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Res Obscura
Onfim's world Child artists in history
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David Perell
Buenos Aires: The Paris of South America? Have you ever met somebody who was trying really hard to convince you that they’re somebody they’re...
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Have you ever met somebody who was trying really hard to convince you that they’re somebody they’re not, and then you get to know them and you like them but not for the person they’re trying to be? That’s how I feel about Buenos Aires.  A week there piqued my curiosity, and at...
Map of the Week
Tracking the Disappeared The United States Disappeared Tracker is a new Tableau visualization from Danielle Harlow. It shows...
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The United States Disappeared Tracker is a new Tableau visualization from Danielle Harlow. It shows where people have been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This map is part of a dashboard that “visualizes person brought into ICE custody when the...
Computer Things
The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the...
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Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a potential proof (or "witness") for "yes" can be verified in polynomial time. For example, "does this set of numbers have a subset that...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Aurore Swithenbank Hiya, I’m Aurore Swithenbank, a printmaker living in South East London with my partner and cute cat....
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Hiya, I’m Aurore Swithenbank, a printmaker living in South East London with my partner and cute cat. I moved to London when I was 10 from France and haven’t looked back since.  Describe your printmaking process.  My printmaking method is linocut. I plan most of my designs with...
Stat Significant
Which Car Brands are Frequently Featured in Popular Music? A Statistical Analysis Which car brands are a fixture of song lyrics?
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Build In Public...
The Tool That's Making Mobile Developers' Lives 10x Easier Just hunted Boxo AI on Product Hunt which offers a key missing puzzle piece for mobile app...
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Ian's Blog
Securing My Web Infrastructure Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my...
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Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my web infrastructure off Cloudflare, as well as having built a custom web service to host it all. I call this new web service WebCentral and I'd like to talk about some of the steps...
Commoncog
The Jobs to be Done Framework as a Method to Understand Demand How and why the Jobs to be Done Framework can help you sell more, faster, and accelerate your...
yesterday
Trying to Understand...
What Is This "War" Of Which You Speak? Do we mean what they mean?
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Christopher Butler
Developing Digital Disgust Our world treats information like it’s always good. More data, more content, more inputs — we want...
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Our world treats information like it’s always good. More data, more content, more inputs — we want it all without thinking twice. To say that the last twenty-five years of culture have centered around info-maximalism wouldn’t be an exaggeration. I hope we’re coming to the end...
alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
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I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
The Pragmatic...
Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person...
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We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial days and longer trial periods. Could hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms?
AI Snake Oil
AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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Blog - Practical...
When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the night of...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the night of Valentine’s Day 2014, air monitors at an underground nuclear waste repository outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, detected the release of radioactive elements, including americium and plutonium,...
Hidden History
Submarine USS Dolphin The submarine USS Dolphin was specially built as a test-bed for deep-diving designs. At the outbreak...
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The submarine USS Dolphin was specially built as a test-bed for deep-diving designs. At the outbreak of the Second World War, a typical submarine or u-boat was capable of diving to a maximum depth of round 250 feet. By the time the war ended, advanced models like the...
Steve Blank
How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over,...
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Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happened because two very different people were the science advisors to their nation’s...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Running Tests on Generative AI with Autoblocks | Out-Of-Pocket How can we keep these bots in check??
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Paolo Amoroso's...
Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey <![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I...
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<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I rediscovered the first Lisp environment I ever used back then which contributed to my love for the language. Here it is, PC Scheme running under DOSBox-X on my Linux PC: Screenshot...
Alice GG
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to...
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Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry. I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #12 Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that...
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Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that aims to develop AI agents that assist open source maintainers. I think this is a great idea. Open source is a load-bearing pillar in our modern digital infrastructure and...
Lighthouse Blog
What are web feeds?
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Good Enough
Barry is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
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We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re continuing our Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time. Today, we’re meeting the biggest Pika fan, Barry Hess… Who are you? (Who, who, who,...
CrimethInc.
