The Ripper: The disturbing Visceral Games project that EA canceled - Polygon https://www.polygon.com/2018/8/24/17770668/jack-the-ripper-visceral-games-electronic-arts-canceled
The Mystery of People Who Speak Dozens of Languages | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/09/03/the-mystery-of-people-who-speak-dozens-of-languages
Debugging with intelligence via probabilistic inference | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/19/debugging-with-intelligence-via-probabilistic-inference/
Deep code search | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/06/26/deep-code-search/
Oblix: an efficient oblivious search index | the morning paper https://blog.acolyer.org/2018/07/06/oblix-an-efficient-oblivious-search-index/
Band name of the day: hotel fire
Band name of the day: tabby starr
Manifesto for Minimalist Software Engineers | Minifesto.org http://minifesto.org/
Band name of the day: hard dollar
Band name of the day: the mosquito king
Vision for a new, truly decentralized Web | Empowering People. Uniting Communities. https://qbix.com/blog/2018/08/28/vision-for-a-new-truly-decentralized-web/
Otaku Culture Oasis (This Ain’t That) - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SV1GME_FHQ
Bad idea of the day: a metal detector that plays a guitar solo instead of beeping
Federated Learning https://florian.github.io/federated-learning/
Online Bettors Know If Psychology Studies Will Replicate - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/08/scientists-can-collectively-sense-which-psychology-studies-are-weak/568630/
Band name of the day: strange remains
Why Folklorists Hate Joseph Campbell’s Work | Jeana Jorgensen http://www.patheos.com/blogs/foxyfolklorist/why-folklorists-hate-joseph-campbells-work/
I would be surprised if Hataraki Saibou didn’t become extremely popular with cosplayers. It has a wide variety of iconic, low-effort uniforms, plus a handful of even more iconic higher-effort ones.
Friends and Enemies: On Slogan Tees - Los Angeles Review of Books https://lareviewofbooks.org/article/friends-and-enemies-on-slogan-tees/
Unitary urbanism - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitary_urbanism
The four ways that ex-internet idealists explain where it all went wrong - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/611805/the-four-ways-that-ex-internet-idealists-explain-where-it-all-went-wrong/
The very fact that ‘product’ and ‘consumer’ are often appropriate terms is an indication that we have failed to create a sensible world.
“Striving to minimize technical and reputational risks” – Ethical OS and Silicon Valley’s guilty … https://librarianshipwreck.wordpress.com/2018/08/24/striving-to-minimize-technical-and-reputational-risks-ethical-os-and-silicon-valleys-guilty-conscience/
Why Love Generative Art? “ Artnome https://www.artnome.com/news/2018/8/8/why-love-generative-art
Dread of Heinleinism - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/08/dread-of-heinleinism.html
Bad idea of the day: A video game called ‘infodump’ where the primary mechanic is literally using a wiki/world bible to research lore.
Taking note: Luhmann’s Zettelkasten http://takingnotenow.blogspot.com/2007/12/luhmanns-zettelkasten.html
PoundArt – about Random Computer Comics http://www.poundart.com/art/randcomix/about.html
What (Else) Cells At Work Can Teach Us - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6u2Uh4SWGd8
This Fred Turner book really makes me wish we had good hypertext integrated into publishing. Hard to go more than a sentence or two in From Counterculture to Cyberculture without wanting to link it to Rise of the Machines, or Encountering America, or What the Dormouse Said, or Fire in the Valley
Suspiria - Official Trailer | Amazon Studios - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BY6QKRl56Ok
Miyazaki, Lineage, and Depth - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GpUQ42qtRA
Bad idea of the day: automatically replace words with synonyms that have more phoneme sequences in common with the previous word (post-processing)
Band name of the day: droop snoot
Bad idea of the day: turn the entire military budget into a sovergn wealth fund
Hot take: there are (somehow) no /mature/ GUI toolkits, but even under that low bar, there’s lots of variability – and webtech makes TK look like the Sagrada Familia.
The Abandoned, Apocalyptic Architecture of One Bold 1970s Retail Chain - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/best-superstores-architecture
Curta Calculator History: A Mechanical Calculator Survival Story https://tedium.co/2018/08/23/curta-calculator-history/
Severin re-release of The Changeling leads thousands of millenials to say ‘Ohh, so THAT’s what that scene in Scary Movie 2 was referencing’.
Also pulse randomly decided that I didn’t get to have a driver for my (extremely common) sound card anymore. Jesus, systemd – you’re pushing linux on the desktop back to 1998 levels of bullshit.
Udevd was eating up literally all my ram and literally all my CPU, while doing nothing. I fixed it by turning off udevd. (Take that, systemd.)
When a social structure is flat (like twitter) all friction is between people & there’s no ‘natural’ adjuticator except a powerful & unaccoutable adjutication class. When it has cliques (like mastodon) it can be broken down & adjuticators are limited in power.
Logic Magazine | The Data Is Ours! What is big data? And how do we democratize it? by curio.io | Curio Io | Free Listening on SoundCloud https://soundcloud.com/curioio/logic-magazine-the-data-is-ours/s-8XDfX
Hot take: being critical of the Tech Industry (i.e., VC-model businesses that may or may not have to do with tech) is not the same as being Anti-Tech. It’s the kind of common sense that people inside the Tech Industry should take advantage of if they want to survive.
Band name of the day: the unavoidable spasm
Band name of the day: Red Birth
Letting neural networks be weird • Robotics teams: why not name them with a bot? http://aiweirdness.com/post/177307156177/robotics-teams-why-not-name-them-with-a-bot
Band name of the day: THREAT