Seldo.com
What I've learned about writing AI apps so far
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Arduino Blog
Motion-controlled Rock ‘Em Sock ‘Em Robots will make you feel like Jackman in Real Steel
2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of...
an hour ago
2011’s Real Steel may have vanished from the public consciousness in a remarkably short amount of time, but the concept was pretty neat. There is something exciting about the idea of fighting through motion-controlled humanoid robots. That is completely possible today — it would...
Astral Codex Ten
Try The 2025 ACX/Metaculus Forecasting Contest
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Overcoming Bias
Gender Norms Are Complex, Opaque
Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction,...
2 hours ago
Wondering how to make clear our cultural drift problem, it occurred to me that historical fiction, especially using time travel, could make vivid how key norms and values have actually changed greatly over time, and not always in obviously good ways.
Calculated Risk
1.73 million Total Housing Completions in 2024 including Manufactured Homes; Most Since 2006
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1.73 million Total Housing Completions in 2024...
3 hours ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: 1.73 million Total Housing Completions in 2024 including Manufactured Homes; Most Since 2006
A brief excerpt:
Although total housing starts decreased 3.9% in 2024 compared to 2023, completions increased sharply...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Relationship Advice for AI
You know what’s really helpful in solving my own problems? Writing them down, sending them to...
3 hours ago
You know what’s really helpful in solving my own problems? Writing them down, sending them to someone, and not hearing back.
You ever do that? For me, it’s a bulletproof method to solving problems.
It’s akin to those moments when you go to someone with a problem, you talk it...
David Heinemeier...
MEGA
Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about...
6 hours ago
Trump is back at the helm of the United States, and the majority of Americans are optimistic about the prospect. Especially the young. In a poll by CBS News, it's the 18-29 demographic that's most excited, with a whopping two-thirds answering in the affirmative to being...
Calculated Risk
AAR: Rail Carloads Down YoY in 2024, Intermodal Up
From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators. Graphs and excerpts...
6 hours ago
From the Association of American Railroads (AAR) Rail Time Indicators. Graphs and excerpts reprinted with permission.
For the full year 2024, total U.S. carloads were 11.34 million, down 2.9% (343,156 carloads) from 2023 and down 2.3% (265,491 carloads) from 2022. ... Carloads...
TheCollector
What Are the Ethical Values of Gen Z?
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Classical Wisdom
Martin Luther King and LOVE
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
6 hours ago
How Dr. King was inspired by the Classics...
Fatih Arslan
Four years at PlanetScale
It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and...
6 hours ago
It’s been four years since I joined PlanetScale. In this post, I'm reflecting on my journey and accomplishments during this period.
NeuroLogica Blog
The Hubble Tension Hubbub
There really is a significant mystery in the world of cosmology. This, in my opinion, is a good...
8 hours ago
There really is a significant mystery in the world of cosmology. This, in my opinion, is a good thing. Such mysteries point in the direction of new physics, or at least a new understanding of the universe. Resolving this mystery – called the Hubble Tension – is a major goal of...
Citation Needed
No, Trump didn’t make $50 billion from his memecoin
Journalists’ flawed math and ignorance of crypto markets turn tokens into fake fortunes
8 hours ago
Journalists’ flawed math and ignorance of crypto markets turn tokens into fake fortunes
Scarlet Ink
The Hidden Advantage of Sharp Edges — Why Being Disagreeable is Best
Anyone can be valuable if they have the right motivation, but strangely enough, being disagreeable...
8 hours ago
Anyone can be valuable if they have the right motivation, but strangely enough, being disagreeable multiplies that value.
Retail Design Blog
Verse Wine by OA Design
Wine can be thought of as a complex tapestry of flavors and sensations, ranging from sweet to dry,...
8 hours ago
Wine can be thought of as a complex tapestry of flavors and sensations, ranging from sweet to dry, crisp to...
Common Edge
Letter From Malibu: Do We Stay or Do We Go?
The recent conflagration threatens to permanently alter a rare example of California livability.
9 hours ago
The recent conflagration threatens to permanently alter a rare example of California livability.
Calculated Risk
Housing Jan 20th Weekly Update: Inventory Up 1.2% Week-over-week, Up 24.8% Year-over-year
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week.
Inventory always...
9 hours ago
Altos reports that active single-family inventory was up 1.2% week-over-week.
Inventory always declines seasonally in the Winter and usually bottoms in late January or February. If the previous week was the seasonal bottom, that would be very early in the year, but that has...
Birchtree
🕹️ I strongly recommend: Resident Evil 2 (members post)
Oh buddy, what a game!
9 hours ago
Retail Design Blog
One Zero Offices by Switchup
Switchup designed a pioneering office space for ONE ZERO Digital Private Bank in Tel Aviv, combining...
9 hours ago
Switchup designed a pioneering office space for ONE ZERO Digital Private Bank in Tel Aviv, combining bright colors, plants, and...
Marcus on AI
Breaking news: AGI is not imminent!
Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
9 hours ago
Influencers have gone wild lately claiming that AGI is imminent.
TheCollector
The Crazy Cult of Indian Guru Osho Bhagwan & His Mixed Legacy
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UX Collective
Sidebar is back from its break
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
10 hours ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Retail Design Blog
Yohji Yamamoto store by OSO
Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has...
11 hours ago
Following last year’s store openings in Shanghai and Beijing, fashion brand Yohji Yamamoto has inaugurated a new boutique in another...
History Today Feed
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
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‘The Worlds of Victor Sassoon’ by Rosemary Wakeman review
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Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
History Today Feed
Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
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Edward I’s Destruction of England’s Jews
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/20/2025 - 10:25
TheCollector
What Was the Massachusetts 54th Regiment?
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12 hours ago
Seth's Blog
Lulled
Selfish is easy. Short term is easy. Complacent is easy. Turning our head and ignoring the problem...
12 hours ago
Selfish is easy. Short term is easy. Complacent is easy. Turning our head and ignoring the problem is easy. Going along to get along is easy. But easy isn’t the point. Better is. Challenging the status quo is difficult, and worth it. Happy Birthday.
Open Culture
Why David Lynch’s Dune Went Wrong: A Comparison with Denis Villeneuve’s Hit Adaptation
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late...
12 hours ago
Denis Villeneuve’s recent film adaptation of Dune is generally considered to be superior to the late David Lynch’s, from 1984 — though even according to many of Lynch’s fans, it could hardly have been worse. In a 1996 piece for Premiere magazine, David Foster Wallace described...
Retail Design Blog
Lucky Cookies Bakery by Studio NOR
The Lucky Cookies is a bakery specializes in traditional Chinese pastries. Located on the first...
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The Lucky Cookies is a bakery specializes in traditional Chinese pastries. Located on the first floor of the famous Beijing...
