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journal – Winnie Lim
random scenes and words from taichung Taichung was an easy one hour high speed rail ride from Taipei. Again I have to mention that being...
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Taichung was an easy one hour high speed rail ride from Taipei. Again I have to mention that being from a country that is 50km wide, the idea that one can take...
FIRE v London
A stupid decision to sell my rental property I sold my rental property last year, after owning it over 20 years. It’s a lovely property, worth...
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I sold my rental property last year, after owning it over 20 years. It’s a lovely property, worth around £1m, right in the heart of London – near the middle of the map below. I used to live in it, I travel past it regularly, I know its neighbourhood well. The Modern Flat has...
One Useful Thing
On Jagged AGI: o3, Gemini 2.5, and everything after New models and new thresholds
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The Intimate Mirror
Sunday Update: Gratitude, Growth, and Friends A break from our usual programming...
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African History...
A forgotten African empire: the history of medieval Kānem (ca. 800-1472) A century before Mansa Musa’s famous pilgrimage, the political and cultural landscape of medieval...
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A century before Mansa Musa’s famous pilgrimage, the political and cultural landscape of medieval West Africa was dominated by the empire of Kānem.
Quantum Frontiers
Quantum Algorithms: A Call To Action Quantum computing finds itself in a peculiar situation. The number one question asked about quantum...
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Quantum computing finds itself in a peculiar situation. The number one question asked about quantum computers by outsiders is very common sensical: What are they good for? The honest answer reveals an elephant in the room: We don’t fully know yet. For theorists like me, it’s an...
TokyoDev
“Can They Change My Contract?”: Protecting Your Workplace Rights in Japan Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established...
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Right now, the General Union is handling cases at Japanese tech companies where well-established workplace practices have come under threat. These include businesses pushing for return-to-office mandates after years of remote work, eliminating flexible scheduling, and cutting...
Musings on Markets
Buy the Dip: The Draw and Dangers of Contrarian Investing! When markets are in free fall, there is a great deal of  advice that is meted out to investors, and...
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When markets are in free fall, there is a great deal of  advice that is meted out to investors, and one is to just buy the dip, i.e., buy beaten down stocks, in the hope that they will recover, or the entire market, if it is down.  "Buying the dip" falls into a broad group of...
Isabel Unraveled
stay foolish unpacking the Fool archetype
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Farza's Newsletter
sunday night thinking about how kiwis got weird hairs on the outside wtf Hey all, quick and dirty newsletter for you.
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A Smart Bear
SSEBITDA -- A steady-state profit metric for SaaS companies How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all...
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How can a business that is "spending to grow" determine whether it's truly profitable underneath all that "revenue acceleration?" Here's a way.
Notes on software...
Transactions are a protocol Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made...
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Transactions are not an intrinsic part of a storage system. Any storage system can be made transactional: Redis, S3, the filesystem, etc. Delta Lake and Orleans demonstrated techniques to make S3 (or cloud storage in general) transactional. Epoxy demonstrated techniques to make...
CONTEMPORIST
This Home Was Designed To Surround A Swimming Pool With A Slide Architect Alexis Dornier has shared a new home in Pererenan, Bali, that combines modern...
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Architect Alexis Dornier has shared a new home in Pererenan, Bali, that combines modern architectural principles with a spirit of creativity and exploration. The house is defined by its bold central void, an architectural centerpiece that brings natural light, air, and a sense of...
The Ruffian
How To Communicate The Health Risks of Drinking Without Being Really F*!*ing Annoying Plus a Very Juicy Rattle Bag
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Cremieux Recueil
The Holistic Judgment Conceit Holistic evaluations are for machines, not people
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SatPost by Trung...
Hermès Is "Costly" (But Not "Expensive") The $270B+ French firm is at the top of the luxury world (worth the same as LVMH on 1/6th of the...
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The $270B+ French firm is at the top of the luxury world (worth the same as LVMH on 1/6th of the sales)...and apparently not worried about tariffs.
charity.wtf
On Writing, Social Media, and Finding the Line of Embarrassment Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself...
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Brace yourself, because I’m about to utter a sequence of words I never thought I would hear myself say: I really miss posting on Twitter. I really, really miss it. It’s funny, because Twitter was never not a trash fire. There was never a time when it felt like we were living...
