Cremieux Recueil
National IQs Are Valid
National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
14 hours ago
National IQ estimates are robust, reliable, and realistic
DYNOMIGHT
I am offering mentoring
What is this?
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d...
22 hours ago
What is this?
I am offering to act as a “mentor”, to you, in case that seems like something you’d find useful.
How will it work?
We will meet three times for 30 minutes. During those sessions, I’ll try to help you do whatever it is you’re trying to do. Then I’ll sit back and...
escape the algorithm
So you want to escape the algorithm
A primer
8 hours ago
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Transcarent, AI Therapists, Interoperability, and more | Out-Of-Pocket
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
10 hours ago
Plus Out-Of-Pocket is hiring!!
Both Are True
why isn't there an A24 for kids?
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
7 hours ago
my toddler has terrible taste and I've had enough
Irrational...
Bridging theory and practice in engineering strategy.
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any...
11 hours ago
Some people I’ve worked with have lost hope that engineering strategy
actually exists within any engineering organizations.
I imagine that they, reading through the
steps to build engineering strategy,
or the strategy for navigating private equity ownership,
are not impressed....
Handprinted - Blog
Kathryn Desforges: Meet The Maker
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process,...
12 hours ago
I'm Kathryn Desforges, a Devon-born, Yorkshire-based artist with a passion for printmaking, process, and material experimentation. I specialise in etching, lithography and woodcut, and alongside my studio practice, my career as a printmaking technician and tutor intertwines with...
Escaping Flatland
A funny thing about curiosity
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to...
3 hours ago
Following your curiosity, you can bring something new and beautiful into the world as a gift to others. But to go there you have to do things that others will think stupid and embarrassing.
Res Obscura
2,000-year-old wine and the uncanny immediacy of the past
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
yesterday
Why artifacts like the Carmona Wine Urn, the Pazyryk Rug, and the Sword of Goujian are so important
Bits about Money
Bits about Money yearly recap and plans
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
yesterday
What we covered in 2024, what are plans are in 2025, and a solicitation for supporting memberships.
Map of the Week
Los Angeles Wildfire Extent
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in...
yesterday
The extent of the forest fires in and around Los Angeles is horrific and may become even worse in the next few days. The New York Times has some very detailed maps showing the extent of destruction. Here is a close up of Altadena from the Hurst Fire.
via New York Times -...
Computer Things
What are the Rosettas of formal specification?
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release...
yesterday
First of all, I just released version 0.6 of Logic for Programmers! You can get it here. Release notes in the footnote.1
I've been thinking about my next project after the book's done. One idea is to do a survey of new formal specification languages. There's been a lot of new...
Raptitude.com
The Tiniest Mission
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is:...
yesterday
Sometimes doing a small thing can be extremely satisfying, out of all proportion to how easy it is: placing a jigsaw puzzle piece into the right slot, wiping your phone screen spotless, returning a tool to its designated hook, or making a nice diagonal cut across a lovingly-made...
Stat Significant
What Are the Greatest Sequels of All Time? A Statistical Analysis
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
yesterday
What are the best movie sequels, and why?
Product Identity
Looking for humanness in the world wide social
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
yesterday
This is the first part of a series on the identity of social networks.
Trying to Understand...
When Ukraine Is Over ...
How will they turn out the lights?
yesterday
How will they turn out the lights?
Atoms vs Bits
80/20 Will Writing
It's not as hard as you think
yesterday
It's not as hard as you think
./techtipsy
Backing up another PC with a single Ethernet cable
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device...
yesterday
I was in a pinch.
I needed to make a full disk backup of a PC, but I had no external storage device with me to store it on.
The local Wi-Fi network was also way too slow to transfer the disk over it.
All I had was my laptop with an Ethernet port, a Fedora Linux USB stick, and a...
James Vaughan's blog
A surprising scam email that evaded Gmail's spam filter
yesterday
99% Invisible
Ancient DMs
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across...
