They Gon' Be Alright | BEEW
Ask anyone over 40 these days (and far too many under 40), and they'll tell you humanity is doomed. AI will enslave us. \ Society will collapse on us. \...| BEEW
I love camping out at cafes in Main Street towns writing, people-watching, and eavesdropping on the conversations that float past.| BEEW
How I Write on Internet| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
Reading Time: 2minutesWhy the “Transactional Landlord” Model Is Obsolete in Modern Commercial Real Estate You know the type. The landlord who thinks their job is done the moment the lease ink dries. “Here’s your keycard, don’t scratch the marble, see you in ten years.” That model was fine when tenants were just looking for square footage and … The Intelligent Building: AI’s Role in Redefining Commercial Real Estate Value Propositions Read More » The post The Intelligent Build...| HqO
The flow of the Florida Current, one of the most powerful ocean currents in the world, has been measured by a submarine telecommunications cable between Florida and the Bahamas since 1982. Unfortunately, this record was interrupted in November 2023 due to a mechanical failure of the cable. Building on prior research, a new study presents an alternative method to continue providing the Florida Current daily transport estimates until the cable can be repaired. The post Ensuring Continuity: A ...| NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
New developments in hurricane research and technology at AOML are improving hurricane forecasts and predictions.| NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
I spent a lot of time in 5th grade drawing pictures of Ozzy Osbourne concerts: two dimensional pencil sketches looking at the stage with stick-figure [...]| Jamie Todd Rubin
When I used to come to Santa Monica for work, I’d stop in at a local AM/PM to pick up a copy of the Los [...]| Jamie Todd Rubin
The world is a noisy place and it is hard to tune out the orchestra of modern life. So I seek quiet places. I returned [...]| Jamie Todd Rubin
Though I dutifully filled out all of the forms online ahead of time, when I arrived for a recent medical visit, the receptionist handed me [...]| Jamie Todd Rubin
To escape the heat, I dragged a reluctant Montainge downstairs, where it was cooler, and collapsed into a comfortable chair beneath the breath of an [...]| Jamie Todd Rubin
The best part of my early morning walks in summer is pausing under this goldenrain tree. If I am listening to a book or music, [...]| Jamie Todd Rubin
Ask anyone over 40 these days (and far too many under 40), and they'll tell you humanity is doomed. AI will enslave us. \ Society will collapse on us. \...| BEEW
The post Open Minded appeared first on Gerry Feehan.| Gerry Feehan
To deny science is to imply that you know better.| Gerry Feehan
We're talking about violence, racial killings and rape - Which uhhh, very heavy needless to say. I'm not sure I handled it all with the grea...| www.failforward.moe
One of the nice side effects of cloud services is that they enable engineering teams to provision their own infrastructure without having to go through a gatekeeper. This could be seen as an instan…| The Solution Space
from godard's alphaville - just LOOK at that stark lighting Preface: I've always believed more art is better. Art is how we communicate. Art...| www.failforward.moe
With 65 minutes on the clock, I'm intending to keep up with my "minimum one blog a month" goal - And this time (as ever) getting a little pe...| www.failforward.moe
At its core, a market crash is nothing but risk-aversion meeting a market that's not priced to tolerate risk. We always become concerned about “trap door” outcomes when rich valuations are joined by deterioration in the uniformity of market internals - which is our most reliable gauge of speculation versus risk-aversion among investors. Our concerns about trap door conditions become even more pointed when investor confidence has been destabilized. We are presently on high alert for a poss...| Hussman Funds
So those tariffs, huh? Years of folks collectively manifesting US global economic dominance and imperialism to take a hit has finally begun actualizing to the dismay of many (especially given it's at the hands of a hasty transphobic megalomaniac who managed to bankrupt a casino, instead of at the hands of a globalized labor movement). If you're curious what this means for you, the beloved consumer, here's a pretty good breakdown of what's happening. TL;DR stuffs getting more expensive for con...| Fail Forward
