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Monthly Curations: February 2023
* Something truly novel for me, "reaching before and beyond spacetime" through deep learning * A long essay on the war in Ukraine. Goes against the grain but has a thorough ove…
"Blogging" vs "writing about blogging"
This image (from a great webcomic) brought a smile to my face, and if you've procrastinated by blaming your tools, it might for you too.…
Visual Thinking
Watching this Youtube video by the excellent Beck Tench. Cataloguing some of what she mentioned, for reference People Dave Gray Brandy Agerbeck (Twitter) Books and Mindsets Cartooning by Ivan…
Dotfiles & Vim
My “dotfiles” repo is a decade old now, and it has been interesting to see a progression through * .vimrc (ye olde days) * init.vim (“modern” vim) * init.lua (All-in on Lua with NeoVim) (is t…
Observe
I had the opportunity to use this excellent tool/service/platform over the last month. I won’t go into details about features etc (maybe later?) but the part that impressed me was how the core concep…
Tools for Thought
If you like “this sort of thing“, you should watch this talk by Mark Bernstein. It talk isn’t a TED talk, it isn’t on StrangeLoop, but it might be the best overview of this area yet. Touches on lost…
Monthly recap (January 2023)
Major updates New year, new beginnings: joined a bunch of very interesting people doing very interesting work at Luminary Cloud Minor updates * Dishwasher, dryer and a toilet all failed on one we…
Monthly Curations: January 2023
* On caring for abandoned strangers * On art as “the overcoming of death” * Beauty in the philosophy of cosmism is not an aesthetic category, but an ontological one.…
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On political stakes…