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The mindset that brings unlimited willpower (bbc.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | bbc.com | newest

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Walrus: A newc/8 “Life” spaceship found (conwaylife.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | conwaylife.com | newest

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Mars Perseverance Sol 669: Right Mastcam-Z Camera (nasa.gov)

2 years ago | ColinWright | nasa.gov | newest

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Apparently you can sing two melodies at once (part 2) (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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The XBB.1.5 variant shows the coronavirus is not done with us (washingtonpost.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | washingtonpost.com | newest

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Please don’t film me in 2023 (theverge.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | theverge.com | best

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The science of having ideas in the shower (nationalgeographic.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | nationalgeographic.co.uk | best

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Why Can't America Do Taxes Like the Faroe Islands? (theatlantic.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | theatlantic.com | newest

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Elementary Estimates (solipsys.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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Walter Cunningham has left us (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | frontpage

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A New Puzzle Turns Earth into a Rubik’s Cube, but More Complex (nytimes.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | nytimes.com | newest

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A secret message in a Colombian song gave hostages hope (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Claude Shannon’s research laid foundations for modern communications (2020) (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | quantamagazine.org | best

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Watching a “language” develop when kids can’t speak to each other (2019) (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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I Asked an Actual Apollo Engineer to Explain the Saturn 5 Rocket (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | frontpage

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What Broke the New York Times? (spectator.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | spectator.co.uk | frontpage

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Gear Cube and Brain Gear (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Donald Knuth's 2022 'Christmas Tree' Lecture Is about Trees (thenewstack.io)

2 years ago | ColinWright | thenewstack.io | frontpage

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Adding a Sierpinski Triangle Fractal as musical notes (twitter.com/dklemitz)

2 years ago | ColinWright | twitter.com | newest

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Happy Solsthelion Everyone

2 years ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | frontpage

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How to fold and cut a Christmas star with just a single cut (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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MSG defends using facial recognition to kick lawyer out of Rockettes show (arstechnica.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | arstechnica.com | newest

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The Actual 26 Integers for the famous Diophantine formula of primes to produce 2 (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Concrete Mathematics, 2nd Edition [pdf] (ntu.edu.tw)

2 years ago | ColinWright | ntu.edu.tw | frontpage

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Elon Musk Still Silencing Journalists He Banned from Twitter (theintercept.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | theintercept.com | frontpage

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A non-constructive proof of the Four Colour Theorem (arxiv.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | arxiv.org | best

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Recent growth in one specific Mastodon instance (solipsys.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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Twitter policy page forbidding links to other social media removed

2 years ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | best

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The A.I. was making up BS references to back up its BS facts (slate.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | slate.com | frontpage

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How to Start a Paper? (igorpak.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | wordpress.com | newest

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Musk's Twitter blocked links to rival Mastodon, could raise alarms with regu... (cnn.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | cnn.com | frontpage

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13 stranded strangers went on a road trip. Here's what happened (cnn.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | cnn.com | frontpage

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Squatter Elon Musk Reportedly No Longer Paying Rent at Twitter (futurism.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | futurism.com | frontpage

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We’re witnessing the brain death of Twitter (technologyreview.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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SQL queries produced by ChatGPT going into production code (twitter.com/karanganesan)

2 years ago | ColinWright | twitter.com | newest

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It may be possible to cram more neutrons into atomic nuclei than previously (science.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | science.org | frontpage

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The weird way language affects our sense of time and space (bbc.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | bbc.com | newest

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Tim Berners-Lee’s “Oh, Yeah?” button could have changed the internet (slate.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | slate.com | frontpage

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EU to Facebook: ‘Drop Dead’. Ringing down the curtain on the consent theater (doctorow.medium.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | medium.com | frontpage

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Hate speech dramatically surges on Twitter following Elon Musk takeover (cnn.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | cnn.com | newest

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Uber facial recognition is locking Indian drivers out of their accounts (technologyreview.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | technologyreview.com | newest

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The Feynman Lectures on Physics Audio Collection (caltech.edu)

2 years ago | ColinWright | caltech.edu | newest

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Proposal: A controlled vocabulary for attitudes to PRs, forks and bug-reports (reprog.wordpress.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | wordpress.com | newest

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Emperor Charles V's code cracked after five centuries (phys.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | phys.org | frontpage

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Building arbitrary Life patterns in 15 gliders (mybluehost.me)

2 years ago | ColinWright | mybluehost.me | frontpage

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Signal Reflection (solipsys.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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Google to pay record $391M privacy settlement (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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They made a material that doesn't exist on Earth. Just the start of the story (npr.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | npr.org | newest

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A comprehensive cheatsheet covering a semester of introduction to probability (github.com/wzchen)

2 years ago | ColinWright | github.com | newest

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An escape pod was jettisoned during the fighting (raspberrypi.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | raspberrypi.com | frontpage

