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An easter egg of sorts is that the agents get a chat channel that they mostly use to complain about bugs in the tools and prompt system, sometimes very dramatically: https://playgr…

Howdy, Open Notes co-founder here! At Open Notes, we're building a system for community-driven constructive moderation and annotation that can be added to anything. Under the hood,…

I use rtings.com as base and triangulate with Consumer Reports and Wirecutter, and looks like I'm not the only one.

If you're interested to hear what both Middle English and bits of French and other languages from the time sounded like , here's a reading of John Skelton's "Speke Parott" poem fro…

This page links to a physically unremarkable Soviet slide rule used for calculating things like the volumetric flow rate in irrigation canals used in Uzbek SSR for growing cotton, …

Was hoping a message like this would be more prominent here. Although the Ugaritic and Phoenician alphabets come from the same area, they are discontinuous. However, the ordering b…

If you define "containment" as "provable non-harm" then sure. But there are essentially no complex physical systems that we can put such computational bounds on. Since "harm" comes…

Seven Years' War would beg to differ :)

A huge portion of the "Herbert never explain/explores X" issues that the author of this post has are addressed in the subsequent books... It's like going "Well, we're only going to…

Useful to keep in mind that wheels confined to toys was due some combination of a lack of animals that are good at pulling (llamas aren't great as that) and metal use being primari…

This immediately made me think of the C2 Wiki. It has a style similar to Taaalk in the sense that entries are often a mix of conversation and "exposition". It allows for that sort …

Better horses than people, as was the case in Russia: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burlak Inspiring a famous painting by Repin and The Song of the Volga Boatmen: https://www.youtu…

I made a proof of concept chrome extension a bit ago: https://github.com/anateus/amphisonic Currently re-writing it to be actually decent code. Basically, it takes up streams on th…

Related: Onfim is a 13th century Novgorodian kid whose writing exercises and drawings survived: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onfim I love these windows into the past. Student exer…

Folks who enjoyed this may appreciate Simon Winchester's recent book The Perfectionists, where he covers this method amongst other things. Core to the idea of perfection are machin…

Here's video on this by Cook's Illustrated editor in chief Dan Souza. It goes a little bit into the science behind the technique and offers a microwave-based variation: "How to Tra…

There are a lot of interesting societal effects caused by the internet and social media, many of them very problematic. But when was this time in the past when people agreed about …

The encrypted file can be bigger than the decrypted version for a bunch of different reasons, that's like what's going on here.

Looking at that list, the biggest threat to Uber is good (and not overcrowded) public transportation.

They identify themselves as an Amazon affiliate pretty clearly on the bottom of the page, but I guess they don't know the rule forbidding redirection/shortening :/

The Ltd or LLC after many company names refer to the Limited Liability that those forms of companies confer, that protect individuals within them from personal liability. Corporati…