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I asked my grandpa about the business idea of self-serve magazine advertising. He said if you do that wait till you see the weird shit people will try to publish. I wonder if we co…

One generation's distortion is the next generation's instrument. I love it.

This put a smile on my face. I have a random, vivid memory from college of being in a university IT cave trying and failing to install Windows 2000 RC3 on a DEC Alphastation 600. M…

Amazing spacial precision but the article doesn’t mention the time domain. I assume a brain interface needs to have a pretty high sampling rate in order to meaningfully decode huma…

I think we’re near the end of this trajectory, and the inevitable disruptive business model will be a young entrepreneur who “invents” the concept of the Human-Centric Firm.

I don’t want or need fast and “good enough” news and i’m gonna try and make a case that you don’t either. Until very recently, all of modern civilization was built by people who go…

Spend retention is by far the highest priority. This is why they overnight fedex replacement cards. The worst scenario for a credit card issuer is when a customer, for whatever rea…

> Drawback: this doesn’t work until you have history. New accounts have no baseline. This is an underrated CX factor: If my card gets denied when i’m a new customer or exhibiting a…

18 years living 5 blocks from Prospect Park and today I learned the Prospect Park S train exists. I'm auto-revoking my NYC card.

As an American, I’m embarrassed because it’s a thought-terminating cliché, but I hear great “modern marvels”-type stories about innovation like this and think, “we used to be a cou…

Yet another reason i’m only interested in open source local models.

In the 90’s we had microsystems, in the 2020s we have microservices.

20+ years in tech and finance and I still can’t believe liquidation preferences are legal. Even among shareholders, a group of insiders in a conference room can self-deal to keep a…

I hope the old vampire Dons give some fashion advice to the new guys, e.g. “A vampire doesn’t wear Arc’teryx“.

After reading the paper, it’s helpful to think about why the models are producing these coherent childhood narrative outputs. The models have information about their own pre-traini…

I would not trust a company with no path to profitability with my medical health records, because they are more likely to do something unethical and against my interests, like sell…

This video demonstrates reverse engineering of the x32’s main SoC, audio routing FPGA, and its two Analog Devices SharcDSP chips. By the end of the video the author demonstrates Op…

I’m not a fan of nanny-state policies, but I would support a law that imposes grave consequences for airline passengers found to be in possession of personal baggage following an e…

> “That's a major skill that they're not used to at all,” she said. i get it but I don’t know if I would catastrophize this, because analog clock reading is borderline anachronisti…

I’m sorry the shit had hit the fan at Kohler, but there’s no reason a cloud poop camera even exists.

this is exactly how I intuitively approach filters as an applied engineer. Does it give a ground path to DC (low frequencies) and pass the higher frequencies, or vice versa. If we …

The bring up of seemingly every tube guitar amp i’ve ever built starts with wild oscillation due to negative feedback from the wrong transformer secondary, aka positive feedback. G…

I heard a fascinating theory a few years ago on the decline of Perl: In the early aughts, Google SRE recruiting had such a strong, selective focus on A-player sysadmins with Perl e…