“Naturally, it would be hilarious if the anti-piracy campaign actually turned out to have used this pirated font, so I went sleuthing and quickly found a PDF from the campaign site with the font embedded. So I chucked it into […]
Here’s a fun fact: inside a sperm whale’s head there’s somewhere between 2,000 to 3,000 gallons of spermaceti oil. “How we carried on exploiting sperm whales long after the conventional wisdom said we’d stopped.” ~ learn more
“Etymology: Coined by Carlin Vieri in his time at the MIT AI Lab (1993–1998) after viewing a segment at the end of a 1991 episode of The Ren and Stimpy Show.” ~ learn more
“Here is where it gets funky. All stocks with a P/E ratio above 40 are rounded by the ETF protocols to 40, and all stocks with no (or negative) earnings are assigned a P/E of 40.” ~ learn more
At first it was not clear to me what this was. After reading about it, I became excited. This is basically a calculator that takes ranges as inputs and runs Monte Carlo simulations to deliver a probabilistic distribution of outcomes. […]
“On its face, Fire Island is a “New Urbanist” paradise. It’s left me with no doubt that walkable mixed-use neighborhoods3 are incredible, especially ones like Fire Island which have banned cars. But it’s also deeply conservative in many ways: highly […]
“Even though he stood for much of the speech, Booker’s ring picked up a ton of movement. Between March 31 and April 1, Booker’s ring tracked him taking over 20,000 steps, with 12,000 alone on the second day. After he […]
“Huione Guarantee, a gray market researchers believe is central to the online scam ecosystem, now includes a messaging app, stablecoin, and crypto exchange—while facilitating $24 billion in transactions.” ~ learn more
If you grew up on the internet in the 90s and early 2000s you won’t regret the nostalgia in this link. ~ learn more