It’s Just Adding One Word at a Time That ChatGPT can automatically generate something that reads even superficially like human-written text is remarkable, and unexpected. But how does it do it? And wh
I first learned Kubernetes ("k8s" for short) in 2018, when my manager sat me down and said "Cloudflare is migrating to Kubernetes, and you're handling our team's migration." This was slightly terrifyi
1.1.2023 For a successful technology, reality must take precedence over public relations, for nature cannot be fooled. Entrance to underground cavern on Pavonis Mons. HiRISE, 2011 The goal of this ess
Hi, I'm Soma! I'm a professor at Columbia's Journalism School who runs two very fun programs: The Data Journalism MS, which is 3 semesters long with a nice degree at the end, and The Lede Program, a 1
Formats This is a web book, designed to be read on the web (with or without an internet connection). So you can start reading now. But if you’d prefer to have a copy of this book in another format, yo
You have 1 article left to read this month before you need to register a free LeadDev.com account. As I moved up my company’s career ladder from senior to staff engineer, and from staff to principal,
To outsiders, it seemed like a straightforward sale. On Sept 15, Monotype, the world’s largest font seller, acquired Hoefler&Co (H&Co), a New York-based foundry perhaps best known for a font called Go
P. Marshall EsqWhat follows is perhaps the most important speech given on the subject of the Post Office Horizon IT scandal to date. I watched Mr Marshall deliver it remotely yesterday evening on Zoom
The police forced the crowd out of the Capitol building after facing off in the Rotunda, Jan. 6, 3:40 p.m.Credit...Ashley Gilbertson/VII, for The New York Times Essay The American Abyss A historian of
Manuel Grabowski: I figured there must be some way to find out what data exactly changed inbetween two TM snapshots. There is. I let that script run (for almost an entire day) and in the resulting out
Happy birthday Weaveworks! Today we turn FIVE! It feels like we are older: startup years are a bit like dog years. Let’s celebrate with something fun :-) For the last few months we have been playing with a little side project called “Ignite” that I want to tell you about. Ignite is a GitOps-managed…
What does international political corruption have to do with type design? Normally, nothing—but that’s little consolation for the former prime minister of Pakistan. When Nawaz Sharif and his family ca
A while ago, an attempt to stifle a difficult conversation made me realize that there are no utopias, not even the community where I had come to feel at home: the type world. On May 25th, 2018, the re
Every so often, British jazz pops its head above the parapet, gets a Mercury nomination, and has a noodle on telly to remind everyone that it’s still there, like it’s always been, parping away from ma
🐻 O'zbekcha tarjimasi GetColorings tomonidan. 🌄 Journalists watch out—you may be unintentionally revealing sources. In early 2016 I realized that it was possible to use zero-width characters, like zer
Asynchronous programming has been gaining a lot of traction in the past few years, and for good reason. Although it can be more difficult than the traditional linear style, it is also much more efficient. For example, instead of waiting for an HTTP request to finish before continuing execution, with…
Slack is the bane and the lifeblood of my workplace communication. Here at Quartz, the workplace messaging app is ubiquitous. Our newsroom uses Slack, which recently raised a quarter-billion dollars , to connect to our bureaus around the world and to colleagues one desk over, with news discussions,…
As the debate around cycle safety, and in particular helmet use, continues to rage, British Cycling policy advisor, Chris Boardman, writes about the danger of introducing compulsory helmet laws. In the late 1980s, as a response to her child being struck by a car from behind whilst riding to school,…
I’m James Bridle . I’m a writer and artist concerned with technology and culture. I usually write on my own blog, but frankly I don’t want what I’m talking about here anywhere near my own site. Please be advised: this essay describes disturbing things and links to disturbing graphic and video…
Jesse Draxler; Photo: David Hume Kennerly / Getty It is insufficient to state the obvious of Donald Trump: that he is a white man who would not be president were it not for this fact. With one immediate exception, Trump’s predecessors made their way to high office through the passive power of…
Occasionally I've run into situations of confusion on the exact differencesbetween the following related concepts in Python: a container an iterable an iterator a generator a generator expression a {list, set, dict} comprehension I'm writing this post as a pocket reference for later. Containers ¶…
