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Pocketwatch of Goo [Concept] Liquid filled timepiece
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Irrational...
Who gets to do strategy? If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they...
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If you talk to enough aspiring leaders, you’ll become familiar with the prevalent idea that they need to be promoted before they can work on strategy. It’s a truism, but I’ve also found this idea perfectly wrong: you can work on strategy from anywhere in an organization, it just...
Paolo Amoroso's...
Bitsnap, a screenshot capture tool for Medley Interlisp <![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment....
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<![CDATA[I wrote Bitsnap, a tool in Interlisp for capturing screenshots on the Medley environment. It can capture and optionally save to a file the full screen, a window with or without title bar and borders, or an arbitrary area. This project helped me learn the internals of...
Out-of-Pocket Blog
Getting Healthcare Data To Train An AI Model - with Protege | Out-Of-Pocket And all the different ways you can “train” a model
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McMansion Hell
About my last few months. the hairshirt doldrums About my last few months.
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nanoscale views
Some updates on the NSF and related issues Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a...
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Non-blog life has been very busy, and events have been changing rapidly, but I thought it would be a good idea to give a brief bulleted list of updates regarding the NSF and associated issues: A court decision regarding who has the authority to fire probationary federal workers...
Quantum Frontiers
What does it mean to create a topological qubit? I’ve worked on topological quantum computation, one of Alexei Kitaev’s brilliant innovations, for...
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I’ve worked on topological quantum computation, one of Alexei Kitaev’s brilliant innovations, for around 15 years now.  It’s hard to find a more beautiful physics problem, combining spectacular quantum phenomena (non-Abelian anyons) with the promise of transformative...
Coding Horror
Let's Talk About The American Dream A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of...
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A few months ago I wrote about what it means to stay gold — to hold on to the best parts of ourselves, our communities, and the American Dream itself. But staying gold isn’t passive. It takes work. It takes action. It takes hard conversations that ask
DYNOMIGHT
My 16-month theanine self-experiment The internet loves theanine. This is an amino acid analog that’s naturally found in tea, but now...
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The internet loves theanine. This is an amino acid analog that’s naturally found in tea, but now sold as a nutritional supplement for anxiety or mood or memory. Many people try theanine and report wow or great for ADHD or cured my (social) anxiety or changing my life. And it’s...
Eric Bailey
Harm reduction principles for digital accessibility practitioners I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating...
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I debuted these principles in my axe-con 2025 talk, It is designed to break your heart: Cultivating a harm reduction mindset as an accessibility practitioner. They are adapted from The National Harm Reduction Coalition’s original eight principles. My adapted principles reflect...
anderegg.ca
Some spoiler free thoughts about the first episode of “Jet Lag: The Game” season 13 Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch...
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Tom Scott is playing to win. The intro music made me wonder if the Wendover team watch c90dventures. At one point in the episode, Adam breaks out some Scatman. This is going to be a great season.
Musings on Markets
Data Update 9 for 2025: Dividends and Buybacks - Inertia and Me-tooism! In my ninth (and last) data post for 2025, I look at cash returned by businesses across the world,...
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In my ninth (and last) data post for 2025, I look at cash returned by businesses across the world, looking at both the magnitude and the form of that return. I start with a framework for thinking about how much cash a business can return to its owners, and then argue that, in the...
Build In Public...
What if Pinterest and Shopify had a baby? Just hunted Depict — a new AI tool that turns boring Shopify grids into stunning visual stories...
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Just hunted Depict — a new AI tool that turns boring Shopify grids into stunning visual stories without a single line of code.
Res Obscura
AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research A followup to "The leading AI models are now good historians"
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Tony Finch's blog
constantly divisionless random numbers Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless...
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Last year I wrote about inlining just the fast path of Lemire’s algorithm for nearly-divisionless unbiased bounded random numbers. The idea was to reduce code bloat by eliminating lots of copies of the random number generator in the rarely-executed slow paths. However a simple...
Bits about Money
Two Americas, one bank branch, and $50,000 cash Ever wondered what happens if you try to take $50,000 in cash out of a bank? Answer: a year of...
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Ever wondered what happens if you try to take $50,000 in cash out of a bank? Answer: a year of investigative journalism.
Escaping Flatland
An essay in which my friend feels stuck and I suggest relaxing some constraints The short version is that my friend, in my opinion, thinks about what he wants in a too constrained...