Dreams of Space -...
Space Explorer (1960) A promotional comic from 1960 called Space Explorer. It was part of the comic series Boys’ and...
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A promotional comic from 1960 called Space Explorer. It was part of the comic series Boys’ and Girls’ March of Comics, #202. These promotional comics were distributer to retailers who would brand them with their name and give them away to customers to attract them to shop at that...
Blog - Mac Pierce
The void will consume us and it'll be dank - Minionotics at Weatherproof A review of the group show Minionotics (March 13th - April 13th, 2025) at Weatherproof Gallery in...
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A Collection of...
Collections: Why Celebrimbor Fell but Boromir Conquered: the Moral Universe of Tolkien This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein...
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This week (and probably next) I want to talk a bit more Tolkien, but in a somewhat different vein from normal. Rather than discussing the historicity of Tolkien’s world or adaptations of it, I want to take a moment to discuss some of the themes of Tolkien’s work, which express...
balajis.com
The Network School Fellowship Anyone from anywhere can apply for $100k in funding at ns.com.
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Never Met a Science
Deepfakes and Thirst Traps Novel media technology is changing the nature of political communication.
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Internal Tech Emails
Mark Zuckerberg and Snapchat I'm disappointed and frustrated by this. I don't know what else to say to him.
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Citation Needed
Trump’s newest grift: Building a cryptocurrency empire while destroying its regulators Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is...
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Inside the Trump family’s sprawling crypto empire — from memecoins to mining — and how Trump is using presidential power to dismantle the regulators who could stop it
Drew Ex Machina
The Hurricane Hunter Satellites: A Weather Nanosatellite Constellation As part of ongoing outreach efforts by Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) to the meteorological...
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As part of ongoing outreach efforts by Tropical Weather Analytics (TWA) to the meteorological community, TWA’s Chief Scientist, Andrew LePage, attended the National Tropical Weather Conference […]
McMansion Hell
Bonus Post: The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo, a treatise The McMansionization of the White House, or: Regional Car Dealership Rococo: a treatise | McMansion...
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Artificial Ignorance
The MCP Revolution Why this open standard is becoming essential infrastructure for AI agents.
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Construction Physics
50 Things I’ve Learned Writing Construction Physics I’ve been writing Construction Physics since September of 2020.
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Irrational...
Why did Stripe build Sorbet? (~2017). Many hypergrowth companies of the 2010s battled increasing complexity in their codebase by...
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Many hypergrowth companies of the 2010s battled increasing complexity in their codebase by decomposing their monoliths. Stripe was somewhat of an exception, largely delaying decomposition until it had grown beyond three thousand engineers and had accumulated a decade of...
NeuroLogica Blog
Possible Biosignature on K2-18b Exoplanets are pretty exciting – in the last few decades we have gone from knowing absolutely...
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Exoplanets are pretty exciting – in the last few decades we have gone from knowing absolutely nothing about planets beyond our solar system to having a catalogue of over 5,000 confirmed exoplanets. That’s still a small sample considering there are likely between 100 billion and 1...
Matt Mullenweg
6.8 WordPress 6.8 Cecil is out, and it’s a great release. It’s unbelievable that it’s already been...
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WordPress 6.8 Cecil is out, and it’s a great release. It’s unbelievable that it’s already been downloaded over 6 million times as I write this. That feeling never gets old. It’s a funny time in WordPress because there are a lot of really interesting open questions: Some of these...
Ian's Blog
Securing My Web Infrastructure Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my...
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Securing My Web Infrastructure A few months ago, I very briefly mentioned that I've migrated all my web infrastructure off Cloudflare, as well as having built a custom web service to host it all. I call this new web service WebCentral and I'd like to talk about some of the steps...
Ploum.net
Dédicace à Trolls & Vélo et magie cycliste Dédicace à Trolls & Vélo et magie cycliste Je serai ce samedi 19 avril à Mons au festival Trolls &...
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Dédicace à Trolls & Vélo et magie cycliste Je serai ce samedi 19 avril à Mons au festival Trolls & Légende en dédicace au stand PVH. La star de la table sera sans conteste Sara Schneider, autrice fantasy de la saga des enfants d’Aliel et qui est toute auréolée du Prix SFFF Suisse...