Retailiation: Robin Hood in the Workplace : Steal Something from Work Day 2025 Every year, like many other people, we observe April 15 as Steal Something from Work Day. This year,...
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Every year, like many other people, we observe April 15 as Steal Something from Work Day. This year, April 15 finds a new cast of authoritarians in control of the United States government, recklessly overhauling it to spread terror and fill their pockets. But this will not put an...
Willem's Blog
Vibe Coding What can we learn from successful vibe coding examples? Is programming with AI the new standard?...
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What can we learn from successful vibe coding examples? Is programming with AI the new standard? What are its limitations?
Jake Zimmerman
Typing instance variables in mixins
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Infinite Scroll
The New Age of Thought Crime Conservatives raged against woke cancellations. Now they're eagerly doing it themselves.
3 days ago
Mazdak
OpenAI Launches GPT‑4.1: What You Need to Know About the New Family of AI Models OpenAI has officially released the GPT‑4.1 family — and it’s more than just a minor upgrade.
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The Rational Walk
Writing in Private Writing is an important tool for personal intellectual development even if you never intend to share...
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Writing is an important tool for personal intellectual development even if you never intend to share your work with others.
Old Vintage...
COMPUTE!'s Gazette revived for July 2025 COMPUTE!'s Gazette was for many years the leading Commodore-specific managzine. I liked Ahoy! and...
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COMPUTE!'s Gazette was for many years the leading Commodore-specific managzine. I liked Ahoy! and RUN, and I subscribed to Loadstar too, but Gazette had the most interesting type-ins and the most extensive coverage. They were also the last of COMPUTE!'s machine-specific magazines...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this...
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Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up
Scarlet Ink
Heard of Design Patterns? How About Behavior Patterns. Recognize patterns in management to be able to solve issues, and deliver results.
3 days ago
Common Edge
Message to Stupid Politicians (of Both Parties): Build Things! Do it now, while the country still has hope.
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Josh Comeau's blog
The Post-Developer Era When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus...
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When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some...
UX Collective
When faces go virally wrong Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3 days ago
Rest of World -...
DeepSeek and chip bans have supercharged AI innovation in China Investors believe practical AI applications will fuel the next wave of growth, with startups...
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Investors believe practical AI applications will fuel the next wave of growth, with startups building on top of DeepSeek’s foundation.
Escaping Flatland
The newness of depth Fragments from the cutting room floor, vol 4
3 days ago
History Today Feed
‘Scholars and Their Kin’ review ‘Scholars and Their Kin’ review JamesHoare Mon, 04/14/2025 - 09:00
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Paul Cudenec
Ignore the gaslighting - ZIM is real! The smears directed at those of us who expose and oppose ZIM (the zio-imperialist mafia) serve three...
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The smears directed at those of us who expose and oppose ZIM (the zio-imperialist mafia) serve three distinct purposes.
Cremieux Recueil
The Demise of the Flynn Effect Massive changes in IQ scores over time are much less meaningful than people think
3 days ago
Naz Hamid
Modus Operandi My operating rules and way of living. This is a m.o. (mo) page, or modus operandi page. It lists out...
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My operating rules and way of living. This is a m.o. (mo) page, or modus operandi page. It lists out the way I approach my life and the rules I apply to it to thrive. This is a living document and will be added to as more comes to mind, or as I develop new ones. It is mirrored at...
Nothing Human
Unbendable Arm as Test Case for Religious Belief a hyperstition you can try at home
3 days ago
MMapped blog
3000 days of Duolingo
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Solving the decision...
guitars and javascript - the case for jank worse is better (and that’s why i still write javascript)
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Ploum.net
À la recherche de l’attention perdue À la recherche de l’attention perdue La messagerie instantanée et la politique Vous l’avez...
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À la recherche de l’attention perdue La messagerie instantanée et la politique Vous l’avez certainement vu passer : Un journaliste américain s’est fait inviter par erreur sur un chat Signal où des personnes très haut placées de l’administration américaine (y compris le...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Why I support privacy
3 days ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Python is an interpreted language with a compiler After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted...