Open Culture
Fred Armisen & Bill Hader’s Comedic Take on the History of Simon and Garfunkel
During their days filming Documentary Now!, a mockumentary series that aired on IFC, Fred Armisen...
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During their days filming Documentary Now!, a mockumentary series that aired on IFC, Fred Armisen and Bill Hader teamed up and created a fictionalized “history” of Simon and Garfunkel, telling the “real” story behind the making of “Bridge Over Troubled Water” and “Mrs....
Paul Cudenec
Zionism versus the world
As I have said before, Israel’s current long-planned genocidal landgrab – and the complicity of...
14 hours ago
As I have said before, Israel’s current long-planned genocidal landgrab – and the complicity of world puppet “leaders” – has fatally exposed the nature of the single global mafia.
Wrong Side of...
The Worst Year Ever
The Year of the Plague #1
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #53: Now TfL is betting on AI cameras to improve safety
Plus Leicester's neo-imperial ambitions, why governments are too scared to govern, a theory on why...
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Plus Leicester's neo-imperial ambitions, why governments are too scared to govern, a theory on why Starship exploded... and more!
diamond geezer
Trumpers
As the 47th US President is inaugurated, join me for a walk down Trumpers Way over Trumpers Crossing...
15 hours ago
As the 47th US President is inaugurated, join me for a walk down Trumpers Way over Trumpers Crossing via Trumpers Field to Trumpers Halt.
South Hanwell about halfway between Hanwell and Boston Manor stations. Trumpers Way begins on Boston Road amid a cluster of low level shops,...
TheCollector
Song Hunter: The Life of Alan Lomax
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16 hours ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'Influential Works That Are Almost Never Read'
John Ruskin would have a
difficult time of it in what passes for literary culture today. First, he...
16 hours ago
John Ruskin would have a
difficult time of it in what passes for literary culture today. First, he was
phenomenally prolific, even by Victorian standards, and how many people would
read all five volumes of Modern Painters or the idea-rich sprawl of Fors Clavigera?
Second, Ruskin...
Christopher Butler
The Unpublishable
On self-censorship in a connected world.
On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”....
17 hours ago
On self-censorship in a connected world.
On my computer is a file named “unpublishable.txt”. Its content is right there on the label: Fragments of unworthy ideas have accumulated there for years, along with bits of things I’ve held back for other reasons — fear not least...
Quantum Frontiers
Ten lessons I learned from John Preskill
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes...
18 hours ago
Last August, Toronto’s Centre for Quantum Information and Quantum Control (CQIQC) gave me 35 minutes to make fun of John Preskill in public. CQIQC was hosting its biannual conference, also called CQIQC, in Toronto. The conference features the awarding of … Continue reading →
David Heinemeier...
Failed integration and the fall of multiculturalism
For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a...
19 hours ago
For decades, the debate in Denmark around problems with mass immigration was stuck in a self-loathing blame game of "failed integration". That somehow, if the Danes had just tried harder, been less prejudice, offered more opportunities, the many foreigners with radically...
Melissa Penfold
THE MOST DEFINING PIECES OF FURNITURE FROM THE LAST 100 YEARS
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in...
21 hours ago
How do we define furniture? It might seem like a silly question, but it’s one that kept coming up in October of last year, when, in a conference room on the 15th floor of The New York Times building, six experts — the architects and interior designers Rafael de...
swyx's site RSS Feed
Home Assistant Voice Preview is an unusable mess.
I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
21 hours ago
I just got a Home Assistant Voice recently. I was so excited to try it out as a programmable Alexa.
Melissa Penfold
THE THINGS YOUR WEDDING GUESTS SECRETLY DESPISE
There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long...
21 hours ago
There’s a fairly well-established list of the things that wedding guests detest. Overly long ceremonies. Overly long toasts. Cash bars. A bachelor or bachelorette trip that sends its attendees into credit-card debt. A destination wedding in a remote locale that the couple has...
Calculated Risk
Sunday Night: Markets Closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 19, 2025
US markets will be closed in observance of Martin...
22 hours ago
Weekend:
Schedule for Week of January 19, 2025
US markets will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
WTI futures at $77.88 per barrel and Brent at $80.79 per barrel. A year ago, WTI was at $74, and Brent was at $81 - so WTI oil prices are up about 5%...
Jonas Hietala
Securing my partner's digital life
I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well.
Yet...
22 hours ago
I’ve been with Veronica for over a decade now and I think I’m starting to know her fairly well.
Yet she still manages to surprise me.
For instance, a couple of weeks ago she came and asked me about email security:
I worry that my email password is too weak.
Can you help me change...
ntietz.com blog -...
My writing process, and how I keep it sustainable
Recently, a reader wrote to me and asked about my writing process and burnout.
They had an image in...
22 hours ago
Recently, a reader wrote to me and asked about my writing process and burnout.
They had an image in their head that I could sit down at a computer and type up a full post on a given topic, but were unsure if that's the right approach when they start blogging.
And they were...
computers are bad
2025-01-20 office of secure transportation
I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times
on the road, and...
22 hours ago
I've seen them at least twice on /r/whatisthisthing, a good couple dozen times
on the road, and these days, even in press photos: GMC trucks with custom
square boxes on the back, painted dark blue, with US Government "E" plates.
These courier escorts, "unmarked" but about as...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Utopia
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
If only you had artificially increased inequality,...
22 hours ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
If only you had artificially increased inequality, you wouldn't have technically violated the rules.
Today's News:
Working Theorys
Digital Tug-of-War
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
yesterday
On TikTok ban whiplash, digital trade, Harvard MBAs, and CEOs running it back.
TheCollector
5 Great Books About Aboriginal History You Should Read
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yesterday
Basta’s Notes
I'm going to run for president
And I want you to be angry, too
yesterday
And I want you to be angry, too
The Honest Broker
In the Music Business, 80 Is the New 20
It's never been better for dead and dying musicians
yesterday
It's never been better for dead and dying musicians
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: The Ban Cometh
TikTok banned, RedNote reversal, TrumpCoin and Gjörfbunkle
yesterday
TikTok banned, RedNote reversal, TrumpCoin and Gjörfbunkle
Mazdak
OpenAI’s Ph.D.-Level Super Agents
The AI landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and OpenAI is leading the charge.
yesterday
The AI landscape is evolving at breakneck speed, and OpenAI is leading the charge.
TheCollector
Beethoven and War: Soundtrack to the Napoleonic Conflict
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yesterday
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
The MUST-READ Classics
yesterday
Birchtree
TikTok is gone for at least a couple days, so here's some YouTube videos to stave off the boredom
I don't use TikTok so I have no idea, but presumably some people are like "what do I even watch on...
yesterday
I don't use TikTok so I have no idea, but presumably some people are like "what do I even watch on my phone now?"
