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One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
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What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
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Self-documenting Makefiles
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
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Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's see how to make a build more palatable in this day and age if you choose this tool.
Weighty Thoughts
Review of AI in 2024 and Updates
Guest Post in AI Supremacy
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Service onboarding model for Uber (2014).
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is understanding the service onboarding...
yesterday
At the core of
Uber’s service migration strategy (2014)
is understanding the service onboarding process, and identifying the levers
to speed up that process. Here we’ll develop a
system model
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of...
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Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley...
yesterday
<![CDATA[I wrote Interpinkie, a basic Finger client in Interlisp that runs on the Medley environment. This is the main window of the program:
Main window of the Interpinkie Interlisp Finger client.
It was a fun challenge considering I couldn't use Medley's TCP/IP stack.
I...
wingolog
ephemerons vs generations in whippet
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about
. I thought I was
done with them, but it seems they...
yesterday
Happy new year, hackfolk! Today, a note about
. I thought I was
done with them, but it seems they are not done with me. The question at hand is, how do we
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wadertales
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yesterday
Which are the most important migration sites and how are breeding, moulting, staging and wintering locations linked? Forty-four authors have collaborated to bring together ringing, colour-ringing and GPS tracking data in a paper entitled Site-level connectivity identified from...
Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Julia Triay
Hi! I'm Julia Triay, I'm an illustrator and printmaker from Mallorca, Spain based in Norwich. I...
yesterday
Hi! I'm Julia Triay, I'm an illustrator and printmaker from Mallorca, Spain based in Norwich. I moved to Norwich 8 years ago to study illustration. I fell in love with this fine city and made it my home. I recently quit my job to become a full time illustrator, which has been a...
Applied Cartography
January, 2025
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
Headlining...
yesterday
Hello, 2025! (As always, Death Cab remains the soundtrack by which you should read this.)
Headlining this month was my annual review; everything else is flotsam.
But, speaking of flotsam:
A quick development note on the order attribute in CSS
Notes on Linear and Fathom
Why...
DYNOMIGHT
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(1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a...
yesterday
(1) Jimmy Carter rabbit incident
On April 20, 1979, President Carter was on vacation fishing in a pond in his hometown of Plains, Georgia. After returning to DC, he mentioned to some White House staffers that a large rabbit had swum towards him “hissing menacingly” and he’d had...
Archinect - Features
How Moshe Safdie’s Iconic Habitat 67 Was Reborn in a Virtual World
When Habitat 67 was first unveiled to the world almost six decades ago, it changed the landscape not...
2 days ago
When Habitat 67 was first unveiled to the world almost six decades ago, it changed the landscape not only of Montreal, Canada, but of architectural discourse on how modern buildings could be designed, constructed, and lived in. The structure also catapulted its young architect,...
Matt Mullenweg
Studio Sync
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz....
2 days ago
WordPress.com launched a new update to Studio this week, and we’re already seeing some buzz. Studio is our free and open source app for local WordPress development, enabling you to spin up unlimited WordPress sites on your personal computer. Through its newest feature, Studio...
GeoCurrents
Recent Trends in Domestic Migration in the United States
A recent article in Newgeography by demographer Wendell Cox analyzes net domestic migration from one...
2 days ago
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Stat Significant
Which Celebrities Popularized (or Tarnished) Baby Names? A Statistical Analysis
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Which public figures impacted baby naming trends?
High Signal
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2 days ago
Jules is making $500k a year in revenue with his SEO agency Embarque. But now he's switching things up with a move into SaaS.
Uncharted...
The Top 50 US Cities: Why Are They Where They Are?
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2 days ago
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Artificial Ignorance
AI predictions for 2025
And a review of last year's predictions.
2 days ago
And a review of last year's predictions.
The Changelog
Censorship Is Complicated: What Internet History Says about Meta/Facebook
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been...
2 days ago
In light of this week’s announcement by Meta (Facebook, Instagram, Threads, etc), I have been pondering this question: Why am I, a person that has long been a staunch advocate of free speech and encryption, leery of sites that talk about being free speech-oriented? And, more to...
Map of the Week
A Really Greater New York
New York City just introduced congestion pricing in an attempt to eliminate gridlock. There have...
