Probably Overthinking It: Learning to program is get… http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html
Consumer Reports History: How a Union Battle Birthed a Magazine https://tedium.co/2018/02/15/consumer-reports-history-origin/
Blockchain Just Isn’t As Radical As You Want… https://longreads.com/2018/02/15/blockchain-just-isnt-as-radical-as-you-want-it-to-be/
The Great Stink https://longreads.com/2018/02/14/the-great-stink/
In Leaked Chats, WikiLeaks Discusses Preference for … https://theintercept.com/2018/02/14/julian-assange-wikileaks-election-clinton-trump/
Neural network AI is simple. So… Stop pretending you are a… https://www.kdnuggets.com/2018/02/neural-network-ai-simple-genius.html
Deep Reinforcement Learning Doesn’t Work Yet https://www.alexirpan.com/2018/02/14/rl-hard.html
Absurdist Dialogues with Siri https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2018/02/12/absurdist-dialogues-siri/
We Don’t Need New Laws for Faked Videos, We… https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2018/02/we-dont-need-new-laws-faked-videos-we-already-have-them
There Is No Such Thing as a Smart City - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2018/02/stupid-cities/553052/
Metadata: Paper review. IPFS: Content addressed, versio… http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/paper-review-ipfs-content-addressed.html
3Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point? https://tedium.co/2018/02/14/3dfx-history-failure/
Why Paper Jams Persist | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2018/02/12/why-paper-jams-persist
METAHEADCANON: Harmon’s Head - An 8 Circuit Model of Community http://www.metaheadcanon.com/2018/02/harmons-head-8-circuit-model-of.html
The Center for Humane… https://thesocietypages.org/cyborgology/2018/02/09/the-center-for-humane-technology-doesnt-want-your-attention/
I am the very model of a New York Times contrar… https://slate.com/culture/2018/02/i-am-the-very-model-of-a-new-york-times-contrarian.html
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When Amazon Opens Warehouses - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2018/02/amazon-warehouses-poor-cities/552020/
Linguistics Using Category Theory | The n-Category Caf&#… https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html
Longbox History: The Compact Disc‘s Wasteful Container https://tedium.co/2018/02/06/compact-disc-longbox-history/
Tools, substitutes or compani… https://cyberselves.org/2018/02/05/tools-substitutes-or-companions-metaphors-for-thinking-about-technology/
Jordan Peterson’s Bullshit https://jacobinmag.com/2018/02/jordan-peterson-enlightenment-nietzsche-alt-right
Why I barely read SF these days - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/why-i-barely-read-sf-these-day.html
Linguistic bots explain why big gr… https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/02/linguistic-bots-explain-why-big-groups-produce-simple-grammar/
Profile: Barbara Kruger on Trump, Supreme, &am… https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/profile-barbara-kruger-on-trump-supreme-and-harassment.html
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These psychedelic stickers blow AI minds | TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2018/01/02/these-psychedelic-stickers-blow-ai-minds/
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An intelligent person
From Twitter:
The most amazing thing about the Trump presidency is that it’s made GWB look like a reasonably intelligent person.
— Derek Powazek (@fraying) February 27, 2017
And from The New York Times:
Former President George W. Bush said Monday “we all need answers” on the extent of contact between President Donald Trump’s team and the Russian government, and didn’t … ⌘ Read more
The silence of the hacks
There is a reason why I subscribed to the digital edition of The New York Times. Its journalists are superb; it is a paper I trust, and have found to be veridical after cross referencing the news they post with other major, equally trusted, news sources.
From yesterday’s edition (some emphasis mine):
The story so far: A foreign dictator _in … ⌘ Read more
Incapable of serving
From the opinion pages of The New York Times yesterday, 13 of February, 2017, also appearing in print today. Some emphasis mine.
Mr. Trump’s speech and actions demonstrate an inability to tolerate views different from his own, leading to rage reactions. His words and behavior suggest a profound inability to empathize. Individuals with these traits distort reality to suit their psychological state, attacking facts and those who convey them (journalists, scientists).
�� … ⌘ Read more
Cleaning the plate
My wife has always told me, “don’t eat everything in your plate, leave something!” It is her believe, and her culture’s, that only poor people eats everything, and that if I do so, it will show I am dying of hunger, and thus, poor. If it were so, what’s wrong with being poor? Why will I leave food on the plate, food that I really like, to pretend what I am not? I am poor, poor, poor!
That custom, though, would be an easy one to follow if the food was bad. That’s something … ⌘ Read more
Fake email clients
For a few (years?) now, there has been an increase of so called email clients that are not so. I am talking about the “value added email clients” that require a third party server/service to work. Within that category there is Nylas, Polymail, and Sparkmail, to mention a few. Although they bring an array of features not normally found on an email client, they are worthless if the third party company server(s) goes down, … ⌘ Read more
Hard to believe
If you hear or read this somewhere else — whether on social media, or via your clueless uncle Olaf — you will find it hard, if not impossible, to believe. Now, finding it on Reuters is a different story.
In his first call as president with Russian leader Vladimir Putin, Donald Trump denounced a treaty that caps U.S. and Russian deployment of nuclear warheads as a bad deal for the United States, according to two U.S. officials and one former U.S. official with knowledge of the call.
… ⌘ Read more
Decode It Like It’s 1999
A few years ago I started to work on an MPEG1 Video decoder, completely written in JavaScript. Now, I finally found the time to clean up the library, improve its performance, make it more error resilient and modular and add an MP2 Audio decoder and MPEG-TS demuxer. This makes this library not just an MPEG decoder, but a full video player.
In this blog post I want to talk a bit about the challenges and various interesting
bits I discovered during the development of this library. You’ll … ⌘ Read more
@kas@enotty.dk Nope, creepy here too. Dont know what asmr is? http://www.slate.com/articles/life/culturebox/2013/02/asmr_videos_autonomous_sensory_meridian_response_and_whispering_videos_on.html