One way that first principles thinking fails is when you build your analysis up from a deficient set of base principles. Everything is correct and true, but you still end up mistaken. Here's how that looks like in practice.

The world is full of gatekeepers who think they have veto rights. Don’t believe them. Pitbull got it right when he said "Ask for money, get advice. Ask for advice, get money twice."

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How I Trained Neural Networks with Brainwave Data from a Children’s Toy.

Air Quality Monitors Compared: AirGradient vs Airthings

“Although Abel shared with many mathematicians a complete lack of musical talent, I will not sound absurd if I compare his kind of productivity and his personality with Mozart’s.” — Felix Klein

This article is about how programming for CP/M, usng a 40-year-old C compiler, differs from modern C development, even for console applications.

A short guide on OCaml type checker, describing the surprisingly elegant algorithm for generalization, which generalizes to first-class polymorphism, MLF and local types. Polymorphism and regions have much in common.

Celebrated actor and star of Plein Soleil and Le Samouraï has died, his children have said

Select, put and delete data from JSON, TOML, YAML, XML, INI, HCL and CSV files with a single tool. Also available as a go mod. - TomWright/dasel

To understand how the Nord Stream pipeline attack in September 2022 might have occurred, German public broadcaster ARD chartered the very yacht the perpetrators allegedly used and sent divers into the roiling waters of the Baltic Sea.

Satellite named Tyche to support armed forces operations as well as monitor natural disasters and impact of climate change

The Communications Workers of America, the union representing the striking employees, has accused AT&T of not bargaining "in good faith" during recent contract negotiations.

Growing up as a kid in rural Bavaria, I always …

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Many courts have ruled that law enforcement can hold your property for as long as they want. D.C.’s high court decided that’s unconstitutional.

Surveillance Watch is an interactive map revealing the intricate connections between surveillance companies, their funding sources and affiliations.