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A Twitter engineer says it will break in the coming weeks (technologyreview.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | technologyreview.com | frontpage

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Poll: Taking Payments On-Line

2 years ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

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We performed magic tricks on birds to see how they perceive the world (theconversation.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | theconversation.com | newest

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The Computer Scientist Who Boosts Privacy with Entropy (quantamagazine.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | quantamagazine.org | newest

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Call for Twitter Advertisers to Demand Elon Musk Fulfill His Promise To (freepress.net)

2 years ago | ColinWright | freepress.net | newest

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Hour Maths (24hourmaths.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | 24hourmaths.com | newest

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Counter Social (counter.social)

2 years ago | ColinWright | counter.social | newest

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TikTok profits from livestreams of families begging (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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We Become What We Behold (2017) (ncase.itch.io)

2 years ago | ColinWright | itch.io | best

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The US Senate Approves Permanent DST Bill (timeanddate.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | timeanddate.com | newest

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New Phases of Water Detected (cam.ac.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | cam.ac.uk | newest

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Inglenook Shunting (fraser.name)

2 years ago | ColinWright | fraser.name | newest

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I'm not a pilot. Can I land a 737? (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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A ragtag community is keeping this aughts Wikipedia gadget alive (inputmag.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | inputmag.com | newest

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The Supreme Court’s new Section 230 case could break the internet (vox.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | vox.com | newest

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Mountweazels and Dords (colganology2.blogspot.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | blogspot.com | frontpage

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Python-based research interface for blackbox and hyperparameter optimization (github.com/google)

2 years ago | ColinWright | github.com | newest

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I solved the Dandelions paper-and-pencil game (nullprogram.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | nullprogram.com | newest

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Obituary: Angela Lansbury (bbc.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | bbc.co.uk | newest

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Shape of the Go Stone (gafferongames.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | gafferongames.com | newest

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Where Online Hate Speech Can Bring the Police to Your Door (archive.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | archive.org | best

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Capturing the International Space Station (cosmicbackground.io)

2 years ago | ColinWright | cosmicbackground.io | newest

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Grad students at Northeastern pushed back against invasive digital surveillance (pluralistic.net)

2 years ago | ColinWright | pluralistic.net | frontpage

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MIMD Interpretation on a GPU [pdf] (uky.edu)

2 years ago | ColinWright | uky.edu | frontpage

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AI solved this programming problem. Can you? (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Mojo Vision CEO first to wear company’s smart contact lens (freethink.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | freethink.com | newest

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Femto – a tiny two player card game (maths.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | maths.org | newest

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We are already midway through exploring the galaxy (probably) (interconnected.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | interconnected.org | newest

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Communications From Superior Galactic Communities (1960) [pdf] (cfa.harvard.edu)

2 years ago | ColinWright | harvard.edu | newest

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Watchman: Execute a command when something changes (github.com/crodjer)

2 years ago | ColinWright | github.com | best

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Wolfgang Haken, co-prover of the Four Colour Theorem, has left us (wikipedia.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | wikipedia.org | newest

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Churchill on Brevity (1940) (thelatimergroup.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | thelatimergroup.com | newest

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Ow – Reddit.com (reddit.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | reddit.com | newest

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The Quest to Find Twitter’s Elusive Bot Team (wired.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | wired.co.uk | newest

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Rage Inducing System Implementation (solipsys.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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A Daily Run (sive.rs)

2 years ago | ColinWright | sive.rs | newest

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The era of fast, cheap genome sequencing is here (wired.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | wired.com | best

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State Machine in Real Life (solipsys.co.uk)

2 years ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | frontpage

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Int/str conversions broken in latest Python bugfix releases (python.org)

2 years ago | ColinWright | python.org | newest

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The Future of Solid State Wind Energy – No More Blades (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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Can Artificial Intelligence Invent Things? A Curious Legal Case Could Have ... (observer.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | observer.com | newest

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Miss USA 2011 – Should Math Be Taught in Schools? (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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I Built a Rocket That Lands – Scout F Engineering Cut (youtube.com)

2 years ago | ColinWright | youtube.com | newest

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2 years ago | ColinWright | ycombinator.com | newest

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How to explain zero-knowledge protocols to your children (1998) [pdf]

2 years ago | ColinWright | wisc.edu | best

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The image in this post displays its own MD5 hash

2 years ago | ColinWright | retr0.id | newest

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Of *course* we monitor your emails: Chart of Twitter discussion of campus email

2 years ago | ColinWright | solipsys.co.uk | newest

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AI’s dark arts come into their own

2 years ago | ColinWright | theguardian.com | newest

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Kiwi Farms has been breached; assume passwords and emails have been leaked

2 years ago | ColinWright | arstechnica.com | frontpage

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Nearly all k-SAT functions are unate

2 years ago | ColinWright | yufeizhao.com | newest