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AFAR Media - Travel...
There's More to Telluride Than Trails and Ski Lifts
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The Honest Broker
Why Is the Washington Post Talking to Substack? And updates on other recent articles
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diamond geezer
Sounds Of The Late 60s Observation: The music played on Sounds of the 70s on Radio 2 isn't what it was when Johnnie Walker...
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Observation: The music played on Sounds of the 70s on Radio 2 isn't what it was when Johnnie Walker was in the chair. Hunch: Bob Harris is playing older, gutarrier records. Hypothesis: He plays more records from the first half of the 1970s than the second half. Research: I...
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All the stations I have been to all the stations in London. It's a lot of stations. I'm including tube, DLR,...
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I have been to all the stations in London. It's a lot of stations. I'm including tube, DLR, Overground, Crossrail and all National Rail services, even trams, and that's why it's quite so many stations. Also when I say 'been to' I mean properly used, not just passed through on...
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The missing part of Espressif’s reset circuit In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and...
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In the previous article, we peeked at the reset circuit of ESP-Prog with an oscilloscope, and reproduced it with basic components. We observed that it did not behave quite as expected. In this article, we’ll look into the missing pieces. An incomplete circuit For a hint, we’ll...
TheCollector
Everything You Need to Know About the Ten Commandments The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other,...
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The lists of commandments in Exodus 20 and Deuteronomy 5 are almost identical to each other, diverging significantly only in the reasons they each give for keeping the Sabbath day. This list—often called the Decalogue—is what is popularly known as the Ten Commandments. However,...
Build In Public...
Vibe Coding Showcase is back. Here are 10 new projects. If a fund accountant can build video platforms, a designer can ship icon libraries, and a marketer...
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If a fund accountant can build video platforms, a designer can ship icon libraries, and a marketer can create language learning apps, what's stopping you?
Noahpinion
Would you rather have cheap energy, or stupid culture wars? Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an attack on American energy production.
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diamond geezer
241 to Here East Route 241: Royal Wharf to Hackney Wick (Here East) Location: London east, cross-Newham Length of bus...
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Route 241: Royal Wharf to Hackney Wick (Here East) Location: London east, cross-Newham Length of bus journey: 8 miles, 50 minutes route 241 was extended from Stratford City into the Olympic Park. No fuss was made, no hordes descended. Buses which would normally have terminated...
Tech and Tea
Last chance to join Creating Space! Today is your last chance to join Creating Space, the 6-week journaling course I co-created with...
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Today is your last chance to join Creating Space, the 6-week journaling course I co-created with Buster Benson of 750 Words!
AFAR Media - Travel...
What to Do in Park City This Summer
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symmetry magazine
From life experience to research experience A former retail worker finds the confidence to pursue a career in STEM thanks to an internship...
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A former retail worker finds the confidence to pursue a career in STEM thanks to an internship program designed for students at small colleges.
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Should Never Mention It' Spoken by a man after my own heart:  “You must grant me a dispensation for saying any thing, whether...
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Spoken by a man after my own heart:  “You must grant me a dispensation for saying any thing, whether it be sense or nonsense, upon the subject of politics. It is truly a matter in which I am so little interested, that, were it not that it sometimes serves me for a theme when I...
symmetry magazine
From the LHC to the search for exoplanets A scientist tried using machine-learning techniques from particle physics to analyze data from...
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A scientist tried using machine-learning techniques from particle physics to analyze data from astronomy—and in the process discovered a new exoplanet.
symmetry magazine
The theoretical work of preparing for DUNE To evaluate the data produced by the DUNE experiment, phenomenologists must make precise predictions...
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To evaluate the data produced by the DUNE experiment, phenomenologists must make precise predictions for what they expect that data to look like.
symmetry magazine
Scientists design program for the future of US particle physics research In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy...
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In the culmination of a US community planning process that began in late 2020, the High Energy Physics Advisory Panel has approved the recommendations of the P5 Report.
symmetry magazine
LHC physicists can’t save them all As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using...
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As upgrades enable the LHC to produce more and more particle collisions, physicists are using machine learning to keep up with the growing task of sorting through everything.
symmetry magazine
LIGO comes to India In India, scientists are building a new LIGO detector, enhancing the capabilities of the observatory...
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In India, scientists are building a new LIGO detector, enhancing the capabilities of the observatory that reported the first observation of gravitational waves.
symmetry magazine
A day in the life of a mountaintop telescope builder Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the...
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Margaux Lopez is one of a team of engineers preparing the Vera Rubin Observatory in Chile for the arrival of the largest digital camera ever built for astrophysics and cosmology.
symmetry magazine
What’s so hard about measuring the strong force? The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of...
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The ATLAS collaboration recently measured the strength of the strong force to a record level of precision, but there’s still long way to go toward understanding this fundamental force.
symmetry magazine
Machine learning and experiment For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been...
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For more than 20 years in experimental particle physics and astrophysics, machine learning has been accelerating the pace of science, helping scientists tackle problems of greater and greater complexity.
symmetry magazine
Excavation of colossal caverns for Fermilab’s DUNE experiment completed The excavation of the caverns that will house the gigantic particle detectors of the Deep...
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The excavation of the caverns that will house the gigantic particle detectors of the Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment in Lead, South Dakota, is complete.
symmetry magazine
What is the electroweak force? Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always...
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Electromagnetism and the weak nuclear force are two distinct fundamental forces. That wasn’t always the case.
symmetry magazine
PIP-II team transports first cryomodule between UK and Fermilab The United Kingdom will eventually contribute three assembled cryomodules—known as HB650 for the...
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The United Kingdom will eventually contribute three assembled cryomodules—known as HB650 for the radio frequency they use to operate—to Fermilab’s new particle accelerator.
symmetry magazine
Preventing magnet meltdowns before they can start Berkeley Lab researchers are developing an approach to avoid sudden, potentially destructive energy...
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Berkeley Lab researchers are developing an approach to avoid sudden, potentially destructive energy releases in a new generation of superconducting magnets.
symmetry magazine
A collaborative ecosystem Physicists work with computer scientists in academia and industry to advance machine learning.
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symmetry magazine
A physicists’ guide to the ethics of artificial intelligence Physics may seem like its own world, but different sectors using machine learning are all part of...
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symmetry magazine
Final supernova results from Dark Energy Survey offer unique insights
into the expansion of the... In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the DES collaboration of scientists analyzed an...
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In the culmination of a decade’s worth of effort, the DES collaboration of scientists analyzed an unprecedented sample of more than 1,500 supernovae classified using machine learning.
symmetry magazine
LSST Camera arrives at Rubin Observatory in Chile The largest camera ever built for astrophysics has completed the long journey from SLAC National...
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The largest camera ever built for astrophysics has completed the long journey from SLAC National Accelerator Laboratory in California to the summit of Cerro Pachón in Chile.
symmetry magazine
Can we fit the universe in a box? Wouldn’t it be nice to have a computer answer all of the biggest questions in the universe?
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symmetry magazine
CMS scientists expand search for new particles at the Large Hadron Collider CMS scientists are analyzing the first dataset gathered through a new tool designed to search for...
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symmetry magazine
Bringing eclipsed women of astronomy and physics into the light In , physicist Shohini Ghose elucidates the stories of women scientists who contributed to and led...
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In , physicist Shohini Ghose elucidates the stories of women scientists who contributed to and led some of the biggest breakthroughs in astronomy and physics.Her Space, Her Time
symmetry magazine
First results from DESI make the most precise measurement of our expanding universe With just its first year of data, DESI has surpassed all previous 3D spectroscopic maps combined and...
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With just its first year of data, DESI has surpassed all previous 3D spectroscopic maps combined and confirmed the basics of our best model of the universe.
Computer Ads from...
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symmetry magazine
Physics vocabulary: AI edition Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? is here to...
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Don’t know your convolutional neural networks from your boosted decision trees? is here to help.Symmetry
symmetry magazine
A trio of paths toward the discovery machine of the future An advisory committee recommends the US work to advance three key areas of emerging accelerator...
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symmetry magazine
Symmetry’s guide to AI in particle physics and astrophysics In the coming weeks, will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance...
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In the coming weeks, will explore the ways scientists are using artificial intelligence to advance particle physics and astrophysics—in a series of articles written and illustrated entirely by humans.Symmetry
symmetry magazine
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Lattice QCD Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions...
