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Strange Loop Canon
Notes on Japan
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Steve Blank
Hacking for Defense @ Stanford 2025 – Lessons Learned Presentations The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished...
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The videos and PowerPoints embedded in this post are best viewed on steveblank.com We just finished our 10th annual Hacking for Defense class at Stanford. What a year. Hacking for Defense, now in 70 universities, has teams of students working to understand and help solve national...
Blog - Practical...
How Sewage Recycling Works [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Wichita Falls, Texas, went...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Wichita Falls, Texas, went through the worst drought in its history in 2011 and 2012. For two years in a row, the area saw its average annual rainfall roughly cut in half, decimating the levels in the three...
Cheese and Biscuits
Uncle Hon's BBQ, Hackney Wick After traipsing halfway across London, dodging travel works and closed Overground lines and...
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After traipsing halfway across London, dodging travel works and closed Overground lines and carriages with malfunctioning air conditioning and all the other things that make moving around this city on a weekend in the summer such an endless joy, it's equally annoying to find that...
IEEE Spectrum
Why JPEGs Still Rule the Web A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the...
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A version of this post originally appeared on Tedium, Ernie Smith’s newsletter, which hunts for the end of the long tail. For roughly three decades, the JPEG has been the World Wide Web’s primary image format. But it wasn’t the one the Web started with. In fact, the first...
Musings on Markets
The (Uncertain) Payoff from Alternative Investments: Many a slip between the cup and the lip? It is true that most investing lessons are directed at those who invest only in stocks and bonds,...
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It is true that most investing lessons are directed at those who invest only in stocks and bonds, and mostly with long-only strategies. It is also true that in the process, we are ignoring vast swaths of the investment universe, from other asset classes (real estate,...
99% Invisible
Flag Days: The Red, the Black & the Green After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of...
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After Minneapolis police officer Derek Chauvin murdered George Floyd last year, tens of thousands of people all over the world took to the streets to protest police violence against Black people. And if you look at images from these marches, you will probably start to notice a...
./techtipsy
My horrible Fairphone customer care experience Fairphone has bad customer support. It’s not an issue with the individual customer support agents, I...
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Fairphone has bad customer support. It’s not an issue with the individual customer support agents, I know how difficult their job is1, and I’m sure that they’re trying their best, but it’s a more systematic issue in the organization itself. It’s become so bad...
Andrew Fraknoi –...
Friday is the Summer Solstice — Caused by Earth’s Ancient Accident Friday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. We explain why. The post Friday is the...
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Friday is the summer solstice, the longest day of the year. We explain why. The post Friday is the Summer Solstice — Caused by Earth’s Ancient Accident appeared first on Andrew Fraknoi - Astronomy Lectures - Astronomy Education Resources.
Confessions of a...
Making System Calls in x86-64 Assembly Watch now | Privilege levels, syscall conventions, and how assembly code talks to the Linux kernel
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Epic Web Dev
Better Test Setup with Disposable Objects (article) Learn how disposable objects solve test cleanup problems in flat testing. Use TypeScript's using...
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Learn how disposable objects solve test cleanup problems in flat testing. Use TypeScript's using keyword to ensure reliable resource disposal in tests.
Dan Quach Blog
Digital Ghosts, Wisdom, and Tennis Matchmaking Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing...
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Digital Ghosts My mom recently had a free consultation from her electric company to assess replacing her propane water heater with an electric water pump heater.  She forwarded the assessment report to me, and I spent some time reviewing and researching the program. Despite...
The Architectural...
I’d rather live in a nostalgic Disneyland than a modernist wasteland Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake,...
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Critics often dismiss traditional or historicizing architecture as mere “Disneyland” — a fake, nostalgic fantasy out of step with modern life. But millions visit Disney’s Main Street every year, drawn to something they rarely find in real cities: beautiful, human-scaled streets...
Alice GG
Discord considered harmful In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now...