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AFAR Media - Travel...
6 Must-See Events in Dallas This Spring and Summer
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Weighty Thoughts
See Me at SXSW Next Week! Talking AI in Austin on March 8th and 9th
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Map of the Week
The Brattleboro Words Project Last year I was in Brattleboro, Vermont and saw an interesting map on display. It is part of...
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Last year I was in Brattleboro, Vermont and saw an interesting map on display. It is part of the Brattleboro Words Project. The project “connects community members to the Brattleboro area’s unique history, the art of audio storytelling - and each other” through audio pieces, maps...
Stat Significant
Which Songs Are Frequently Featured in Film and Television? A Statistical Analysis Which songs have become staples of film and television?
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Strange Loop Canon
In defense of Gemini a kvetch
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The Intimate Mirror
Buddhism Consumed The Unbundling of Dharma by Secular Materialism
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Trying to Understand...
All About Aid. Well, probably more than you wanted to know, anyway.
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Handprinted - Blog
Meet the Maker: Angela Chalmers Hi, my name is Angela Chalmers. I am a visual artist living in North Yorkshire. I work with...
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Hi, my name is Angela Chalmers. I am a visual artist living in North Yorkshire. I work with cameraless photography techniques and the cyanotype process producing 2D and 3D artworks on paper and textiles. Cyanotype dates from the early days of photography and produces beautiful...
Asterisk
Are AIs People? Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they...
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Every year, AI models get better at thinking. Could they possibly be capable of feeling? And if they are, how would we know?
Steve Klabnik
A Happy Day for Rust
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Maggie Appleton
March 2025
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Willem's Blog
Durable Smartphone
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99% Invisible
A Beetle By Any Other Name In a limestone cave deep in Central Slovenia, an unremarkable insect lives in complete darkness....
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In a limestone cave deep in Central Slovenia, an unremarkable insect lives in complete darkness. This tiny beetle, barely visible to the naked eye, has no eyes and a brownish-yellow coloration—adaptations to a life spent entirely underground. The beetle has survived for...
Mazdak
Claude vs. ChatGPT: A Comprehensive Comparison In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, two names stand out in the realm of conversational...
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In today’s rapidly evolving AI landscape, two names stand out in the realm of conversational assistants—Anthropic’s Claude and OpenAI’s ChatGPT. Although both are built on large language models, they diverge sharply in design philosophy, technical implementation, safety...
The History of the...
Expanding Access: The History of Ecommerce Part 1 The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log...
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The earliest work with selling things online was all about reaching a shopping public ready to log on and start. But along the way, they found a whole new audience for shopping, which changed the way we think about commerce on the web.. The post Expanding Access: The History of...
wingolog
whippet lab notebook: on untagged mallocs Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been...
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Salutations, populations. Today’s note is more of a work-in-progress than usual; I have been finally starting to look at getting into , and there are some open questions.WhippetGuile I started by taking a look at how Guile uses the ‘s API, to make sure I had all my bases...
Blog - Practical...
All Dams Are Temporary [Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Lewis and Clark Lake, on the...
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[Note that this article is a transcript of the video embedded above.] Lewis and Clark Lake, on the border between Nebraska and South Dakota, might not be a lake for much longer. Together with the dam that holds it back, the reservoir provides hydropower, flood control, and...
Matt Mullenweg
On Lenny’s Podcast One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably...
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One of my must-read newsletters for the past several years has been Lenny’s Newsletter, probably best known for its writing on growth and product management, which really means it covered everything you need to create a great company. It expanded into a really well-done podcast;...
Hidden History
Project Mercury Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space...
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Project Mercury was America’s entry into the Space Race and was intended to put a human into space before the Soviet Union did. The Soviet launch of the Sputnik satellite in October 1957 caused a near-panic in the United States and led to desperate calls to “catch up”. President...
Chris Nicholas
How to write exceptional documentation Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to...
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Writing high-quality developer documentation is a challenging task. This is my personal approach to crafting holistic, comprehensive documentation.
Tech and Tea
🍲 Announcing Startup Soup: A Pragmatic Take on Startup Operations A story of two friends, three startups, and one just-launched newsletter on running early-stage...
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Quentin Santos
IndexedDB is Weird Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking...