LegalEagle with a good explainer over what's happening. For the record, I think this sucks and isn't how
Weighty Thoughts
My Book's Pre-Sale is Live!
Reserve an early copy and get other goodies
yesterday
Reserve an early copy and get other goodies
Calculated Risk
Hotels: Occupancy Rate Decreased 7.7% Year-over-year
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 11 January
The U.S. hotel industry reported negative...
yesterday
From STR: U.S. hotel results for week ending 11 January
The U.S. hotel industry reported negative year-over-year comparisons, according to CoStar’s latest data through 11 January. ...
5-11 January 2025 (percentage change from comparable week in 2024):
Occupancy: 49.2%...
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: Reviving Lakes
Some lakes died before they could birth cities. Could we revive the lakes, and give them a 2nd...
yesterday
Some lakes died before they could birth cities. Could we revive the lakes, and give them a 2nd chance at creating cities?
African History...
The forts and castles of Africa: a brief architectural history.
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly...
yesterday
For much of African history, the construction of fortresses and fortified structures was a mostly urban phenomenon associated with large states.
TheCollector
What Is the Pauline Epistle Titus About?
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yesterday
Flashbak
People of London’s Maida Vale the 1970s and early 1980s
Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist...
yesterday
Bristol Gardens runs between Formosa Street and Clifton Villas and in London’s Maida Vale. Artist and photographer Sheila Burnett has not longed moved to the area when she began to take pictures of the people who lived and worked there. In the 1970s, Sheila arrived in London...
TheCollector
What Is Year 1 of History? Comparing Jewish, Christian, and Muslim Conventions
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yesterday
Seth's Blog
Don’t steal the revelation
Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then...
yesterday
Learning is a journey of incompetence. First, we realize that there’s something we don’t know. Then we see that we’re going to be better at it, and we’re not good at it yet. Then we figure it out and we’ve succeeded. Repeat. When we pre-process the information and simply test...
Paolo Amoroso's...
I accepted the Blog Question Challenge
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about...
yesterday
<![CDATA[MattoF has tagged me for the Blog Question Challenge which asks bloggers questions about their background and motivations, tools, and workflows. It is a variation by Kev Quirk of a challenge originally created by Ava at Bear Blog.
I have accepted this fun challenge and...
TheCollector
10 Must-See Historic Sites in Romania
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yesterday
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 3
I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3.
Following...
yesterday
I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 3.
Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, this week I read the remainder of the Odyssey. On the audiovisual front, I watched a movie that made me think differently about the poem’s...
diamond geezer
Some things I noticed this weekend
Five things I noticed this weekend
Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar's brutalist housing estate, is on...
yesterday
Five things I noticed this weekend
Robin Hood Gardens, Poplar's brutalist housing estate, is on its way out. Its west flank was demolished in 2017/2018 and has subsequently been replaced by vernacular flats, and the east flank is now undergoing the same fate. About half has...
diamond geezer
Red/blue overlap
Today we have a Labour government and a Democrat President.
It is also possible that this...
yesterday
Today we have a Labour government and a Democrat President.
It is also possible that this combination will never happen again.
I wondered how often we'd had a Labour government and a Democrat President.
Jul 1945 - Oct 1951: Attlee & Truman
Oct 1964 - Jan 1969: Wilson &...
TheCollector
Is the Flood Myth Universal? Flood Myths From Around the World
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yesterday
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Love the Universe Because It’s Made of Stories'
The third issue of New Verse Review has just been published, and I take it all back: poetry is...
yesterday
The third issue of New Verse Review has just been published, and I take it all back: poetry is not
dead. The journal is crowded with work by good poets familiar – Jane Greer, Jared Carter, Ernest Hilbert, Amit Majmudar, Alfred Nicol – and previously unknown,
like Daniel Patrick...
Old Vintage...
The "35-cent" Commodore 64 softmodem
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s...
yesterday
Rockwell famously used 6502-based cores in modems for many years, but that doesn't mean other 6502s couldn't be used. If only there were a way to connect a Commodore 64's audio output directly to an RJ-11 plug ...
Convergent WorkSlate stuff I've got to catalogue. Officially...
Christopher Butler
Windows, Frames, and Other Realities
Through the lens of a child’s camera, decades of interface design, and thousands of years of...
yesterday
Through the lens of a child’s camera, decades of interface design, and thousands of years of wondering.
My daughter has discovered the joy of photography through a clever little child’s digital camera. She’s particularly fascinated by its ability to overlay different frames...
journal – Winnie Lim
knowing how to be, when ill is also a skill
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty...
yesterday
I had the second sitting of my root canal last tuesday, and while the procedure itself went pretty well, I developed some pain after a few hours had passed. I asked the...
Mazdak
Perplexity AI’s Bold Move to Merge with TikTok
As the United States inches closer to a potential TikTok ban, Perplexity AI has emerged as a...
yesterday
As the United States inches closer to a potential TikTok ban, Perplexity AI has emerged as a surprising yet intriguing bidder to merge with TikTok US.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Protecting your time from predators in large tech companies
If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand....
yesterday
If you’re a competent software engineer at a large tech company, your time is in very high demand. Lots of people will want you to do things…
On Test Automation
My career and a thought experiment
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training...
yesterday
As is the case every year, 2025 is starting off relatively slowly. There’s not a lot of training courses to run yet, and since a few of the projects I worked on wrapped up in December, I find myself with a little bit of extra time and headspace on my hands. I actually enjoy these...
A Smart Bear
"Stealth mode" and other f'ing brilliant strategies
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like...
yesterday
Oh you secretive devil! The last thing you need is anyone finding out about your startup. Like competitors. Or customers.
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - BOOM
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Guess who's celebrating tonight? You guys probably,...
2 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
Guess who's celebrating tonight? You guys probably, because it can't be me because there is no such entity!
Today's News:
Last Place Comics
Weather Man
The post Weather Man appeared first on Last Place Comics.
2 days ago
The post Weather Man appeared first on Last Place Comics.
TheCollector
Astrolabes & Sextants: How Our Ancestors Navigated the High Seas
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2 days ago
Arduino Blog
The Swervebot is an omnidirectional robot that combines LEGO and 3D-printed parts
Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup...
2 days ago
Robotic vehicles can have a wide variety of drive mechanisms that range from a simple tricycle setup all the way to crawling legs. Alex Le’s project leverages the reliability of LEGO blocks with the customizability of 3D-printed pieces to create a highly mobile omnidirectional...
Calculated Risk
Real Estate Newsletter Articles this Week: Housing Starts Down 3.9% in 2024 compared to 2023
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Housing...
2 days ago
At the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter this week:
Click on graph for larger image.
Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
Housing Discussion with Altos Research's Mike Simonsen
Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in December
Part 1: Current...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Reverse-engineering a carry-lookahead adder in the Pentium
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer.
Computers use multiple types of adder...
2 days ago
Addition is harder than you'd expect, at least for a computer.
Computers use multiple types of adder circuits with different tradeoffs of size versus speed.
In this article, I reverse-engineer an 8-bit adder in the Pentium's floating point unit.
This adder turns out to be a...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread
Skyscrapers, AI, Congestion Pricing, The Odyssey, History, Markets, Accounting, Loneliness, Slavery
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Skyscrapers, AI, Congestion Pricing, The Odyssey, History, Markets, Accounting, Loneliness, Slavery
GeoCurrents
The New York Times Maps Trump as Having Defeated Biden in 2024
I have long been a fan of the political cartography of the New York Times and have often used its...
2 days ago
I have long been a fan of the political cartography of the New York Times and have often used its maps in my courses and blog posts. But this year I am not so impressed. Consider, for example, the map detail that I have posted below, taken from a full-page cartographic exercise...
Overcoming Bias
Beware Shared Basic Value Changes
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
2 days ago
Most of our activities can be seen as nested plans, to achieve nested goals.
TheCollector
Who Was Carl Linnaeus? (Life, Works, & Legacy)
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2 days ago
dthompson
Wasm GC isn’t ready for realtime graphics
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke...
2 days ago
Wasm GC is a wonderful thing that is now available in all major web
browsers since slowpoke Safari/WebKit finally shipped it in December.
It provides a hierarchy of heap allocated reference types and a set of
instructions to operate on them. Wasm GC enables managed...
Calculated Risk
Schedule for Week of January 19, 2025
The key report this week is December Existing Home Sales.
----- Monday, January 20th -----
All US...
2 days ago
The key report this week is December Existing Home Sales.
----- Monday, January 20th -----
All US markets will be closed in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
"Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter." Martin Luther King Jr.
----- Tuesday,...
Flashbak
Watch The Alphabet, David Lynch’s horrific 1968 short,
“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more...
2 days ago
“There’s a connection between music, film, painting, writing, everything, you’re into, the more they’re going to help each other” – David Lynch David Lynch’s 1968 short The Alphabet was inspired by his first wife Peggy’s niece reciting her ABCs during a nightmare then waking...
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: The Salton Sea
Salton City and Bombay Beach could flourish with industry and tourism
2 days ago
Salton City and Bombay Beach could flourish with industry and tourism
TheCollector
A Brief History of Aboriginal Australia: The World’s Oldest Culture
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2 days ago
The Ruffian
Notes On the Great Vibe Shift
The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
2 days ago
The Extraordinary Impact of Trump's Second Victory
TheCollector
Secrets of the Deep: What Is the History of the Mary Celeste?
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2 days ago
Seth's Blog
Memo to the future
The experience of the now is often more vivid than a distant memory. As a result, we can make...
2 days ago
The experience of the now is often more vivid than a distant memory. As a result, we can make decisions in the future without enough regard for how we felt the last time we were in a similar situation. Here’s a simple hack that can inform your decisions… You know someone who...
Cremieux Recueil
Lessons About the Civil Service and Political Appointees
What does history tell us about how the executive branch can run the government?
2 days ago
What does history tell us about how the executive branch can run the government?
Noahpinion
Why I'm long-term bullish on the Middle East
A bold prediction, to say the least.
2 days ago
A bold prediction, to say the least.
TheCollector
10 Must-Visit Historic Buildings in the US
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2 days ago
diamond geezer
200 things you could do this weekend
200 things you could do this weekend
The Traitors. Mix pot pourri. Draw a graph of sweet colours in...
2 days ago
200 things you could do this weekend
The Traitors. Mix pot pourri. Draw a graph of sweet colours in a tube of Fruit Pastilles. Move your savings to an account with a better rate of interest. Take your old DVDs to a charity shop. Buy new towels. Reread The Phantom Tollbooth....
TheCollector
Cerberus: The Three-Headed Dog of Greek Mythology (Myths & Origins)
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Anecdotal Evidence
'That Gravity Stayed Him Somehow'
In the second volume of his Johnsonian
Miscellanies (Clarendon Press, 1897), George Birkbeck Hill...
2 days ago
In the second volume of his Johnsonian
Miscellanies (Clarendon Press, 1897), George Birkbeck Hill collects anecdotes
from the writer and clergyman Thomas Campbell, including this:
“Talking of suicide, Boswell took up the defence
for argument’s sake, and the Doctor said that some...
Casey Handmer's blog
Moon Escape!
[One from the archives, a previously unpublished short story I wrote c. 2017 on the theme of BASE...
2 days ago
[One from the archives, a previously unpublished short story I wrote c. 2017 on the theme of BASE jumping.] Why anyone thought a prison on the Moon was a good idea was beyond me. Remote, dangerous, inhospitable, to be sure. But certainly not impossible to escape from, as I was...
Christopher Butler
100 Image Moodboard
My aesthetic sensibilities represented in 100 images.
These images are subject to change without...
2 days ago
My aesthetic sensibilities represented in 100 images.
These images are subject to change without warning.
Moneyness
Here’s why we tolerate fake check scams
Source: Better Business Bureau
The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad...
2 days ago
Source: Better Business Bureau
The daily news is filled with personal stories about bad experiences with banks. Here’s a recent example. In November 2024, a charity inadvertently accepted a fake check from a would-be donor.
The charity's bank allowed the charity to deposit...
The Marginalian
Forgiveness
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare,...
2 days ago
Shortly after I began the year with some blessings, a friend sent me Lucille Clifton’s spare, splendid poem “blessing the boats.” We had met at a poetry workshop and shared a resolution to write more poetry in the coming year, so we began taking turns each week choosing a line...
Wuthering...
Read and To Read, in 2024 and 2025
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best...
2 days ago
What did I read in 2024?
The best book I read last year was Ovid’s Metamorphoses
(8 CE). Best books, really, in translations
by Arthur Golding and Charles Martin. My
“best book of the year” answer will never be interesting. America’s librarian Nancy Pearl asked, somewhere
on...
Calculated Risk
January 19th COVID Update: COVID in Wastewater Decreasing
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm...
2 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
For deaths, I'm currently using 4 weeks ago for "now", since the most recent three weeks will be revised significantly.
Note: "Effective May 1, 2024, hospitals are no longer required to report...
Arduino Blog
A Game Boy is the worst and best option for a car’s dash
If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and...
2 days ago
If your car was made in the last decade, its dash probably has several displays, gauges, and indicator lights. But how many of those do you actually look at on a regular basis? Likely only one or two, like the speedometer and gas gauge. Knowing that, John Sutley embraced...
