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Technical educator, conference speaker and developer relations engineer based in Ottawa, Canada. Author of the Anubis bot filter and of over 400 articles at xeiaso.net.

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  A network round trip is roughly a million times slower than a filesystem-cache read.

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  Filesystem reads in that case are 10 nanoseconds at most (the filesystem cache helps so much here) but doing any network roundtrip is 10 milliseconds at minimum. It's at least a million times slower because of how reality works.

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Co-founder and CEO of Shopify; long-time Linux user and Omarchy contributor.

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  Rails

  Their words

  All that complexity was in the way and using straight rails was perfect in that case.

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Founding executive editor of Wired and author of What Technology Wants and The Inevitable. Writes at kk.org and runs its long-running recommendation projects, True Films and Cool Tools.

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  The large-scale AI compute buildout may turn out to be a temporary phase rather than a permanent necessity.

  energy

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  The supercomputer inside our own skull runs on about 25 watts, which hints that the minimum energy needed for intelligence might be small - and that the giant, controversial AI compute centers we're building now may turn out to be a temporary blip rather than a permanent feature.

  Without a theory of intelligencekk.org

Chief scientist at Redwood Research, where he works on technical AI safety and AI control.

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  AI guardrails will end up binding only the ordinary person, because the powerful actors they most need to check will simply steamroll them.

  Their words

  the most powerful actors for whom this is the biggest concern if these guard rails or the constitution or whatever is getting in the way that will just get steamrolled and so the constitution will only be you know hitting the everyday man rather than hitting governments.

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Co-CEO of Waymo and a founding member of Google's self-driving car project, which he joined in 2009.

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  The common failure is picking the technology with the fastest early ramp and extrapolating it, when that curve plateaus below what the product needs.

  Their words

  common failure mode is picking the tech that gives you the fastest early ramp, riding that steep curve, feeling like you're winning, projecting that, you know, steep slope into the future and feeling like the sky is the limit, and then hitting the plateau, and discovering that the technology path that you picked actually flattens out way before the performance that is required by your product.

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Professor of psychology at UCLA, where he studies human memory, attention and cognitive ageing, and author of Better with Age: The Psychology of Successful Aging.

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  Picking someone out of a lineup overwrites the memory of the face actually seen, so identification makes a witness more confident and less accurate at the same time.

  Their words

  And as a result of identifying that person in a lineup, that person then replaces what they actually saw. So our memory can be contaminated just like any form of evidence could be contaminated.

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Founder and former CEO of Zynga, the social-games company behind FarmVille, Zynga Poker and Words with Friends; says he founded ten companies in all, and wrote Life at the Speed of Play.

From one piece The hidden pattern behind successful products | Mark Pincus (FarmVille, Words with Friends, & more) 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  The best product CEOs stay in the minutiae: micromanaging pixel-level details is not a failure of leadership but the job itself.

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  And I believe the best product CEOs are in the minutia of the details. you know, all the stories about Steve Jobs. I was so impressed when I heard that he insisted on picking out the carpeting in the conference rooms, you know, and and I tried to have that same mentality of micromanaging the really small pixel level details that matter.

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  The word to kill in "minimum viable product" is viable, because viability is where hope comes from — aim at a maximum launchable product instead.

  Their words

  Minimum viable. that the viable is the the word we got to kill along with hope because viable is where hope comes from, right? If it's viable, it might make it, right?

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Danish software engineer and Microsoft technical fellow, creator of Turbo Pascal and Delphi and lead architect of C# and TypeScript.

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  The internet is already past peak truth, and picking out training data worth learning from will only get harder.

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  I mean, you could argue that we we're already past peak truth on the on the on the internet, right? And now there's there's just more and more garbage every every day. It gets harder and harder to suss out the stuff that you do want to include in the training set in order to actually make something more intelligent.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Contributing to the internet without monetizing it is still the right way to be online, even after the surrounding culture stopped doing it.