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After I put up a post about a Python gotcha, someone remarked that "there are very few interpreted languages in common usage," and that they "wish Python was more widely recognized as a compiled language." This got me thinking: what is the distinction between a compiled or...
lcamtuf’s thing
Real MLCCs (and inductors) have curves Linear components are pretty nonlinear -- and parasitics don't tell the whole story.
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Overcoming Bias
Should I Be Clearly Conservative? A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is...
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A conservative is someone who stands athwart history, yelling Stop, at a time when no one is inclined to do so, or to have much patience with those who so urge it. ― William F.
African History...
Online resources for African history: links to African collections held at 33 Western Museums Up to 90% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s material cultural legacy is kept outside of the continent,...
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Up to 90% of Sub-Saharan Africa’s material cultural legacy is kept outside of the continent, according to a French government-commissioned 2018 report by Senegalese economist Felwine Sarr and French historian Bénédicte Savoy.
Internal Tech Emails
"Let's leverage this position now!!!!" From: Steve Jobs
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Anarchy Unfolds
Not today, pink elephants of doom Blue Bulletin #1
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Ken Shirriff's blog
A tricky Commodore PET repair: tracking down 6 1/2 bad chips .cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%;...
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.cite { font-size: 70%;} .ref { vertical-align: super; font-size: 60%;} code {font-size: 100%; font-family: courier, fixed;} In 1977, Commodore released the PET computer, a quirky home computer that combined the processor, a tiny keyboard, a cassette drive for storage, and...
A Smart Bear
Startup Exercise: What can't be solved with money? What can't be solved with money, are the most valuable things.
4 days ago
Wuthering...
Platonov's Chevengur - “But communism’s about to set in... Why am I finding everything so hard?” Another remarkable Russian novel finally made it into English last year, Andrey Platonov’s...
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Another remarkable Russian novel finally made it into English last year, Andrey Platonov’s Chevengur, written in 1929 but not published until 1972, in Paris. Robert and Elizabeth Chandler have been translating Platonov for decades now, and this novel and the apparatus...
nanoscale views
What is multiferroicity? (A post summarizing recent US science-related events will be coming later.  For now, here is my...
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(A post summarizing recent US science-related events will be coming later.  For now, here is my promised post about multiferroics, inspired in part by a recent visit to Rice by Yoshi Tokura.) Electrons carry spins and therefore magnetic moments (that is, they can act in some ways...
The Map is Mostly...
Growing a Hornbeam Hedge What's involved and the cost
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The Ruffian
How To Write a Book Or At Least, How I Wrote My Book
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Blog - Bitfield...
Bobcoin, blockchains, and cryptocurrency How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a...
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How do cryptocurrencies actually work, though? Join Alice and Bob as they embark on designing a new digital ledger for secure “Bobcoin” transactions.
Global Inequality...
Intelligentsia in power On Bukharin's critique of the Austrian school and John Bates Clark
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Computer Ads from...
Australian Air Force If You're Switched On, This is Paradise.
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Castles in the Sky
We don't have time, we are time. | Friday Footnotes #4 Footnote #4 is based on a passage from 4,000 weeks by Oliver Burkeman.
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Confessions of a...
Binary Arithmetic and Bitwise Operations for Systems Programming Understand how computers represent numbers and perform operations at the bit level before diving...
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seangoedecke.com RSS...
Wicked features Why is working at large tech companies so hard? It’s because a small subset of “wicked features”...
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Why is working at large tech companies so hard? It’s because a small subset of “wicked features” dominate everything else. If you’re…
macwright.com
Tidbyt without the company (async () => { const colors =...
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(async () => { const colors = ['fb6b1d','e83b3b','831c5d','c32454','f04f78','f68181','fca790','e3c896','ab947a','966c6c','625565','3e3546','0b5e65','0b8a8f','1ebc73','91db69','fbff86','fbb954','cd683d','9e4539','7a3045','6b3e75','905ea9','a884f3','eaaded', '8fd3ff', '4d9be6',...
mtlynch.io
Don't Marry Your Podcasting Platform: Host Your Own Podcast Feed Suppose you host your podcast on a platform like Libsyn or Podbean. What happens if you decide to...