From Sir Ian McKellen's Excellent Acting Advise Quite a few people are aware I have somewhat... complicated feelings on theater. Even more s...| www.failforward.moe
“A lot of the same students were putting their hand up. Try cold calling or turn and talk.” Giving feedback is a vital part of leading, but – as with many parts of leadership R…| MBDscience
A turbulent flight into Hurricane Ian led hurricane scientists to develop a new rating system that measures the bumpiness of flights.| NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
100+ wise words and essential nuggets of life advice| BEEW
Meteorologist, Jason Dunion, Ph.D., is a recipient of the prestigious PECASE award for his advancements in hurricane research and mentorship.| NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
Indigenous value systems are fundamental to Indigenous knowledge systems and cultures. A new book explores these value systems through science, poetry and stories. The authors include ACEP’s Leasi Vanessa Lee Raymond.| www.uaf.edu
Every year, scientists at AOML aid the international effort led by the University of Exeter’s Global Systems Institute Global Carbon Budget.| NOAA's Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory
OR : A PROLOGUE TO THE GENDER MANIFESTO[*0.5] OR : I'M REALLY GETTING ON MY BULLSHIT THIS TIME No tabletop post today! Just an analysis of o...| www.failforward.moe
In the immortal words of pedagogue and deific December chanter Andy Williams, "it's the holiday season" - Which means over on the delightful birdman's Discord folks are celebrating with a new tradition called "Covert Critic" where you give another creator some 5 star reviews and talk about works we like from them publicly! One might object that this is neither covert nor critical and to you I say:| Fail Forward
Hex Crawls are something I think about often, especially considering the best campaign I ever ran was one. Many a great theses have been written on the Hex Crawl too, from Prismatic's seminal Hex Crawl Checklist (seriously if you're ever going to write a Hex Crawl read this and jump into whatever links interest you), to a personal favorite Silver Arm Press' Down With the Six Mile Hex[*2]. Most recently I was enamored with ONEZERO's post HEXEMBER: Stinging-Tree Canyon (If you haven't read a...| Fail Forward
Dying is a big part of living. We say goodbye to our pets, our friends, our family, and eventually everyone when our own time has come. It's the great equalizer, the timer we're all on to get done what we feel needs to be done in our flash of the pan of consciousness. So it stands to reason that my favorite art form (games) engages with death quite frequently - Often as an overly punitive fail state.| Fail Forward
Hey chat. Been a while - Been meaning to get back into blogging but have been busy getting into Yu-Gi-Oh and suffering from what is probably the worst mental health spiral I've had in my adult life. Oh and making a mega-game. I did mention the mega-game right?| Fail Forward
At the start of the year I talked a bit about Taking Yourself the Right Amount of Serious, and this is something of an off-shoot of that ~| Fail Forward
Last night I read through all the material that Stone Paper Scissors provides for the Megagame Watch the Skies. It was... rough. The packet cost roughly 50 USD and was alarmingly amateurish[*2], both in layout and design. Despite my usual ritual of gawking at anime feet before sleeping, I felt so deeply surprised and compelled by this work that it felt necessary to forgo that in favor of writing this review.| Fail Forward
For those unfamiliar, The Chorus is an idea from Greek Dramas[*1] where a small collective detached from the narrative gives commentary and supplemental insight to the performance at hand. This is not to be confused with a traditional narrator without whom the story simply could not proceed, though a degree of overlap exists. If you're thinking Statler and Waldorf, you're close. What does this have to do with Tabletop Games? Well for all the comparisons I've heard between Theater and Tabletop...| Fail Forward
Among starting too many new projects, getting involved with people and battling the the demiurge that is the black mold in my house, a recurring theme has cropped up in games for me the past few weeks: Deliberation time and ways to design around it.| Fail Forward
