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This book enabled me to think better from first principles. e.g. How might I go about optimizing a redshift query? Well, now that I have an idea about how data is laid out on disk,…

For the longest time I believed that Kubrick knew exactly what he wanted before he began shooting. The finished film existed in his mind, and set pieces and actors simply had to ma…

I've watched 2001 twice in my life. Once on my laptop screen, and once in a theater. Wildly different experiences. On a laptop, it was maddeningly slow. I couldn't bear that scene …

CS 251: Bitcoin and Cryptocurrencies at Stanford https://crypto.stanford.edu/cs251/

The Medium is the Massage by Marshall McLuhan. https://www.amazon.com/Medium-Massage-Marshall-McLuhan/dp/15... He combines words and images in a style that inspired Wired magazine.…

I really dig MDN's tutorial: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Learn/Server-side/D...

It took 33 years before it was publicly announced that GCHQ succeeded in deciphering Enigma codes. Every single time they used intercepted intelligence to their benefit, they made …