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GPT makes learning fun again
What will GPT unlock for the nerdy kid sitting in a 7th-grade classroom today?
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The latest blog posts to take off on Hacker News. 669 posts.
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Shoot the arrow, then paint the target around it
As I watched him on stage, I thought about what made him extraordinary. It’s not his voice. He readily admits that his voice isn’t amazing.
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You and Your Research (1986)
Transcription of the Bell Communications Research Colloquium Seminar 7 March 1986
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First clean water, now clean air
Fin Moorhouse's website
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Waterloo Style
A blog about software development and programming.
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How to spend money on your friends without it looking like bribery
Owning things is more socially acceptable than renting them.
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What I learned unsubscribing from 22 newspapers
Online newspaper subscriptions have a reputation for being difficult to cancel, but new guidance from the FTC may change that.
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A non-technical explanation of deep learning
This document will explain what neural networks are and how they work, which will help you understand how AI and machine learning work. In the scenario below you'll play the part of the neural network.
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Ox
“Why is it called oxtail if it’s from a cow?” I’m glad you oxed. It’s not just a load of bull. Ox is a word that, for many of us, is both familiar and strange. I grew up in ranch cou…
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What’s the point of tech conferences?
It’s con season in the tech world. Yesterday evening I flew from Pluralsight’s Link/ unconference in New Orleans to Pycon US in Salt Lake City. New Orleanians are just as likely as not …
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West Coast Trail – The 75km/48 mile hike in Vancouver Island (2021)
Author Note: This trip was taken in 2021, but updated in 2023 with updated details . I’m not really sure where I get these crazy ideas, but a friend and I booked the West Coast Trail . It is this multi day thru hike in the west coast of Vancouver Island, which is accessible via ferry. Unfortunately in 2020 the hike…
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Two types of C programmers
You're probably reading this page because you've attempted to access some part of my blog (Wandering Thoughts) or CSpace , the wiki thing it's part of. Unfortunately you're using a browser version that my anti-crawler precautions consider suspicious, most often because it's too old (most often this applies to versions…
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The Four Hobbies, and Apparent Expertise
Around the end of high school, I started to get really into photography. My friend (let’s call him T) was also into it, which should have been great fun. But it wasn’t. Going shooting with him was never great, for a reason I didn’t figure out till much later. I wanted to take photos. T mostly enjoyed tinkering with…
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Explosions are great, actually
The history of spaceflight is the story of weirdos, explosions, and stacked odds.
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Will boiling water ruin green tea?
A common myth regarding green tea is that it shouldn't be prepared with boiling water.
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Career advice no one gave me: Give a lot of notice when you quit
2 weeks notice is the gold standard when quitting. But giving more notice (a lot more notice) actually has a lot of benefits.
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Glucomate: an app for people who record, track, and monitor their blood glucose
Zach Simone's homepage. iOS developer from Sydney.
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Most of my skills are now worth nothing, but 10% are worth 1000x
...but the other 10% are worth 1000x
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Why some researchers think I’m wrong about social media and mental illness
Six propositions for evaluating the evidence.
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Ampersand (2015)
This & is called an AMPERSAND. And here's why...
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Why don’t more people live close to friends?
A few theories why
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How to Make a Hotbed for the Earliest Sowings (2020)
Hotbeds are horticultural alchemy. But what is a hotbed and what makes them so magical?
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I made my blog solar-powered, then things escalated
In 2020 I wondered if I could run my blog on solar power , being inspired by Low-tech Magazine , doing the same thing (but better) 1 . The answer was 'yes', but only through spring and summer.
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I liked this simple calculus exercise
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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Alien Artefacts
The purpose of this blog post is to introduce the concept of alien artefacts 1 , a subcategory of legacy code. I use the term to describe particularly complicated and important pieces of software written by very smart engineers that are no longer working for the company—and thus not available to support it. The…
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Tabi: The shoe that became a sock and then a shoe again
Stockholm, 1912 At 35° C it was an unusually hot day for Stockholm. Shizo Kanakuri stood at the start line of the marathon in the 1912 Stockholm Olympics. Shizo was carrying the hopes, dreams, and pride of Japan, a country attempting to become a “modern” nation. There was something that
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Digital clutter: Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes
Learning to let go and stop hoarding terabytes: Sharing my journey of downsizing my digital storage, letting go of terabytes of data, and moving away from a NAS setup. I decided to use an external Thunderbolt SSD enclosure and an M.2 NVMe SSD to store my data locally. For cloud backup and encryption, I used the Arq…
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Tiny DNA circles are key drivers of cancer, study finds
Tiny circles of DNA harbor cancer-associated oncogenes and immunomodulatory genes promoting cancer development. They arise during transformation from pre-cancer to cancer, say Stanford Medicine-led team.