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Why? Well: The IndexedDB API is callback-based. With JavaScript being single-threaded, a blocking API would mean fully blocking the page, render and basic user interaction included, while the request is being processed. Although this is apparently good-enough for JSON.parse(),...
Overcoming Bias
Respect The Social Wild While most foragers had great respect for nature, our farmer-era ancestors had less resepct.
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CONTEMPORIST
A Yellow Interior Sets The Tone For This Cafe SIKORA INTERIORS has shared photos of a new dessert cafe with a bright yellow interior they...
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SIKORA INTERIORS has shared photos of a new dessert cafe with a bright yellow interior they completed in the historic downtown of Hanseatic city in Poland. The goal was to create a bold, experimental space that would establish a strong new brand. The designers’ inspiration came...
Ed Zitron's Where's...
Power Cut A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred...
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A week ago, analyst TD Cowen revealed that Microsoft had canceled leases "totalling a couple hundred MWs," with "at least two private data center operators across multiple US markets." The report also details how Microsoft "pulled back on converting negotiated and signed...
Adventures In...
Gradients along lines, rather than across While there isn’t a direct way to symbolize a line feature in ArcGIS Pro to have a gradient that...
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While there isn’t a direct way to symbolize a line feature in ArcGIS Pro to have a gradient that travels along its length (rather than across its width), there are a handful of workarounds to get you there. If your line is wiggly, you might have to try a more robust method, like...
The Rational Walk
Warren Buffett on Berkshire’s Valuation Warren Buffett has typically avoided commenting on Berkshire's stock price, but he has provided some...
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Warren Buffett has typically avoided commenting on Berkshire's stock price, but he has provided some clues that are worth considering.
Common Edge
Pableaux Johnson: Be Where Your Feet Are A New Orleanian pays a Mardi Gras tribute to the Cajun Dalai Lama.
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NeuroLogica Blog
The New TIGR-Tas Gene Editing System Remember CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) – that new gene-editing...
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Remember CRISPR (clustered regularly interspaced short palindromic repeats) – that new gene-editing system which is faster and cheaper than anything that came before it? CRISPR is derived from bacterial systems which uses guide RNA to target a specific sequence on a DNA strand....
Infinite Scroll
Weekly Scroll: Striking Out General strikes, Opinion Blunders, and Yassified Shrek
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UX Collective
UX, how can I trust you? Weekly curated resources for designers — thinkers and makers.
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Engineers Need Art
Duane Blehm A little about Duane Blehm, an early Macintosh shareware author.
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This Space
A measure of forever For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess.             Amina Cain When TS Eliot read...
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For me, fiction is a space of plainness and excess.             Amina Cain When TS Eliot read Dante for the first time, he noted a discrepancy between his enjoyment and his understanding, leading to the famous claim that "genuine poetry can communicate before it is understood"....
Commoncog
Activist Investing in Asian Conglomerates How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators?...
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How do Asian conglomerates play in capital markets, given pliable governments and weak regulators? We examine the career of one activist investor, to see what that tells us about the Asian tycoons we’ve been studying.
History Today Feed
Maiden Flight of the Spitfire Maiden Flight of the Spitfire JamesHoare Mon, 03/03/2025 - 09:11
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Atoms vs Bits
Meta-Surprise Surprise!
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David Heinemeier...
Human service is luxury Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality...
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Maybe one day AI will answer every customer question flawlessly, but we're nowhere near that reality right now. I can't tell you how often I've been stuck in some god-forsaken AI loop or phone tree WHEN ALL I WANT IS A HUMAN. So I end up either just yelling "operator",...
Retail Design Blog
Pinewood International School-Anatolia College by A.N. Tombazis & Associates Architects + Micromega... Pinewood School in Anatolia Campus: blending contextual design and vibrant aesthetics into an...
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Melissa Penfold
HAVE YOU PREORDERED YOUR COPY OF MELISSA’S NEW BOOK YET? In her best-selling book, Living Well By Design, Melissa Penfold addressed the basics of interior...
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In her best-selling book, Living Well By Design, Melissa Penfold addressed the basics of interior decorating.  Now she turns her attention to demonstrating what a powerful force design can be in boosting our physical and emotional well-being in her newest book, ‘Natural Living By...
Win Vector LLC
Best Before Dates by Bass I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series...