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Suppose you host your podcast on a platform like Libsyn or Podbean. What happens if you decide to switch podcast platforms? You already gave everyone a RSS URL that pointed to your old platform. For example Libsyn gives your podcast an RSS URL like...
Electronics etc…
DSLogic U3Pro16 Review and Teardown Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input...
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Introduction The DSLogic U3Pro16 In the Box Probe Cables and Clips The Controller Hardware The Input Circuit Impact of Input Circuit on Circuit Under Test Additional IOs: External Clock, Trigger In, Trigger Out Software: From Saleae Logic to PulseView to DSView Installing DSView...
The Marginalian
How Two Souls Can Interact with One Another: Simone de Beauvoir on Love and Friendship It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal...
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It is in relationships that we discover both our depths and our limits, there that we anneal ourselves and transcend ourselves, there that we are hurt the most and there that we find the most healing. But despite what a crucible of our emotional and spiritual lives relationships...
SatPost by Trung...
The (Ludicrous) Psychology of Slot Machines Slot Machines are the workhorse of Las Vegas casinos. After decades of design tweaks, the "crack...
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Slot Machines are the workhorse of Las Vegas casinos. After decades of design tweaks, the "crack cocaine of gambling" brings in more revenue than every other casino game combined.
FIRE v London
Mar ’25: Anticipating tariffs What’s in the news? Talking about the news in March, give nwhat’s been happing on the tariff front...
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What’s in the news? Talking about the news in March, give nwhat’s been happing on the tariff front over the last few weeks, seems a bit pointless. We entered March with a lot of drama about Ukraine, and some notable ‘ceasefire’ activity on the diplomatic front. We finished March...
Society's Backend
ML for SWEs 6: RAG Is Not Dead Machine learning for software engineers 4-11-25
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AFAR Media - Travel...
A Walkable Food Tour of Historic Madrid de los Austrias
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 113: Liberation Day April 11, 2025.
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IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Tiny Robot Bug Hops and Jumps Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE...
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Video Friday is your weekly selection of awesome robotics videos, collected by your friends at IEEE Spectrum robotics. We also post a weekly calendar of upcoming robotics events for the next few months. Please send us your events for inclusion. RoboSoft 2025: 23–26 April 2025,...
Thu Le
Pen and paper The tactile joy of thinking with lines on paper.
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Moneyness
If it's crypto it's not money laundering It appears to be official now. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, when illicit activity is...
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It appears to be official now. According to the U.S. Department of Justice, when illicit activity is routed via crypto infrastructure, then it no longer qualifies as money laundering. Earlier this week the Department of Justice's deputy attorney general Todd Blanche sent out an...
Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour to Colombia's Central Andes I have recently returned from an excellent tour to Colombia that I led for Quest Nature Tours. This...
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I have recently returned from an excellent tour to Colombia that I led for Quest Nature Tours. This was my third time guiding in Colombia, following excellent trips in 2020 and 2022. Those previous tours covered a lot of ground, in the eastern Andes near Bogotá, the Central Andes...
Math Is Still...
‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be...
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A new proposal makes the case that paraparticles — a new category of quantum particle — could be created in exotic materials. The post ‘Paraparticles’ Would Be a Third Kingdom of Quantum Particle first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Both Are True
Cops with Subs - a buddy comedy starring Mike Sowden and Alex Dobrenko we also talk knock knock jokes, asking for money, and dive deep into a past creative project of mine...
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we also talk knock knock jokes, asking for money, and dive deep into a past creative project of mine that I have NOT fully processed!!!
Classical Wisdom
The Original Great Gatsby Ancient Inspiration
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A Collection of...
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part V: What Tactics? This is the final part of our five part (I, II, III, IV) series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s...
