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CrimethInc.
It's Safer in the Front : Taking the Offensive against Tyranny Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to...
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Faced with intensifying repression and state violence, there is an understandable inclination to seek safety by avoiding confrontation. But this is not always the most effective strategy. “Counterintuitive though it is, in a confusing situation, often the best, if not safest,...
Epic Web Dev
Why I Won’t Use JSDOM (article) Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest...
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Explore how JSDOM's browser simulation works, and learn front-end testing approaches using Vitest Browser Mode for direct browser testing and native APIs
The American Scholar
Burned The post Burned appeared first on The American Scholar.
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Trying to Understand...
The Curse Of Zhou Bai Den. Or, masochism for fun and profit.
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Rozado’s Visual...
The Political Preferences of DeepSeek AI Models Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to...
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Just a very brief post to report that DeepSeek AI Models manifest similar political preferences to their American counterparts.
Atoms vs Bits
Why And How We Preschedule Posts a self-indulgent meta-post about the process of blogging
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Map of the Week
Old World Language Families This isn’t a map, though there are small maps embedded, but an awesome graphic using the tree...
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This isn’t a map, though there are small maps embedded, but an awesome graphic using the tree metaphor to detail the spread of languages. The size of the foliage represents the approximate population of speakers of each language. The graphic contains Indo-European and...
Raptitude.com
Fix Three Broken Things Seneca pointed out that people tend to be reflexively stingy with their money, but almost comically...
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Seneca pointed out that people tend to be reflexively stingy with their money, but almost comically wasteful with their time. There are at least two ways to take this. One is that Seneca thought he used his time better than you and I do, and maybe he did. Another interpretation...
High Signal
Beehiiv vs ConvertKit - the best newsletter software for 2025 Beehiiv vs ConvertKit is a fierce clash of two newsletter software companies. I'll go over...
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Beehiiv vs ConvertKit is a fierce clash of two newsletter software companies. I'll go over differences on pricing, features and lots more.
Computer Things
What hard thing does your tech make easy? I occasionally receive emails asking me to look at the writer's new language/library/tool. Sometimes...
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I occasionally receive emails asking me to look at the writer's new language/library/tool. Sometimes it's in an area I know well, like formal methods. Other times, I'm a complete stranger to the field. Regardless, I'm generally happy to check it out. When starting out, this is...
Dan Slimmon
Incident SEV scales are a waste of time Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their...
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Ask an engineering leader about their incident response protocol and they’ll tell you about their severity scale. “The first thing we do is we assign a severity to the incident,” they’ll say, “so the right people will get notified.” And this is sensible. In order to figure out...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Deep Impact Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the...
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Soundtrack: The Hives — Hate To Say I Told You So In the last week or so, but especially over the weekend, the entire generative AI industry has been thrown into chaos. This won’t be a lengthy, technical write-up — although there will be some inevitable technical complexities,
Escaping Flatland
Advice for a friend who wants to start a blog What’s odd about you is what’s interesting.
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Matt Mullenweg
Boom & Deepseek What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after...
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What an exciting time to be alive. I was hipped to Deepseek by Andrej Kaparthy’s tweet the day after Christmas, it was clear then that something big had happened and that it was truly open source and open weights (not this fake Llama stuff). It’s been fun to see the rest of the...
Hidden History
The First Space Launch Everybody knows about the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and...
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Everybody knows about the Space Race between the United States and the Soviet Union in the 1950s and 60s, which began with the Russian Sputnik and ended with the American moon landing. But in reality, the first man-made object to enter outer space was not Russian, and not...
The History of the...
Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn’t come before it? The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist...
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The breakthroughs of the web are often compared to the printing press. But could the former exist without the latter? The post Would the internet exist today if the printing press didn’t come before it? appeared first on The History of the Web.
NeuroLogica Blog
The Skinny on DeepSeek On January 20th a Chinese tech company released the free version of their chatbot called DeepSeek....
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On January 20th a Chinese tech company released the free version of their chatbot called DeepSeek. The AI chatbot, by all accounts, is about on par with existing widely available chatbots, like ChatGPT. It does not represent any new abilities or breakthrough in quality. And yet...