2 days ago
New York City just introduced congestion pricing in an attempt to eliminate gridlock. There have been many other plans over the years to alter the city to improve traffic flow, also to create housing and solve environmental problems. One of the most ambitious plans was this one,...
Trying to Understand...
The Long Run.
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The future belongs to them.
The Pragmatic...
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The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the...
2 days ago
The Pragmatic Engineer Podcast covers software engineering at Big Tech and startups, from the inside. We do deepdives with experienced engineers and tech professionals who share their hard-earned lessons, interesting stories and advice they have on building software.
After each...
watchTowr Labs
Backdooring Your Backdoors - Another $20 Domain, More Governments
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in...
2 days ago
After the excitement of our .MOBI research, we were left twiddling our thumbs. As you may recall, in 2024, we demonstrated the impact of an unregistered domain when we subverted the TLS/SSL CA process for verifying domain ownership to give ourselves the ability to issue valid and...
Laetitia@Work
Flowers of Fire: How South Korea’s Feminists Inspired the World
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Commoncog
The 2024 Commoncog Recap
Everything that we covered in 2024, and what to expect in the coming year.
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mtlynch.io
if got, want: A Simple Way to Write Better Go Tests
There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30...
2 days ago
There’s an excellent Go testing pattern that too few people know. I can teach it to you in 30 seconds.
Instead of writing Go tests like this:
// The common, unrefined way.
username := GetUser()
if username != "dummyUser" {
t.Errorf("unexpected username: got %s, want: %s",...
James Vaughan's blog
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Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough....
3 days ago
Dive into the world of screen reader testing and discover why relying on a single tool isn't enough. Create genuinely accessible web apps that work for everyone
anderegg.ca
Apple and the AI divide
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images...
3 days ago
This morning I read a 404 Media article about Instagram showing people ads with AI-generated images of themselves. I thought this take from Sam Biddle was very good:
Never in my career have I seen such a giant gulf between What Companies Think Is the Most Important Thing in the...
Escaping Flatland
Bring everything into the conversation layer
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that...
3 days ago
A conversation is not an interface that lets you get to know each other; it is an interface that lets you savor and get enriched by the Otherness of each other. The richer the conversation becomes, the more this Otherness can be expressed and explored.
Computer Things
"Logic for Programmers" Project Update
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's...
3 days ago
Happy new year everyone!
I released the first Logic for Programmers alpha six months ago. There's since been four new versions since then, with the November release putting us in beta. Between work and holidays I didn't make much progress in December, but there will be a 0.6...
99% Invisible
Mini-Stories: Volume 20
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button,...
3 days ago
Happy New Year! We’re starting 2025 with four more mini stories! This week we have a sleepy button, electric signs, a very important sticker, and video you can smell. Let’s get into it! Snooze Buttons In the 1950s, General Electric changed alarm clocks forever by adding a snooze...
Blog - Practical...
The Hidden Engineering Behind Texas's Top Tourist Attraction
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I am on location in downtown...
3 days ago
[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.]
I am on location in downtown San Antonio, Texas, where crews have just finished setting up this massive 650-ton crane. The counterweights are on. The outriggers are down. And the jib, an extension for the...
Both Are True
2025 recap
what a year it's been
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Hidden History
The French Space Cat Felicette
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the...
3 days ago
France joined the Space Race in the 1950s, and one of her missions was a test flight involving the first (and so far only) cat to enter space. It did not end well for the cat. In the aftermath of the Second World War, France, under the leadership of General Charles De Gaulle, was...
The History of the...
Progressive enhancement brings everyone in
Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we...
3 days ago
Early computers faced unexpected failures, and that gave us graceful degradation. But on the web, we needed something different. We needed progressive enhancement.
The post Progressive enhancement brings everyone in appeared first on The History of the Web.
Unfiltered by Tim...
The Biggest Wealth Transfer in History Is Happening Right Now
You can be a part of it if you choose.
3 days ago
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FIRE v London
Dec ’24 – 2024 in review
And we’re off, into 2025. Before we get too far, it’s time to take stock (pardon the pun) of 2024....
3 days ago
And we’re off, into 2025. Before we get too far, it’s time to take stock (pardon the pun) of 2024. I’ll follow the 7 point approach I’ve used for the last few years, starting with the wider market context. Q1 How did markets do? December saw falls across most asset classes –...