2 days ago
Archaeologists searching through the ruins of the very ancient past are always happy to come across an epic poem or a historical chronicle, but very often the hardest documents to find are the ones that tell historians something about everyday life. About what it was like to be a...
Nat Eliason's...
Between Drafts: The Podcast for Writers and Aspiring Authors
With me and Nathan Baugh
2 days ago
Hidden History
The Marco Polo Bridge Incident
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For...
2 days ago
For Europeans, the Second World War started on September 1, 1939, when Germany invaded Poland. For the United States, it began with the December 7, 1941, Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. But for Asians, the war began on June 7, 1937, at the Marco Polo Bridge in China. The Second...
Uncharted...
Where to Build 10 New Cities in the US, Part 1
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
2 days ago
Plus vote on new types of content for Uncharted Territories!
Unfiltered by Tim...
Normalize Being Difficult to Get a Hold Of
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
2 days ago
This bizarre entrepreneur who makes $7M a year is onto something
The American Scholar
“The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The...
2 days ago
Poems read aloud, beautifully
The post “The Purse-Seine” by Robinson Jeffers appeared first on The American Scholar.
Moneyness
Stablecoins are non-fungible, bank deposits are fungible
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive....
2 days ago
On Twitter/X, I recently suggested that the network effects of the stablecoin market are massive. Tether, which has four times more wallets than all other stablecoins, is locked-in as the stablecoin lingua franca, just like English has been locked-in as the global language of...
GeoCurrents
Mapping China’s Debated Fertility Figures
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the...
3 days ago
According to the United Nations Population Fund, China’s 2024 Total Fertility Rate (TFR: the expected number of children per woman) was 1.2. Among sovereign states, only Singapore and South Korea are ranked below China (at 1.1 and 0.9 respectively). Some sources, however, contend...
Cheese and Biscuits
Vetch, Liverpool
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out...
3 days ago
The best way of experiencing 90% of the fun and frolics of a top-end restaurant whilst shelling out less than 50% of the usual cost is to go for a weekday lunch or early bird menu. Some of the most exciting dining spots in the country have some remarkably reasonably priced...
Common Edge
Unlocking the Mysteries of Zoning
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive...
3 days ago
Sara Bronin’s new book, Key to the City: How Zoning Shapes Our World, is a deep, accessible dive into the prosaic realms of urban planning.
GitButler
Why is Git Autocorrect too fast for Formula One drivers?
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
3 days ago
Why does Git's autocorrect wait 0.1s before executing a mistyped command? Let's dig in.
Blog - Bitfield...
How to know when it's time to go
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time....
3 days ago
Leaving a job is never easy, and it’s a consequential decision. But when
it’s time, it’s time. Here’s how to escape the comfort trap, and take the
next step in your career.
Construction Physics
Why Skyscrapers Became Glass Boxes
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely...
3 days ago
Everything put into the building that is unnecessary, every cubic foot that is used for purely ornamental purposes beyond that needed to express its use and to make it harmonize with others of its class, is a waste — is, to put it in plain English, perverting someone’s money —...
UX Collective
Meta: you can’t put the toothpaste back in the tube
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
3 days ago
Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
latest projects -...
Fluid Simulation Pendant
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
3 days ago
[Hardware] Wearable real-time FLIP device
History Today Feed
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
3 days ago
Archdruid William Price Challenges Funerary Rites
JamesHoare
Mon, 01/13/2025 - 10:35
wingolog
an annoying failure mode of copying nurseries
I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be...
3 days ago
I just found a funny failure mode in the
garbage collector and
thought readers might be amused.Whippet
Say you have a semi-space nursery and a semi-space old generation. Both
are block-structured. You are allocating live data, say, a long linked
list. Allocation fills the...
Commoncog
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota on Human-AI Symbiosis
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented...
3 days ago
Lia DiBello and Neil Sahota join Cedric Chin to talk about a human-first, expertise-oriented approach to AI in real world domains.
Wrong Side of...
Britain's Chernobyl?
How bad will the fallout be?
3 days ago
How bad will the fallout be?
