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USB-C is a complete mess [video] (youtube.com)

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The Entropy of a Markov Chain (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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I built a jellyfish laboratory in my backyard [video] (youtube.com)

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Blog Revival Project (manifund.substack.com)

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The inliner is yielding benefits for ZJIT (railsatscale.com)

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The Selfless Driving Car (angadh.com)

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Judge a Book by Its Cover (mediumrare.site)

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The Fish Who Could Not Imagine Air (novaspivack.com)

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Meta: 7k (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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Tino Cuellar Joins Anthropic as Chief Global Affairs Officer (anthropic.com)

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Perspec 1.0 (adriansieber.com)

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Building Community Out of Strangers (tracydurnell.com)

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Preventing Misfolding by Preventing Folding (science.org)

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I used to add links by hand (brandur.org)

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Feige's Conjecture (arxiv.org)

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Memoirs of a Long-Time Luddite (angadh.com)

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Warfighting Ability (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Being a Luddite Is Fun Again (404media.co)

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Protopia (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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How AI Can Make Design Work Appear Prematurely Resolved (commonedge.org)

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Xbox goes down. You can't play games you own on disc (birchtree.me)

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Indirect Lessons from Human Alignment (dynomight.net)

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Rebuilding and analysing 4 years of Wordle stats from WhatsApp chat logs (omgmog.net)

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Please let me phone my podcasts app (interconnected.org)

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DIY Adjustable Projector Stand (arun.is)

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A quine in Piet – a GIF image that prints itself [video] (youtube.com)

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Chip motors' tiny electric LUV can drive itself home – with a little human help (designboom.com)

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How to Make Something People (Actually) Give a Shit About (joanwestenberg.com)

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Small Wins on the App Store (cleberg.net)

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No Fixed Frame Is Enough (novaspivack.com)

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Most Likely Future Filter: World Govt (overcomingbias.com)

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VictorTaelin/Nanoproof (github.com/victortaelin)

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Severance (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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A GTK4 SSH-askpass in Zig (xn--gckvb8fzb.com)

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We published a new topic page on economic inequality (ourworldindata.org)

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The most official water costs $120k a gallon (signoregalilei.com)

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Alternative Medicine for Chickens (ambrook.com)

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Seattle's Third Act (ascend.vc)

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The Sylvester–Gallai Theorem (futilitycloset.com)

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Freesocks: Free uncensored proxies for users in heavily-censored regions (freesocks.org)

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Three Myths on the Chinese Economy (zixuanma.blog)

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Join Me in Jamverse (venkateshrao.com)

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How the Words We Teach English Language Learners Changed (pudding.cool)

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Investigating three real-world incidents in our cybersecurity evaluations (anthropic.com)

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The Least Private Operating System Ever Created [video] (youtube.com)

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So you want to use plants to reduce CO₂ (dynomight.net)

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Boarding China's Last Bus (asteriskmag.com)

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Beware the Permanent Periphery (asteriskmag.com)

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Register deprivation: spills and runtime under forced register scarcity (rjp.io)

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Copyright Was Never Your Friend (mkultra.monster)

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Tallest timber tower reaches full height in Sydney with design by SHoP (designboom.com)

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[flagged] The Scientific Literature Is Poisonous to LLMs (reinvent.science)

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Rust and Boll (asteriskmag.com)

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Digitally Entertained with Zero Money (folkmoss.bearblog.dev)

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CipherX applies painless permanent tattoos with dissolving microneedle patches (designboom.com)

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AI in Linux (drewdevault.com)

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Can We Lower Construction Costs with Cheaper Labor or Materials? (construction-physics.com)

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Light Phone Flip (thelightphone.com)

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Making Referential Stability a Type (jovidecroock.com)

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Playing with Georgia (mighil.com)

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The Unbearable Slowness of Being: Why do we live at 10 bits/s? (2024) (arxiv.org)

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Does every question mark deserve a Betteridge? (dynomight.net)

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All Work and No Play (asteriskmag.com)

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Harmony Explained: Progress Towards a Scientific Theory of Music (2012) (arxiv.org)

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Note-Taking and Personal Knowledge Management (unattributed.cc)

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When sine of x degrees equals sine of x radians (johndcook.com)

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The Only Software Metric That Matters Is Love (furia.com)

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The Response I Got Was Cynical (pointersgonewild.com)

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China Is Dominating the Nuclear Power Race [video] (youtube.com)

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Apple Park: Designed to Isolate (mjtsai.com)

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Homework for SMTM-6941: Lithium Problem Sets (slimemoldtimemold.com)

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Our position on open-weights models (anthropic.com)

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Expanding Our Partnership with Cognizant (anthropic.com)

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How real are real numbers? (2004) (arxiv.org)

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Detecting Full Table Scans with SQLite (tenderlovemaking.com)

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A work journal to stay organised and informed (silviamaggidesign.com)

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Should You Microwave Salmon? (2024) (mollymogrenkatt.substack.com)

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You, too, can never, ever relax (news.harvard.edu)

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The Royal Order of Operations (ken.fyi)

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Should you wash your solar panels? (incoherency.co.uk)

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What Bad Bases Are Good For (mathenchant.wordpress.com)

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Math News: The Additivity Conjecture in Knot Theory Is False [video] (youtube.com)

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There are no particles, there are only fields (2012) (arxiv.org)

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Being Linux Torvalds (antirez.com)

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Intuition for Distribution Differences (entropicthoughts.com)

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Lessons from a High-Fertility Subculture (worksinprogress.co)

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Learning Musical Multitasking (jefftk.com)

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Preventing line breaks in <code> elements (alexwlchan.net)

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Examples from sci-fi of voice interfaces that stay on task (interconnected.org)

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Retrotechnology Media (typewritten.org)

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A Modern Interpretation of Live Streaming in the Cars 2 Cinematic Universe (moq.dev)

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Em dashes are amazing (psychotechnology.substack.com)

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Galilean Limits of Electromagnetism (johncarlosbaez.wordpress.com)

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I Tried Building a Real App with AI. It Took a Year (alexhyett.com)

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Negative Resistance (lcamtuf.substack.com)

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The Word "Emoji" Is Older Than You May Think (emojipedia.org)

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RSS Chat (johnjohnston.info)

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Permanent Daylight Saving Time (leancrew.com)

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How much energy do data centers and artificial intelligence use? (ourworldindata.org)