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Marginalia's Index Reaches 100M Documents (2022) (marginalia.nu)

a year ago | ColinWright | marginalia.nu | newest

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Why It's So Hard to Search Your Email (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | theatlantic.com | newest

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Self-teaching, spaced repetition, and why books don't work (dwarkeshpatel.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | dwarkeshpatel.com | best

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An unassembled jigsaw puzzle takes up an area about 1.7 times the assembled area (mastodon.social)

a year ago | ColinWright | mastodon.social | newest

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Singularities don't exist, claims black hole pioneer Roy Kerr (bigthink.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | bigthink.com | newest

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What's inside this crater in Madagascar? [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Are we finally entering the indutrial era of research mathematics? (mathstodon.xyz)

a year ago | ColinWright | mathstodon.xyz | newest

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Hixie's Natural Log: Reflecting on 18 Years at Google (hixie.ch)

a year ago | ColinWright | hixie.ch | newest

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Do your administrative procedures serve your customers' needs? (solipsys.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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Shortest Explanation of Gödel's Theorem (plover.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | plover.com | newest

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ChuckM/CarEarthquakePrep: The "go bag" in my car to be ready for earthquakes (github.com/chuckm)

a year ago | ColinWright | github.com | newest

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The floating desalination machines powered by the waves (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Agent-Based Models (Part 3) (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | wordpress.com | newest

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A Brief History of Tricky Mathematical Tiling (quantamagazine.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | quantamagazine.org | frontpage

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Turns out you can speedrun Duolingo, someone did an entire course in 24 hours (pcgamer.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | pcgamer.com | newest

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Pioneer Anomaly (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

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An AI firm harvested billions of photos without consent. UK is powerless to act (politico.eu)

a year ago | ColinWright | politico.eu | frontpage

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Elon Musk unveils new X feature, but no one wants it (businessinsider.de)

a year ago | ColinWright | businessinsider.de | newest

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Stone Skipping Is a Competitive Sport and Helps Scientists Study Spaceships (atlasobscura.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | atlasobscura.com | newest

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Moon Landings Faked? Filmmaker Says Not [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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David Turner has left us (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

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Fulton surface-to-air recovery system (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

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Kalman filter from the ground up (kalmanfilter.net)

a year ago | ColinWright | kalmanfilter.net | best

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Watching Psyche launch visiting a metallic asteroid (nasa.gov)

a year ago | ColinWright | nasa.gov | newest

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NASA: Capillary Cup (rit.edu)

a year ago | ColinWright | rit.edu | best

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Why are more boys born in certain years? The Returning Soldier effect (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Rewriting WordPress's JetPack Related Posts Shortcode (shkspr.mobi)

a year ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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Limited Audience Jokes (solipsys.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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A Man Who Would Teach Machines to Think (2013) (theatlantic.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | theatlantic.com | newest

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Exact literal search in Google. Allegedly

a year ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

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Chocolate Consumption vs. Nobel Prizes (2014) (businessinsider.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | businessinsider.com | frontpage

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Measurement of Galactic Neutral Hydrogen in Noisy Urban Locale Using Kitchenware (arxiv.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | arxiv.org | newest

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The presumption that computers are working correctly (emptycity.substack.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | substack.com | best

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The Small World of Simulating Other Worlds (undark.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | undark.org | frontpage

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Everything authenticated by Microsoft is tainted (graz.social)

a year ago | ColinWright | graz.social | best

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How do SIM Cards work? [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Observation of the effect of gravity on the motion of antimatter (nature.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | nature.com | best

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Paper Notebooks vs. Mobile Devices: Brain Activation Diffs During Mem Retrieval (frontiersin.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | frontiersin.org | newest

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OSIRIS-REx Asteroid Sample Return [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | best

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Constellation Starlink – Current Positions (satellitemap.space)

a year ago | ColinWright | satellitemap.space | newest

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Mathematics, Morally (2004) [pdf] (eugeniacheng.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | eugeniacheng.com | newest

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clavier: Measure edit distance based on keyboard layout (github.com/maxhalford)

a year ago | ColinWright | github.com | newest

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Osiris-Rex: Asteroid Bennu 'is a journey back to our origins' (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Seth Abramson on X: “Get your things together and be ready to go” (twitter.com/sethabramson)

a year ago | ColinWright | twitter.com | frontpage

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X/Twitter to charge all users with monthly subscription fees (axios.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | axios.com | newest

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I Was Attacked by Trump and Musk ... a Strategy to Change What You See Online (archive.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | archive.org | frontpage

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Using Selenium and Chrome to automatically download Blob files (shkspr.mobi)

a year ago | ColinWright | shkspr.mobi | newest

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What Is the Pinot? [pdf] (solipsys.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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Mathematicians Solve 50-Year-Old Möbius Strip Puzzle (scientificamerican.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | scientificamerican.com | frontpage

