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• How to Create a DAG: An 8-Step Guide to Causal Diagrams [youtube]
• Causal Inference with DAGs [youtube]
• Science has a problem with causality [youtube]
• The fragile foundation of inferential statistics [youtube]
• Why We’re All Bayesians [youtube]
• How bad is it? Critiquing a study on circadian rhythms [youtube]
• Estimating effect sizes for interactions [youtube]
• I Used a Statistical Model to Negotiate a Car Price [youtube]
• Is it possible to p-hack with plots? [youtube]
• Simple slopes analysis is dumb [youtube]
• The sordid history of least squares [youtube]
• Academia versus Industry for a Statistics Career [youtube]
• Education is Killing Curiosity [youtube]
• ARIMA models with predictors! [youtube]
• ARIMA Models in R [youtube]
• Брахистохрона — най-бързият път между две точки [youtube]
• ChatGPT не „знае" — той смята вероятности. 🎲Точно тази математика учим в школата. [youtube]
• Какво всъщност е ентропията? [youtube]
• Цялата висша математика за една година: стъпка по стъпка, последователно и разбираемо physofia.com [youtube]
• 17 July 2026 [youtube]
• Интегралите са препъникамък за доста студенти. Виж повече: physofia.com [youtube]
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• Live updates: US-Iran war; Trump says he’s canceling planned attacks - CNN [News]
• Democrats slam Trump admin after DOJ drops Reflecting Pool vandalism case - The Hill [News]
• Letters sent to Nancy Guthrie’s family after her disappearance are released - NBC News [News]
• Idaho fast food restaurant shooting leaves 3 dead and 7 injured, city spokesman says - AP News [News]
• Avalanche kills famed climber Purja and nine others in Pakistan - aljazeera.com [News]
• More Than a Dozen Wildfires Burn in Washington State, Forcing Evacuations - The New York Times [News]
• ‘Where’s Mitch?’ Kentucky Political Picnic Takes Place Without McConnell - The New York Times [News]
• Michigan joins Minnesota in reporting cyberattacks, with FBI investigating - aljazeera.com [News]
• Data centers have a politics problem — and industry knows it - Politico [News]
• Gov. Bob Ferguson declares statewide emergency as Spokane-area wildfires spread - komonews.com [News]
• Zelensky says Ukraine has ‘no interceptors’ as ballistic missiles hit Kyiv - The Washington Post [News]
• Migrants say hunger and hostility drove them back from Spain's Ceuta to Morocco - Reuters [News]
• Moscow restaurant bombing kills three people as device carried by woman explodes - The Guardian [News]
• Israel kills five in Gaza despite Trump’s Hamas disarmament plan - aljazeera.com [News]
• Will SpaceX paint its rocket pink? Investor questions go beyond Moon and Mars ahead of first results - Reuters [News]
• How Citadel’s Situational Awareness deal helped avert a $3T AI selloff - Seeking Alpha [News]
• Bessent and the Fed Help Japan Reverse Months of Yen Losses - Bloomberg.com [News]
• Trump offering early access to online posts in move seen as corruption - The Guardian [News]
• Pixel 11 specs and price leak with no surprises - The Verge [News]
• I’m not convinced the 20th anniversary iPhone will be what we think, here’s why - 9to5Mac [News]
• Nvidia Isn't Alone: AMD Reportedly Plans to Raise GPU Prices Too - IGN [News]
• Google Briefly Turned Google Earth Into an AI Slop Factory - Gizmodo [News]
• ‘Sopranos’ actor Vincent Pastore, known for playing mobsters and tough guys, dead at 80 - AP News [News]
• Box Office: ‘Spider-Man: Brand New Day’ Breaks Opening Day Record With $168 Million - Variety [News]
• Lollapalooza 2026 Day Two: Smashing Pumpkins, Charli XCX Deliver Rock Music to Massive Crowds - Rolling Stone [News]
• Oba Femi's Win vs. Brock Lesnar at SummerSlam Marks the Start of WWE's Next Era - Bleacher Report [News]
