On the Existence of Powerful Natural Languages - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Language

Littlewood’s Law and the Global Media - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Littlewood

Medieval people were surprisingly clean (apart from the clergy) | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/medieval-people-were-surprisingly-clean-apart-from-the-clergy

GPT-2 Neural Network Poetry - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/GPT-2

Who the heck decided to call it ThisWaifuDoesNotExist and not SenpAI?

Making Anime Faces With StyleGAN - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Faces

Learn more programming languages, even if you won’t use them - Thorsten Ball https://thorstenball.com/blog/2019/04/09/learn-more-programming-languages/

Shenmue’s Much-Hated Forklifts Feel Revolutionary Today https://kotaku.com/shenmues-much-hated-forklifts-feel-revolutionary-today-1833817433

Building the System/360 Mainframe Nearly Destroyed IBM - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/silicon-revolution/building-the-system360-mainframe-nearly-destroyed-ibm

Why Correlation Usually ≠ Causation: Causal Nets Cause Common Confounding - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Causality

Everything Is Correlated - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Everything

DEVO - Booji Boy’s Funeral - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=os5uqOsRmBA

Band name of the day: filth as sign of devotion

GitHub - NARKOZ/hacker-scripts: Based on a true story https://github.com/NARKOZ/hacker-scripts

Monte Carlo Compiler Collection (MCCC)

OOP Before OOP with Simula https://twobithistory.org/2019/01/31/simula.html

King Crimson to Stream All Studio Albums on Spotify – Rolling Stone https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-news/king-crimson-albums-streaming-spotify-818686/

How Did Conspiracy Theories Come to Dominate American Culture? | Literary Hub https://lithub.com/how-did-conspiracy-theories-come-to-dominate-american-culture/

demystify before you remystify, so that it doesn’t just remain mysterious forever for no reason

The best part about Dare To Be Stupid is that it’s not a parody of a DEVO song, but a legit DEVO song that just so happens to be made by Weird Al instead of Gerald Casale.

Periodic reminder: From April 15 to the 22nd, Manna for our Malices will be 80% off to celebrate being done with filing taxes. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/

Codecademy vs. The BBC Micro https://twobithistory.org/2019/03/31/bbc-micro.html

How to Do Nothing: Jenny Odell’s case for resisting “The Attention Economy” / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2019/04/09/resisting-attention-economy.html

DHQ: Digital Humanities Quarterly: Humanities Approaches to Graphical Display http://www.digitalhumanities.org/dhq/vol/5/1/000091/000091.html

Band name of the day: maximizing the supernormal

Band name of the day: the age of immaterials

Band name of the day: uncharted spaces of stimulation

Tuple ordering and deep comparisons in Python - Trey Hunner https://treyhunner.com/2019/03/python-deep-comparisons-and-code-readability/

Devo - Later Is Now - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlrdGwikrjY

The Myspace Dragon Hoard (2008-2010) : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive https://archive.org/details/myspace_dragon_hoard_2010

Twilight Zone theme: How the theme song for Jordan Peele’s reboot stacks up to versions by Korn, the Grateful Dead,… https://slate.com/culture/2019/04/twilight-zone-theme-jordan-peele-grateful-dead-korn-marius-constant-bernard-herrmann-manhattan-transfer.html?curator=MusicREDEF

Random link from the archives: https://vimeo.com/36579366 originally archived Tue Nov 13 10:44:08 EST 2018

Random link from the archives: http://zachwhalen.net/pg/pres/elo18/ originally archived Thu Oct 11 14:15:40 EDT 2018

Periodic reminder: From April 15 to the 22nd, Manna for our Malices will be 80% off to celebrate being done with filing taxes. https://store.steampowered.com/app/1013580/Manna_for_our_Malices/

Random link from the archives: http://www.digibarn.com/friends/butler-lampson/index.html originally archived Mon Nov 12 14:43:37 EST 2018

A Tale Of Two Suburbs | FiveThirtyEight https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/a-tale-of-two-suburbs/

A Good Place: When Shazam fails you, this Facebook group comes through | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/7282/when-you-can-t-find-the-song-on-shazam

%23-quote-bottom<\/title><\/linearGradient><\/defs>… https://jezebel.com/pizzagate-satanic-panic-and-the-power-of-conspiracy-t-1833551416

How Does a Database Work? | Let’s Build a Simple Database https://cstack.github.io/db_tutorial/

I Let a Stranger Watch Me Work for a Day “ And I’ve Never Been More Productive - MEL Magazine https://melmagazine.com/en-us/story/focusmate-review-productivity-work-hack

Webcomics: an oral history - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2019/4/5/18295369/webcomics-xkcd-questionable-content-dinosaur-comics-90s-internet-social-media

Hello world: Shining a light onto the culture of computer programmers | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2019/04/how-the-new-art-form-of-coding-came-to-shape-our-modern-world/

GitHub - Flaque/quirk: ✨🐙 A GPL Licensed Cognitive Behavioral Therapy app for iOS and Android https://github.com/flaque/quirk

The robocall crisis will never totally be fixed | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2019/04/the-robocall-crisis-will-never-totally-be-fixed/

VPN - a Very Precarious Narrative - Dennis Schubert https://schub.io/blog/2019/04/08/very-precarious-narrative.html

The Unreliable Reader https://longreads.com/2019/04/04/the-unreliable-reader/

Random link from the archives: https://tinyletter.com/learntocomputer/letters/all-of-the-things-that-you-can-do-with-arrays originally archived Mon Mar 12 11:57:46 EDT 2018

There isn’t an end. We’re just gonna have to put a lot of work into becoming incrementally better forever, knowing that if we stop, it’s a failure and we’re letting people down. (That’s what we get for Killing God.)

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Periodic reminder: the 2019 No-Budget Film Contest starts accepting submissions on April 20th https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2019-no-budget-film-contest-d7eb339a3ed5