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This newsletter was started ~2 yrs ago for trying out Substack and practicing my vim skill. Now that I’ve become familiar with both it’s time to save…
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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哪款字体代表了中华美食的刻板印象？ Chop Suey 并不是某一款字体的名字，而是一道美式中餐，由于总是与一种特定风格的字体一起出现，久而久之，也变成了一种特定字体风格的指代。 它代表了从 20 世纪 20 年代美国西海岸开始传播至世界其他地区对中餐，乃至东亚文化的某种视觉印象。…
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The Technology Behind GitHub’s New Code Search we built our own search engine from scratch, in Rust, specifically for the domain of code search. We call…
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How Darknet Markets Fought for Users After Hydra’s Collapse 2022 saw a decline in revenue from the previous year for darknet markets and fraud shops…
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ChatGPT Is a Blurry JPEG of the Web Xerox photocopiers use a lossy compression format known as JBIG2, designed for use with black-and-white images. To…
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