Fernando Pessoa’s Unselving(theparisreview.org)
71 points by Caiero | 12 comments
71 points by Caiero | 12 comments
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A 2017 Atlantic article by James Somers about how Google scanned millions of books but its plan for a universal digital library was stalled by a failed copyright settlement.
321 points by amatheus | 72 comments
A 2019 Medium post by Bruno Postle about the perspective technique used in Giovanni Battista Piranesi's architectural etchings; the page had not loaded.
331 points by joshwa | 113 comments
arXiv paper introducing SWE-Bench+, an empirical analysis revealing data quality issues in the SWE-bench coding benchmark for LLMs, such as solution leakage and weak tests.
444 points by axiomdata316 | 155 comments
An MIT Press Reader essay on how Stanisław Lem's novel "The Invincible" anticipated ideas about artificial life and what it teaches about the present.
334 points by _sJiff | 202 comments
A blog post by Stanislav Myachenkov reviewing Tanya Reilly's book "The Staff Engineer's Path," a guide for individual contributors growing into staff roles.
340 points by skanderbm | 154 comments
A 2018 blog post by Russell Cohen explaining how to find the median of a list in linear time using quickselect and the median-of-medians algorithm.