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books-10325338 from Seth Godin

• It’s not a surprise when a scientist is surprised. That’s what happ...
• For the last five hundred years, the best way to succeed has been t...
• understand that the path is neither short nor easy. That means you ...
• The hard part is distinguishing between quitting because the resist...
• Volunteering to do emotional labor—even when you don’t feel like it...
• If your organization wanted to replace you with someone far better ...

books-22695054 from UnknownAuthor

• Context Maps where contexts have clear roles and their relationship...
• Another way this is noted is that Factories are “pure domain”, but ...
• The Factory should create new objects, while the Repository should ...
• For immutable Value Objects it means that all attributes are initia...
• Choose one Entity to be the root of each Aggregate, and control all...
• An Aggregate is a group of associated objects which are considered ...
• There are three characteristics of a Service: The operation perfor...
• For example, to transfer money from one account to another; should ...
• Concentrate all the code related to the domain model in one layer a...

books-10325339 from Marc-Andre Giroux

• All in all, I don’t think service communication is the sweet spot f...
• GraphQL is purposefully transport/protocol agnostic. Nothing is sto...
• build a GraphQL API server that is resolved by many underlying serv...
• Airbnb’s approach of wiring up different schemas together to form t...
• My advice would be for GraphQL APIs to rely on conventions as much ...
• A lot has to be reinvented with a GraphQL API. Errors, caching, rat...
• The trade-off, though, is that a uniform interface degrades efficie...
• We can often categorize APIs in three broad categories: Private API...
• Compiled queries are a very exciting area of GraphQL that I hope to...
• Some would even say field ordering should be normalized, but that c...
• The generation of a cache key is always important, but even more so...
• It’s often very useful to provide inline performance information in...
• I like to think of the lifecycle of a GraphQL query in 3 broad step...
• Once the client has the identifier for a particular query, it can s...
• Persisted queries are a must for all internal APIs, and I suspect t...

books-10325340 from Martin Kleppmann

• Although we generally prefer tolerating faults over preventing faul...
• The things that can go wrong are called faults, and systems that an...

supplementals-10287441 from Thomas Piketty and Arthur Goldhammer

• The central thesis of this book is precisely that an apparently sma...

supplementals-10287445 from Nadia Eghbal

• Bigger projects often use a formal “request for comments” (RFC) pro...
• At minimum, open source projects hosted on GitHub can be broken int...
• Developers don’t contribute to open source for lack of technical ab...
• MAINTAINERS are those who are responsible for the future of a proje...
• This innate duality—software visible as both a fixed point and a li...
• Code is not a product to be bought and sold so much as a living for...
• Paying a maintainer for their attention can also translate into ful...
• Before there was a de facto platform for hosting code, most open so...
• The cost of maintenance, coupled with a lack of intrinsic motivatio...
• As for subscriptions, paywalls might seem like a way to monetize co...
• Code, in static state, can be bought and sold at nearly zero margin...
• A few of the conditions that Benkler identifies as necessary to pul...

supplementals-10287520 from Will Larson

• My favorite observation from The Phoenix Project by Gene Kim, Kevin...
• The fact that something stops working at significantly increased sc...
• What I’ve found most successful is to identify a few areas to impro...
• The expected time to complete a new task approaches infinity as a t...
• When you read good, coherent actions, you think, “This is going to ...
• If strategies describe the harsh trade-offs necessary to overcome a...
• Good goals are a composition of four specific kinds of numbers: A t...
• An important property of teams is that they abstract the complexiti...
• Organizational design gets the right people in the right places, em...
• Strategies are grounded documents which explain the trade-offs and ...
• When I have a problem that I want to solve quickly and cheaply, I s...

supplementals-10287584 from Ted Chiang

• “How does writing help you think?” “That is a good question,” he sa...
• “We like the idea that there’s always someone responsible for any g...
• People are made of stories. Our memories are not the impartial accu...
• We don’t normally think of it as such, but writing is a technology,...
• “Coincidence and intention are two sides of a tapestry, my lord. Yo...

