (though not quietly, as every dog in the neighbourhood began barking), and we headed eastwards to the town of Telupid where we had a very...
Rozado’s Visual...
Is The Great Awokening Really Winding Down? Part II: Evidence from News Media Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down....
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a year ago
Others (here, here and here) have argued previously that The Great Awokening might be winding down. I have shown before some preliminary evidence from Twitter content about how Great Awokening terminology with negative connotations are indeed down but those with positive...
Alex Meub
A Look at Portland Car2Go Data Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast,...
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over a year ago
Recently I became a Car2Go member and I can’t say enough good things about the service. It’s fast, cheap and ridiculously convenient; it’s a pretty incredible transportation option. Part of what makes it so great are the apps that give you up-to-date car location and availability...
The Ruffian
The problem with "educate yourself" Why there's only one acceptable way to use it
a year ago
Seth's Blog
No lunging I’ve been working hard on my juggling (actual juggling, not metaphorical juggling). The secret, as I...
a year ago
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a year ago
I’ve been working hard on my juggling (actual juggling, not metaphorical juggling). The secret, as I wrote about in The Practice is the throwing, not the catching. If you get the throws right, the catches are easy. The way to focus on the throws is simple but culturally...
Open Culture
What Would Happen If a Nuclear Bomb Hit a Major City Today: A Visualization of the Destruction One of the many memorable details in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop...
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One of the many memorable details in Stanley Kubrick’s Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb, placed prominently in a shot of George C. Scott in the war room, is a binder with a spine labeled “WORLD TARGETS IN MEGADEATHS.” A megadeath, writes Eric...
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Data General/One (and the worst LCD in the world) I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't...
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I mentioned earlier that while I prefer specializing in non-x86 laptops, that doesn't mean I don't collect interesting or unusual x86 laptops, like the Brother GeoBook NB-60 (I finally tracked down a mostly working NB-80C, the top of the line model, which will be the subject of a...
Willem's Blog
Cyber security: 5 easy tips to protect your server against hackers These 5 practical cyber security measures will improve the safety of server, website and data.
over a year ago
The Great Discontent...
Rick Griffith Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian designer, collagist, writer, educator, letterpress printer,...
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Rick Griffith is a British-West-Indian designer, collagist, writer, educator, letterpress printer, and optimist futurist based in Denver, Colorado. He works at the intersection of programming, policy, and production. He co-founded MATTER—a design consultancy,...
Old Structures...
No, Not The Movie From the mid-1800s, the Casino in Central Park. And in case you’re about to say “the what?” let me...
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From the mid-1800s, the Casino in Central Park. And in case you’re about to say “the what?” let me point out that the Sheep Meadow used to have actual sheep, so we know things have changed. It was planned as part of the original park design and built as a women-only restaurant,...
Old Structures...
Twelve Years Undemolished This photo from 1954 was taken from the top level of the Queensboro Plaza Station, looking west to...
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This photo from 1954 was taken from the top level of the Queensboro Plaza Station, looking west to Manhattan. That’s the Queensboro Bridge on the right. If you take the 7 train to Flushing, as I used to, the odds are not bad that you’ll change trains at this station, as it’s...
Maps Mania
Draw Your Neighborhood
3 weeks ago
diamond geezer
London's longest countdowns Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was...
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Works to remodel the Old Street roundabout are nearing completion, above ground at least. It was still possible to drive round it five years ago, then massive sequential roadworks intervened and the northwest arm was slowly pedestrianised. Cars now have to negotiate a very...
Retail Design Blog
Good Morning Sunshine bakery design by studio SAY The design of the cafe was carefully curated to reflect the brand’s values and create a warm,...
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The design of the cafe was carefully curated to reflect the brand’s values and create a warm, inviting atmosphere. Natural...
Old Structures...
Look, Ma! No Hands! There is absolutely nothing unique about a masonry flat arch serving as a window head, but it’s...
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There is absolutely nothing unique about a masonry flat arch serving as a window head, but it’s relatively rare on steel-frame buildings like this 1920s apartment house on the Upper East Side. There are two tip-offs that it’s a real arch and not just a cleverly-hidden lintel:...
TheCollector
The Father of Art History: Who Was Johann Joachim Winckelmann? undefined
4 months ago
CONTEMPORIST
A Mid-Century Modern Inspired Extension For An 1890s Sandstone Cottage Glasshouse Projects, an architecture, interior design, and building firm, has shared photos of a...
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10 months ago
Glasshouse Projects, an architecture, interior design, and building firm, has shared photos of a mid-century modern inspired extension and renovation they completed for an original 1890 sandstone cottage in Prospect, South Australia. The extension can be accessed through the...
Seth's Blog
How to change the world All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop:...
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All successful cultural change (books, movies, public health), has a super-simple two-step loop: AWARENESSTENSION–>Loop<– It’s easy to focus on awareness. Get the word out. Hype. Promo. I think that’s a mistake. Because awareness without tension is useless. The tension is like...
This Space
Wall by Jen Craig “This novel gives the reader one of the best depictions of thinking in fiction that I have read in a...
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“This novel gives the reader one of the best depictions of thinking in fiction that I have read in a long time” – Talking Big "... combines exactitude and vagueness, immediacy and distance, to approximate how scatty, worm-like human thought might be represented on the page" – The...
Open Culture
Explore an Online Archive of 2,100+ Rare Illustrations from Charles Dickens’ Novels As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens. This owes...
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As Christmastime approaches, few novelists come to mind as readily as Charles Dickens. This owes mainly, of course, to A Christmas Carol, and even more so to its many adaptations, most of which draw inspiration from not just its text but also its illustrations. That 1843 novella...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Make your own Dev.to CMS livestream - Part 2 This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1...
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This is day 2 of my livecode Dev.to CMS. See [Day 1 here](https://dev.to/swyx/make-your-own-dev-to-cms-livestream-part-1-2ad1)
Alex Meub
Indeterminate Checkboxes While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
While the checked attribute of an HTML checkbox can only have two values, the checkbox itself can actually have up to four different visual states: checked, unchecked, disabled and indeterminate. What is indeterminate? It’s defined by the W3C this way: If the element’s...
