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I got dysentery so you don’t have to
On turning 30 in a human challenge trial ward.
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Life, Learning & Writing
The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 530 posts.
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If Your World Is Not Enchanted, You're Not Paying Attention
The Convivial Society: Vol. 5, No. 11
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The science behind on-the-wrist blood pressure tracking
The next Apple Watch and Samsung wearables measures blood pressure using pulse wave analysis and artificial intelligence. Here's how it would work and what it means for health.
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A new blog for 2024
DX engineer at Liveblocks. Articles on developer experience and web engineering.
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Create More, Consume Less (2021)
The problem with too much consumption is that it can leave us feeling utterly empty inside. Ironically, it creates something: One big void. A small dose of creativity is good for us. It can help us become more present, less anxious, and much more fulfilled. And it doesn't take much to live a creativ
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At the Mountains of Madness
We're open-sourcing a tool that may be useful to people who develop code on NixOS and distribute it in binary form.
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Norwegian: Bokmål vs. Nynorsk
Språkrådet arbeider for å styrke det norske språket og språkmangfoldet. Språkrådet er statens forvaltningsorgan i språkspørsmål og følger opp den norske språkpolitikken.
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Story of Vitamin D Toxicity (2022)
How much Vitamin D should I take? This is still the looming question, and it’s time to address it. First, though, imagine that someone in a public forum online asked me, “How much metoprolol (a…
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Lessons from a fountain pen addict
(Enjoy the blog? Please consider donating – there’s a PayPal button at the top right of the site!) Over the past several years of spending far too much time and money on stationery, I’ve learned a thing or two — about mistakes I make over and over, about what I like and why, and what […]
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Notes on paper (2023)
Over the past few weeks, I have been scanning my notes and homework from school using the nice professional scanners at my workplace. These notes have been sitting in my closet for several years because I don't want to keep them, but didn't want to throw them out until scanning them, and I've never had access to a…
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Heat exchanger masks for cold weather cycling (2019)
(updated, March 2025) How I Started Caring About Heat Exchanger Masks Back in the 90s I started riding my bike to work after a hiatus of a few years. My coworkers would regularly ask me if I was go…
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Advice to young people, the lies I tell myself
Discover insightful advice for young people, emphasizing choices, confidence, and personal growth through lived experiences.
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Duty to Document (2023)
If you learn something the hard way, it's you duty to share your lessons with others.
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Frances Hesselbein's leadership story (2022)
A life by example
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Behind the scenes: the struggle for each paper (2021)
The start of my sabbatical has given me a moment to reflect on my publications. But my CV only shows a list of neatly cataloged papers: title, authors, conference. Each one appearing no different from another. But how each paper ended up published is its own story, a story about people and opportunity.
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Coming home from the South Pole
Emerging from winter and preparing for our first flight!
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Fruits (2020)
Fruits - Graph All The Things, a math blog by Martin Loncaric
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Francis Ford Coppola's “Godfather Notebook”
"IF FOUND--Please return to Paramount Pictures"
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Four Magic Words
Long ago, in a parallel universe three doors down and one to the left of our own, OpenAI headquarters found itself in chaos. A klaxon blared overhead as red lights began flashing. A message played over a loud-speaker: “Warning! Warning! This is not a drill! Artificial General Intelligence window
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Balancing Outdoor Risky Play and Injury Prevention in Childhood Development
Free play is essential for children’s development and for their physical, mental, and social health. Opportunities to engage in outdoor free play—and risky play in particular—have declined significantly in recent years, in part because safety measures have sought to prevent all play-related injuries rather than…
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How to prolong lithium based batteries
Manufacturers take a conservative approach and specify the life of Li-ion in most consumer products as being between 300 and 500 discharge/charge cycles.…
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The biggest losers: Metabolic damage or constrained energy?
Did the Biggest Loser contestants really damage their metabolism or was something else going on?
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Boxed – Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours
Things I learned after lying in an MRI machine for 30 hours