We know we'll never crush the big guys. We won't even be on Windows. But that's OK, because crushing anything has never really been a goal. Instead, we're working hard to give you something really amazing. Something you'll use every day.
— Panic
Small fragments. Things I read, heard, or couldn't stop thinking about. These are too short for essays but too good to lose. Sort of like commonplace book meets tumblelog.
524 bits, and counting.
The evolutionary paths of paddlefish and sturgeons diverged 184 million years ago. For those fish to breed is more like "if a human came out of a platypus egg," he said.
This analysis shows growth curves for vocabulary size, the number of words that a child produces or understands, for different languages, forms, and measures.
— Wordbank
If I just sit and watch the sunset with my wife, that's cool. But if I post it, I feel validated for going down to the ocean to watch the sunset. I don't like that feeling.
— WIRED
Once his bank account reaches a certain balance, Roy grabs his surfboard and calls it quits for the rest year. Roy has uncovered is a tiny insight that gives him the freedom to upend the age-old dilemma of work-life balance.
— Quartz
The web needs a little more weird. These sites are helping.
In 2020, every restaurant has been forced to become a tech company. https://producthabits.com/dominos-pizza-drove-90x-increase-stock-value-acting-like-tech-startup/
Agree. 40 mins FTW.
Watched two awesome Netflix documentaries tonight — best part is they were each only 40 mins! (40 mins doc = best invention ever!)
— Dennis Crowley 🇺🇸 (mostly on Threads, @dens) (@dens) August 5, 2020
🎥 Speed Cubers = competitive Rubix Cube
🎥 Long Shot = murder mystery with crazy twist
Both recommended! Any other 40min docs we should watch?
The Ark is a portable computer powered by the Raspberry Pi Compute Module 3L. Offline first software including offline wikipedia, p2p messages, websites, and twitter-like social network using the Dat protocol.
While $30 is steep, I'm a fan of this distribution model. Quick math: Disney+ has ~100M subscribers; even if 3% end up renting, they're seeing $90M in rev. Here's hoping it's successful and we can finally get blockbusters like Tenet on the small screen. https://www.theverge.com/2020/8/4/21354593/mulan-release-date-disney-earnings-warner-bros-tenet-theaters
The social media company admitted last October that it had "inadvertently" targeted ads at users through contact details that they provided for security purposes.
— CNN
WTF Twitter. There's no such thing as accidentally using a phone number for ad targeting.
The researchers injected eight-week-old mice with a virus carrying a healthy FST gene. Over a period of 18 weeks, or about 4 months, the team observed that the muscle mass of the treated mice more than doubled, as did their strength level.
Human activity has brought my kind to the brink of extinction, but I don't blame them for it. They didn't do it maliciously. They just weren't paying attention.
The STAR board's trading volume has risen more than fourfold through July 13, more than the Shanghai main board's 119%. The average P/E ratio has reached 109, higher than domestic peers on Shanghai's main board and in Hong Kong.
Nice work, Paras Chopra!
I made a fully functioning search engine on top of GPT3.
— Paras Chopra (@paraschopra) July 19, 2020
For any arbitrary query, it returns the exact answer AND the corresponding URL.
Look at the entire video. It's MIND BLOWINGLY good.
cc: @gdb @npew @gwern pic.twitter.com/9ismj62w6l
Microsoft has deemed C++ no longer acceptable for writing mission-critical software. The industry sorely needs to move to a performant, memory-safe language for its low-level system work. And the best choice on the market today is Rust.
I suffocate sometimes from the "design-overkill" aspect of other professions. I feel creatively more recharged and refreshed when I run through my forest or walking the dog.
— Pinky Lai, originator of the Porsche 996, Boxster, and Cayman
From the Manhattan Beach Pier in spring 2019.
From the back of a sailboat going up the Pacific Coast. Shot in winter 2019.