Joseph Stiglitz explained why he and others got the Nobel prize.

... economists used simple economic models that assumed that information was perfect – i.e. that all participants have equal and transparent knowledge of the relevant factors. They knew that information wasn't perfect, but hoped that a world with moderate imperfections of information would be akin to a world with perfect information. We showed that this notion was ill-founded: even small imperfections of information could have profound effects on how the economy behaved.

Среди изучающих китайский мало кто не слыхал про ту самую лапшу бян-бян, в которой biáng записывается через довольно увесистый иероглиф:
В 2020 году его даже добавили в Юникод: 𰻞 (трад.), 𰻝 (упр.).
Многие ошибочно полагают, что его создали не так давно и просто забавы ради, однако не всё так просто. По всему Китаю существует множество похожих иероглифов, и все они имеют историю как минимум в 200 лет.

George Akerlof, Michael Spence and Joseph Stiglitz. Market for lemons and whatnot.

Marius claims domains as user ids are not good. Good points

Wolfram language never cease to amaze me with how it manages to introduce mind-blowing features that are not possible everywhere else without introducing any syntax. In today's episode: wrap a resource-intensive computation in this function, and it'll magically happen on our enchanted cloud computers; there will be an email notification. Truly awesome. Sometimes I envy scientists because they have a reason to use tools like Wolfram.

Explore why Markdown, despite its ubiquity, might not be the best fit for technical content.

rand($.) < 1 && ($line = $_) while <>;

Pick a random line from a file without knowing its size beforehand. The algorithm can be easily adjusted to many a thing...

How come Perl is so fun?

Disables theming (enables Classic theme)

Как правильно использовать тыквенный калабас. Зачем оживлять, как сушить и лечить калабас из тыквы. Кратко и по теме.

why not be an egg

Surspringly peak game about platforming eggs. Free, plays in browser.

DevCrowd вместе с Авито провели исследование рынка Go-разработчиков

10x faster, 10x less RAM, and 100x better than Chrome headless.

Might be a good back-end for rich archive copies of web pages.

A new ecosystem similar to World Wide Web, featuring gurt: protocol, custom browser (from scratch), HTML + CSS + Lua sites, DNS, search engine, server management tool, and more. - outpoot/gurted

This guide explains how to construct an energy-efficient cooking appliance powered by a small solar panel. Thanks to its heat storage, the cooker remains ready to use even after sunset.

Sands is a free roguelike inspired by Dune, set on the harsh deserts of Arrakis. You play as a fremen, caught in the struggles of survival, mysticism, and the shifting politics of the landstrad.

Your journey takes you through the story of the first book, but seen from the perspective of the fremen. You’ll fight, adapt, and push the fremen agenda forward while trying to survive the chaos around you.

An interesting environment and editing model.

В 2017-м году я в своих раскопках в интернете наткнулся на браузер ViolaWWW. Он совершенно незаслуженно забыт, хотя обладал в своё время поразительными возможностями

Евгений запускает Виолу на современном маке.

Tricks to use OS X 10.9 Mavericks in modern day. Does that qualify as retrocomputing already?

minimal lua/sdl platform

Something like Löve 2D, uxn, INSTEAD, Pico-8, all at the same time

I've written a number of little scripts over the years, many of which I use every day. Here's a little collection.

I use z-run for something like this.

Timelinize unifies and organizes your digital life on your own computer.

The safest and most reliable way to deal with feature flags is to hardcode them

In 2015 I got rid of everything I owned that didn’t fit in a laptop backpack, and I’ve been living at this level of minimalism since. The idea is to only own what I need, which allows me to focus more, spend less, travel spontaneously and simplify my life.

Running on weird hardware or something.

Reminding myself just how much you can do with CSS these days.

Фестиваль эргономичных девайсов

A site with statistics regarding the decentralization status of various web services

Fediverse: yes
The Atmosphere and Git forges: no

One of the most controversial things I believe about good software design is that your code should be more flexible than your domain model. This is in direct…

How to minimize user frustration in Antarctica.

How you engage with the world changes how you experience the world, and how the world experiences you.

Instance of Xobaque

Karl Voit with another banger.

Прошло более 20 лет с того момента, когда тарифы на мобильную связь указывались в у.е., а GPRS трафик подразделялся на GPRS-Internet и GPRS-WAP. Последний был довольно дорогим способом почитать...

A Markdown document that has 24 possible renderings, depending on the renderer.

Before the large-scale use of fossil fuels, removable textile layers kept homes warm in winter and cool in summer.

Not a single mention of textile collecting dust

Maltron has a better thumbcluster

A role-playing dungeon crawler game for DOS

Бизнес на агродронах

Plaintext emails are slowly becoming an artifact of the past. Still, there’s a lot interesting things about plaintext emails. Including... plaintext-only formatting!

Чайный блог. Свежая и интересная информация о выращивании, сборе и производстве китайского чая. Чайная история, культура чаепития.

О вкусе и аромате чаев можно спорить бесконечно. Но вот о безопасности и качестве напитка лучше рассуждать, когда имеешь веские доказательства. Поэтому эксперты Роскачества закупили, обезличили и отправили в крупную лабораторию 48 товаров: черный чай самых популярных торговых марок. Как листовой, так и в пакетиках. Что искали и почему? Читайте далее.

Markov algorithms have received very little attention in the studies about formal languages, so the purpose of the present paper is twofold: i) to characterize languages in terms of Markov algorithms, and ii) to produce automatically Markov algorithms accepting or parsing languages generated by given grammars.

We use a particular, although universal, subclass of Markov algorithms, which we call “pointer Markov algorithms»; we obtain a characterization of: i) regular, ii) deterministic context-free, and iii) type O languages, which is quite «natural» in terms of these algorithms. Furthermore, we show that, given a right linear or a strongLL(k) grammar, it is possible to produce automatically a pointer Markov algorithm parsing the language generated by the grammar. These constructions are particularly interesting because pointer Markov algorithms can be compiled conveniently into machine code programs.

In the study of fundamental properties of algorithms, attention is often given to classes of abstract general procedures. Of these, the Markov algorithm has some claims to favour owing to the simplicity of its semantics, the relative power of its basic operations and its independence of numerical concepts. Such a study will generally be assisted by some practical experience in using the methods introduced.