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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…
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Quote from James Clear: > Simple mindset shifts: I'm not hurt, I'm healing. I'm not losing, I'm learning. I was not rejected, I was redirected. > Negative things happen. Neg…
Who made who
From a HN comment > Sometimes I wonder if we're just giant machines built by microorganisms. It would certainly make an interesting story, along the idea of a robot discovering they were made…
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NeoVim is now just as much of an extensible editor github.com/ggandor/l... (the easy use of Fennel for config has created an Emacs-Lisp counterpart !)…
Monthly Recap (September 2022)
Major update(s) * Went for a 10k run * Dental implants Minor updates * AC stopped working on the hottest weekend of the summer, had to get a whole new one installed * Various meeting-peopl…
Monthly Curations — September 2022
* A look at the engine that made the SR-71 Blackbird possible * Some words from a HackerNews post: The longer I am a software engineer the longer I begin to understand that the soft skills are much…