• Sources: Dodgers land two-time Cy Young winner Tarik Skubal - ESPN [News]
• UEFA describes Gianni Infantino's investment plan as 'shabby, back room, opaque deal'; Concacaf also rips FIFA president - Yahoo Sports [News]
• Kevin Durant Reacts to LeBron James Joining 76ers, Compares Team to Warriors Dynasty - Bleacher Report [News]
• White Sox Acquire Luis Castillo - MLB Trade Rumors [News]
• A Ton Of Space Junk Returns To Earth Weekly As Rocket Launches Rise: Report - NDTV [News]
• NASA’s Curiosity Rover Discovers Massive Honeycomb-Like Patterns on Mars: ‘Took Our Breath Away’ - Yahoo News Canada [News]
• Summer stargazing goes out with a bang in August - Gothamist [News]
• Discarded SpaceX rocket is on high-speed collision course with the moon - ABC7 Los Angeles [News]
• Ebola Bundibugyo strain outbreak worst ever in DR Congo, WHO says - bbc.com [News]
• Legionnaires’ Outbreak on Upper East Side Is Over, N.Y.C. Officials Say - The New York Times [News]
• Consuming less protein could have greater health benefits and extend lifespan - News-Medical [News]
• As measles has a record resurgence, doctors relive terror of last major US outbreak - The Independent [News]
• August Break [substack]
• Cognitive Farmsteading [substack]
• Join me in Jamverse [substack]
• Can the (Social) Oobleck Dance? [substack]
• The Taste Essay [substack]
• A Tale of Two Theories (of Coordination) [substack]
• Dead Forest Theory [substack]
• Monitoring the Situation: from 1950s-2020s [substack]
• Strange Knowledgeability [substack]
• Search, Discovery, Pills, and Portals [substack]
• A Camera, Not an Engine II [substack]
• Touching Time [substack]
• Mindmap June 6, 2026 [substack]
• From Cannons to Chronometers to Factories [substack]
• Time, Enlightenment and Romanticism Between Modernity and Divergence [substack]
• Commodity Intelligence [substack]
• Many Act 2 Games are Afoot [substack]
• Capital Must Seek Delight [substack]
• Ribbonfarm Resurrected [substack]
• Getting Gooier [substack]
• Blog Jamboree 2026: The Winners [substack]
• The Decline of Deviance 2 [substack]
• The most wonderful thing that happened to Tommy McHugh [substack]
• Stop eating Lady Gaga's Oreos [substack]
• Only insane people use the internet [substack]
• Shame them, shun them, ban them, beat them! [substack]
• The 3rd Annual Blog Post Competition, Extravaganza, and Jamboree [substack]
• Nothing ever dies. It merely becomes embarrassing. [substack]
• Infinite midwit [substack]
• Help I'm being persecuted [substack]
• The one science reform we can all agree on, but we're too cowardly to do [substack]
• I swear the UFO is coming any minute [substack]
• Underrated ways to change the world, vol. II [substack]
• I know your secret [substack]
• Text is king [substack]
• How to be less awkward [substack]
• The drug that taught me how much I should suffer [substack]
• Secrets of the ancient memelords [substack]
• You say potato, I say leprosy [substack]
• The Decline of Deviance [substack]
• Scientists have automated cognitive studies of capuchin monkeys in the wild [tildes]
• Game review - Vruknavar, local brawler to play with friends [free] [tildes]
• Oil companies report sky-high profits thanks to wartime crude prices [tildes]
• Would you eat "Casu Marzu," Sardinia's famous maggot infested cheese? [tildes]
• New apartments designed by and for slum dwellers in India are "a dream fulfilled" for residents [tildes]
• Save Point: A game deal roundup for the week of August 2 [tildes]
• As Reddit stock falls, CEO questions value of Google’s AI Overviews [tildes]
• FIFA scraps controversial plan to sell commercial rights to private investors [tildes]
• "Over the course of this article, we'll unravel the mysteries of elevators. The way you push their buttons, and how they push yours." [tildes]
