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Opening A Time Capsule — Dynoing A 1990s NASCAR Engine in 2022
Have you ever wondered how much power a NASCAR engine from the 1990s made? Well, Lake Speed, Jr did, so he dynoed his dad's old C3.
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Intelligence Officials Say U.S. Has Retrieved Craft of Non-Human Origin - The Debrief
In a Debrief exclusive, Ralph Blumenthal and Leslie Kean report that a former official says the U.S. has retrieved craft of non-human origin.
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Apple Vision
Apple Vision is incredibly compelling, first as a product, and second as far as potential use cases. What it says about society, though, is a bit more pessimistic.
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What Happened When a Brooklyn Neighborhood Policed Itself for Five Days
NEW YORK — It had been a quiet April afternoon until about a dozen teenagers began running up Pitkin Avenue in Brownsville, yelling and cursing. They were chasing a girl of about 14, and it was clear they wanted a fight. Five plainclothes police officers watched warily. Across Pitkin stood about a half-dozen men, civilians in jeans and purple-and-gray sweatshirts. “They got it,” an officer said. Sign up for The Morning newsletter from the New York Times The teenagers slowed...
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Building an Extension System on the Web
Building an extension system is no small feat — especially on the Web. Here’s how it was implemented in Vrite…
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Top AI researcher dismisses AI ‘extinction’ fears, challenges ‘hero scientist’ narrative
Kyunghyun Cho, a prominent AI researcher and associate professor at NYU, expressed frustration with the current discourse around AI risk.
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The grid part II - the golden age of the power industry
Welcome to Part II of our history of the electric power industry. For Part I, see here. By 1930, the US was using 114 trillion kilowatt-hours of electricity a year, generated by more than 4000 power plants. Most electricity was generated by coal (56%) and hydroelectric (34%) plants, with the remainder generated by natural gas and fuel oil.[0] 68% of homes overall, and 84% of homes in urban areas, had electrical service. Electricity had, in the
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Was Modern Art Really a CIA Psy-Op?
The number of MoMA-CIA crossovers is highly suspicious, to say the least.
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System Design: Fan-Out with Twitter
A fan-out system is a method of distributing data to multiple consumers in a highly efficient and scalable manner. One example of a fan-out…
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The prison experience Elizabeth Holmes is desperate to avoid
The US is one of four countries that routinely separates incarcerated mothers from their babies.
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I'm not a passionate developer
A family friend of mine is an airlane pilot. A dream job for most, right? As a child, I certainly thought so. Now that I can have grown-up t...
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It’s time to classify plastics as persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic pollutants
A team of researchers from around the world is urging the international community to recognize the full environmental and health threat of plastics and categorize them as persistent, bio-accumulative and toxic (PBT) pollutants. In a new Viewpoint published in Environmental Science and Technology the researchers argue categorizing plastics, including micro- and nano-sized particles as PBT pollutants would give governments the tools they need to better manage plastic production, use and recycling....
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Extropian Archaeology — Maximum Progress
An Archaeological Dig Through The Extropian Archives Whether you have heard of the Extropians or not, they have influenced you. A group of a few dozen prolific…
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Birth of a Nation
It is impossible to tell how long Saudi Arabia’s Formula 1 course is, where it goes, or how it’s shaped. Whatever’s taking place down below the carving stations…
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On Progress and Historical Change – Ex Urbe
Is progress inevitable? Is it natural? Is it fragile? Is it possible? Is it a problematic concept in the first place? Many people are reexamining these kinds of…
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Gene Wolfe Turned Science Fiction Into High Art
He worked as an engineer developing the technology to make Pringles potato chips before embarking on a prolific writing career. Known as the Melville of science fiction and celebrated for his inventive and challenging work, Wolfe died on April 14 at age 87.
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The Californian Ideology
'Not to lie about the future is impossible and one can lie about it at will' - Naum Gabo
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I’m a Luddite. You Should Be One Too.
once you know what Luddism actually stands for, I bet you will be one too at least much more sympathetic to the Luddite cause than you think.
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The Last Word On Nothing | What We’ve Completely 100% Changed Our Minds About
I’m not sure why I’m interested in what people change their minds about – maybe because I’m at the age where a person looks back and wonders what the hell that…
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The Birth of the Grid
The day must come when electricity will be for everyone, as the waters of the rivers and the wind of heaven. It should not merely be supplied, but lavished, that men may use it at their will, as the air they breathe. - Emile Zola, “Travail”, 1901
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How DC densified - Works in Progress
Washington, DC, has avoided the worst price rises that have plagued many other growing American cities. Arlington’s transit-oriented development might be the reason.
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Who Does Saudi Better: Google or Reddit?
My pre-trip research before arriving in Riyadh was the usual Reddit-Google-TikTok expedition. What’s Saudi Arabia like? and safe + Saudi Arabia + Jewish woman .…
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How “post-rationalism” is reshaping tech culture
Tara Isabella Burton on Silicon Valley’s Endarkenment
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Watching Paint Dry
The unexpectedly interesting story of car coatings and what they tell us about the modern world
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How GitHub Copilot is getting better at understanding your code
With a new Fill-in-the-Middle paradigm, GitHub engineers improved the way GitHub Copilot contextualizes your code. By continuing to develop and test advanced retrieval algorithms, they’re working on making our AI tool even more advanced.
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A Pilgrimage to Ravenna
It feels a bit odd calling my trip to Ravenna a pilgrimage, an antiquated word that implies superstition or the Middle Ages. I’m a Christian, but I’m also living in the 21st century. Planning for this Ravenna trip (excursion? outing? jaunt?) began on the second to last night of our Italy trip. It was such a last minute change to our itinerary and a change made with such conviction (along with some lack of consideration to Alyssa) that the trip didn’t really make much sense.