  Their words

  Like picking up trash where you walk, even if the rest of the world is full of litter. You keep doing what you can to make things better.

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Mathematician at UCLA, working mainly in harmonic analysis and partial differential equations. Writes What's new, a long-running blog on their research, open problems and expository notes.

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  On any given problem an AI tool succeeds maybe one or two percent of the time; the headline results are what running it at scale and picking the winners looks like.

  Their words

  Uh but whenever we do a systematic study, um any given problem, an AI tool has a success rate of maybe 1 or 2%. Uh it's just that it's just that they can apply at scale and and you just pick the winners, it looks great.

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Founding member of OpenAI and former director of AI at Tesla; creator of nanoGPT and the term "vibe coding".

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  Reinforcement learning leaves models sharply jagged: on the rails of a verifiable domain they are superintelligent, off them everything meanders.

  AI alignment

  Their words

  And so you're kind of like you're either on rails and you're part of the super intelligence circuits or you're not on rails and you're outside of the verifiable domains and suddenly everything kind of just like meanders.

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American social psychologist at NYU Stern School of Business; author of The Happiness Hypothesis, The Righteous Mind and The Anxious Generation.

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  The minimum age for opening a social media account should be 16, because puberty is a sensitive period of brain rewiring that needs protecting.

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  Sixteen is also roughly the age by which a majority of adolescents have completed puberty: a sensitive period of neural reorganization during which it is extremely important to protect the brain.

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Founder of WP Engine and Smart Bear; writes A Smart Bear, long essays on strategy, pricing and how startups actually fail.

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  A cancellation-reason drop-down measures list order rather than reasons: randomise the options and every one of them gets picked equally.

  Their words

  And I realized it was the first one on the list and I thought, huh, I wonder if people are just picking the first one. So then then we randomized the list so everyone saw a different order of the list and now all the items were picked equally

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American author of Liar's Poker, Moneyball, The Big Short and The Undoing Project, and host of the podcast Against the Rules.

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  You never call a source uninformed: you call knowing everything already known, and then ask for what has not been said.

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  You don't call uninformed. You call knowing as much as there is to know and then you start picking the brains of people who might know more and have not said.

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Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

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  Lavish feedback wrapped around no real problem is shallow entertainment at best and exploitation at worst.

  Their words

  At minimum you’re making shallow entertainment. At worst, you are building exploitative entertainment.

  Game design is simple, actuallyraphkoster.com

Co-founder and chief executive of Figma, the collaborative design platform he started in 2012 and took public in 2025.

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  A minimum viable product is not enough: the first release still has to contain something a little bit awesome that shows people where it is going.

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  I think it's not enough to have the MVP. You got to have something that's a little bit awesome at least.

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Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

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  The Open Banking fight is not about data but about whether banks may charge for economic activity on payment rails they do not operate.

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  Almost all discussions of it center on “data”, but it’s actually a fight about payments, and whether banks have a right to monopolize and charge for all economic activity their users engage in, irrespective of whether the bank operates the payment method.

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Co-founder and CEO of Google DeepMind, and a 2024 Nobel laureate in Chemistry for the protein-structure work behind AlphaFold.

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  Coming up with a good conjecture is harder than solving one, and that taste for the right question is what separates great scientists from good ones.

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  So picking the right question is the hardest part of science and making the right hypothesis. And that's what today's systems definitely they can't do. So I often say it's harder to come up with a conjecture, a really good conjecture than it is to solve it.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  The Rails doctrine's 'progress over stability' is the one point that dated: churn is not progress, and stability turned out to be worth more.

  JavaScript

  On changing their mind

  I used to think it required more churn to get progress to stay on the leading edge of new stuff. And I wrote this before I experienced the indignity of the 2010s in the JavaScript community.

Development economist; writes Global Developments, on growth, history and the numbers behind them.

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  Without a stock of trained administrators no development strategy of any kind can even begin, whichever theory of growth you hold.

