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Gabrielle FC

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  • Self-hosting cloud services is the equivalent of a daily driver project car for computer nerds. It’s cool because it’s yours and you know how it works, but it’s less cool that something is always a bit more broken than would be ideal and realistically more of a hobby than a viable endeavour for the average person. The general exception to this jankyness is Tailscale, a rock-solid magical mostly-peer-to-peer
    HTTPS on TrueNAS Scale with Tailscale Serve | Henry Wilkinson
  • I would argue that — in practical life, if you want to succeed, you got to do two things. You got to have a certain amount of confidence. And you have to know what you know and what you don’t know. You have to know the edge of your competency. And if you know the edge of your competency, you’re a much safer thinker and a much safer investor than you are if you don’t know it.
    Understanding your Circle of Competence: How Warren Buffett Avoids Problems - Farnam Street
  • Korean design practice Ulrim, led by Hyunseok An, has created an indoor algae farm titled ‘The Coral’: a wall-mounted bioreactor providing a sustainable source of micro-algae for personal consumption, that aims to change our perceptions of this vital life source.
    Micro-Algae Indoor Farm Shows The Promising Future Of Plant Technologies
  • The CMU ML Blog provides an accessible, general-audience medium for CMU researchers to communicate research findings, perspectives on the field of machine learning, and various updates, both to experts and the general audience. Posts are written by students, postdocs, and faculty at CMU. Posts on a variety of machine learning topics studied at CMU will appear approximately bi-weekly.
    Machine Learning | ML@CMU | Carnegie Mellon University
  • Examines how ancient philosophers grapple with the question of how we should live, especially Socrates, Plato, Aristotle, Stoics, Epicureans and Skeptics, who advertise their philosophies as gateways to happiness, virtue and peace of mind. Also covers select modern views, from Kierkegaard to Sartre, and asks how these differ from the views of the ancients. Analyzes the debate of fundamental questions: What things really matter? Does it pay to be good? What is the best society? Can we escape the roller-coaster of our emotions? Looks at how answers tie in with assumptions about god, nature, know…
    PHIL 202 The Good Life (3 credits) | eCalendar - McGill University
  • State lotteries are increasingly ceding control to multinational firms By Tinashe Chingarande, Elizabeth Flood, Spencer Friedman and Daniel Lawall - July 1, 2022 Lottery systems nationwide are evolving into quasi-privatized operations, with state governments assuming an oversight role while private companies reap millions running this sophisticated form of gambling.
    Mega Billions: The great lottery wealth transfer – CNS Maryland
  • Stores cash customers’ checks, then sell them lottery tickets By Henry Kuczynski, Ethan Biddle, Isabel Tehan and Melissa Ellin - July 11, 2022 At All Checks Cashed in Everett, Massachusetts, a red neon sign beckons customers to cash their checks, pay utilities and try their luck with scores of lottery tickets.
    Mega Billions: The great lottery wealth transfer – CNS Maryland
  • IV THE SPIRIT MERCURIUS (pp. 191-250) https://www.jstor.org/stable/j.ctt5hhqv1.10 In my contribution¹ to the symposium on Hermes I will try to show that this many-hued and wily god did not by any means die with the decline of the classical era, but on the contrary has gone on living in strange guises through the centuries, even into recent times, and has kept the mind of man busy with his deceptive arts and healing gifts. Children are still told Grimm’s fairytale of “The Spirit in the Bottle,” which is ever-living like all fairytales, and moreover contains the quintessence and deepest meaning …
    Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 13: Alchemical Studies on JSTOR