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I was searching for one last real world example for my upcoming video talk March 13th on time series forecasting. Hope to see you there! Or reach out to Win Vector LLC for custom training! I had the seemingly harmless thought: “Let’s look at Stack Overflow trends“. In particular...
Citation Needed
Issue 78 – President on brink of bailout for bitcoin Trump tries to breathe life back into the crypto markets’ “Trump pump” while federal regulatory...
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Trump tries to breathe life back into the crypto markets’ “Trump pump” while federal regulatory agencies wash their hands of any crypto industry oversight
ntietz.com blog -...
Some things that make Rust lifetimes hard to learn After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends...
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After I wrote YARR (Yet Another Rust Resource, with requisite pirate mentions), one of my friends tried it out. He gave me some really useful insights as he went through it, letting me see what was hard about learning Rust from a newcomer's perspective. Unsurprisingly, lifetimes...
The Elysian
I'm crowdfunding my next book advance And sharing the earnings with readers.
5 days ago
Working Theorys
The Great Movie Theory Man's pursuit of greatness is the pursuit of a great film.
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The Solarchitecture...
Mass Timber Architecture (CLT) I. Structural, aesthetic, natural.
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Ken Shirriff's blog
The Pentium contains a complicated circuit to multiply by three In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running...
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In 1993, Intel released the high-performance Pentium processor, the start of the long-running Pentium line. I've been examining the Pentium's circuitry in detail and I came across a circuit to multiply by three, a complex circuit with thousands of transistors. Why does the...
Abort Retry Fail
Chipzilla Extends its Domination MMX, Bunny People, Celeron, Xeon
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African History...
African cities in the 19th century: cosmopolitan urban spaces between three worlds. When the German adventurer Gerhard Rohlfs visited the city of Ibadan in 1867, he described it as...
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When the German adventurer Gerhard Rohlfs visited the city of Ibadan in 1867, he described it as “one of the greatest cities of the interior of Africa” with “endlessly long and wide streets made up of trading stalls.” However, unlike many of the West African cities he had...
the singularity is...
The Demoralization is just Beginning This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20...
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This is a map of primary trading partners, US vs China, and how it has evolved over the last 20 years. Think about it, and realize this probably reflects your experience. I know there was a similar panic about Japan in the 80s, but Japan by population has always been 3x smaller...
Birchtree
How I’m using AI tools in early 2025 (members post) What am I actually using these LLMs for at the start of 2025? Quite a bit, actually.
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Casey Handmer's blog
California’s path to redemption California is by far the richest and most powerful polity led by Progressive ideals, and it has...
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California is by far the richest and most powerful polity led by Progressive ideals, and it has taken a beating of late. In this post, I discuss a practical roadmap by which California must reclaim its mantle as the shining city on the hill, an embodiment of the positive...
Computer Ads from...
Plus Post: Centram TOPS Network Can we talk?
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Noahpinion
America is ruled by gangsters now Three takeaways from Trump's disastrous meeting with Zelensky.
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journal – Winnie Lim
because we are both pessimists It is so easy to take for granted, the ease of a relationship that has lasted 106 months. That is...
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It is so easy to take for granted, the ease of a relationship that has lasted 106 months. That is almost 9 years, a little less than a quarter of my life....
lcamtuf’s thing
The Afterlife AGENT: I am prescribing vardenafil 5 mg for you.
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A Smart Bear
"I scratched my own itch" isn't good enough This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups...
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This isn't the humble-brag you think it is; The most common origin story is also common to startups that fail. But it's a start.
Ruud van Asseldonk
A float walks into a gradual type system
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Carl Barenbrug RSS...
The Social Media Mirage Once upon a time, the power of a strong social media following could make a career. It still can, of...
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Once upon a time, the power of a strong social media following could make a career. It still can, of course, but to a much, much lesser extent. I won't bore you with a recycled narrative of the shitty algorithm effect, although relevant in this case. Suffice to say, a follow...
The Perry Bible...
Bubbled The post Bubbled appeared first on The Perry Bible Fellowship.
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Odds and Ends of...
Odds and Ends #60: Greenpeace is complaining about... solar energy? Plus why the west has semiconductor politics all wrong, and why you should watch Conclave.
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Flashbak
The Making of The Conversation – An Interview with Francis Ford Coppola, 1974 In 1966, Francis Ford Coppola was working as a scriptwriter when he talked with fellow American...