DYNOMIGHT
Links for April (1) Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi You probably heard that Colossal Biosciences recently reconstructed...
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(1) Romulus, Remus, and Khaleesi You probably heard that Colossal Biosciences recently reconstructed the DNA of dire wolves and created live dire wolves, bringing them back from extinction. But have you heard that also they did no such thing and you’re a bunch of chumps? Jeremy...
Kagi Blog
Kagi Assistant is now available to all users! At Kagi, our mission is simple: to humanise the web.
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet The Maker: Aurore Swithenbank Hiya, I’m Aurore Swithenbank, a printmaker living in South East London with my partner and cute cat....
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Hiya, I’m Aurore Swithenbank, a printmaker living in South East London with my partner and cute cat. I moved to London when I was 10 from France and haven’t looked back since.  Describe your printmaking process.  My printmaking method is linocut. I plan most of my designs with...
lcamtuf’s thing
Resistors, Johnson-Nyquist, nV/√Hz A major source of noise in electronic circuits is easy to understand. The unit we use to measure it...
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Build In Public...
The Tool That's Making Mobile Developers' Lives 10x Easier Just hunted Boxo AI on Product Hunt which offers a key missing puzzle piece for mobile app...
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Naz Hamid
Hustle to Flow A meditation on entering flow state. A snack beckons. I stand up and head a few feet away to the...
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A meditation on entering flow state. A snack beckons. I stand up and head a few feet away to the kitchen area. A hojicha latte is on my mind, and also a bite. My brain is at operational capacity, and I am in a flow state. The metabolic need feels high, and I need to keep my...
Computer Things
The Halting Problem is a terrible example of NP-Harder Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the...
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Short one this time because I have a lot going on this week. In computation complexity, NP is the class of all decision problems (yes/no) where a potential proof (or "witness") for "yes" can be verified in polynomial time. For example, "does this set of numbers have a subset that...
Society's Backend
How much does a 10 million token context window actually cost? Some back-of-the-napkin math for Meta's Llama 4 Scout
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #66: The winner of the 2040 US Presidential election is in space Plus ultra-grim Nazi revisionism, why Kemi is right about Adolescence, and my Gladiators conspiracy...
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Explorations of an...
A Quest Nature Tour to Colombia: Tour Extension To Los Llanos The topography of Colombia is dominated by the Andes. While manifested as a single mountain range...
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The topography of Colombia is dominated by the Andes. While manifested as a single mountain range from Ecuador southwards, the mountains split into three ranges (or cordilleras) near the Colombia/Ecuador border, and these three ranges span the length of Colombia from this...
Stat Significant
Which Car Brands are Frequently Featured in Popular Music? A Statistical Analysis Which car brands are a fixture of song lyrics?
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Res Obscura
Onfim's world Child artists in history
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Map of the Week
Tracking the Disappeared The United States Disappeared Tracker is a new Tableau visualization from Danielle Harlow. It shows...
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The United States Disappeared Tracker is a new Tableau visualization from Danielle Harlow. It shows where people have been taken into custody by Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). This map is part of a dashboard that “visualizes person brought into ICE custody when the...
David Perell
Buenos Aires: The Paris of South America? Have you ever met somebody who was trying really hard to convince you that they’re somebody they’re...
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Have you ever met somebody who was trying really hard to convince you that they’re somebody they’re not, and then you get to know them and you like them but not for the person they’re trying to be? That’s how I feel about Buenos Aires.  A week there piqued my curiosity, and at...
Computer Ads from...
Comics from January/February 1983 Issue of Today Mag Time for some oldie levity.
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Atoms vs Bits
Natural Selection Everywhere Selection, selection everywhere
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Commoncog
The Jobs to be Done Framework as a Method to Understand Demand How and why the Jobs to be Done Framework can help you sell more, faster, and accelerate your...
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Wrong Side of...
The Sacred Fetish of Academic Freedom The Transition #2
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Paul Cudenec
The Acorn 102 Here’s the latest Acorn bulletin, which I edit over on the Winter Oak site…
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Trying to Understand...
What Is This "War" Of Which You Speak? Do we mean what they mean?