TheCollector
What Would a Day in the Public Baths of Ancient Rome Look Like? undefined
10 months ago
TheCollector
How Many Presidents Served Two (Full) Terms? undefined
2 months ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Radiology, Residency, and Physician Tools with Henry Li | Out-Of-Pocket What's actually happening in the hospital?
a year ago
Louwrentius
Script that deletes old files to keep disk from filling up When a disk has no free space left, all kinds of trouble can occur. Therefore, I've created a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When a disk has no free space left, all kinds of trouble can occur. Therefore, I've created a script that monitors the used space of a volume and deletes the oldest file if a certain threshold is reached. The script will keep on deleting the oldest file present on disk until...
abdz.do - Have you...
Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 abduzeedo0201—23 ...
a year ago
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Branding for Ecuador, Pilsener World Edition Qatar 2022 abduzeedo0201—23 The leading beer brand in Ecuador, Pilsener, has a history of over 110 years and is a significant part of the AB InBev portfolio in the region. Known for its association...
Applied Cartography
Use Rails I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
I have a good number of people ask me what software stack they should use. I always have a two-part answer: Use what you're familiar with. If there's something that you've spent a good amount of time using, stick with that one. Rails. People are usually surprised when I say this...
The Modern House
Sumayya Vally: the South African architect on how growing up in a township defined her sense of... Sumayya Vally is a South African architect whose star is in the ascendant. At the age of 30, she...
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9 months ago
Sumayya Vally is a South African architect whose star is in the ascendant. At the age of 30, she became the youngest architect to receive the prestigious annual summer pavilion commission at the Serpentine Gallery in London. A slew of accolades and honoraries followed and […]
Old Structures...
It Looked Familiar: Edward Hopper From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting...
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From the comic “Powers”, Christian Walker sits by himself in a diner: Hopper’s 1942 painting “Nighthawks”: I’m a fan of Hopper, but this is his most famous work, so it’s not like it was all that difficult to place the reference. In his words, it’s a simplified version of reality...
Willem's Blog
Search like a pro: Google search operators Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Read along for a comprehensive list of advanced Google search operators that allow you to filter your search results.
Flashbak
‘Leasure And Pleasure’: Window Shopping In 1980s Hull “When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many...
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“When I started this project in 1977, Hull was in the throes of a massive redevelopment, with many inner city areas being bulldozed and instant slums being created on its outskirts. It seemed to have learnt nothing from the mistakes I had fought against during the previous decade...
computers are bad
2023-02-17 something up there pt II As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of...
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As we discussed previously, the search for UAP is often contextualized in terms of the events of 2017: the public revelation of the AATIP and alien-hunting efforts by Robert Bigelow and Tom DeLonge. While widely publicized, these programs seem to have lead to very little. I...
Copper • A blog...
Woodworking as an escape from the absurdity of software Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years...
8 months ago
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8 months ago
Some of you might remember the legendary comment of Eric Diven on a Docker CLI issue he opened years ago: @solvaholic: Sorry I missed your comment of many months ago. I no longer build software; I now make furniture out of wood. The hours are long, the pay sucks, and there’s...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 033: DALL·E 3 September 22, 2023.
a year ago
Home on Erik...
Are data sets the new server rooms? This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
This blog post Data sets are the new server rooms makes the point that a bunch of companies raise a ton of money to go get really proprietary awesome data as a competitive moat. Because once you have the data, you can build a better product, and no one can copy it (at least not...
Commoncog
Charlie Munger’s Supply Demand Curve Puzzle What a puzzle from Charlie Munger tells us about a supply-side business model with unreasonably high...
a year ago
Math Is Still...
The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. ...
a year ago
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Learn why the quadratic formula works and why quadratics are easier to solve than cubics. The post The Symmetry That Makes Solving Math Equations Easy first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Modern House
Furniture designer James Stickley’s cleverly zoned live/work loft in east London
a year ago
Damn Interesting
The Anticipated Future of the Moon When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
When the Earth was young, shortly after the moon formed, our planet was spinning so fast that a day was approximately five hours long. During the intervening billions of years, the dragging effect of the moon’s gravity slowed the Earth’s spin to the 24-hour day we now observe....
Josh Thompson
On Minimalism I reluctantly call myself a minimalist. I’d prefer to call myself an “enoughalist”. This reluctance...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
I reluctantly call myself a minimalist. I’d prefer to call myself an “enoughalist”. This reluctance is because I think the label brings in a bunch of connotations that I don’t like. Our apartment never looked like this. Source: home-designing.com What is Minimalism? a removal or...
CONTEMPORIST
Glamping Tents Designed By Architects Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they...
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Architects Julio Cano and Barbara Bardin of Canobardin, have sent photos of the TipiTop Tents they designed for the Costa del Sol Glamping Village in Spain. Each tent’s structure is made entirely of laminated pine wood, with a volume formed from three porticoes that support the...
TheCollector
Is Plato’s Republic a Feminist Work? undefined
a week ago
TheCollector
The ERR: How the Nazis Plundered France’s Priceless Art undefined
9 months ago
Seth's Blog
Amazon Smile gets a frown I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates...
a year ago
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I’m pretty sure how the first meetings went almost a decade ago: “Well, we’re paying our affiliates 5% for referrals. If we pay charities a tenth of that and call it a donation, it’ll be great PR and we’ll also make a profit on every sale because we won’t need to pay a full...
David Perell
The TWA Hotel The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The core concepts are simple. The implementation is borderline excessive. The post The TWA Hotel appeared first on David Perell.
Abort Retry Fail
The History of Microsoft Encarta Searchable Human Knowledge
a year ago
Evan Jones -...
How much does the read/write buffer size matter for socket throughput? The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a...
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The read() and write() system calls take a variable-length byte array as an argument. As a simplified model, the time for the system call should be some constant "per-call" time, plus time directly proportional to the number of bytes in the array. That is, the time for each call...
TheCollector
Frida Kahlo: 6 Facts About Her Life, Art, & Legacy undefined
3 months ago
Maps Mania
The 2024 Submarine Cable Map
9 months ago
David Heinemeier...
Basecamp turns 20 On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve...
11 months ago
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11 months ago
On February 5, 2004, we released the first version of Basecamp to the world. It was built to solve our own problems running client projects as an agency where we found email alone to be lacking. The first version was really just the basics: Messages, todo lists, milestones. We...
balajis.com
The Mirrortable Mirrortables are to cap tables what stablecoins are to fiat currencies. They streamline and...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Mirrortables are to cap tables what stablecoins are to fiat currencies. They streamline and internationalize the logistical mess of angel investing.
CONTEMPORIST
Before & After – A Remodeled 1970s Home In Seattle Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel of a 1970s home they...
