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...…
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A somewhat off-trace but to-my-taste wish-list: www.otherlife.co/gifts/…
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A review of “non-C-based” operating systems: https://www.theregister.com/2022/03/29/non_c_operating_systems/…
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A comparison between languages > I’ve noodled on it for a bit now, and I think the reason I like forth and scheme and other languages with something like a repl is because when I start a new proje…
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A note on pedagogy of programming: web.archive.org/web/20050...…
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Obligatory Octopus post -- this time, an explanation for their brain complexity that suggests a possible common factor for all complex brains: an expansion in the variety of microRNA www.mdc-berlin.d…
On the appeal of different types of languages
From this HN comment: > The central question for any programming language isn't how comfortably it welcomes casual newcomers; it's how effectively it creates a human:machine interface for…
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Interesting talk by Peter Thule: youtu.be/ibR_ULHYi...…
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An interesting science v religion take: www.theguardian.com/science/2...…
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The problem with Scheme is that there are too many of them; TIL about Loko scheme. scheme.fail/manual/lo...…
Of Noogler times
Found this while spring-cleaning: Must have got this on my first day at Google, 12 years ago! Resolved not to hold on to things out of pure nostalgia (or there would be more of them than ones I use)…