Odds and Ends of...
New event! How AI can (maybe) fix the government!
Book your tickets now!
3 days ago
Scarlet Ink
4 Patterns in Software Development Projects Which Lead to Failure
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
3 days ago
With experience, you can recognize the less obvious patterns which lead to costly disasters.
Basta’s Notes
The ghosts that lives in my garage
Some thoughts about machine learning
3 days ago
Some thoughts about machine learning
ntietz.com blog -...
Beginning of a MIDI GUI in Rust
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and...
3 days ago
A project I'm working on (which is definitely not my SIGBOVIK submission for this year, and definitely not about computer ergonomics) requires me to use MIDI.
And to do custom handling of it.
So I need something that receives those MIDI events and handles them.
But... I'm going...
Blog posts of...
Five – A Sci-Fi Short Story – Chapter 1
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
3 days ago
Chapter 1 of a Sci-Fi short story i wrote
Applied Cartography
Truncating timedeltas in Django
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for...
3 days ago
Consider a fan-out-ish model that you want to aggregate a bunch of: likes on a post, for instance.
class Post(models.Model):
created_at = models.DateTimeField()
class Event(models.Model):
post = models.ForeignKey(Post, on_delete=models.CASCADE)
created_at =...
The Honest Broker
My Survey of 16 Classic Works of New Journalism
Let's make New Journalism new again
4 days ago
Let's make New Journalism new again
Internal Tech Emails
"OpenAI is on a path of certain failure"
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be...
4 days ago
There obviously needs to be immediate and dramatic action or everyone except for Google will be consigned to irrelevance.
African History...
A complete history of the Sudano-Sahelian architecture of west Africa: from antiquity to the 20th...
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the...
4 days ago
The westernmost region of Africa which forms the watershed of the great rivers of the Senegal, the Volta and the Niger, is home to one of the world's oldest surviving building traditions, called the ‘Sudano-Sahelian’ architecture.
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Gotchas in Naming CSS View Transitions
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly...
4 days ago
I’m playing with making cross-document view transitions work on this blog.
Nothing fancy. Mostly copying how Dave Rupert does it on his site where you get a cross-fade animation on the whole page generally, and a little position animation on the page title specifically.
To...
Nabeel S. Qureshi
Principles
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open...
4 days ago
// This was originally a Google Doc where I gathered hard-won life lessons; eventually I open sourced it. It got a great response, including a shoutout from Tim Ferriss, so here it is on Substack.
Ken Shirriff's blog
It's time to abandon the cargo cult metaphor
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers.
This metaphor was popularized by Richard...
4 days ago
The cargo cult metaphor is commonly used by programmers.
This metaphor was popularized by Richard Feynman's
"cargo cult science" talk with a vivid description of South Seas cargo cults.
However, this metaphor has three major problems.
First,
the pop-culture depiction of cargo...
Arduino Blog
This maker designed a custom flight controller for his supercapacitor-powered drone
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a...
4 days ago
Basic drones are very affordable these days—you can literally find some for less than the cost of a fast food drive-thru meal. But that doesn’t mean drones are easy to control. That is actually quite difficult, but manufacturers are able to work off of established reference...
Confessions of a...
How Unix Spell Ran in 64kB RAM
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and...
4 days ago
How do you fit a dictionary in 64kb RAM? Unix engineers solved it with clever data structures and compression tricks. Here's the fascinating story behind it.
Anarchy Unfolds
We Don't Need Conspiracies
The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
4 days ago
The real stories behind our problems are scary enough
A Smart Bear
The Important Thing -- powerful enough to override all your deficiencies
This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a...
4 days ago
This is the reason that startups succeed despite their many weaknesses. And it's a reason to build a startup in the first place.
journal – Winnie Lim
2025: may I have an uneventful year
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to...
4 days ago
Last year I wrote that I wanted to be able to do one pull up. This year, I just want the year to progress uneventfully. I first started using the word “uneventful”...
