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Web Excursions 2023-02-21
A Short History of My Last Six Years On the afternoon of June 18, 2016, I was sitting on the couch engaging in a familiar ritual: looking through my…
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Web Excursions 2023-02-20
Writing Essays With AI: A Guide If you read histories of typewriters, you’ll find that each one of these concerns— too impersonal, not private, too much…
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Web Excursions 2023-02-19
The SEC Comes for Crypto Custody Roughly speaking the way the US stock market works is that all of the stocks are in one place. The place is called DTC…
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Web Excursions 2023-02-18
What Is ChatGPT Doing … and Why Does It Work? My purpose here is to give a rough outline of what’s going on inside ChatGPT— and then to explore why it…
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Web Excursions 2023-02-17
A 600-Mile Quest to Savor the Fading Beauty of Japan’s Traditional Cafes The pizza toast was like liturgy, like an old friend comforting me as I wept…
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Web Excursions 2023-02-16
Netflix’s New Chapter COVID screwed up the timing: everyone being stuck at home re-ignited Netflix subscriber growth, but the underlying challenges…
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Web Excursions 2023-02-15
Why I Hunt for Sidewalk Fossils A paleontologist once told me that city sidewalks hold snapshots. These marks are too recent to pass muster with…
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