Coding Horror
Stay Gold, America
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the...
3 days ago
We are at an unprecedented point in American history, and I'm concerned we may lose sight of the American Dream.
Global Inequality...
“To the Finland Station”
Trump as a tool of history
3 days ago
Trump as a tool of history
Arduino Blog
Control your volume with a wireless rotary encoder, as you deserve
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting...
4 days ago
Every decent stereo sold since the invention of sound has included a knob on the front for adjusting volume. There are influencers and entire communities dedicated to evaluating the feel of those wonderful knobs. So why would you settle for the mushy volume buttons on a remote?...
The Rational Walk
A Quarter Century of Investing
Lessons learned from a quarter century of active investing, along with annual performance...
4 days ago
Lessons learned from a quarter century of active investing, along with annual performance statistics.
CONTEMPORIST
A’ Design Award Announces Their Annual World Design Rankings
This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have...
4 days ago
This article has been brought to you by A’Design Awards. A’Design Award and Competition have released their World Design Rankings (WDR) in Arts, Architecture and Design, with China taking first place, followed by the USA, and Japan. The World Design Rankings ranks all the...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Meta Swallows the Slop
Plus: Elon's alter ego and Autistic Stew
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Passing Time
Book Review: Primates of Park Avenue
Despite my quips, far from a hate read
4 days ago
Despite my quips, far from a hate read
David Heinemeier...
Delusional dreams of excess freedom
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they...
4 days ago
Jim Carey once said that he hoped everyone could "...get rich and famous and do everything they dreamed of so they can see that it is not the answer". And while I sorta agree, I think the opposite position also has its appeal: That believing in a material fix to the problem of...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Madrid Cercanías Rail Network, December 2024
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems...
4 days ago
Submitted by Juan, who says: I send the new version of the Renfe-Madrid Cercanías network. It seems to me that it has improved quite a lot the previous version. This previous version had crossroads, angles, etc. I would like to know your opinion about this new map. Transit Maps...
Quanta Magazine
The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans,...
4 days ago
Nanotube bridge networks grow between the most abundant photosynthetic bacteria in the oceans, suggesting that the world is far more interconnected than anyone realized.
The post The Ocean Teems With Networks of Interconnected Bacteria first appeared on Quanta...
NeuroLogica Blog
Plan To Build First Commercial Fusion Reactor
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a...
4 days ago
How close are we to having fusion reactors actually sending electric power to the grid? This is a huge and complicated question, and one with massive implications for our civilization. I think we are still at the point where we cannot count on fusion reactors coming online...
Dr Alun Withey
To Tip or Not To Tip: A Victorian Traveller’s Perspective
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how...
4 days ago
Like it or not, tipping is a big part of hospitality and the service industry. Debates about how much/whether to tip rumble on, but they are not new. Even in the 18th and 19th centuries, travellers were complaining about the amount of unwanted or unexpected extras they had to pay...
Scarlet Ink
Managers Make Teams Deliver More Value, Not Deliver More Output
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a...
4 days ago
True productivity for a team is measured by the value created, not the work completed. The job of a manager is to focus on the value hidden behind the piles of work.
Common Edge
A Radical (and Totally Practical) Rethinking of U.S. Housing Construction
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
4 days ago
Vienna and Paris demonstrate that there are easier, less-expensive ways to build homes.
UX Collective
Reclaiming your humanity in an algorithmic world
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
4 days ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
Wrong Side of...
Britain's sinking reputation
The Anglo diaspora is horrified by the old country
4 days ago
The Anglo diaspora is horrified by the old country
History Today Feed
‘Ocean’ and ‘Tracks on the Ocean’ review
‘Ocean’ and ‘Tracks on the Ocean’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/06/2025 - 11:02
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‘Ocean’ and ‘Tracks on the Ocean’ review
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/06/2025 - 11:02
Rest of World -...
YouTube Shopping wants to unseat TikTok Shop in Southeast Asia
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
4 days ago
The platform is partnering with Shopee to target the region’s growing shoppertainment spending.
swyx's site RSS Feed
Pseudocode for Intentionality
I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my...
4 days ago
I've been interested in being more intentional with my work, time and life recently. Here is my working definition of how to be more intentional.
