Articles by surprisetalk
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My new fave thing to go to is algoraves (interconnected.org)

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Zoomquilt 2 (zoomquilt2.com)

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Abstract Forms and Tangible Biology: palanquins, princes, and a Lego hypothesis [video] (youtube.com)

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Clinic-in-the-Loop (asimov.press)

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A Japanese screw craftsman who single-handedly produces 400k screws a day [video] (youtube.com)

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The Next Tiramisu (quarter--mile.com)

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Social Dynamics at Arm's Length (jenn.site)

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Analyzing API Design via Algebraic Laws (reasonablypolymorphic.com)

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Imagination, Patterns, and Visual Proofs (mynamelowercase.com)

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How to Rebuild American Industry (factorysettings.org)

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Thing: Temperature-Sensitive LED Faucet Light (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Glimpses of the Future (1979) (seated.ro)

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What Context Can Bring to Terminal Mouse Clicks (tratt.net)

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How long would you survive with no DNA? [video] (youtube.com)

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My Meandering Path to Silver (campbellramble.ai)

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Got factory ruin. Now builds Nordic prefab homes with industrial precision [video] (youtube.com)

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Guide to Retroarch, system, emulator, core, and ROM config files (2021) (raphkoster.com)

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Archives.design (archives.design)

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Tips to spot an otter in the wild (2024) (wwt.org.uk)

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Old Games Download: Abandonware and Retrogaming (oldgamesdownload.com)

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Webb Compare (2024) (webbcompare.com)

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Creatures in Higher Dimensions [video] (youtube.com)

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Snow Simulation Toy (potch.me)

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Drawing Truchet Tiles in SVG (alexwlchan.net)

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Freesound (freesound.org)

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Preserved Fish, Boss of New York City (signoregalilei.com)

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Designing Better Adventures (quarter--mile.com)

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For the Minimalist: Best, Lightest, Smallest, and Cheapest Money Clip (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Georgism Through Land Leasing (progressandpoverty.substack.com)

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Textfiles.com (textfiles.com)

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Turning stone ruin and underground cistern into convertible home to slow down [video] (youtube.com)

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The Myth of the Golden Years of Housing (humanprogress.org)

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Internet Search Tips (gwern.net)

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Advent of Code vs. Weird Programming Languages (joshmoody.org)

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New Years Bingo (potch.me)

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Genius in the Bottle (summerofprotocols.com)

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The GDB JIT Interface (bernsteinbear.com)

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Path to Philosophy – Find the path of any Wikipedia article to Philosophy (pathtophilosophy.com)

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The Evolution of Bacteria (worksinprogress.co)

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WebGL CRT Shader (gingerbeardman.com)

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Ordering Pizza Ahead While Driving (jefftk.com)

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The three most common hallucinations (sashachapin.substack.com)

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A Pro Meticulously Restores a Damaged Oil Painting [video] (youtube.com)

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Face as a QR Code (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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The most unhinged (recent) computer science discoveries [video] (youtube.com)

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Latest Sunrise and Earliest Sunset (leancrew.com)

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Optimizing for Old Battles (scottlocklin.wordpress.com)

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Academic Torrents (academictorrents.com)

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Using Linear Algebra to Predict a Non-Linear Pendulum (chillphysicsenjoyer.substack.com)

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Nothing will change your life more than saying what you want to say (avabear.xyz)

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Macintosh Garden (macintoshgarden.org)

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Roborock Saros Rover [video] (youtube.com)

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The grab list: how museums decide what to save in a disaster (economist.com)

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King County Public Health advises you to flush your toilet rats (reddit.com)

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What Is Claude Code's Plan Mode? (pocoo.org)

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How People Use ChatGPT (forklightning.substack.com)

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Why NYT's Connections makes you feel bad (2023) (raphkoster.com)

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Case Study: K9 Coliving (supernuclear.substack.com)

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Jed's List of Situation Puzzles (kith.org)

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Towards a short taxonomy of technological progress (mynamelowercase.com)

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PhyloPic (phylopic.org)

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The Death Generator (deathgenerator.com)

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Seeing Theory (brown.edu)

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No Beautiful Things (eli.li)

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Socially awkward nerds are mostly just Berkson's paradox (shakeddown.substack.com)

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What is the opposite of a set? [video] (youtube.com)

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The Internet forgets, but I don't want to (alexwlchan.net)

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AI Teddy Bears: A Brief Investigation (lesswrong.com)

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Live 2025 – Spine [video] (youtube.com)

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The Economics of Parenting with Neighborhood and Peer Effects (nber.org)

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There are too many types of barcode (signoregalilei.com)

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Narrow Escape of a Mouse (futilitycloset.com)

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You Can Just Buy Far-UVC (jefftk.com)

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Visible Mending (bookofjoe2.blogspot.com)

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Mundango (daverupert.com)

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AI Flatters with Fidelity (lucent.substack.com)

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Open Philanthropy Is Now Coefficient Giving (coefficientgiving.org)

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Who Is in Space – Live Updates (whoisinspace.com)

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༄ Gravity Basins ࿐ [video] (youtube.com)

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San Remo Pasta Measurer (toxel.com)

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RamenHaus (ramen.haus)

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AI Is Creating More Work, Countering the Doomers for Now (humanprogress.org)

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What old tennis players teach us (2017) (raphkoster.com)

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Impedance Matching (futilitycloset.com)

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MMAP Advent of Code 2025 (mmapped.blog)

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It's the Same Great Taste (brooke.substack.com)

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Aviation Photos – 6M+ on JetPhotos (jetphotos.com)

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Making the ask: Persuading family to move nearby (livenearfriends.com)

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Business and the Beast (jakehandy.com)

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Solving a snaky math problem with Mathematica (leancrew.com)

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Single Sign on for Furries (cendyne.dev)

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Zoomquilt (zoomquilt.org)

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AI Has Made It Easy to Own Your Tools (jimmyhmiller.com)

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Targeting Cash Transfers in a Crisis (deenamousa.com)

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Shipmap.org (shipmap.org)

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Animal Diversity Web (animaldiversity.org)

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Consent Systems (2017) (raphkoster.com)

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Meditation as Wakeful Relaxation: Unclenching Smooth Muscle (psychotechnology.substack.com)

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The palm tree that led to Palmyra (alexwlchan.net)