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Improve Your Heart Rate Training Zones With The Karvonen FormulaHow to use the Karvonen heart rate formula to improve training zones. A comparison with the percent maximum HR method. 2021-01-27T01:16:14-0800 Training 4 Endurance training4endurance 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-30T18:31:23-0800 - sethherr |
Joco almost died at launch. Now, it's a lifeline for e-bike delivery riders — and a profitable businessOn a September morning in 2024, two Jonathan Cohens — one from the Rockaways in Queens, the other from London — stood in an empty 15,000-square-foot 2024-11-30T07:00:00-0800 TechCrunch Rebecca Bellan 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-29T07:06:32-0800 - sethherr |
PlasticListData on plastic chemicals in Bay Area foods PlasticList 10,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T21:18:11-0800 - sethherr |
The torture of an unphilosophical life2024-12-25T16:03:27-0800 UnHerd Agnes Callard 5,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T08:14:51-0800 - sethherr |
Billionaire Daniel Ek Shuts Down Spotify Unwrapped CalculatorMulti-billionaire Daniel Ek has shut down the Spotify Unwrapped calculator that showcased how little the DSP pays to artists. 2024-12-23T16:45:10-0800 Digital Music News Ashley King 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T07:47:38-0800 - sethherr |
Hospitals Gave Them Meds During Childbirth. Why Did Patients Get In Trouble?Mothers were reported after they were given medications used routinely for pain or in epidurals, to reduce anxiety or to manage blood pressure during cesarean sections. #Doctors #Health Care #Indiana #Pennsylvania #Texas 2024-12-11T03:00:00-0800 The Marshall Project Shoshana Walter 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-28T07:37:30-0800 - sethherr |
BatteriesI am a simple enthusiast attempting to convey my love and enjoyment of radio, electronics, and computing and perhaps to inspire YOU to build something too. hanssummers.com Hans Summers 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-27T19:22:51-0800 - sethherr |
Seconds Since the EpochRated 2024-12-26T12:52:52-0800 - sethherr |
When to Start Sleep TrainingI’m answering all of your questions about sleep training: what is sleep training, when to start sleep training, how long does sleep training take, and more! Taking Cara Babies 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-26T07:32:54-0800 - l_wals773 |
Berkeley's Evolution On HousingTo understand and appreciate Adena Ishii's victory, it's important to understand how Berkeley got to this point and what the election really means vs. the bombastic headlines. 2024-12-23T13:56:36-0800 The Discourse Lounge Darrell Owens 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-25T11:23:27-0800 - sethherr |
Huge math error corrected in black plastic study; authors say it doesn’t matterCorrection issued for black plastic study that had people tossing spatulas. 2024-12-16T14:23:34-0800 Ars Technica Beth Mole 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-20T21:01:32-0800 - sethherr |
Introducing Governing San FranciscoCampaigns are marketing and sales. Governing is the product. 2024-11-12T10:24:13-0800 Governing San Francisco Zack Rosen 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-19T19:31:09-0800 - sethherr |
Alignment faking in large language modelsA paper from Anthropic's Alignment Science team on Alignment Faking in AI large language models anthropic.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-19T19:01:38-0800 - sethherr |
Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 2In the previous post, I covered my motivations for improving ruby/json’s performance, and detailed the first 4 notable optimizations applied to speed up JSON generation. 2024-12-18T08:05:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-18T19:12:01-0800 - sethherr |
Optimizing Ruby’s JSON, Part 1I was recently made maintainer of the json gem, and aside from fixing some old bugs, I focused quite a bit on its performance, so that it is now the fastest JSON parser and generator for Ruby on most benchmarks. 2024-12-15T11:19:51-0800 byroot’s blog 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-18T19:04:49-0800 - sethherr |
The Illusion of Miles Per Gallon2008-06-20T07:21:45-0700 Wheels Blog Richard S. Chang 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-17T21:05:48-0800 - sethherr |
DroppingsRated 2024-12-17T21:04:11-0800 - sethherr |
The art of a Russian joke: anekdoty about Putin and the warCollection of recent Russian jokes about Putin and the war in Ukraine 2024-11-13T09:20:35-0800 Tap Water Sommelier Konstantin Asimonov 1,000 words Rated 2024-12-17T20:58:12-0800 - sethherr |
On blankfacesFor years, I've had a private term I've used with my family. To give a few examples of its use: No, I never applied for that grant. I spent two hours struggling to log in to a web portal designed by the world's top blankfaces until I finally gave up in despair. No, I paid… 2021-08-02T13:30:48-0700 Shtetl-Optimized 20,000 words Rated 2024-12-17T20:52:01-0800 - sethherr |
