Intricacies of day-night and season cycles

Much more than you wanted to know about day-night and season cycles.
Check out this beautifully implemented interactive page Earth and Sun by Bartosz Ciechanowski.
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Sometimes it's really hard to measure the effects of online ads

Or as Jesse Frederik and Maurits Martijn named it The new dot com bubble is here: it’s called online advertising .
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OpenAI language model is about to change how we parse meaningless text

Humans Who Are Not Concentrating Are Not General Intelligences in which srconstantin describes one of many possible consequences of OpenAI’s new language model.
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Slack rant

Replying to Slack messages feels productive, but it is a very, very addictive way to procrastinate. It’s hard to say no to it. Others are replying fast. Instant messaging creates expectation of a fast answer. It’s not your grandpa’s email after all. It is gratifying, it is a quick fix, it’s easy. Get your dopamine hit now.
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