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Lattice gauge theory, or lattice QCD, is a calculation method that helps scientists make predictions about the behavior of quarks at low energies.
symmetry magazine
Tomorrow’s physics test: machine learning Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students...
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Machine learning is becoming an essential part of a physicist’s toolkit. How should new students learn to use it?
symmetry magazine
Scientists measure entanglement at the LHC Scientists on the ATLAS collaboration performed the highest-energy measurement of quantum...
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symmetry magazine
The physicist gamer Raphael Granier De Cassagnac recently put his scientific skills to use creating a physics-themed...
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Raphael Granier De Cassagnac recently put his scientific skills to use creating a physics-themed video game.
symmetry magazine
John Bahcall: Godfather of solar neutrinos Bahcall’s scientific legacy is visible across the field of astrophysics
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Seth's Blog
The power of a pause The single-most effective way to invest 90 seconds a day is simple (and difficult). 18 times a day,...
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The single-most effective way to invest 90 seconds a day is simple (and difficult). 18 times a day, when you’re about to offer advice, ask a question or blurt out a response, wait five seconds. That pause shifts the way what you say next will be perceived. It also opens the door...
symmetry magazine
Scaling up the dark matter search Physicists are preparing for the next generation of dark-matter experiments.
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Retail Design Blog
Conglong restaurant by Studio8 Architects Located in the historic district of Nanjing, China, CONGLONG is a wagyu hot pot restaurant designed...
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Located in the historic district of Nanjing, China, CONGLONG is a wagyu hot pot restaurant designed by Studio8 Architects. Drawing...
TheCollector
Discover Caral-Supe: The Cradle of Civilization in the Americas Cradles of civilization are regions where humans developed complex social systems independently....
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Cradles of civilization are regions where humans developed complex social systems independently. There are six accepted cradles of civilization: Egypt, India, Mesopotamia, China, Olmec, and Caral-Supe. The first societies all formed around agriculture. The Caral-Supe, who emerged...
symmetry magazine
The boson that physics almost rejected Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered...
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Nobel Laureate Peter Higgs died earlier this year. Twelve years ago this week, physicists discovered the particle that bears his name.
symmetry magazine
‘This is our Muon Shot’ The US physics community dreams of building a muon collider.
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symmetry magazine
Machine learning and theory Theoretical physicists use machine-learning algorithms to speed up difficult calculations and...
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Theoretical physicists use machine-learning algorithms to speed up difficult calculations and eliminate untenable theories—but could they transform what it means to make discoveries?
symmetry magazine
AI for control rooms Scientists inside and outside of particle physics and astrophysics are leaning on AI for assistance...
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Scientists inside and outside of particle physics and astrophysics are leaning on AI for assistance with complex tasks.
symmetry magazine
The view from Neutrino Day 2024 About 2,200 people took part in hands-on science activities, performances, lectures and exhibits at...
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About 2,200 people took part in hands-on science activities, performances, lectures and exhibits at Sanford Underground Research Facility's Neutrino Day celebration this year.
symmetry magazine
SLAC completes construction of the largest digital camera ever built for astronomy Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers...
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Once set in place atop a telescope in Chile, the 3,200-megapixel LSST Camera will help researchers better understand dark matter, dark energy and other mysteries of our universe.
symmetry magazine
Science fiction inspires a new astrophysics university class A professor at the University of Tennessee reimagines the way we teach STEM with a science-fiction...
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symmetry magazine
A day in the life of a human-in-the-loop engineer Wan-Lin Hu’s job is to improve the way people and artificial intelligence collaborate to run SLAC’s...
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Wan-Lin Hu’s job is to improve the way people and artificial intelligence collaborate to run SLAC’s complex machines.
symmetry magazine
Explain it in 60 seconds: W boson Meet the short-lived particle that helps the sun shine.
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symmetry magazine
Ears around the world are on The Coldest Case , a podcast released by the Interactions Collaboration, illuminates the international search for...
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, a podcast released by the Interactions Collaboration, illuminates the international search for dark matter through conversations with its inquirers.Particle Mysteries
symmetry magazine
The adaptable physicist Edgar Marrufo Villalpando went from Mexico to the United States and from computational physics to...
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Edgar Marrufo Villalpando went from Mexico to the United States and from computational physics to astronomical instrumentation to pursue his childhood dream of becoming a physicist.
diamond geezer
geezer's mailbox Thank you for the emails you've been sending. Tom emailed on 16th January. ✉ Not sure if you have...
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Thank you for the emails you've been sending. Tom emailed on 16th January. ✉ Not sure if you have come across the National Archives’ 2023 competition on stories from 1920s streets, but it seems completely in your zone. The only thing that would have made this article better...
symmetry magazine
A harsh environment for life, an ideal environment for research The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel recently recommended, among their top priorities...
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The Particle Physics Project Prioritization Panel recently recommended, among their top priorities for the next decade, moving forward with two experiments based at the South Pole.
The Ruffian
NEW POD: James Marriott on whether AI will make writers redundant In Which I Put the Case For Optimism
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symmetry magazine
DUNE scientists observe first neutrinos with prototype detector at Fermilab The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino...
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The prototype of a novel particle detection system for the international Deep Underground Neutrino Experiment successfully recorded its first accelerator neutrinos.
Maps Mania
Italian Map Rot
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symmetry magazine
New results from the CMS experiment put W boson mass mystery to rest Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has...
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Physicists on the CMS experiment announce the most elaborate mass measurement of a particle that has captivated the physics community for decades.
David Heinemeier...
Omarchy is out My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated...
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My latest love letter to Linux has been published. It's called Omarchy, and it's an opinionated setup of the Arch Linux distribution and the Hyprland tiling window manager. With everything configured out-of-the-box to give you exactly the same setup that I now run every day. My...
Open Culture
Iconic Animator Chuck Jones Creates an Oscar-Winning Animation About the Virtues of Universal Health... While our country looks like it might be coming apart at the seams, it’s good to revisit, every once...
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While our country looks like it might be coming apart at the seams, it’s good to revisit, every once in a while, moments when it did work. And that’s not so that we can feel nostalgic about a lost time, but so that we can remind ourselves how, given the right conditions, things...
Open Culture
How Jackson Pollock Redefined Modern Art: An Introduction https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sQ_cfZ8q9kVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled:...
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sQ_cfZ8q9kVideo can’t be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Jackson Pollock: the Myth of the Modern Artist (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sQ_cfZ8q9k) In his lifetime, Jackson Pollock had only one successful art show. It took place at the...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Anthropic and OpenAI Have Begun The Subprime AI Crisis Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling...
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Hello premium customers! Feel free to get in touch at ez@betteroffline.com if you're ever feeling chatty. And if you're not one yet, I'm sorry that I paywalled this, but it took me so much effort and drove me a little insane. Back
AFAR Media - Travel...
Wellness and Outdoor Fun in Telluride This Summer
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symmetry magazine
Students become scientists on International Cosmic Day Every November, students, teachers and scientists worldwide gather virtually to learn about Earth’s...
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Every November, students, teachers and scientists worldwide gather virtually to learn about Earth’s cosmic visitors.
symmetry magazine
Physics beyond the imaginable The CMS experiment is developing a new type of trigger that looks for anomalies.
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symmetry magazine
Explain it in 60 Seconds: Quantum entanglement The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in...
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The CMS and ATLAS experiments recently detected quantum entanglement between top quarks in high-energy collisions at the LHC. What does that mean?
symmetry magazine
LZ experiment sets new record in search for dark matter New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on...
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New results from the world’s most sensitive dark matter detector put the best-ever limits on particles called WIMPs, a leading candidate for what makes up our universe’s invisible mass.
SatPost by Trung...
Hayao Miyazaki: 9 Creative Lessons Notes on the creative process for the legendary Japanese filmmaker and founder of Studio Ghibli.
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The Ruffian
Podcast: How To Get The Most Out of LLMs Part II Of My Excellent Conversation With Jasmine Sun
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symmetry magazine
New DESI results weigh in on gravity Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies...
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Researchers used the Dark Energy Spectroscopic Instrument to map how nearly 6 million galaxies cluster across 11 billion years of cosmic history.
Seth's Blog
A billion choices Game theory has a lousy name. When most people think of games, they think of commercial stuff for...