It's the second year of the Blades in the Dark campaign I'm playing in, and once again I find my mind drifting towards how it handles money. A "Coin" is actually a representation of a much larger sum ("about a week's wages") and can be spent whenever (despite how clearly cumbersome carrying that much coin would be). Smaller expenses like drinks at a bar or a new pair of shoes are simply assumed to be covered. Much like Blades' inventory, the Currency is Quantum, and more precisely its value a...| Fail Forward
Last year I posted the list of my default apps. It’s time to update it for 2024! Email: GMail Notes: Apple Notes To-do: Google Tasks Photo shooting: Stock Android camera Photo management: Google Photos Photo editing: Snapseed Calendar: Google Calendar Cloud storage: Google Drive and Dropbox Contact management: Google Contacts Browser: Firefox Chat: Telegram, WhatsApp, Signal Video calls: Google Meet, WhatsApp Bookmarks: Wallabag RSS: Miniflux (web) + Reeder (macOS) + Unread (iOS) + FeedMe F...| Abhinav's Notes
As a profession – perhaps driven by parents – we are increasingly concerned with the anxiety levels of our students. I have lost count of the number of times I have been told not to col…| MBDscience
If you go to https://projects.fivethirtyeight.com/polls/favorability/donald-trump/ you will find a good summary of Donald Trump’s approval ratings in hundreds of polls […]| The Authoritarians
Do you believe in Santa Claus? Probably not. But suppose you were surrounded by people who did. Suppose in fact […]| The Authoritarians
Physicists and chemists learned a long time ago that you have to standardize measurements and methodology if you’re going to […]| The Authoritarians
You know how a pitch in the dirt in a baseball game can bounce up and hit the catcher in […]| The Authoritarians
We finished editing the text of Authoritarian Nightmare (“AN”) on June 26, 2020 and sent the manuscript off to the […]| The Authoritarians
Many people, including I, have labeled Donald Trump an authoritarian leader. But they are honestly baffled by the loyalty of […]| The Authoritarians
This website places at your disposal a free ebook entitled The Authoritarians. I wrote this book in 2006 when a great deal seemed to be going wrong in America, and I thought the research on authoritarian personalities could explain a lot of it. (The book is set in that era, but you will have no trouble finding present-day examples of what the experiments found back then.)| The Authoritarians
There are certain features of valuation, investor psychology, and price behavior that tend to emerge when the fear of missing out becomes particularly extreme and the focus of speculation becomes particularly narrow. On Friday, May 24, we hit a fresh “motherlode” of these conditions.| Hussman Funds
How do we use contexts to interpret the world in a different way? How do we make sense of messy, tangled-up systems? How do we understand problems in the development sector and frame challenges that communities – and humanity as a whole – are facing? Príspevok Gauging change in the aggregate across portfolios je zobrazený ako prvý na Unstuck by UNDP.| Unstuck by UNDP
How do we use contexts to interpret the world in a different way? How do we make sense of messy, tangled-up systems? How do we understand problems in the development sector and frame challenges that communities – and humanity as a whole – are facing?| Unstuck by UNDP
How do we use contexts to interpret the world in a different way? How do we make sense of messy, tangled-up systems? How do we understand problems in the development sector and frame challenges that communities – and humanity as a whole – are facing?| Unstuck by UNDP
How do we use contexts to interpret the world in a different way? How do we make sense of messy, tangled-up systems? How do we understand problems in the development sector and frame challenges that communities – and humanity as a whole – are facing?| Unstuck by UNDP
Love beneath your feet In high school, my oldest friend Matt stumbled into a genius child-mind practice. Packing up the Christmas tree at the end of the holidays, that preternatural force that visi…| Pau hana, new hana
Millions of years ago–say, 1950–American industry hummed. With no competition from bombed-out Europe and Asia yet to launch its industrialization miracle, America manufactured…eve…| Pau hana, new hana
Christmas dregs, waiting for the end Crocuses have come and gone. Their delicate lavender announcement of winter releasing to spring passed with little notice. Besides me and my partner, only young…| Pau hana, new hana
Childhood me loved Christmas. My delight at the absurdity of bringing a tree inside outweighed any distress at cutting it down, an act that would have normally bothered me, a lot. (That tree wasn’t hurting anyone. Where will Ranger Rick and his friends live now?) The decorations, of all types: 1950s rocket-martini-chic plastic, the blown … Continue reading Snow Lives: 1979, 2021→| Pau hana, new hana