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In the past few years, social media use has gained a bad reputation. More or less everyone is now aware that TikTok is ruining your attention span, and Twitter is radicalizing you into extreme ideologies. But, despite its enormous popularity amongst technology enthusiasts,...
nanoscale views
So you want to build a science/engineering laboratory building A very quick summary of some non-negative news developments: The NSF awarded 500 more graduate...
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A very quick summary of some non-negative news developments: The NSF awarded 500 more graduate fellowships this week, bringing the total for this year up to 1500.  (Apologies for the X link.)  This is still 25% lower than last year's number, and of course far below the original...
Eukaryote Writes...
Book review: Air-borne by Carl Zimmer Man, it’s embarrassing to be part of a field of study (biosecurity, in this case) that had such a...
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Man, it’s embarrassing to be part of a field of study (biosecurity, in this case) that had such a public moment of unambiguously whiffing it.
journal – Winnie Lim
playing my own little game My interest in playing board games got reignited after watching some korean tv puzzle shows. After...
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My interest in playing board games got reignited after watching some korean tv puzzle shows. After few days of playing board games my partner was reminded that life is like playing a...
Internal Tech Emails
ChatGPT's 2025 strategy | Peter Thiel | Apple exec meeting ChatGPT should be cool. Right now, it’s useful but not cool.
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Tech and Tea
Making Space When the World Feels Heavy When creating space feels too hard, a little structure and accountability can be the nudge you need.
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Construction Physics
Reading List for 06/14/25 Figure’s new humanoid robot demo, what it would take to create the data for a robot foundation...
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Figure’s new humanoid robot demo, what it would take to create the data for a robot foundation model, “right to repair” on naval vessels, electricity costs and power laws, and more.
Irrational...
What is the competitive advantage of authors in the age of LLMs? Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering...
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Over the past 19 months, I’ve written Crafting Engineering Strategy, a book on creating engineering strategy. I’ve also been working increasingly with large language models at work. Unsurprisingly, the intersection of those two ideas is a topic that I’ve been thinking about a...
The Ruffian
This Charming Man Glimpses of Joseph Stalin From Simon Sebag Montefiore's Biography
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Charles Chen
TypeScript Conditional Types for Type Safety (Without Assertions) Using conditional types to achieve type safety without having to use 'as'
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Dreams of Space -...
My Weekly Reader April 9, 1962 My Weekly Reader for April 9, 1961 is now YOUR weekly reader! Just a minor article about space...
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Global Inequality...
Too much or not enough of Ricardo? Review of “Ricardo’s Dream” by Nat Dyer
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Ed Zitron's Where's...
What're We Even Doing?
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A Collection of...
Collections: Nitpicking Gladiator’s Iconic Opening Battle, Part II This week we’re continuing our three-part (I) look at one of film’s most famous Roman battle...
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This week we’re continuing our three-part (I) look at one of film’s most famous Roman battle sequences, the iconic opening battle from Gladiator (2000). I had planned this to be in two parts, but even though this sequence is relatively short, it provides an awful lot to talk...
Both Are True
Doing Crimes w my dad a throwback for dad day (originally published in May 2023)
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AFAR Media - Travel...
Where to Hike, Bike, and Relax in San Luis Obispo
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Laetitia@Work
Women’s Experience Trap Laetitia@Work #82
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Christopher Butler
The Best Interfaces We Never Built Five fictional interface concepts that could reshape how humans and machines interact. Every piece...
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Five fictional interface concepts that could reshape how humans and machines interact. Every piece of technology is an interface. Though the word has come to be a shorthand for what we see and use on a screen, an interface is anything that connects two or more things together....
Out-of-Pocket Blog
OOP Slack Application is Open! And A New FREE Course!! | Out-Of-Pocket Plus we’re running an experiment…
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Computer Ads from...
Comics from 1977/07 Issue of ROM Only two, so read them slowly
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SatPost by Trung...
Star Wars, Veo 3 and Hollywood in the Age of AI Video PLUS: Apple WWDC Memes, Nintendo Switch 2 Launch.