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Game theory has a lousy name. When most people think of games, they think of commercial stuff for kids, like Chutes and Ladders or possibly Monopoly. But a game is simply a system where humans, facing scarcity, make choices. Scarcity leads to choices and to competition. It turns...
symmetry magazine
US physicists prioritize closer study of the Higgs Physicists in the United States support the development of an off-shore Higgs Factory.
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Julia Evans
New zine: The Secret Rules of the Terminal Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a...
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Hello! After many months of writing deep dive blog posts about the terminal, on Tuesday I released a new zine called “The Secret Rules of the Terminal”! You can get it for $12 here: https://wizardzines.com/zines/terminal, or get an 15-pack of all my zines here. Here’s the...
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Brazil wants to be a sustainable data center hub. Environmentalists are skeptical The country recently announced its national data center policy, despite worries that new investments...
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The American Scholar
Lessons in the Diplomatic Arts Notes from a musical tour of South Africa The post Lessons in the Diplomatic Arts appeared first on...
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Notes from a musical tour of South Africa The post Lessons in the Diplomatic Arts appeared first on The American Scholar.
Breck's Blog
Patents are Poison
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symmetry magazine
New CERN course teaches particle physics basics online The 16-part course, currently in its pilot phase, is catered to high school students but available...
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The 16-part course, currently in its pilot phase, is catered to high school students but available to anyone interested in learning about the fundamental questions in particle physics.
Noahpinion
We can't afford to keep cutting taxes for the rich Trump's "Big Beautiful Bill" is an advanced stage of a disease that took hold long ago.
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symmetry magazine
A first-person view of physics history Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he...
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Michael Riordan has spent decades ruminating on the history of physics, including events he participated in himself.
symmetry magazine
Antimatter on wheels Writer Chetna Krishna follows CERN’s “coolest” transport, a test of a system to ship stored...
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Writer Chetna Krishna follows CERN’s “coolest” transport, a test of a system to ship stored antimatter across the continent.
Breck's Blog
Comics
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Contemporist...
How Terracotta Shingles Bring Earthy Warmth To This Modern Home Nestled in suburban Melbourne, Mahogany House is more than just a family residence. It's a deeply...
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Nestled in suburban Melbourne, Mahogany House is more than just a family residence. It's a deeply personal project by Vish and Gaurav Rajadhyax, co-founders of R ARCHITECTURE. Designed as a sustainable, multi-generational home, it balances functionality with emotional connection,...
TheCollector
Did Sparta Exist in the Mycenaean Period (Bronze Age)? In studies of the Iliad, composed by Homer in the 7th century BCE, there is one obvious peculiarity...
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In studies of the Iliad, composed by Homer in the 7th century BCE, there is one obvious peculiarity about its presentation of the Greek kings. One of the most powerful kings, Menelaus—the brother of the mighty Agamemnon—is presented as the king of Sparta. The reason that this is...
Breck's Blog
The Economy Explained
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Why Define a New Language?
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symmetry magazine
From sea to scientific sea Take a tour of the 17 national laboratories across the United States.
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Breck's Blog
Mitocycles
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Vaulted Ceilings and Garden Views Make This Home a True Sanctuary Tucked into a quiet corner of Elwood, Sanctuary House by Minett Studio Architecture & Design offers...
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Tucked into a quiet corner of Elwood, Sanctuary House by Minett Studio Architecture & Design offers a seamless blend of heritage and contemporary design. With vaulted ceilings, framed garden views, and an indoor–outdoor flow that feels effortless, this family home is a...
Yale E360
A Decade After a Lead Crisis, Flint Has At Last Replaced Its Pipes A decade after Flint, Michigan, was beset by widespread lead contamination, officials confirmed the...
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A decade after Flint, Michigan, was beset by widespread lead contamination, officials confirmed the city has replaced its lead pipes, as ordered by a federal court. Read more on E360 →
Breck's Blog
Final Tree Notation Report
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Why Scroll?
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Christopher Butler
Single-function Devices in the World of the Everything Machine What we lost when everything became a phone, and when the phone became everything. In 2001, I took...
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What we lost when everything became a phone, and when the phone became everything. In 2001, I took a train from Providence to Detroit. What should have been a 12-hour journey stretched into 34 when we got caught in a Buffalo blizzard. As the train sat buried in rapidly...
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On Focus
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The American Scholar
Why Go On? The post Why Go On? appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Why do we subsidize lies?
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Early Source
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Many Narratives. All true.
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symmetry magazine
Recognizing Rosemary Fowler A physicist reflects on learning about a hidden figure whose research helped inspire her own.
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Breck's Blog
PMF Mirages
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Tree Notation: an antifragile program notation
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The Tallest Tree
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Breck's Blog
The Permission Function
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Breck's Blog
What Percentage of the Brain Does What?
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symmetry magazine
Dark Matter Day Q&A: Olivia Valentino Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands...
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Student scientist Olivia Valentino shares what it’s like to work on a dark matter detector thousands of feet underground.
Christian Selig
A slept on upscaling tool for macOS I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in...
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I uploaded YouTube videos from time to time, and a fun comment I often get is “Whoa, this is in 8K!”. Even better, I’ve had comments from the like, seven people with 8K TVs that the video looks awesome on their TV. And you guessed it, I don’t record my videos in 8K! I record them...
Breck's Blog
Narratives Misrepresent Complex Systems
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computers are bad
2025-06-19 hydronuclear testing Some time ago, via a certain orange website, I came across a report about a mission to recover...
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Some time ago, via a certain orange website, I came across a report about a mission to recover nuclear material from a former Soviet test site. I don't know what you're doing here, go read that instead. But it brought up a topic that I have only known very little about:...
Abort Retry Fail
Tandy Corporation, Part 4 The Decline and Fall
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One Textarea
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Sleepy Time Conference
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Introducing Note
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Three Scientists Go To Heaven
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symmetry magazine
Inside the search for dark matter About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk...
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About 30 years ago an "ideas guy" and a team builder joined forces to search for the invisible bulk of existence.
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IVIA- Minimalist Luxury Skincare by Typora Studio IVIA Natural Skincare, Redefined Ivia is not just skincare—it’s a quiet celebration of self. Crafted...
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My entire marketing strategy (+ December 2021 updates) Hello everyone! This is Tony 👋 Hello Hacker News! For context, this post is the latest issue of my...
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Hello everyone! This is Tony 👋 Hello Hacker News! For context, this post is the latest issue of my monthly newsletter where I share the progress building BlackMagic.so & DevUtils.app. Check my previous issues to see more details about the products and my journey. Cheers!
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TinyPilot: Month 31 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
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What I’ve been reading, June 2023 A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find...
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A monthly feature. As usual, recent blog posts and news stories are omitted from this; you can find them in my links digests. In all quotes below, any emphasis in bold was added by me. Books Thomas S. Ashton, The Industrial Revolution, 1760–1830 (1948). A classic in the field,...
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GPT-4o There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our...
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There are two things from our announcement today I wanted to highlight. First, a key part of our mission is to put very capable AI tools in the hands of people for free (or at a great price). I am very proud that we’ve made the best model in the world available for free in...
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Aug 2022: One year since I quit my job Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other...
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Reached $10K MRR, launched Xnapper (#1 of the week), went on Indie Hackers podcast (😱), and other updates in Aug 2022...
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Control - how to make a game enjoyable for casual audiences I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively...
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I’ve decided to intentionally take more time to play video games this year, since it’s a relatively healthy way to escape from the real world once in a while. A friend recommended one game in particular: Control: Ultimate Edition. During the Steam summer sale of 2023, I went...
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Polar Night Surreal and otherworldly.
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Why You Should Have Fewer Opinions https://youtu.be/qJ8aRl1UNgw I'm on an old man rant today. The world's a shitfest, and something...
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https://youtu.be/qJ8aRl1UNgw I'm on an old man rant today. The world's a shitfest, and something needs to be said: Opinions are like assholes, everyone's got one, and most are full of shit. So, here's my argument: people need to have fewer fucking opinions. The problem is that...
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Jun 2022 updates, $100K ARR, reflections, and a screenshot app! Hello everyone 👋 It’s Tony again with another monthly update! 😄Thanks for reading Tony Dinh’s...
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Hello everyone 👋 It’s Tony again with another monthly update! 😄Thanks for reading Tony Dinh’s Newsletter! Subscribe for free to receive new posts and support my work. Phu Yen Province, Vietnam Welcome 313 new subscribers since my last issue! 👋 If you are new here: My name is...
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Zimaboard: the closest thing to my dream home server setup I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally...
