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In the past, new PhD students would ask how they could succeed when they had to compete with the likes of say, Richard Karp or Avi Wigderson. I would say Karp and Wigderson have limited bandwidth and you can work on problems they don't work on, or think deeper about a problem than Karp or Wigderson has time to.Now...
I've been tinkering with data sources for doing Sumo analysis, from two main sources (well, one really): SumoDB - Specifically the Yusho page for a quick overview of winning performances. A database created by Ryan McCorvie from SumoDB for a Sumo Elo ranking, and while it has a bunch of features that are bad for...
I found the advice from an Enlightened Unix Master about arranging input text for the the venerable troff typesetting system that seems to be ancestral to Semantic Line Breaks.
The story of Fray: In the earliest days of the web, Derek Powazek set out to create a website meant for sharing. I’ve said it before and I’ll say it again; this was the website that made me want to make websites. adactio.com/links/22723
I’m not sure if this is just my devices but a couple native Android apps on my Tab S9 tablet feel less reliable and perform worse than PWA versions of those apps.
Unattributed Navigation Overhead exposes the part of Time to First Byte that Navigation Timing cannot explain, including hidden cross-origin redirects.
Hitchcock (2012) is a surprisingly fun little peek behind the curtain at how Alfred Hitchcock
Break the glass: Buttercup Festival 3-394Latest on PatreonAug 14th: Summer painting
Long-time reader Antonio R. sent me to this thread about plummeting subscriptions suffered by a Substack user. Her last sentence was: "what good are followers when follower growth seems correlated with losing paid subs??"While stated as a "correlation," the wording reflects a mild form of causal creep. Her mental...
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