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“Drop: An Adventure through the Water Cycle”
stacker.news·19h
🔬Curious Science
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Think for Yourself
kevlinhenney.medium.com·8h·
Discuss: Hacker News
🔍Practical Epistemology
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Mastering Web Internationalization
w3.org·1d·
Discuss: DEV
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Help finding info on my grandpa/Author林青
reddit.com·8h·
Discuss: r/China
🔬Curious Science
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Poem of the week: Simile by Éireann Lorsung
theguardian.com·1d
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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Translation Tuesday: “A Scorpion in February” by Guillermo Fadanelli
asymptotejournal.com·14h
💬Small Talk Fodder
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What Is Occult Grammar?
blog.izs.me·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
💬Small Talk Fodder
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TIL that Asian elephants are more closely related to woolly mammoths than to African elephants.
en.wikipedia.org·9h·
🔬Curious Science
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So, Like, Americans Are Finally Over the ‘Valley Girl’ Voice
vice.com·1d
💬Small Talk Fodder
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Composing the Idea: Why "Next Word Prediction" Misses the Point
medium.com·1d·
Discuss: Hacker News
🧩Music Cognition
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Your Town’s Local History Books Have a Very Secret and Powerful New Buyer
slate.com·1d
🔬Curious Science
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Social and UGC: The trust engines powering search everywhere
searchengineland.com·14h
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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15 Powerful Influencer Synonyms That Instantly Elevate Your Brand
dev.to·1d·
Discuss: DEV
🎙Deep Dive Interviews
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The Big Idea: Charles H. Melcher
whatever.scalzi.com·10h
🚀Technology
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Looking for Untranslated Non-Fiction From Across Europe
zylstra.org·1d
🔬Curious Science
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Sacrificing the Present for an Anticipated Memory
scantron.substack.com·15h·
Discuss: Substack
🌀Weird Aesthetics
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Semantic search with embeddings in PHP: a hands-on guide using Neuron AI and Ollama
ollama.com·3d·
Discuss: DEV
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Open Source Context-Aware PII Classifier
corp.roblox.com·8h·
Discuss: Hacker News
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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Losing Control
vestoj.com·1d
📱Contemporary Absurdity
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