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How the US Air Force Ditched the Average and Saved Lives
The average is a myth. Understand the pitfalls of the average and how it can conceal useful information. How the US Air Force threw out the average and saved lives. Use distributions to better understand your data.
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Browsing negative content online makes mental health struggles worse: Study
People struggling with their mental health are more likely to browse negative content online, and in turn, that negative content makes their symptoms worse, according to a series of studies by researchers at MIT.
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The Interview
Follow the Stripe blog to learn about new product features, the latest in technology, payment solutions, and business initiatives.
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Why most non-fiction authors don't make any money
Four royalty-wrecking blunders & how to fix them
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SOFA - Start Often Finish rArely
SOFA is the name of a hacker/art collective, and also the name of the principle upon which the club was founded.
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On being tired
What happens when your mental battery gets drained & how I've personally experienced this in recent times.
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Pinephone first steps
After anki trashed my history, uploaded the trashed history to the sync server, and then repeatedly re-synced the trashed history every time I tried to restore from backup, I wrote my own spaced repetition app. It reads input from a markdown file, asks questions in the terminal and stores state in a json file. I wrote…
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Learn to Read Korean in 15 Minutes
Want to learn more? Learn To Count to a Billion in Korean in 15 Minutes ! Or Learn to Read Russian in 15 Minutes !
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Emmanuel Mignot wins Breakthrough Prize for discovering cause of narcolepsy
The Stanford Medicine sleep researcher is honored for discovering the role of orexins in narcolepsy and paving the way to new sleep disorder therapies.
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Why I Blog
Some people have asked me why I blog and why I value writing in general. These are my reasons, in roughly decreasing order of importance to me.
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The Plot of the Phantom, a text adventure that took 40 years to finish
Gnarled JavaScript warlock, musician, cartoonist, dilettante.
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Jerk
If you’d like, you can listen to an audio version of this page. It includes all the contextually relevant bits of music, and a few ad libs not included in the text. But it doesn’t include the links and images, naturally.
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What I learned on a round-the-world yacht race
11 years ago this month, I stepped aboard a 72-foot racing cutter affectionately called The Good Ship Logica and began a 10-month round the world yacht race, the only one to go around the world against the currents and prevailing winds. Below deck, I was the geek, making sure the satellite could broadcast despite 90ft…
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Fail Upwards
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The Big List of RPG Plots
What follows is a scrap of trivia . . . my collection of RPG plots , in abstract form. I built this by examining the premises of hundreds o...
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The power of role models
I spent a few days a while back in a board meeting for a national astronomy organization and noticed a property of the population in that ro...
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The D.E.N.N.I.S. system: Résumé tips for Senior Devs
Swipe Right on Your Dream Job
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Home truths about macOS
True or false? Apple supports macOS for three years. Apple’s security updates are sufficient. New versions of macOS are full of bugs. It’s safer to delay upgrading.
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Immortality Begins at Forty
I discovered something a couple of years ago: Almost all culture, old or new, is designed for consumption by people under 40. People between 40 and Ω (an…
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Trading Time for Money
Paying someone else to do your work isn't such a great deal, and you should probably learn to do it yourself.