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I stumbled upon this Hardware Haven video about the Zimaboard recently. I liked it a lot. I finally bought one. In short, Zimaboard is a small single-board computer that is relatively affordable and comes with an interesting selection of ports, which includes an exposed PCI...
High Signal
Joining a startup as a co-founder Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy...
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Today's interview is with Iron Brands (he's Dutch, that is his actual name), who joined a privacy analytics startups as a co-founder after it had already launched. We talked about how he met the original founder of Simple Analytics, how they negotiated the new ownership...
One Useful Thing
A guide to prompting AI (for what it is worth) A little bit of magic, but mostly just practice
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A Week Off And A New Language See you again soon
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2024-05-06 matrix For those of you who are members of the Matrix project, I wanted to let you know that I am running...
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For those of you who are members of the Matrix project, I wanted to let you know that I am running for the Governing Board, and a bit about why. For those of you who are not, I hope you will forgive the intrusion. Maybe you'll find my opinions on the topic interesting anyway. I...
detreville
🎼This Is the Worst Trip I’ve Ever Been On 🎶 (A Lengthy Vacation Post-Mortem)
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The DESK Magazine
People are talking about me, and I started it People talk about you the way you talk about yourself.
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Strong Towns I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how...
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I found it eye-opening in terms of understanding how municipal governments work in practice and how perverse incentives lead to poor community outcomes. It had a huge impact on the way that I think about where to live and what policies I support in local government. This book...
One Useful Thing
What happens when AI reads a book 🤖📖 And some prompts that might be useful when it does.
over a year ago
Build In Public...
Building In Public 101 Here's a crash course on the rising trend of building in public
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Experimenting with GPT-4 Turbo’s JSON mode One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for...
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One of the many new features announced at yesterday’s OpenAI dev day is better support for generating valid JSON output. From the JSON mode docs: A common way to use Chat Completions is to instruct the model to always return JSON in some format that makes sense for your use case,...
One Useful Thing
Embracing weirdness: What it means to use AI as a (writing) tool AI is strange. We need to learn to use it.
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Zephyr Ravenna Control Board Replacement Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself. Introduction Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing...
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Blog post that probably has an audience of one, myself. Introduction Zephyr Ravenna - Confusing Information Two PCBs - Control Board & Switch Assembly Switch of the Breaker!!! Glass Canopy Removal Duct Cover Removal Swapping the Control...
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The IBM 701 "IBM's first computer"
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The Fever Tree Hunt [EPISODE] “Most heists target gold, jewels or cash. This one targeted illegal seeds. As the British...
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“Most heists target gold, jewels or cash. This one targeted illegal seeds. As the British established their sprawling empire across the subcontinent and beyond, they encountered a formidable adversary — malaria. There was a cure — the bark of the Andean cinchona tree. The only...
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When Action Beats Prediction One of the great paradoxes of business is that management is prediction, but entrepreneurship ......
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One of the great paradoxes of business is that management is prediction, but entrepreneurship ... isn't. What a theory of expertise in entrepreneurship tells us about creating new things in business.
A Smart Bear
You can have two Big Things, but not three No you can't "have it all." You can have two things, but not three.
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A Survey of Applicant Tracking Systems for Bootstrapped Businesses I’m a bootstrapped founder of a six-person company, and I spent this week testing different tools...
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I’m a bootstrapped founder of a six-person company, and I spent this week testing different tools for hiring candidates. This post summarizes my experience with the applicant tracking systems (ATS) I found and how well they serve small, bootstrapped businesses. Note: This isn’t...
Common Edge
What’s to Become of the Mess That Is Penn Station? A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New...
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A talk with architecture critic Justin Davidson about the thorny knot of issues involved at New York’s most conflicted transportation-entertainment site.
Identity Designed
The Grand Press Designed by Dixon Baxi, London.
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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.
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May 2022: $7,839 MRR, travel, experiments, and a new app. Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates...
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Hello everyone, it’s Tony again 👋 These days time flies so fast to me! I’m having so many updates in May that I want to share with you all. Let’s go! Welcome 128 new subscribers since the last issue! If you are new here, this is a monthly newsletter of my indie hacking journey....
Quanta Magazine
A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property...
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Four mathematicians have found a new upper limit to the “Ramsey number,” a crucial property describing unavoidable structure in graphs. The post A Very Big Small Leap Forward in Graph Theory first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Style over Substance
My Home Assistant setup (2023 edition) For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s...
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For the past few years, I have been running Home Assistant to make my apartment a smart home. It’s become such a hobby of mine that I’ve even started coding add-ons for it. While there are other popular automation platforms, Home Assistant’s versatility blows the rest out of the...
FIRE v London
April ’24: Juggling cash as new UK tax year begins The temperature in the Middle East got even hotter in April, with Israel and Iran trading attacks on...
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The temperature in the Middle East got even hotter in April, with Israel and Iran trading attacks on each other’s sovereign buildings/territory. Somehow World War III has never really seemed in danger of breaking out but it is a reminder that only change is constant. Over in New...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 32 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Tony Dinh's...
My new product on Product Hunt today Not the usual monthly update, just a small update about Xnapper - my latest product
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Feb 2023 updates: Twitter API, ChatGPT API, Hackaigon. It was a such a short month!
over a year ago
AFAR Media - Travel...
10 Great All-Inclusive Hyatt Resorts in Mexico & Caribbean
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Monitoring energy usage with smart plugs, Prometheus and Grafana This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup...
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This post isn’t a detailed line-by-line tutorial on how to set up each individual piece of the setup as those types of guides tend to get out of date really easily, but if you know your way around Linux and the command line, then you can definitely replicate this setup on your...
Seeking Wisdom
A great investor is a great rejector I tend to grasp math concepts better from books written for other fields. Take linear algebra for...
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I tend to grasp math concepts better from books written for other fields. Take linear algebra for example — I developed a stronger understanding and appreciation for it after reading the book Modeling Life. Similarly, the investing book What I Learned About Investing from Darwin...
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Swyx's Simple Guide to Singapore A personal guide to Singapore for foreign friends visiting.
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$322 → $2K MRR in 60 days by building in public Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I...
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Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 Today is a special day. I want to share with you all this post I originally posted on Indie Hackers, but I think you all will also be interested! It’s a long post about my journey growing Black Magic to $2K MRR in the last 2 months.
Rest of World -...
Apple’s biggest competition in India? Used iPhone sellers “We give them the same phone, in the same brand-new condition,” says one seller.
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mtlynch.io
Import from a URL in Nix I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts...
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I’m still a Nix beginner, and one thing I couldn’t figure out until recently was how to keep parts of my configuration.nix file under source control. My goal I’d like for my Nix configuration files to be modular and reusable, so depending on the system or flake, I can pull in...
Val Sopi
One year since "setting sail" <p><i>For context, read <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">this article</a>...
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<p><i>For context, read <a href="https://valsopi.com/setting-sail">this article</a> first.</i></p><p><i>TLDR:&nbsp;A year ago, I took out a loan and went all–in pursuing my financial freedom. The words below are an update a year on the day.</i></p><hr><h2>Poetically...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 21 Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months...
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Highlights TinyPilot had its best sales month ever, with $69k of total revenue. I’m now five months and $32k over budget on a website redesign. I launched PicoShare, and it’s the fastest-growing project I’ve ever published. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what...
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TinyPilot: Month 29 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Farnam Street
The Winner’s Edge A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do anything. They are paralyzed...
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A lot of otherwise talented people are too pessimistic to actually do anything. They are paralyzed by risks that don’t exist and greatly exaggerate them where they do, preventing them from being one of the best. Consider this lightly edited excerpt from a conversation between...
Artificial Ignorance
The AI research tool that saves me hours every week And why it might revolutionize the search industry.
a year ago
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.
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The hidden media play/pause/stop keys on the Lenovo ThinkPad L390 Yoga ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This...
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ThinkPad keyboards were once well known for their great layouts, feel and functionality. This included the media playback control keys. On the ThinkPad T430, the new chiclet keyboard layout moved the media keys to the function row. Still there, but less convenient to access. The...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
We're Watching Facebook Die In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was...
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In the first quarter of 2024, Meta made $36.45 billion dollars - $12.37 billion dollars of which was pure profit. Though the company no longer reports daily active users, it now uses another metric: “family daily active people.” This number refers to “registered and logged-in
Platformer
Why I'm having trouble covering AI If you believe that the most serious risks from AI are real, should you write about anything else?