Ruud van Asseldonk
LLM text makes human interactions less fun
4 days ago
anderegg.ca
WordPress is in trouble
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when...
5 days ago
Since I last wrote about WordPress, things have gone off the rails. This after a brief period when things were blissfully quiet. Matt Mullenweg stopped commenting for a while, though his company had launched WP Engine Tracker — a site for tracking WordPress-driven websites that...
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Zuck Kisses the Ring
Plus! A collection of LA wildfire takes
5 days ago
Plus! A collection of LA wildfire takes
Flashbak
Far Out Images from Johann Zahn’s Oculus Artificialis (1685)
“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three...
5 days ago
“A complete treatment of the construction and use of lensed optical instruments. Presented in three fundamentals, that is, bases: the physical, the mathematical, and the practical or mechanical” – Oculus Artificialis Teledioptricus sive Telescopium The German student of light...
Contemporist...
A Stone Covered Home That Surrounds A Central Courtyard With Sunken Seating
YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a...
5 days ago
YDR estudio has shared photos of a contemporary stone house they completed in Mexico that includes a central courtyard with sunken outdoor seating.
Archinect - Features
How Mecanoo Delivers on Architectural Renders
The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects...
5 days ago
The acclaimed Dutch architectural studio Mecanoo excels at crafting renderings of unbuilt projects that faithfully convey the design and atmosphere of the project ultimately constructed. As modern rendering engines offer architects unprecedented capabilities to create dynamic...
The Ruffian
The Death of Scenius
Urban Creativity Isn't What It Was
5 days ago
Urban Creativity Isn't What It Was
Julia Evans
What's involved in getting a "modern" terminal setup?
Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated
them. One person...
5 days ago
Hello! Recently I ran a terminal survey and I asked people what frustrated
them. One person commented:
There are so many pieces to having a modern terminal experience. I wish it
all came out of the box.
My immediate reaction was “oh, getting a modern terminal experience isn’t...
Noahpinion
At least five interesting things: Red Tape edition (#57)
NEPA; Carter's deregulations; targeted tariffs; YIMBY news; greedflation; a bad viral chart;...
5 days ago
NEPA; Carter's deregulations; targeted tariffs; YIMBY news; greedflation; a bad viral chart; Acemoglu on H-1bs
Matt Mullenweg
Status Quo
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect...
5 days ago
I wrote over on WordPress.org about breaking the status quo with a Joost/Karim fork. It’s a perfect time as Automattic is re-focusing its work while the legal stuff is going on.
The Marginalian
Do Not Spare Yourself
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often...
5 days ago
The only thing more dangerous than wanting to save another person — a dangerous desire too often mistaken for love — is wanting to save yourself, to spare yourself the disappointment and heartbreak and loss inseparable from being a creature with hopes and longings constantly...
Birchtree
It's time for some more YouTube videos just in time for the weekend
This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun
Shout out to Truth social,...
5 days ago
This behind-the-scenes of one of my favorite 2024 movies was so much fun
Shout out to Truth social, which got called out as having the best UX in this video...which is based on Mastodon
The internet's dad, Hank Green, is starting a new podcast
I'm
macwright.com
2025 Predictions
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial...
5 days ago
I was just enjoying Simon Willison’s predictions and, heck, why not.
1: The web becomes adversarial to AI
The history of search engines is sort of an arms race between
websites and search engines. Back in the early 2000s, juicing your
ranking on search engines was pretty easy -...
Society's Backend
Scaling Laws for LLMs, the Actual Cost of Frontier Models, 3 Key Principles for AI at Scale, and...
Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
6 days ago
Society's Backend Reading List 01-10-2025
Musings on Markets
Data Update 1 for 2025: The Draw (and Danger) of Data
For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on...
6 days ago
For the last four decades, I have spent the first week of each year collecting and analyzing data on publicly traded companies and sharing what I find with anyone who is interested. It is the end of the first full week in 2025, and my data update for the year is now up and...
A Collection of...
Fireside Friday, January 10, 2025
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat...