• Postmortem for Lean kernel soundness bug #14576 [tildes]
• Weekly thread for casual chat and photos of pets [tildes]
• Google just ruined one of its most important tools [tildes]
• Wormwood – Yra|Extas (2026) [tildes]
• Eventually you'll get pretend cancer: the bizarre world of candy cigarettes [tildes]
• Hand-Drawn Game Guides: Illustrated guides and maps for retro video games [tildes]
• Hi, how are you? Mental health support and discussion thread (August 2026) [tildes]
• Icelandic coast guards and special forces seized a ship operated by a group founded by anti-whaling activist Paul Watson and detained its crew [tildes]
• The colonization of confidence [tildes]
• End of Series - Tildes Book Club discussion - July 2026 - A Psalm for the Wild Built by Becky Chambers [tildes]
• Noma restaurant prepares to reopen under new leadership after René Redzepi abuse allegations – Danish venue puts renewed focus on staff wellbeing under new head chef Pablo Soto [tildes]
• A newbie's guide to self-hosting: GoToSocial part 1 (installation and set-up) [tildes]
• CGA-2026-08 🗡️🛡️❤️🔺 INSERT CARTRIDGE 🟢 The Legend of Zelda: A Link to the Past [tildes]
• Raunchy – Designed Despair (2026) [tildes]
• Looking for low-mess wild bird feeder or birdseed recommendations [tildes]
• An emotional day, and a request about pets [tildes]
• The least private operating system ever created [tildes]
• The effects of the EU’s Cohesion Policy [tildes]
• The Roman Space Telescope, NASA's next great observatory, is ready to launch Aug 30 [tildes]
• Another "help, looking for mechanical keyboard" thread! cherrys, color backlit leds, usb only (no bt), 100% size [tildes]
• PC upgrade vs replacement [tildes]
• Women should be able to open things [tildes]
• Is there a way to filter out everything posted by a user? [tildes]
• I, along with three school friends, am entering the lion's den to represent Great Britain at the World Mölkky Championships in Helsinki [tildes]
• Sapphire - 'Shiki No Uta' (Samurai Champloo) English cover (2016) [tildes]
• Big food versus the people [tildes]
• In the Nordics, summer is all about retreating to a countryside timber dwelling – here are some of the best, from a mid-Century home to a modern cabin overlooking the ocean [tildes]
• Żabka to be purchased by Canadian retailer Alimentation Couche-Tard after Japan’s 7-Eleven owner walks away from investment talks [tildes]
• “Hope is a method: If I do something about this situation, I might change it enough so that I can do something else about this situation.” -- Cory Doctorow [tildes]
• Offbeat Fridays – The thread where offbeat headlines become front page news [tildes]
• ‘X-Men’: Samara Weaving lands role of Emma Frost in upcoming Marvel Studios picture [tildes]
• What have you been listening to this week? [tildes]
• Help selecting a mechanical keyboard [tildes]
• What did you do this week (and weekend)? [tildes]
• Game Industry Hardship Fund bundle [tildes]
• An announcement from Superlogical: Building the multiplexer for all work [tildes]
• The AI design aesthetic that is taking over the internet [tildes]
• Warner Bros. and Paramount will be making competing ‘Nightmare on Elm Street’ films [tildes]
• Is anyone watching Widows Bay? (Apple TV) [tildes]
• Dark Sun, Star Wars, and more classic settings return to D&D [tildes]
• Anthropic discovered three cases where Claude broke into another system [tildes]
• Morph (YC S23) Is Hiring Member of Technical Staff [hacker news]
• Running Kimi K3 on MI355X at Better Performance per Dollar Than B300 [hacker news]
• Go 1.27 Interactive Tour [hacker news]
• MkLinux and the pimped-out Apple Workgroup Server 9150 [hacker news]
• Seedance 2.5 [hacker news]
• Diátaxis [hacker news]
• P[drive failure]: how reliable is your NAS? [hacker news]