supplementals-10287585 from Hope Jahren

• That whole summer in Colorado was a data-gathering bust, but it tau...
• And some of these things we do, and some of them we don’t (like the...
• There are a hundred species or so known as “resurrection plants.” T...
• A chilly autumn brings on the same hardening as a balmy one, becaus...
• Ask a science professor what she worries about. It won’t take long....
• Being paid to wonder seems like a heavy responsibility at times. 📕...
• When you are in the forest, for every tree that you see, there are ...
• Every species on Earth—past or present, from the single-celled micr...
• I wanted to be studying plant growth, but science for war will alwa...
• People are like plants: they grow toward the light. I chose science...
• My laboratory is like a church because it is where I figure out wha...
• Science has taught me that everything is more complicated than we f...
• He taught me that there is no shame in breaking something, only in ...
• Working in the hospital teaches you that there are only two kinds o...

supplementals-10287596 from Blake Crouch

• “Their sensory volume increased, since light travels farther in air...
• He has wondered lately if that’s all living really is—one long good...

supplementals-10287617 from Rebecca Solnit

• My friend Chip Ward speaks of “the tyranny of the quantifiable,” of...

supplementals-10287623 from Sarah Manguso

• At faculty meetings I sat next to people whose books had sold two m...
• Instead of pathologizing every human quirk, we should say, By the g...

articles-10287673 from interconnected.org

• And it was this work that really opened my eyes to the pervasive se...

articles-10287792 from interconnected.org

• Then the big parks, which are beautiful and well maintained. Great ...

articles-10287984 from brooker.co.za

• the system grows for a while (increasing λ), or we reduce the numbe...
• As we think about it this way, we realize that the closer ⍴ gets to...
• We can then define the Utilization of the server (calling it ⍴ for ...

articles-10313686 from artofmemory.com

• The Harold Mangum System uses phonetic sounds for 0 to 9 based on t...

articles-10319831 from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com

• There are articles about how to drive like a real-world road warrio...

supplementals-10325387 from George Horace Lorimer

• That was where I caught the connection between a college education ...
• Remember that when you’re in the right you can afford to keep your ...

articles-10361001 from serialized.io

• One of the most common mistakes when starting with Domain Events an...
• Examples of things that happen that might not be suitable to model ...

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• most people “take far too much pleasure in their beliefs to give th...
• One of the consequences of demateralisation is that things that “re...
• What we call history is, in practice, what we can bear to think abo...
• A general heuristic I’ve come to use to ascribe “value” to (a porti...
• Find the best teachers and take all their classes, no matter the su...
• Census figures show there are 40,000 more Latinos in Chicago than a...
• Chicago remains the third largest city in the country with a popula...
• I’m personally convinced that these companies are selling products ...
• although as with all plastic recycling, “downcycling” is the more a...
• At Maggie Daley Park, one of the project’s defining challenges was ...
• This sort of knowledge is what Dan Wang calls process knowledge - t...
• Jingu is famous for its tradition of periodic reconstruction, known...
• The four elements of credible neutrality are: (1) Don’t write speci...
• But just as the gig economy mode of work brought about negative con...

articles-10391595 from interconnected.org

• To summarise those desirable qualities, a good notation is: Compos...
• Or to be more specific, urbanist Kevin Lynch’s city maps from his 1...

articles-10391626 from gist.github.com

• Everything has an interface. A platform has an API. A computer has ...
• The value of a product is the number of problems it can solve divid...

articles-10391678 from annehelen.substack.com

• We’ve somehow managed to create a societal scenario where the most ...

articles-10391838 from thesephist.com

• Recollection is such a small, basic part of thinking! There is so m...
• A tool is something that takes an existing workflow, and makes it m...

articles-10407172 from www.floridapoliticalreview.com

• Bryan Beckman is a Clearwater environmentalist whose daily life has...

articles-10423006 from sarahmock.substack.com

• Why is that a hard message to communicate through marketing, especi...
• A few months ago, I was at an event that asked this question of par...
• Consumers want perfection, but farmers want commodity,” he said. T...
• The process [of regenerative ag] is expensive, since farmers who em...

articles-10432102 from blgtylr.substack.com

• There have always been people who have had to censor themselves and...
• I talked to strangers, and listened to them, and felt my face heat ...

articles-10461513 from blgtylr.substack.com

• A life that is cosmopolitan, which is to say, a life that belongs t...

articles-10664054 from blog.appsignal.com

• Instead, it’s much better to wrap your patch in a module and apply ...

articles-10664092 from charity.wtf

• CLICHES ARE A SUBSTITUTE FOR CRITICAL THINKING charity.wtf | Why I...

articles-10680535 from clivethompson.medium.com

• Rewild your attention” — that’s a wonderful way of putting it! (Or ...

articles-10809570 from twitter.com

• When asked for IC career advice the first thing I always say is: YO...

