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dale lane

Flink SQL examples with click tracking events - In this post, I introduce a few core Flink SQL functions using worked examples of processing a stream of click tracking events from a retail website. I fin...
1 hour ago
Why Evolution Is True

Should there be even more curbs on free speech? - Reader Gingerbaker called my attention to a Substack post by Elder of Ziyon (henceforth “EoZ”), who also has an extensive and useful pro-Israel website I’v...
2 hours ago
Bits and Behavior - Medium

Five years of justice-centered secondary CS teacher education - [image: Eight people standing and looking down at a desk with a very small battery powered robot; smiles abound, and a snack cart in the background.]Eight ...
2 hours ago
Schneier on Security

Corrupting LLMs Through Weird Generalizations - Fascinating research: Weird Generalization and Inductive Backdoors: New Ways to Corrupt LLMs. *Abstract*LLMs are useful because they generalize so well. ...
6 hours ago
Interdependent Thoughts

Koppermaandag and Artisanal Knowledge Work - Het is Koppermaandag! Vanuit mijn perspectief op kenniswerk sluit ik me vandaag eens aan bij die lange traditie. Shout-out naar @roy@yoroy.eu voor de onbew...
8 hours ago
John Quiggin

Monday Message Board - Another Monday Message Board. Post comments on any topic. Civil discussion and no coarse language please. Side discussions and idees fixes to the sandpits,...
14 hours ago
Planetocracy

Setting Apollonian Goals - How can societies get meaningful things done?
18 hours ago
Shtetl-Optimized

FREEDOM (while hoping my friends stay safe) - This deserves to become one of the iconic images of human history, alongside the Tank Man of Tiananmen Square and so forth. Here’s Sharifi Zarchi, a comput...
20 hours ago
C21st Left

Some quick thoughts on Venezuela from a comrade - Some quick thoughts on Venezuela from a comrade: 1. Reuters confirms agreement to divert Venezuela oil to US will not affect China much even short term. On...
20 hours ago
Climate Etc.

Update on Australian NetZero efforts - by Chris Morris People have queried what is happening in Australia with their push for a decarbonised all renewables/ Net Zero grid since the last update...
1 day ago
Real-World Economics Review Blog

High and higher. US credit card rates. - Increasingly, we have to pay to pay. Directly, but also indirectly. For instance, credit card payments entail borrowing, and debts entail interest payments...
1 day ago
Noahpinion

Why are federal agents gunning down Americans in the streets? - The shooting of Renee Good, like all of the ICE abuses, is symptomatic of a deeper mental illness.
1 day ago
The Philosopher's Beard

Deepfake porn is not going away. Recognising that is the first step to dealing with it - In a world in which anyone can create fake sexually explicit images of anyone else, we should not be surprised when it happens, and we should not get esp...
2 days ago
Azimuth

Sylvester and Clifford on Curved Space - Einstein realized that gravity is due to the curvature of spacetime, but let’s go back earlier: On the 18th of August 1869, the eminent mathematician Sylve...
2 days ago
Overcoming Bias

Its Your Job To Keep Your Secrets - In the last month, many who want to kill Polymarket have agreed on a common strategy: claim that Polymarket allows illegal “insider trading”.
3 days ago
oftwominds

The Perverse Incentives Dominating Our Lives - *The net result of these perverse incentives is an Internet that is increasingly toxic and untrustworthy. * *Perverse incentives are funny things.* Even t...
3 days ago
Farnam Street

[Outliers] The Multidisciplinary Approach to Thinking | Peter D. Kaufman - One of the people I’ve learned the most from is Peter D. Kaufman. Peter has been the chairman and CEO of GlenAir since 1977. And he’s got a track record...
4 days ago
Energy Talking Points by Alex Epstein

Rising electricity prices, solar and wind as fuel saving devices, Venezuela, and more - My interview with John Coogan and Jordi Hays on the popular tech show TBPN
4 days ago
Michael Hudson

Deindustrialisation Meets Coercion - ⁣GLENN DIESEN: Welcome back to the show. We are joined today by Professor Michael Hudson to discuss the U.S. national security strategy and the unravelin...
4 days ago
STRANGE TIMES

Venezuela - Venezuela accuses US of carrying out attacks in Caracas etc. Game on here as well!
1 week ago
The Snow Report

Why the Big Six should actually be the Big Five. - **Updated January 3 2026 to include an additional infographic and supporting text** ...
1 week ago
Information Processing - Steve Hsu

Polygenics and Machine SuperIntelligence; Billionaires, Philo-semitism, and Chosen Embryos – Manifold #102 - Happy 2026!
1 week ago
Rodney Brooks

Predictions Scorecard, 2026 January 01 - Nothing is ever as good as it first seems and nothing is ever as bad as it first seems. — A best memory paraphrase of advice given to me by Vice Admiral Jo...
1 week ago
Our Finite World

2026: Expect a very uneven world economic downturn - The Maximum Power Principle strongly suggests that even as limits are hit, the world economy cannot be expected to collapse all at once. Instead, the most ...
1 week ago
Club Troppo

Market – what market? The catch 22 at the heart of innovation in government - The first of what may be quite a few articles I reproduce here which I wrote for The Mandarin from around 2016 to 2020 or thereabouts (The Mandarin has put...
3 weeks ago
Tekkie

A good summation of the VPRI STEPS project - I learned about STEPS from the ViewPoints Research Institute (VPRI) in about 2008. It’s goal was to create a usable office system, from the ground up (incl...
4 weeks ago
Casey Handmer's blog

Energy Predictions 2025 - Printable pdf. It’s been a few years since I wrote a broad post on energy, so I’m providing an update in one easy to read place. More detailed specific pos...
4 weeks ago
Computing Education Blog

Dr. Tamara Nelson-Fromm defends her dissertation: What Debugging Looks like in Alternative Endpoints - In May, Tamara Nelson-Fromm defended her dissertation “A Qualitative Exploration of Programming Instruction for Alternative Endpoints in Post-Secondary Com...
5 weeks ago
Reading Marx's Capital with David Harvey

Harvey at 90: A Verso Series - From the Verso website: This month, in honour of David Harvey‘s ninetieth birthday, we’re publishing a series of short essays on David’s unparalleled contr...
1 month ago
Windows On Theory

Thoughts by a non-economist on AI and economics - Crossposted on lesswrong Modern humans first emerged about 100,000 years ago. For the next 99,800 years or so, nothing happened. Well, not quite nothing. T...
2 months ago
Invent To Learn

ACAMIS 2025 Resources by Sylvia Martinez & Gary Stager - New 2025 Materials & Programming Environment Links The Eight Big Ideas Behind Constructionism by Seymour Papert (in multiple languages) Logo books, artic...
2 months ago
The Ethical Skeptic

The Final Step of the Scientific Method - An ideology that cannot be defended by means of evidence and deductive logic, will inevitably be enforced by violence. You shall know them by their habit: ...
4 months ago
Jennifer Marohasy

Complicating the IPCC Planck Feedback, Plank #4 of Climate Resilience Theory - The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) has an idea about how the Earth cools itself: when the planet’s surface warms up, it sends more heat...
7 months ago