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Michael Zemel

Michael Zemel

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  • Jun 27, 2020

    Twitter makes it hard to think

    An essay on why Twitter is an intellectually exhausting news source.

  • Jun 24, 2020

    Should history be forgotten?

    We are tearing down statues of people we now find immoral. We can stop writing books and making movies about these people, too. We can even stop teaching children about them in schools. We can use our will to create...

  • Jun 11, 2020

    Backstabbr GIFs

    Making GIFs from games

  • May 10, 2019

    The making of Monarchs

    A visual timeline of Europe

  • Mar 31, 2019

    Better mailing address management

    People move a lot.

  • Oct 15, 2018

    Diplomacy: is it a good idea to stab?

    Should you try to solo or share the win?

  • Oct 8, 2018

    Lessons from a large ETL

    Moving 500GB over HTTP

  • Mar 8, 2018

    Gunboat Diplomacy

    Who just stabbed me?

  • Mar 6, 2018

    Comparing MRI and JRuby

    Does JRuby outperform MRI in parallel arithmetic calculations?

  • Mar 5, 2018

    DeepDream GIFs

    Using deep learning to create psychedelia

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