articles-10810099 from www.garbageday.email

• It’s seems obvious that collective action from internet creators is...

articles-10814542 from www.thecut.com

• never again let anyone tell you that the fury or determination to f...
• I have seethed as generations of Democrats have argued that if we c...

articles-10815193 from rachelbythebay.com

• Code runs on people. Please keep it simple. "Everyone knows&q...

articles-10823292 from twitter.com

• It's easy to look at pregnancy (for example) as something which...

articles-10898435 from future.a16z.com

• A lot of developer tools also assume a developer will switch to an ...
• If our notion of “what is supposed to happen” is getting weaker, th...
• most of the conversations around developer experience are about how...
• With developers spending less than a third of their time actually w...

articles-10898931 from www.newyorker.com

• Since writing is very hard and rewriting is comparatively easy and ...

articles-10899129 from interconnected.org

• In your head, ideas expand until they max out “working memory” – an...

articles-10915354 from tinyletter.com

• Alice Waters had this incredibly boss move at Chez Panisse where, f...
• Luxury always boils down to time: someone is paying a lot of money ...

articles-10915406 from subconscious.substack.com

• A conversation can happen between yourself and yourself, across tim...

articles-11055628 from newyorker.com

• The truth emerged only slowly, and was, in its own slippery way, st...

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• Sacasas describes the concept of “reality privilege” to which Andre...

articles-11111398 from infinitegossip.substack.com

• There should be a guy who every morning rides his bicycle down to t...

articles-11267158 from www.investopedia.com

• The Phillips curve is an economic concept developed by A. W. Philli...

articles-12188029 from futureofurbantech.org

• The pandemic highlighted our intimate relationship with biology. Ur...

articles-12188035 from kneelingbus.substack.com

• Like climate change, COVID is settling into its status as a “permac...
• when Netflix drops a big new show “it feels like a software update ...

articles-12188109 from fieldnotes.christopherbrown.com

• The next day I encountered a more novel creature in the process of ...

articles-12188120 from apenwarr.ca

• Here's what everyone peddling the new trendy systems is so desp...

articles-12223516 from theprepared.org

• the Coanda effect - the tendency of a fluid jet to stay attached to...

articles-12260833 from www.garbageday.email

• I hope the history books written about this moment in American hist...
• In a now-deleted tweet, a friend recently remarked on how she was s...

articles-12261590 from nautil.us

• It’s a nice fantasy to think about future singularity. But that’s j...

articles-12261824 from annehelen.substack.com

• Part of what makes for a really good profile — and this is certainl...

articles-12262237 from kottke.org

• The term 2.5-D was coined by anime fans in Japan in the 1980s to re...

articles-12262591 from macwright.com

• But the community feels different now, now that many of its partici...

articles-12265145 from sarahendren.substack.com

• In the lab or studio, the hardest question to answer is What shall ...

articles-12280535 from news.ycombinator.com

• Human memory is squishy, and that's great. You retain facts + f...

articles-12286101 from www.infoq.com

• these are the three main lists of golden signals today: From the Go...

articles-12304474 from buttondown.email

• And regulations are written in blood, so we’ll only get enforced le...
• TDD/FP/Agile zealots are probably zealots because adopting TDD/FP/A...

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• "But the point is… this infestation, SCP-4051, is a snowflake....

articles-12351662 from en.m.wikipedia.org

• Although the ownership of a particular stone might change, the ston...

articles-12361479 from news.ycombinator.com

• An immediate hypothesis was that Omicron may have developed in a si...

articles-12362309 from lethain.com

• Trust on its own isn’t much of a management technique. Trust cannot...

articles-12403263 from ferd.ca

• THE MEANING OF A COMMUNICATION IS THE BEHAVIOUR THAT RESULTS. ferd...
• The classification scheme used here is possibly the clearest one I&...

articles-12474652 from theprepared.org

• When we deal with buildings we deal with decisions taken long ago f...

articles-12502521 from blog.rinesi.com

• There’s the implicit expectation in AI and data science that if we ...

supplementals-10325377 from Greg Egan

• Durham said, “Do you know what a Garden-of-Eden configuration is?” ...

articles-12649116 from mothersundertheinfluence.substack.com

• Party food before social media was not prepared with photographic r...

supplementals-10287606 from Richard Rothstein

• There is generally no judicial remedy for a policy that the Supreme...
• The full cycle went like this: when a neighborhood first integrated...

