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When restaurants undergo rebranding, their iconic mascots often disappear quietly. Taco Bell in the 1990s is a prime example of this trend, where their famous chihuahua seemed to be everywhere, only to vanish without much …

I tried Levels (with the Dexcom G7 sensor) for a month. It changed my life.For one thing, I never would have eaten raw broccoli out of a plastic bag in a hotel bathroom before. Also, …

OpenAI (who owns ChatGPT) released a new model today. It is called o1. The main difference between models like 4o is it inherently performs chain of thought reasoning when producing an answer. What is chain …

Olympic Silver Medal Finally Awarded to Tim Koleto Today, my friend Tim Koleto was awarded the Olympic Silver Medal with the Japan figure skating team in Paris at the Victory Ceremony near the Eiffel Tower …

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Photo by Ron Lach Today’s post is by regular contributor Susan DeFreitas (@manzanitafire), an award-winning author, editor, and book coach. On Thursday, Oct. 31, she’s offering a free masterclass on plot, The Bones of the …

Hello I was introduced to the world of memory via Harry Lorayne’s books (How to Develop a Super Power Memory etc.). At the time I couldn’t believe it, my mind was blown - these techniques …

In the previous article we showed how to automate the migration from callbacks to async/await for Mocha tests using jscodeshift. We started from the jscodeshift-ts-template repo and added the final implementation to the ts-codemods repo. …

A Trainmaster is a person in charge of the movement of trains in a division or subdivision of a railroad. A Train Master is a diesel locomotive, designated H24-66, built by the Fairbanks-Morse company. Two …

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Here we are going to look at several diagnostic plots are helpful when attempting to answer a causal question. They can be used to visualize the target population, balance, and treatment effect heterogeneity. Setup I’ve …

At the age of seven, I waved a medical encyclopedia in front of my parents and announced that I had “free-floating anxiety”. The book was one of only a few we had in the house, …

Where am I? Trying to navigate London using Google maps? Quote of the Day ”We cannot say that innovation is necessarily good simply because there is a market for it.” Simon Johnson, who shared this …

In The Unaccountability Machine, Dan Davies argues that organizations form “accountability sinks,” structures that absorb or obscure the consequences of a decision such that no one can be held directly accountable for it. Here’s an …

Following on from my big result on the R.Wye and only 36 miles from the R.Teme it seemed to be the logical next step, at 7am I was cruising up the M50 bound for a …