• Postmortem for Kernel Soundness Bug #14576 [hacker news]
• ASRock BC-250: Building the Budget Steam Machine [hacker news]
• Deep-sea vehicles spot 'alien' sharks deep beneath the waves in the Pacific [hacker news]
• Unraveling the mysteries of habit formation [hacker news]
• AI financial advice is surprisingly good, especially if you ask right questions [hacker news]
• When random.bytes() runs but doesn't work [hacker news]
• Four Time Scales for Technology Development and Deployment [hacker news]
• Linux desktop market share has hit over 10% in North America [hacker news]
• Show HN: I'm a 15 Year Old Wannabe Engineer, This Is a Cycloidal Gearbox I Built [hacker news]
• RFC 10015: Deprecating Obsolete Key Exchange Methods in TLS 1.2 and DTLS 1.2 [hacker news]
• Atom is better than RSS, in ways that matter [hacker news]
• The Art of 64-bit Assembly [hacker news]
• But can your calculator run Linux? [hacker news]
• A profile of Jacob Tsimerman, who won the Fields Medal last week and is taking a leave from the University of Toronto to join OpenAI and work on AI safety (Ben Cohen/Wall Street Journal) [techmeme]
• Chinese VC firms are rushing to raise new funds after three years of record-low fundraising, amid renewed enthusiasm for China's tech, AI, and robotics sectors (Eleanor Olcott/Financial Times) [techmeme]
• LemonEdge, a fund accounting and operations software provider for the private markets sector, raised a $21M Series A led by Blackstone Innovations Investments (FinTech Global) [techmeme]
• Malaysia shuts down Network School, Balaji Srinivasan's techno-utopian project, over licensing issues; Srinivasan says he is opening a new campus in Kazakhstan (Wall Street Journal) [techmeme]
• Apple introduced a cap and a 30-day cool-off period on bug report submissions, citing a deluge of AI-assisted reports; researchers can request higher quotas (Financial Times) [techmeme]
• An investigation reveals Dubai-based unlicensed crypto exchange Shelbit has processed at least $4B as part of Iran's sanctions-evasion operation since May 2024 (Reuters) [techmeme]
• US judge refuses xAI's request to stop a Minnesota law banning "nudify" apps, noting the request came only three days before the law was to take effect (NBC News) [techmeme]
• Bitcoin hardware wallet Coldcard shipped a faulty firmware build, and hackers are now draining wallets; Galaxy Research estimates $70M+ stolen (Shaurya Malwa/CoinDesk) [techmeme]
• Trump Media's new paid data API launches, for "a direct, licensed, real-time feed of the platform's most market-moving Truths"; Dem. senators asked SEC to probe (CJ Haddad/CNBC) [techmeme]
• Officials: the scope of cyberattacks on US water systems now includes at least seven states and may be far wider; MN was just the first to publicly report them (New York Times) [techmeme]
• A look at the deluge of AI computing power set to come online in the coming years; Epoch AI expects the number of AI chips in use to double every nine months (New York Times) [techmeme]
• OpenAI says an internal version of Astra, its next big model, produced results for 10 problems in math, quantum complexity, and theoretical computer science (OpenAI) [techmeme]
• This year's Defcon badges include Baochip-1x, an open source chip whose security is verifiable and that can also be used as a hardware security token (Kim Zetter/Wired) [techmeme]
• At the UN AI for Good summit, a big Chinese delegation argued Chinese open-source AI models are the future for most of the world, while US presence was muted (J.D. Capelouto/Semafor) [techmeme]
• Inside Larry Ellison's debt-fueled push to turn Oracle into an AI juggernaut by aligning with Trump, backing Project Stargate, and partnering with OpenAI (New York Times) [techmeme]