What It’s Like To Write About Race And Video Games https://kotaku.com/what-its-like-to-write-about-race-and-video-games-1832886047
Three Decades of Cross-Cultural Utopianism in British Music Writing https://longreads.com/2019/02/19/three-decades-of-cross-cultural-utopianism-in-british-music-writing/
Re: GPT-2 – sure, this has neural nets and all, but you get higher quality output with less CPU time writing a template for a spinner.
Are These Bad Habits Creeping Into Your Writing? | Literary Hub https://lithub.com/are-these-bad-habits-creeping-into-your-writing/
It looks like OpenAI has announced their marginal progress on the coherence problem in narrative prose generation in the most clickbaity possible way again: https://www.bbc.com/news/technology-47249163 https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/feb/14/elon-musk-backed-ai-writes-convincing-news-fiction
The ‘writing criticism’ curator wrote a review of MfoM where they claimed that the characters were flat but the plot was engaging. I consider this a success, since I was worried about plot (since I don’t ‘get’ it).
societies that discover this technology before writing and become literate along a completely different path, hold hands to communicate abstract concepts and use spoken language only to talk to children or crowds, encode philosophies as puzzle boxes
a technology like writing but for body movements: little stick-and-thread figures that show you how to dance, rope-and-pulley gloves you can wear and that guide your movements to teach knitting by example
Atlas of Endangered Alphabets – Indigenous and minority writing systems, and the people who are trying to save them https://www.endangeredalphabets.net/
Today in bot food: https://www.theguardian.com/books/2019/feb/04/british-librarys-collection-of-obscene-writing-goes-online
Viewpoints http://www.vpri.org/writings.php
Transactional memory, immediate-mode structured graphics, serialization, backtracking, and parsing — Write.as https://write.as/s7f1ywj0jh735
When Good Engineers Write Bad Software - IEEE Spectrum https://spectrum.ieee.org/geek-life/reviews/when-good-engineers-write-bad-software
Update: scans of early RFCs — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/update-scans-of-early-rfcs
today’s procrastination tactic: writing a README (pretty much a spec) for an as-yet unwritten command-line tool
An Informal Exploration of Structural Sharing, Proxies, and Copy-on-Write Semantics http://raganwald.com/2019/01/14/structural-sharing-and-copy-on-write.html
Ontology Overrated: http://www.shirky.com/writings/ontology_overrated.html
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RFC-19 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-19
People on twitter weirdly assume that I write all the links I share. Folks on mastodon basically don’t. I don’t know why.
The World’s Writing Systems http://www.worldswritingsystems.org/
Where did all the utopias go? Well, nobody writes utopian novels anymore, but everybody writes utopian code
Rain 🚱: “#rust iterators are sooo much nicer to write than…” - Cybrespace https://cybre.space/@grainloom/101379206180624438
Giles Bowkett: How Vim Shaped My Writing http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2016/10/how-vim-shaped-my-writing.html
Since it’s friday, if I have the energy, after work I’ll stream my final push on finishing implementing MfoM. Y’know, in case anybody wants to watch me write ‘code’ that’s actually mostly dialogue.
The LaTeX fetish (Or: Don’t write in LaTeX! It’s just for typesetting) – Daniel Allington http://www.danielallington.net/2016/09/the-latex-fetish/
RFC-5 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-5
Write your Own Virtual Machine https://justinmeiners.github.io/lc3-vm/
RFC-2 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-2
RFC-1 — 365 RFCs https://write.as/365-rfcs/rfc-1
I documented what I’m trying to do with MfoM, so that I can write a proper postmortem later: https://medium.com/@/mfom-pre-postmortem-92683b15ff2c
Writing with the machine https://www.robinsloan.com/notes/writing-with-the-machine/
Folks, journalists don’t even get to write their own headlines. If I get one more person telling me it’s hypocritical to write an article criticizing tracking on a site that has cookies, I’m gonna blow. Purity is shitty praxis: if you want to stop tracking, you need to complain on a site with tracking.
We tried teaching an AI to write Christmas movie plots. Hilarity ensued. Eventually. - MIT Technology Review https://www.technologyreview.com/s/612644/we-tried-teaching-an-ai-to-write-christmas-movie-plots-hilarity-ensued-eventually/
What to write with? Styli for clay tablets in the ancient Aegean and eastern Mediterranean https://crewsproject.wordpress.com/2018/11/25/what-to-write-with-styli-for-clay-tablets/
Command-Line Options10.Configuration”/>http://www.catb.org/esr/writings/taoup/html/ch10s05.html
The best argument against the idea that AI will replace programmers wholesale is the relative unpopularity of prolog. As an industry, we don’t take advantage of fantastic automation tech from the 70s, and instead write Java.
Today is thanksgiving. Celebrate by determining who you don’t owe a debt to – who, in the total scheme of things, has had a net negative effect on your life – writing them a nasty letter, and setting it on fire.
Today is thanksgiving. Celebrate by writing apology letters to everyone you have ever wronged.
off to finish writing my dnd campaign fanfic
Every computer program is also a persuasive essay & a work of interactive performance art, and if you don’t consider it through those lenses when writing it you run the risk of persuading people of something you don’t agree with.
Observations on Modern Computing (The Last 10 Years Were a Misstep) “ ~ajroach42.com ” I’m Andrew. I write about the past and future of tech, music, media, culture, art, and activism. … http://ajroach42.com/observations-on-modern-computing-the-last-10-years-were-a-misstep/
The Future Will be Technical https://coolguy.website/writing/the-future-will-be-technical/background().html
My old HyperCard stack (Phil Gyford’s website) https://www.gyford.com/phil/writing/2017/08/16/hypercard-tea/
Bad idea of the day: to combat writer’s block, use automatic writing as a divinatory method to predict what you would have written if you didn’t have writer’s block
I wonder if the reason why the average quality of writing-advice articles is so much lower than other types is that it’s dominated by folks who are trying to write a certain number of words every day & have decided to publish all of them…
What Is The Morning Writing Effect? - Gwern.net https://www.gwern.net/Morning-writing
Bad idea of the day: write poems, one a day, each on the back side of a tile, cementing it into place after you write it. your bathroom wall becomes a hidden book. tell no one.
GitHub - ChrisKnott/Algojammer: An experimental code editor for writing algorithms https://github.com/ChrisKnott/Algojammer