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Technology writer of Spyglass, a newsletter about technology and media. Previously a reporter at TechCrunch and an investor at GV.

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  Every digital service should present a single unified interface rather than multiple separate entry points.

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  It seems fine to keep coding in a separate area, obviously, but in general, we should have one box per service!

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CEO of Vercel; creator of Next.js and Socket.IO. Writes at rauchg.com.

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  Compute platforms are converging toward one unified, globally distributed system limited only by physics.

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  The future is one global and unified compute platform, with only known physics as the limiting factor

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Criminal defence lawyer in New York; writes Simple Justice, mostly about how criminal law works in practice rather than in theory.

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  Killing suspected drug smugglers at sea without trial is murder, because smuggling is not a capital offence.

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  Even if it turned out that they were drug smugglers, as claimed, and even if it turned out that they were bringing drugs to the United States, a dubious proposition, the penalty for smuggling drugs is not summary execution.

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Statistician at Carnegie Mellon; writes on complex systems, machine learning and inference, and has kept a books-read notebook since 2000 that is now thousands of entries long.

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  The Doxies Penalty

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  Mind candy: continuing Robins's series of historical mysteries set in a very-slightly-alternate Regency London. (I re-read the last one, Sleeping Partner, before turning to this.) Robins continues to be great and I hope that many more of these will flow from her pen.

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

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  The meme that programmers no longer need to be competent is a trap: the path is competence, and AI does not change that.

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  it's a luxury good like you're not paying the penalty for that the people who embrace it and think that they can just ask AI for everything or they can just look everything up but they don't have to understand the copy pasta that they slam into their project they're the ones who going to suffer

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  Where I get fired up, and this ties back to the AI discussion, is when that's turned into this meme, that programmers no longer have to be competent. I mean the AI is gonna figure it out. The generators is gonna figure it out. I don't need to know SQL, active record is gonna abstract it away from me. No, no, no dude, hold up. The path here is competence.

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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  Physics will be unified again as it has been before; the obstacle is that relativity and quantum mechanics already explain almost everything we can measure.

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  But I have faith that we've been doing this for centuries and we've made progress before. There's no reason why we should stop.

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Theoretical physicist and philosopher, Homewood Professor of Natural Philosophy at Johns Hopkins and fractal faculty at the Santa Fe Institute. Writes the Preposterous Universe blog and hosts the Mindscape podcast.

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  The singularity of a black hole is not a place at its centre but a moment in your future: falling in, you run out of time rather than out of room.

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  Remember space and time are parts of one unified space-time, the location of the singularity in the black hole is not the middle of space, but our future. It is a moment of time. It is like a big crunch.

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Structural engineer and senior infrastructure fellow at the Institute for Progress; writes Construction Physics on why physical things cost what they cost.

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  Builders reject new building systems rationally: a change to the process raises the odds of a catastrophic overrun by more than the innovation can save.

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  A new or innovative system that involves changes to the process thus incurs a significant risk penalty that would likely exceed the expected benefits of the innovation.

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American backpacking guide, writer and endurance athlete who has hiked more than 30,000 miles; author of The Ultimate Hiker's Gear Guide and publisher of gear reviews and trip-planning tutorials at andrewskurka.com.

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  Somewear Global Hotspot

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  Conclusion: If you expect to regularly carry the device but not a smartphone, which is the case with very few people, the inReach is the better option. Otherwise, the Somewear is more attractive: its seamless messaging and cost-savings more than offset the 0.5-ounce weight penalty and its slightly larger size.

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Mathematician and maker of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel, which explains mathematics through animation. Creator of the open-source Manim animation library and founder of the Summer of Math Exposition.

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  Vector Calculus, Linear Algebra, and Differential Forms: A Unified Approach

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  This is what I wish I learned from in my freshman year of college. The part of it about linear algebra is one of the best linear algebra resources out there, and remainder shows you how those tools apply to non-linear mathematics.

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Writer and developer; runs Waxy.org, co-organises the XOXO festival, and was the first CTO of Kickstarter.

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  Google Colab

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  spending an increasing amount of my free time working with tools like Google Colab, Runway ML, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face to play around with machine-generated text, audio, imagery, and video.

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