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Charlie Becker
This is not an About page. CBL #93 - Some thoughts on thinking/acting, naming/doing, and where this blog is headed
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Archinect - Features
Archinect Meets: Stewart Hicks When it comes to architecture-focused creators on YouTube, Stewart Hicks' channel is definitely one...
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When it comes to architecture-focused creators on YouTube, Stewart Hicks' channel is definitely one worth liking and subscribing to. By day, an Associate Professor and Associate Dean at the University of Illinois Chicago's School of Architecture, as well as Founding Partner of...
Working Theorys
From "Shadow Artist" to Artist A conversation with Dipa Halder, software engineer turned full-time artist.
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Computer Things
Solving LinkedIn Queens with SMT No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet,...
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No newsletter next week I’ll be speaking at Systems Distributed. My talk isn't close to done yet, which is why this newsletter is both late and short. Solving LinkedIn Queens in SMT The article Modern SAT solvers: fast, neat and underused claims that SAT solvers1 are "criminally...
Machine Learning for...
How to afford Machine Learning for Software Engineers How I'm planning to make ML for SWEs more helpful while remaining affordable
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NeuroLogica Blog
How Humans Solve Problems The human brain is extremely good at problem-solving, at least relatively speaking. Cognitive...
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The human brain is extremely good at problem-solving, at least relatively speaking. Cognitive scientists have been exploring how, exactly, people approach and solve problems – what cognitive strategies do we use, and how optimal are they. A recent study extends this research and...
Arduino Blog
Find your way to AI with Arduino, at the EDGE AI FOUNDATION’s event in Milan We’re heading to Milan! On July 2nd-4th, Arduino will be taking part in the EDGE AI FOUNDATION’s...
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We’re heading to Milan! On July 2nd-4th, Arduino will be taking part in the EDGE AI FOUNDATION’s annual European event – a three-day gathering dedicated to exploring the future of artificial intelligence at the edge. With a mix of inspiring keynotes, hands-on workshops, product...
Krzysztof Kowalczyk...
Why Go iterators are ugly, clever and elegant Go 1.23 adds iterators. An iterator is a way to provide values that can be used in for x := range...
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Go 1.23 adds iterators. An iterator is a way to provide values that can be used in for x := range iter loops. People are happy the iterators were added to the language. Not everyone is happy about HOW they were implemented. This person opined that they demonstrate “typical Go...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Holly Nairn Hello! My name is Holly Nairn and I am a full time Art teacher in Hertfordshire, a job I absolutely...
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Hello! My name is Holly Nairn and I am a full time Art teacher in Hertfordshire, a job I absolutely love. I work under the name PaperInkDream and I currently live in Essex with my husband and my cocker spaniel Teddy. Apart from printmaking, I am cycling obsessed and love nothing...
Flashbak
Ralph Eugene Meatyard : Masks And Dolls American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard said that masks erased the differences between people.  ...
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American photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard said that masks erased the differences between people.     One day in 1958 or ’59, professional optician and “dedicated amateur” photographer Ralph Eugene Meatyard (May 15, 1925 – May 7, 1972) bought a few dozen masks in a branch of...
Citation Needed
It matters. I care. Giving up on the idea that truth matters is not just cynicism, it’s surrender.
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The Marginalian
The Arguers: A Charming Illustrated Parable about the Absurdity of Self-righteousness Perhaps the most perilous consequence of uncertain times, times that hurl us into helplessness and...
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Perhaps the most perilous consequence of uncertain times, times that hurl us into helplessness and disorientation, is that they turn human beings into opinion machines. We dope our pain and confusion with false certainties that stifle the willingness to understand (the nuances of...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
The Continuum From Static to Dynamic Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and...
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Dan Abramov in “Static as a Server”: Static is a server that runs ahead of time. “Static” and “dynamic” don’t have to be binaries that describe an entire application architecture. As Dan describes in his post, “static” or “dynamic” it’s all just computers doing stuff. Computer A...
Yale e360
Deconstructing Buildings: The Quest for New Life for Old Wood A growing number of cities have launched initiatives to reuse the wood waste from construction and...