Atoms vs Bits
Modelling People Smarter Than Me
Models of models of models
4 days ago
Models of models of models
Paul Cudenec
The criminocracy's Colombian connection
Juan Manuel Santos is a Colombian businessman and politician who was president of the South American...
4 days ago
Juan Manuel Santos is a Colombian businessman and politician who was president of the South American country from 2010 to 2018.
Retail Design Blog
SprintCo’s Journey of Innovation and Storytelling
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Open Culture
Bertrand Russell’s Message to People Living in the Year 2959: “Love is Wise, Hatred is Foolish”
Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program...
4 days ago
Bertrand Russell, the great British philosopher and social critic, appeared on the BBC program Face-to-Face in 1959 and was asked a closing question: What would you tell a generation living 1,000 years from now about the life you’ve lived and the lessons you’ve learned? His...
Miguel Carranza
My role as a founder CTO: Year Seven
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing...
4 days ago
2024 has come and gone, and it’s time for my annual post. What a year for startups—like squeezing five regular years into one. Do you remember the Apple Vision Pro, the DMA regulation, founder mode, or the o1 launch? All of that happened in just the last twelve months.
It’s also...
The American Scholar
Amy Wetsch
Life, magnified
The post Amy Wetsch appeared first on The American Scholar.
4 days ago
Life, magnified
The post Amy Wetsch appeared first on The American Scholar.
Sam Altman
Reflections
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into...
4 days ago
The second birthday of ChatGPT was only a little over a month ago, and now we have transitioned into the next paradigm of models that can do complex reasoning. New years get people in a reflective mood, and I wanted to share some personal thoughts about how it has gone so far,...
ntietz.com blog -...
Great things about Rust that aren't just performance
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance,...
4 days ago
Nearly every line of code I write for fun is in Rust.
It's not because I need great performance, though that's a nice benefit.
I write a lot of Rust because it's a joy to write code in.
There is so much else to love about Rust beyond going fast without segfaults.
Here are a few...
Marcus on AI
AI still lacks “common” sense, 70 years later
What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
5 days ago
What’s obvious to people still isn’t always obvious to machines
dthompson
Guile-Bstructs 0.1.0 released
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been...
5 days ago
I'm pleased to announce that the very first release of guile-bstructs,
version 0.1.0, has been released! This is a library I've been working
on for quite some time and after more than one rewrite and many
smaller refactors I think it's finally ready to release publicly.
Let's...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Pi in the Pentium: reverse-engineering the constants in its floating-point unit
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
5 days ago
Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of high-performance processors.1
The Pentium includes a floating-point unit that can rapidly compute functions such as sines, cosines, logarithms, and exponentials.
But how does the Pentium...
Classical Wisdom
Weekend Roundup
Wisdom for the New Year
5 days ago
Overcoming Bias
Feels Gone Wrong
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me...
5 days ago
The films A Complete Unknown, on Bob Dylan, and In Restless Dreams, on Paul Simon, make vivid to me the huge emotional appeal of becoming a musician like them.
African History...
The pre-Islamic civilizations of west Africa
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously...
5 days ago
While West Africa has been part of the Muslim world since the late Middle Ages, as famously demonstrated by the golden pilgrimage of Mali's Mansa Musa in 1324, Islam had only arrived in the region at the close of the 1st millennium.
IEEE Spectrum
SwitchBot Introduces Modular Mobile Home Robot
Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a...
5 days ago
Earlier this year, we reviewed the SwitchBot S10, a vacuuming and wet mopping robot that uses a water-integrated docking system to autonomously manage both clean and dirty water for you. It’s a pretty clever solution, and we appreciated that SwitchBot was willing to try something...
Cheese and Biscuits
Vatavaran, Knightsbridge
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners'...
5 days ago
It was Trishna in Marlebone, all the way back in something like 2009, that opened many Londoners' eyes - not least my own - to the possibilities of modern Indian fine dining. Now, I'm sure Vivek Singh (Cinnamon Club, 2001), Sriram Aylur (Quilon, 1999) and Cyrus Todiwala (Café...
A Smart Bear
Explore vs Execute
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a...
5 days ago
The two main business modalities are more different than you expect. When you hit PMF, it's a culture-shift to switch from one to the other.