Chip Cities Rise in Japan’s Fields of DreamsThe scale of Tokyo’s ambition creates the risk of spectacular failure, but so too does succumbing to decline in a sector the nation once dominated. #City #Government #Infrastructure #Japan 2024-12-11T12:00:02-0800 Bloomberg Gearoid Reidy 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-17T19:40:14-0800 - sethherr |
Scores for Adults Are Dropping on Tests of Basic SkillsAs with kids' test scores, a crucial question is the role of knowledge 2024-12-15T15:42:57-0800 Minding the Gap Natalie Wexler 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-15T20:40:46-0800 - sethherr |
Opinion | My 500-Mile Journey Across Alaska’s Thawing ArcticI had read about how the rapid warming of the Arctic was upending the landscape and its people. Now I’ve seen it. #Climate Change #Global Warming #Weather #Wildfire 2024-12-15T06:00:13-0800 The New York Times Jon Waterman ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-15T07:06:43-0800 - sethherr |
Maximizing the Expected Value of a Lottery Ticket: How to Sell and When to Buy | CHANCEAllen Kim and Steven Skiena With players attracted by the potential winnings from enormous lottery pools, multistate lotteries like Mega Millions and Powerball sell tens to hundreds of millions of tickets each week across the United States. Larger lottery pools attract more sales, but the expected value of a particular lottery ticket is a function ... chance.amstat.org 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-15T00:46:49-0800 - sethherr |
OpenAI whistleblower found dead in San Francisco apartmentA former OpenAI researcher who raised concerns about the company is dead at 26. #Artificial Intelligence #Lawsuit #Technology 2024-12-13T13:12:51-0800 The Mercury News Jakob Rodgers 2,000 words Rated 2024-12-13T22:41:55-0800 - sethherr |
Opinion | What One Russian Satellite Tells Us About the Future of Nuclear WarfareNo shockwave. No mushroom cloud. But a space nuke would change life on Earth forever. 2024-12-04T22:00:01-0800 The New York Times W.J. Hennigan 4,000 words Rated 2024-12-06T06:31:51-0800 - sethherr |
Start PageRated 2024-12-03T16:52:31-0800 - sethherr |
How Murderbot Saved Martha Wells' LifeMartha Wells created one of the most iconic characters in 21st-century science fiction: Murderbot, reluctant savior of humanity. Then she faced an existential threat of her own. #Books #Culture #Robots #Texas 2024-11-26T03:00:00-0800 WIRED Meghan Herbst 3,000 words Rated 2024-12-02T22:06:48-0800 - sethherr |
In the Rockets’ Red Glare, by Rachel KushnerThe past and future of hot-rodding in America #California #Donald Trump #Religion 2024-10-23T10:05:45-0700 Harper's Magazine 200 words Rated 2024-11-30T15:00:30-0800 - sethherr |
M.I.T. Aluminum Bicycle Project 19741974 MIT Aluminum Bicycle Project, we describe some of Marc’s design, the frames he and Harriet built in Shawn Buckleys IAP course, and how these played a role in the Klein vs. Cannondale patent litigation in the mid-1980s. sheldonbrown.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-27T19:05:45-0800 - sethherr |
The AI Reporter That Took My Old Job Just Got FiredA local newspaper in Hawaii experimented with AI-generated presenters to engage and boost its readership. After two months, the bots have been shelved. #Artificial Intelligence #Business #Media 2024-11-21T02:00:00-0800 WIRED Guthrie Scrimgeour 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-26T16:29:42-0800 - sethherr |
Donald Trump Has NOT Won a Majority of the Votes Cast for PresidentDonald Trump’s popular vote total has fallen below 50 percent, and his margin over Kamala Harris has narrowed considerably as all the votes are counted. 2024-11-19T07:17:53-0800 The Nation John Nichols ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-24T17:59:53-0800 - sethherr |
Why Americans Are Obsessed With Poor PostureA recent history of the 20th-century movement to fix slouching questions the moral and political dimensions of addressing bad backs over wider public health concerns. 2024-11-20T02:00:00-0800 The Nation Zoe Adams ($) 3,000 words Rated 2024-11-24T17:58:20-0800 - sethherr |
FBI raids home of Polymarket CEO Shayne CoplanThe prediction market gained mainstream attention during the recent presidential election. 2024-11-13T13:02:08-0800 Axios Dan Primack 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-20T20:17:44-0800 - sethherr |
Maybe Bluesky has “won”November has sucked so far. One upside of the terrible nonsense is that more people are fleeing X. Many are choosing Bluesky. I’ve seen a bunch of takes about this recently, but I keep seeing things I disagree with. I figure that’s a good enough excuse to write more about this weird-assed social network. 2024-11-15T11:36:51-0800 Gavin Anderegg 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-15T19:38:56-0800 - sethherr |
