I once got a blogpost on frontpage of HackerNews. Therefore, I am kind of a leading expert on how to get blogposts on frontpage of HackerNews. In this post I will humbly share
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Ghost is one of the fastest-growing publishing platforms. However, for those looking to dip their toes in the water, one aspect can be off-putting: the shiny Ghost(Pro) hosting (referral link)
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Brad, a top footballer, sits in the bleachers watching the game. He cannot believe his eyes. He has come to watch his friend Edgar play, and Edgar is the worst football player he
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For years, I’ve had a folder on my computer titled Notes for Next Time. When I think of ways I could do a better job of something the next time around, I
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We are delighted to announce that the BCIBox open-source OpenBCI enclosure is back by popular demand, completely redesigned to be fully compatible with OpenBCI Cyton, Ganglion, WiFi shield, and Daisy Module!
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In the grand scheme of things, I am one lucky cove. So are you. The fact that you are reading this article means you have internet, an expensive and mind-bogglingly complex piece
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Running used to be excruciating. I would get halfway down the lane by my house… and then have to stop, wheezing and gasping, with burning lungs and aching legs.
Now, I enjoy it,
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Here at Autodidacts.io live three avid list-writers and note-takers. When you spend 90% of your waking hours in the company of an object, it's nice if you like
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Here’s a small piece of advice, which I would like to have learned earlier: save the date.
Put the date in filenames, but don’t stop there! Put it on everything: journal
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When I upgraded from Ubuntu 18.04 to 20.04 LTS, I finally took the plunge and switched from the i3 window manager on X11 to Sway, an almost drop-in Wayland replacement.
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Yesterday morning I saw, for the first time[1], a math problem trending on Twitter:
$$8 ÷ 2(2+2) = \color{#990000} \textbf{?}$$
As the co-founder of algebrarules.com, I have received several
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I don’t like revising. By the time I’ve finished writing a story or essay, I’ve seen each sentence so often my eyes cross and glaze over when I try to
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The Biocybernaut Institute offers perhaps the world's most elite and exclusive neurofeedback training. According to their website, a one-week intensive can boost IQ and creativity, create beneficial personality changes, and
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Intelligence* — as far as I can tell — is a variable, not a constant. It fluctuates, the same way a healthy person’s heart-rate varies over time. Graph it, and it looks like
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Elon Musk is planning to colonize Mars. If he succeeds, it could be one of the most important changes in human history. And, based on the surprising success of his previous ventures — including
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In this tutorial I’ll show how to convert manuscripts written in markdown into a variety of industry-standard formats, automatically, using Pandoc.
Why bother?
I write short-stories and essays in markdown,
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The OpenBCI is a pleasantly affordable, refreshingly open source biosignal amplifier with high-quality multi-channel output, an excellent user community, and a hackable design that have made it a go-to widget
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