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In 1966, Francis Ford Coppola was working as a scriptwriter when he talked with fellow American director Irvin Kershner (born Isadore Kershner (April 29, 1923 – November 27, 2010)) about spy movies. The time was ripe with espionage plots. The James Bond films were hugely popular...
Wrong Side of...
Crop rotation in the 14th century The Year of the Plague, part 4
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The Ruffian
The Audacity of Ambition Timothée Chalamet Aspires In Public
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Hundred Rabbits
Summary of changes for February 2025 Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of...
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Hey everyone! This is the list of all the changes we've done to our projects during the month of February. Summary Of Changes 100r.co, added Dinghy gelcoat, Week 10, Week 11, and Week 12 of the Victoria to Sitka logbook. Updated solar with new pictures and corrected information...
weird medieval guys
My favourite etymologies: "to curry favour" Or, the unfathomably dark depths of the equine soul
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Marcus on AI
OpenAI, in deep trouble Maybe burning money isn’t the answer
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The Marginalian
The Souls of Animals “They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they...
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“They do not sweat and whine about their condition,” Walt Whitman wrote of the other animals, “they do not lie awake in the dark and weep for their sins, they do not make me sick discussing their duty to God, not one is dissatisfied, not one is demented with the mania of owning...
Blog System/5
Hardware autoconf: ACPI & Device Tree An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device...
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An overview of how a Unix-like BSD kernel performs hardware discovery on x86 and ARM to bind device drivers to hardware devices
Ben Borgers
Make sure your university events are actually interesting
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Applied Cartography
Does that dependency spark joy? If there's been one through line in changes to Buttondown's architecture over the past six months or...
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If there's been one through line in changes to Buttondown's architecture over the past six months or so, it's been the removal and consolidation of dependencies: on the front-end, back-end, and in paid services. I built our own very spartan version of Metabase, Notion, and...
computers are bad
2025-03-01 the cold glow of tritium I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will...
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I have been slowly working on a book. Don't get too excited, it is on a very niche topic and I will probably eventually barely finish it and then post it here. But in the mean time, I will recount some stories which are related, but don't quite fit in. Today, we'll learn a bit...
mtlynch.io
Never Pay the First Bill by Marshall Allen I enjoy finding ways to exercise my rights as a consumer and push back against corporate abuse, so...
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I enjoy finding ways to exercise my rights as a consumer and push back against corporate abuse, so this was right up my alley. The book was eye-opening and made me infuriated with how corrupt the medical system is in the US and how much it extracts wealth by fleecing the middle...
macwright.com
Recently I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now… Reading This was a strong month for reading:...
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I have a non-recently post ready to write, any day now… Reading This was a strong month for reading: I finished The Hidden Wealth of Nations, Useful Not True, and Cyberlibertarianism. I had a book club that read Cyberlibertarianism so we discussed it last week. I have a lot of...
seangoedecke.com RSS...
Building your sense of what's important at a tech company One of the most important career skills in tech is learning to recognize what work actually matters....
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One of the most important career skills in tech is learning to recognize what work actually matters. Many engineers go through their careers…
Moneyness
What do you do with memecoins? Apparently you collect them, says the SEC I have no idea if memecoins like dogecoin and fartcoin should be legally defined as securities, and...
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I have no idea if memecoins like dogecoin and fartcoin should be legally defined as securities, and thus come under the purview of securities regulators like the Securities Exchange Commission (SEC). Securities law is confusing. But what I do know is that the SEC's latest notion...
SatPost by Trung...
Magnus Carlsen, David Deutsch and the "Fun Criterion" PLUS: Ferrari’s Wild Economics, Timothée Chalamet, Cost of Being On YouTube.
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The Honest Broker
My 12-Month Immersive Course in Humanities—The Final Installment! I deliver on my promise to provide a full survey of arts & culture in just 52 weeks
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Jim Nielsen’s Blog
Can You Get Better Doing a Bad Job? Rick Rubin has an interview with Woody Harrelson on his podcast Tetragrammaton. Right at the...
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Rick Rubin has an interview with Woody Harrelson on his podcast Tetragrammaton. Right at the beginning Woody talks about his experience acting and how he’s had roles that did’t turn out very well. He says sometimes he comes away from those experiences feeling dirty, like “I never...