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Floisand Studio Architects has sent us photos of a contemporary remodel of a 1970s home they completed that was originally designed by prominent Seattle Architect, Ralph Anderson. The 3-story home on Seattle’s Mercer Island was renovated and modernized, preserving what the...
Home on Erik...
Why conversion matters: a toy model There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
There are often close relationships between top level business metrics. For instance, it's well known that retention has a super strong impact on the valuation of a subscription business. Or that the % of occupied seats is super important for an airline.
The Modern House
Tiny homes: six homes that prove good things come in at under 600 square feet
7 months ago
cdixon.org RSS Feed
A few points about the “tech bubble” debate Pretty much every day now a major blog or newspaper writes an article asking whether we are...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Pretty much every day now a major blog or newspaper writes an article asking whether we are experiencing another tech bubble (e.g. see today…
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Nothing Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: And that man's name was Job. Today's News:
a year ago
Trying to Understand...
They Say They Want Rearmament .... We-ell, you know ....
a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
How These Black Artists Shaped Charleston’s Culture
a year ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Bring on the Vitamines' When I returned to college in 2002, thirty years after dropping out a year before graduating, I took...
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When I returned to college in 2002, thirty years after dropping out a year before graduating, I took a class in something called “psychological anthropology.” The teacher was personable and the class was a sort of catch basin of random learning. We could write about any stray...
TheCollector
King Stephen of Blois: England’s Anarchist King undefined
10 months ago
The Marginalian
The Poetry of Reality: Robert Louis Stevenson on What Makes Life Worth Living "The true realism, always and everywhere, is that of the poets: to find out where joy resides, and...
a year ago
Flashbak
Breaking Through To The Other Side: The Flammarion Engraving, c.1888 The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in...
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The so-called ‘Flammarion engraving’ is a wood engraving by an unknown artist that first appeared in French writer Camille Flammarion’s L’Atmosphère: Météorologie populaire (1888) in a chapter called ‘The Shape of the Sky’. The image is of a man crawling under the edge of the...
TheCollector
Was War Really Necessary? Law and the July Crisis undefined
10 months ago
Paul Graham: Essays
Chapter 1 of Ansi Common Lisp
a year ago
Max Rozen
How code splitting can make your React app load significantly faster Chances are, your React app's bundle is much, much larger than it needs to be.
over a year ago
Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2024 – Lessons Learned Presentations We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for...
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We just finished our 9th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 60 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national security problems. At Stanford this quarter the 8 teams of 40 students collectively...
Artificial Ignorance
How to build an AI search engine (Part 1) Working with Claude, Brave, and streaming responses.
3 months ago
Seth's Blog
Judgment AI pushes us to do what we actually get paid to do: make decisions. Craft used to drive our hours or...
a year ago
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a year ago
AI pushes us to do what we actually get paid to do: make decisions. Craft used to drive our hours or even days. Get the pen lines just right. Source the Letraset. Get your instrument in tune. Sweat the details, because the details are everything. Now, I can choose from 1,000...
African History...
a brief note on Madagascar's position in African history plus, early industrialization in the Merina kingdom.
a year ago
The Honest Broker
Are Social Media Platforms the Next Dying Malls? It was cool to hang out at the mall—until it wasn't
4 weeks ago
Maps Mania
The 2024 UK General Election Map
6 months ago
Home on Erik...
Approximate nearest news As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
As you may know, one of my (very geeky) interests is Approximate nearest neigbor methods, and I'm the author of a Python package called Annoy. I've also built a benchmark suite called ann-benchmarks to compare different packages.
Ben Borgers
RealMoji
over a year ago
CONTEMPORIST
Plants Were Integrated Into This Home’s Design To Give It The Feeling Of A Tropical Resort Wallflower Architecture + Design has shared photos of a home they recently completed in Novena,...
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Wallflower Architecture + Design has shared photos of a home they recently completed in Novena, Singapore, that integrates plants into its design. Located in a residential area in the middle of the city, the house sits on a fan-shaped property and has been designed to reflect the...
Handprinted - Blog
Pigment & Binder - Mixing colours for printing fabric Using Pigment Colours and Binder, you can mix your own bespoke colours for screen printing and block...
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Using Pigment Colours and Binder, you can mix your own bespoke colours for screen printing and block printing. Experimenting with different ratio amounts of binder to pigment can create some lovely subtle pale shades and some strong bold colours too.   Keeping a note of your...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Pisa Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really, you want an isometric view if you're being...
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The Smudge of Remembrance n.b. All the photos in this post were taken this week. The Smudge of Remembrance This key project...
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n.b. All the photos in this post were taken this week. The Smudge of Remembrance This key project is called The Smudge of Remembrance and has been comprehensively curated to create spectral moments of commemoration firmly rooted in the everyday. Some iterations are almost...
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Modern CSS patterns in Campfire Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live...
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Recently, customers who have purchased a copy of ONCE/Campfire were invited to participate in a live walk through the app’s CSS code. Campfire was built with vanilla CSS, fully #nobuild without compiling or preprocessors, and uses the latest web platform features available in...
Hundred Rabbits
internet in paradise Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging...
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Huahine, one of the many grouped islands in French Polynesia. Our plans for future ocean voyaging could have ended here, because we almost crashed onto a reef. Because we always time our arrival with the morning sun, I always get the first look of every island. Huahine stood in...
Oykun
Stop charging hourly! Start charging for the Value! Money has always been an uncomfortable topic to talk about, especially for us creatives. We value...
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Money has always been an uncomfortable topic to talk about, especially for us creatives. We value our creation, get satisfaction from the process and the result so much that we often do not really give the importance it deserves to this money topic. I have been designing for many...
HTMHell
Security Headers using &lt;meta&gt; by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the...
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by Saptak S Various HTTP headers are sent between the user and the server of a website in the request-response cycle. Some of these HTTP response headers sent by the server to the browser help enhance the security and privacy of the website's users. These sets of headers are...
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The workers at the frontlines of the AI revolution The global labor force of outsourced and contract workers are early adopters of generative AI — and...
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Website redesign, December 2024
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AI and Software Reading List 4: State of the Job Market, Apple's Private Cloud Compute Released for... Society's Backend Reading List 10-28-2024
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How we’re tracking AI incidents around global elections Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in...
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Rest of World is collecting examples of AI being used for campaigning, misinformation, and memes in a regularly updated tracker.
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Why Railroads Don't Need Expansion Joints [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the most common...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] One of the most common attributes folks imagine when they think of trains is the clickety-clack sound they make as they roll down the tracks. The thing is, most trains don’t make that sound anymore. Or really,...