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  The fact remains that without a stock of capable administrators, industrial policy and export targeting and infrastructure-building—or even Adam Smith’s minimum of “peace, easy taxes, and a tolerable administration of justice”—are a nonstarter.

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Historian at Stanford and the Hoover Institution; wrote Milton Friedman: The Last Conservative and Goddess of the Market, on Ayn Rand.

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  Friedman's universal minimum income went nowhere precisely because it was pure and free of moral judgment, which made it beautiful and politically impossible.

  Their words

  And Friedman advanced a policy that was really abstract and really it was devoid of judgment. It was pure and beautiful in that way but utterly impractical.

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Co-founder of WordPress and founder of Automattic; blogs at ma.tt.

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  An open source project’s trademarks must be defended, and that defence is separate from the software’s licence.

  open source

  Their words

  Trademarks must be protected, as evidenced by Rails trademark policy.

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Creator of Ruby on Rails, CTO of 37signals, and creator of Omarchy.

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  Ruby on Rails took off because its creator evangelized it by arguing its superiority against the competing alternatives.

  Ruby on Rails

  On changing their mind

  And for a long time, I thought that's what had worked. That this was why Ruby on Rails took off, became one of the most popular full-stack web frameworks of all time, inspired countless clones, and created hundreds of billions in enterprise value for companies built on it. But I was wrong. It wasn't the crusade that did it.

Founder and chief executive of Pershing Square Capital Management, the activist investment firm he started in 2004.

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  Universities would be better run by business leaders than by academics the faculty approves of.

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  I would argue having a business leader run these institutions and then having a board that has, itself, diverse viewpoints, and by the way, permanently structured to have diverse viewpoints is a much better way to run a university than picking an academic that the faculty supports.

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General partner at Andreessen Horowitz and author of The Cold Start Problem. Previously led rider growth teams at Uber; has blogged on growth, network effects and marketplaces since 2007.

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  Superintelligence

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  the back half I think it goes off the rails and makes a ton of assumptions

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Economist; former chief economist of the International Monetary Fund.

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  When safe interest rates are expected to remain below growth rates for a long time, rolling over public debt without later tax increases is feasible and public debt may carry no fiscal cost.

  public debtinterest rates

  Their words, before

  If the future is like the past, this implies that debt rollovers—that is, the issuance of debt without a subsequent increase in taxes—may well be feasible. Put bluntly, public debt may have no fiscal cost.

  Their words now

  Across advanced economies, the celebrated ( r - g ), i.e., the difference between the interest rate and the growth rate, appears to have durably changed sign or, at a minimum, to have gone from a substantially negative number to a number closer to zero.

First Amendment lawyer and former federal prosecutor; writes The Popehat Report and explains what the law actually says when people shout about free speech.

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  A threat loses First Amendment protection only if the speaker was at least reckless about it being taken as a threat.

  government

  Their words

  Now, finally, the Court has resolved the question: the First Amendment requires that, at a minimum, the government prove that a speaker was reckless about whether their statement would be interpreted as threatening.

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Medicinal chemist; has written In the Pipeline, the drug-discovery blog, since 2002, and the “Things I Won’t Work With” posts about chemicals that try to kill you.

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  No AI system today reduces either of the two risks that sink most drugs in the clinic: picking the wrong target, and human toxicity.

  Their words

  There are no existing AI/ML systems that mitigate clinical failure risks due to target choice or toxicology.

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Experimental psychologist and author of the blog Experimental History, on psychology, science reform and creativity.

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  Large replication projects answer the wrong question, because most individual studies do not matter either way.

  Their words

  There’s no point in picking some studies that are convenient to replicate, doing ‘em over, and reporting “only 36% of them replicate!”

  Science is a strong-link problemexperimental-history.com

Psychologist and science writer; wrote Science Fictions on how research goes wrong, and writes the newsletter of the same name.

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  A scientific paper should not be built around a take-home message, because that invites cherry-picking and hiding the results that did not fit.

