314 points Entertainment Dec 09, 2020 Twitter’s a pretty good reflection of real life when you think about it: lots of laughs, plenty of noise and outrage, and some oases of awesomeness here and there
Photo: Wikimedia Commons (Public domain) Russian art theorist and painter Wassily Kandinsky was one of the pioneers of abstract modern art . He believed that “objects damaged pictures,” so explored ab
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The Million MAGA March drew thousands of President Trump's supporters, including members of far-right groups such as the Proud Boys, Patriot Front and others, to Washington, D.C., last month. Zach D R
Published 29 July 2018 Share page About sharing Image source, Getty Images Image caption, Does this sight look familiar to you? Do you have a habit of picking up books that you never quite get around
Pure CSS Way 6 min read · Dec 13, 2020 -- Sometimes it may be difficult to find your way in a wall of bullets, based on an image by DarkmoonArt_de from Pixabay One of the more confusing things in outl
I was born in the late ’60s, and I grew up on its mythology of peace and love and drug deals gone wrong. The good guys ejected Richard Nixon from the White House. It was a bad idea to fly coke in from
* Almost ** Requires a little bit of CSS 7 min read · Dec 18, 2020 -- Give your Roam a little bit of colors If we compare Roam to its competitors like RemNote (or, god forbid, Notion ), there is one t
On April 9, at a remote launchpad on the plains of Kazakhstan, a ground controller will finish his countdown; a Soyuz rocket will fire; and Charles Simonyi–Microsoft’s former chief architect, the tute
In 2017, NASA space probes detected a massive, human-made 'barrier' surrounding Earth. And tests have confirmed that it's actually having an effect on space weather far beyond our planet's atmosphere.
It's been out for more than a year, but just this week @strutting and Robin Sloan introduced me to "Fraidycat" — an intriguing tool for keeping up with people and sites online. It's a type of RSS read
"Is Web3... anything?" The term “web3” seems pretty fluid and is being used as a label for a bunch of disparate ideas. Given that it’s a decentralized group describing a decentralized movement, that l
My Mental Map This week I finished the last module of the From Collector to Creator course provided by Anne-Laure Le Cunff over at Ness labs. I wanted to write a few words about what I thought about t
What do you do with your new ideas? The connections and sparks that pop to mind when you’re in the shower; in a presentation; on a bus. In these settings I’ve had all sorts of ideas, from thoughts on
How much have you automated in Roam? Answer: not enough. We’ve heard promises of increased automation capabilities in Roam for months, and now they have finally arrived through the amazing Roam commun
Fragments of energy may be the fundamental building blocks of the universe . The theory combines the ideas of particles and waves into a concentration of energy that flows throughout space and time. T
Best known for his 1945 novel, Brideshead Revisited , English novelist Evelyn Waugh spent the five years preceding its publication in the military, first in the Royal Marines and then, thanks to a tra
Regression Regression analysis is a statistical methodology that allows us to determine the strength and relationship of two variables. Regression is not limited to two variables, we could have 2 or m
Introduction The Glass Bead platform aims at “navigating between heterogeneous and increasingly specialized epistemic sites” and constructing “the conditions for universal transits that transform the
Abstract Deep learning networks have been trained to recognize speech, caption photographs, and translate text between languages at high levels of performance. Although applications of deep learning n
Foundations: Central Concepts In Dramatica, there are some central concepts that prove immediately useful. Presenting these up front reveals the practical side of the theory and provides a firm founda
Read this — the ABCs of Citizen Kane– era show business — before you hit play on Netflix. Photo: Courtesy of Netflix If there’s a film likely to be in Oscars contention — because God knows the Academy
Dramatica and the Creative Writer Chapter 1 A Place to Start Mastering the craft of writing requires a skill in communication and a flair for style. Through communication, an audience receives meaning
What is Dramatica? Dramatica is an entirely new way of looking at story. Beyond simply a paradigm or sequence of cultural beats, Dramatica theorizes why stories exist and attempts to outline the proce
Many nations around the world are currently on a mission to reduce their carbon emissions within the next few decades. While one method is to rely more heavily on renewable forms of energy generation,
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I enjoyed Cortex Futura’s latest post on algorithms of thought (“ True Algorithms of Thought Have Arrived ” – CortexFutura.com ). In reflecting on the role algorithms of thought have played in my own
Despite two linear algebra classes, my knowledge consisted of “Matrices, determinants, eigen something something”. Why? Well, let’s try this course format: Name the course Linear Algebra but focus on
"Civilizations with long nows look after things better," says Brian Eno. "In those places you feel a very strong but flexible structure which is built to absorb shocks and in fact incorporate them." 1
Destroy the anonymous wall of bullets! 8 min read · Nov 21, 2020 -- Roam is great, yet often it lacks colours, formatting options and it really has a tendency to become this unpalatable, never-ending
Theoretical runaway satellite collision cascade that could render parts of Earth orbit unusable Space debris populations seen from outside geosynchronous orbit (GSO). There are two primary debris fiel
Screenshot: Alex Cranz/Gizmodo With iOS 14, iPhone users finally got a taste of the sweet, sweet widget life anyone who’s used an Android phone in the last decade was already familiar with. I’ve shied
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"Low floor, wide walls" is the mantra that guides the design of MIT's Scratch language . When discussing technologies to support learning and education, my mentor Seymour Papert often emphasized the i
Sarah Stone, Sir Ashton Lever’s Museum , 1785 (State Library of New South Wales) When Raymond Carver died, he left a folded paper in his pocket, a list of what he did not want to forget: eggs peanut b
Paul Graham, co-founder of Silicon Valley start-up accelerator Y Combinator, has recommended over 95 books on Twitter. "Something I didn't realize when I was a kid: Most books are bad. I used to think
There have been several updates appended to this page as of 2020-11-16, please . Also available in: It’s here. It happened. Did you notice? I’m speaking, of course, of the world that Richard Stallman
The contents of the six boxes on the left all have something in common. The six on right also all have something in common, which is the opposite of the ones on the left. What is it? This is called a
It wasn’t absentee ballots in populous Fulton or DeKalb counties that pushed Joe Biden beyond President Donald Trump in Georgia, nor was it one of the newly minted Democratic northern suburbs. It was