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A whacky kind of "art" project: kylemcdonald.net/psac/…
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From a HN thread > It's crazy and destructive that we are still using the unix paradigm in the cloud. > In the 70s we have transparent network fileststems, and by the 80s I had a more adva…
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A "pre-historic" amputation: www.aljazeera.com/news/2022...…
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Quote by James Clear: > "What appears to be a rapid shift is often preceded by a gradual process. Our results gradually explode or vanish thanks to the small habits we repeat each day. >…
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Halloween sketching with my daughter…
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A somewhat despairing article, from the Economist: www.economist.com/essay/201... (except it's from 7 years ago, and things haven't got any better ...)…
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Elegant code, or inscrutable code golfing? You decide: "random walk in two lines" asindu.xyz/2022/10/0...…
The many nostalgias of Harry Potter
I had pre-ordered the illustrated version of Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, which arrived this week (more on that later!) and made me think about the layers of feelings related to this … w…
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Goddamnit, geeks have been righteously complaining about "feature-itis" and retreating to their hermit kingdoms for so long. Here is one such complaint all the way back in 1999 (!) www.com…
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"Systems at scale", w.r.t. money laundering: www.propublica.org/article/c...…
On creativity, failure, and progress
Wisdom from Kourosh Dini: > Any creative act is, by definition, one in which we don’t know what the thing will look like in the end. > Instead, we discover what we are making in the act of its…
"Intelligence beyond the brain"
www.youtube.com/watch * Single-celled organisms are intelligent too * "Intelligent problem-solving in morphospace" * We can bio-engineer at a low-level, but not at a high-level * Cells…