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Rubenerd
South Park got big-box retail mostly wrong I watched a lot of South Park as a kid growing up, because it’s what you did at the time. I think...
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I watched a lot of South Park as a kid growing up, because it’s what you did at the time. I think I’d cringe if I saw much of it today, but at the time it was side-splitting. For every dreadful episode, there was a Tugger and Russel Crowe. The stuff of legend. But they did get...
Christopher Butler
Developing Digital Disgust Our world treats information like it’s always good. More data, more content, more inputs — we want...
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Our world treats information like it’s always good. More data, more content, more inputs — we want it all without thinking twice. To say that the last twenty-five years of culture have centered around info-maximalism wouldn’t be an exaggeration. I hope we’re coming to the end...
xkcd.com
de Sitter
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Wuthering...
What I Read in March 2025 – Some day, he thought, I must use such a scene to start a good, thick... FICTION The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle – My emergency book, the book on my...
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FICTION The Return of Sherlock Holmes (1904), Arthur Conan Doyle – My emergency book, the book on my phone, for when I need to read in the dark, or it is raining at the bus stop, or similar dire situations.  I have been dipping into it for two years or more, but decided to finish...
The Marginalian
3 Kinds of Loneliness and 4 Kinds of Forever Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around...
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Loneliness is the fundamental condition of life — we are born by another, but born alone; die around others (if we are lucky and loved), but die alone; we spend our lives islanded in our one and only human experience — in these particular bodies and minds and circumstances drawn...
alexwlchan
Localising the `` with JavaScript I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our...
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I’ve been writing some internal dashboards recently, and one hard part is displaying timestamps. Our server does everything in UTC, but the team is split across four different timezones, so the server timestamps aren’t always easy to read. For most people, it’s harder to...
The Elysian
Yes, it can be profitable to sell print magazines and books Collectable print projects don't have to be an expensive vanity project.
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Overcoming Bias
AI Is GPT, & GPTs Go Slow Back in the dot-com boom of the late 90s, many said a new economy loomed that invalidated all the...
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Back in the dot-com boom of the late 90s, many said a new economy loomed that invalidated all the old rules, and would soon cause big fast change.
AFAR Media - Travel...
A New Nobu Opens at Hotel del Coronado With Ocean Views
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The Pragmatic...
Tech hiring: is this an inflection point? We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person...
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We might be seeing the end of remote coding interviews as we know them, and a return of in-person interviews, trial days and longer trial periods. Could hiring be returning to pre-pandemic norms?
IEEE Spectrum
Meet the “First Lady of Engineering” For more than a century, women and racial minorities have fought for access to education and...
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For more than a century, women and racial minorities have fought for access to education and employment opportunities once reserved exclusively for white men. The life of Yvonne Young “Y.Y.” Clark is a testament to the power of perseverance in that fight. As a smart Black woman...
Don't Worry About...
OpenAI #13: Altman at TED and OpenAI Cutting Corners on Safety Testing Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on...
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Three big OpenAI news items this week were the FT article describing the cutting of corners on safety testing, the OpenAI former employee amicus brief, and Altman’s very good TED Interview.
AI Snake Oil
AI as Normal Technology A new paper that we will expand into our next book
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Arduino Blog
Find the right Arduino Cloud plan for you Arduino Cloud has grown tremendously over the past year, adding powerful features to make...
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Arduino Cloud has grown tremendously over the past year, adding powerful features to make development smoother and IoT deployments more scalable. From real-time collaboration to interactive digital twins on a dashboard and AI-powered coding assistance, our platform has evolved to...
Blog - Practical...
When Kitty Litter Caused a Nuclear Catastrophe [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the night of...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Late in the night of Valentine’s Day 2014, air monitors at an underground nuclear waste repository outside Carlsbad, New Mexico, detected the release of radioactive elements, including americium and plutonium,...
Both Are True
why, ai, why? a response to your responses to my last piece on ai
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Hidden History
Submarine USS Dolphin The submarine USS Dolphin was specially built as a test-bed for deep-diving designs. At the outbreak...