  Their words

  This, as was noted on Twitter, is a recipe for bad studies: it encourages the cherry-picking of results that went your way and the hiding of those that didn’t.

  Science isn't storytellingsciencefictions.org

Biochemist at University College London; writes about the origin of life and the role of energy in evolution, in The Vital Question and Transformer.

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  Sex is not an option but a requirement: a large genome cannot be maintained by picking up loose DNA, so eukaryotes were forced into it.

  Their words

  If you’ve got a small genome, the chances of you picking up the right bit of DNA from the environment is much higher than if you’ve got a genome of 20,000 genes. To do that, you’ve effectively got to be picking up DNA all the time, all day long and nothing else, and you’re still going to get the wrong DNA. You’ve got to pick up large chunks, and in the end, you’ve got to line them up, you’re forced into sex, to coin a phrase.

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Co-founder and CTO of Honeycomb; previously an infrastructure engineer at Parse, Facebook and Linden Lab, and co-author of Observability Engineering.

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  A sustainable on-call rotation needs seven or eight engineers.

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  The ideal on-call rotation has seven to eight people; five people is a bare minimum.

  Why On-Call Pain Is A Sociotechnical Problemcharity.wtf

Founder and CEO of Get Lighthouse, a management-coaching software company, and previously a product lead at KISSmetrics. Writes about leadership, management and product at jasonevanish.com.

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  Economics in One Lesson

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  This economics thought experiment is a classic book originally written in 1946. Like most books that follow Nassim Taleb's "all books worth reading are at least 20 years old" rule, it has timeless lessons throughout. It tackles all kinds of ongoing political/economic concepts like rent control, minimum wage, tariffs, "saving industries", and more.

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Co-founder, chairman and chief investment officer of Ritholtz Wealth Management. Hosts the Masters in Business podcast for Bloomberg and wrote How NOT to Invest.

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  Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life

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  Alan B. Krueger, Rockonomics: A Backstage Tour of What the Music Industry Can Teach Us about Economics and Life: From the economist who revealed the secrets of the minimum wage comes this look at the economics of the music industry. Its disruptions by technology to economics of songwriting and concert tours, the music industry offers important financial lessons. Kreuger, an economic rock star himself (he was former chairman of the president’s Council of Economic Advisers) left us far too soon.

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Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  OpenBSD

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  But if you’re experienced, like to “look under the hood”, and prefer software that does the minimum necessary, OpenBSD is for you.

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London-based front-end architect, web developer evangelist and cloud consultant; Microsoft MVP. Writes at praveen.science and answers on Stack Overflow.

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  Fanny

  Their words

  Fanny (macOS Specific) is a free Notification Center Widget and Menu Bar application to monitor your Macs fans. Allows me to know the speed of my fans and heat generated by the CPU, so that I can make sure I keep my apps to a minimum and get the maximum performance.

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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  Quantum Mechanics: The Theoretical Minimum

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  If you want to make the step from popular science literature to textbooks and the general scientific literature, then this book series is a must-read.

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Physicist and science communicator. Writes Backreaction and makes videos explaining new physics and astronomy results, frequently to argue that the headline about them overstates the case.

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  The Theoretical Minimum: What You Need to Know to Start Doing Physics

  Their words

  Susskind made his lecture notes into a book and did a great job.

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Cyborg anthropologist and UX designer; author of Calm Technology and co-founder of the geolocation startup Geoloqi.

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  EyeFi Connect 4G

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  When I get home all of my documents automatically upload to Flickr on private mode, so that I can choose which ones to reveal or delete with a minimum of work. I use an EyeFi Connect 4G SD card for this.

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Writer on the intersection of technology and finance. Author of the Bits about Money newsletter and host of the Complex Systems podcast; previously at Stripe.

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  Which language or stack an engineer knows barely matters, because a good engineer picks up a new one in weeks.

  Their words

  In the real world, picking up a new language takes a few weeks of effort and after 6 to 12 months nobody will ever notice you haven’t been doing that one for your entire career.

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