Procedural Worlds from Simple Tiles http://ijdykeman.github.io/ml/2017/10/12/wang-tile-procedural-generation.html
Storming the Ivory Tower: Let’s Pop Together Part 2 http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-2.html
NixOS 18.03 released
NixOS 18.03 “Impala” has been released, the ninth stable release branch.
See the release notes
for details. You can get NixOS 18.03 ISOs and VirtualBox appliances
from the download page.
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Donât Delete Facebook. Do Something About It. - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/24/opinion/sunday/delete-facebook-does-not-fix-problem.html
Instead of watching Pop Team Epic, just read this essay, which is more satisfying: http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/03/lets-pop-together-part-1.html
Test Case - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/03/test-case.html
Programmer as wizard, programmer as engineer http://www.tedinski.com/2018/03/20/wizarding-vs-engineering.html
How to Hack an Engineer https://www.nemil.com/musings/hack-an-engineer.html
13 Reasons to Believe Aliens Are Real http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/13-reasons-to-believe-aliens-are-real.html
‘Fifth Generation’ Became Japan’s Lost Generation - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1992/06/05/business/fifth-generation-became-japan-s-lost-generation.html
Why Wikipedia Works https://nymag.com/selectall/2018/03/why-wikipedia-works.html
How knowing Lisp destroyed my programming career http://coding.derkeiler.com/Archive/Lisp/comp.lang.lisp/2006-04/msg01644.html
Benjamin Kovach https://www.kovach.me/posts/2018-03-07-generating-art.html
Anton’s Research Ramblings - 2018_03_08_how_i_write_code http://antongerdelan.net/blog/formatted/2018_03_08_how_i_write_code.html
Ted’s ComParadigm in OneLiners http://xanadu.com.au/ted/TN/WRITINGS/TCOMPARADIGM/tedCompOneLiners.html
The Nakamoto Variations - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/02/the-nakamoto-variations.html
John Perry Barlow gav… https://slate.com/technology/2018/02/john-perry-barlow-gave-internet-activists-only-half-the-mission-they-need.html
Some free short stories from Soviet-era science fiction author Anat… https://boingboing.net/2018/02/22/some-free-short-stories-from-s.html
So You Think You Have a Power Law — Well Isn’t That Special? http://bactra.org/weblog/491.html
Found at a thrift shop: the last record of a doomed Apple DRM effort from 1979 / Boin… https://boingboing.net/2017/02/23/fools-errand.html
Nix 2.0 released
Nix 2.0
has been released. See the release\
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JLOUIS Ramblings: Some Epigrams https://jlouisramblings.blogspot.com/2012/12/some-epigrams.html
Man-Computer Symbiosis https://groups.csail.mit.edu/medg/people/psz/Licklider.html
Fake news ‘vaccine’: Online game may ‘inoculate’ by simulating propagand… https://phys.org/news/2018-02-fake-news-vaccine-online-game.html
Probably Overthinking It: Learning to program is get… http://allendowney.blogspot.co.nz/2018/02/learning-to-program-is-getting-harder.html
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
Metadata: Paper review. IPFS: Content addressed, versio… http://muratbuffalo.blogspot.com/2018/02/paper-review-ipfs-content-addressed.html
METAHEADCANON: Harmon’s Head - An 8 Circuit Model of Community http://www.metaheadcanon.com/2018/02/harmons-head-8-circuit-model-of.html
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
Slack is the opposite of organizational memory https://abe-winter.github.io/plea%27s/help/2018/02/11/slack.html
A reverse CAPTCHA designed to filter out humans / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/02/09/a-reverse-captcha-designed-to.html
Linguistics Using Category Theory | The n-Category Caf&#… https://golem.ph.utexas.edu/category/2018/02/linguistics_using_category_the.html
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
Profile: Barbara Kruger on Trump, Supreme, &am… https://www.thecut.com/2018/02/profile-barbara-kruger-on-trump-supreme-and-harassment.html
Storming the Ivory Tower: Future City: BLAME! as Postmo… http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/01/future-city-blame-as-postmodern.html
10 Essential Movies Based on H.P. Lov… https://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2016/10/10-essential-movies-based-on-hp-lovecraft-works.html
The Roots of Romanticism in David Bowie‘s Berlin T… https://www.popmatters.com/david-bowie-berlin-triptych-romanticism-2528071219.html
Beware the Near Enemies (In Life & Tech) http://blog.pamelafox.org/2018/01/beware-near-enemies-in-life-tech.html
Storming the Ivory Tower: BLAME!: The End of Cyberpunk http://www.stormingtheivorytower.com/2018/01/blame-end-of-cyberpunk.html
The crazy years - Charlie’s Diary http://www.antipope.org/charlie/blog-static/2018/01/the-crazy-years.html
Botnik Studios http://botnik.org/content/kings-dominion.html
Botnik Studios http://botnik.org/content/fire-and-fury.html
Playing low frequency noise to disrupt hard-drives: denial of service for CCTVs, data-ce… https://boingboing.net/2018/01/15/bad-vibes.html
Situated Knowledges http://www.appstate.edu/~stanovskydj/situatedknowledges.html
Mental models http://www.defmacro.org/2016/12/22/models.html
The WELL: State of the World 2018: Bruce… https://people.well.com/conf/inkwell.vue/topics/503/State-of-the-World-2018-Bruce-St-page01.html
How to Read Mathematics http://www.people.vcu.edu/~dcranston/490/handouts/math-read.html