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A growing number of cities have launched initiatives to reuse the wood waste from construction and demolition that now ends up in landfills. The challenge, proponents say, is to deploy new techniques for disassembling old buildings and markets for repurposing the salvaged...
The Elysian
We can terraform the Earth—not just Mars If we can revive a dead planet, we can revive our own.
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Explosm.net
Comic for 2025.06.11 - Accused New Cyanide and Happiness Comic
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The Honest Broker
An Ugly New Marketing Strategy Is Driving Me Nuts (and You Too) That's its purpose
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Fairytale Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately it was one of those sexy romance...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: Fortunately it was one of those sexy romance novels, so they didn't need the man's head for the cover. Today's News:
Quanta Magazine
Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time By mathematically proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three...
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By mathematically proving how individual molecules create the complex motion of fluids, three mathematicians have illuminated why time can’t flow in reverse. The post Epic Effort to Ground Physics in Math Opens Up the Secrets of Time first appeared on Quanta Magazine
Artificial Ignorance
The State of AI Engineering (2025) Big ideas from the 2025 World's Fair.
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The Changelog
I Learned We All Have Linux Seats, and I’m Not Entirely Pleased I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of...
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I recently wrote about How to Use SSH with FIDO2/U2F Security Keys, which I now use on almost all of my machines. The last one that needed this was my Raspberry Pi hooked up to my DEC vt510 terminal and IBM mechanical keyboard. Yes I do still use that setup! To my surprise,...
The Works in...
New podcasts: Hard Drugs and the Works in Progress Podcast The miracle drug that could end AIDS. Plus: the Great Downzoning, coming soon.
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Blog System/5
Whatever happened to sandboxfs? Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into...
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Back in 2017–2020, while I was on the Blaze team at Google, I took on a 20% project that turned into a bit of an obsession: sandboxfs. Born out of my work supporting iOS development, it was my attempt to solve a persistent pain point that frustrated both internal teams and...
Atoms vs Bits
Companies That Record You Should Have To Send You The Recording a policy proposal
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Common Edge
The Potential Beauty and Wonder of Storefront Displays Retail windows can do so much more than market goods and services.
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Classical Wisdom
How Calypso Helped Odysseus... Homer's Women: Podcast with Emily Hauser
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Map of the Week
Medieval Murder Maps Medieval Murder Maps is a project of the Violence Research Center at the University of Cambridge....
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Medieval Murder Maps is a project of the Violence Research Center at the University of Cambridge. Using data from the coroners of the cities of London, Oxford and York they have created maps showing the locations of murders in the 14th Century. Sadly the image above (from York)...
TheCollector
What Do We Actually Know about Hieronymus Bosch? Unlike some artists, Hieronymus Bosch was famous in his own time and inspired a generation of...
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Unlike some artists, Hieronymus Bosch was famous in his own time and inspired a generation of artists with his groundbreaking style and unusual subject matter. Even in his pieces that seem more straightforward and less fantastical, Bosch often wove in nuanced layers of meaning,...
Contemporist...
This New Tiny Home Design Is Turning Heads For All The Right Reasons Could 194 square feet (18 m2) really be enough to feel at home? Gabriela Casagrande Arquitetura...
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Could 194 square feet (18 m2) really be enough to feel at home? Gabriela Casagrande Arquitetura seems to think so, and their newest project proves it.
Retail Design Blog
Hotel VMG Villa Kyoto by Moriyoshi Naotake Atelier This is a hotel renovated from a Sukiya-style building in Kyoto. The existing building was built in...
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Rest of World -...
AI is making health care safer in the remote Amazon At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets...
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At overburdened clinics, pharmacists use AI to catch dangerous errors. It’s frontier tech meets frontier medicine — with global implications.
Seth's Blog
Ecosystems come and go Your project doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Your company wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the customers,...
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Your project doesn’t exist in a vacuum. Your company wouldn’t exist if it weren’t for the customers, competitors, marketplaces, systems and tech that make it all work. I used to make almanacs. Long, detailed, fact-checked reference books that might save a trip to the library....