How do we use contexts to interpret the world in a different way? How do we make sense of messy, tangled-up systems? How do we understand problems in the development sector and frame challenges that communities – and humanity as a whole – are facing?| Unstuck by UNDP
Now close, future far, but in sight The week between Christmas and New Year’s is the most liminal week of the year, a friend observes. Normal time steps aside, the world unmoored from its quotidian…| Pau hana, new hana
I posted a note on analysis of my sleep patterns in 2020. Last year I had a lot of changes in my life, so I wanted to do the analysis again this year to see how things have changed. I downloaded the sleep data from my Garmin watch using Garmin Connect, and used Google sheets to analyze the data and create the charts. Let’s get started. First is the histogram of sleep duration over the last year: Sleep duration histogram As before, my sleep duration is mostly between 7.5 hours and 8.25 hours...| Abhinav's Notes
The different levels of testing are well known: A bug found by the customer is extremely expensive, a bug found in acceptance testing somewhat less. At the end of the chain, usually, unit tests are…| The Solution Space
Apps I Use| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
2023 Couch-to-10k Run Training| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
Bangalore – the city I live in India – is notorious for its traffic woes. My office commute is just 8.5km each way but it takes nowhere long as you’d expect in a city as big as Bangalore. A recent discussion at work about the worsening commute times prompted me to analyse my own commute durations. There is one difference though: I commute on a bicycle unlike most of the my colleagues who drive/share/ride a car. I record my rides on Strava, so I was able to get the data out of it and mak...| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
Health Effects of the COVID-19 Lockdown| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
Since I’ve joined Flipkart last year as a software engineer, I’ve been spending a lot of time in meetings. I decided to analyse all the meetings I’ve done and categorize them to see if any patterns emerge. These are the categories I’ve found (in no particular order):| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
My Reading Process| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
Sleep Analysis| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
Water Intake Chart| notes.abhinavsarkar.net
This blog post compares several nursery management software options available within the UK, considering cost, progress and development tracking, parental communication, and added features.| Learning Journals
Senior leadership did the analysis: The root of the problem at XYZ Corp was a lack of clearly defined value statements that underpin the company’s unique culture! Problems like this demand the corp…| The Solution Space
When designing distributed systems, we sometimes think of latency and availability as two technical dimensions to balance out in our designs. I would like to argue that a more useful perspective wo…| The Solution Space
The proponents of DevOps (myself included) usually bring forward arguments that evolve around breaking silos: “You build it, you run it”. This, according to the philosophy, leads to deliverables th…| The Solution Space
Observations are a live library of ideas to help you get unstuck. We talk to social development innovators, doers and thinkers and ask them to share their thoughts. These are some of their insights, served as small, refreshing nuggets of wisdom. Please, grab a bite and nurture your imagination!| Unstuck by UNDP
The recent IPCC AR6 WGI report summarises the state of knowledge of physical climate science, but the final version of the Summary for Policymakers (SPM) did not include a figure showing a range of indicators of our warming planet.| Climate Lab Book
The figures in the IPCC AR6 WGI SPM are a huge improvement over previous reports. However, one minor quibble is with the lack of observations shown. This brief post makes a figure available which is based on IPCC AR6 WGI SPM Figure 8, but with some observations added to show how global surface temperature and Arctic sea ice area have varied, compared to the model simulations. In my view this is a scientific improvement over the original version.| Climate Lab Book