supplementals-10287581 from Claire L. Evans

• Sometimes we love to grandstand to an audience of strangers at a pa...

supplementals-10325372 from Geoff Manaugh

• In a 2003 memoir called Where the Money Is: True Tales from the Ban...
• Today, nearly 150 years later, burglary and architecture still go h...

books-22695053 from James Clear

• This is one reason why we continually grasp for the latest get-rich...
• Happiness is the state you enter when you no longer want to change ...
• Sometimes a habit will be hard to remember and you’ll need to make ...
• Professionals stick to the schedule; amateurs let life get in the w...
• When I suggested this to friends in the Pentagon they said, ‘My God...
• it’s not always about what happens during the workout. It’s about b...
• Similarly, if your reward for exercising is eating a bowl of ice cr...
• We imitate the habits of three groups in particular: The close....
• Stop thinking about your environment as filled with objects. Start ...
• In this way, the most common form of change is not internal, but ex...
• The 1st Law of Behavior Change is to make it obvious. Strategies li...
• Whenever you want to change your behavior, you can simply ask yours...
• your habits are how you embody your identity 📕James Clear | An Eas...
• Goals are about the results you want to achieve. Systems are about ...

supplementals-10287579 from Michael Lewis

• The Gestalists showed that there was no obvious relationship betwee...
• It confirmed Biederman’s sense that “most advances in science come ...

articles-21426694 from Josh Beckman

• the Gruen Transfer, a phenomenon that architecture theorist Sanford...

articles-21427644 from James Somers

• series of reactions strips its highest-energy electrons and uses th...

articles-21447407 from Josh Beckman

• Mediocre computing is computing that aims for parity with mediocre ...

articles-21447495 from ferd.ca

• something called the Hermeneutic circle, which Ryan Kitchens descri...

articles-21452335 from Matthew Green

• because a service is running with a dependency down does not mean i...

articles-21517689 from Zack Korman

• I’m actually using GPT3 in a production system. The mistake people ...

articles-21537620 from Josh Beckman

• the crypto industry in 2022 rediscovered the 2008 financial crisis....
• He is making multi-year, illiquid, unhedgeable speculative investme...

articles-21642423 from Marc Brooker

• Writing is nature’s way of letting you know how sloppy your thinkin...

articles-21760542 from Rob Henderson

• A three second warning can’t compete against 45 minutes of seeing c...

articles-21806211 from Robin Sloan

• The cotton gin, a canonical example of automation, perversely incre...
• In most places, the olive harvest is mechanized, but that’s only po...

articles-21839201 from Sebastian Trzcinski-Clément

• what the chemical industry calls “verbund.” This is a setup in whic...
• mere-exposure effect: doing something many times makes us believe w...
• The promotion of brainstorming as a starting point is all the more ...
• Many students and academic writers think like the early ship owners...
• An idea kept private is as good as one you never had. Sebastian Tr...

articles-21854139 from Irrational Exuberance

• “Advancing the industry.” I believe that I can improve practice in ...

articles-21855580 from Interconnected

• Stochastic resonance is the phenomenon in which random noise can am...

articles-21861061 from Josh Beckman

• if you are talking about “numerous black swans” then you have made ...
• In the glory days, Olympus enthusiasts dressed up this insight in t...

articles-22099228 from Josh Beckman

• During the summer of 2021, Canadian researchers … found that the un...

articles-22099607 from The Third Bit

• When we say, “If you’re going to read one thing about programming, ...

articles-22100252 from Reverb Machine

• Stereo width is a big part of the Glowed Up mix, with the 808 and s...
• Sidechain compression listens to a second track to decide when to b...

articles-22146397 from Kate Ray

• Sonali had told us about Annaprashana, which is a Hindu ceremony in...

articles-22155142 from Christopher Brown

• The fruits are so small that the red doesn’t jump out at you in the...

articles-22196885 from Ferd.ca

• As far as I can tell, cognitive bandwidth and network bandwidth bot...
• the Law of stretched systems: Every system is stretched to oper...

articles-22433841 from marcelo.rinesi

• There’s a third impact of AI harder to spot and even harder to sell...
• Essentially, the use of AI as a technology has less of a meta-strat...
• using AI to design products is more powerful than using AI as a pro...

articles-22433977 from lethain.com

• My general view on beliefs is that we get to choose them, so we sho...
• Ultimately, I decided not to, and developed the idea that I should ...

