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Infinite Contextual Radio
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The curious case of Qingdao, China's land value tax
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How a Bombproof Building Works [video]
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The case for having roommates even when you can afford to live alone
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Optimizing Gameplay Code [video]
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A short post on short trains
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The only thing worse than sweatshops is no sweatshops
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Weather Model based on ADS-B
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The Rising Cost of Child and Pet Day Care
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NMDA Receptor Antagonists: Slightly More Than You Wanted to Know
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Links: Relatable Parenting
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The world left its fight against tuberculosis unfinished
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Rao Reading Algorithm (2024)
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Yes in My Bamako Yard
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Face it: you're a crazy person
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NYC's Urban Textscape
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Question: How do you catalogue digital resources?
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Ferrari Status
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The Saltgator: A Desktop SoftGel Injection Molding Machine
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Education and the Reduction of Global Poverty, 1980-2019
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The Whole Check
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Sat Jul 26, 2025 1:23pm PST
A Practical (and Incomplete) History of Language Models
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American Solution for Burning EVs: A Modular, Portable Submersion Pool
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Free Ideas
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What Makes a Mature Science
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European Solution for Burning EVs: Drop Them in a Dumpster Filled with Water
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Thurs Jul 24, 2025 7:04pm PST
Terminal Click – Bringing Dead Text to Life
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Trying to play an isomorphic piano (2022) [video]
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Robots in China are riding the subway to make 7-Eleven deliveries
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My Brain Periodises History
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Government-Funded Alchemy
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Wed Jul 23, 2025 9:22pm PST
Book Review: Nixon's Memoirs
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Generalized Hangriness: A Standard Rationalist Stance Toward Emotions
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Shallow water is dangerous too
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IQAir – Air Quality Maps
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A startup is a bundle, and Windsurf broke the bundle
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Industrial Colossus: China vs. 1950s America
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No Country Ever Got Rich from Tourism
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Video and transcript of talk on "Can goodness compete?"
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Tues Jul 22, 2025 1:35pm PST
Kimi K2
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The Role of Blood Plasma Donation Centers in Crime Reduction
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How (and why) to do pop-up communes
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Font-size-adjust Is Useful
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 3:06pm PST
Claude Finds God
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Scapegoating the Algorithm
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:47pm PST
So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:46pm PST
How to Reason from First Principles
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Engineering the End of Work
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Mon Jul 21, 2025 1:45pm PST
The contraction in entry-level tech hiring appears to have reversed
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Sun Jul 20, 2025 2:24pm PST
I'm unsatisfied with easing functions
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Euler's Identity
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Differential Form of Gauss's Law
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Bus Bunching
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We do not break userspace (2012)
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Whisker (Metallurgy)
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Lessons from a Chimp: AI "Scheming" and the Quest for Ape Language
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The Role of Blood Plasma Donation Centers in Crime Reduction
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Structuring Arrays with Algebraic Shapes [video]
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The Krull dimension of the semiring of natural numbers is equal to 2
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Exercise science is not science
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Career Hypnosis
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Store Tags After Payloads
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The Most Beautiful Program Ever Written [video]
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What to Learn
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How does the World Bank classify countries by income?
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Stepanov's Biggest Blunder
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Perfume reviews
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The Outsize Impact of AI Logistics
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The Paradox of India
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Claude Finds God
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Making inventory spreadsheets for my Lego sets
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Hyperreal Specifications for Continuous Sparse Data Computations [video]
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Anthropic Economic Futures
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Don't Eat Honey
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Tues Jul 15, 2025 1:11pm PST
A Unifying Framework for Robust and Efficient Inference with Unstructured Data
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Mon Jul 14, 2025 1:30pm PST
Kimi.com
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A Data Knife
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Playground Equipment for Teenagers to Senior Citizens
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Sparse Computing Drives Energy-Efficient Computation for AI [video]
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Sat Jul 12, 2025 2:06pm PST
TrackMonk – Health Tracking Through Simple Conversations
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How culture is made
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USGS Earthquakes Map
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Will Future Civilizations Bother to Excavate Our Remains?
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Fri Jul 11, 2025 2:32pm PST
My 9-week unprocessed food self-experiment
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Being nostalgic for the past isn't the answer
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How to Mount a Balcony Awning
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So You Think You've Awoken ChatGPT
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A Fundamental Unit of Intelligence [video]
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Fri Jul 11, 2025 12:30am PST
Jai Demo and Design Explanation (Jonathan Blow) [video]
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Freeideas.net
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Boxtype–Devlog (Part 1)
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Inverse Triangle Inequality
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What don't we know about LVT? Research that could advance Georgism
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Bears Will Be Boys
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Paint: A Timeline
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