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Calling all HN pilots: An Unusual Request / Opportunity

a year ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

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Using Chat-GPT to create a crackpot letter (openai.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | openai.com | newest

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My “Life in the UK” Test and a Great British Travel Guide (forkingpaths.co)

a year ago | ColinWright | forkingpaths.co | newest

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The 82-year-old who plays cricket wearing an oxygen tank (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Toyota Case: Single Bit Flip That Killed (2013) (eetimes.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | eetimes.com | newest

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‘No one wants to be right about this’: climate scientists (theguardian.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | frontpage

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my C Homework (cohost.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | cohost.org | newest

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Digital Show and Tell: Analysing digital audio processing [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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A Critical Analysis of the What3Words Geocoding Algorithm (arxiv.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | arxiv.org | best

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Don't use AI detectors for anything important (aiweirdness.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | aiweirdness.com | newest

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Why the Kirnberger Kernel Is So Small (2009) (arxiv.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | arxiv.org | newest

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Chandrayaan-3: India attempts first ever South Pole Moon landing (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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Scraped data of 2.6M Duolingo users released on hacking forum (bleepingcomputer.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | bleepingcomputer.com | frontpage

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New JWST data confirms, worsens the Hubble tension (bigthink.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | bigthink.com | best

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Finland provides housing and counseling to the homeless (2020) (scoop.me)

a year ago | ColinWright | scoop.me | best

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Short session expiration does not help security (sjoerdlangkemper.nl)

a year ago | ColinWright | sjoerdlangkemper.nl | best

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Unlocking the mathematical formula of juggling (2012) [video] (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | frontpage

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X Reverses Slowed Access to News Outlets, but Rival Sites Still Affected (nytimes.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | nytimes.com | newest

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Amazon removes books ‘generated by AI’ for sale under author’s name (theguardian.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | newest

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Jack Black's Mom Helped Create the Abort System That Rescued AP 13 Astronauts (2021) (snopes.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | snopes.com | best

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Epicycle Clock (sophiehoulden.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | sophiehoulden.com | best

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PostModern Computing – a cautionary tale of the internet [pdf] (plambeck.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | plambeck.org | newest

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Worldcoin Promised Them Free Crypto for an Eyeball Scan. Now They Feel Robbed (buzzfeednews.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | buzzfeednews.com | newest

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Spyhide stalkerware is spying on tens of thousands of phones (techcrunch.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | techcrunch.com | newest

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Google vs. the Open Web (interpeer.io)

a year ago | ColinWright | interpeer.io | best

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Banburismus (wikipedia.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

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Byron Bay data breach victim told to pay Adidas, NBA $1.2M by US courts (abc.net.au)

a year ago | ColinWright | abc.net.au | best

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Meta Holds the Trademark on X (mastodon.online)

a year ago | ColinWright | mastodon.online | frontpage

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As Twitter Disappears, TikTok Introduces 'Text Posts' (pcmag.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | pcmag.com | newest

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Oxford Linear Algebra: Linear Transformations Explained [video] (youtube.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | frontpage

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A new implementation of the ACL Paper: Gzip and KNN working together (twitter.com/abhi9u)

a year ago | ColinWright | twitter.com | newest

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1px-Wide Font (boingboing.net)

a year ago | ColinWright | boingboing.net | newest

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Google's trying to make DRM for websites (treehouse.systems)

a year ago | ColinWright | treehouse.systems | newest

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Firmware vulnerabilities in millions of computers could give hackers superuser (arstechnica.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Google to block news in Canada over law on paying publishers (reuters.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | reuters.com | newest

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Brothers build model boats to sail around Antarctica (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Firefighters are leaving the U.S. Forest Service for better pay and benefits (nbcnews.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | nbcnews.com | best

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WiFi routers can see people through walls (zmescience.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | zmescience.com | newest

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Not If You Hurry – musing on meaning, communication, and language (solipsys.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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Pocket gets worse the more you use it (2019) (archive.org)

a year ago | ColinWright | archive.org | best

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Farmer ordered to pay $CAD82k after confusion over meaning of thumbs-up emoji (abc.net.au)

a year ago | ColinWright | abc.net.au | best

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We all need some space (aperiodical.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | aperiodical.com | best

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A close reading of Twitter's legal letter to Meta (emptycity.substack.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | substack.com | newest

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Twitter threatens legal action over Threads app (bbc.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Tech Independence (sive.rs)

a year ago | ColinWright | sive.rs | newest

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Pythagoras By Incircle – an old proof rediscovered (solipsys.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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Considering A Sphere, let's compute the volume without calculus (sort of) (solipsys.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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A Simple Twitter Archiver (tinysubversions.com)

a year ago | ColinWright | tinysubversions.com | newest

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Today's Twitter repository is the forum equivalent of “Low-background steel”

a year ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

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Write Plain Text Files (sive.rs)

a year ago | ColinWright | sive.rs | newest

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Unexpected Interaction of Features (solipsys.co.uk)

a year ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | best