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We are living through the most significant media disruption since the printing press, and it explains everything from why you can’t stand your neighbor to our current political tumult.
Renée Bergland’s 3 greatest revelations while writing Natural Magic: Emily Dickinson, Charles Darwin, and the Dawn of Modern Science.
Elon's grandfather
October 11, 2024 - FujiFilm won't realease an x-t1 update to support the iOS 18 for the camera remote,
Empiricism, algorithms and smartphones are out – astrology, art and a life lived fiercely offline are in
exercises from sports medicine doc
This course focuses on efficient machine learning and systems. This is a crucial area as deep neural networks demand extraordinary levels of computation, hindering its deployment on everyday devices and burdening the cloud infrastructure. This course introduces efficient AI computing techniques that enable powerful deep learning applications on resource-constrained devices. Topics include model compression, pruning, quantization, neural architecture search, distributed training, data/model parallelism, gradient compression, and on-device fine-tuning. It also introduces application-specific acceleration techniques for large language models and diffusion models. Students will get hands-on experience implementing model compression techniques and deploying large language models (Llama2-7B) on a laptop.
using a thunderbolt 5 bridge and https://github.com/mit-han-lab/TinyChatEngine
Joseph Fidel Roberts (born 1976), also known under the moniker LSDworldpeace, is an American artist.
ai speaks with itself and reveals the mad dreams of an electric mind.
interview with David Lee, the CCO of Squarespace, poses an interesting question: Will AI make human creativity a luxury?
Kyle Chayka on why he decided to stop using the music-streaming app Spotify after the platform’s latest updates made it harder to discover new music.
Tim Berners-Lee
Learn how to build an agent that can reason over your documents and answer complex questions. Learn from the co-founder and CEO of LlamaIndex
Roie Schwaber-Cohen, Staff Developer Advocate at Pinecone, joins Ben and Ryan to break down what retrieval-augmented generation (RAG) is and why the concept is central to the AI conversation.
The cover of this month's Harper's Magazine shows a computer screen with a Wikipedia page (complete with the trademarked puzzle globe) with the headline "Wikipedia and the assault on history".
Free, simple, and intuitive online database design tool and SQL generator. - drawdb-io/drawdb
Review the science behind Lumina Probiotic and see why oral hygiene will never be the same.
A scientific breakthrough, years of investment and some highly trained dogs have finally made it possible to consistently harvest truffles in the U.S. We visit North Carolina’s Burwell Farms for a look inside their operations.
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NYT - The fake news organizations, experts say, represent a technological leap in the Kremlin’s efforts to spread false and misleading narratives.
Ted Gioia - Or a glimpse into post-entertainment society (it's not pretty)
A feature documentary on the life and work of civic guru Robert Putnam.
Tutorial on how to display real-time CO2 measurements from an Aranet4 monitor on my website using a Raspberry Pi.
Tim Bray - I think I’m probably going to lose quite a lot of money in the next year or two. It’s partly AI’s fault, but not mostly.
Andrej Karpathy - The Tokenizer is a necessary and pervasive component of Large Language Models (LLMs), where it translates between strings and tokens (text chunks).
Casey Niestat
open platform for building developer portals
list influenced by https://sive.rs/pg
Becoming expert in repair, finding creativity in the historical and material weight of existing conditions: for architects in the Anthropocene, this is a growth opportunity. Or better, a de-growth opportunity.
Headless custom element library
Lucian Grainge, the chairman of UMG, has helped record labels rake in billions of dollars from streaming. Can he do the same with generative artificial intelligence? John Seabrook reports.
There are few Hollywood families in which one famous director has spawned another. Coppola says, “It’s not easy for anyone in this business, even though it looks easy for me.” Rachel Syme reports.
2023 Rivian R1T Truck Camper in Asheville
who host mastadon instances
A complete GPT2 implementation as a single SQL query in PostgreSQL.
The opening of my talk Of Time And The Web deals with our collective negativity bias. The general consensus is that the world has become worse.
AI coding assistants are here to stay—but just how big a difference they make is still unclear.
Little Feat - Rock and Roll Doctor (Live In Holland 1976)
Mozilla’s innovation group and Justine Tunney just released llamafile, and I think it’s now the single best way to get started running Large Language Models,
As an engineer, I write documentation all the time to answer these questions and build up a knowledge base other team members can refer to. I think this should apply to housing.
It is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for someone who is rich to enter the kingdom of God.
Draw a picture (fast) with tldraw with https://www.fal.ai
Inventor of Robot Wars / Industrial Light and Magic - chief model maker/animatronic designer
simple easy to use whiteboard
The New Yorker - James Somers, a professional coder, writes about the astonishing scripting skills of A.I. chatbots like GPT-4 and considers the future of a once exalted craft. ~ "What I learned was that programming is not really about knowledge or skill but simply about patience, or maybe obsession. Programmers are people who can endure an endless parade of tedious obstacles."
pseudoprose is pseudocode[^1] for writers.
Michael B. Paulson - The Primeagen - a good take on Remix vs Next.js
Acclaimed illustrator Christoph Niemann shares the 10 rules that guide his drawing practice as part of our Manifesto series.
Snarkmarket
Directed by Robert Gordon and filmed and edited by John Olivio, this video was produced in the lo-fi aughts of 2006 for Matador Records to support Cat Power's acclaimed album "The Greatest". The video also features 20th century art world legend William Eggleston.
Most people look for solutions. But few seek out problems.
This essay reviews some theories of what it is for something to be funny.
So, I suppose the moral of the story is: find yourself work you can give a shit about. And work with people who give a shit. It’ll make shit a lot more pleasant – I guarantee it.
Reponse to Marc Andreessen's “Techno-Optimist Manifesto.
European Space Agency report on the ozone layer.
The supernatural creatures said to roam these forests are intimately tied to the landscape, which is older than most of life on Earth.
A world of AI-assisted writing and reviewing might transform the nature of the scientific paper.
Michael Halbert is a scratchboard illustrator that specializes in scratchboard illustration.
lead author of the "bibles" of system administration: UNIX System Administration Handbook
Mickey Angelov - Look Aside Films
That is the eeriest part of these videos — the parents are barely interacting with their kids. Instead they are relating to a mirror image of their children that they are spreading online. And they are reveling in their power over that image.
Harvard Business Publishing Education
American Journal of Physics - We present an overview of the thermal history of the Universe and the sequence of objects (e.g., protons, planets, and galaxies) that condensed out of the background as the Universe expanded and cooled.
Architect - Holland Brady
Speech by Holland Brady 2007
They make more money from mileage programs than from flying planes
why monolithic code bases are good
the work of the seventeenth-century French military engineer Allain Manesson Mallet
IBM's World of Numbers publication about the history of numbers, computation, and computers to 1958.
distinction between amateurishness at craft, and amateurishness at business.
browser-based search engine for Wikipedia, where you can search more abstractly
The OpenTF Foundation. Supporting an impartial, open, and community-driven fork of MPL-licensed Terraform.
Wonderful trompe l'oeil tumbling block design quilt incorporating signatures from such luminaries as Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Rembrandt Peale, and Abraham Lincoln ( one of eight American presidents represented ).
Digging into the philosophical roots of the battle between Essentialists and Pragmatists
The New Yorker | Dhruv Khullar writes about the effect that heat can have on human bodies, and how the rise in global temperatures can cause severe illnesses and injuries.
Matt Kirkland
Blue Ridge Mountain Landscape Paintings by Rebecca King Hawkinson in the tradition of Classical Realism.