books-22465999 from Joshua McFadden

• There is no need to cut croutons into perfect little squares! Just ...
• Before using dried fruit I rehydrate it in a bowl of water with a s...
• because nuts like all fatty ingredients will absorb odors. 📕Joshua...
• Cheese is a living thing that needs to breathe. Waxed paper or spec...
• Buy them in small quantities and replenish them often instead of ha...
• What will keep beans tough, though, is acid, so never cook beans in...
• Don't store in plastic containers, because the plastic can abso...
• Never buy preground or precracked pepper, ever! You want the fresh,...
• Those little shakers on the table are of no help when you cook; you...
• Build layers into your dish, like you're making nachos. Hide th...
• All roots have edible greens, so catch them early when they're ...
• please note-when grilling or charring, skip the oil. Cook your vege...

articles-22472550 from ~ uday schultz

• Eventually, you reach this list’s conclusion, which lies in an unas...
• To achieve that braking safety, the subway’s signal architecture wo...

articles-22478618 from University of Texas in Austin

• the programmer's task is not just to write down a program, but ...
• the program is an abstract symbol manipulator, which can be turned ...
• the vast majority of our mechanisms are viewed as analogue devices ...
• It is probably more illuminating to go a little bit further back, t...
• My point today is that, if we wish to count lines of code, we shoul...

articles-22478619 from Fernando Borretti

• in the web, it makes sense that links should reflect potential, sin...
• Most of our thoughts appear and pass away instantly, for good reaso...

articles-22478620 from wikipedia.org

• "Cartesian theater" is a derisive term coined by philosop...

articles-22479293 from bytes.zone

• I summarize these daily notes into a weekly digest. These have more...

articles-22489188 from ycombinator.com

• In essence, journalling is similar to a psychotherapy session. The...

articles-22614091 from Katelyn Jetelina from Your Local Epidemiologist

• Officials estimate between 5,000-10,000 people are dying per day . ...

articles-22734735 from Ferd.ca

• traditional arch bridges were built by first having a wood framing ...

articles-22739365 from Hundred Rabbits

• one of the realization that I hadworking on something like this was...
• and soall Apple products broke almostinstantly and uhall the tools ...
• our philosophy is that to make fastsoftware you need slow computers...

articles-22743765 from xxiivv.com

• Scavenge-friendly electronics are parts that are no longer manufact...
• Designing for Disassembly ensures that all elements of a product ca...
• Utilizing what has survived the collapse of industrial production o...
• Utilizing only already available computational resources, to be lim...
• Utilizing computational resources as finite and precious, to be uti...
• The abundance of digital storage and processing power has caused an...
• A post-collapse society that has eventually lost all of its artific...
• Collapse informatics prioritizes community needs and aims to contri...
• Designing for Descent ensures that a system is resilient to intermi...
• Asking for the most suitable programming language for permacomputin...

articles-22916781 from Sara Hendren from undefended / undefeated

• As a religion, social justice works. It works not merely in the sen...
• What is the alternative to naïve cynicism? An active response to wh...
• But the hyperobject that is climate change requires the very kind o...

articles-22928629 from Josh Beckman

• One imperfect but useful way to think about crypto,” I wrote, “is t...

articles-22928918 from Josh Beckman

• The attraction of private investments is that they don’t have to go...

articles-22929133 from Matt Levine

• In conditions of uncertainty, you might be tempted to use a low mar...
• If you run a mutual fund, a high mark is good for investors who tak...

articles-22952494 from Idle Words

• So to summarize–downballot races are cheap, cost-effective, and bec...
• Even in a normal year, early money is many times more effective tha...

articles-22985500 from INDIGNITY, from the makers of HMM WEEKLY

• this is the problem when your sole governing ideals are destroying ...

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• Every year, the company adds even more steps to the camera post-pro...

articles-22989628 from Josh Beckman

• The fact that I had never been on the ghost kitchen’s block despite...

articles-22990217 from marcbrooker@gmail.com (Marc Brooker)

• Erasure Coding is a ubiquitous technique in storage and physical ne...
• Let's think about that cache again: when that one node is down,...
• Erasure coding is the idea that we can take a blob of data, break i...

articles-22991797 from Robin Sloan

• Skeptics of solar feasibility pantomime a kind of technical realism...
• We live on a sun-drenched blue marble hanging in space, and for all...

articles-23041592 from Tyler Cowen

• pruning for sparsity – turns out some LLMs work just as well if you...
• distillation – a technique by which larger, more capable models can...

