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It is a pretty well known fact that if you give kids one-on-one tutoring from experts, they outperform classroom-educated students by an absurd two standard deviations. The effect size is absolutely mind-boggling, and a damning brand of indictment against the entire modern education system. The problem is that this stuff clearly doesn’t scale, for two reasons; first of all there isn’t enough experts to go around, as it would require a large chunk of the adult population to be experts dedi...| www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu
Upgrading to 2023.03.1. This is a bugfix release that improves search result relevance, performance and fixes several character encoding bugs. Should take about a day.| www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu
Loading the March crawl batch and upgrading to 2023.03.0.| www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu
Loading the December crawl batch.| www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu
A sustained DDoS attack brought the server down for about a day.| www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu
Loading the August crawl batch. The index is being re-constructed, and the changes are so big it can’t be done without taking down the search engine for a few hours. After that the new index needs to be de-spammed a bit, but that should be relatively quick.| www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu
Loading the August crawl batch. The index is being re-constructed, and the changes are so big it can’t be done without taking down the search engine for a few hours. After that the new index needs to be de-spammed a bit, but that should be relatively quick.| www.marginalia.nu on marginalia.nu
The Jacket An enigma. I've been a bit obsessed with this weird jacket I found online in an ad. The pictures are from the store that sells the jacket. At a first glance it looks like a men's jacket. But the more you look at it, the more it looks... off somehow. The Jacket Ok, check it, let's zoom in on this thing. Can you see it? Details of the neck Details of the pocket It's sort of like a video game model from the early 2000s, it has features, but they're weird and flat and blurry.| www.marginalia.nu
Marginalia is a website, not a person.| www.marginalia.nu
This information is outdated The marginalia search project info now lives on about.marginalia-search.com. What is this search engine’s name? Let’s call it Marginalia Search as that’s what most people seem to do. There is some confusion, perhaps self-inflicted problem as I’m not really into branding and logos, and to make matters worse I’ve used a lot of different internal names, including Astrolabe and Edge Crawler. But most people seem to favor “marginalia search”.| Marginalia Search on marginalia.nu
This information is outdated The marginalia search project info now lives on about.marginalia-search.com. An API for the search engine is available through api.marginalia.nu. The API is simple enough to be self-explanatory. Examples: https://api.marginalia.nu/public/ https://api.marginalia.nu/public/search/json+api https://api.marginalia.nu/public/search/json+api?index=0 https://api.marginalia.nu/public/search/json+api?index=0&count=10 The ‘index’ parameter selects the search index, corre...| Marginalia Search on marginalia.nu
This information is outdated The marginalia search project info now lives on about.marginalia-search.com. This search engine is a small non-profit operation, and I don’t want it to be cause any inconvenience. If it is indeed being a nuisance, please let me know! Send an email to kontakt@marginalia.nu and I’ll do my best to fix it as soon as possible. Telling me lets me fix whatever problem there is much faster, and if you are experiencing problems, then so are probably others as well.| Marginalia Search on marginalia.nu
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The computer in question is a model 15-df0002no bought in 2020. This is an install log of sorts, mostly for myself but others may have use of it as well. Disclaimer: This is not a beginner’s guide. I’ve used Linux for over 20 years and can solve most issues that installing a linux distribution throws my way. If you don’t know your way around BIOS, disk partitioning, linux driver loading, or grub; then misguided attempts at follow these notes as instructions may well brick your laptop, a...| www.marginalia.nu
A brief list of video games I’ve enjoyed the last few years. Mostly indie games. FPS Cruelty Squad Hedon: Bloodrite CRPG Disco Elysium Puzzle Legend of Grimrock II Yuppie Psycho Heaven’s Vault Vanias Blasphemous Axiom Verge Astalon: Tears of the Earth Roguelikes Dead Cells Vampire Survivors King’s Field-likes Lunacid Strategy Factorio VN mystery Nine Hours, Nine Persons, Nine Doors AI: The Somnium Files Point & Click Lamplight City David Lynch Simulators Immortality| www.marginalia.nu
This information is outdated The marginalia search project info now lives on about.marginalia-search.com. Last Updated: 2024-05-21 This privacy policy is in effect on search.marginalia.nu. Technology Use Javascript Minimal Cookies No Local Storage No Tracking Pixels No Social Media Buttons No Third Party Requests No CDN No Access Log Retention Up to 24h Search queries are very sensitive and private and as a result logging is at a minimum. No information about which links are clicked is gather...| www.marginalia.nu
The following is a list of curiosities I’ve found while crawling the internet looking for websites. A sort of greatest hits from my search engine. There is no real system or theme to the links, other than the fact that they have made me go “huh, that’s neat” while visiting them. Most of these are effectively impossible to find on Google, since they don’t use HTTPS, and aren’t optimized for mobile, and aren’t plastered in ads and tracking scripts.| www.marginalia.nu
A fool has sought out the book’s greatest scientist, and asked to share his knowledge. The scientist has gone to the beginning of the book to try to understand its origin better. F: Is it true, as they say, that you only know truths? S: Almost only truths, or most things I know are true, or at least more true than I thought yesterday. I can prove it by the scientific method.| www.marginalia.nu
This information is outdated The marginalia search project info now lives on about.marginalia-search.com. Ever feel like the Internet has gotten a bit… I don’t know, samey? There’s funny images scrolling by and you blow some air through your nose and keep scrolling and then someone has done something upsetting and you write an angry comment and then you scroll some more. Remember when you used to explore the Internet, when you used to discover cool little websites made by people and it ...| www.marginalia.nu