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The submarine USS Dolphin was specially built as a test-bed for deep-diving designs. At the outbreak of the Second World War, a typical submarine or u-boat was capable of diving to a maximum depth of round 250 feet. By the time the war ended, advanced models like the...
nanoscale views
Talk about "The Direct Democracy of Matter" The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a...
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The Scientia Institute at Rice sponsors series of public lectures annually, centered around a theme.  The intent is to get a wide variety of perspectives spanning across the humanities, social sciences, arts, sciences, and engineering, presented in an accessible way.  The youtube...
Steve Blank
How the U.S. Became A Science Superpower Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over,...
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Prior to WWII the U.S was a distant second in science and engineering. By the time the war was over, U.S. science and engineering had blown past the British, and led the world for 85 years. It happened because two very different people were the science advisors to their nation’s...
Not Boring by Packy...
Base Power Company: Chapter 2 Violently Executing to Build America's Next Generation Power Company
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Uncharted...
16 Most Surprising Facts About Korea As I research the country, these are the most interesting and surprising facts I gathered—and some...
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As I research the country, these are the most interesting and surprising facts I gathered—and some beautiful images along the way.
Works in Progress
570 million Frenchmen France's decline coincided with a collapse in its birth rate – now we know why.
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Out-of-Pocket Blog
Running Tests on Generative AI with Autoblocks | Out-Of-Pocket How can we keep these bots in check??
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Unfiltered by Tim...
This is What Happens To Your Brain When You Start A Business How my daily habits transformed within 14 days of going full-time on my business
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Rest of World -...
How Starlink took over Africa’s largest internet market Elon Musk’s company is set to become Nigeria's top internet service provider.
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David Heinemeier...
Normal boyhood is ADHD Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But...
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Nearly a quarter of seventeen-year-old boys in America have an ADHD diagnosis. That's crazy. But worse than the diagnosis is that the majority of them end up on amphetamines, like Adderall or Ritalin. These drugs allow especially teenage boys (diagnosed at 2-3x the rate of girls)...
Seth's Blog
Where is your N + 1? If three people are coming over for dinner, does that stress you out? What if it’s 17? If you’re...
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If three people are coming over for dinner, does that stress you out? What if it’s 17? If you’re giving a talk explaining your strategy to four people, does it feel like a high-risk event? What if it’s 54? How many more people are required before it flips to stressful? Because...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Rediscovering the origins of my Lisp journey <![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I...
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<![CDATA[My journey to Lisp began in the early 1990s. Over three decades later, a few days ago I rediscovered the first Lisp environment I ever used back then which contributed to my love for the language. Here it is, PC Scheme running under DOSBox-X on my Linux PC: Screenshot...
Maps Mania
The Tariff Busting Map Game
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History Today Feed
Coronation of Bolesław the Brave Coronation of Bolesław the Brave JamesHoare Tue, 04/15/2025 - 09:14
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Open Culture
William Faulkner’s Review of Hemingway’s The Old Man and the Sea (1952) Images via Wikimedia Commons In the mid-20th century, the two big dogs in the American literary...
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Images via Wikimedia Commons In the mid-20th century, the two big dogs in the American literary scene were William Faulkner and Ernest Hemingway. Both were internationally revered, both were masters of the novel and the short story, and both won Nobel Prizes. Born in Mississippi,...
Noahpinion
The authoritarian takeover attempt is here Sadly, we were warned.
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Alice GG
Thoughts on releasing our first indie game Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to...
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Two weeks ago we released Dice’n Goblins, our first game on Steam. This project allowed me to discover and learn a lot of new things about game development and the industry. I will use this blog post to write down what I consider to be the most important lessons from the months...
Jorge Arango
Smarter AI Begins With Your Business’ Knowledge Pipeline A common question I’m hearing from leaders is “how can I best use AI in my business?” They expect...
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A common question I’m hearing from leaders is “how can I best use AI in my business?” They expect concrete, practical answers — not the platitudes and hype that dominate the media. It’s a fair question: businesses stand to gain significant advantages from judicious use of AI. But...
diamond geezer
How it unfolded A couple of weeks ago when e-bikes were banned from TfL services, we mused on what TfL's...
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A couple of weeks ago when e-bikes were banned from TfL services, we mused on what TfL's announcement might be. • All types of e-bike, e-scooter and e-unicycle are banned except foldable e-bikes. We now have TfL's wording which you can see on this poster. Big letters: No...