articles-23041652 from Alon Levy

• An edge city is a dense, auto-oriented job center arising from near...

articles-23043128 from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

• And so when one wonders why newsletters “came out of nowhere” just ...
• The single biggest thing Substack accomplished was legitimizing a S...
• One publication well-known enough by cognoscenti to get namechecked...

articles-23075757 from Alicia Kennedy

• This is a new food culture, where the chef is not speaking from on ...

articles-23075791 from Tyler Cowen

• Ideally you could adjust a dial and and set the degree of hallucina...

articles-23082597 from ycombinator.com

• You are approaching this like an established natural sciences field...

articles-23083022 from Josh Beckman

• Self-worth, the unexpected corollary of having positive archetypes ...
• The world is mostly shaped by wealth, more so than ever as technolo...

articles-23099042 from Bits about Money

• The IRS says: "To be deductible, a business expense must be bo...
• you can pay me money, and I will continue writing. If you (in aggre...

articles-23099136 from Marcin Wichary

• Like the orbits of all other satellites, and of the Space Station, ...
• Weightlessness is bad for the bones, but good for the soul. Marcin...

articles-23119587 from Kevin Chung

• A bill of materials or BOM is a list of the raw components that go ...

articles-23119910 from Jack Clark

• This is an example of the ‘capability overhang’ phenomenon I’ve bee...

articles-23133095 from Matt Levine

• One interesting and possibly even true thing that I learned in law ...

articles-23133353 from Jack Clark

• Modern generative models are generic data transformation engines, a...

articles-23155612 from Garbage Day

• The seemingly earnest popularity of these videos, especially among ...

articles-23155921 from Patrick McKenzie (patio11)

• Many people believe that cash, the paper printed by the government,...

articles-23156647 from Matt Webb

• Seeing your website’s actual server is the virtual equiv of the Ove...

articles-23195508 from lethain.com

• I’d argue that field-level encryption should be a starting place fo...
• From the perspective of non-mega-platform companies, I think this i...
• While today there’s a wide distance between GDPR, CCPA, HITRUST, Fe...

articles-23203554 from Matt Levine

• His only real hope of avoiding many years in prison is to convince ...
• Yeah I mean a general lesson here is that you want to be in the sor...

articles-23204332 from Casey Newton

• Influence operations can take many shapes; most such operations are...

articles-23207274 from Matt Levine

• But, paradoxically, crypto is much more reliant on trust than the r...
• It was like a fantastical version of their old jobs, a new financia...

articles-23220083 from Astral Codex Ten

• If only they were literally raping children and then eating their b...

articles-23226596 from Cold Takes

• • Maybe they’re just creating massive amounts of “digital represe...
• The lab mice problem Today's "subhuman" AIs are safe....
• The King Lear problem The AI is (actually) well-behaved when human...
• The Lance Armstrong problem Did we get the AI to be actually safe o...

articles-23257650 from Garbage Day

• TikTok’s entire strategy is to turn viral content into public domai...

articles-23259660 from Mandy Brown

• That, for me, is the big difference between altruism—or its close c...
• And when you’re afraid of someone’s judgment, you can’t connect wit...
• Asking for help with shame says: You have the power over me. Askin...

articles-23297748 from Field Notes from Christopher Brown

• But if you use the trick I learned twenty years ago from a Subaru s...

articles-23303229 from stephenwolfram.com

• And yes, there’ll be plenty of cases where “raw ChatGPT” can help w...

supplementals-23306724 from Richard W. Hamming and Bret Victor

• Lastly, in a sense this is a religious course: I am preaching the m...
• In a lifetime of many, many independent choices, small and large, a...
• Education is what, when, and why to do things. Training is how to d...

articles-23313384 from Matt Webb

• as users becomes accustomed to agents and NPCs, we’ll see more inte...
• Laurel suggests that we see the computer screen as a stage on which...
• the computer interface has always been a multiplayer environment fo...
• Next we bring in creative divergence. How? Geists! Geists will be l...

articles-23313575 from Thinkst Thoughts

• Canary tokens are a free, quick, painless way to help defenders dis...

articles-23341095 from Garbage Day

• In October of last year, YouTube creator and fandom expert Sarah Z ...

articles-23342203 from Jack Clark

• A standard way to poison a code model is to inject insecure code in...

articles-23383322 from Shopify

• One of the challenges with JIT compilers is that they always incur ...

articles-23423585 from Craig Mod

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