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The Arty Timeline While working on Jonas IceCream Stand I took a screenshot every day and I thought they looked pretty...
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While working on Jonas IceCream Stand I took a screenshot every day and I thought they looked pretty cool so here they are: And now I’m off with New World Order and (for once) I’ve got a really really good idea!
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The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials The Failure of the Leipzig War Crimes Trials JamesHoare Mon, 12/16/2024 - 11:23
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I’ve gotten some emails recently from readers of this blog with questions about early stage startups.  I’m sorry if I haven’t responded to…
CONTEMPORIST
A White Concrete Exterior Protects This Seaside Mediterranean House Ramón Esteve Estudio has shared images of a new home they designed in an urbanized area of a small...
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Ramón Esteve Estudio has shared images of a new home they designed in an urbanized area of a small seaside town in Valencia, Spain. The house has a white concrete envelope that generates a large protective shell for a harmonious and delicate interior. Large overhangs and a system...
Making software...
February 2022 Update February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my...
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February 2022 Update 2022-02-23 It's been a little quiet around here lately and for good reason: my wife gave birth to our third child last Thursday. Her name is Harmony and she was born in the late afternoon weighing in at 7 pounds 8 ounces. Besides the lack of sleep, everything...
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VR, VFIO and how latency ruined everything I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming...
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I’ve been running my all-in-one PC for a while now. It was my desktop, my NAS and my gaming PC. However, during the next couple of months I kept hitting small bumps along the road. Most of these were quite straightforward to fix, but there is one that finally convinced me to go...
Platformer
Extremely Hardcore: Our New York magazine cover story Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires —...
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Twitter’s staff spent years trying to protect the platform against impulsive ranting billionaires — then one made himself the CEO
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visual journal – 2024 March 17 - March 23 Every page is a time capsule.
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Old Structures...
Skyscraperiness As I’ve said many times, in many venues, there really isn’t an objective description of...
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As I’ve said many times, in many venues, there really isn’t an objective description of “skyscraper.” That said, nearly everyone’s subjective definition contains a version of the idea that a skyscraper is tall for its context. Here’s an Irving Underhill photo centered on the...
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This Sculptural Home Is Full Of Curves And Surrounded By Landscaping Niko Architect has shared photos of a sculptural home with curves they designed that's been built...
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Niko Architect has shared photos of a sculptural home with curves they designed that's been built into an artificially created landscape.
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Why I Enjoy Svelte Reasons I enjoy Svelte, despite not using it for work.
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Memories Packed in the Rapid-Access File' Last Saturday morning, the day my brother would die, the Uber driver who carried me from hotel to...
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Last Saturday morning, the day my brother would die, the Uber driver who carried me from hotel to hospice in the morning went by the professional name “Lazarus” – an omen I choose to leave unexamined and merely enjoy. Ken would have enjoyed it. Shortly after his death one of the...
Jonas Hietala
Drawing a self portrait Drawing is hard. I’d like to improve though. Here’s a self portrait I tried to draw in Krita. I’m...
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Drawing is hard. I’d like to improve though. Here’s a self portrait I tried to draw in Krita. I’m really slow so I stopped a bit before it really was finished. Obviously I’d like it to be a bit better, but I’m still a little happy about the glasses and the eyebrows. The mouth...
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Name that Ware, November 2023 The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart...
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The Ware for November 2023 is shown below. Thanks to “zw” for mailing me this device to take apart and share!
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Germany and Nuclear Power Germany has been thrown around a lot as an example of both what to do and what not to do in terms of...
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Germany has been thrown around a lot as an example of both what to do and what not to do in terms of addressing global warming by embracing green energy technology. It’s possible to look back now and review the numbers, to see what the effect was of its decision to embrace...
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The Rational Walk
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The assassination of UnitedHealthcare CEO Brian Thompson revealed corruption in society that justifies higher corporate spending to protect executives.
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The Inner Game of Tennis I just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey. Originally published in 1974, the...
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I just finished reading The Inner Game of Tennis by Tim Gallwey. Originally published in 1974, the book explores how the thoughts of an athlete affect their game. It’s lauded as being at the forefront of what we now call “sports psychology”. Although my competitive sports days...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: My daughter saw me drawing and asked if it was kid appropriate, and I don't know. Today's News:
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Visas for Software Engineers in Japan Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in...
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Obtaining a working visa that lets you [work as software engineer in Japan](/articles/first-job-programmer-japan) is relatively easy compared to other countries. It costs a company almost nothing to sponsor your visa, there aren't any quotas on the number of visas issued, and the...
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Go slow to go fast A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long...
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A couple of weeks ago, I started working with a personal trainer to improve my fitness. I've long been an endurance athlete, and it's time to lean into my overall fitness and strength. Part of this is to be healthy and live a long life. But honestly? More of it is a desire to...
Moneyness
Are flatcoins a good idea? I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea. The idea for flatcoins has...
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I'll start with the conclusion. I don't think flatcoins are a good idea. The idea for flatcoins has been around for a while, but it got a wider airing when it popped up in a Coinbase marketing piece from earlier this year. Now, arch-crypto hater Nouriel Roubini has undergone a...
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Competition! Win Two Hospitality Tickets To Chelsea F.C. Women v Spurs The luxurious Harris Suite awaits...
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Open Culture
The Romans Stashed Hallucinogenic Seeds in a Vial Made From an Animal Bone What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This...
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What’s popular in the metropolis sooner or later makes its way out into the provinces. This phenomenon has become more difficult to notice in recent years, not because it’s slowed down, but because it’s sped way up, owing to near-instantaneous cultural diffusion on the internet....
David Perell
Why You’re Christian Becoming an educated citizen starts with understanding the lineage of your beliefs. For example,...
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Becoming an educated citizen starts with understanding the lineage of your beliefs. For example, look at this iconic line from one of America’s founding documents: "We hold these truths to be self-evident that all men are created equal.” The post Why You’re Christian appeared...
Calculated Risk
Newsletter: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.15 million SAAR in November Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.15...
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Today, in the CalculatedRisk Real Estate Newsletter: NAR: Existing-Home Sales Increased to 4.15 million SAAR in November The sales rate was above the consensus forecast (but close to housing economist Tom Lawler’s estimate). Sales Year-over-Year and Not Seasonally Adjusted...
