Always Interesting: “52 Things I Learned in 2024”
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Fun little word game: Alphaguess. “Guess the word of the day...
Sep 26, 2024 · Assuming you're using binary searching (which is optimal), it takes on average log2(n) steps to find an item in a sorted list of n items. Assuming a word list somewhere between 5,000 and 20,000 words (as a reference Wordle accepts as possible answers something like 10,000-12,000 words), then an optimal search will take 12-14-ish steps, on average.
Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List for 2024, “We’ve aske...
Dec 4, 2024 · Bloomberg Businessweek’s Jealousy List for 2024, “We’ve asked our editors & contributors to identify that one story in 2024 that filled them with the kind of indescribable resentment that theologians once thought was a dangerous gateway
No One Has to Settle for Bad Pizza Anymore. “Violinists have...
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Season Two of Silo
Oct 15, 2024 · The trailer for season two of Silo, which starts on Apple TV+ on November 15. It doesn’t reveal much but I am excited to watch the new season! (No spoilers please from folks who have read the books.) These solidly middlebrow shows like Silo, The
Listen to a Performance of Some New Mozart Music
Sep 25, 2024 · Researchers say the music fits stylistically with other works from the 1760s, when Mozart was between the ages of 10 and 13. Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the foundation, tells Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that the young composer was no longer creating pieces that sounded like this one by the time he was in his late teens.
Indivisible: A Practical Guide to Democracy on the Brink. “T...
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From the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF): Surveillance...
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Ta-Nehisi Coates & Jon Stewart: Understanding the Humiliation of …
Oct 3, 2024 · I got a lot out of this interview with The Message author Ta-Nehisi Coates by Jon Stewart for The Daily Show.. Best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates sits down with Jon Stewart to talk about his latest book, “The Message,” and reconciling past …
A universal “Plug and Charge” framework for EV charging is r...
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