Garden & Gun - For almost a century, one dance has captured the spirit of the coast and beyond. Follow along with three generations of the Free family as they pivot, belly roll, and boogie walk to keep the tradition alive
– a free and open database and web application for gardening knowledge
GDPR-Compliant Bot Protection
Wikifunctions, the newest Wikimedia project, is a new space to collaboratively create and maintain a library of functions.
on Github CoPilot
In a case study, scientists detected the costly infection in cabernet sauvignon grapevines before they showed symptoms visible to the human eye - Jet Propulsion Laboratory
The model beyond ChatGPT passed the first three sommelier theory exams. What does that mean for the wine business and our professional certifications?
The history and context of Aleksandr Afanasev’s obscene Russian folktales.
Artist - Designer
Lincoln Beach once provided the only waterfront access for Black residents of New Orleans. Despite decades of city neglect, it remains a joyful, if contested, haven for ritual and play.
The New Yorker - Elon: “X needs to have an AI feel with blockchain vibes. And it should always be tracking you.”
Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-CA) shows videos of Rogers Stone before, during and after January 6th including documentary footage of him stating: "I said, f*ck the voting, let's get right to the violence."
LLM that'll fit on a small device with low memory
On Fyodor Dostoevsky’s The Brothers Karamazov.
3/23
Looking back, and forward
Open source alternative to Notion, Miro, and Monday.
the Forecasting Research Institute has released the results of the Existential Risk Persuasion Tournament
The VACUUM process in PostgreSQL is a historical artifact that traces its roots back to the Berkeley Postgres project, which implemented a concept known as infinite time-travel. The concept, while innovative at the time, was eventually dropped by the PostgreSQL community. However, it led to the implementation of a Multi-Version Concurrency Control (MVCC) system prone to table bloat.
I started writing on my blog some years ago, and since then I’ve had a lot of reasons to stop writing. Here’s a list of why nobody cares about your blog
Study: Some consumers have an unerring knack for buying unpopular products.
Terence Eden - Discord is perfect for ephemeral communications. But it is not a fucking substitute for documentation!
Jeff Hewitt - Television’s language and logic in everyday life.
In the philosophy of mathematics, intuitionism, or neointuitionism is an approach where mathematics is considered to be purely the result of the constructive mental activity of humans rather than the discovery of fundamental principles claimed to exist in an objective reality.
Jeremy Keith on syndication to social networks - https://adactio.com/journal/7698
Exploring potential privacy vulnerabilities in Apple devices. This article discusses revealing a user's first name without permissions using the mDNS protocol.
https://craigmod.com/ridgeline/165/ - Binaural recording from various jazz kissa in Tōhoku and Hokkaido Japan. As part of the BASIE!BOP!JAMAICA! 16-day Tōhoku and Hokkaido jazz kissa tour: June 1...
An influential M.I.T. professor and an outside-the-box scientific theorist, he gained fame with unorthodox views as a pioneer in digital physics.
Large language models (LLMs) have only just emerged into mainstream thought, and already they’ve shown themselves to be a powerful tool for interacting with data. While some might classify them as merely a really cool new form of UI, others think that this may be the start of artificial general intelligence.
Smithsonian ( pdf ) - A way to remember bird calls.
Paul Graham Essay - How to do great work
Full Stack Developer and Entrepreneur. - see: https://paul.copplest.one/blog/realtime-user-store.html#problem
The New Science of the World's Most Enigmatic Birds by Jennifer Ackerman - 2023 Penguin Random House. From the New York Times bestselling author of The Genius of Birds and The Bird Way, a brilliant scientific investigation into owls—the most elusive of birds—and why they exert such a hold on human imagination
Vonnegut, Kurt | Vonnegut's stirring response to the censorship and burning of Slaughterhouse Five. Typed letter signed ("Kurt Vonnegut"), to Charles McCarthy, head of the school board at Drake High School in North Dakota, responding to the censorship and burning of Slaughterhouse Five at Drake - https://www.sothebys.com/en/buy/auction/2022/fine-books-and-manuscripts-including-americana/vonnegut-kurt-vonneguts-stirring-response-to-the
Video - Phil Edwards
Breathtaking views | Large deck areas ~ 25 min to TIEC
Much has been written about the Reddit boycott recently, but I have kind of a wild take. what if we thought of Reddit as, functionally, subservient to OpenAI?