6 days ago
Hey folks, Fireside this week! I’m currently working on a post “On the Gracchi” taking a somewhat darker look at everyone’s favorite Roman reformers (though hardly the same black takedowns Alexander and Cleopatra got) , which will hopefully be ready for next week. Before we dive...
Citation Needed
Issue 73 – Degen volunteer fire brigade
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and...
6 days ago
Terra founder Do Kwon is finally extradited, the CFPB proposes crypto consumer protections, and Polymarket reaches new lows.
The Elysian
We're writing a better future into existence
A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
6 days ago
A media collective imagining the future of nation-states, capitalism, and humanity.
Marcus on AI
The impeccable logic of Sam Altman
From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further...
6 days ago
From a Bloomberg interview, spotted and summarized by Harlan Stewart, presented without further comment:
Overcoming Bias
Toward More Direct Signals
As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should...
6 days ago
As I’ve attributed a large fraction of human behaviors to signaling incentives, I feel I should address a key signaling question, about which I was recently reminded.
Matt Mazur
2024 Year in Review
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my...
6 days ago
At the end of 2022 I wrapped up my contract work with Help Scout and took the plunge to work on my indie software businesses full time. I’m now two years into that adventure, and wanted to share a periodic update about how things are going. Preceden on the Back Burner I made 32...
Blog System/5
Self-documenting Makefiles
Make, as arcane as a build tool can be, may still be a good first fit for certain scenarios. Let's...
6 days ago
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.
lcamtuf’s thing
Getting silly with C, part (void*)2
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
6 days ago
They won't be able to find bugs in your code if they can't figure out how it works.
Classical Wisdom
Secrets of the Odyssey
Homer's Homecoming
6 days ago
Math Is Still...
The Physicist Decoding the Nonbinary Nature of the Subatomic World
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are...
6 days ago
Inside the proton, quarks and gluons shift and morph their properties in ways that physicists are still struggling to understand. Rithya Kunnawalkam Elayavalli brings to the problem a perspective unlike many of their peers.
The post The Physicist Decoding the...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 100: CES
January 10, 2025.
6 days ago
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Management
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I feel like if prayers came with a token fee people...
6 days ago
Click here to go see the bonus panel!
Hovertext:
I feel like if prayers came with a token fee people would consume a lot less.
Today's News:
The Diff
The Loneliness Economy Wins Through Higher Sustained Productivity Growth
Plus! Bond Vigilantes; Deeper AI Search; Analysts; Shareholder Votes; Networks are Expensive to...
6 days ago
Plus! Bond Vigilantes; Deeper AI Search; Analysts; Shareholder Votes; Networks are Expensive to Build
NeuroLogica Blog
New Material for Nanoconductors
One of the things I have come to understand from following technology news for decades is that...
6 days ago
One of the things I have come to understand from following technology news for decades is that perhaps the most important breakthroughs, and often the least appreciated, are those in material science. We can get better at engineering and making stuff out of the materials we have,...
IEEE Spectrum
This Pool Robot Is the First With Ultrasonic Mapping
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce...
6 days ago
Back in the day, the defining characteristic of home-cleaning robots was that they’d randomly bounce around your floor as part of their cleaning process, because the technology required to localize and map an area hadn’t yet trickled down into the consumer space. That all changed...
One Useful Thing
Prophecies of the Flood
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
6 days ago
What to make of the statements of the AI labs?
Retail Design Blog
Cheer Kindergarten by HIBINOSEKKEI + Youji no Shiro
This is an interior project for a newly established kindergarten located in Nanshan District,...
6 days ago
This is an interior project for a newly established kindergarten located in Nanshan District, Shenzhen, China. The kindergarten is situated...
Rest of World -...
Starlink is now cheaper than leading internet provider in some African countries
In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
6 days ago
In Ghana, Starlink is half the price of the local ISP.
Seth's Blog
The magic of the commons
Sheep are not like ideas. 200 years ago, William Foster Lloyd began pointing out that if land is...
