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Who's teaching doctors how to think? debugging, education, medicine, residency

How is a binary executable organized? Let's explore it!

If you find this piece worthwhile, consider the Go Fund Me that’s funding ongoing cancer care. A story from Dan Luu, from back when he “TA’ed EE 202, a second year class on signals and systems at Purdue:” When I suggested to the professor that he spend half an hour reviewing algebra for those students…

Macro Perspective on the Capital Markets, Economy, Geopolitics, Technology, and Digital Media

Our spiffy daily links: landscape pix winners, universe as hologram? abandones cruse ships, Covid tramsmission risk, moar China debt worries, Gaza strikes continue, Bibi played Biden, think tanks worry over Russia win, US as supernova, AI contracts, Gen X debt slaves

FPGA engineers are in high demand... but is the job worth it?

Well, that was unexpected. I recorded a couple of crappy videos in 5 minutes, posted them on a Twitter thread, and went viral with 8.8K likes at this point. I really could not have predicted that, given that I’ve been posting what-I-believe-is interesting content for years and… nothing, almost-zero interest. Now that things have cooled down, it’s time to stir the pot and elaborate on those thoughts a bit more rationally. To summarize, the Twitter thread shows two v...

Welcome one and all I've rounded up some random news to keep us talking while we wait for more MMA this weekend.

Fair warning: I'm pretty sure this stuff is boring to most people

Twitter's upcoming stress test at the World Cup, Twitter's software, and the players in the Twitter drama.