The content you consume is everything. If you grow up surrounded by people who only care about titles, grades, and job security, you start to think that dreaming is a luxury. That was me. In my childhood, passion wasn't a thing. Only good grades mattered. I wanted to film

In 1822, Gregor MacGregor pulled off the greatest scam in history. He invented a fake country, sold 8 million acres of it to investors, and even convinced settlers to move there. Here’s the unbelievable story of the greatest con artist ever:

3. 90s kids talk about the internet

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5. It's one of the rare moments during the collapse of an iceberg when you can see the dark blue color at its base.

Every programmer should spend time building all the fundamental data structures from scratch (dynamically resizable array, hashmap, linked list) Actually learning how they work and the specific implementation tricks is 10x more valuable than just knowing their Big O complexity

Yesterday evening I tried to play Minecraft multiplayer with my 8 yr old. Single worst computing experience I've had in a long time thanks to the whole Microsoft account management. I naively thought "let me create a new account for her, switch her out of my account, use that—

rewrote about 10% of a React Native project in C++ and the performance boost is insane.

A Chinese engineer hired by Elon Musk uploaded xAI’s entire codebase to OpenAI, then left the company and sold $7 million worth of stock. According to Musk, Xuechen Li took a job offer at OpenAI before uploading the code. Follow: AF Post

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If you have to make a github repo for your taxes, there is something wrong

In machine learning, we use the dot product every day. However, its definition is far from revealing. For instance, what does it have to do with similarity? There is a beautiful geometric explanation behind:

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Jerry Cain from Stanford University explains pointers and structs in C, showing a clever way to access struct fields. This series is one of the best resources online for C programming. Source: Stanford University

industrial power is immense capacity surplus of the thing that makes the thing

Was just made aware of this fantastic interactive e-book on linear algebra titled ' Immersive linear algebra'. Give it a go if you're new to learning linear algebra, or if you just want to have fun checking out the interactive figures 🔗 in the comments

Guy at a bar last night gave me The Device. I asked what it does. He said “Don’t worry about it. It’s good to have The Device on you at all times. It may come in handy.”

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