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Photo by CHUTTERSNAP on Unsplash I want to tell two stories. Both are part of my family's history, both extremely impactful on the way I live, grow, and think. Because, as an Italian, I have family stories connected to the most turbulent periods in our country's history over the last 100 years, incl...
Today’s large language models are hardly related to the kinds of machine intelligence we see in science fiction, according to Martha Wells, author of the Murderbot Diaries series
The Reader I love the way this chap was able to block out the chaos and bustle of a busy railway station. Quote of the Day ”Confidence is what you have before you understand the problem.” Woody Allen Musical alternative … Continue reading →
Listen and subscribe on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and all major podcast apps. Dylan Thuras: Hey, everybody, Dylan here. So at the beginning of this year, we made an episode about traveling with a significant other for the first time, and we got just a ton of stories. And so we decided to do another e...
by Lei Wang I solemnly swear this is not a column complaining about my parents. But the first time I listened to this ten-minute meditation on Imagining Ideal Parents by the clinical psychologist and Tibetan Buddhist teacher Dan Brown, I cried the entire way through. Also the second, third, fourth, ...
Marcin Wichary made an astounding history of Mac settings using 10 different embedded emulators, including easter eggs and bonus tasks #
The plane lurched violently upward. “Ladies and gentlemen, we’re making an emergency climb due to traffic in our flight path.” In other words: There’s a plane where it’s not supposed to be, so we’re getting the hell out of here. The captain’s voice was steady, but the g-forces pressing me into my se...
What happens when an Italian coffee dynasty, a filmmaker, an eccentric, and one of the world's great chefs dream up a restaurant? Turin's Condividere is the subject of a new book co-authored by R&K's Eugenio Signoroni. The post Ferran Adrià ’s Turin Experiment appeared first on Roads & Kingdoms.
Yes, your brain does. It created it. The post Does Anybody Really Know What Time Is? appeared first on Nautilus.
The work that will matter most—the thing that will actually change your life—is probably smaller than you think and messier than you'd like and waiting for you to stop sharpening and start swinging.
A lot of stuff going on, a new title format for my weeknotes, and other things that happened from July 1 to 7, 2025.