Citation Needed
Issue 74 – Stop asking me questions like “where does the yield come from”
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of...
2 days ago
Regulators and lawmakers eagerly prepare to abdicate any last traces of interest in the wellbeing of everyday Americans as they suck up to the powerful billionaires who will soon be publicly calling the shots.
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Thinking clearly about software
You can go a long way as a software engineer without ever managing to think clearly. The feedback...
2 days ago
You can go a long way as a software engineer without ever managing to think clearly. The feedback loop of writing and running code is so…
Casey Handmer's blog
Dittemore’s Law
A quick note to formalize some observations on elite organization dysfunction. The Space Mirror...
3 days ago
A quick note to formalize some observations on elite organization dysfunction. The Space Mirror Memorial at Kennedy Space Center in Florida commemorates the 25 US astronauts who have died in flight. Ron Dittemore is the retired former Space Shuttle program manager who was...
SatPost by Trung...
Garmin's ~$40B Pivot
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment...
3 days ago
The GPS pioneer took huge hits from Apple (iPhone, Watch) and Google (Maps). But huge R&D investment helped turn the company from an automotive GPS firm to a leader in fitness watches and trackers.
Willem's Blog
Master of Change
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a...
3 days ago
In this post I discuss the brilliant book Master of Change by Brad Stulberg, providing a thought-provoking guide to thrive in a changing world.
Birchtree
Comfort Zone predicts tech in 2025
In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025...
3 days ago
In this very special episode, the gang makes their "Pro" and "Pro Max" predictions for tech in 2025 and oh my, does it get wild! Who's best clued into the tech coming this year? Who is just wish-casting their way to third place? This
Musings on Markets
Data Update 2 for 2025: The Party Continued (for US Equities)
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years,...
3 days ago
In my last post, I noted that the US has extended its dominance of global equities in recent years, increasing its share of market capitalization from 42% in at the start of 2023 to 44% at the start of 2024 to 49% at the start of 2025. That rise was driven by a surge in US equity...
Birchtree
Ghost 6 is coming in 2025 and will include ActivityPub for everyone
The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far
This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a...
3 days ago
The Ghost Blog: The Story So Far
This year we're going to ship ActivityPub to everyone, in a flagship Ghost 6.0 release.
I have nothing else to add other than I’m happy with my choice of blogging back end.
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: 2.1% to 3.0% Range
From BofA:
Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up...
3 days ago
From BofA:
Since our last weekly publication, our 4Q GDP tracking estimate has moved up three-tenths to 2.1% q/q saar. [Jan 17th estimate]
emphasis added
From Goldman:
Following this morning’s data, we boosted our Q4 GDP tracking estimate by 0.1pp to +2.6%...
TheCollector
The Colosseum’s Inaugural Games: 100 Days of Spectacles
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Birchtree
The Vision Pro makes Touch ID more appealing
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID...
3 days ago
Ryan Christoffel writing on 9to5Mac: Why Vision Pro Is Apple’s Best Reason Yet to Bring Touch ID Back to iPhone
Because Face ID on iPhone does no good when Vision Pro is strapped to your face—an unfortunate detail I’m reminded of every time I
Mazdak
Whatever Happens to TikTok, Big Tech is Coming for Its Millions of Creators
TikTok, the platform that redefined short-form video and became a cultural phenomenon, is now facing...
3 days ago
TikTok, the platform that redefined short-form video and became a cultural phenomenon, is now facing an uncertain future in the United States.
Ed Zitron's Where's...
The Slop Society
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the...
3 days ago
In the last week we've seen the emergence of the true Meta — and the true Mark Zuckerberg — as the company ended its fact-checking program, claiming that (and I quote) "fact checkers have been too politically biased and have destroyed more trust than they've
Mazdak
ChatGPT’s Newest Feature Lets You Customize Its Personality
OpenAI has announced an exciting update for ChatGPT users: the ability to customize the chatbot’s...
3 days ago
OpenAI has announced an exciting update for ChatGPT users: the ability to customize the chatbot’s personality and interaction style.
Dreams of Space -...
The Eager Beaver Space Book (1962)
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book...
3 days ago
As I keep digging in my collection I have found Space Beavers! This was a promotional comic book from Cities Service gasoline. It probably was a give-away with purchase. It reflects the early 60s where the Mercury launches had taken place and we were looking ahead to the future....
Castles in the Sky
How I Make Room for the Year
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
3 days ago
The first of a three part series marking the transition from 2024 to 2025
A Collection of...
Collections: On the Gracchi, Part I: Tiberius Gracchus
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2)...
3 days ago
This week, we’re going to talk a bit about the brothers Tiberius (trib. 133) and Gaius (trib. 123-2) Gracchus, the famous Roman reformers of the late second century. There’s actually a fair bit to say about both of them, so we’re going to split this treatment over two weeks,...
Blog System/5
Hands-on graphics without X11
A crash course on direct framebuffer and keyboard access via NetBSD’s wscons
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Calculated Risk
Lawler: Early Read on Existing Home Sales in December
From housing economist Tom Lawler:
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.15 million in December,...
3 days ago
From housing economist Tom Lawler:
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 4.15 million in December, unchanged from November’s preliminary pace and up 7.0% from last December’s seasonally adjusted pace. Unadjusted sales should show a somewhat higher YOY % gain, reflecting this...
Weighty Thoughts
AI Reasoning—What is It?
The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
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The Significant Implications of Test-Time Compute
Casey Handmer's blog
The Los Angeles wildfires are self-inflicted
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I...
3 days ago
I don’t ordinarily write about events “in the moment” but for this I will make an exception, as I was personally affected. Caveats aside, my family and I are safe, we evacuated for several days, and due to heroic efforts by professional firefighters and psychotically brave...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Agile Upgrade
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
3 days ago
Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion.
RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Filth
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According to Green's Dictionary of Slang, the slang verb form of cock is attested in English as early as 1450 and in specifically Scottish sources by 1768. All I can figure is Macdonald was such a 'grandma' to use Tolkien's insult,...
TheCollector
The Real Bjorn Ironside: Ragnar Lodbrok’s Most Famous Son
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Classical Wisdom
The First Greek Philosopher
Beyond Mythology
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The Diff
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Confessions of a...
Linux Context Switches: The Truth About TLB Flushes
Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
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Watch now (22 mins) | Is the TLB really flushed during context switches?
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 101: Strange bedfellows
January 17, 2025.
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Flashbak
The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.”...
3 days ago
“My spelling is Wobbly. It’s good spelling but it Wobbles, and the letters get in the wrong places.” ― A.A. Milne, Winnie-the-Pooh In The Handwriting of 12 Famous Authors we look at writers who communicated in long hand, and sometimes wrote their books in the same manner. For...
Retail Design Blog
LAPACA Baturrocks by i g l o o studio
LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s...