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One Useful Thing
Google's Gemini Advanced: Tasting Notes and Implications And then there were two.
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99% Invisible
Whomst Among Us Let The Dogs Out (Again) [EPISODE] All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts...
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All kinds of songs get stuck in your head. Famous pop tunes from when you were a kid, album cuts you’ve listened to over and over again. And then there’s a category of memorable songs—the ones that we all just kind of know. Songs that somehow, without anyone’s permission, sneak...
Tony Dinh's...
Early bird license of my new product TypingMind.com is launching tomorrow on Product Hunt!
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
What Can be Done in 59 Seconds: An Opportunity (and a Crisis) Five analytical tasks in under a minute
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mtlynch.io
Running NixOS on Proxmox One of the stumbling blocks I ran into when trying out NixOS was that I couldn’t run it under...
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One of the stumbling blocks I ran into when trying out NixOS was that I couldn’t run it under Proxmox, my preferred virtual machine server. Through some trial and error, I figured out how to install NixOS as a Proxmox container. Download the NixOS container image First, download...
AFAR Media - Travel...
The Best Luxury Hotels to Book in France in 2023
over a year ago
One Useful Thing
How to Use AI to Do Stuff: An Opinionated Guide Covering the state of play as of Summer, 2023
over a year ago
Society's Backend:...
Welcome to 2024: The Year Where AI is No Longer an Option Why everyone should learn about machine learning
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Commoncog
Setting Up For The Second Half of 2024 A new set of cases for two concept sequences, and the end of the Data Driven Series.
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Actual Progress
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Uncapped notes dont work for first rounds. Uncapped safe notes misalign incentives in first rounds… let me explain why
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Steve Klabnik
Using Crates.io with Buck
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mtlynch.io
Back Up Encrypted ZFS Data without Unlocking It I recently built my first home TrueNAS server. I use it to store the bulk of my personal and work...
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I recently built my first home TrueNAS server. I use it to store the bulk of my personal and work data, so I’ve been learning how to make the most of TrueNAS and its filesystem, ZFS. Today, I want to tell you about backing up encrypted data. My homelab TrueNAS server One of the...
Seeking Wisdom
Attention is all you need – Part 1 This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better...
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This is the 10th post in my series on building a toy GPT. Read my earlier posts first for better understanding. I asked ChatGPT to complete the sentence given the phrase: “I chose that bank for”. It completed the sentences sensibly. Here are the four sentences it generated: In...
High Signal
The Ultimate Guide to Social Proof Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced...
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Social proof is a powerful concept in marketing. It's the idea that as consumers, we are influenced by what others do, especially people we admire. If you have ever seen a website mention its number of users, a review from a customer, or company logos, you've
Electronics etc…
Tesla’s FSD - First and Last Impressions TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach...
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TLDR: It’s a useless technology demo. Introduction Rules of Engagement Test Ride 1: from Kings Beach to Truckee (11 miles) Test Ride 2: I-80 from Truckee to Blue Canyon (36 miles) Test Ride 3: from West-Valley College to I-85 Entrance (1 mile) Conclusion Introduction In the past...
mtlynch.io
Configure a Git Shell Prompt Under Nix I recently read Julia Evans’ latest zine about git, and one of her tips was to configure your...
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I recently read Julia Evans’ latest zine about git, and one of her tips was to configure your terminal shell prompt to show the git status. Julia’s terminal prompt looks like this: ~/work/homepage (main) $ main is Julia’s current git branch. When she’s in the middle of a git...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 2 (Linting) The second in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
The shape of the shadow of The Thing We can start to see, dimly, what the near future of AI looks like.
a year ago
Engineers Need Art
Building Quarter-Cab - Phase I Lets build a simple virtual pinball controller to bring more immersion to your game.
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Abort Retry Fail
Housekeeping for 20240309 Super quick updates
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Electronics etc…
Tektronix TDS 684B Oscilloscope Button Swap Introduction Removing the panels Swapping a Rotary Encoder Putting it all back together End...
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Introduction Removing the panels Swapping a Rotary Encoder Putting it all back together End Result Introduction I recently bought a TDS 684B for cheap at a government auction. With 1 GHz BW and 5 Gsps sample rate, it can be used for those cases where my 350 MHz/2Gsps Siglent...
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Functional reactive user interfaces with propagators I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote...
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I’ve been interested in functional reactive programming (FRP) for about a decade now. I even wrote a couple of blog posts back in 2014 describing my experiments. My initial source of inspiration was Elm, the Haskell-like language for the web that once had FRP as a core part of...
Commoncog
Mental Strength in Judo; Mental Strength in Life Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about...
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Results of a four month accelerated expertise experiment in Judo. Or: "I expected to learn about deliberate practice but instead learnt a ton about my mental shortcomings."
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 066: AlphaFold 3 May 10, 2024.
a year ago
One Useful Thing
AI is not good software. It is pretty good people. A pragmatic approach to thinking about AI
over a year ago
Handprinted - Blog
Designing a Repeat Block by Hand Visualising what your design will look like when printed can be the hardest thing about designing a...
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Visualising what your design will look like when printed can be the hardest thing about designing a repeat pattern. We have a good method for sketching out your initial design to see how it will work when it has been printed. For this project, we will be using a mounted lino...
Society's Backend:...
Weekly Backend #7: 39 Resources and Updates GPT-4o, Google I/O, Fugaku LLM, Prep for Machine Learning Interviews, and more
a year ago
One Useful Thing
Strategies for an Accelerating Future Four questions to ask your organization.
a year ago
Adventures In...
Close Encounters of the Cartographic Kind I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the...
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I was watching the Steven Spielberg 1977 classic, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, with the family last night and nerded out when I saw a character that claimed to be a cartographer. I always do. It was the cartographer who recognized that the signals the aliens sent were...
IEEE Spectrum
The Cheesy Charm of the Clapper “Clap on! Clap off! Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget...
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“Clap on! Clap off! Clap on! Clap off! The Clapper!” This 1980s earworm of a jingle touted a gadget to turn your lights, your TV, or any other electrical device on or off with the clap of your hands. If you watched any amount of American television back then, you probably saw the...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 37 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Arduino Blog
Assess your aquarium’s health with an AI-enabled ultrasonic sensor Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can...
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Below the surface of any body of water, harmful amounts of toxic gases and contaminates can accumulate, which leads to a loss in fish and plant populations if not fixed quickly. But because most water testing, especially in aquariums, is done primarily on the surface, vital...
./techtipsy
How to take down production with a single Helm command You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes,...
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You’re Cletus Kubernetus: a software developer, and a proud Fedora Linux user.1 You know Kubernetes, especially after the time you migrated some services to it. Everything is calm. Your pods are running. Your service is up. Business as usual. You release some minor changes to...
NeuroLogica Blog
How Much Do Couples Share Traits? Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms,...
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Do birds of a feather flock together, or do opposites attract? These are both common aphorisms, which means that they are commonly offered as generally accepted truths, but also that they may by wrong. People like pithy phrases, so they spread prolifically, but that does not mean...
Tech and Tea
Ten food hacks to make your life easier This was almost a post on why millennial motherhood is so challenging, but turned into tactical food...
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
The People Deliberately Killing Facebook Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and...
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Over the last decade, few platforms have declined quite as rapidly and visibly as Facebook and Instagram. What used to be apps for catching up with your friends and family are now algorithmic nightmares that constantly interrupt you with suggested content and advertisements that...
Engineers Need Art
Kim-1 User Manual For sale: a few KIM-1 User Manuals I printed up.
over a year ago
High Signal
Sailing the world while building startups James and his partner Danielle have an enviable working set-up - they live and work on a sailing...
a year ago
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 1 (Teacher's Pet) The first in a series of posts about scripting Visual Pinball tables.
a year ago
Engineers Need Art
Op-Amp Helper PCB A PCB for breadboards to make working with op-amps easier.
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One Useful Thing
On-boarding your AI Intern There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
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There's a somewhat weird alien who wants to work for free for you. You should probably get started.
99% Invisible
The Frankfurt Kitchen [EPISODE] After World War I, in Frankfurt, Germany, the city government was taking on a big project. A lot of...
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After World War I, in Frankfurt, Germany, the city government was taking on a big project. A lot of residents were in dire straits, and in the second half of the 1920s, the city built over 10,000 public housing units. It was some of the earliest modern architecture — simple,...
