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A free introduction to quantum computing and quantum mechanics

— Nabeel S. Qureshi (@nabeelqu)

A look into the Japanese educational system’s delicate balance between teamwork, discipline and personal growth.

The Magic Button that makes everything OK

The Old Calculator Web Museum is a virtual museum of old electronic calculating machines. Detailed information on calculators from the earliest electronic calculators through the early 1980's is provided for each machine in the museum.

Hokusai's five ghoulish prints for the series Hyaku Monogatari [One Hundred Ghost Stories].

Meiji era copies (ca. 1900) of original designs by Itō Jakuchū (1716–1800), a Japanese painter of the mid-Edo period notable for his striking modern aesthetic.

A bone-chilling book of woodblock prints, depicting a parade of demons, by Kawanabe Kyōsai, the bad boy of 19th-century Japanese art.

A random colour, nothing more.

PRESERVING DJ & NIGHTCLUB HISTORY

Technovelgy has over 3,000 science fiction ideas and inventions, and over 6,400 SF made real articles.

SF timeline of 3,300+ ideas and inventions from 1,000+ works by 400+ authors.

We use artificial intelligence to make up new English words.

I recently wrote a final paper on the history of written numerals. In the process, I discovered this fascinating tidbit that didn’t really fit in my paper, but I wanted to put it somewhere. So I’m writing about it here.

Web Design Museum exhibits thousands of websites that chronicle forgotten trends in web design from its beginnings in the 1990s to the mid-00s.

Noted Internet thinker and author Clay Shirky delivered one of the opening "provocations" at Supernova 2007. Using a 1300-year-old Japanese shrine as a metaphor, Clay explained how the New Network changes the basic dynamics of business and collective creativity.

The prediction markets predicted the election outcome more accurately and more quickly than polls or other forecasting methods, just as expected from decades of research. In this election, however, many people discounted the prediction markets because of large trades on Polymarket. Paul Krugman, for example, wrote: Never mind the prediction markets, which are thin and […]

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— Brian Chesky (@bchesky)

Internal tech industry emails that surface in public records.🔍. Click to read Internal Tech Emails, a Substack publication with tens of thousands of subscribers.