The Works in...
Links in Progress: Should we give babies the vote? And births rise in South Korea
yesterday
Posts on Made of...
Building personal software with Claude Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the...
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Earlier this month, I used Claude to port (parts of) an Emacs package into Rust, shrinking the execution time by a factor of 1000 or more (in one concrete case: from 90s to about 15ms). This is a variety of yak-shave that I do somewhat routinely, both professionally and in...
cabel.com
The Snacks & Cereals of 2024 Welcome to 2025. The vibes are a little heavy, so, I’m trying very hard to focus on the things I can...
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Welcome to 2025. The vibes are a little heavy, so, I’m trying very hard to focus on the things I can control — and yes, that includes remembering to share things that delight me like the latest #new snacks and cereals I find at the grocery store!! Yeah. It’s an age-old, very-odd...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
HTML Minification for Static Sites This is a note to my future self, as I’ve setup HTML minification on a few different projects and...
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This is a note to my future self, as I’ve setup HTML minification on a few different projects and each time I ask myself, “How did I do that again?” So here’s your guide, future Jim (and anyone else on the internet who finds this). I use html-minifier to minifiy HTML files...
watchTowr Labs
Get FortiRekt, I am the Super_Admin Now - FortiOS Authentication Bypass CVE-2024-55591 Welcome to Monday, and what an excitingly fresh start to the week we're all having. Grab your...
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Welcome to Monday, and what an excitingly fresh start to the week we're all having. Grab your coffee, grab your vodka - we're diving into a currently exploited-in-the-wild critical Authentication Bypass affecting foRtinet's (we are returning the misspelling gesture 🥰) flagship...
Scarlet Ink
You Can't Schedule Creativity: Putting Inspiration Into Your Outlook Calendar Creation can't be forced, but it can certainly be encouraged gently.
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Josh Comeau's blog
Container Queries Unleashed Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new...
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Container queries expand the universe of designs that can be implemented, giving us whole new superpowers. Now that container queries are broadly available, I think it’s time we start exploring this potential! In this post, I’ll share the “killer pattern” I can’t stop using in my...
UX Collective
Beautiful, boring, and without soul Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
2 days ago
Anarchy Unfolds
To beat fascism, tell better stories On false narratives and the stories we need to tell
2 days ago
Charles Chen
The Inverted Reactivity Model of React A quick take on the 'inverted' reactivity model of React compared to vanilla JS, Vue, and other...
2 days ago
Computer Ads from...
Commodore Magazine Interviews Epyx (1989) They discuss the early days of computer game company.
2 days ago
ntietz.com blog -...
Bright lights in dark times It's kind of dark times right now. And I'm definitely only talking about the days being short. It's...
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It's kind of dark times right now. And I'm definitely only talking about the days being short. It's pretty dark out right now, since it's the winter in the northern hemisphere. Every year, I start to realize somewhere around January that I'm tired, really tired, and don't want to...
Josh Collinsworth
Goodbye, Griff. You were a good boy. A tribute to the member of our family we lost this weekend.
2 days ago
GeoCurrents
New Demography Video: Pro-Natalism vs. Anti-Natalism The second GeoCurrents YouTube video has been posted, which examines the current debate between...
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The second GeoCurrents YouTube video has been posted, which examines the current debate between anti-natalists, who think that the world is severely overpopulated and therefore want to reduce birthrates, and pro-natalist, who are concerned about plunging fertility and therefore...
African History...
The Nsibidi script ca. 600-1909 CE: a history of an African writing system Nsibidi is one of Africa's oldest independently invented writing systems.
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Musings on Markets
Data Update 3 for 2025: The times they are a'changin'! In my first two data posts for 2025, I looked at the strong year that US equities had in 2024, but a...
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In my first two data posts for 2025, I looked at the strong year that US equities had in 2024, but a very good year for the overall market does not always translate into equivalent returns across segments of the market. In this post, I will remain focused on US equities, but I...
Marcus on AI
The race for "AI Supremacy" is over — at least for now. Decades of government kowtowing to Big Tech has thus far failed to produce a decisive victory
3 days ago
One Useful Thing
Which AI to Use Now: An Updated Opinionated Guide Picking your general-purpose AI
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Maggie Appleton
DeepSeek If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you...
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If you're not distressingly embedded in the torrent of AI news on Twixxer like I reluctantly am, you might not know what DeepSeek is yet. Bless you.
Jorge Arango
Humanities Crash Course: Week 4 I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 4. Following...
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I’m undertaking a year-long crash course in the humanities. These are my notes for week 4. Following Ted Gioia’s curriculum, this week I read the Analects of Confucius. As I did last week, ChatGPT helped me select a movie to complement this reading – albeit...
journal – Winnie Lim
on learning the definition of endodontist, and compassion Have you heard of the profession, “endodontist” before? I have not, until very recently. After...
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Have you heard of the profession, “endodontist” before? I have not, until very recently. After suffering for a couple of decades from chronic illness, I have come to realise it is truly...
Naz Hamid • Journal...
✏️ Tag, you're it Tagged by Scott and Luke and in thoughtful return, I’m answering the Blog Questions Challenge here....
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Tagged by Scott and Luke and in thoughtful return, I’m answering the Blog Questions Challenge here. Some of these answers may overlap with the answers I gave Manu for his People & Blogs series, so I’ll do my best to do something a bit different. Please visit Manu’s P&B site...
A Smart Bear
On the (un?)importance of design You redesign your entire website, customers and employees say it's better, but none of the metrics...
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You redesign your entire website, customers and employees say it's better, but none of the metrics change… Does design even matter?
swyx's site RSS Feed
How to download YouTube Videos quickly I used to use yt5s all the time to rip and remix videos:
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Confessions of a...
Launching Live Courses on Systems Programming Modern software development has created a paradox: we build increasingly complex systems, yet fewer...
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Modern software development has created a paradox: we build increasingly complex systems, yet fewer engineers understand how these systems work under the hood.
The Ruffian
How I Use ChatGPT Getting the Most From LLMs
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Fatih Arslan
My first lighting design: Block Lamp After designing a few gadget-related projects, I decided to take on a new challenge: designing a...
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After designing a few gadget-related projects, I decided to take on a new challenge: designing a lightning from scratch. Lightning is an area of fascination for me. I have an ongoing draft post about the various designer lamps in my home that I plan to publish soon. In the...
Wrong Side of...
Our philanthropists and their oligarchs Some foreign billionaires seem to be welcome in British politics
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nanoscale views
Turbulent times While I've been absolutely buried under deadlines, it's been a crazy week for US science, and things...
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While I've been absolutely buried under deadlines, it's been a crazy week for US science, and things are unlikely to calm down anytime soon.  As I've written before, I largely try to keep my political views off here, since that's not what people want to read from me, and I want...
Moneyness
Is it better to bribe Trump by purchasing his memecoin or his stock? Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A...
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Noah Smith writes a provocative article about memecoins as a novel mechanism for bribery payments. A foreign dignitary looking to gain influence over Donald Trump would like to pay him a giant bribe, but doing so directly is prohibited by all sort of laws. Luckily, Trump has just...
The Codist
What I Miss And Don't From Working As A Programmer I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code...
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I retired almost four years ago after nearly 40 years as a programmer. While I still write code daily, I do so to support my generative art rather than get paid for it. Most of my career was spent building new applications, and no matter what my title was, I
Noahpinion
Yes, reshoring American industry is possible Americans can make stuff, after all.
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SatPost by Trung...
Disney's ~$4B Acquisition That (Probably) Saved The Company When Disney made an all-in bet on streaming to take on Netflix, it had to buy a little-known...
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When Disney made an all-in bet on streaming to take on Netflix, it had to buy a little-known technology unit incubated within the MLB called BAMTech.
Notes on software...
An explosion of transitive dependencies A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive...
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A small standard library means an explosion in transitive dependencies. A more comprehensive standard library helps you minimize dependencies. Don't misunderstand me: in a real-world project, it is practically impossible to have zero dependencies. Armin Ronacher called for a vibe...