Saturday Morning...
Saturday Morning Breakfast Cereal - Elves Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am coming to realize I overrespresent fungus and...
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Click here to go see the bonus panel! Hovertext: I am coming to realize I overrespresent fungus and cephalopods in my random life forms. Is this chauvinism? Today's News:
Society's Backend
Code with AI but do it correctly ML Engineering resources 02-28-25
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oftwominds-Charles...
Three Ways to Restore Housing Affordability The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it's just another interchangeable...
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The choice is simple: housing is either shelter for citizens, or it's just another interchangeable speculative asset in the global financialization casino. It can't be both. We tend to think of housing becoming unaffordable as a matter of land prices, zoning and the cost of...
Astral Codex Ten
Everything-Except-Book Review Contest 2025 ...
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Herbert Lui
Some people have it, some people don’t? A few years ago, I wrote that writing is thinking. You are better off writing to think, not trying...
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A few years ago, I wrote that writing is thinking. You are better off writing to think, not trying to think before you write. “But some people are just better at it,” Ant K writes in a comment (which Karolis recently agreed with). He compared his work with another author he held...
Transit Maps
Submission – Official Map: Metro Rapid Map, Madison, Wisconsin Submitted by Matthew, who says: Madison, WI just opened the first phase of our new BRT system, with...
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Submitted by Matthew, who says: Madison, WI just opened the first phase of our new BRT system, with new stations, new electric buses, and a new diagrams. I’d love to know what you think about the design, especially how the city handled differentiating the two types of station...
A Collection of...
Collections: The Siege of Eregion, Part II: What Siege Camp? This is the second part of our [your guess is as good as mine] part series looking at the Siege of...
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This is the second part of our [your guess is as good as mine] part series looking at the Siege of Eregion from the second season of Amazon’s Rings of Power. Last week, we saw how the logistics of this sequence absolutely do not work: Adar’s army has to cover an absurd amount of...
Artificial Ignorance
AI Roundup 107: GPT-4.5 February 28, 2025.
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Math Is Still...
The Physicist Working to Build Science-Literate AI By training machine learning models with enough examples of basic science, Miles Cranmer hopes to...
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By training machine learning models with enough examples of basic science, Miles Cranmer hopes to push the pace of scientific discovery forward. The post The Physicist Working to Build Science-Literate AI first appeared on Quanta Magazine
The Diff
Running an Oil Major in a Not-Post-Hydrocarbon-Any-Time-Soon World Plus! Corporate VC; Hacking AI Moderation; Product Parity; Crypto Regulation; GPU Demand
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Classical Wisdom
Dialogues of Plato Conversations Across Time
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IEEE Spectrum
The British Navy Resisted a Decent Lightning Rod for Decades Frustrated scientists turned to visual aids to help make their case for the lightning rod. The...
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Frustrated scientists turned to visual aids to help make their case for the lightning rod. The exploding thunder house is one example. When a small amount of gunpowder was deposited inside the dollhouse-size structure and a charge was applied, the house would either explode or...
Calculated Risk
Personal Income increased 0.9% in January; Spending Decreased 0.2% The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays, January 2025 report for January: Personal income...
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The BEA released the Personal Income and Outlays, January 2025 report for January: Personal income increased $221.9 billion (0.9 percent at a monthly rate) in January, according to estimates released today by the U.S. Bureau of Economic Analysis. Disposable personal income...
Both Are True
full convo w claude about my demons lol and an actual convo with my meta-critic who, in the convo, I name Brad
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Don't Worry About...
On Emergent Misalignment One hell of a paper dropped this week.
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Construction Physics
Why it's so hard to build a jet engine Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly...
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Civilization's toughest technical challenges are those that require extraordinary (and constantly improving) performance to be delivered at a low cost.
Arduino Blog
Arduino and System Electronics partner for industrial vision and AI-powered inventory and logistics Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial...
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Arduino and System Electronics are joining forces to create cutting-edge solutions for industrial and building automation, focusing specifically on edge computing to deliver real-time processing, predictive analytics, and seamless integration for AI-driven inventory management...
TheCollector
Arthur Wellesley: The Iron Duke of Wellington Who Beat Napoleon Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known...
