1. Autistic 27-year-old Canadian now allowed to end her life. It’s time to end the Canadian suicide regime as it currently exists: “…the province [Alberta] operates a system where there is no appeal process and no means of reviewing a person’s MAID approval.” 2. Highlights from S … | Continue reading
Christopher Phillips, Battle Ground: Ten Conflicts that Explain the New Middle East. A good, “simple enough” introduction to the wars going on in Syria, Yemen, and other parts of the Middle East. If you are worried you will hate, you can just skip the Palestine chapter. Catherine … | Continue reading
Is this the first one? We conduct a survey-based experiment with 2,776 students at a non-profit university to analyze income insurance demand in education financing. We offered students a hypothetical choice: either a federal loan with income-driven repayment or an income-share a … | Continue reading
Learn when to use setter methods or constructors for setting the value of a variable in Java. | Continue reading
Explore two approaches for converting UTF-8 encoded strings to ISO-8859-1. | Continue reading
Explore different Java methods for normalizing EOL characters. | Continue reading
The country, which is a bit bigger than Maryland, not only accomplished this feat but also has become the world’s second largest exporter of agricultural products by value behind the United States. Perhaps even more significant in the face of a warming planet: It is among the lar … | Continue reading
1. First woman to complete grueling Barkley marathon. 2. New Aztec codices discovered on amate paper. 3. Why Ireland’s housing bubble burst. 4. Wokeness was associated with lower mental well-being. 5. Is Johan Röhr one of the most popular composers of all time? The post Monday as … | Continue reading
The Solow model is a foundational model for understanding economic growth. Yet it’s typically not taught to principles students because it’s considered too difficult. In Modern Principles, however, Tyler and I develop a super simple version of the model that is fun to teach and a … | Continue reading
Sometimes, we need to read compressed .gz files in Java. Learn to use Java's built in stream libraries to read from gzip format files. | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to Vigenère Cipher in Java. | Continue reading
Try it here, click on the right on the mention of making full, two-minute songs and use the Explore tab. To me it is remarkable the resulting AI-generated music is as good as it is. But it still isn’t anything I would listen to, other than out of curiosity. It is best at edm, sta … | Continue reading
That is the title of the new Judith Butler book, focusing mostly on trans issues. To be clear, on most practical issues concerning trans, I side with the social conservatives. For instance, I don’t think trans women have a right to compete in women’s weightlifting contests. And I … | Continue reading
Oh, I am going to annoy a few people this morning, and I am sorry. I'm writing about computer keyboards again, and many people don't want to read about it. So I'm hereby WARNING them, right here, up front, and... Related Stories Open Mike: Do This With Your Hands (OT) Open Mike: … | Continue reading
The post Maurizio Pollini, RIP appeared first on Marginal REVOLUTION. Comments In my own listening, I usually seek out striking ... by Marshall Didn't Art Tatum play scales faster and cleaner? by rsm The two public figures I admire most are Maurizio Pollini and ... by Terrie Robi … | Continue reading
Model this: Students born approximately ten months after the World Cup tend to perform significantly worse in school. Moreover, our results uncover a hitherto overlooked aspect: the same students exhibit significantly higher degrees of mental wellbeing. Here is the full article b … | Continue reading
1. Peter Coy on AI and jobs (NYT). 2. Asgar Farhadi cleared of plagiarism allegations by Iranian court. 3. The Eitan Hersh conservative experiment at Tufts. 4. New Liberty Fund paperback edition of Hayek on Mill. 5. Is Los Angeles leading the way toward a new and better urbanism? … | Continue reading
Learn how to create a PostgreSQL schema before Liquibase execution in Spring Boot. | Continue reading
Now though it was generally assumed in intellectual circles that the best was yet to be, Bvalltu and his friends were convinced that the crest of the wave had already occurred many centuries ago. To most men, if course, the decade before the war had seemed better and more civiliz … | Continue reading
From the TxP Progress Prize: But then Tyler asked us, twice in a row, ‘what is your signature product?’ Being honest, we realised even if our pitch was strong at a high level, we’d essentially just submitted a laundry list of ideas for what we wanted to deliver, without much focu … | Continue reading
Learn to combine a stream of maps into a single result map in Java. Comments How about instead of using flatMap, you could use normal stream ... by Srdjan Mitrovic | Continue reading
Learn how to add an element to an existing immutable List in Java. | Continue reading
