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I bought an encyclopedia
NOTE: This is a companion post to my piece in Public Books, "The Encylopedia Project: Or, how to know in…
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Every blog post that took off on Hacker News, ranked by the votes of its best submission. 1,197 posts.
Life, Learning & Writing
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Make Your Car Electric for 5K in Less Than a Day
Make your car electric for 5k in less than a day. A new motor and a new approach to convering cars to hybrid electric.
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Five Years of Recurse Center
The Recurse Center is a free, self-directed, educational retreat for people who want to get better at programming, whether they've been coding for three decades or three months.
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Ways to think long-term: a cognitive toolkit for good ancestors
None of these six ways is enough alone to create a long-term revolution of the human mind — a fundamental shift in our perception of time. But together — and when practised by a critical mass of people and organisations — a new age of long-term thinking could emerge out of their synergy.
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Brain fog after Covid-19 has similarities to ‘chemo brain’ in humans and mice
Researchers found that damage to the brain's white matter after COVID-19 resembles that seen after cancer chemotherapy, raising hope for treatments to help both conditions.
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I Wrote Down Everything I Learned While Programming for a Month
Recent years showed the growth of technologies like wildfire. With the spread of COVID-19, most businesses started adopting cutting-edge technologies. Technology has been playing a very important role in both our personal and professional life. This has increased the demand for experienced and skilled IT professionals…
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The new X-Men movie explained in Git
I went to see X-Men: Days of Future Past last weekend. While having a heated discussion about the logic behind the time travel in the movie with fellow Rocketeer Lucas Galego, we realized that Git provides a great analogy for time travel. So here you have it, the new X-Men movie explained in Git. SPOILER ALERT If you…
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I’m not a programmer, and I used AI to build my first bot
Before I joined Replit, I had never written a line of code. A few weeks ago, I built a Slack Bot that uses Google LLMs to provide daily channel summaries. You can fork the template or get started with 100 Days of Code. None of this was possible without Replit. Let me explain why: Getting started with no setup
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How the kids stole the show: Young Coders tutorial at PyCon
Throughout the planning phases of PyCon 2013, for everything we did, we did it bigger than last year. Attendance? We raised the cap to 250...
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Writing code with multiple overlapping side effects with a straight face
Practical development throughout the evolution of Windows.
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Praising children for effort rather than ability (2021)
When parents praise their children's effort instead of natural ability, students learn that the work they put
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How Microsoft quietly built the city of the future
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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Two Years, Four Nanodegree Programs, and a New Career
Udacity's blog offers news and articles on the fastest, most effective way to gain job-ready expertise for the careers of the future.
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Why it’s usually crazier than you expect
I want to try to explain why Gamestop went up 100-fold in the last year and why Sears never recovered.
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Low carb diet leads to “clinical remission” in 3 cases of type 1 diabetes
Following a low carb, high fat diet shortly after being diagnosed with…
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Avoid Artificial Stupidity
The first step to AI - data democratisation
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How to grow a cacao tree at home (2024)
Growing chocolate at home might sound like a wild idea, right? Chocolate originates from cacao trees, which demand a tropical climate, specific growing conditions, and several years to reach maturity in order to flower and fruit to produce cacao pods. However, our CocoTerra founder, Nate Saal, took on the challenge…
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Farewell to Aaron Swartz
Yesterday Aaron Swartz, a close friend and collaborator of ours, committed suicide. This is a tragic end to a brief and extraordinary life. Aaron did more than almost anyone to make the Internet a thriving ecosystem for open knowledge, and to keep it that way. His contributions were numerous, and...
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Are sprouted potatoes safe?
You are better off tossing potatoes that have turned green or grown sprouts. Eating them puts you at risk for toxicity from solanine and chaconine, two natural toxins found in green or sprouted potatoes.
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AI Explorables: big ideas in machine learning, simply explained
People + AI Research (PAIR) is a multidisciplinary team at Google that explores the human side of AI.
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Is Wine Bullshit?
How should we understand the robust findings that suggest that the price of wine is not only uncorrelated with how much people enjoy it, but that the different tastes we describe in wine may all be in our heads?
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