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This is the final part of our five part (I, II, III, IV) series on the Siege of Eregion in Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last time, we looked at the orc siege and marveled at both their lack of works and also their nonsensical siege engines, concluding that Adar had launched a siege...
journal – Winnie Lim
taipei after 7 years The last time we’ve been to taiwan was in 2018, just a couple years fresh into our relationship. 7...
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The last time we’ve been to taiwan was in 2018, just a couple years fresh into our relationship. 7 years later we’re both radically different people with different interests: back then she...
Not Boring by Packy...
Weekly Dose of Optimism #139 Dire Wolves, Base Power, ZBB Regulation, Zipline, Amca, Solano Shipyard
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The Honest Broker
I Offer Subversive Opinions Here are some highlights of my in-depth interview with Image Journal
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NeuroLogica Blog
Bury Broadband and Electricity We may have a unique opportunity to make an infrastructure investment that can demonstrably save...
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We may have a unique opportunity to make an infrastructure investment that can demonstrably save money over the long term – by burying power and broadband lines. This is always an option, of course, but since we are in the early phases of rolling out fiber optic service, and also...
Odds and Ends of...
Spring Mailbag - Questions Wanted! Ask me stuff!
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Waking up at 5 AM Is Dumb. Personal Freedom Is Waking up Whenever You Want. Ignore the productivity gurus
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Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Nightmarica edition (#62) American dystopia; The assault on science; Trade war eternal; Abundance and redistribution;...
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American dystopia; The assault on science; Trade war eternal; Abundance and redistribution; Fertility and the draft; AI and skills; Smartphones and competence
The Berkeley...
Defending against Prompt Injection with Structured Queries (StruQ) and Preference Optimization... Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications....
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Recent advances in Large Language Models (LLMs) enable exciting LLM-integrated applications. However, as LLMs have improved, so have the attacks against them. Prompt injection attack is listed as the #1 threat by OWASP to LLM-integrated applications, where an LLM input contains a...
Atoms vs Bits
Use AI for Slow-Solve-Fast-Check tasks just another human having thoughts about LLMs
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Astral Codex Ten
Come On, Obviously The Purpose Of A System Is Not What It Does ...
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Seth's Blog
Why and how Let’s get rid of science class in school. Instead, beginning in kindergarten, we could devote a...
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Let’s get rid of science class in school. Instead, beginning in kindergarten, we could devote a class to curiosity and explanation. A class that persistently and consistently teaches kids to ask why and to answer how. The unacceptable single-word answers are “because” and...
Open Culture
Hear the World’s Oldest Known Song, “Hurrian Hymn No. 6” Written 3,400 Years Ago Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which...
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Do you like old timey music? Splendid. You can’t get more old timey than Hurrian Hymn No. 6, which was discovered on a clay tablet in the ancient Syrian port city of Ugarit in the 1950s, and is over 3400 years old. Actually, you can — a similar tablet, which references a hymn...
Maps Mania
Spinning at a Thousand Miles an Hour
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Wrong Side of...
Rallying around the (Progress Pride) Flag The European Right must learn to hate Trump
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The Architectural...
Press release: Is this the ugliest building in America? Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be...
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Architects and Urbanists Unveil 2025’s ‘Ugliest Buildings in America’ Ignominious winners to be ‘dishonored’ at the International ‘Aesthetic Atrocity’ Awards this May (New York, NY) An international panel of architects and urbanists has determined that Simmons Hall at MIT is...
Retail Design Blog
Aila Lifestyle Aila Lifestyle, a boutique dedicated to homeware and lifestyle objects, presents an immersive retail...
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Aila Lifestyle, a boutique dedicated to homeware and lifestyle objects, presents an immersive retail experience in Shuwaikh, Kuwait crafted by...
Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “Masters of Uncertainty” Masters of Uncertainty: The Navy SEAL Way to Turn Stress into Success for You and Your Team By Rich...
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Masters of Uncertainty: The Navy SEAL Way to Turn Stress into Success for You and Your Team By Rich Diviney  Amplify Publishing, 2025 We’re dealing with unprecedented levels of uncertainty. But that shouldn’t disempower us. Diviney, a former Navy SEAL, provides insights for...
