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September 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Me every day: Reading a Big Number xkcd.com/3102/
xkcd: Reading a Big Number
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June 13, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Ooh, interesting: Why LLMs make certain mistakes marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevo...
Why LLMs make certain mistakes - Marginal REVOLUTION
Via Nabeel Qureshi, from Claude 4 Sonnet, from this tweet.
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June 2, 2025 at 9:13 AM
Not an original thought by any means but the photo accompanying this guardian article gives off big Ozymandias energy www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Fear, hope and loathing in Elon Musk’s new city: ‘It’s the wild, wild west and the future’ | Elon Musk | The Guardian
Starbase in Texas, where the world’s richest man has a rocket-launching facility, was incorporated this week. Mars obsessives are flocking there – but some long-term locals are far from happy
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May 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
I love this: an OCR error in scanning an old pdf has led to the fairly frequent citation of a completely made up scientific technique called Vegetative Electron Microscopy www.sciencealert.com/a-strange-ph...
A Strange Phrase Keeps Turning Up in Scientific Papers, But Why? : ScienceAlert
Earlier this year, scientists discovered a peculiar term appearing in published papers: "vegetative electron microscopy".
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April 29, 2025 at 8:10 AM
April 23, 2025 at 11:40 AM
Awesome article from LRB about Greenland, Trump and all things independence/climate change. Highly recommended. www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...
James Meek · ‘Everything is possible’: In Greenland
The immediate effect of Trump’s menaces, and the visit to Nuuk in January of his eldest son, Donald Trump Jr, was to...
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April 23, 2025 at 10:09 AM
I had to share this wonderful article on the process of learning a new language https://whyisthisinteresting.substack.com/p/the-language-learning-edition
The Language Learning Edition - by Steve Bryant
On scaling scaffolding, your second soul, and patience.
whyisthisinteresting.substack.com
March 19, 2025 at 4:10 PM
We finally set up the 3D printer that was my joint Christmas and Birthday present today! This was our first test print. It has obvious layers but we're pretty happy with it
February 8, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Via https://kottke.org/24/11/we-never-stop-growing
"We never stop growing" and "What you're feeling is appropriate for the developmental stage you're in right now". The second one has really good motivational poster energy IMHO
We Never Stop Growing
I may have shared this before, but here it is again in case it helps someone. A couple of years ago, I was telling my therapist ab
kottke.org
December 9, 2024 at 4:38 PM
In today's "Nothing new under the sun"- wearable tech and surveillance concerns from the 19th Century: https://buff.ly/3ZIAsfM
Surveillance and the Secret History of 19th-Century Wearable Tech
From jealous spouses to paranoid bosses, 19th-century pedometers quantified suspicion and reshaped the dynamics of surveillance.
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December 9, 2024 at 2:40 PM
This, this, this is awesome
Mum Does The Washing, by Joshua Idehen
from the album Mum Does The Washing EP
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November 26, 2024 at 10:21 AM
Today I learned about the International Roughness Index, for measuring how bumpy roads are https://buff.ly/4eFzpBQ. Last week I learned about the concept of a Rough Ride measurement on trains. https://buff.ly/3Ol0LCr . I see a pattern emerging here...
International roughness index - Wikipedia
The international roughness index (IRI) is the roughness index most commonly obtained from measured longitudinal road profiles. It is calculated using a quarter-car vehicle math model, whose…
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November 21, 2024 at 5:06 PM