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Looking at Gemini and other “web bloat” fixes: youtu.be/I2Q35uFCq...…
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On over-hyped claims and throwing around the word "wormhole" scottaaronson.blog…
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Vaguely disturbing: www.palladiummag.com/2022/11/0...…
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Interesting historical tidbit: early Lisp had several “similar” languages that died out: http://www.bitsavers.org/pdf/sri/Raphael_A_Brief_Survey_of_Languages_for_Symbolic_and_Algebraic_Manipulation_Se…
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“The forty year programmer” youtu.be/UPkJGU7It...…
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A reasonable overview of Urbit…
Another look at (old) Distributed Systems
Remember watching this talk by Michael Bernstein many years ago, and some good things are worth revisiting, so I re-watched it today. It’s backed by some reading material too. Part 1 These days I’m…
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It's one thing to find evidence of an impact on Mars. It's another thing to find water and ice on Mars. It's a whole other thing to find evidence of a mega-tsunami on Mars. gizmodo.com/m…
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An amusing anecdote from a HN comment: > When I joined Sun in '86 I thought it was the pinnacle of technological excellence to be a kernel programmer, and I joined the Systems Group, the notio…
Monthly Curations — November 2022
* A new space station lives! * Looking at structures found in the Azores * A stock-sentiment-tracking service built on Lisp * Great old forth blog (from about 15 years…
On Madness
From an article in the Tablet: Entire nations can go insane. Here’s a way to test if we’re headed that way: Watch five minutes of TikTok—anything related to politics, beauty tips, or social justice.…
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A psychedelic take on generative AIs: return.life/2022/06/2...…