6 days ago
Sheep are not like ideas. 200 years ago, William Foster Lloyd began pointing out that if land is shared, ranchers will all have an incentive to overgraze their sheep–if they don’t, the thinking goes, the others will. Each farmer expands until the commons is ruined. And this...
Paul Cudenec
The global mafia's not-so-good club
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and...
6 days ago
Rockefeller Foundation trustee Patty Stonesifer is a “technology multimillionaire and philanthropist”.
Open Culture
How Marcel Marceau Used Mime to Save Children During the Holocaust
In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a...
6 days ago
In 1972, Jerry Lewis made the ill-considered decision to write, direct, and star in a film about a German clown in Auschwitz. The result was so awful that he never allowed its release, and it quickly acquired the reputation—along with disasters like George Lucas’ Star Wars...
diamond geezer
T2025
Back in 2006 TfL published a 136-page long-term vision for London's transport system.
Mayor of...
6 days ago
Back in 2006 TfL published a 136-page long-term vision for London's transport system.
Mayor of London Ken Livingstone today set out a 20-year transport programme aimed at ensuring London's future economic prosperity.
The document was called Transport 2025 - Transport vision...
TheCollector
Who Won the Battle of Chattanooga?
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6 days ago
Anecdotal Evidence
'I Am Content to Enjoy the World'
I found an email I had sent
to my brother shortly before his death in August. After spending a week...
6 days ago
I found an email I had sent
to my brother shortly before his death in August. After spending a week in
Cleveland, visiting him in the hospital, I returned to Houston for a few days,
then flew back to stay with him in the hospice. During that first trip, we did
a lot of talking,...
Christopher Butler
Human-First Interaction (in a Machine-Driven World)
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of...
6 days ago
As artificial intelligence (AI) agents increasingly mediate our digital experiences, the role of human interaction with information is evolving. Machines are becoming our primary intermediaries for searching, synthesizing, and summarizing information, often performing these tasks...
Mazdak
Google & Microsoft $1M donation to Trump inauguration fund, Microsoft job cuts, Amazon ad business...
Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and even Tim Cook are each donating $1M to President-elect Trump’s...
6 days ago
Google, Microsoft, Meta, OpenAI, and even Tim Cook are each donating $1M to President-elect Trump’s inauguration fund.
watchTowr Labs
Do Secure-By-Design Pledges Come With Stickers? - Ivanti Connect Secure RCE (CVE-2025-0282)
Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up.
It’s 2025, and the chaos...
6 days ago
Did you have a good break? Have you had a chance to breathe? Wake up.
It’s 2025, and the chaos continues.
Haha, see what we did? We wrote the exact same thing in 2024 because 2024 was exactly the same.
As an industry, we are on GroundHog day
Calculated Risk
Friday: Employment Report
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier...
6 days ago
Note: Mortgage rates are from MortgageNewsDaily.com and are for top tier scenarios.
Friday:
Employment Report for December. The consensus is for 160,000 jobs added, and for the unemployment rate to be unchanged at 4.2%.
University of Michigan's Consumer sentiment index...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Writing a tech blog people want to read
My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing...
6 days ago
My blog has gotten a lot of traffic in the last few months. Here’s what I think I’ve been doing that’s working, and a few things that have…
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Who Can Understand the Proof? A Window on Formalized Mathematics
Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The...
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Related writings: “Logic, Explainability and the Future of Understanding” (2018) » “The Physicalization of Metamathematics and Its Implications for the Foundations of Mathematics” (2022) » “Computational Knowledge and the Future of Pure Mathematics” (2014) » The Simplest Axiom...
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An Intentionally Muted Yet Refined Palette Of Natural Materials For A Home In Lake Tahoe
MacCracken Robinson Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Lake Tahoe,...
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MacCracken Robinson Architects has shared photos of a modern home they completed in Lake Tahoe, California with an intentionally muted yet refined palette of natural materials including cedar, oak, fir, and steel, allowing the house to harmoniously blend with the surroundings....
Paolo Amoroso's...
Interpinkie, a Finger client in Interlisp
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