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Undoubtedly one of Britain’s greatest heroes, Arthur Wellesley, the 1st Duke of Wellington, is known mainly for his victory over Napoleon at the Battle of Waterloo in 1815, which ended over seven centuries of conflict between England and France.   His influence, however, spread...
GitButler
Interdiff review with git range-diff Diving into `range-diff`, the little known Git power tool to compare two versions of a series of...
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bunnie's blog
Solution, Name that Ware January 2025 The ware for January 2025 is the Gavilan SC laptop motherboard. The Gavilan laptop is one of the...
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The ware for January 2025 is the Gavilan SC laptop motherboard. The Gavilan laptop is one of the first portable computer designs, announced in 1983, at a 2024-equivalent price of $12,400. However, the company only survived for one year, per Wikipedia: Owing to a rigorous overhaul...
Rest of World -...
Gulf of Mexico vs. Gulf of America: How digital maps display disputed names Governments frequently disagree over the names of places. Here’s how mapping apps have dealt with...
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Unfiltered by Tim...
Adults Have Totally Misunderstood How AI Will Affect Society Time to look at the other side of AI (this will affect us all)
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Maps Mania
The Battering School Kids Map
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Seth's Blog
The lonely unicorn That’s not what usually happens. If there’s at least one unicorn in the world, it’s likely not the...
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That’s not what usually happens. If there’s at least one unicorn in the world, it’s likely not the only one. And if one can make a valid English word from seven Scrabble tiles, it’s likely that more than one word can be found. “Impossible” is a very large set of situations. But...
Open Culture
The Experimental Movement That Created The Beatles’ Weirdest Song, “Revolution 9” As of this writing, the Beatles’ “Revolution 9″ has more than 13,800,000 plays on Spotify. This has...
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As of this writing, the Beatles’ “Revolution 9″ has more than 13,800,000 plays on Spotify. This has no doubt generated decent revenue, even given the platform’s oft-lamented payout rates. But compare that number to the more than half-a-billion streams of “Blackbird,” also on the...
Jorge Arango
Book Notes: “A Thousand Brains” A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins Basic Books, 2021 If you’re...
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A Thousand Brains: A New Theory of Intelligence By Jeff Hawkins Basic Books, 2021 If you’re interested in artificial intelligence (and you should be,) it behooves you to learn about intelligence in general. While there’s still lots to learn, neuroscience has made lots of...
Paul Cudenec
A decade of dissent: tide turning, fog lifting In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on...
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In the latest part of my retrospective essay on ten years of The Acorn, which I edit, I look back on its content in 2021.
diamond geezer
Count 2025 During February 2003 on diamond geezer I kept myself busy by counting things. Ten different counts,...
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During February 2003 on diamond geezer I kept myself busy by counting things. Ten different counts, to be precise, in a none-too thrilling daily feature called The Count. My 28-day tally chart may have been deathly dull to the rest of you, but I've continued to count those...
Laetitia@Work
AI’s battle of the skills: upskilling vs deskilling Laetitia@Work #78
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Anecdotal Evidence
'The Secret Hidden From Yourself' Howard Nemerov was born on Leap Year Day in 1920 – February 29 -- meaning his birthday can be...
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Howard Nemerov was born on Leap Year Day in 1920 – February 29 -- meaning his birthday can be accurately observed only every fourth year – a nice metaphysical conundrum. This reminds me of a cousin who was bitter because she was born on Christmas Day and felt she was getting less...
The American Scholar
Something New in the West Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front The post Something New in the West appeared...
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Kurt Beals on translating All Quiet on the Western Front The post Something New in the West appeared first on The American Scholar.
xkcd.com
Excusing Yourself
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Christopher Butler
What We Owe to Artificial Minds Rethinking AI through mind-body dualism, parenthood, and unanswerable existential questions. I...
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Rethinking AI through mind-body dualism, parenthood, and unanswerable existential questions. I remember hearing my daughter’s heartbeat for the first time during a prenatal sonogram. Until that moment, I had intellectually understood that we were creating a new life, but...
The Map is Mostly...
Why make something beautiful? on starting a rose garden
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Notes on software...
Minimal downtime Postgres major version upgrades with EDB Postgres Distributed This is an external post of mine. Click here if you are not redirected.
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Vitalik Buterin's...
AI as the engine, humans as the steering wheel
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Product Identity
A home for niche design Now accepting pre-orders from a brand new website
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