David Heinemeier...
Believe it's going to work even though it probably won't To be a successful founder, you have to believe that what you're working on is going to work —...
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To be a successful founder, you have to believe that what you're working on is going to work — despite knowing it probably won't! That sounds like an oxymoron, but it's really not. Believing that what you're building is going to work is an essential component of coming to work...
diamond geezer
Trinity Church Square 45 45 Squared 12) TRINITY CHURCH SQUARE, SE1 Borough of Southwark, 75m×60m garden square fronted by...
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45 45 Squared 12) TRINITY CHURCH SQUARE, SE1 Borough of Southwark, 75m×60m garden square fronted by Georgian terraces, although you can't go in the garden unless you're a resident because it's one of those. Trinity Church Square lies just off Borough High Street, and is accessed...
Anecdotal Evidence
'The Rest Is Silence' Here I pause to remember a forgotten poet who remembered a slightly less forgotten poet – a reminder...
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Here I pause to remember a forgotten poet who remembered a slightly less forgotten poet – a reminder that all of us are eminently forgettable, regardless of our purported virtues. Walter de la Mare died on June 22, 1956, at age eighty-three. The journal Poetry assigned William...
The American Scholar
Muscle Memory Michael Joseph Gross on the importance of strength, past and present The post Muscle Memory appeared...
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Michael Joseph Gross on the importance of strength, past and present The post Muscle Memory appeared first on The American Scholar.
xkcd.com
Anachronym Challenge
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Mind Changers
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Last Gasp of the Landfill Economy It seems we're supposed to mourn the last gasp of The Landfill Economy. Perhaps we should celebrate...
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It seems we're supposed to mourn the last gasp of The Landfill Economy. Perhaps we should celebrate its demise. Globalization's great gift wasn't low prices--it was the collapse of durability, transforming the global economy into a Landfill Economy of shoddy products made...
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An American case for building new cities We need to remember how to build things.
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Solar upgrades the Nebulophone synthesizer to enhance playability  Woodwinds and brass are so 19th century. We’re living in the future and now it is synthesizers all...
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Woodwinds and brass are so 19th century. We’re living in the future and now it is synthesizers all the way down. There are many to choose from and the Bleep Labs Nebulophone is a neat example that was sold from 2012 to 2016, with the design files now available on GitHub for...
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just wiped my counter top with orange scented citric acid and now im fiending for orange juice wtf I made my first YouTube video in over a decade.
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I’m a backpack person. Whether for everyday carry or for travel, I’ve always preferred backpacks to sling, messenger, duffel, and, above all, roller bags. But after I severely injured my right arm, I was forced to cycle through alternatives, particularly for day-to-day purposes....
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Ductility in Software I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a...
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I learned a new word: ductile. Do you know it? I’m particularly interested in its usage in a physics/engineering setting when talking about materials. Here’s an answer on Quora to: “What is ductile?” Ductility is the ability of a material to be permanently deformed without...
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Photos Found In Croton on Hudson from the 1970s These found photos and negatives date from the 1970s and 80s and were taken by James Mc Intyre,...
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These found photos and negatives date from the 1970s and 80s and were taken by James Mc Intyre, Croton on Hudson in Westchester County, New York. Some of the subjects have been named. So we’ll add them here, and if you see yourself or someone you know, we’d love to hear from you....
Marcus on AI
Poor ROI for GenAI 61% in a recent survey report no ROI or disappointing ROI.
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Quentin Santos
How to use “real” UART I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This...
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I recently went into a deep dive on “UART” and will publish a much longer article on the topic. This is just a recap of the basics to help put things in context. Many tutorials focus on using UART over USB, which adds many layers of abstraction, hiding what it actually is. Here,...
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Critical Trade Theory You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income...
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You know about Critical Race Theory, right? It says that if there’s an imbalance in, say, income between races, it must be due to discrimination. This is what wokism seems to be, and it’s moronic and false. The right wing has invented something equally stupid. Introducing...