Old Vintage...
Refurb weekend: Atari Stacy
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can...
5 days ago
Ask any Atari Stacy owner how to open an Atari Stacy and the answer is always "never, if you can avoid it." So I'll just lead with this spoiler image after the refurb to prove this particular escapade didn't completely end in tragedy:
see the much lighter and streamlined STBook...
Wuthering...
The books I read in December 2024 - From her earliest youth she had discovered a fondness for...
A different kind of month with a different category of reading.
CHINA
Mountain Home: The Wilderness...
5 days ago
A different kind of month with a different category of reading.
CHINA
Mountain Home: The Wilderness Poetry of Ancient China
(5th-13th cent.), tr. David Hinton – The teenagers in The Story of the Stone
play various games based on their memorization of massive amounts of...
somenice
CircuitPython in 2025
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to...
5 days ago
This post is a wishlist for CircuitPython in 2025. Each year Adafruit asks the community to contribute their thoughts or requests for the open source microcontroller language as outlined on the Adafruit blog. In 2025 I would like a library for working with vectors, similar to...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Critics
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I found something lazier than graph jokes!
Today's...
5 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I found something lazier than graph jokes!
Today's News:
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Ratchet effects determine engineer reputation at large companies
How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what...
5 days ago
How do engineers become higher-status or lower-status at large tech companies? In other words, what determines who gets promoted and who…
Jonas Hietala
2024 in review
It’s time for my 15th yearly review.
Nerdy things I enjoyed
I read a lot of fantasy books this...
5 days ago
It’s time for my 15th yearly review.
Nerdy things I enjoyed
I read a lot of fantasy books this year!
My favorite new series were The Kingkiller Chronicle, Gentlemen Bastards series, and The Stormlight Archive.
If you’re curious about Sanderson’s books but a little apprehensive...
computers are bad
2025-01-05 pairs not taken
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with
a lot of histories...
5 days ago
So we all know about twisted-pair ethernet, huh? I get a little frustrated with
a lot of histories of the topic, like the recent neil breen^w^wserial port
video, because they often fail to
address some obvious questions about the origin of twisted-pair network
cabling. Well, I...
The Marginalian
Wherever You Are, Stop What You’re Doing
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater,...
6 days ago
Nothing magnifies life — in the proper sense of the word, rooted in the Latin for “to make greater, to glorify” — more than the act of noticing its details, and nothing sanctifies it more: Kneeling to look at a lichen is a devotional act. We bless our own lives by recognizing and...
Patterns in Humanity
2024 in writing
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
6 days ago
A brief recap of my 2024 posts
Mind Mine
my phone is making me dumb
is yours too?
6 days ago
nanoscale views
This week in the arXiv: quantum geometry, fluid momentum "tunneling", and pasta sauce
Three papers caught my eye the other day on the arXiv at the start of the new year:
arXiv:2501.00098...
6 days ago
Three papers caught my eye the other day on the arXiv at the start of the new year:
arXiv:2501.00098 - J. Yu et al., "Quantum geometry in quantum materials" - I hope to write up something about quantum geometry soon, but I wanted to point out this nice review even if I haven't...
The Honest Broker
The Parable of Anna Akhmatova
Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
6 days ago
Who is more powerful, the artist or the dictator?
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
You Can Now Subscribe To My Blog via Email
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to...
6 days ago
I don’t think you should. I think you should use RSS.
But if you want posts delivered directly to your email, you can do that now.
However, disclaimer: I don’t know if I’ll keep this feature.
It costs me money.
And I don’t monetize my blog.
So sending you an email costs me...
The Diff
Longreads + Open Thread
Paradigms, AI, Pentium, Netflix, China, SBF
6 days ago
Paradigms, AI, Pentium, Netflix, China, SBF
Contemporist...
A Warm Wood Interior Contrasts With The Black Charred Cedar Exterior At This Ranch Lodge In Oregon
Architecture and Interior Design firm Hacker, has shared photos of Black Butte Ranch Lodge that they...
6 days ago
Architecture and Interior Design firm Hacker, has shared photos of Black Butte Ranch Lodge that they completed in Sisters, Oregon.
Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #50: The weird thing about London's New Year's Fireworks
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us...
6 days ago
Plus how the government should respond to Musk's nonsense, and an AI video that might just show us how video production is going to change.