The Elysian
Deep-research an article with me A six-week workshop for writers.
5 days ago
The Honest Broker
Old Media Finally Wakes Up from a Coma The empire strikes back—or at least it will try
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Bits about Money
A very Chicago gamble Chicago and Bally's have teamed up in an investment offering.
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99% Invisible
The Power Broker Breakdown Breakdown The Power Broker Breakdown may have concluded, but if you’re just tuning in (or if you just want a...
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The Power Broker Breakdown may have concluded, but if you’re just tuning in (or if you just want a quick refresher), this episode is a compilation of the summary portions of the The Power Broker Breakdown series. You can find the entire series in the 99% Invisible feed, wherever...
The Modern House
Box Fresh: five homes under five years old As we are well aware, a modern house has multiple meanings and can span as far back as the early...
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As we are well aware, a modern house has multiple meanings and can span as far back as the early 20th century. This week however, we’ve decided to look to the more recent past and marvel at how architects and developers are translating the requirements […]
A Collection of...
Gap Week (January 24, 2025) Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of...
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Hey, folks. As much as I hate doing it, I have to pull a ‘gap week’ this week, as the second part of the Gracchi series (on the younger brother, Gaius Gracchus) isn’t done yet and I have some academic travel that I need to prepare for which is going to demand most of my …...
IEEE Spectrum
Video Friday: Hottest On The Ice 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. RoboCup German Open: 12–16 March...
Citation Needed
Issue 75 – Absolutely preposterous Trump horrifies even some of his crypto-steeped fans by launching a memecoin before his...
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Trump horrifies even some of his crypto-steeped fans by launching a memecoin before his inauguration, and a flurry of activity from the new administration signals what’s in store for the crypto world in the next four years.
Working Theorys
Untitled Future, 1 a short story serial
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Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 102: The Stargate Project January 24, 2024.
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Common Edge
Countdown to 2030: The Transformation of the Built Environment Can’t Be Derailed The AEC industry continues to confront our environmental challenges—never mind what the headlines...
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Society's Backend
Open AI beats OpenAI, Understand Scaling Laws, Commerce in the Age of AI Agents, and More Society's Backend Reading List 01-24-2025
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Both Are True
This isn't what I wanted to write even this subtitle is completely wrong
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Paul Cudenec
Who was behind the vaccine bonds? In the last of these 14 profiles from The Single Global Mafia, we turn to the president of The...
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In the last of these 14 profiles from The Single Global Mafia, we turn to the president of The Rockefeller Foundation itself, who acts as an ex-officio member of its board of trustees.
Max Rozen
OnlineOrNot Diaries 24 Looking over last year, and a first incident for 2025.
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xkcd.com
T. Rex Evolution
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Overcoming Bias
Celebrity v CEO v Politician Why are celebrities, CEOs, and politicians three different types of people who don’t overlap much?
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Archinect - Features
FireCity | FireLAnd: New Models of Resilience and Community with UCLA's Hitoshi Abe and... As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles, with thousands of residents displaced and entire...
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As wildfires continue to devastate Los Angeles, with thousands of residents displaced and entire communities struggling to recover, the urgency of addressing fire resilience in urban landscapes has never been greater. In light of the ongoing crisis, we are republishing our 2021...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Why are big tech companies so slow? Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer...
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Big tech companies spend a lot of time and money building things that a single, motivated engineer could build in a weekend. This fact…
Daniel Marino
What I’m Using in 2025 I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day...
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I’ve always been fascinated to see what other apps or workflows others are using in their day-to-day lives. Every now and then I learn about a new app or some cool trick I didn’t previously know. I doubt anyone seriously cares about what I’m using, but figured I’d list them out...
essay – snarfed.org
Interactive navigation in embedding space tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today:...
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tdjgordon, Pixabay Discussed a fascinating idea for a foundation model tool at lunch today: interactive navigation in embedding space. Right now, you prompt most generative models with human language. That works, but it’s imprecise and coarse. If you’re generating an image of an...