Weighty Thoughts
The Real Risks of AI Humans are really the ones to be scared of
a year ago
Tony Dinh's...
March 2022: $5,316 MRR and my journey to 30K followers Hello everyone! 👋 I’m happy to share that this newsletter has now reached 2,000 subscribers. Yay!...
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Hello everyone! 👋 I’m happy to share that this newsletter has now reached 2,000 subscribers. Yay! 🥳 I’m very grateful to have your support, and I hope what I shared here has been helpful for you! Let’s dig in. Here is what happened in March 2022. 📊 Reached $5K MRR, but it's...
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Become a Wikipedian in 30 minutes What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be...
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What will we do if Wikipedia falls to the type of AI-generated garbage that seems to be proliferating on the web? The number one thing you can do is learn to edit, and I will walk you through how to get started in only 30 minutes.
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A drone remote designed to enhance magic shows Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed...
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Maker culture has always been a major part of magic performance. Some tricks are well-rehearsed slight of hand, but many of them rely on clever engineering to sell an illusion. And modern technology offers a great deal of interesting possibilities. That is the idea behind Peter...
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Gaza, Again–and Again The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of...
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The Gaza Strip’s spatiality continues to puzzle and fascinate–as much as the pressing question of its sovereignty. The two are of course intertwined, and the boundaries of Gaza are historically defined. The perimeter around the Gaza Strip was in a … Continue reading →
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Lisp: Icing or Cake? The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the...
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The Spring Lisp Game Jam 2024 ended one week ago. 48 games were submitted, a new record for the jam! This past week has been a time for participants to play and rate each other’s games. As I explored the entries, I noticed two distinct meta-patterns in how people approached...
One Useful Thing
Superhuman? What does it mean for AI to be better than a human? And how can we tell?
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Weekly Backend #6: 59 Resources and Updates, AI is Taking Off in Medicine Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically,...
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Google DeepMind releases AlphaFold 3, KANs, LLM Benchmarks are being looked at more critically, Apple is bringing their AI chips to data centers, StackOverflow partners with OpenAI, and more
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Nov 2022 updates: learning new skills Indie updates, B2B vs B2C, Black Friday, surfing, skimboarding, hardware.
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It's the exciting time of the year! This is not the monthly update, just a quick announcement 😄
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Quanta Magazine
How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques...
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In the math of particle physics, every calculation should result in infinity. The set of techniques known as “resurgence” points toward an escape. The post How to Tame the Endless Infinities Hiding in the Heart of Particle Physics first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Seeking Wisdom
Modeling Life: Oscillation This is my 3rd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I...
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This is my 3rd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my earlier posts first to get a good grounding on the foundations covered in the book. A system can exhibit three different types of behavior: equilibrium,...
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Inside the Multidimensional Worlds of Squint/Opera and Journey In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow...
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In 2022, two decades after their founding, creative agency Squint/Opera joined forces with fellow studios ICRAVE, 59, and VMI Studio under the banner of Journey, a "superpowered organization" bridging physical and digital design. Long before the merger, Squint/Opera had...
Internal Tech Emails
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 18 Highlights I’ve launched a new TinyPilot product and debuted a new logo. TinyPilot’s revenue...
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Highlights I’ve launched a new TinyPilot product and debuted a new logo. TinyPilot’s revenue finished the year strong at $55k for December. I’ve learned to manage design projects more aggressively. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish....
Both Are True
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Fixing Memory Exhaustion Bugs in My Golang Web App Earlier this year, I created an open-source app called PicoShare. It’s a simple Golang web app for...
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Earlier this year, I created an open-source app called PicoShare. It’s a simple Golang web app for sharing files. I use it to send files that are too large to be email attachments, but I don’t want the recipient to deal with Dropbox or Google Drive. A few months ago, I started...
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Jan 2022 updates: 4K MRR, new release, new features, new learnings Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of...
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Hello everyone, this is Tony! 👋 In January 2022, I released a new DevUtils version, added a lot of features for Black Magic, reached $4K MRR, and learned a ton! Here comes the monthly update! Hope you like it! 🧩 New DevUtils release: 1.13 The latest release of DevUtils comes...
mtlynch.io
Rough Experiments with Llamafile and LLaVA 1.5 I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs....
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I read Simon Willison’s post about using Llamafile to experiment with open-source chatbots / LLMs. He made it sound so easy, so I decided to try it out. One of my longtime hobby projects is WanderJest, a site for finding live comedy. One of the challenges of that site is that the...
Seeking Wisdom
Ruturaj Gaikwad, P-value, and Bayes’ Theorem IPL is one of the greatest entertainments for a cricket lover like me. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is...
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IPL is one of the greatest entertainments for a cricket lover like me. Chennai Super Kings (CSK) is my favorite team. Ruturaj Gaikwad, the new CSK captain for the IPL 2024 season, lost 10 out of 13 tosses: LLLLWLLLLLLWL. The probability of seeing the sequence LLLLWLLLLLLWL is...
Coffee with an...
Notes on being an Architect
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mtlynch.io
Using Zig to Call C Code: Strings Zig is a new, open-source programming language designed to replace C. I’m still a Zig beginner, so...
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Zig is a new, open-source programming language designed to replace C. I’m still a Zig beginner, so I’m trying to learn the language by using Zig to rewrite parts of existing C applications. One of the first challenges I encountered with Zig is understanding strings. I couldn’t...
The Rational Walk
Apple’s Dystopian iPad Video When Steve Jobs spoke about the intersection of liberal arts and technology, he did not envision...
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When Steve Jobs spoke about the intersection of liberal arts and technology, he did not envision crushing symbols of art and culture.
Business Brainstorms
💡 Business Brainstorms 💡- My favorite ideas of the week 'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin...
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'The future belongs to those who give the next generation reason for hope.' Teilhard de Chardin 💡Broken Hips This feels like one of these problems that most people have accepted as inevitable but that will be solved soon and we will look back and think how crazy we allowed this...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 43 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $80-100k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
Tony Dinh's...
Sep 2022: I'm on Indie Hackers Podcast! Also in September: $12K MRR, built a small new app, SEO, and other updates...
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Running Dolphin Locally with Ollama Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way -...
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Wanna chat with Dolphin locally? (no internet connection needed) Here is the easy way - Ollama. install ollama. after you finsh you should be able to run ollama from the command line. Also you will see the ollama icon up top like this: Iff you are curious - anytime you see that...
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6 pricing A/B tests I’ve run (and which ones worked) How pricing experiments helped me reach $6,000 MRR
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Citation Needed
We need to talk about digital ownership "Ownership" means ten different things to ten different people. Let's talk about what we actually...
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It’s Time to Build It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few...
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It’s been a few months so I wanted to say hey to the 7 of you who follow this blog and share a few updates about what I’ve been up to. Quick recap At the start of 2023 I quit consulting to go full time on Preceden, my SaaS timeline maker, after growing it on … Continue reading...
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The startup founder bootstrapping his creator economy business Douglas Kendyson, a former engineer at Flutterwave and Paystack, has built a profitable bootstrapped...
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Why Vacation to Corpus Christi, TX in the Fall
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33 Powerful Books That May Change Your Life I've read over 1,000 nonfiction books in my life, and these 33 are the most powerful of them all. I...
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I've read over 1,000 nonfiction books in my life, and these 33 are the most powerful of them all. I can honestly say they changed my life, who's to say they won't change yours too? Don't just take my word for it though. Read on for my summary of all 33 books and see for yourself...
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What I Learned from The South Asian Health Solution and wearing a Continuous Glucose Monitor We all know avocados are healthy, and coke is bad. Yet we can’t help but gulp down a coke with a...
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We all know avocados are healthy, and coke is bad. Yet we can’t help but gulp down a coke with a plate full of french fries. It takes an enormous amount of energy to break bad habits. I’ve broken bad habits under two conditions: (a) it’s a do-or-die situation, or (b) you have a...
High Signal
Making $12k from podcasts - James McKinven interview James McKinven is an entrepreneur who has succeeded in making money from podcasts - no easy feat. He...
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James McKinven is an entrepreneur who has succeeded in making money from podcasts - no easy feat. He earns money by editing podcasts for companies
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Instant Plugins for ChatGPT: Introducing the Wolfram ChatGPT Plugin Kit This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the...