This is the story of a big house in Belgium. Within its walls, along its corridors, through its communal kitchen and living space, some of the finest riders in the world have idled, prepared for races, slouched in front of the TV, boiled water for pasta and generally discovered whether or not they…
In the fall of 2009, I wrote a pair of algorithms to place nearly 3,000 names on the 9/11 memorial in Manhattan. The crux of the problem was to design a layout for the names that allowed for what the memorial designers called ‘meaningful adjacencies’. These were requests made by next-of-kin for…
Authors: Vadym Hudyma, Pavlo Myronov. Part 1 of a series on Ukrainian student data. Introduction External Independent Evaluation Testing is a single exam is used nationwide to access all public universities. As detailed in our previous article , the release of a poorly anonymised dataset by…
St. Thomas Aquinas, the patron saint of ethical offsets, isn’t having your shit. In the last few months I’ve had a lot of designers ask me “Where can I do good work?”And they don’t mean “good” as in quality. They mean good as in “on the side of the angels.” They look at the world, they see a garbage…
The Howard Mansfield Collection, Purchase, Rogers Fund, 1936; Munsey Fund, 1932; FLETCHER FUND, 1931; Amelia B. Lazarus Fund, 1910; Bequest of Sam A. Lewisohn, 1951; getty images A bout 4,000 years ago, an Egyptian senior government official named Meketre rode up the Nile, his dozen oarsmen…
JSX is actually quite straightforward: take 1 minute and read this, and you'll understand everything there is to know about this interesting alternative to templates. Alternative title: "Living with JSX" The Pragma You declare this per-file or per-function to tell your transpiler (eg: Babel) the…
For those interested in knowing what is in the world around them, the current news is disgusting. All US Environmental Protection Agency grants have been frozen , and employees are being prohibited from discussing the changes or talking to the public. The ban also halts all new contracts and the…
Bitcoin's Amateurish, But Cryptographic Payment Networks Are The Future This blog post represents opinion, and is absolutely not investment advice. It is provided with absolutely no guarantees or recommendations whatsoever. One day, the vast majority of financial transactions will be processed via…
Update: this was cross-posted to the Hypothesis blog . This is a write-up of some research that I did for a session with our dev teamat Hypothesis about how to make our code reviews a morepleasant and empowering experience for everyone. Links to sources are sprinkledthroughout the text, and you can…
How the Circle Line rogue train was caught with data Text: Daniel Sim | Analysis: Lee Shangqian, Daniel Sim & Clarence Ng Singapore’s MRT Circle Line was hit by a spate of mysterious disruptions in recent months, causing much confusion and distress to thousands of commuters. Like most of my…
Pupils at a Hampshire school have treated audiences to a West End and Broadway classic. Teenagers at Hounsdown School, Totton, put on a play performance of Blood Brothers. It tells the story of twins Mickey and Eddie who are separated at birth, with one raised in a wealthy family and the other in a…
Taylor Phinney sits alone, stooping to take up a spot atop the drinks cooler outside the BMC Racing team bus. His teammates are all inside, taking the time between the Tour of Britain’s split stages in Bristol to rest, relax, and recover, away from the fans milling around outside. Phinney wouldn’t…
No JavaScript frameworks were created during the writing of this article. The following is inspired by the article “It’s the future” from Circle CI. You can read the original here . This piece is just an opinion, and like any JavaScript framework, it shouldn’t be taken too seriously. Hey, I got this…
A year ago, before the man they call Bike Batman began his work—before he headed out on missions around the Emerald City with a pocketful of cash and the cops on speed dial and a paladin’s sense of wrongs to be righted, before he’d rescued two dozen stolen bikes from the grubby fingers of the city’s…
O ne Monday morning last September, Britain woke to a depraved news story. The prime minister, David Cameron, had committed an “obscene act with a dead pig’s head”, according to the Daily Mail. “A distinguished Oxford contemporary claims Cameron once took part in an outrageous initiation ceremony at…
Children near derelict houses on an estate in Collyhurst, Manchester.Photograph: Photofusion/Rex Shutterstock “I f you’ve got money, you vote in,” she said, with a bracing certainty. “If you haven’t got money, you vote out.” We were in Collyhurst, the hard-pressed neighbourhood on the northern edge…
Alex Massie 16 June 2016 6:17 PM 16 June 2016 6:17 PM Share Events have a multiplier effect. And when they come in bunches the effect can be overpowering. This was already a sad and demeaning day, even before we heard the ghastly news a Labour MP, Jo Cox, had been murdered outside her constituency…
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