3 days ago
LAPACA, a café and chocolate shop in Huesca, Spain, founded by Silvia Buil and Raúl Bernal, Spain’s Best Chocolatier of...
TheCollector
World Monuments Fund Lists Moon as Endangered Heritage Site
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Calculated Risk
Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million...
3 days ago
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
A brief excerpt:
Total housing starts in December were above expectations and starts in October and November were revised up.
Total starts were down 4.4% in...
Calculated Risk
Industrial Production Increased 0.9% in December
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production (IP)...
3 days ago
Earlier from the Fed: Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization
Industrial Production (IP) increased 0.9 percent in December after moving up 0.2 percent in November. In December, gains in the output of aircraft and parts contributed 0.2 percentage point to total IP growth...
Retail Design Blog
Delight Showroom
The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional...
3 days ago
The design of the Delight Showroom project in Belgrade focuses on creating a pleasant and functional work environment with unique...
Society's Backend
Multimodal Biometric Authentication, Noteworthy AI Research Papers of 2024, 5 Common Mistakes to...
Society's Backend Reading List 01-17-2025
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Society's Backend Reading List 01-17-2025
Calculated Risk
Housing Starts Increased to 1.499 million Annual Rate in December
From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions
Housing Starts:
seasonally adjusted annual...
3 days ago
From the Census Bureau: Permits, Starts and Completions
Housing Starts:
seasonally adjusted annual rate of 1,499,000. This is 15.8 percent above the revised November estimate of 1,294,000, but is 4.4 percent below the December 2023 rate of 1,568,000. Single-family housing starts...
Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: 3. Presidio
The fastest wealth creation in the history of humanity
3 days ago
The fastest wealth creation in the history of humanity
Cheese and Biscuits
etch by Steven Edwards, Hove
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a...
3 days ago
Hove is a very acceptable place to spend a day. I was last in the area when visiting the Urchin, a seafood-specialist gastropub and microbrewery (I bet there aren't too many of them around) which made the (pretty easy actually) journey down from Battersea more than worth my...
Retail Design Blog
NESS restaurant by OOAA
Along with Argentina‘s gradual but steady economic recovery, the Lomas de Núñez neighbourhood,...
3 days ago
Along with Argentina‘s gradual but steady economic recovery, the Lomas de Núñez neighbourhood, situated in the north of the sprawling...
The Marginalian
How to Make America Great: A Visionary Manifesto from the Woman Who Ran for President in 1872
In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June...
3 days ago
In 1872, half a century before American women could vote, Victoria Woodhull (September 23, 1838–June 9, 1927) ran for President, with Frederick Douglass as her running mate. Papers declared her candidacy “a brazen imposture, to be extinguished by laughter rather than by law.”...
TheCollector
10 Ancient Greek Sculptures You Must Know
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IEEE Spectrum
How Antivirus Software Has Changed With the Internet
We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the...
3 days ago
We live in a world filled with computer viruses, and antivirus software is almost as old as the Internet itself: The first version of what would become McAfee antivirus came out in 1987—just four years after the Internet booted up. For many of us, antivirus software is an...
Retail Design Blog
Peckish Bakery by guudpin design
Blending Neighborhood Culture and Urban Scenery: A Fusion of Old and New Culinary Experiences –...
3 days ago
Blending Neighborhood Culture and Urban Scenery: A Fusion of Old and New Culinary Experiences – Peckish, the new bakery and...
Wrong Side of...
Britain is institutionally 'anti-racist'
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
3 days ago
The road from Macpherson to Rotherham
alexwlchan
randline: get a random selection of lines in a file using reservoir sampling
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of...
3 days ago
I’ve posted another command-line tool on GitHub: randline, which gives you a random selection of lines in a file:
$ randline < /usr/share/dict/words
ultraluxurious
$ randline 3 < /usr/share/dict/words
unexceptionably
baselessness
salinity
There are lots of tools that solve...
lcamtuf’s thing
Investigating an "evil" RJ45 dongle
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and...
3 days ago
Reverse-engineering hardware can be difficult -- but sometimes, all you need is a comfy armchair and some Google Translate.
TheCollector
What Role Did Women Play in the Scientific Revolution?
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Seth's Blog
Embracing externalities
Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our...
3 days ago
Freedom is something we desire. The freedom to choose, to speak up, to produce, to follow our passions and our dreams. And organizations in search of efficiency, shortcuts or profits often argue for freedom as well. The freedom to organize their production and to go to market...
Maps Mania
Roads, Railways, Runways & Rivers
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TheCollector
Discover This Historic Massachusetts Town Just Beyond Boston’s Reach
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diamond geezer
Capitalcard
Earlier this week I spotted this 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station.
It's an original from...
3 days ago
Earlier this week I spotted this 40 year-old poster at Leytonstone station.
It's an original from January 1985, unexpectedly uncovered.
come loose in the bottom left hand corner and half a dozen even older posters were lurking underneath.
Travelcards only allowed travel on the...
Jorge Arango
LLMs Give You Power User Abilities
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is...
3 days ago
LLMs are a general-purpose technology with seemingly endless use cases. Among my favorite is unlocking the potential of other technologies.
For example, all modern “desktop” OSs come with shell environments. If you know a bit of scripting, you can automate tasks in ways that go...
Odds and Ends of...
Yes, AI really can be used to tackle potholes
It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
3 days ago
It's not bullshit, it's already happening.
Paul Cudenec
The truth about Davos
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
3 days ago
Monday January 20 sees the start of the World Economic Forum’s 2025 meeting at Davos, Switzerland.
TheCollector
Norse Mythology: Pantheon, Ragnarok, Creation, & More
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Anecdotal Evidence
'A Great or Wonderful Thing'
“Too greedy of
Magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning...
3 days ago
“Too greedy of
Magnalities, we are apt to make but favourable experiments concerning welcome
Truths.”
Sir Thomas Browne in Pseudodoxia
Epidemica (1646), also known as Vulgar Errors, dismisses such
notions as the existence of unicorns and the impact of garlic on magnetism. In
the...
Open Culture
The Creative Genius of David Lynch (RIP): Discover His Films, Music Videos, Cartoons, Commercials,...
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented,...
3 days ago
Image by Sasha Kargaltsev via Wikimedia Commons As every cinephile has by now heard, and lamented, we’ve just lost a great American filmmaker. From Eraserhead to Blue Velvet to Mulholland Drive to Inland Empire, David Lynch’s features will surely continue to bewilder and inspire...
The American Scholar
Keepers of the Old Ways
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
The post Keepers of the Old Ways...
3 days ago
Eliot Stein on the people keeping cultural traditions alive
The post Keepers of the Old Ways appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
The Pigeonhole Principle
Why perfect organization is not possible.
