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Visually symmetric words
The word "kayak" is a palindrome, but it isn't visually symmetric. The word "bud" is visually symmetric, but not a palindrome.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 7,746 posts.
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Digital pollution
Derek Sivers official site. Thoughts on philosophy, culture, self-improvement. Author of Useful Not True, How to Live, Hell Yeah or No, Anything You Want.
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Analyzing my DNA
I recently bought 23andme [http://23andme.com], a service which requires you to send off a DNA sample, and in return performs a series of interesting tests concerning your health and ancestry. I bought the test as a birthday present to myself, somewhat because I was interested in the results,
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Every complex idea has a million stupid cousins
Chances are, you've met far more stupid cousins than you realize
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What my 11 year old's Stanford course taught me about online education
[This post was originally published at Forbes.com on 7th May 2012] My 11 year old son just took a course at Stanford. That has a nice r...
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Just Write
A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox.
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The best linear algebra books
If you would follow the road to linear algebra here are some trustworthy signposts.
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Setting time on fire and the temptation of The Button
We used to consider writing an indication of time and effort spent on a task. That isn't true anymore.
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Predominantly
Predominant.ly brings an element of serendipity back into music discovery, making the experience as personal and delightful as stumbling across a long-forgotten favourite in a second- hand record store.
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How to Build a Pyramid
Exactly how did the Egyptians build the Pyramid of Khufu and its two great successors on the Giza Plateau? That question has been debated at least since the time of Herodotus. Many a person has looked upon what the Egyptians are alleged to have wrought, compared it with the early date which historians assign to it…
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I wrote a short story about von Neumann probes
"They would have eaten our whole house and probably the whole cul-de-sac if we didn't find those jelly beans."
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Thoughts on Video Editing (2022)
I’ve been thinking about editing for the last 5 years. Not just thinking, also editing. Trying out what works. You may have noticed different editing styles in the 65 videos I have posted to …
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The Eighth Meditation on Superweapons and Bingo
Your life is the best story! Just start your blog today!
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Adventures using and repairing an X131e laptop from 2011
This article covers several repairs, one including reverse engineering the BIOS to allow replacement parts. Feel free to scroll down and skip to this content.
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Notes on Ukraine: I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine
I spent most of April and some of May traveling around Ukraine, visiting the cities of Uzhgorod, Lviv, Kyiv, Kharkiv, Dnipro, and Odessa. As with my other travels, I’ll write down thoughts and obse…
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How to Follow Through: The Emerging Science of Self-Control
Followup to: Your Work Habits and the Happiness Treadmill On the one hand, sure, you really should fix that medium-priority production bug...
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Learning How to Learn
I have been interested in cognitive science and effective learning methods for years. I’ve read multiple books and articles and put many ideas to test. In this post, I aim to synthesize my notes and provide references to scientific studies.
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Reflections on E-Bikes
E-biking has made me rethink things about my city, cities in general, and mobility as a human need and right. Here are things that have struck me while learning to use (e)bikes for transportation.
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Should you Work Hard? (2019)
Software engineer, etc etc
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Why don't schools teach debugging, or, more fundamentally, fundamentals?
If you find this piece worthwhile, consider the Go Fund Me that’s funding ongoing cancer care. A story from Dan Luu, from back when he “TA’ed EE 202, a second year class on signals and systems at P…
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I quit editing photos
Editing photos as I press the shutter.
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Writing with LLM is not a shame
Do we have to disclaim how we use AI ?