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Anything but protests edition (#65) Government efficiency; Solar power; Data suppression; American wealth; Trade and manufacturing
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Open Culture
The History of the World in One Beautiful, 5‑Foot-Long Chart (1931) In the image above, we see an impressive pre-internet macro-infographic called a “Histomap.” Its...
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In the image above, we see an impressive pre-internet macro-infographic called a “Histomap.” Its creator John B. Sparks (who later created “histomaps” of religion and evolution) published the graphic in 1931 with Rand McNally. The five-foot-long chart—purportedly covering 4,000...
Maps Mania
The Real-Time 15 City Map
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diamond geezer
Northampton Square 45 45 Squared 21) NORTHAMPTON SQUARE, EC1 Borough of Islington, 70m×60m square at the quieter end of...
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45 45 Squared 21) NORTHAMPTON SQUARE, EC1 Borough of Islington, 70m×60m square at the quieter end of Clerkenwell, half of it old and half new, and all a bit on the wonk. It's tucked away in the slice of streets between St John's Road and Goswell Road, somewhere between Angel and...
History Today Feed
‘Miracles and Wonder’ by Elaine Pagels review ‘Miracles and Wonder’ by Elaine Pagels review JamesHoare Wed, 06/11/2025 - 07:00
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Anecdotal Evidence
'What He Knows Who Looks Into Life and Sees' Most of my preoccupations lie elsewhere but I retain a casual interest in what used to be called...
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Most of my preoccupations lie elsewhere but I retain a casual interest in what used to be called field biology. That is, the non-molecular, outside-the-laboratory practice of observing plants and animals, even in the middle of Houston. The motives are pleasure, wonder and...
Trying to Understand...
Politics Without Purpose. And its consequences.
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The American Scholar
A Pair of Elephants The post A Pair of Elephants appeared first on The American Scholar.
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xkcd.com
Good Science
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Wuthering...
A draft Elizabethan Not Shakespeare syllabus In case yesterday’s invitation was a bit abstract, here is my current sense of a twenty-play...
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In case yesterday’s invitation was a bit abstract, here is my current sense of a twenty-play Elizabethan Not Shakespeare syllabus that I would like to investigate beginning next fall.  I’ve read twelve of them. Please note that almost every date below should be preceded by “c.” ...
Abort Retry Fail
Tandy Corporation, Part 3 Becoming IBM Compatible
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Build In Public...
After 6m web apps, Bubble's ready to dominate the mobile landscape 📲 Featured: Exclusive interview with Emmanuel (CEO of Bubble) on the 10-year journey and why he's...
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Featured: Exclusive interview with Emmanuel (CEO of Bubble) on the 10-year journey and why he's excited about the public beta launch of native mobile app builder
General Robots
A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Robotics (An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong...
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(An homage to one of my favorite pieces on the internet: A Brief, Incomplete, and Mostly Wrong History of Programming Languages)
Quantum Frontiers
Congratulations, class of 2025! Words from a new graduate Editor’s note (Nicole Yunger Halpern): Jade LeSchack, the Quantum Steampunk Laboratory’s first...
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Editor’s note (Nicole Yunger Halpern): Jade LeSchack, the Quantum Steampunk Laboratory’s first undergraduate, received her bachelor’s degree from the University of Maryland this spring. Kermit the Frog presented the valedictory address, but Jade gave the following speech at the...
Wuthering...
Not Shakespeare - a preliminary, semi-formed invitation to read plays by Shakespeare's... Here’s something I’ve been wanting to do.  I’ve been wanting to return to the plays of...
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Here’s something I’ve been wanting to do.  I’ve been wanting to return to the plays of Shakespeare’s contemporaries, Christopher Marlowe and Ben Jonson and so on.  The Spanish Tragedy, The Duchess of Malfi, The Knight of the Burning Pestle,  Bartholomew Fair.  It has been a while...