Krebs on Security
China-based SMS Phishing Triad Pivots to Banks China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished...
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China-based purveyors of SMS phishing kits are enjoying remarkable success converting phished payment card data into mobile wallets from Apple and Google. Until recently, the so-called “Smishing Triad” mainly impersonated toll road operators and shipping companies. But experts...
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Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Last Rights Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Sadly, later nobody digs up his corpse. Today's...
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A Usefully Useless Projection Friends, I’m excited to share that I have just completed a world physical map, in my new asymmetric...
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Friends, I’m excited to share that I have just completed a world physical map, in my new asymmetric monstrosity projection. It’s free to download, or if you want to buy a 30″ × 20″ print, you can also do that (and I will be pleasantly surprised). If you download it and print it...
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“Why is this important to me?” When you know why you’re doing what you want to do, you do it better.  You can prioritize clearly,...
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When you know why you’re doing what you want to do, you do it better.  You can prioritize clearly, adapt when you need, and endure the inevitable setbacks. More importantly, you’ll know when you’re heading in the right direction. This sense of clarity doesn’t just magically...
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Demonstrating Kelly Betting with Chips I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a...
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I have a new video demonstrating the Kelly Can’t Fail betting strategy. The idea is: this is a classroom appropriate tool for discussing allocating assets in the presence of risk. The usual Kelly betting on coin-flips is too high variance to expect successful classroom...
The Diff
It Probably Takes More than Four Years to Eliminate Reserve Currency Status Plus! Elasticity; Tail Risk; What to Buy; How the Decision Got Made; US Export Pacing
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Calculated Risk
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The DOL reported: seasonally adjusted initial claims was 223,000, an increase of 4,000 from the previous week's unrevised level of 219,000. The 4-week moving average was 223,000, unchanged from the previous week's unrevised average of 223,000. emphasis added The following...
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Guide to Using AI for Embodied Thinking How to Develop Concepts Grounded in Felt Sense Using Artificial Intelligence
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Creepy Happenings at King Henry VIII’s Haunted Palace (Hampton Court) The Palace of Hampton Court, located in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is undoubtedly...
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The Palace of Hampton Court, located in the London Borough of Richmond upon Thames, is undoubtedly the most famous residence associated with King Henry VIII. Over the last five centuries, the palace has acquired an enormous amount of history, and not all of it is particularly...
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Understanding US Power Outages Modern civilization relies on electric power for almost everything, and even small disruptions to...
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Modern civilization relies on electric power for almost everything, and even small disruptions to electric service are incredibly disruptive.
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The Force That Drives Korea The force that split Korea in 1945 in two is not recent: It has been pulling it apart for thousands...
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The force that split Korea in 1945 in two is not recent: It has been pulling it apart for thousands of years. If you understand it, you can understand all of Korea's history.
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A project to smooth relations with devs Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama: We have to remember the role of VS Code....
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Theo in a video about some recent Visual Studio Code drama: We have to remember the role of VS Code. VS Code was never, ever, ever meant to make money. Microsoft's plan with VS Code was at no point, "we're going to charge for this
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A Home Inspired By The Idea Of A Chapel Jan Žaloudek Architekt has recently completed a home that was built by the architect for himself and...
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Jan Žaloudek Architekt has recently completed a home that was built by the architect for himself and his family. Together with his wife, art historian and writer Jolanta Trojak, they long dreamed of a place where one could connect with the landscape or retreat inward.
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Wardley mapping the service orchestration ecosystem (2014). In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python...
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In Uber’s 2014 service migration strategy, we explore how to navigate the move from a Python monolith to a services-oriented architecture while also scaling with user traffic that doubled every six months. This Wardley map explores how orchestration frameworks were...
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How DC densified Washington, DC, has avoided the worst price rises that have plagued other American cities. Arlington...
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Washington, DC, has avoided the worst price rises that have plagued other American cities. Arlington might be the reason.