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The Great British Converter: From Bytes to Barleycorns

Posted by sebg on Monday September 28, 2026 @04:59PM
from the thegreatbritishconverter.co.uk dept.

https://thegreatbritishconverter.co.uk/

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When your kid starts explaining the math to you

Posted by sebg on Friday September 25, 2026 @09:16AM
from the kidswholovemath.substack.com dept.

https://kidswholovemath.substack.com/p/when-your-kid-starts-explaining-the

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The Cryptopals Crypto Challenges

Posted by sebg on Friday September 25, 2026 @07:53AM
from the cryptopals.com dept.

https://cryptopals.com/

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 670

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:56AM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-670

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An Interactive Introduction to Fourier Transforms

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 24, 2026 @08:11AM
from the jezzamon.com dept.

https://www.jezzamon.com/fourier/index.html

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 669

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 17, 2026 @06:38PM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-669

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The open houses at the edge of disaster

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 17, 2026 @04:04PM
from the heated.world dept.

https://heated.world/p/the-open-houses-at-the-edge-of-disaster

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P-Hacking with Claude

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 17, 2026 @11:24AM
from the vitaexmachina.substack.com dept.

https://vitaexmachina.substack.com/p/p-hacking-with-claude

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From Academia to Alignment

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 17, 2026 @10:40AM
from the millicosm.substack.com dept.

https://millicosm.substack.com/p/from-academia-to-alignment

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Testing low-end, affordable pens

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 17, 2026 @09:18AM
from the sacrideo.us dept.

https://www.sacrideo.us/testing-low-end-affordable-pens/

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 668

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 10, 2026 @09:04AM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-668

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The Beatles: Detecting cultural wordplay in scientific literature using LLMs

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 10, 2026 @08:36AM
from the journals.plos.org dept.

https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0356147%20&utm_campaign=2026-pr&utm_source=pr&utm_medium=eurekalert&utm_content=press-release

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Most of us are writing with AI, but no one likes reading AI writing

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:46AM
from the vitaexmachina.substack.com dept.

https://vitaexmachina.substack.com/p/most-of-us-are-writing-with-ai-but

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Line: Draw a pot profile, design a family of vessels

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:32AM
from the line.klet.app dept.

https://line.klet.app/about/

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I Made a Real Fly Brain Play Pong. It Didn't Learn. That's the Interesting Part

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 10, 2026 @07:15AM
from the jonatasperaza.medium.com dept.

https://jonatasperaza.medium.com/i-made-a-real-fly-brain-play-pong-it-didnt-learn-and-that-s-the-interesting-part-80b8560695fe

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 667

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 03, 2026 @09:28AM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-667

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A brief guide to French polling data

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 03, 2026 @08:13AM
from the maxhalford.github.io dept.

https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/french-polling-data/

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Lab Policy on AI in Writing and Communication

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:33AM
from the cs.columbia.edu dept.

https://www.cs.columbia.edu/~johnhew/lab/ai-policy.html

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People that worked on the same idea for decades

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 03, 2026 @04:31AM
from the nityasnotes.com dept.

https://nityasnotes.com/writing/decades/

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Public to Private Equity in the United States: A Long-Term Look

Posted by sebg on Thursday September 03, 2026 @03:50AM
from the morganstanley.com dept.

https://www.morganstanley.com/content/dam/im/assets/publication/thought-leadership/consilient-observer/articles_publictoprivateequityintheusalongtermlook_us.pdf?1788358608984

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 666

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 27, 2026 @07:10PM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-666

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The Night the Earth Shook, Strangers Started to Draw

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:15PM
from the sheets.works dept.

https://sheets.works/data-viz/strangers-draw-maps

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Running local large language models: not as difficult as you might think

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:13PM
from the vitaexmachina.substack.com dept.

https://vitaexmachina.substack.com/p/running-local-large-language-models

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Why Are Rivers So Mathematical?

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 27, 2026 @06:09PM
from the quantamagazine.org dept.

https://www.quantamagazine.org/why-are-rivers-so-mathematical-20260810/

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Academic Alpha – A (Re)Introduction to Style Premia Investing

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:53AM
from the aqr.com dept.

https://www.aqr.com/Insights/Research/White-Papers/Academic-Alpha

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Problems with Large Tables in Postgres

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 27, 2026 @10:50AM
from the planetscale.com dept.

https://planetscale.com/blog/dealing-with-large-tables-in-postgres

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Report of MIT's Committee on AI Use in Teaching, Learning, and Research Training

Posted by sebg on Tuesday August 25, 2026 @02:29PM
from the aiandeducation.mit.edu dept.

https://aiandeducation.mit.edu/

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Data Science Weekly – Issue 665

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 20, 2026 @07:02PM
from the datascienceweekly.substack.com dept.

https://datascienceweekly.substack.com/p/data-science-weekly-issue-665

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You can't afford that new gadget

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:58PM
from the datawrapper.de dept.

https://www.datawrapper.de/blog/tech-memory-prices

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Protocol-Aware Deterministic Simulation Testing

Posted by sebg on Thursday August 20, 2026 @05:00PM
from the tigerbeetle.com dept.

https://tigerbeetle.com/blog/2026-08-20-protocol-aware-dst/

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