Fleeing Trumpland

Many Americans are vowing to move abroad if Trump returns to the White House. And this time, they may actually follow through.

How the Seven Bridges of Königsberg Spawned New Math

Are you smarter than an 18th-century Prussian?

The 38 All-Time Best Food Movies

What to add to your Netflix queue when you want to feel really hungry

Deep Understanding of Garbage Collection: Principles, Algorithms, and Optim

1. Preface Garbage Collection (GC) is an important feature of automatic memory management...

Liquid Cheat Sheet - Fabrizio Musacchio

This Cheat Sheet gives an overview of Liquid syntax commands one might encounter while developing a Jekyll website.

How 16 Companies are Dominating the World’s Google Search Results (2023 Edi

A deep-dive into how far fewer companies than you think have taken a hold of Google's search results.

Circles And Slashes

One of the best-known icons of modern society is a classic example of a symbol—it’s easy to spot, but hard to explain. Who came up with it?

The Ultimate Guide to Free SVG Generators

SVG (Scalable Vector Graphics) stand out for their crispness and scalability, making them...

My Clients, The Liars — LessWrong

It’s not just that my clients lie to me a lot, which will only hurt them — it’s that they’re really, really bad at it. My job as a public defender pu…

Volterra™

The most advanced light weight travel trailer in the world. Built with honest materials for a lifetime of adventures.

Photographer steps inside Vietnam’s shadowy ‘click farms’ | CNN

The images offer a rare glimpse inside murky enterprises that artificially generate social media likes, comments and shares for less than a cent a click.

The Cystic-Fibrosis Breakthrough That Changed Everything

The disease once guaranteed an early death—but a new treatment has given many patients a chance to live decades longer than expected. What do they do now?

20 Dog-Friendly Beaches For Sandy Paws In The South

From Alabama to Maryland, these are some of the best dog-friendly beaches in the South, so you never have to leave your pup behind while you vacation.

S3 is files, but not a filesystem

"Deep" modules, mismatched interfaces - and why SAP is so painful

A Nova in the Night Sky Will Make ‘a New Star’: How to See it.

A nova named T Coronae Borealis lit up the night about 80 years ago, and astronomers say it’s expected to put on another show in the coming months.

“Dune” and the Delicate Art of Making Fictional Languages

The alien language spoken in Frank Herbert’s novels carries traces of Arabic. Why has that influence been scrubbed from the films?

My favourite animation trick: exponential smoothing

Nigerian businesses increasingly skip traditional banks and turn to Moniepo

Moniepoint’s payment machines have become ubiquitous across Nigeria. But the company faces competition from Chinese-backed OPay.

Linux Series: Understanding Cron in Ubuntu

One of the notable things computer technology has allowed humanity to do since the beginning is to...

Visualized: A Step-by-Step Guide to Tax-Loss Harvesting

The Black Crowes Are Back, and Bygones Are Bygones

After ego clashes and substance abuse drove Chris and Rich Robinson apart, they’ve reunited for their first album of raw rock ’n’ roll together in 15 years.

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Seven Books That Explain How Hollywood Actually Works

These titles shed light on an industry that’s always bubbling with drama beneath the surface.

THE ART AND HISTORY OF LETTERING COMICS

Todd Klein's online book exploring little-known aspects of comics: lettering, letterers, logo design and more.

The Dumber Side of Smart People

Most people will die after three days without water.

CatBoost - state-of-the-art open-source gradient boosting library with cate

#CatBoost - state-of-the-art open-source gradient boosting library with categorical features support,

The Extraordinary Lives Of Coast Redwoods

Oddities, marvels and revelations proliferate in groves of the tallest trees on the planet.

Active Record or Sequel: Which Best Fits The Needs of Your Ruby App?

Let's compare some Active Record features to its lesser-known but powerful cousin, Sequel.

Google Bard is called Gemini now and expands to mobile, paid versions

The search giant is unifying its AI-assistant efforts under one name and trying to show it can match rivals.

