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Always Go To The Funeral

As a child, Deirdre Sullivan learned from her father to always pay her respects at funerals. Now, this NPR listener believes those simple acts of human kindness are as important as the grand gestures.

2005-08-07T21:00:00-0700 NPR Deirdre Sullivan 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T06:56:56-0800 - sethherr

Telraam Traffic Monitoring & Bike Match Network Shutting Down

Reflecting on 4 years of Bike Match and 2 years of Bay Area Traffic Monitoring

2024-12-17T12:30:34-0800 Transpo Maps Stephen Braitsch 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T16:54:29-0800 - sethherr

Chip Cities Rise in Japan’s Fields of Dreams

The scale of Tokyo’s ambition creates the risk of spectacular failure, but so too does succumbing to decline in a sector the nation once dominated. #City #Government #Infrastructure #Japan

2024-12-11T12:00:02-0800 Bloomberg Gearoid Reidy 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T19:40:14-0800 - sethherr

On blankfaces

For years, I've had a private term I've used with my family. To give a few examples of its use: No, I never applied for that grant. I spent two hours struggling to log in to a web portal designed by the world's top blankfaces until I finally gave up in despair. No, I paid…

2021-08-02T13:30:48-0700 Shtetl-Optimized 20,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T20:52:01-0800 - sethherr

The art of a Russian joke: anekdoty about Putin and the war

Collection of recent Russian jokes about Putin and the war in Ukraine

2024-11-13T09:20:35-0800 Tap Water Sommelier Konstantin Asimonov 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T20:58:12-0800 - sethherr

Droppings

what-if.xkcd.com

Rated 2024-12-17T21:04:11-0800 - sethherr

The Illusion of Miles Per Gallon

2008-06-20T07:21:45-0700 Wheels Blog Richard S. Chang 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-17T21:05:48-0800 - sethherr

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1

I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most benchmarks.

2024-12-15T11:19:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-18T19:04:49-0800 - sethherr

Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 2

In the previous post, I covered my motivations for improving ruby/json’s performance, and detailed the first 4 notable optimizations applied to speed up JSON generation.

2024-12-18T08:05:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words

Rated 2024-12-18T19:12:01-0800 - sethherr

Alignment faking in large language models

A paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models

anthropic.com 2,000 words

Rated 2024-12-19T19:01:38-0800 - sethherr

Introducing Governing San Francisco

Campaigns are marketing and sales. Governing is the product.

2024-11-12T10:24:13-0800 Governing San Francisco Zack Rosen 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-19T19:31:09-0800 - sethherr

Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matter

Correction issued for black plastic study that had people tossing spatulas.

2024-12-16T14:23:34-0800 Ars Technica Beth Mole 1,000 words

Rated 2024-12-20T21:01:32-0800 - sethherr