Just as a finishing touch to the stills-versus-video posts last week, I should mention again that my main "real work" camera today (I have three cameras in the rotation and mostly use two of them) is primarily a video camera.... | Continue reading
UPDATE: It's a miracle! Randy the repairman arrived today all cheerful, then got progressively more fatalistic as the washing machine came apart. Diagnosis: the circuit board was shot. Repair estimate: with labor, well over the price of a new machine.... Related Stories Any Color … | Continue reading
Ctein (it's pronounced "kuh-TINE" and it's his entire legal name) was a longtime regular columnist on TOP. After my update about COVID-19 the other day he offered to let me reproduce this recent column from his newsletter, which you can... Related Stories Ctein and 'Ripple Effect … | Continue reading
In this tutorial, we learn how to sign and verify a JWT token in Spring Boot. | Continue reading
In this article, we learn about various invalid characters and how to handle them in XML processing. | Continue reading
Explore two methods for converting Excel files to JSON format in Java: reading and processing Excel data with Apache POI and then converting it to JSON using the JSON and Jackson libraries. | Continue reading
Learn how to find the peak elements of a list in Java. | Continue reading
Sorry for the lack of new content these past two days. I have been, er, distracted. Things have been breaking again. I finally got my water system fixed after a 2 1/2 week ordeal (no more bottled water, okay), but... Related Stories Open Mike: Replying to Comments (Blog Notes) Mi … | Continue reading
1. Spring and Java >> The Arrival of Java 22! [inside.java] This week is dominated by the newest Java release—amazing work! Also, one of our editors, Grzegorz, was mentioned with his library! >> JavaOne Returns to the San Francisco Bay Area! [inside.java] After a year of uncertai … | Continue reading
Explore two essential Java classes for handling asynchronous tasks: ExecutorService and CompletableFuture. | Continue reading
Explore ways to determine if a particular time lies within the two times without considering dates. | Continue reading
Learn how to implement two levels of caching in Spring. | Continue reading
Explore various approaches for determining whether a given date object falls on yesterday. | Continue reading
Learn how to manage Kafka Listeners dynamically in Spring Boot. | Continue reading
Discover the differences and similarities between JPA Criteria and Querydsl. | Continue reading
Barthes Punctum—that which punctures. The point that skewers you. That "gets to you." The touch of the tip of the fencer's foil. To my mind, punctum is the most important thing about photography overall and the most important thing of... Related Stories Never Assume You're Seeing … | Continue reading
Deaths in the U.S. from COVID-19 fell to 479 in the week ending March 9th, the lowest level since before the first spike began in late March 2020. That's compared to about 270 deaths a week or two ago from... Related Stories Open Mike: The Princess Vanishes eBay Returns Canon R5 … | Continue reading
Understanding how Java represents integers can help us with certain mathematical operations. In this article, we look at integer representation and how to use bitwise operations with Java numbers. | Continue reading
Explore several methods, including ListIterator (enhanced for looping with a copy) and Java 8 Streams, which allow you to add elements to a list during iteration in Java. | Continue reading
Learn how to calculate statistical percentiles of a collection or an array in Java. | Continue reading
Here is one bit from a longer and very interesting essay by Vicky Osterweil: This kind of audience-condescending premise-forward literalism is not just in the narrative and scripting, it’s in the acting. The actors of Dune 2 almost all speak in that tedious whisper-growl that sta … | Continue reading
1. GPT-automated peer reviews? 2. How does Russia make missiles? (Kamil Galeev) 3. Carrying costs > liquidity premium, frozen egg edition. 4. Lynch/Oz is quite a good and interesting movie — if you already know a lot about cinema. 5. Sama chatter about GPT-5? 6. How to network at … | Continue reading
I was discussing this question with some others, and I don’t find it so easy to answer. Claude 3 had a reasonable list, but with no clear winner: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (AOC): A member of the U.S. House of Representatives, AOC has quickly become a prominent face of the progress … | Continue reading
I am setting aside most of the cultural and “macro” issues, and just considering policy, in my latest Bloomberg column. Excerpt: Consider agriculture. If you fly over Hispaniola, you can see a notable difference between the Haitian and Dominican sides of the border. The Dominican … | Continue reading
["Open Mike" is the Editorial Page of TOP, in which Yr. Hmbl Ed. betimes pouts, oft proclaims, and ever opines.] Richard Skoonberg commented, on the "Nikon-RED" post: "I have always had a passion for photography, however, I spent approximately 10... Related Stories Open Mike II: … | Continue reading
A quick and practical guide to finding the largest number possible after removing k digits of a number. | Continue reading