TheCollector
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Knock Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you ought to text before you initiate a...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Really you ought to text before you initiate a knock-knock joke. Today's News:
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Apple and the AI divide This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
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This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good: Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
Saturday Morning...
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Ludum Dare 29 Entry After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally...
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After months of procrastination it is time for me to enter Ludum Dare again! I am totally unprepared, but I did setup a setup which actually compiles. I never got audio to run but hopefully I can manage something. Repository: https://github.com/treeman/LD29. Going for C++ this...
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LHC experiments see four top quarks The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs...
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The ATLAS and CMS experiments have observed a process 4,000 times rarer than the production of Higgs bosons. The ATLAS and CMS experiments have successfully detected the production of a quartet of top quarks during high-energy proton collisions inside the Large...
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Kaiserslautern I hope to stay longer than 72 hours the next time I visit Germany. I don’t recommend such a short...
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I hope to stay longer than 72 hours the next time I visit Germany. I don’t recommend such a short visit. However I went there for work as I do occasionally, and I had no choice. So that’s what I did. I landed in Frankfurt on Monday, drove down to Kaiserslautern, stayed through...
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Western Red Cedar Gives This Home A Warm Feeling Inside And Out Swatt | Miers Architects has sent us photos of their project, the 'Happy Valley Residence' in...
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The 2022 Commoncog Recap This was the final newsletter edition sent out to subscribers at the end of 2022. A recap of...
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This was the final newsletter edition sent out to subscribers at the end of 2022. A recap of Commoncog's best ideas, and a preview of several upcoming experiments.
Londonist
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Math Is Still...
Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless...
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A decade after the discovery of the “amplituhedron,” physicists have excavated more of the timeless geometry underlying the standard picture of how particles move. The post Physicists Reveal a Quantum Geometry That Exists Outside of Space and Time first appeared on...
Jonas Hietala
Balls Here’s my first ever experimental game! The theme was Addictive Gaming. My first thought was oh god...
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Here’s my first ever experimental game! The theme was Addictive Gaming. My first thought was oh god I’ll be making another tetris clone but the end result turned out a bit different. I’m not sure it’s very addictive but it’s actually okay! =D Balls is a game about… balls. Well...
The Elysian
Substack could create the future of books Here’s how that could look.
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Against overuse of the Gini coefficient
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How Many Books? If you like this article, you can read more about this kind of Bayesian analysis in Think Bayes....
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If you like this article, you can read more about this kind of Bayesian analysis in Think Bayes. Recently I found a copy of Probably Overthinking It at a local bookstore and posted a picture on Twitter. Aubrey Clayton replied with this question: It’s a great question with what...
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the dam [tw warning: suicide ideation] Yesterday I had another episode where I spent hours crying. This...
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[tw warning: suicide ideation] Yesterday I had another episode where I spent hours crying. This actually feels embarrassing to write, but intellectually I think it is society that conditions us to think...
Overcoming Bias
Conquest and Liberation of Academia During my graduate studies (’93-97), I looked at the history of prizes in science.
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The Rational Walk
The Digest #155 Early Retirement, Chris Davis on Berkshire's future, Howard Marks on market cycles, Threads vs....
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The Honest Broker
Are There Alternating Cycles of Hot and Cool in American Cultural History? (Part 2 of 2) I grew up in a cool culture. But that era has now ended. Right now, we are clearly sizzling in the...
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Daniel Miessler
Unsupervised Learning NO. 364 | Reality Headset, BingPT, AI+Cyber If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite...
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If you're not subscribed to the podcast version of the newsletter, please add it with your favorite client. APPLE | SPOTIFY | OTHER SECURITY NEWS The FBI is warning people to block online ads due to imposters poisoning search results. They advise users to 1) check ad URLs, 2) go...
The Marginalian
The Power of Being a Heretic: The Forgotten Visionary Jane Ellen Harrison on Critical Thinking,... "If we are to be true and worthy heretics, we need not only new heads, but new hearts, and, most of...
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"If we are to be true and worthy heretics, we need not only new heads, but new hearts, and, most of all, that new emotional imagination... begotten of enlarged sympathies and a more sensitive habit of feeling."
TheCollector
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How OpenAI is building a path toward AI agents Building a GPT-based copy editor showcases their promise — but the risks ahead are real
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Classical Wisdom
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24 TB based on Norco RPC-4020 and Linux Software RAID Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical...
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Just a quick link: Some person build basically the same setup, including identical controller, providing 28 TB of storage: Take a look here The main difference is that this person uses 1.5 TB disk, thus achieving more storage.
TheCollector
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Computer Things
Goodhart's Law in Software Engineering Blog Hiatus You might have noticed I haven't been updating my website. I haven't even looked at any...
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Blog Hiatus You might have noticed I haven't been updating my website. I haven't even looked at any of my drafts for the past three months. All that time is instead going into Logic for Programmers. I'll get back to the site when that's done or in 2025, whichever comes first....
diamond geezer
Victoria vents in Islington One thing every underground railway needs is ventilation and the Victoria line needs it more than...
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One thing every underground railway needs is ventilation and the Victoria line needs it more than most. It runs fully underground from end to end and has lengthy distances between stations, so without atmospheric release would soon come unstuck. Engineers therefore had to include...
Open Culture
Google Creates a Career Certificate That Prepares Students for Cybersecurity Jobs in 6 Months In 2023, Google launched several online certificate programs designed to help students land an...
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In 2023, Google launched several online certificate programs designed to help students land an entry-level job, without necessarily having a college degree. This includes a certificate program focused on Cybersecurity, a field that stands poised to grow as companies become more...
diamond geezer
Replacing Overground signage The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The...
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The renaming of the Overground lines draws closer, indeed should be taking place next month. The original intention was for the changeover to be in August in conjunction with a new tube map, but that's not happened so technically it's late. That said, an awful lot of signage on...
Rest of World -...
A buy-now-pay-later company is behind the explosion of EVs in Kenya In just two years, M-Kopa has become the biggest financier for EVs in East Africa’s largest market.
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Moneyness
The effects of Russian sanctions as portrayed in YouTube videos Last month American provocateur Tucker Carlson visited a Russian grocery store. Because it was...
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Last month American provocateur Tucker Carlson visited a Russian grocery store. Because it was filled to the brim with food, Carlson claims that western sanctions placed on Russia aren't having an effect. "We've been told sanctions on Russia have had a devastating effect on its ...
Trying to Understand...
