Always Interesting: “52 Things I Learned in 2024”
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Just updated the 2024 Kottke Holiday Gift Guide with suggest...
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Fun little word game: Alphaguess. “Guess the word of the day...
Sep 26, 2024 · Assuming you're using binary searching (which is optimal), it takes on average log2(n) steps to find an item in a sorted list of n items. Assuming a word list somewhere between 5,000 and 20,000 words (as a reference Wordle accepts as possible answers something like 10,000-12,000 words), then an optimal search will take 12-14-ish steps, on average.
You can watch the first 8 minutes of Severance season two ri...
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The average brightness of car headlights on US roads has dou...
Dec 5, 2024 · The average brightness of car headlights on US roads has doubled since 2015. “As headlights get brighter, it’s actually becoming harder to see.” I hate the brighter headlights, both on on-coming traffic and on my car (can’t dim the
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Listen to a Performance of Some New Mozart Music
Sep 25, 2024 · Researchers say the music fits stylistically with other works from the 1760s, when Mozart was between the ages of 10 and 13. Ulrich Leisinger, head of research at the foundation, tells Deutsche Presse-Agentur (DPA) that the young composer was no longer creating pieces that sounded like this one by the time he was in his late teens.
Ta-Nehisi Coates & Jon Stewart: Understanding the Humiliation of …
Oct 3, 2024 · I got a lot out of this interview with The Message author Ta-Nehisi Coates by Jon Stewart for The Daily Show.. Best-selling author Ta-Nehisi Coates sits down with Jon Stewart to talk about his latest book, “The Message,” and reconciling past …
Musical Skiers
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A Bluesky starter pack of major news outlets that have joine...
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