The Great Flattening

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Apple did what needed to be done to get that unfortunate iPad ad out of the news; you know, the one that somehow found the crushing of musical instruments and bottles of paint to be inspirational: The ad was released … Read more

The Great British Housing Famine

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What is the first country that comes to mind when images are invoked of a line of weary citizens, queueing up to purchase basic goods in limited supply? A queue at a универса́м/Universam store in Leningrad, USSR, 1991. Image source: … Read more

The Great American Rail-Trail

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Stretching more than 3,700 miles between Washington, D.C., and Washington State The Preferred Route [embedded content] The preferred route of the Great American Rail-Trail connects 150+ existing rail-trails, greenways and other multiuse paths spanning more than 3,700 miles. These trails … Read more

The Great Migration from MongoDB to PostgreSQL

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Infisical has grown rapidly in the past year with the platform now processing north of 50 million secrets daily that is sending application configuration and secrets data to teams, CI/CD pipelines, and servers/applications that need them.  With usage continuing to … Read more

Great Ideas in Theoretical Computer Science

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So far, we have formally defined what a computational/decision problem is, what an algorithm is, and saw that most (decision) problems are undecidable. We also saw some explicit and interesting examples of undecidable problems. Nevertheless, it turns out that many … Read more

How to Do Great Work

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July 2023 If you collected lists of techniques for doing great work in a lot of different fields, what would the intersection look like? I decided to find out by making it. Partly my goal was to create a guide … Read more

The Great When? A London-through-time quiz

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A London-through-time quiz There’s loads of archive footage of London uploaded to YouTube. We’ll play you a random one, starting at a random moment. Your challenge? Guess what year it is. On average you were 5 years out. Big Ben … Read more