Vernal Equinox 2026 links
the best of the internet over the last season
- The Battle to Stop Clever People Betting
- Backing up Spotify
- This would make a really good interview question, along with being an analysis of visual vs. mathematical fits to data: Why do the lines of least squares and maximum covariance have different slopes?
- TIL why airplane windows have a tiny hole in them
- If I had to guess, I would have guessed for pressure related reasons, and I would have been partially correct. But there are three panes instead of one, and the hole is in the middle pane to reduce stress between the inner and outer panes.
- It also prevents fogging/condensation.
- Planes used to initially have square-edges which weren’t great at distributing stress
- Tom Brady the broadcaster
- Not all Chess960 positions are equally complex
- A history of Pharos
- Poisoned Wells: Examining the scale of DNS censorship in India
- This World of Ours by James Mickens
- The 2028 Global Intelligence Crisis by Citrini Research