Poetry and Programming

Brian Kim Stefans at Poetry Magazine: I often think that my obsession with Ezra Pound’s poetry was due to his well-known formula “DICHTEN = CONDENSARE” (dichten means “to write poetry” but also “to seal” or “to tighten” in German) or to those chestnuts from “A Few Don’ts by an Im … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

What to expect from Apple in 2020 (Macworld)

Looking ahead to the year to come, Dan Moren lays out some of the big things to expect (and not) out of Cupertino. | Continue reading


@macworld.com | 4 years ago

Fug Nation Loves These Shoes and Bags from the Nordstrom Half-Yearly Sale, Potentially?

You might have gift cards! | Continue reading


@gofugyourself.com | 4 years ago

The Best Anime of the Decade

Here is the best anime of the decade, from sweeping action stories to brainy science fiction to more low-key relationship tales. | Continue reading


@slashfilm.com | 4 years ago

Conservationists are ignoring climate change, risking mass extinctions

Efforts to save many endangered animals from extinction are doomed to fail as conservationists are not taking climate change into account | Continue reading


@newscientist.com | 4 years ago

The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Labor Market [pdf]

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@web.stanford.edu | 4 years ago

Greta Gerwig’s Little Women

Hannah Stamler at Artforum: Unlike Armstrong or Cukor, who stay true to Alcott’s timeline, Gerwig begins in the middle of the narrative, depicting the second half of the book while weaving in scenes drawn from the first. We open on the March sisters in their late teens or early t … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

Top Breaches and Leaky Server Screw Ups of 2019

2019 was a banner year for data exposures, with billions of people affected. | Continue reading


@threatpost.com | 4 years ago

Word: Jugaad

Mallika Rao at The Believer: Jugaad is a hack, a hustle, a fix. It’s a lot from a little, the best with what you’ve got—which is likely not much, if you need jugaad. A “very DU word,” a Delhi University grad once explained to me, and I thought about how college students as a rule … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

Who Closes Hospitals?

Andrew Elrod in Dissent: A facility that saw 53,000 emergency room visits per year disappeared from Philadelphia this summer with the prolonged and still-unfinished closure of Hahnemann University Hospital. The 496-bed hospital employed 2,700 people and saw 17,000 admissions in 2 … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

MyGuestMap – Maps Airbnb hosts visitors by scanning existing data

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@myguestmap.com | 4 years ago

Heavy Lift Long March 5 Y3 Launched

The Long March-5 rocket, China's largest carrier rocket, was successfully launched from the Wenchang Space Launch Center in south China's Hainan Province on Friday night. | Continue reading


@news.cgtn.com | 4 years ago

Testing for no_std compatibility in Rust crates

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@blog.dbrgn.ch | 4 years ago

Elastic kirigami patch for electromyographic analysis of the palm muscle during baseball pitching

Surface electromyography (sEMG) is widely used to investigate human motion including athletic performance. Baseball pitchers require very precise movements to pitch the ball to the strike zone, where the palm muscle plays a key role during movement. Recording the sEMG from the pa … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Beyond pattern recognition: How to approach causal questions properly

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@strong.io | 4 years ago

A Free-to-Use Library of Very Canadian Stock Photos

Cira, the organization that manages the .ca top-level domain, is offering a free stock photo library featuring typically Canadia | Continue reading


@kottke.org | 4 years ago

Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%

Everyone thinks they’re hiring the top 1%. Martin Fowler: “We are still working hard to hire only the very top fraction of software developers (the target is around the top 0.5 to … | Continue reading


@joelonsoftware.com | 4 years ago

New Silk Roads in Action at China-Kazakh Border

Central Asia, between China and Europe, is bustling | Continue reading


@asiatimes.com | 4 years ago

The Chromium Mess Meets Android – Replicant

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@events.ccc.de | 4 years ago

Spotify latest platform to halt political ads

The company said it will pause political advertising in early 2020. | Continue reading


@marketingland.com | 4 years ago

Turn any surface into a keyboard projecting from your smart device

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@hypertechx.com | 4 years ago

BIC Made for YOU

Gartner for Marketers provides latest insights on marketing research, benchmarks, tools, analysis and strategies that help you achieve your business goals | Continue reading


@gartner.com | 4 years ago

Changing Consumer Preferences on the Digital Shelf

Gartner for Marketers provides latest insights on marketing research, benchmarks, tools, analysis and strategies that help you achieve your business goals | Continue reading


@gartner.com | 4 years ago

You can't just rename your IT Ops team and call it DevOps

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@datree.io | 4 years ago

Unforeseen Maximum

When you tell AI to produce world peace and it kills everyone. (Okay, some SF writers saw that one coming.) | Continue reading