War Is Complicated. And not just the fighting bit.
a year ago
Laetitia@Work
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Map of the Week
Guided Across Switzerland by Hand Drawn Maps The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland...
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The New York Times has a piece where the author ditched his phone and walked across Switzerland guided only by hand drawn maps from the people he met along the way. I love a nice hand drawn map and this article provides lots of good examples. These maps illustrate the things...
Citation Needed
Issue 58 – Threats to the stability and integrity of Ethereum The Justice Department worries about the stability of Ethereum, DCG tries to bilk their subsidiary's...
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The Justice Department worries about the stability of Ethereum, DCG tries to bilk their subsidiary's creditors, and Biden threatens a crypto veto.
Overcoming Bias
Feels Gone Wrong The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
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The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
Acko.net
In Search of Sophistication Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times...
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Cultural Assimilation, Theory vs Practice The other day, I read the following, shared 22,000+ times on social media: "Broken English is a sign of courage and intelligence, and it would be nice if more people remembered that when interacting with immigrants and refugees." This...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I too commit the fundamental attribution error! Today's News: Hey geeks, last day to buy A City on Mars during launch week. Purchases now really help us, so if you were going to buy, we appreciate it happening soon. I am looking...
Alex Meub
Hacking Amazon Dash Buttons The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
The Amazon Dash button is about a year old and has proven to be a pretty great hackable internet-of-things button. It’s got built-in wifi, an onboard battery and best of all, a $4.99 price tag. How It Works The actual “hacking” of dash buttons has really nothing to do with the...
Artificial Ignorance
GPT-4o and the illusion of AGI Why speed and multimodality is becoming the name of the game.
7 months ago
Notes on software...
Benchmarking esbuild, swc, tsc, and babel for React/JSX projects This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
over a year ago
Unpacked
Data Scraping in the Spotlight: Are Language Models Overstepping by Training on Everyone's Content? As I wrapped up the research for this piece and was about to start writing, OpenAI had a perfect...
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a year ago
As I wrapped up the research for this piece and was about to start writing, OpenAI had a perfect announcement to go with it - they are temporarily disabling the “Browse with Bing" feature on ChatGPT. If you haven’t used it before, this is a feature available to paying Plus users....
African History...
a brief note on the history of Music in Africa plus an overview of Ethiopian musical traditions
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journal – Winnie Lim
documenting my mom making kueh lapis I cannot remember how long has it been that my mother has been making kueh lapis for the lunar new...
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I cannot remember how long has it been that my mother has been making kueh lapis for the lunar new year every year. Kueh means cake, and lapis means layers, so kueh...
Wuthering...
Thanks and praise to celebrate the happiness of this great event – the end of the Greek play... I am quoting the end of Alcestis by Euripides, his early whatever it is, not a tragedy, not a satyr...
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I am quoting the end of Alcestis by Euripides, his early whatever it is, not a tragedy, not a satyr play, not a comedy.  Admetos has won back his wife and the play is at its end, so he declares “a feast of thanks and praise” (tr. Arrowsmith), which is what I want to do.  If we...
Flashbak
Lee Balterman’s Chicago in the 1950s Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and...
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Lee Balterman (1920 – March 16, 2012) was born in Chicago, took night classes in drawing and painting at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago – the only formal training of his career – and until his death lived and photographed almost daily in Chicago for newspapers,...
AFAR Media - Travel...
An In-Depth Restaurant Review of HAGS in New York City
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Matt Mazur
Turning Down $7k for a Side Project I Announced Two Weeks Ago I was Shutting Down About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a...
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About two weeks ago I announced I was shutting down LearnGPT. After the announcement, I received a lot of interest from people interested in taking it over, so I decided to try to sell it instead of shutting it down. I wound up receiving two offers, one for $6.5k and one for $7k,...
Seth's Blog
Fooled Now it’s a business model. People are regularly fooled by crypto scams, NFT hype, opioid felons,...
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Now it’s a business model. People are regularly fooled by crypto scams, NFT hype, opioid felons, algorithmic spam at scale, health claims, illogical political arguments, fundraising pitches, overnight shortcuts on the road to riches or happiness and MLM hustle. Your account has...
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Stop Using Hamburger Menus (Sometimes) 2023-05-05 I recently tooted about my hatred of website hamburger menus which was met with a surprising amount of support from other users. It seems like most people don’t actually like hamburger menus. So why do we, as developers, keep...
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The term mainstream media is so common these days, we can forget where it came from. But it has an interesting connection with the web. The post Where did mainstream media come from? appeared first on The History of the Web.
This Space
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This year I read Robert Antelme's The Human Race for the first time. I was nonplussed. The strange title, closer to popular sociology than memoir, should have been a warning. This was not quite the horror story one imagines of memoirs from those who survived Nazi concentration...
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New research has uncovered a social world of viruses full of cheating, cooperation and other intrigues, suggesting that viruses make sense only as members of a community. The post Viruses Finally Reveal Their Complex Social Life first appeared on Quanta Magazine
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The Wiseman Group has updated a 90’s home in Sausalito, California, that was originally designed by the late architect Donald Olsen. Located on a hillside with waterfront views, the home has been thoughtfully modernized as an elegant family living space that still honors the...
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Pensieve: Mar 7 2024 - on Agency A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the...
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A collection of public thoughts that could be blogposts but i dont have time, so here, have the short form. I may upgrade these to full posts in future.
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I’m a 23 year old software engineer with four years of experience, and have been working in Poland for the last two years. Half a year ago I visited Japan where I really fell in love with the people, culture, and food; it felt like a different planet. After I returned to Poland,...
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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...
Anecdotal Evidence
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A.J. Liebling’s valediction – to New York City, The New Yorker and the grand celebration that was his life as a writer – was published two weeks after his death, in the January 11, 1964 issue of the magazine that had printed more than five-hundred of his pieces since he joined...
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Sure, the southern United States has more than its fair share of pesky bugs that most people actively avoid. Mosquitos, horseflies, and palmetto bugs probably top that list. So it probably sounds strange that we devoted an entire day to insects, particularly to the appreciation...
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Travel somewhere fun. But first get on Scott's email list Most of us have a bucket list item of “travel abroad”, right? It gets harder to realize once you...
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Most of us have a bucket list item of “travel abroad”, right? It gets harder to realize once you start looking through flight prices, though. If you and your significant other want to head to Europe or Asia, you might be dropping $2500, minimum, for the both of you. That’s...
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I recently the pleasure of being interviewed on the Heartbeat Podcast by Claire Lew. Listen above, and check out the full transcript.
