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The New York Times has published An American Mosaic, an interactive map visualising the self-identified ancestry of Americans using data from the U.S. Census Bureau's American Community Survey. The map is accompanied by an article which...
Player CharactersCai Singh Avery Skitnik Cosimo Loperfido Mark Nakamura Guanyat Secundo Emma Kowalski Ernest Finns (Sic) The good ship and crew arrived on Newcomb and were shuttled off to prison. The warden gave a big, self aggrandizing...
Frontier LLMs are becoming infrastructure. People increasingly use them as the interface to the world's knowledge. They write software, learn, conduct research, communicate, and solve problems through them. As they become general-purpose...
Another “blast from the past” with The Explodo Boys, a Minnesota-based multi-genre band from 1979. The was original was an early James Brown release on the Federal label in 1960. It reached #72 on the Billboard charts before fading away...
In Gettysburg: The Last Invasion (Alfred A. Knopf, 2013), the historian Allen C. Guelzo quotes the nineteenth-century English Liberal statesman Richard Cobden, who asked, “If the United States go wrong what hope have we of the civilized...
Mark Zuckerberg, Meta’s chief executive, at a Meta town hall reported by Katie Paul and Courtney Rozen at Reuters: In retrospect, he said, the “trajectory of the agentic development over at least the last four months hasn’t really...
Buy an EMF meter before buying electronic toys for kidsThe Electromagnetic Field (EMF) is a health concern. The EMF causes ionization in the body, creating free radicals. These free radicals cause oxidative stress, leading to DNA damage...
As a child, I once mistakenly pressed the "B" button in the elevator in my grandparent's Miami Beach apartment building, and found myself intruding on the custodial staff at lunch time. There was an absolutely revolting smell I couldn't...
Rick Beato recently interviewed Mike Elizondo, and they got to talking about sending mixes to other people for their opinion. My favorite point came when Rick asked him, in reference to Mike sending mixes to Dr. Dre, 'Once you decide to...
Yeah, so... this happened: LN Daily on lloydnebres.net As the initial engagement with Codex — the first project I do with it — I decided to put part of the corpus of my blog when I was at Finalis, the eponymous LN Daily, on my domain. [...
“I realised fun things wouldn’t come my way just by waiting for them. I thought when I got into junior high, it was time for me to make a change. I’d let the world know I wasn’t a girl who was happy sitting around waiting. And I’ve done...
In their day, Beatties didn't just sell British model trains, they were a supplier of the foreign stuff too. In those days, modelling anything beyond these shores was seen as weird; it still is in a small way today. Still, you could go...
This is David, your adjacent possible guide in the search for signal among noise. You're reading the Weekly Filet, the newsletter for curious minds who love when something makes them go «Huh, I never thought of it this way!». As every...
There’s an intersection along a neighborhood greenway near me that I thought might be a cool place to paint an intersection mural. (Not that I have any experience with large scale painting lol) I wrote up a loose proposal for our...