Classical Wisdom
How To Eat: An Ancient Guide to Healthy Living Registration *NOW* Open
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Stephen Wolfram...
Launching Version 14.2 of Wolfram Language & Mathematica: Big Data Meets Computation & AI The Drumbeat of Releases Continues… Notebook Assistant Chat inside Any Notebook Bring Us Your...
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The Drumbeat of Releases Continues… Notebook Assistant Chat inside Any Notebook Bring Us Your Gigabytes! Introducing Tabular Manipulating Data in Tabular Getting Data into Tabular Cleaning Data for Tabular The Structure of Tabular Tabular Everywhere Algebra with Symbolic Arrays...
Mind Mine
shrinking hurts stop making yourself small because it’s convenient <3
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Patterns in Humanity
Immigration and crime: Norway Are immigrants overrepresented in crime in Norway? And why?
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Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Quote Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: -Albert Einstein Today's News:
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Weighty Thoughts
AI in Hedge Funds and High Finance Talking about the future of AI in finance with Alex Campbell
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Math Is Still...
The Jagged, Monstrous Function That Broke Calculus In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as...
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In the late 19th century, Karl Weierstrass invented a fractal-like function that was decried as nothing less than a “deplorable evil.” In time, it would transform the foundations of mathematics. The post The Jagged, Monstrous Function That Broke Calculus first...
The Diff
Planting a Flag Plus! Buildouts; Growth and Churn; Targeting Tweaks; DeepSeek; European Banks
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Infinite Scroll
The Unbearable Cynicism of Trump 2.0 Who cares, nothing matters, cry about it
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Construction Physics
Why Is Homeowners Insurance Getting So Expensive? The recent Los Angeles fires have highlighted the rising costs of homeowners insurance in the US.
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Uncharted...
Ten New US Cities: Satellite Cities How to build new cities near existing ones
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Irrational...
"We're a product engineering company!" -- Engineering strategy at Calm. In my career, the majority of the strategy work I’ve done has been in non-executive roles, things...
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In my career, the majority of the strategy work I’ve done has been in non-executive roles, things like Uber’s service migration. Joining Calm was my first executive role, where I was able to not just propose, but also mandate, strategy. Like almost all startups, the engineering...
Stat Significant
Which Music Was Underappreciated in Its Time? A Statistical Analysis What music slipped through the cracks but eventually found its audience?
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dthompson
Guile-websocket 0.2.0 released I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an...
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I'm happy to announce that guile-websocket 0.2.0 has been released! Guile-websocket is an implementation of the WebSocket protocol, both the client and server sides, for Guile Scheme. This release introduces breaking changes that overhaul the client and server implementations in...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Announcing…The Out-Of-Pocket Hackathon #2 | Out-Of-Pocket We’re doing it again, but we know what we’re doing now
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Flashbak
How John Steinbeck Harnessed Desire and Self-Doubt To Write The Grapes of Wrath “This is the longest diary I ever kept. Not a diary of course but an attempt to map the actual...
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“This is the longest diary I ever kept. Not a diary of course but an attempt to map the actual working days and hours of a novel. If a day is skipped it will show glaringly on this record and there will be some reason given for the slip.” – John Steinbeck, Working Days, The …...
Rest of World -...
The winners of Rest of World’s photography contest From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries around the world,...
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From Cape Verde to Bhutan, we received 227 entries from over 45 countries around the world, featuring everything from sprawling mines to biometric facial scans.
Retail Design Blog
Māsa Māsa is a restaurant in Riga with natural wine and local products from Latvian farmers. The clients...
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Māsa is a restaurant in Riga with natural wine and local products from Latvian farmers. The clients are a couple...
Maps Mania
GeoGuessing Reimagined
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Disappear from Public Life so You Can Build Something Online with Zero Fear Being invisible is the key to greatness.
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Seth's Blog
Honesty about better “I don’t want to learn to be better,” is something we rarely admit. We don’t say: I don’t want to...
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“I don’t want to learn to be better,” is something we rarely admit. We don’t say: I don’t want to learn statistics, even though it will dramatically improve my decision making. I don’t want to learn a new programming language, even though it will get me a better job. I don’t want...