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Facebook didn't try to change the world A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some...
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A [2005 interview of Mark Zuckerberg](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=--APdD6vejI) contains some great insight into how to become a successful entrepreneur. > **Interviewer:** Where are you taking Facebook, you can expand to those other schools that you're not at, and then...
Map of the Week
This One This one map (via New York Times) tells you quite a bit about what happened in the U.S. Election on...
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This one map (via New York Times) tells you quite a bit about what happened in the U.S. Election on Tuesday. Aside from a few strange outliers (western Oklahoma, suburban Atlanta, northwest Michigan) The "red shift" happened across all regions and demographics. Hard to look at...
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An echo chamber is created by a marketer to assemble a group of people who are insulated from conventional discourse. It can happen to sports and music fans, to investors, to companies that have confidence in their view of the world, or to social or political gatherings. We...
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I'm Writing A Book! I'm writing a Dev Career Advice book... and I'm scared shitless!
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Cut Your Forms in Half Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting...
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Cut Your Forms in Half 2019-05-09 Building web forms can sometimes feel like a boring or daunting task. Don’t pass this dread on to your users - rip out as many of your form fields as possible. Web forms tend to get a bad rep, mainly because so many horrible design choices are...
Common Edge
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Closer in, SHoP’s Brooklyn Tower reveals texture, color, and personality, but for many it’s a bleak middle finger on the skyline.
A Smart Bear
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These forces make larger companies slower and more difficult to execute, but also more effective when harnessed and leveraged.
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Now that we know our way around the pattern (go back to Part 1), it should be fairly straightforward to construct with a compass and straightedge. But be aware: any pattern that requires you to construct a pentagon is an advanced challenge. They are trickier to make than squares...
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It’s Christmas circa 2004. My teenage brothers, sisters, and I have all finished opening presents and we’re more than content to have absolutely nothing to do — it’s Christmas day after all! But not Dad. He’s in the bathroom laying tile. Again, this is Christmas day and Dad is on...
Citation Needed
Issue 43 – Laser eyes Two crypto firms emerge from bankruptcy, and a Bored Ape party turns out even worse than it sounds.
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This article was originally posted on dev.to, but it turns out that HackerNews banned this website, so I decided to create my own. Feel free to join the discussion on HackerNews. Lego of the database world It is quite common for a distributed database to have the following...
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a year ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: You can of course remove the last name, but then you're causing less damage to a larger group. Figuring out how to maximize damage is left as an exercise for the reader. Today's News:
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Lucy Moses Award: 486 Liberty Avenue You can read about the building in the awards program: here. The short version: this was a very...
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You can read about the building in the awards program: here. The short version: this was a very ornate police precinct house constructed in 1892, when Brooklyn was still an inexpedient city, and abandoned for quite some time. Here’s what the interior looked like the first time we...
TheCollector
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Mapping Francis Younghusband in the Gobi Desert, 1887, Part 3: Hun-kua-ling sandhills to Ya-hu oasis [Go back to Part 2: From the Galpin Gobi to the Hun-kua-ling sandhills.] From here to the Ya-hu...
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[Go back to Part 2: From the Galpin Gobi to the Hun-kua-ling sandhills.] From here to the Ya-hu oasis (which Younghusband reaches on June 23rd) the route is obscure, and we find old maps less useful. We have to rely more upon comparing his route description with images of the...
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“The iOS App Icon Book” in Japanese Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in...
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Seeing something you made put in print is exciting. Seeing something you made translated and put in print, well that’s pretty damn exciting too. Such was the feeling when I opened my copy of the Japanese translation of The iOS App Icon Book. While the core idea of the book...
Both Are True
idk about the whole 'i'd have written a shorter letter if I'd had more time' thing why? long letters rule
a year ago
ntietz.com blog
RC Week 1: Getting Unexpected Extrovert Energy The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week! I'm...
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The first week of my batch at Recurse Center (RC) just finished, and it was an intense week! I'm planning to write a blog post each week about my experience at RC. They'll vary, but it'll probably be a mixture of what I did and my feelings about everything. There won't be too...
TheCollector
Were the Nuremberg Trials Only Held in Nuremberg? undefined
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Noahpinion
A DemTech Economic Agenda: Ten Steps Towards Collective Resilience A guest post by by Liza Tobin, Warren Wilson, Brady Helwig, and Connor Martin of the Special...
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A guest post by by Liza Tobin, Warren Wilson, Brady Helwig, and Connor Martin of the Special Competitive Studies Project (SCSP)
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The Merge A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if...
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A popular topic in Silicon Valley is talking about what year humans and machines will merge (or, if not, what year humans will get surpassed by rapidly improving AI or a genetically enhanced species). Most guesses seem to be between 2025 and 2075. People used to call this the...
Josh Collinsworth
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Society's Backend
Bridging the Gap from Simple Algebra to Machine Learning You probably know more about machine learning math than you think
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Insisting on the Positive A popular historian’s philosophical musings The post Insisting on the Positive appeared first on The...
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A popular historian’s philosophical musings The post Insisting on the Positive appeared first on The American Scholar.
TheCollector
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Río Bigal Biological Reserve - Pristine Foothill Forest In Eastern Ecuador "What has been your favourite country that you have visited?"  People often ask me various...
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"What has been your favourite country that you have visited?"  People often ask me various iterations of this question when they hear about the traveling that Laura and I have been fortunate to have done. Sometimes I say Colombia, sometimes I say Peru, but usually I don't name a...
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Processes don't create ownership, people do Creating a sense of ownership in the team is crucial for the success of a project. What's the right...
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The Point Is to Stop Years ago, I wrote an article that claimed the best way to judge the usefulness of self-help advice...
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over a year ago
Years ago, I wrote an article that claimed the best way to judge the usefulness of self-help advice is by how many people eventually leave it behind. In it, I boldly claimed that if self-help advice actually worked, the industry would quickly go out of business. After all, if the...
Map of the Week
Endangered Languages of New York City In January I did a series of posts on endangered languages. A few weeks ago the New York Times had...
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9 months ago
In January I did a series of posts on endangered languages. A few weeks ago the New York Times had an excellent "scrollytelling" graphic story on these languages and where they are spoken within New York City. as you scroll down the page languages appear down Manhattan...
SatPost by Trung...
11 types of cross-industry innovation PLUS: AI spam, Disney vs. BuzzFeed.
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Londonist
East London Could Be Getting This Flashy New Lido What a beaut.
