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The Dark Side of the Moomins

newstatesman.com

“I could vomit over Moomintroll,” Tove Jansson confided in her notebook in the late 1950s. A...
“I could vomit over Moomintroll,” Tove Jansson confided in her notebook in the late 1950s. A decade after the hippo-like creature with low self-esteem made his debut appearance in 1945, Scandinavian homes had become versions of Moominvalley, with Moomin-themed aprons, curtains, wallpaper and crockery, while departme...
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How to Start a Conversation

bradwoods.io

Charlie woke up to the same quiet apartment, the same stale morning air, and the same...
Charlie woke up to the same quiet apartment, the same stale morning air, and the same knot in his stomach. He wasn't nervous about work — he was nervous about the elevator ride. Every day, he stepped into the elevator and saw Emma. She lived a few floors above him and they rode down together most mornings. She alway...
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Keystone Pipeline spills estimated 3,500 barrels of crude oil

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By April 10, 2025 / 1:28 PM EDT / CBS News An estimated 3,500 barrels of...
By April 10, 2025 / 1:28 PM EDT / CBS News An estimated 3,500 barrels of crude oil spilled into an agricultural field in North Dakota after a Keystone Pipeline employee heard a "mechanical bang" from the system early Tuesday morning, managing company South Bow said. More than 200 people have been deployed to the sit...

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Facebook is just Craigslist now

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DragonFlyBSD Lands "Next-Gen" Disk Encryption Code

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How I install personal versions of programs on Unix

utoronto.ca
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A Reddit Bot Drove Me Insane

posthuman.blog
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White House proposal would slash NASA science budget and cancel major missions

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Updated 10 p.m. Eastern with additional comments.DENVER — The White House is proposing steep cuts in...
Updated 10 p.m. Eastern with additional comments.DENVER — The White House is proposing steep cuts in NASA’s science program that, if implemented, would cancel several major missions, contradicting claims by the administration’s nominee to lead the agency.A draft of the White House’s budget proposal sent to NASA Apri...
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Nominal Aphasia: Problems in Name Retrieval

serendipstudio.org

It happens to all of us occasionally. As you walk down the hallway you see a...
It happens to all of us occasionally. As you walk down the hallway you see a familiar face—someone you have recently met—you reach into your brain expecting a complicated series of synaptic firing to bring forth the name person in front of you only to be disappointed. Although you know it is there in the recesses of...

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Philip K. Dick: Stanisław Lem Is a Communist Committee

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Saving America, One Boycott at a Time

substack.com

Image generated by AI. Just like the claims by Trump’s administration.Frankly, I wasn’t planning on writing...
Image generated by AI. Just like the claims by Trump’s administration.Frankly, I wasn’t planning on writing this.Actually, I had a pretty solid outline for a deep-dive into industrial decoupling and the sad poetry of semiconductor supply chains. But, as always, America happened.This week, President Trump, channeling...
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Go channels are bad (2016)

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First published: Mar 2, 2016, 8:38am -0700 Last edited: Mar 4, 2019, 10:39am -0700 Update: If...
First published: Mar 2, 2016, 8:38am -0700 Last edited: Mar 4, 2019, 10:39am -0700 Update: If you’re coming to this blog post from a compendium titled “Go is not good,” I want to make it clear that I am ashamed to be on such a list. Go is absolutely the least worst programming language I’ve ever used. At the time I ...
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Numbers and Unicorns

freedommathdance.blogspot.com

Reading a book on philosophy of mathematics, even if it's written lightly, such as that one,...
Reading a book on philosophy of mathematics, even if it's written lightly, such as that one, Why is there philosophy of mathematics at all? by Ian Hacking, may have unexpected effects. The most visible one has been a poll that I submitted on Mastodon on December 4th. As you can read, there were four options: Numbers...
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My imaginary children aren't using your streaming service

shkspr.mobi

Whenever I start up Netflix, I'm asked if I want to create an account for my...
Whenever I start up Netflix, I'm asked if I want to create an account for my children. I don't have children. I don't want children. I find most children annoying - not yours, obviously, yours are lovely. But I resent being asked every single time whether my imaginary kids want an account. It's just annoying. I can'...
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Whenever – typed and DST-safe datetimes for Python

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Betty Webb never spoke about her work, until she had to

economist.com
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Universal basic income: German experiment bring surprising results

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Microgravity 101

sparkgravity.com

Sebastian Gutierrez Published: Apr 10, 2025 Microgravity is the condition where the force of gravity is...
Sebastian Gutierrez Published: Apr 10, 2025 Microgravity is the condition where the force of gravity is not zero, but extremely small. Microgravity is typically between 1 thousandth and 1 millionth of Earth’s gravity. Despite what people say, the International Space Station isn’t in “zero-G”. It’s actually in microg...
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Too many adults are absolutely clueless

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Tesla rival BYD launches five-minute battery in $30k model

the-independent.com

From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when...
From reproductive rights to climate change to Big Tech, The Independent is on the ground when the story is developing. Whether it's investigating the financials of Elon Musk's pro-Trump PAC or producing our latest documentary, 'The A Word', which shines a light on the American women fighting for reproductive rights,...
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Show HN: Chonky – a neural approach for text semantic chunking

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Ask HN: What Problem Would You Solve with Unlimited Time and Money? [Apr 2025]

ycombinator.com
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Cross-Entropy and KL Divergence

thegreenplace.net

April 12, 2025 at 06:54 Tags Math , Machine Learning Cross-entropy is widely used in modern...
April 12, 2025 at 06:54 Tags Math , Machine Learning Cross-entropy is widely used in modern ML to compute the loss for classification tasks. This post is a brief overview of the math behind it and a related concept called Kullback-Leibler (KL) divergence. We'll start with a single event (E) that has probability p. T...
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Show HN: BSE – Semantic Zip Engine for Text, Image and Audio

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