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Recommended Posts, 2017-2025 (raphkoster.com)

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Couple raises family in self-sufficient homestead inside a greenhouse [video] (youtube.com)

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John von Neumann Shot Lightning from His Arse (theintrinsicperspective.com)

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Homemade Juggling Beanbag Guide (joshuaclifton.com)

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Sloot Digital Coding System (wikipedia.org)

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The "Homeless" Streamers of China [video] (youtube.com)

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Prediction Markets Are Accurate (marginalrevolution.com)

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What are the chances the cashless student cafeteria has a privacy policy? (aaronland.info)

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List of Individual Body Parts (wikipedia.org)

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Essentials for Independent Travel in China (kevinkelly.substack.com)

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Gijswijt's Sequence (wikipedia.org)

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The Code That Revolutionized Orbital Simulation [video] (youtube.com)

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The Drosophila of Decision Science (jtpeterson.substack.com)

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We Lost Something: 1970s REPLs Were Better Than Modern Development Environments (programmingsimplicity.substack.com)

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Energy Predictions 2025 (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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A Multimedia Sketchpad (beyondloom.com)

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Testing a cheaper laminar flow hood (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Do Not Optimize Away (matklad.github.io)

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Smol share – for sharing ephemeral encrypted snippets of text or links (cblgh.org)

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Too Complex to Fix (spacedino.net)

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We are not here to make code (todepond.com)

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Stagnant Construction Productivity Is a Worldwide Problem (construction-physics.com)

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Peak TIME POTY Drama (manifold.markets)

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AI Safety for Fleshy Humans: a whirlwind tour (aisafety.dance)

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Queries (futilitycloset.com)

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Benevolent Dictator for Now (roc-lang.org)

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Notes on Sorted Data (prasad.me)

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The Triumph of Logical English (worksinprogress.co)

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Year Day is December 11 (taylor.town)

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The Most Common Bad Argument in These Parts (lesswrong.com)

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The Book. The Ultimate Guide to Rebuilding Civilization (hungryminds.com)

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I Contended in the Parallel Parking Championship (caranddriver.com)

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The Deadline Candle (sublimeinternet.substack.com)

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A brief history of specifiers and protocols (macwright.com)

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Building Thread-safe Async Primitives in 150 lines of Rust (prasad.me)

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The ABCD Framework for Feedback (cassidoo.co)

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NearbyWiki – Find Interesting Places (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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The economics of dark forest spaces (ystrickler.com)

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Solid State Volumetric Display [video] (youtube.com)

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Has Buddhism been statist for a long time? (marginalrevolution.com)

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Nova Programming Language (nova-lang.net)

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Software Never Fails (entropicthoughts.com)

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Making the Solution Transparent (buttondown.com/dorian)

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Branch, Test, Deploy: A Git-Inspired Approach for Data (motherduck.com)

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Reborrowing (wikipedia.org)

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First explorations in Indian classical music (andrewbatson.com)

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Ignore the pessimists – we are living through a literary golden age (commonreader.co.uk)

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(Dis)Assembling Experience (raphkoster.com)

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So What Should We Call This – A Grue Jay? (utexas.edu)

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BehindTheMedspeak: A Spinal Tap (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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UCSD Faculty Sound Alarm on Declining Student Skills (marginalrevolution.com)

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Financial Markets (humaninvariant.substack.com)

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Could machine learning save this sea cow? (2016) (blog.google)

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When square pixels aren't square (alexwlchan.net)

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Montaigne's Epistemology (jenn.site)

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What did you do [video] (youtube.com)

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People Should Be Smaller (namelessvirtue.com)

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Roger Ebert's Relationship to Anime [video] (youtube.com)

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Tutorial 48: my museum collections kit (svpow.com)

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Four ways journaling has helped me (imperfectionist.substack.com)

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Talking about the Future of AI in Law with David Wakeling (artificialinvestment.substack.com)

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How to Find Time to Do Science (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Why Sell Lifetime Plans, in a Default Subscription World? (pketh.org)

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Tyrannicide: Five Lessons for Luigi's Critics (illwill.com)

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Software Gets a New Layer (wreflection.com)

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Review: Surreal Numbers (signoregalilei.com)

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A Man I Want to Meet the Most (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Rabbit Hole Learning (seated.ro)

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The "Pretend to Work" Loophole of China [video] (youtube.com)

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Linguistic Sightseeing: The Germanic Languages, Part I (collisteru.substack.com)

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One-Third of US Families Earn over $150k (marginalrevolution.com)

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Talent sorting in Germany is flawed (simongrimm.substack.com)

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Some news: We're selling Radish next year (supernuclear.substack.com)

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RFdiffusion3 Now Available (uw.edu)

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Programming Like a Fighter Pilot [video] (youtube.com)

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Scaling Career and Family: Systems Thinking, Public School, Home Enrichment (caseyhandmer.wordpress.com)

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Hopefully Soon" Is Killing Your Dreams (mindthenerd.com)

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Building a Copying GC for the Plush Programming Language (pointersgonewild.com)

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The Harvard Endowment's Biggest Public Investment Is Now Bitcoin (gizmodo.com)

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When Is a Complex System Stable? (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Ants, Storms, and Floods (frankforce.com)

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US parents say Peppa Pig is giving their kids British accents (2021) (theguardian.com)

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Comments on smartphone ban from high school teacher (marginalrevolution.com)

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Hiring: Damned If You Do, Damned If You Don't (factorysettings.org)

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Some Economics of Artificial Super Intelligence (ssrn.com)

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Rock Paper Scissors Is a Game of Skill (collisteru.substack.com)

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When there's a crisis, three things can happen (todepond.com)

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Stumbling (quarter--mile.com)

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Periodic Spaces (ianthehenry.com)

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The War for Seattle [video] (youtube.com)

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China will eventually open its borders to mass immigration (twitter.com/samoburja)

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Is Watching Video Bad for Children's Skills? (nber.org)

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Industrial Policy: When Is Business the Government's Business? (factorysettings.org)

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Elon Musk Drove ~1/3 of Women Off Twitter (kevinmunger.substack.com)

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A WebAssembly interpreter (Part 1) (wasmgroundup.com)

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Intrarectal perfluorodecalin for enteral ventilation in a first-in-human trial (cell.com)

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Ambsheet: A spreadsheet for exploring scenarios [video] (youtube.com)

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Animalcules and Their Motors (asimov.press)

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iPSC-Derived Islet Transplant Under Rectus Sheath in T1D (cell.com)