Spoon & Tamago
RIP Kimiko Nishimoto: Japan’s Most-Creative Obachan We were saddened to learn that Kimiko Nishimoto, known for absurdist self-portraits, passed away on...
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We were saddened to learn that Kimiko Nishimoto, known for absurdist self-portraits, passed away on June 9, 2025. She was 97. Nishimoto’s creative journey began, unexpectedly, at the age of 72 when she decided to take a photography class. She immediately fell in love with the...
Chris Grossack's...
A Proof that there's No Constructive Proof of the Intermediate Value Theorem The other day my friend Lucas Salim was asking me some questions about categorical logic and...
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The other day my friend Lucas Salim was asking me some questions about categorical logic and constructive math, and he mentioned he’d never seen a proof that there’s no constructive proof of the intermediate value theorem before. I showed him the usual counterexample, and...
Julia Evans
Using `make` to compile C programs (for non-C-programmers) I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source....
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I have never been a C programmer but every so often I need to compile a C/C++ program from source. This has been kind of a struggle for me: for a long time, my approach was basically “install the dependencies, run make, if it doesn’t work, either try to find a binary someone has...
Essays - Benedict...
AI’s metrics question With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure....
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With every platform shift, we want to measure the growth but we’re confused about what to measure. That’s partly a problem of data and definitions, but it’s really a question about what this is going to be.
Escaping Flatland
Caring for others At Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen, I see a passport fall out of the back pocket of a man and...
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At Kastrup Airport in Copenhagen, I see a passport fall out of the back pocket of a man and immediately (at least) three strangers call out.
This Space
On the Calculation of Volume 1 by Solvej Balle The premise of this multi-volume novel is simple: a modern-day French woman called Tara finds...
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The premise of this multi-volume novel is simple: a modern-day French woman called Tara finds herself stuck inside the eighteenth day of a November. The nineteenth never appears. On the 121st iteration of the same day she begins to write by describing the sounds made by her...
Kagi Blog
Celebrating 50K users with Kagi free search portal, Kagi for libraries, and more... Just last week, we celebrated three years since Kagi was launched.
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charity.wtf
On How Long it Takes to Know if a Job is Right for You or Not A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been...
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A few eagle-eyed readers have noticed that it’s been 4 weeks since my last entry in what I have been thinking of as my “niblet series” — one small piece per week, 1000 words or less, for the next three months. This is true. However, I did leave myself some wiggle room in my...
FIRE v London
May 2025: market springtime I’ve had quite a busy May. It’s been a lovely month, featuring a wedding in the country, a trip to...
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I’ve had quite a busy May. It’s been a lovely month, featuring a wedding in the country, a trip to the Isle of Wight, my first visit to a dairy farm in 40+ years, a lovely trip to the Cotswolds, and more. If you can identify any of the locations above feel free to shout… Continue...
Old Vintage...
There's not much point in buying Commodore Bona fides: Commodore 128DCR on my desk with a second 1571, Ultimate II+-L and a ZoomFloppy, three...
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Bona fides: Commodore 128DCR on my desk with a second 1571, Ultimate II+-L and a ZoomFloppy, three SX-64s I use for various projects, heaps of spare 128DCRs, breadbox 64s, 16s, Plus/4s and VIC-20s on standby, multiple Commodore collectables (blue-label PET 2001, C64GS, 116, TV...
GeoCurrents
Canadian Provinces and U.S. States Economically Compared As noted in the previous GeoCurrents post, Alberta is Canada’s most prosperous and economically...
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As noted in the previous GeoCurrents post, Alberta is Canada’s most prosperous and economically productive province. But it does have, as might be expected, by the country’s highest cost of living. Although living costs in Alberta are above the national average, they are below...
Tony Finch's blog
performance of random floats A couple of years ago I wrote about random floating point numbers. In that article I was mainly...
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A couple of years ago I wrote about random floating point numbers. In that article I was mainly concerned about how neat the code is, and I didn’t pay attention to its performance. Recently, a comment from Oliver Hunt and a blog post from Alisa Sireneva prompted me to wonder if I...