Anecdotal Evidence
'You Should Take a Book of Poetry' “The Brains Trust” was a BBC radio show popular in the nineteen-forties and -fifties. A panel of...
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“The Brains Trust” was a BBC radio show popular in the nineteen-forties and -fifties. A panel of “experts” – among them Desmond MacCarthy, Kenneth Clark and Rose Macaulay – would answer questions submitted by listeners. The U.S. had similar radio programs at the time, such as...
The American Scholar
“Wild Peaches” by Elinor Wylie Poems read aloud, beautifully The post “Wild Peaches” by Elinor Wylie appeared first on The American...
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Bryan Braun - Blog
Links #12 Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that...
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Oscar, an open-source contributor agent architecture - Oscar is a project from the Go community that aims to develop AI agents that assist open source maintainers. I think this is a great idea. Open source is a load-bearing pillar in our modern digital infrastructure and...
Krebs on Security
Trump Revenge Tour Targets Cyber Leaders, Elections President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs, the former director of the...
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President Trump last week revoked security clearances for Chris Krebs, the former director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) who was fired by Trump after declaring the 2020 election the most secure in U.S. history. The White House memo, which also...
Marcus on AI
Sam Altman’s attitude problem What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their...
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What happened to the man who once told the US Senate “creators deserve control over how their creations are used”?
seangoedecke.com RSS...
A practical guide to coding securely with LLMs Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often...
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Writing code with LLMs is fundamentally different from other ways of programming. LLMs are often non-deterministic and always unpredictable…
Lighthouse Blog
What are web feeds?
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Good Enough
Barry is Good Enough We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know...
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We put a lot of ourselves into our work, and it occurs to us that you, dear reader, might not know much about us. So we’re continuing our Q&A column to introduce ourselves, one-at-a-time. Today, we’re meeting the biggest Pika fan, Barry Hess… Who are you? (Who, who, who,...
Breck's Blog
Experiments
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CrimethInc.
Retailiation: Robin Hood in the Workplace : Steal Something from Work Day 2025 Every year, like many other people, we observe April 15 as Steal Something from Work Day. This year,...
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Every year, like many other people, we observe April 15 as Steal Something from Work Day. This year, April 15 finds a new cast of authoritarians in control of the United States government, recklessly overhauling it to spread terror and fill their pockets. But this will not put an...
Willem's Blog
Vibe Coding What can we learn from successful vibe coding examples? Is programming with AI the new standard?...
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What can we learn from successful vibe coding examples? Is programming with AI the new standard? What are its limitations?
Jake Zimmerman
Typing instance variables in mixins
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99% Invisible
Single Handed (5 of 6): E-Ink Devices & Peripherals Render Reading More Accessible A severe arm injury can leave you with a lot of time on your hands, while simultaneously limiting...
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A severe arm injury can leave you with a lot of time on your hands, while simultaneously limiting your recreational options. For me, two-handed video games were out, at least until I had the time and patience to research and learn to use accessible gaming controllers. At the same...
Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Some Love For Interoperable Apps I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of...
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I like to try different apps. What makes trying different apps incredible is a layer of interoperability — standardized protocols, data formats, etc. When I can bring my data from one app to another, that’s cool. Cool apps are interoperable. They work with my data, rather than...
Infinite Scroll
The New Age of Thought Crime Conservatives raged against woke cancellations. Now they're eagerly doing it themselves.
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Mazdak
OpenAI Launches GPT‑4.1: What You Need to Know About the New Family of AI Models OpenAI has officially released the GPT‑4.1 family — and it’s more than just a minor upgrade.
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The Rational Walk
Writing in Private Writing is an important tool for personal intellectual development even if you never intend to share...
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Writing is an important tool for personal intellectual development even if you never intend to share your work with others.
Old Vintage...
COMPUTE!'s Gazette revived for July 2025 COMPUTE!'s Gazette was for many years the leading Commodore-specific managzine. I liked Ahoy! and...