I stare at the blank index pages of my new...
3 days ago
Why perfect organization is not possible.
I stare at the blank index pages of my new commonplace book, my pen hovering uncertainly. More than two decades of digital design work, and I’m stumped by the simple task of organizing an analog notebook.
Come on, I thought to...
diamond geezer
London's least frequent bus routes
The withdrawal of route 347, London's least frequent bus, is a excellent excuse to update the new...
3 days ago
The withdrawal of route 347, London's least frequent bus, is a excellent excuse to update the new top 10.
London's ten rarest bus routes *
scheduled TfL buses, in one direction, ordered by weekly frequency (no school journeys, no mobility services)
1) 389 Barnet →...
Mazdak
Biden Not to Block TikTok, Apple's Credit Card Dilemma, Google Says No to EU Rules, ...
The Biden administration has decided not to enforce the law that could force TikTok to go dark in...
3 days ago
The Biden administration has decided not to enforce the law that could force TikTok to go dark in the U.S.
Mazdak
The Future of TikTok in the U.S.: What Happens on January 19?
The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
3 days ago
The fate of TikTok in the United States hangs in the balance as we approach January 19.
Calculated Risk
Friday: Housing Starts, Industrial Production
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Housing Starts...
3 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Housing Starts for December. The consensus is for 1.315 million SAAR, up from 1.289 million SAAR.
Industrial Production and Capacity Utilization for December. The consensus is for a 0.3% increase...
Astral Codex Ten
Links For January 2025
...
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Notes on software...
Logical replication in Postgres: Basics
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Good Enough
There's no “A” or “I” in “Jelly”
The second half of 2024 was definitely an inflection point in the world of software. Large Language...
3 days ago
The second half of 2024 was definitely an inflection point in the world of software. Large Language Models (LLMs) and generative AI started to permeate products everywhere, from chatbots to operating systems, and at times it felt like everyone was taking part in a race to...
mtlynch.io
Increase Your Reply Rate on Cold Emails to Me
The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before.
There are lots...
3 days ago
The term “cold email” refers to emailing someone who you’ve never spoken to before.
There are lots of guides on writing cold emails. This one is a bit niche, as it’s about cold emailing a particular person: me. But I guarantee you that it’s the best guide you can find on this...
Birchtree
Meta, moderation, and whose freedoms come first
A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to...
4 days ago
A lot has been said about Meta’s recently-announced moderation changes, so I won’t add too much to your reading backlog today, but I did want to comment on it after letting it simmer in my head for a bit.
Let me just start by repeating the
Overcoming Bias
What Would Socrates Do?
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open...
4 days ago
Christians often ask themselves, as a guide to living, “What would Jesus do?” In her new book Open Socrates, my podcast-cohost Agnes Callard suggests we instead ask “What would Socrates do?”
TheCollector
Los Angeles Museums Launch Fire Relief Fund for Artists
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TheCollector
How Did the Black Death Change the English Language?
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Calculated Risk
Housing Discussion with Altos Research's Mike Simonsen
Here is a YouTube video of a discussion with Mike Simonsen.
Enjoy.
4 days ago
Here is a YouTube video of a discussion with Mike Simonsen.
Enjoy.
Flashbak
Cynthia The Celebrity Mannequin (1932)
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme...
4 days ago
Cynthia was a mannequin who looked remarkably human, in a sort of unusual way before extreme cosmetic surgery became a fashion choice. Created in 1932 by sculptor and retail display designer Lester Gaba (1907-1987) for Saks Fifth Avenue, New York, Cynthia caused a stir. When...
Escaping Flatland
A funny thing about curiosity
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to...
4 days ago
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But to go there you have to do things that others will think stupid and embarrassing.
The Marginalian
The Light in the Abyss Between Us
Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a...
4 days ago
Bless consciousness, for making blue different to me than it is to you. I remember the moment a friend’s son came home from school to recount with something between shock and exhilaration how he realized while talking to a classmate that the notion of a mental image is not merely...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Compete
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GeoCurrents
Utah’s Declining Fertility Rate and the Changing Mormon Church
On the U.S. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) map of 2008, Utah clearly stands out. At the time, the...
4 days ago
On the U.S. Total Fertility Rate (TFR) map of 2008, Utah clearly stands out. At the time, the state’s TFR was 2.60, well above the national average of 2.08. Utah’s relatively high birth rate has usually been linked to the demographic dominance of members of the Church of Jesus...
Mazdak
Can Google’s Gemini Overtake ChatGPT in the AI Race?
Google’s Gemini, the tech giant’s flagship AI chatbot, has been making headlines lately.
4 days ago
Google’s Gemini, the tech giant’s flagship AI chatbot, has been making headlines lately.
The Marginalian
On Love: Saint Paul and the Egret
Among the myriad things that didn’t have to exist — music, minds, the meadow lark — none is more...
4 days ago
Among the myriad things that didn’t have to exist — music, minds, the meadow lark — none is more symphonic, more defiant of logic, more capable of winging existence with life than love. Biologically, we could have done without it, could have spent the eons fertilizing cells...
TheCollector
6 Famous Musicians at the Center of Big Mysteries
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The Diff
Two Models of Forward-Deployed Engineers
Plus! Corporate VC; The New AI Model; The New AI Model, Continued; The Long But Volatile March;...
4 days ago
Plus! Corporate VC; The New AI Model; The New AI Model, Continued; The Long But Volatile March; Post-IPO
Open Culture
Freddie Mercury & David Bowie’s Isolated Vocals for Queen’s “Under Pressure” (1981)
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot...
4 days ago
In the summer of 1981, the British band Queen was recording tracks for their tenth studio album, Hot Space, at Mountain Studios in Montreux, Switzerland. As it happened, David Bowie had scheduled time at the same studio to record the title song for the movie Cat People. Before...
Mazdak
Google Challenges EU’s New Disinformation Rules
In a bold move that could reshape the future of content moderation, Google has informed the European...
4 days ago
In a bold move that could reshape the future of content moderation, Google has informed the European Union it will not incorporate fact-checking into its search results or YouTube rankings, despite the requirements of the EU’s new Disinformation Code of Practice.
Calculated Risk
NAHB: Builder Confidence "Edges Up" in January
The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47,...
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The National Association of Home Builders (NAHB) reported the housing market index (HMI) was at 47, up from 46 last month. Any number below 50 indicates that more builders view sales conditions as poor than good.
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report:
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Calculated Risk
Thursday: Retail Sales, Unemployment Claims, Philly Fed Mfg, Homebuider Survey
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DYNOMIGHT
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I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful.
How will it work?
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Overcoming Gotchas in Samsung Secure Erase
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I have a few Samsung SSDs, and I always have trouble remembering the process of secure erasing them, as Samsung Magician software is terrible.