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Mazdak
Inflation is Cooling Off: A Glimpse of Economic Stability ☀️ 📰 Highlights Inflation is finally starting to show signs of easing on both sides of the Atlantic....
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📰 Highlights Inflation is finally starting to show signs of easing on both sides of the Atlantic. The moderation of inflation is a significant development that alleviates pressure on consumers and provides central banks with some breathing room. Core PCE, the Federal Reserve's...
Saturday Morning...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Absolute Midden is copyright SMBC Enterprises 2024 all rights reserved. Today's News:
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Apple Intelligence is FINALLY HERE! 🤯 What You NEED to Know! 🧠 Join us as we explore Apple's groundbreaking AI platform:
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Math Is Still...
How Can Math Help Beat Cancer? Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for...
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Cancer treatment has come a long way in recent decades. But finding the best course of treatment for each case of this diverse, dynamic disease remains a challenge. In this episode, co-host Steven Strogatz speaks with computational biologist Franziska Michor about how math,...
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Soundtrack: Post Pop Depression - Paraguay I haven't wanted to write much in the last week. Seemingly every single person on Earth with a blog has tried to drill down into what happened on November 5 — to find the people to blame, to somehow explain what could&
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Design better by avoiding your cognitive biases Good UI design is all about guiding attention to what’s important. When making the right thing for...
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Good UI design is all about guiding attention to what’s important. When making the right thing for the user the...
Twelve Mile Circle –...
Mitten Accomplished I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when...
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over a year ago
I got a unique opportunity to visit counties in a corner of the Midwest I hadn’t touched much when my older kid decided to go to college in Michigan. But it didn’t offer a lot of time for my quest, just a four year window before graduation. Even so, I set what I thought was...
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Polaroid, you broke my heart. What does it feel like to be contacted by a brand you love and admire? Well, if the person reaching...
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over a year ago
What does it feel like to be contacted by a brand you love and admire? Well, if the person reaching out to you is a lawyer from their trademark protection team it probably feels like a kick in the gut.
TheCollector
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A clean, peaceful place to read your articles without distractions The people who use mymind typically have an intellectual side. They like to think, learn and...
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over a year ago
The people who use mymind typically have an intellectual side. They like to think, learn and challenge themselves on their own time. So we knew this brand new feature was not optional: Reader Mode.
Daniel Marino
Daily Inspirational Word Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where...
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7 months ago
Over the past couple of years I’ve gotten into journaling. Recently I’ve been using a method where you’re given a single inspirational word as a prompt, and go from there. Unfortunately, the process of finding, saving, and accessing inspirational words was a bit of a chore: 1....
Rest of World -...
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diamond geezer
SL10 Route SL10: Harrow - North Finchley Length of journey: 9 miles, 50 minutes London gained a new...
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a year ago
Route SL10: Harrow - North Finchley Length of journey: 9 miles, 50 minutes London gained a new outer orbital bus route yesterday, a peripheral dash connecting the boroughs of Harrow, Brent and Barnet. new Superloop service, the previous four merely being existing routes...
CONTEMPORIST
A Small Elevated Cabin Inspired By A Bird’s Nest Architect Jan Tyrpekl, has shared photos of a small elevated cabin that was designed in Hainburg an...
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11 months ago
Architect Jan Tyrpekl, has shared photos of a small elevated cabin that was designed in Hainburg an der Donau, Austria, for a client who owned a farm and wanted somewhere to relax. Located on the border of a young orchard and mature trees. It has an archetypal house shape, but it...
Working Theorys
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The American Scholar
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History witnessed, from the picket lines The post Esteban Cabeza de Baca appeared first on The American Scholar.
Patrick Kayongo
The News So, the plan is to be in an out. Focus Tshidi. I don’t need anything from Dischem. I don’t need that...
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So, the plan is to be in an out. Focus Tshidi. I don’t need anything from Dischem. I don’t need that new dress in the Spring Collection at H&M. Just a tray of meat, garlic rolls and juice. Snap. It’s payday weekend and there are such long lines at this Checkers. I’m already late...
Jibran’s Perspective
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11 months ago
Links: Gumroad page Build Log My accidental new years resolution was to work on the 1 problem that has plagued me for my entire adult life; failure to commit and focus. I decided to work in 6 week “sprints” (inspired by Shape Up) and complete the projects I start - for some known...
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The Ultimate Friends’ Trip at Pendry Park City Resort, Utah
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Bits about Money
Demystifying financial leverage Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for...
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Leverage is actually reasonably easy to understand, both in the math and in the implications for financial firms.
Commoncog
Commoncog is Off for the Chinese New Year A quick announcement. Happy Year of the Rabbit everyone!
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CONTEMPORIST
A 1970s Four Bedroom Home Renovated For A Couple That Loves To Entertain Architecture firm Side Angle Side, has shared photos of a 1970s ranch home they renovated in Austin,...
2 months ago
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2 months ago
Architecture firm Side Angle Side, has shared photos of a 1970s ranch home they renovated in Austin, Texas, for their clients that wanted a home for entertaining. The transformation involved converting a four-bedroom floor plan into a spacious, open, one bedroom home. A long...
A small freedom area...
GCC undefined behaviors are getting wild Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I...
over a year ago
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over a year ago
Happy with my recent breakthrough in understanding C integer divisions after weeks of struggle, I was minding my own business having fun writing integer arithmetic code. Life was good, when suddenly… zsh: segmentation fault (core dumped). That code wasn't messing with memory much...
Anecdotal Evidence
'To Be at Home in Other Places' At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or...
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At his day job my current barber is a counselor working with street people who have alcohol and/or drug problems. Like most in that field, he values his clients and dislikes the bosses, who live by the dictates of bureaucracy. Barbers are like bartenders. The good ones usually...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Lack of Self-deception' “There is a difference between a villain and one who simply commits a crime. The villain is an...
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a year ago
“There is a difference between a villain and one who simply commits a crime. The villain is an extremely conscious person and commits a crime consciously, for its own sake.”  A fine distinction, one often lost on us. Auden is describing Shakespeare’s Richard III and refers us to...
Posts on Made of...
Why node.js is cool (it's not about performance) For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more...
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over a year ago
For the past N months, it seems like there is no new technology stack that is either hotter or more controversial than node.js. node.js is cancer! node.js cures cancer! node.js is bad ass rock star tech!. I myself have given node.js a lot of shit, often involving the phrase...
xkcd.com
Relationship Advice
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