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The people holding up the internet | Data Drop sheets.worksLong Story Short Billions of phones run on code looked after by a handful of people. We counted them from the code itself. Your alarm, a boarding pass, a meeting in … Read more

This post has been unlocked through a generous grant from the Lilly Endowment for the Association of Religion Data Archives (ARDA). The graphs you see here use data that is publicly available for download and analysis through link(s) provided in … Read more

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I’ve seen people around me and in the general public turn ideologically crazy at a higher rate than I expected to in my adult life. I lost one friend to a cult. Others became so brittle that they can barely … Read more

You skipped the game, so here is just the optimal path. Is this what you would’ve done? An Optimal path Replay A few weeks ago, 30,954 people mowed the same lawn. This is what their paths looked like. player id: … Read more

Bad diets kill millions of people globally every year, and lead to tens of billions of dollars in health costs, often placing the heaviest burden on communities who are least able to afford it. Children, with limited decision-making power, are … Read more

Since gradient.horse went online in January 2026, six months have passed, and more than 600 000 horses (and non-horses) were drawn. There are now more horses on gradient.horse than in the wild. The image model I trained to filter out … Read more

30 June 2026 No matter what you’re doing, from building a civilization on Mars to getting a summer internship, you will have to ask people for help. Yet, most people get this crucial skill wrong. They put themselves at the … Read more