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GOAT’s Path to Product-Market Fit — How a Fake Sneaker Sparked a $4B Idea

GOAT co-founder and CEO Eddy Lu sits down with First Round Partner Todd Jackson to tell the story of how a decade of middling entrepreneurial ideas finally culminated in the $4B idea for a sneaker marketplace.

Vercel’s Path to Product-Market Fit — From Open-Source Project to Billion-D

Guillermo Rauch, raised in Buenos Aires and fascinated by computers since age 7, taught himself to code and moved to San Francisco at 18. His company, Vercel — the frontend cloud service behind open-source development framework Next.js — was recently valued at $2.5 billion.

From the archive: ‘A chain of stupidity’: the Skripal case and the decline

From 2020: The unmasking of the Salisbury poisoning suspects by a new digital journalism outfit was an embarrassment for Putin – and evidence that Russian spies are not what they once were. By Luke Harding

The quiet plan to make the internet feel faster

L4S could fix a problem that even gigabit connections don’t.

Tarte Island: Bora Bora Influencer Campaign Met With Online Backlash

As part of a promotional campaign, the beauty brand Tarte flew 30 social media influencers on a private jet to paradise. Many observers were not amused.

Inside America’s Shadow War With Iran

There’s another Middle East conflict going on, and U.S. soldiers are on the front lines of it.

The Ruthless Rise and Fall of Paramount Pictures During Hollywood’s Golden

The venerable movie studio, now up for grabs, once defined the industry's zeal for consolidation, pioneering vertical integration and serving as the model for each of its major rivals.

Von Restorff Effect: A Guaranteed Way to Capture Attention

Brands spend millions every year tracking and analyzing what their competition is doing. And it's not always so they can steal their competition's best ideas. They know this surprising marketing truth: When you do the opposite of what your competition is doing, you'll capture…

The Ultimate Guide to B2B SaaS Pricing & Packaging

The pricing models of the top B2B SaaS companies, the strategies to iterate on, case studies of successful changes, and everything else you need to know

Understanding Concept Drift: A Simple Guide

How changes in the distribution arise, and the impact of verification delay.

Why Rails is a Great Choice for Startups in 2024

JavaScript is in the vogue now, but Ruby on Rails can become your startup’s secret competitive advantage.

Ridley Scott’s “Napoleon” Complex

Does the director of “Alien,” “Blade Runner,” and “Gladiator” see himself in the hero of his epic new film?

Master Dispersion Plots in 6 Minutes!

Learn graphical text analysis with NLTK

Excerpt: James Kaplan's '3 Shades of Blue' Chronicling Miles Davis's Record

Kind of Blue is the best-selling jazz album of all time. Here's what it was like inside the studio with Miles Davis, John Coltrane, and Bill Evans on the day they laid down one of the record's iconic tracks.

The Black-Scholes-Merton Options Pricing Equation

A superb video on the history and mathematics of options pricing from Veritasium.

4 Instructive Postmortems on Data Downtime and Loss

Learn from GitLab's 2017 incident: 300GB of data lost in seconds, but their transparent recovery is a masterclass in accountability.

How To Set Up Nginx Server Blocks on Ubuntu 22.04

This article describes how to set up Nginx server blocks on Ubuntu 22.04. You'll learn how to set up multiple websites on a single server and customize each site's settings to suit your needs.

Happy New Year: GPT in 500 lines of SQL

A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.

Retro mechanical keyboards offer a tactile experience to inspire creativity

https://vimeo.com/493918946 We've all been there, staring at a blank page at a complete loss on how to get started on a written project. The dreaded writer's block makes it feel like our brains are all dried up, but all it really needs is a little nudge to get the creative…

Lost Highways

Hosted by Bill Lynch Fridays at 10 p.m. & Saturdays at 8 p.m. on WVPB Radio Lost Highways: indie rock, alternative country, Americana, rock-a-billy