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This is the first in a series of posts about new LLM-related technology associated with the Wolfram technology stack. "Color" with something like: When you set up a plugin, it can contain many endpoints, that do different things. And—in addition to sharing prompts—one reason this...
Commoncog
The Limits of Operational Excellence An answer to a puzzle: why is that some businesses go down the Deming path, become data driven,...
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An answer to a puzzle: why is that some businesses go down the Deming path, become data driven, achieve operational excellence, and die, and others acquire Process Power and win?
Tony Dinh's...
February 2022 updates – 6 months milestone Hello everyone! It’s me again – Tony 👋 Time flies! February 2022 marks the 6 months milestone of me...
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Hello everyone! It’s me again – Tony 👋 Time flies! February 2022 marks the 6 months milestone of me going indie hacking full time! 🥳 In this issue, I’ll share my regular updates from February and some thoughts on the first 6 months of my journey. Let’s go!
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 19 Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot...
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Highlights I published my fourth annual retrospective about being a bootstrapped founder. TinyPilot sales continue running strong despite a delay in launching our next product. I analyze how I’m spending my time and figure out ways to allocate my hours better. Goal Grades At the...
One Useful Thing
Innovation through prompting Democratizing educational technology... and more
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Style over Substance
Adding night shading to a Home Assistant mini-graph-card chart One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih....
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One of my favorite Lovelace interface cards for Home Assistant is the mini-graph-card by kalkih. It’s the card running most of the graphs in our smart home‘s dashboard. Surprisingly, mini-graph card is actually not included in Home Assistant by default – honestly, it should be,...
Quanta Magazine
Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but...
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Mathematical proofs based on a technique called diagonalization can be relentlessly contrarian, but they help reveal the limits of algorithms. The post Alan Turing and the Power of Negative Thinking first appeared on Quanta Magazine
High Signal
Black Friday 2023 deals for entrepreneurs Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page...
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Here's a list of some of the best Black Friday discounts for entrepreneurs and developers. This page contains affiliate links. Courses Grow and Monetize your Newsletter - 60% off Monetize Your Newsletter - 60% off Grow Your Newsletter - 60% off WesBos - Beginner JavaScript -...
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July 2022: Aftermath of a viral tweet I gained 1,500 new users, but how many will convert? And other updates in July 2022...
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Build In Public...
How I Built This In Public: Olly Lessons from building Senja.io to $4,000 MRR in Public
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Electronics etc…
Guide Technology GT300 Frequency Standard Teardown MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [...
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MathJax.Hub.Config({ jax: ["input/TeX", "output/HTML-CSS"], tex2jax: { inlineMath: [ ['$', '$'], ["\\(", "\\)"] ], displayMath: [ ['$$', '$$'], ["\\[", "\\]"] ], processEscapes: true, skipTags: ['script', 'noscript', 'style', 'textarea', 'pre',...
xkcd.com
Exponential Growth
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computers are bad
2024-03-09 the purple streetscape Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights...
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Across the United States, streets are taking on a strange hue at night. Purple. Purple streetlights have been reported in Tampa, Vancouver, Wichita, Boston. They're certainly in evidence here in Albuquerque, where Coal through downtown has turned almost entirely to mood lighting....
Blog - Practical...
How Do Fish Ladders Work? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Building a dam imparts a...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Building a dam imparts a stupendous change to the environment, and as with any change, there are winners and losers. The winners are usually us, people, through hydropower generation, protection from flooding,...
somethingaboutmaps
Take the 2024 Freelance Mapper Survey Friends and colleagues, it’s time once again for the survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct every...
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Friends and colleagues, it’s time once again for the survey that Aly Ollivierre and I conduct every two years. We ask people who do freelance mapping work about their fees and other business practices, in order to help bring more transparency to our little niche of the world, and...
Musings on Maps
“He Could Easily Destroy Us” Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter led him to celebrate it as the last preserve of free speech. But...
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Tucker Carlson's move to Twitter led him to celebrate it as the last preserve of free speech. But his relation to speech was long slippery, best reflected on the heuristic display of the 2016 electoral map that was the logo of the pundit's nightly show's and its guiding...
Dustin Curtis
Luxury for everyone: thoughts on Vision Pro and Apple's DNA In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen...
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In 2009, Microsoft released an enormous 200lb coffee table with an embedded 30-inch touchscreen called Surface. Although the iPhone had been around for a little while, the larger screen made Surface feel absolutely futuristic: in the Photos app, you could toss around pictures...
Tony Dinh's...
Dec 2022 updates and happy new year! Hello everyone! It's Tony again with another monthly updates.
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Rest of World -...
Demand for Starlink in Zimbabwe is overwhelming capacity Traditional internet in Zimbabwe is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Elon Musk’s satellite service...
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Traditional internet in Zimbabwe is slow, unreliable, and expensive. Elon Musk’s satellite service sold out within weeks of launching in the country.
Archinect - Features
The Brutalist Is a Cinematic Reflection of Brutalism Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects...
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Brutalist architecture is raw, powerful, emotional, and unapologetically honest. It rejects ornamentation and architectural devices designed to make its inhabitants feel comfortable, instead creating a visceral, primal experience. Brutalism is a feeling—a bold statement that...
Inverted Passion
You can’t jail an AI Here’s why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue their goals...
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Here’s why I worry about AI. We know that people can get away with anything to pursue their goals (of profit, power, etc.) as long as they know they can get away with it, without negative consequences. We have had Hitlers, and insider traders. But the world keeps them in check...
Electronics etc…
HP 8656A Signal Generator Schematics Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the...
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Agilent has made the 8656A Signal Generator Operating & Service Manual available as a PDF, but the schematics of chapter 8 are all spread over 3 or 4 pages, which makes them hard to follow. I spent a good evening extracting the schematics pages, cutting-and-pasting them together...
computers are bad
2023-10-15 go.com Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email...
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Correction: a technical defect in my Enterprise Content Management System resulted in the email having a subject that made it sound like this post would be about the classic strategy game Go. It is actually about a failed website. I regret the error; the responsible people have...
Val Sopi
A Successful Product Hunt Launch <p>blogstatic's <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/blogstatic#blogstatic"...
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<p>blogstatic's <a href="https://www.producthunt.com/products/blogstatic#blogstatic" target="_blank">first PH launch</a> (documented&nbsp;<a href="https://valsopi.com/launching-on-product-hunt">here</a>) was in December of 2022, three months after the <a...
Commoncog
The Skill of Capital What, exactly, is the skill of capital? What does it consist of? How do you recognise it? We walk...
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What, exactly, is the skill of capital? What does it consist of? How do you recognise it? We walk through three stories, and then talk about the shape of the skill in practice.
Matt Mazur
Redesigning Preceden’s Pricing Page Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page....
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Milan (Preceden’s designer) and I recently wrapped up a project to redesign Preceden’s pricing page. Here’s the previous above-the-fold content: And here’s how the new design turned out: Few things to highlight: Very happy with how it turned out. Kudus to Milan for suggesting we...
Citation Needed
Issue 56 – What are you gonna do, arrest me? The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto...
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The Binance CEO's sentencing draws near, and prosecutors have been busy chasing down other crypto criminals. Also, lawmakers take another stab at stablecoin regulation.
Seeking Wisdom
Modeling Life: Equilibrium This is my 2nd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I...
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This is my 2nd post summarizing the key takeaways I got from reading the book Modeling Life. I recommend reading my earlier post first to get a good grounding on the foundations covered in the book. A system can exhibit three different types of behavior: equilibrium, oscillation,...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 23 Highlights The TinyPilot website redesign is finally done. I’ve learned to make Debian packages, and...
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Highlights The TinyPilot website redesign is finally done. I’ve learned to make Debian packages, and it’s surprisingly simple. I’ve given up on Vue and frontend frameworks in general. Goal Grades At the start of each month, I declare what I’d like to accomplish. Here’s how I did...
Engineers Need Art
VPX Scripting - Part 6 (End Sound) This post wraps up the sound work on Teacher's Pet.
a year ago
Arduino Blog
Arduino Cloud is now natively supported on tablets  We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version...
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We’re excited to announce the release of IoT Remote v3.0.0, featuring a native tablet version (available for both Android and iOS platforms) optimized for unlocking the full potential of larger screen sizes. What is the Arduino IoT Remote app?  The Arduino IoT Remote app allows...
mtlynch.io
Go Programming Blueprints by Mat Ryer I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program...