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COMPUTE!'s Gazette was for many years the leading Commodore-specific managzine. I liked Ahoy! and RUN, and I subscribed to Loadstar too, but Gazette had the most interesting type-ins and the most extensive coverage. They were also the last of COMPUTE!'s machine-specific magazines...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - If then Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hereby release this to any introductory logic...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I hereby release this to any introductory logic professor who isn't a coward. Today's News:
Ed Zitron's Where's...
OpenAI Is A Systemic Risk To The Tech Industry Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this...
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Before we go any further: I hate to ask you to do this, but I need your help — I'm up for this year's Webbys for the best business podcast award. I know it's a pain in the ass, but can you sign up
Calculated Risk
Watch Inventory and Why Measures of Existing Home Inventory appear Different Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Watch Inventory and Why Measures of Existing...
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Today, in the Calculated Risk Real Estate Newsletter: Watch Inventory and Why Measures of Existing Home Inventory appear Different A brief excerpt: We are in a period of significant policy uncertainty and there isn’t a good historical analog for the current period. However, for...
oftwominds-Charles...
Trade, Tariffs, Currencies, Colonialism, the Gold Watch and Everything The present-day tariff-trade-war conflicts boil down to Neocolonial strategies to gain control of...
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The present-day tariff-trade-war conflicts boil down to Neocolonial strategies to gain control of markets for exports and resource extraction on terms that are only favorable to the Neocolonial power. The title of today's essay pays homage to the inimitable John D....
Herbert Lui
From research to imagination You remember a fragment of a song that sounds like it’s from the eighties. You do some research, but...
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You remember a fragment of a song that sounds like it’s from the eighties. You do some research, but you struggle to remember where you heard it, and when. Your guesses are more imagination than recall. No hints come to mind.  When this happened to Questlove, he was stumped. He...
Classical Wisdom
What Makes a Hero? The Ancient Ideals of Heroism: Odysseus and Aeneas
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Flashbak
A Prisoner of War Stitched A Secret Message To The Nazis: God Save the King – Fu*k Hitler! At the prisoner of war camp in Spangenberg castle, Germany, Major Alexis Casdagli began to stitch....
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At the prisoner of war camp in Spangenberg castle, Germany, Major Alexis Casdagli began to stitch. Using a piece of canvas handed to him by a fellow inmate, thread from an old jumper and a hidden needle, Casdagli created a border of dots and dashes around a frame of swastikas and...
The Diff
Information Economies and Institution Economies Plus! Distribution; Non-Tariff Barriers; Low-Background Text; Application Layer; Socks
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Math Is Still...
To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words....
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We insist that large language models repeatedly translate their mathematical processes into words. There may be a better way. The post To Make Language Models Work Better, Researchers Sidestep Language first appeared on Quanta Magazine
TheCollector
12 Unexpected Facts About Samuel Johnson There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was...
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There are many basic but essential facts to be learned about Samuel Johnson. For example, he was born in 1709 and died in 1784. His life spanned the reign of four British Monarchs: Queen Anne (1702-1714), King George I (1714-1727), King George II (1727-1760), and King George III...
Scarlet Ink
Heard of Design Patterns? How About Behavior Patterns. Recognize patterns in management to be able to solve issues, and deliver results.
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The Honest Broker
Is This the Dominant Personality Type of Our Time? Or how we all became Clint Eastwood
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Common Edge
Message to Stupid Politicians (of Both Parties): Build Things! Do it now, while the country still has hope.
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Retail Design Blog
The story of scents The story of scents ist die Fläche im Erdgeschoß des KaDeWe, auf der die weltweit exklusivsten...
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The story of scents ist die Fläche im Erdgeschoß des KaDeWe, auf der die weltweit exklusivsten Parfums präsentiert und verkauft...
Birchtree
Pulling myself out of the pit I'll be honest, I wasn't an iOS veteran engineer when I started work on Quick Reviews at the start...
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I'll be honest, I wasn't an iOS veteran engineer when I started work on Quick Reviews at the start of this year. I'm really proud of what I made, I'm happy with how quickly I was able to get it out there,
Josh Comeau's blog
The Post-Developer Era When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus...
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When OpenAI released GPT-4 back in March 2023, they kickstarted the AI revolution. The consensus online was that front-end development jobs would be totally eliminated within a year or two.Well, it’s been more than two years since then, and I thought it was worth revisiting some...
Astral Codex Ten
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