The Augmentation Revolution Hiding in Plain Sight
Everyone's debating whether AI will replace workers. They're missing the revolution: it's already augmenting millions of us. Edward Zitron’s "The Case Against Generative AI" ma…
Tekne
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Social Network Scores
The shape of things to come: (As seen in the Economist, April 13th edition)…
iOS progress
I don’t normally get pleasantly surprised by improvements to the mobile computing experience, but this is good stuff:…
"AI crap"
From the post of the same name by Drew DeVault: You will never trust another product review. You will never speak to a human being at your ISP again. Vapid, pithy media will fill the digital world ar…
Spending time, sharing time
When you hear the phrase “lost technology”, you tend to think of something mysterious from millennia ago. However, as I discovered from “Einstein’s clocks, Poincaré’s maps”, even just a century ago,…
Mis-placed optimism
The heady promises of the 90s, w.r.t to the internet, and how it would bring greater openness and understanding, came to nothing, and gave us the dystopian social-media-verse we live in today. But th…
The weirdness and awesomeness of long-form YouTube
I found myself listening to this recently: From the description: This is the ambient electromagnetic signal of our Sun and Neptune which have been combined with each other and then deepened and smoo…
Notion
I've always been prone to trying out new apps in the note-taking, information-herding, organizing, brain-storming, storing-and-finding space, not because I like shiny new things (I used to like sh…
Programming/Math/Science roundup: June 2018
Somehow, a lot of interesting stuff this month: * For Emacs enthusiasts, version 26.1 is out, with support for generators and threads * A new fundamental particle (?!) * You probably didn’t know t…
Continuing adventures in Tinderbox
Been using Tinderbox, in fits and starts, for a bit over a year now. I use it for all sorts of different stuff and the crazy bit is that I haven't even scratched the surface, I've used it for…
Programming/Math/Science roundup: May 2018
* I haven’t been on Facebook in a while, but if you are, you might read this rant * Indeed, C is not a low-level language * Mixed feelings about this, but mostly agree: intuition is not always help…
Programming/Math/Science roundup: April 2018
* David Patterson does a wide-ranging interview on computer architecture (spoiler: RISC!) * Something about various extrasolar planets being “evenly spaced on a log scale” * There’s more than one b…