@arbital.greaterwrong.com | 4 years ago

You Don’t Need to Be a Rockstar

And Other Truths We Struggle to Believe | Continue reading


@levelup.gitconnected.com | 4 years ago

Galileo’s Error – a new science of consciousness

Galen Strawson in The Guardian: There is no escape from this dilemma – either all matter is conscious, or consciousness is something distinct from matter”: Alfred Russel Wallace put the point succinctly in 1870, and it is hard to see how his colleague Charles Darwin, the great ev … | Continue reading


@3quarksdaily.com | 4 years ago

CCPA: Everything you need to know about California's new privacy law

New year, new rights. | Continue reading


@cnet.com | 4 years ago

I'm Improving Predictability with Pivotal Tracker's “Team Strength”

Planing around vacations, sick days, maternity leave, conferences, etc.? Pivotal Tracker's "Team Strength" feature may be exactly what you're looking for. | Continue reading


@spin.atomicobject.com | 4 years ago

A special Poynter Report: The year in media - Poynter

Today, I look back at the year in media — from the best to the worst to the odd to the inspiring and everything in between. | Continue reading


@poynter.org | 4 years ago

The HotStuff BFT Consensus Protocol in Facebook's Libra Project

This paper appeared in PODC 2019, and is by Maofan Yin, Dahlia Malkhi, Michael K. Reiter, Guy Golan Gueta, and Ittai Abraham.  The paper pre... | Continue reading


@muratbuffalo.blogspot.com | 4 years ago

Automatic Self Playing Kalimba

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@google.com | 4 years ago

The Optimization of Lunch

Fast-casual chains like Sweetgreen and order-ahead apps like MealPal are optimizing lunchtime to death. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 4 years ago

Demonstration of using laser to exploit voice assistants[video]

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@google.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Cielab.io – a color tool based on human perception

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@cielab.io | 4 years ago

Successful Long March 5 launch opens way for China’s major space plans

China is clear to embark on ambitious exploration and space station missions following a successful return-to-flight Friday of the Long March 5. | Continue reading


@spacenews.com | 4 years ago

The Future Is Expensive Chinese Food

The future is high-end Chinese food. | Continue reading


@theatlantic.com | 4 years ago

Makowa Panienka

To makowy biszkopt przekładany masą budyniową i żurawiną, udekorowny polewą z białej czekolady. Idealne ciasto na świąteczny okres. Jakie są zalety tego wypieku? Ciasto nie jest przesłodzone. Wychodzi go dość sporo, jest podzielne i utrzymuje świeżość bardzo długo, nawet do tygod … | Continue reading


@kwestiasmaku.com | 4 years ago

How Families and Senior Travelers Can Use this Website

Not traveling alone? Tips, advice and links geared towards traveling families and seniors on how to make the most of your trip. It can be done cheaply! | Continue reading


@nomadicmatt.com | 4 years ago

Deep eclipses detected in the cataclysmic variable J0130

Russian astronomer Valery Kozhevnikov has conducted photometric observations of the cataclysmic variable (CV) IPHAS J013031.89+622132.3 (J0130 for short), finding that the object exhibits deep eclipses. The discovery, presented in a paper published December 17 on arXiv.org, could … | Continue reading


@phys.org | 4 years ago

Memories post-scrapbook, pre-Facebook

I recently stumbled upon a web project from about 17 years ago that really put into perspective how far certain technologies have come in the last couple of decades. The project was a travel "blog" | Continue reading


@brettterpstra.com | 4 years ago

This Production Of "Penguins On Ice" Was Not What I Expected

We made it, minions! Another Christmas in the bag! Minions? | Continue reading


@cakewrecks.com | 4 years ago

Show HN: Sell on social media with your ecommerce store

Maple Techno is a chatbot for sellers on facebook pages. sell now and offer your products, and start receiving orders easily! | Continue reading


@mapletechno.com | 4 years ago

Why People Ignore Facts: When it comes to reasoning, identity trumps truth

When it comes to reasoning, identity trumps truth. | Continue reading


@psychologytoday.com | 4 years ago

I Was Wrong About Speed Reading: Here Are the Facts

7 years ago I wrote an article about speed reading. Turns out I made a lot of mistakes. Discover why speed reading might not be as useful as expected. | Continue reading


@scotthyoung.com | 4 years ago

Top Form Builder Tools

There are a lot of mobile and web solutions to collect data using digital forms. May be you can think that they are similar, you can… | Continue reading


@medium.com | 4 years ago

It's even worse than it appears. | Continue reading


@scripting.com | 4 years ago

A Side-by-Side Solidity and Vyper (Ethereum) Cheat Sheet

A feature-by-feature reference guide to the two most popular programming languages on Ethereum | Continue reading


@reference.auditless.com | 4 years ago