The Man from the Future: Why Johnny Can't Stop Abstracting
I have come to suspect that to most people thinking is painful. Some of us are addicted to thinking. Some of us find it a necessity. Johnny ...
visualising data structures and algorithms through animation - VisuAlgo
VisuAlgo was conceptualised in 2011 by Associate Professor Steven Halim (NUS School of Computing) as a tool to help his students better understand data structures and algorithms, by allowing them to learn the basics on their own and at their own pace. Together with his students from the National University of Singapore, a series of visualizations were developed and consolidated, from simple sorting algorithms to complex graph data structures. Though specifically designed for the use of NUS students taking various data structure and algorithm classes (CS1010/equivalent, CS2040/equivalent (inclusive of IT5003)), CS3230, CS3233, and CS4234), as advocators of online learning, we hope that curious minds around the world will find these visualizations useful as well.
E. coli chemotaxis: the baffling intelligence of a single cell
I want to tell the story of a beautiful phenomenon in biology. In some sense it’s the prototype of much of the activity of life. The phenomenon is the way in which an individual cell of E. coli forages for nutrients. This process, known as “chemotaxis”—the “chemo-” for chemical and the “taxis” from the Greek τάξις, for tactics—is intelligence in one of its most elemental forms. An individual E. coli has no brain, obviously, and is even many orders of magnitude simpler than a human cell, and yet already it possesses something like a sense of smell, drive, even a memory. Chemotaxis recasts E. coli not as some aimless gut-pest but rather as an exquisitely sophisticated physical computer.
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What do Visa and Mastercard do? An intro to card networks @ tautology.town
tautology.town is a blog that contains tautologies.
Meet Pebble Index 01 - External Memory For Your Brain
Catch your best ideas before they slip through your fingers Do you ever have flashes of insight or an idea worth remembering? This happens to me 5 10 times e...
I Know What You Think of Me
Hearing other people’s uncensored opinions of you is an unpleasant reminder that you’re just another person in the world.
A Star Investor's Tale of Risk, Ruin & Reinvention w/ Victor Haghani (RWH071)
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Compression is prediction | ngrok blog
Compression and LLMs are trying to solve the exact same problem: predicting what comes next. Learn the fundamentals of compression and how better prediction leads to better shrinkage.
epistemic garden - mapping how ideas spread online
We're building tools to help communities understand their information landscape and protect against harmful coordinated narratives.
🤏 Making my tiny e-reader practical: a guide to the Xteink X4
The tools and configs I use with my Xteink X4.
Jake Lazaroff — Building more resilient local-first software with atproto
Saturation: How Your Software Will Fail at Scale - Lorin Hochstein | SSW 2026
DuckLake Architecture Deep Dive
DuckLake is a next generation data lakehouse and open table format. It is significantly simpler and faster than Apache Iceberg or Delta Lake because it uses a SQL database for storing the catalog and metadata. This post covers an architecture deep dive with a detailed Q&A section. DuckLake consists of 3 components: storage, catalog, and compute. Each can be scaled independently, hosted locally with ease, and deployed to the cloud for production. MotherDuck offers managed DuckLake lakehouses for additional simplicity and performance.
Panel: Biodesign x AI: Interactions in the Algorithmic Wet Lab
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