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Good Enough
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or something similar, you’ll be shown problems of the form “prove that for
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Res Obscura
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Fed's Beige Book
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The Elysian
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Archinect - Features
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Tools As Ways of Being
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I took notes from Sean Voisen’s call for more hybrid tools. He speaks for a moment on generative AI and its inclusion into existing tools, but reading between the lines the insight I found was how our tools can trigger empathy for people and disciplines:
One of the greatest goals...
Map of the Week
Los Angeles Wildfire Extent
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The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very detailed maps showing the extent of destruction. Here is a close up of Altadena from the Hurst Fire.
via New York Times -...
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Bluesky’s Next Big Move: Introducing the Photo-Sharing App Flashes
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Calculated Risk
Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025
Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market;...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Part 2: Current State of the Housing Market; Overview for mid-January 2025
A brief excerpt:
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Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification?
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
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I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
Raptitude.com
The Tiniest Mission
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Applied
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
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Today's News:
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Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
You are all impure now!
Today's News:
Mazdak
Workspace AI Features Now Included for Free
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Marcus on AI
AI Agents: Hype versus Reality, redux
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Haile Selassie: Divinity or Despot?
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Calculated Risk
Cleveland Fed: Median CPI increased 0.3% and Trimmed-mean CPI increased 0.3% in November
The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI.
Click on graph for larger...
5 days ago
The Cleveland Fed released the median CPI and the trimmed-mean CPI.
Click on graph for larger image.
On a year-over-year basis, the median CPI rose 3.8% (down from 3.9% YoY in November), the trimmed-mean CPI rose 3.2% (down slightly from 3.2%), and the CPI less food and energy...
Stat Significant
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Quanta Magazine
Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’
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A new proof marks the first progress in decades on important cases of the so-called kissing problem. Getting there meant doing away with traditional approaches.
The post Mathematicians Discover New Way for Spheres to ‘Kiss’ first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Artificial Ignorance
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Retail Design Blog
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Calculated Risk
YoY Measures of Inflation: Services, Goods and Shelter
Here are a few measures of inflation:
Click on graph for larger image.
Services were up 4.4% YoY as...
5 days ago
Here are a few measures of inflation:
Click on graph for larger image.
Services were up 4.4% YoY as of December 2024, down from 4.5% YoY in November.
The second graph shows that goods prices started to increase year-over-year (YoY) in 2020 and accelerated in 2021 due to both...
Common Edge
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What happens when a studio course offers AI tools and a real-world housing crisis.
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Calculated Risk
BLS: CPI Increased 0.4% in December; Core CPI increased 0.2%
From the BLS:
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a...
5 days ago
From the BLS:
The Consumer Price Index for All Urban Consumers (CPI-U) increased 0.4 percent on a seasonally adjusted basis
in December, after rising 0.3 percent in November, the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics reported today. Over the
last 12 months, the all items index...
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Retail Design Blog
Club 21 flagship store by Studio Krubka
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Rigoberta Menchú: Fighting for Indigenous Rights in Guatemala
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Calculated Risk
MBA: Mortgage Applications Increased in Weekly Survey
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications...
5 days ago
From the MBA: Mortgage Applications Increase in Latest MBA Weekly Survey
Mortgage applications increased 33.3 percent from one
week earlier, according to data from the Mortgage Bankers Association’s (MBA) Weekly Mortgage
Applications Survey for the week ending January 10, 2025....
Retail Design Blog
Bun Pastry & Beverages by Architect Nonsense
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Rest of World -...
Despite tensions, US-China AI research collaborations are alive and well
Over the past 10 years, the U.S. and China have been the most frequent partners in AI research.
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TheCollector
What Practices Did the Puritans Enjoy?
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Open Culture
Watch Bob Ross’ The Joy of Painting from Start to Finish: Every Episode from 31 Seasons in...
Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been...
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Bob Ross the man died nearly thirty years ago, but Bob Ross the archetypal TV painter has never been more widely known. “With his distinctive hair, gentle voice, and signature expressions such as ‘happy little trees,’ he’s an enduring icon,” writes Michael J. Mooney in an...
Seth's Blog
Good advice
The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than...
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The cult of consulting suggests that if you simply had better advice from someone who knew more than you, your problems could be solved. Generally, the advice isn’t really the hard part. There’s endless good advice just a click away. The art is in creating the conditions for...
History Today Feed
Who Was the Real Henry III?
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Open Culture
Do You Really Need to Take 10,000 Steps a Day?
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diamond geezer
Great British Rail Sale
I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to buy tickets in the Great British Rail Sale. This is one of...
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I spent a lot of time yesterday trying to buy tickets in the Great British Rail Sale. This is one of those rare bonanzas when rail companies significantly reduce the price of some of their advance tickets, usually in the winter months when fewer people are travelling. Often only...
diamond geezer
Midwinter Day
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
Midwinter Day.
Midwinter is today.
And midwinter is also...
5 days ago
Officially Midsummer Day is 24th June.
Midwinter Day.
Midwinter is today.
And midwinter is also 4th February.
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TheCollector
10 Major Players of the Haitian Revolution
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Anecdotal Evidence
'Art Is Wild As a Cat'
Nige tells me he attended
a reading at Cambridge given by Stevie Smith not long before her death in...
5 days ago
Nige tells me he attended
a reading at Cambridge given by Stevie Smith not long before her death in 1971.
“I remember [her],” he writes, “more for her extraordinary presence and her
eccentric, but very effective way of reading her work. . . . [A]t the time I
was a young...
The American Scholar
Casa Gorín
The post Casa Gorín appeared first on The American Scholar.
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The post Casa Gorín appeared first on The American Scholar.
Christopher Butler
Persuasion is Plural
Earn attention before you use it.
Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first,...
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Earn attention before you use it.
Persuasion is never one thing. It’s at least two: first, persuading someone to pay attention, and second, persuading them that your thing is worth their time, money, or effort.
Most marketers and designers focus their energy on the second...
./techtipsy
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device...
5 days ago
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on.
The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it.
All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a...
The Honest Broker
A Manifesto in Defense of Courtship
Today the Honest Broker gives love advice
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Mazdak
Big Tech Layoffs, Musk Acquiring TikTok, ChatGPT's New Features, ...
Meta is executing a strategic 5% workforce reduction, but this isn't your typical layoff.
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Classical Wisdom
[Last Chance] The Essential Greeks
Starting TOMORROW - January 15th, 2025
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Calculated Risk
Wednesday: CPI, NY Fed Mfg, Beige Book
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage...
5 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
mortgage purchase applications index.
Consumer Price Index for December from the BLS. The consensus is for 0.3% increase in CPI, and a 0.2% increase in core CPI. The consensus is for CPI to be...
James Vaughan's blog
A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
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