History Today Feed
An Unreported Murder in East Germany An Unreported Murder in East Germany JamesHoare Thu, 01/23/2025 - 09:16
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Open Culture
The Oldest Beer Receipt (Circa 2050 BC) Above, we have the Alulu Beer Receipt. Written in cuneiform on an old clay tablet, the...
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Above, we have the Alulu Beer Receipt. Written in cuneiform on an old clay tablet, the 4,000-year-old receipt documents a transaction. A brewer, named Alulu, delivered “the best” beer to a recipient named Ur-Amma, who apparently also served as the scribe. The Mesopotamians drank...
diamond geezer
A sheepish apology It's time to revisit one of London's great answered questions. Where is London's most central...
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It's time to revisit one of London's great answered questions. Where is London's most central sheep? It is not, sorry. Please accept my sheepish apology. list of City Farms held by the London City Farms & Community Gardens Association would be comprehensive and thus...
TheCollector
The History of Urban Fires: From Ancient Cities to Today undefined
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Lonely Funeral of Your Speech' Francis Bacon’s death might have been scripted by Monty Python. It’s certainly the most unlikely...
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Francis Bacon’s death might have been scripted by Monty Python. It’s certainly the most unlikely in the history of English literature, at least as reported by the not-always-reliable John Aubrey. It’s absurd but if true it helps beatify the author of The Advancement of Learning...
Christopher Butler
Dreams in the Machine When AI meets the unconscious… I have had dreams I will never forget. Long, vivid experiences...
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When AI meets the unconscious… I have had dreams I will never forget. Long, vivid experiences with plot twists and turns that confound the notion that dreaming is simply the reorganization of day residue. I have discovered and created new things, written essays, stories, and...
Mazdak
LinkedIn Faces Lawsuit Over Alleged Data Use for AI Training In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, privacy and data usage are hot topics—and LinkedIn,...
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In a rapidly evolving digital landscape, privacy and data usage are hot topics—and LinkedIn, Microsoft’s business-focused social media platform, is at the center of the latest debate.
lcamtuf’s thing
Don't build a platform... unless? "Build a product, not a platform" is a common saying among tech entrepreneurs. But why do some...
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"Build a product, not a platform" is a common saying among tech entrepreneurs. But why do some platforms succeed?
Calculated Risk
Thursday: Unemployment Claims Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly...
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Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios. initial weekly unemployment claims report will be released. The consensus is for a increase to 215 thousand from 201 thousand last week. Kansas City Fed manufacturing survey for January.
Astral Codex Ten
Everyone's A Based Post-Christian Vitalist Until The Grooming Gangs Show Up ...
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Arduino Blog
This ‘modular server room’ is an interesting scale POC Server rooms are built for the comfort of servers — not people. But those servers need maintenance,...
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Server rooms are built for the comfort of servers — not people. But those servers need maintenance, which means they need to be accessible. The resulting access corridors take up room that could be filled with more servers, which is why Jdw447 designed a claw machine-esque...
Handprinted - Blog
CMYK Screen Printing! CMYK screen printing is a great way of bringing both your photographic and coloured art images to...
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CMYK screen printing is a great way of bringing both your photographic and coloured art images to life through colour separation. This is achieved by layering four colours (cyan, magenta, yellow, and black) on top of each other using only 4 screens.  To start, you will need to...
DYNOMIGHT
Algorithmic ranking is unfairly maligned What does “algorithmic ranking” bring to mind for you? Personally, I get visions of political...
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What does “algorithmic ranking” bring to mind for you? Personally, I get visions of political ragebait and supplement hucksters and unnecessary cleavage. I see cratering attention spans and groups of friends on the subway all blankly swiping at glowing rectangles. I see...
Vitalik Buterin's...
Scaling Ethereum L1 and L2s in 2025 and beyond
6 days ago
The Marginalian
On Consolation: Notes on Our Search for Meaning and the Antidote to Resignation The thing about life is that it happens, that we can never unhappen it. Even forgiveness, for all...
