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Remembering Joe, a Quarter of a Century of Inspiration and Friendship
Our founder Francesco Cesarini remembers the early days working with Joe Armstrong, co-creator of Erlang.
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The most popular blog posts about life, learning & writing on Hacker News. 465 posts.
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Psychology of Human Misjudgment
A summary of the legendary investor, Charlie Mungers talk on Psychology.
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Stab a Book, the Book Won't Die
On the resilience of books in the face of apps, attention monsters, and an ad-driven online economy
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Software Rot (2017)
Software rots. That is: Adapting mature software to new circumstances tends to take more time and effort than writing new software from scratch. Software people don't like to admit this, but open so…
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Mimetic Traps
I’ve been a graduate student in physics for almost three years, but I only recently figured out why. I had to tackle a simple question do so:
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5-HTTLPR: A Pointed Review
In 1996, some researchers discovered that depressed people often had an unusual version of the serotonin transporter gene 5-HTTLPR. The study became a psychiatric sensation, getting thousands of ci…
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How fast do I talk?
I speak very fast. It’s like the words are piled up in my mouth and I can’t say one without the rest tumbling out. Through my whole life people have told me to slow down, speak more clearly, and enunciate. I can do it if I concentrate but I quickly relapse into gushing out words. As I now give lots of conference…
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On Technical Writing
How I make it work (or not)
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Gwern’s AI-Generated Poetry
Gwern has answered my prayers and taught GPT-2 poetry. GPT-2 is the language processing system that OpenAI announced a few weeks ago. They are keeping the full version secret, but have released a s…
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What Left-Handedness Reveals About How the Brain Works (2014)
From Medieval sword-fighters to Broca’s brains, or why the hand may hold the key to the link between creativity and mental illness.
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Jacob Collier’s four magical chords
Jacob Collier is the internet’s favorite musical virtuoso. Here’s his mostly acapella arrangement of a Christmas carol called “In The Bleak Midwinter.” The most remarkable p…
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A Codebase Is an Organism (2014)
Here's what no one tells you when you graduate with a degree in computer science and take up a job in software engineering:
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Much fridge food ‘goes there to die’
Americans throw out a lot more food than they expect they will, food waste that is likely driven in part by ambiguous date labels on packages, a new study has found. “People eat a lot less of their refrigerated food than they expect to, and they’re likely throwing out perfectly good food because they misunderstand…
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Travel without a phone
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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Combining finances
A guide to shared finances after marriage
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How to adopt an “openness” mindset at work
You can’t expect others to fix your problems. When you take responsibility for making the best of any situation, you have the power to make things better.
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Gmail really wants me to say yes
Works for me. I’m down. Absolutely.
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The mystery of my desktop that locks up when it gets too cold
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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Mathematical Jargon Failures
From the highly eclectic blog of Mark Dominus
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CDs Curated by Steve Jobs and the iPod Team (2016)
The Apple event tomorrow morning (US Pacific time), takes place at Town Hall, Building 4, Apple, Inc. in Cupertino. It has been almost 15 years since I visited there the last time. 'Hint: It&...
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The Broken Chain Problem
The Emperor’s Nose (Richard Feynman) A village in a remote corner of an empire decided to erect a statue of the emperor. The village scu...
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Two Years of Vanlife: A Retrospective
This is our most EPIC post to date: two years of vanlife condensed into one article! Tales from the road, van talk, lessons learned, etc. MUST READ!