The Anti-Fluoride Movement Vaults Into the MainstreamWith the nomination of Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as health secretary, a formerly fringe opinion suddenly gets wide attention. #Cold War #Long Island #Water 2024-11-15T00:00:24-0800 The New York Times Joseph Goldstein ($) 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-15T05:22:24-0800 - sethherr |
Something weird is happening with LLMs and chessare they good or bad? 2024-11-13T16:00:00-0800 DYNOMIGHT dynomight 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-15T00:42:06-0800 - sethherr |
New Apple security feature reboots iPhones after 3 days, researchers confirm“Inactivity reboot" effectively puts iPhones in a more secure state by locking the user's encryption keys in the iPhone's secure enclave chip. #Apple #Law Enforcement #Privacy 2024-11-14T09:13:31-0800 TechCrunch Lorenzo Franceschi-Bicchierai 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-15T00:31:37-0800 - sethherr |
RHRV Quick Start Tutorialcran.r-project.org RHRV Team 3,000 words Rated 2024-11-13T08:30:37-0800 - sethherr |
Sleep stage detection using only heart rateGetting enough quality sleep plays a vital role in protecting our mental health, physical health, and quality of life. Sleep deprivation can make it difficult to concentrate on daily activities, and lower sleep quality is associated with hypertension, hyperglycemia, and hyperlipidemia. The amount of … PubMed 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-13T08:30:08-0800 - sethherr |
Meta’s Broken PromisesThe 51-page report, “Meta’s Broken Promises: Systemic Censorship of Palestine Content on Instagram and Facebook,” documents a pattern of undue removal and suppression of protected speech including peaceful expression in support of Palestine and public debate about Palestinian human rights. Human Rights Watch found that the problem stems from flawed Meta policies and their inconsistent and erroneous implementation, overreliance on automated tools to moderate content, and undue government... 2023-12-21T18:30:08-0800 Human Rights Watch 15,000 words Rated 2024-11-13T08:17:50-0800 - sethherr |
No, intelligence is not like height... and the reason is one of the most interesting findings from modern behavioral genetics 2024-08-26T14:05:53-0700 The Infinitesimal Sasha Gusev 4,000 words Rated 2024-11-12T12:39:45-0800 - sethherr |
When muscles work out, they help neurons to grow, a new study showsExercise can have benefits at the level of neurons, through chemical and mechanical effects, MIT researchers find. The discovery could inform exercise-related therapies for repairing damaged and deteriorating nerves. MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-12T11:32:17-0800 - sethherr |
How I ship projects at big tech companiesWhat I think about when I'm lead engineer on a project seangoedecke.com 2,000 words Rated 2024-11-12T06:46:26-0800 - sethherr |
Ambulance hits Oregon cyclist, rushes him to hospital, then sticks him with $1,800 bill, lawsuit saysRated 2024-11-07T19:26:46-0800 - sethherr |
How to match Hashes in RSpec like a pro | Timur's BlogA cool undocumented feature that allows using matchers in hashes. 2022-09-21T17:00:00-0700 Timur Nugmanov 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-07T14:36:59-0800 - sethherr |
From prison companies to Tesla: These stocks are soaring off the Trump victoryFormer President Donald Trump’s projected return to the White House is making many shareholders of publicly traded companies richer by the second. 2024-11-06T12:34:30-0800 lite.cnn.com Elisabeth Buchwald ($) 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-06T15:06:44-0800 - sethherr |
Hacker Fab Documentation | Hacker Fabthe first open-source semiconductor fab. docs.hackerfab.org 500 words Rated 2024-11-05T17:54:44-0800 - sethherr |
Forest Service Halts Prescribed Burns in California. Is It Worth the Risk? | KQEDPausing the beneficial burns to keep crews available for wildfires merely delays and exacerbates fire risk to communities, critics say. 2024-10-24T15:28:46-0700 kqed.org Danielle Venton 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-05T06:13:17-0800 - sethherr |
US Forest Service Decision to Halt Prescribed Burns in California is History RepeatingExploring the consequences of ending prescribed burns in California. Discover the importance of understanding the state's forest management practices. 2024-10-28T13:19:53-0700 Center for Economic and Policy Research CEPR 1,000 words Rated 2024-11-05T06:09:08-0800 - sethherr |
The Tight-Knit World of Kamala Harris’s College SororityHow are members of A.K.A.—which Harris joined at Howard University—responding to their most famous sister’s Presidential campaign against Donald Trump? Jazmine Hughes reports. 2024-10-21T03:00:00-0700 The New Yorker Jazmine Hughes 6,000 words Rated 2024-11-03T19:57:14-0800 - sethherr |