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Even the most "solo" proofs rest on a foundation built by others (notations, concepts, lemmas, entire frameworks invented decades or centuries earlier), so nothing really is create…

Technology Connections' Alex has a great video on the subject: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGT1EvmDJh4

Freakonomics has a great episode on Uber and their dataset: https://freakonomics.com/podcast/why-uber-is-an-economists-d... ...which makes me think that Uber ratings may have less …

For anybody interested in this era of photography, the book "A Triumph of Genius" by Ronald K. Fierstein is such a brilliant documentation of the history around the Kodak vs Polaro…

A huge Duolingo fan and I play every day, but I wonder whether it's actually helping me to learn anything. I've been using it to study mandarin characters for the 3rd year now, but…

Pay attention to the camera & directing the next time you watch an episode, it's an absolute masterpiece. One example to look out for is the back-and-forth between Columbo and the …

Trying to decide between these: (a) Wordpress (b) SquareSpace (c) https://strapi.io/ (d) https://prismic.io/ (e) https://www.contentful.com/ The output will be a simple website, we…

Interesting that she located the elements by tapping on the screen at certain positions, instead of using the left/right swipe _anywhere_ on the screen, which selects and reads the…

If the goal is immunity to Covid-19, isn't it simpler to just: catch it? To be on the safe side, they could have lowered the risks of a bad outcome by things like (1) catching a sm…

This is a useful answer, especially because I don't think most people consider or make this decision mindfully. Sabbaticals can be an important option not only to advance your prof…

No-code is useful for building enough of the app to figure out whether there's a market for it in the first place. It's not fair to compare it to building the actual product with a…