Flashbak
Jean And Rose – A Paris Photo Love Story From 1929
In 1929, Jean, 20, was living on rue Clairault, Paris. He worked at a brokerage house on rue de la...
6 days ago
In 1929, Jean, 20, was living on rue Clairault, Paris. He worked at a brokerage house on rue de la Grange Batelière. On December 11, Jean met Rose, 18, at the city’s Saint-Lazare metro station. She lived in the 15th arrondissement, and took classes in hairdressing at the École...
alexwlchan
How I use the notes field in my password manager
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new...
6 days ago
I use 1Password to store the passwords for my online accounts, and I’ve been reviewing it as a new year cleanup task.
I’ve been deleting unused accounts, changing old passwords which were weak, and making sure I’ve enabled multi-factor authentication for key accounts.
Each...
The Ruffian
How - and Why - To Read...
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
6 days ago
...in a World That's Giving Up On It
Seth's Blog
The system has fingerprints
We all make mistakes. We all do things that we then realize weren’t in our interest, or useful to...
6 days ago
We all make mistakes. We all do things that we then realize weren’t in our interest, or useful to the community. If we do it a second time, it’s worth taking a hard look at the system that set us up for failure. How did the system get here? Who benefits? When we can see […]
Noahpinion
How do we measure whether China's economy is "ahead" of America's?
Comparing economies is an inexact science.
6 days ago
Comparing economies is an inexact science.
Anecdotal Evidence
'A Man of the World Among Ascetics'
T.S. Eliot died sixty
years today. It’s a date marked on my internal calendar. My junior-high...
6 days ago
T.S. Eliot died sixty
years today. It’s a date marked on my internal calendar. My junior-high school
had a bookstore housed in a closet of a room off the cafeteria. I must have
read about Eliot’s death in the newspaper and a few days later bought a paperback
copy of his Selected...
Mazdak
Meta's Fake AI Profiles, the TikTok Ban, Telegram Updates, and Microsoft's $80 Billion AI Investment...
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
6 days ago
Meta's AI Experiment: What Went Wrong?
Probably...
Confidence In the Press
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com...
6 days ago
This is the fifth in a series of excerpts from Elements of Data Science, now available from Lulu.com and online booksellers. It’s based on Chapter 16, which is part of the political alignment case study. You can read the complete example here, or run the Jupyter notebook on...
The Elysian
I’m building a cooperative media ecosystem
Owned by writers interested in a better future.
a week ago
Owned by writers interested in a better future.
Nat Eliason's...
How to Build Your Own Software with AI (No Experience Necessary)
By popular demand...
a week ago
TheCollector
What Was Voltaire’s Philosophy?
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a week ago
Birchtree
My lil' Ghostty terminal config
I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new...
a week ago
I wrote about Ghosty last week, and since then I've played around with it enough to know it's my new terminal emulator of choice. For me the killer feature is how fast it is, putting the most popular apps to shame (Apple Terminal and iTerm, specifically)
A Collection of...
Collections: Coinage and the Tyranny of Fantasy ‘Gold’
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly...
a week ago
This week on the blog I want to take a brief detour into discussing historical coinage, particularly in the context of modern fantasy and roleplaying settings. In particular, the notions I want to tackle are first how did ancient currency systems work in terms of value (what...
Calculated Risk
Q4 GDP Tracking: around 2.4%
From Goldman:
We left our Q4 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter...
a week ago
From Goldman:
We left our Q4 GDP tracking estimate unchanged at +2.3% (quarter-over-quarter annualized) and our Q4 domestic final sales forecast unchanged at +2.3%. [Jan 2nd estimate]
emphasis added
And from the Atlanta Fed: GDPNow
The GDPNow model estimate for real GDP growth...
lcamtuf’s thing
Choosing an op-amp for your project
Just say no to LM741.
a week ago
diamond geezer
25 things not to look forward to in 2025
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25 things not to look forward to in 2025
Jan: The denouement of The Traitors results...
a week ago
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2 5
25 things not to look forward to in 2025
Jan: The denouement of The Traitors results in an unsatisfying victory by someone nobody wanted to win
Jan: Donald Trump becomes President again and the world's media begins four years of paying him far too much...
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