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I’m a fan of Mat Ryer’s work, and his blog posts have had a significant impact on the way I program in Go. I found the book hit or miss. Some chapters were fascinating and taught me valuable Go lessons, while others felt boring and got too bogged down in the minutiae of...
mtlynch.io
ArchiveBox is Super Cool Have you ever used archive.org’s Internet Wayback Machine? It’s a free tool that’s been archiving...
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Have you ever used archive.org’s Internet Wayback Machine? It’s a free tool that’s been archiving the web since 1996. So, if you want to see what Google looked like in 1999, they’ve got it. Internet Archive capture of Google from April 22, 1999 ArchiveBox is like your own,...
Society's Backend:...
If You Understand Bananas, You Can Understand Machine Learning A simplified high-level overview of primary machine learning algorithms for anyone to understand
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One Useful Thing
An Opinionated Guide to Which AI to Use: ChatGPT Anniversary Edition A simple answer, and then a less simple one.
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computers are bad
2023-11-04 nuclear safety Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on...
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Nuclear weapons are complex in many ways. The basic problem of achieving criticality is difficult on its own, but deploying nuclear weapons as operational military assets involves yet more challenges. Nuclear weapons must be safe and reliable, even with the rough handling and...
One Useful Thing
Catastrophe / Eucatastrophe We have more agency over the future of AI than we think.
over a year ago
Build In Public...
Meet Turf Imagine having a Swiss Army Knife for your community use cases
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mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 28 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
mtlynch.io
TinyPilot: Month 36 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs seven other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Myth Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sometimes I save a rant for 10 years and finally decide it's not a thinkpiece, it's a stupid joke. Today's News:
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 064: Big Tech's small models April 26, 2024.
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computers are bad
2024-04-05 the life of one earth station Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all?...
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Sometimes, when I am feeling down, I read about failed satellite TV (STV) services. Don't we all? As a result, I've periodically come across a company called AlphaStar Television Network. PrimeStar may have had a rough life, but AlphaStar barely had one at all: it launched in...
Astral Codex Ten
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Build In Public...
Start here ⤵️ Hey everyone 👋 Welcome to the Build In Public Hub , a beginner-friendly newsletter to help you go...
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Hey everyone 👋 Welcome to the Build In Public Hub , a beginner-friendly newsletter to help you go from zero to pro in the art of building in public. Curated & created with love ❤️ by The ‘Build In Public’ Guy → KP Starting Jan 2023, this newsletter will have a combination of:
The Map is Mostly...
Careful technology Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that...
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Dear friends, There is a commonplace opinion that technology and the natural world, or that technological pursuits and natural pursuits, are at odds. An example: I think this is a false position. But if this kind of sentiment is so often repeated, its worth thinking about why it...
Artificial Ignorance
Tutorial: How to make and share custom GPTs They're not going to disrupt everything (yet), but they're a ton of fun.
a year ago
Christian Selig
A free, 3D printable Meta Quest 3 stand People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I...
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People were really kind and seemed to enjoy my 3D printable Apple Vision Pro stand, a stand I designed in Fusion 360 with the goal of being visually appealing and compact as it stored the headset vertically so it wouldn’t take up too much space on your desk. Turns out there were...
Anecdotal Evidence
'Yes, I'm Perfectly All Right' Had I been more clever or alert I might have heard and recorded my brother’s last words before he...
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Had I been more clever or alert I might have heard and recorded my brother’s last words before he died last August in hospice. A reader asks about this, and I admit I blew it. For the last week or so of his life, Ken was unconscious, occasionally moaning when the nurses shifted...
AFAR Media - Travel...
A New Nobu Opens at Hotel del Coronado With Ocean Views
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Seth's Blog
Getting clear about brand value Consulting firms rank brands on value. Marketers promise to increase it. But brand value has little...
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Consulting firms rank brands on value. Marketers promise to increase it. But brand value has little to do with whether a company is famous or even profitable. The accurate measure of brand value is the premium that consumers will spend over the generic. What time, money or risk...
mtlynch.io
My Fourth Year as a Bootstrapped Founder Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software...
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Four years ago, I quit my job as a developer at Google to create my own self-funded software company. For the first few years, all of my businesses flopped. They all operated at a loss, and none of them earned more than a few hundred dollars per month in revenue. Halfway through...
./techtipsy
Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 (AMD): it doesn't suck under Linux I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop...
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I’ve had the opportunity to try out another new laptop at work. I’ve used a brand new laptop recently, and it was horrible. But this time I’m pleasantly surprised. The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s gen 4 has great specs: CPU: AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U (8 cores, 16 threads, up to 5.1 GHz) GPU:...
Build In Public...
Still on the fence on learning no-code? What's stopping you? It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I...
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It’s not an understatement when I say no-code practically changed my life and my career. In 2018, I was a different KP. Stuck at a corporate job where I felt like I was a tiny cog in a huge wheel, surrounded by uninspiring peers who I didn’t resonate with, bringing home a...
Artificial Ignorance
How to fine-tune ChatGPT No GPU cluster required.
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My New Startup Checklist some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet,...
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some of you may know I've recently started a new company. I'm not ready to talk about -that- yet, but I did want to capture some notes on logistical stuff I have had to ramp up on as a first time founder. hopefully this helps somebody out there.
High Signal
$30k a month from a bootstrapped B2C company Thankbox is a successful B2C bootstrapped website created by Valentin Hinov which is now doing...
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Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Rockwell AIM 65 The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the...
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The Company Rockwell International has been around for quite a while. Willard Rockwell started the company in 1919 to sell a newly designed truck axle bearing. Over the years, Rockwell acquired businesses in many different fields, including defense, industrial electronics,...
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This renewable energy startup helps companies decarbonize across the Pacific Bor Hung Chong from Nefin Group discusses green energy solutions beyond solar panels.
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Noahpinion
Decoupling is just going to happen Chinese policy and geopolitical risk are doing a lot of the work here.
over a year ago
Noahpinion
All the arguments against EVs are wrong EVs are just going to win.
over a year ago
Commoncog
Process Behaviour Charts: More Than You Need To Know The process behaviour chart is the easiest way to differentiate between routine and exceptional...
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The process behaviour chart is the easiest way to differentiate between routine and exceptional variation. This is everything you need to know to use it well.
The Berkeley...
Modeling Extremely Large Images with $x$T As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems...
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As computer vision researchers, we believe that every pixel can tell a story. However, there seems to be a writer’s block settling into the field when it comes to dealing with large images. Large images are no longer rare—the cameras we carry in our pockets and those orbiting our...
Londonist
London Overground Lines Get New Names And Colours The Liberty line?
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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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Tony Dinh's...
April 2022: High churn, reached $6K MRR, and other updates. Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here...
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Hello everyone! Welcome 150 new subscribers since my last issue. I’m glad to have you here! 👋 Here is a quick update from me in April 2022. This should make a nice thumbnail for this page! 😁 🔻 Suffered from high churn In early April, Black Magic observed
Transit Maps
Unofficial Map: High-Speed Rail of France, 2023 by Lars’ Transport Maps Well, this is just beautiful. Having made my own diagram on the same subject matter way, way back in...
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Well, this is just beautiful. Having made my own diagram on the same subject matter way, way back in 2011, I think I’m qualified to say that this is a rousing success. The maps have some similarities – routes are colour-coded either by their Paris origin station or operator...
One Useful Thing
Everyone is above average Is AI a Leveler, King Maker, or Escalator?
a year ago
Build In Public...
Build In Public - Community Edition (Nov 2021) Hey everyone 👋 Here’s a powerful quote to kick us off into the Thanksgiving week: “Gratitude...
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Hey everyone 👋 Here’s a powerful quote to kick us off into the Thanksgiving week: “Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more.” - Melody Beattie I’m grateful for many things this year including my son’s birth
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TinyPilot: Month 30 New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent...
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New here? Hi, I’m Michael. I’m a software developer and the founder of TinyPilot, an independent computer hardware company. I started the company in 2020, and it now earns $60-80k/month in revenue and employs six other people. Every month, I publish a retrospective like this one...
High Signal
Is Ruby on Rails dead in 2024? No! Ruby on Rails, or 'Rails' for short, is a framework for making websites with the programming...
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Ruby on Rails, or 'Rails' for short, is a framework for making websites with the programming language Ruby. The idea behind it is to simplify how programmers create websites and it caused a storm amongst developers when it was released in August 2004 by software engineer David...