"Learning something new that’s complicated often feels difficult at first - if it feels easy it may be something you already know or you may not really be testing your knowledge (it’s a lot easier to read about how to solve a physics problem and think ‘this makes sense’ than it is to solve a … Continue reading How to Become a Hacker
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Counterglow
"This map shows factory farms and other animal facilities in the United States."-Counterglow "The map is meant to offer a rare bird’s-eye view of the scale of the industry, while also providing a research tool for activist investigators. Kecia Doolittle, the leader of the team that created the map, is an animal rights activist who … Continue reading Counterglow
Even Racists Got the Blues
Most of the time, I feel a little bit sorry for people who make horrendous translation mistakes. This is not one of those times.Even Racists Got the Blues Might not want to self-translate from languages you don't know.
Marginal Gains
"The whole principle came from the idea that if you broke down everything you could think of that goes into riding a bike, and then improved it by 1%, you will get a significant increase when you put them all together," he explained..."—Matt Slater, "Olympics cycling: Marginal gains underpin Team GB dominance." BBC. August 8, … Continue reading Marginal Gains
Time to Mitigate, Not Contain
"We have long needed a Plan B for the scenario where a big fraction of everyone gets exposed to Covid19, and for this plan I’ve explored variolation and other forms of deliberate exposure. To be ready, variolation just needs a small (~100) short (1-2mo.) trial to verify the quite likely (>75%) case that it works … Continue reading Time to Mitigate, Not Contain
The Gardner by Rudyard Kipling
"A month later, and just after Michael had written Helen that there was noting special doing and therefore no need to worry, a shell-splinter dropping out of a wet dawn killed him at once. The next shell uprooted and laid down over the body what had been the foundation of a barn wall, so neatly … Continue reading The Gardner by Rudyard Kipling
What is the Dark Web?
https://www.youtube.com/embed/9F3rz7GfPys More detail can be found from the associated article from Naked Security.
What Kind of Country Do We Want?
"The cult of cost/benefit—of the profit motive made granular, cellular—not only trivializes but also attacks whatever resists its terms. Classic American education is ill-suited to its purposes and is constantly under pressure to reform—that is, to embrace as its purpose the training of workers who will be competitive in the future global economy. What this … Continue reading What Kind of Country Do We Want?
Farewell to Beyond the Beyond
"It’s the writerly act of organizing and assembling inchoate thought that seems to helps me. That’s what I did with this blog; if I blogged something for “Beyond the Beyond,” then I had tightened it, I had brightened it. I had summarized it in some medium outside my own head. Posting on the blog was … Continue reading Farewell to Beyond the Beyond
Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Really Is Different
"And you want to talk about a negative productivity shock, too. The biggest positive productivity shock we’ve had over the last 40 years has been globalization together with technology. And I think if you take away the globalization, you probably take away some of the technology. So that affects not just trade, but movements and … Continue reading Harvard’s Reinhart and Rogoff Say This Time Really Is Different
We Are Living in a Failed State
"This was the American landscape that lay open to the virus: in prosperous cities, a class of globally connected desk workers dependent on a class of precarious and invisible service workers; in the countryside, decaying communities in revolt against the modern world; on social media, mutual hatred and endless vituperation among different camps; in the … Continue reading We Are Living in a Failed State
We Are All Confident Idiots
"An ignorant mind is precisely not a spotless, empty vessel, but one that’s filled with the clutter of irrelevant or misleading life experiences, theories, facts, intuitions, strategies, algorithms, heuristics, metaphors, and hunches that regrettably have the look and feel of useful and accurate knowledge. This clutter is an unfortunate by-product of one of our greatest … Continue reading We Are All Confident Idiots
Mr. Electrico
"Yes, but he was a real man. [Mr. Electrico] was his real name. Circuses and carnivals were always passing through Illinois during my childhood and I was in love with their mystery. One autumn weekend in 1932, when I was twelve years old, the Dill Brothers Combined Shows came to town. One of the performers … Continue reading Mr. Electrico
Guns Don’t Kill People; Schools Do
"Having actively contributed to the loss of lives, Trump is going to have to get very creative in citing any that he’s saved. That said, last month was the first March without a school shooting since 2002, so maybe he could credit himself with the new approach to the US school shootings problem currently being … Continue reading Guns Don’t Kill People; Schools Do
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