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When they set off, one by one, first in the sprint, then the first shootout, what struck me was how quiet the cars were. This makes sense to me as someone who once studied acoustics in graduate school. Formula 1, again like sword fighting, is about an economy of motion. Noise is a hallmark of mechanical inefficiency. [[When mechanical systems work well, they work quietly. Noise at its core is excess energy.::highlight]] In Formula 1 cars, being perfect machines, that energy is redirected where it could be of use.
Behind F1's Velvet Curtain
Kate Wagner
Interlace is “the device of interweaving of a number of different themes … all distinct and yet inseparable.” The device is thought to have originated with Ovid. Denis Feeny in his introduction to Ovid’s Metamorphoses, notes that the “haphazard chain of association is entertaining, but it also reinforces the Ovidian theme of the very contingency of connectedness.”
Crossing the Sunshine Skyway
Robin Sloan
The lesson is that, for those of us who live online, having a simple static-site home on the range, on your own domain name, under your own control, has one of the highest returns on investment of anything you can do.
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