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Testing group for England. Croatia Panama and Ghana are top teams.

USA seems to have gotten an easy group.
December 5, 2025 at 7:08 PM
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Beyond Oil.

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Beyond Oil: The Middle East’s New Intelligence Economy
The Middle East is exporting "intelligence," not just fuel, and the market is set to grow 45% CAGR.
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November 15, 2025 at 11:50 PM
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First Steps by Jeremy DeSilva
July 20, 2025 at 1:21 AM
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I’m married to England

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'First there is trust, then passion, then death': Why the 'Virgin Queen' never married
Elizabeth I is the only English queen never to have married. The iconic Tudor monarch's last visit to Kenilworth Castle 450 years ago may hold some clues.
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July 20, 2025 at 12:20 AM
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How the space shuttle got its name

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How the Space Shuttles were given better names thanks to Star Trek
The first Space Shuttle was originally going to be named Constitution. US President Gerald Ford agreed to rename it Enterprise – here's how Star Trek fans persuaded him.
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July 20, 2025 at 12:08 AM
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Sustainable architecture for a livable planet.

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How Old Dubai's historic streets beat extreme heat
Long before our reliance on air-conditioning, Dubai's old town kept people's homes cool using a combination of clever techniques to lower the temperature.
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July 18, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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April 11, 2025 at 8:01 PM
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If you're out on bail you should join us today because this is going to be an excellent talk. Jeff has worked on databases at Google since 2005 (including F1, Mesa, Dremel). Talk is based on their VLDB'24 paper: research.google/pubs/sql-has...
March 10, 2025 at 2:30 PM
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🚀 Happy New Year 2025! Data Engineering Weekly #202 is here with:
• Fireside chat w/ Vinoth Chandar on LakeHouses’ future
• Andy Pavlo’s 2024 DBMS review
• AI Engineer 2025 reading list
• Netflix’s analytics engineering insights
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Data Engineering Weekly #202
The Weekly Data Engineering Newsletter
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January 6, 2025 at 5:54 AM
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Anthropic's MCP standard is getting a lot of buzz, and rightfully so. I cannot overstate how much this unlocks for AI tools! Check out my latest blog post to learn more.

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Connecting AI Agents to Your Systems with MCP
Learn how MCP standardizes integrations and fosters an ecosystem for the future of AI-enabled tools.
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December 10, 2024 at 5:41 PM
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Thank you
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Washington Post annual review. They classified the reader as a Derp Diver, someone who tries to go in-depth with content. The user read 285 articles, related to 25 different countries. The most read topic was Politics and the top author was Mariana Alfaro.
December 6, 2024 at 5:56 PM
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Learning Spanish using Duolingo.
Image is from the language learning app Duolingo. The author completed 2024 being one of the top 1% of learners in Spanish language. The longest streak is 1797 days, which means the author has been learning Spanish in Duolingo for over 5 years. Total XP, experience points, earned is 125498 and the user spent 1328 mi in 2024 learning Spanish using Duolingo.
December 3, 2024 at 1:57 PM
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Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do

Clerk / Typist
IT Support Engineer
Software Developer
Project Manager
Solution Engineer
RPA Developer
Cloud Developer
Solutions Architect
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Introduce yourself with some jobs you’ve done apart from what you do

- sales associate (retail)
- cashier (at a grocery store)
- lifeguard
- research assistant
- renewable fuel policy analyst
- geospatial analyst
- teaching assistant
- front end engineer
- data engineer
- full stack engineer
November 11, 2024 at 12:27 AM
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Amazon Mechanical Indian
April 3, 2024 at 2:20 PM
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Some early morning reflection on life's purpose and following my lodestar.

#writersky

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Following my lodestar
There comes a moment when you realise that what you seek has always been there with you, especially in your life’s purpose. It is too early for me to dissect my career choices. Although, I have been...
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November 7, 2023 at 1:54 AM
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I very much enjoyed this intro to C# Dev Kit for VS Code by Scott Hanselman. This is something I am planning to use as I use Code more than VS.

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The C# DevKit is out and gives you a complete .NET experience inside VS Code!
The C# DevKit is out and gives you a complete .NET experience inside VS Code!
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October 7, 2023 at 1:44 AM
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Tried out the vector search using Azure Cognitive Search today. Need to write something up detailing the learning.
September 24, 2023 at 11:03 PM
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TypeScript Origins: The Documentary

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September 22, 2023 at 7:25 AM
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Now reading
A picture of the book, The psychology of computer programming by Gerald Weinberg.
September 20, 2023 at 2:05 PM