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The thing about life is that it happens, that we can never unhappen it. Even forgiveness, for all its elemental power, can never bend the arrow of time, can only ever salve the hole it makes in the heart. Despair, which visits upon everyone fully alive, is simply the reflexive...
Res Obscura
The leading AI models are now very good historians Three case studies with GPT-4o, o1, and Claude Sonnet 3.5, and what they mean
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Birchtree
📕 I strongly recommend: Nexus (members post)
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Willem's Blog
Champions League of Webdesign This blog post highlights often-unseen details behind the high performance website of Escape Club...
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This blog post highlights often-unseen details behind the high performance website of Escape Club Amsterdam, blending cutting-edge technology with design and commerce.
Odds and Ends of...
LISTEN: The future of transport – with Michael Dnes Where we're going, we need roads (and trains) (and maybe drones)
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Essays - Benedict...
Are better models better? Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have...
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Every week there’s a better AI model that gives better answers. But a lot of questions don’t have better answers, only ‘right’ answers, and these models can’t do that. So what does ‘better’ mean, how do we manage these things, and should we change what we expect from...
Castles in the Sky
You need to be wholesome-maxxing. You need to be wholesome-maxxing:
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Contemporist...
19-Foot-High Wooden Bookshelves And A DJ Booth For A New Streetwear Store Design studio El Departamento, has shared photos of 'Nude Library', Nude Project's new flagship...
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Cheese and Biscuits
Tarim Uyghur, Bloomsbury Quite often all you need to know about a restaurant is the smell that greets you as you walk through...
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Quite often all you need to know about a restaurant is the smell that greets you as you walk through the door. The smoke and fat of a busy ocakbaşı, The burned onions and masala spices that cling to your clothes after an evening at Tayyabs, the intoxicating mix of funky aged...
the singularity is...
Death of the Visceral Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane...
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Pulled up at a stop light Imagine flying an x-wing down a corridor, having to turn the plane sideways to fit, a missile on your tail and closing, hitting the turbo, feeling the g force, coming up on the end of the corridor, pulling back hard on the stick the second the corridor...
Wuthering...
Finishing The Story of the Stone - What a blessing this is, to return to the scene of my childhood... How I wish all long novels were published in sensible multi-volume editions.  I have finished...
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How I wish all long novels were published in sensible multi-volume editions.  I have finished The Story of the Stone, 2,500 pages in five volumes, the last two translated by John Minford.  Cao Xueqin and his posthumous editor Gao E again share credit for authorship.  Chapters...
Strange Loop Canon
What would a world with AGI look like?
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wingolog
here we go again Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my...
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Good evening, fey readers. Tonight, a note on human rights and human wrongs. I am in my mid-fourties, and so I have seen some garbage governments in my time; one of the worst was Trump’s election in 2016. My heart ached in so many ways, but most of all for immigrants in the US....
David Heinemeier...
Waiting on red Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little...
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Americans often laugh when they see how often Danes will patiently, obediently wait on the little red man to turn green before crossing an empty intersection, in the rain, even at night. Nobody is coming! Why don't you just cross?! It seems silly, but the underlying philosophy is...
The Pragmatic...
Are LLMs making StackOverflow irrelevant? Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in...
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Fresh data shows that the number of questions asked on StackOverflow are as low as they were back in 2009 – which was when StackOverflow was one years old. The drop suggests that ChatGPT – and LLMs – managed to make StackOverflow’s business model irrelevant in about two years’...
Ken Shirriff's blog
Interesting BiCMOS circuits in the Pentium, reverse-engineered Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of...
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Intel released the powerful Pentium processor in 1993, establishing a long-running brand of processors. Earlier, I wrote about the ROM in the Pentium's floating point unit that holds constants such as π. In this post, I'll look at some interesting circuits associated with this...
Blog - Practical...
Why are the Dutch So Famous for Waterworks? [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Veluwemeer...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] This is the Veluwemeer (velOOwemeer) Aqueduct in Harderwijk (HAR-der-vehk), Netherlands. It solves a pretty simple problem. If you put a bridge for vehicles over a navigable waterway, you often have to make it...