What would a copilot for writing and thinking look like? To try answering this question, I built a prototype: Obsidian-Copilot
A legible monospace font… the very typeface you’ve been trained to recognize since childhood.
This is a collection of modern resources on various undergrad level computer science topics, for someone with an interest in theory.
Author and federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou explains why private equity is buying everything from vet offices to tech conglomerates, how this system is broken, and what can be done to fix it. - See also: https://www.plunderthebook.com
Laphams Quarterly - Those ancient humans who might have scratched directions in the sand or carved lines on wood were the first to practice the art of symbolic representation in the form of a map.
In a now-taken-down blog post summarizing an event with Sam Altman, Altman revealed that he doesn’t believe that ChatGPT plugins have product-market fit (outside of the browsing plugin) and won’t be coming to the API soon. Why? A few hypotheses (not mutually exclusive). "Chat is not the right UX for plugins. If you know what you want to do, it’s often easier to just do a few clicks on the website. If you don’t, just a chat interface makes it hard to steer the model toward your goal."
Expert Pierre Sourzat spills secrets about finding fungi around the globe with his trusty pup, Leo.
We are experienced growers of inoculated seedlings for truffle orchard establishment. We have several key components in orchard establishment and management
Dogs and their owners go to school to hunt and harvest an expensive fungus.
Clinical predictive models can help physicians and administrators make decisions by forecasting clinical and operational events.
Ze Frank explains all about slime molds, which are super interesting! Slime molds can efficiently solve mazes, plan efficient train routes, adapt to changing conditions, and learn from each other.
In March and April 2023, the Python Software Foundation (PSF) received three (3) subpoenas for PyPI user data from the The Python Package Index.
SwingVision is the #1 tennis app for real-time automated score keeping, stats & line calling. Measure your serve speed, match stats & more!
As we continue our development journey towards Deno 2, this minor release is primarily focused on boosting compatibility with npm and Node.js, enhancing the overall quality of life and developer experience, and establishing the foundation for future performance enhancements.
Como is a laid back e-bike with a clean look and upright rider position for convenient comfort and style
The blockEditor.useSetting.before filter is a client-side JavaScript filter that lets you set block-level theme.json settings before the Editor is rendered. And, since it operates in the client, you get much more control than you have with server-side PHP filters.
Amelia Wattenberger makes a convincing argument for why chatbots are a terrible interface for LLMs.
TX–6 is our ultra-portable, battery-powered mixer and multi-channel audio interface. comparable to larger units, but with even more tech packed into one sturdy little machine.
Isn’t that what we want from the internet? I’m sitting in a small room in an old house in Durham, North Carolina...
So, with all that in mind, I am looking forward to going the Coronation. I think I’ll wear a suit. You can ask me anything. There will be no moderator. This will be between you and me. Let's see what happens. Much love, Nick
Introducing MPT-7B, the latest entry in our MosaicML Foundation Series. MPT-7B is a transformer trained from scratch on 1T tokens of text and code. It is open source, available for commercial use, and matches the quality of LLaMA-7B. MPT-7B was trained on the MosaicML platform in 9.5 days with zero human intervention at a cost of ~$200k. Starting today, you can train, finetune, and deploy your own private MPT models, either starting from one of our checkpoints or training from scratch. For inspiration, we are also releasing three finetuned models in addition to the base MPT-7B: MPT-7B-Instruct, MPT-7B-Chat, and MPT-7B-StoryWriter-65k+, the last of which uses a context length of 65k tokens!
With the MosaicBERT architecture + training recipe, you can now pretrain a competitive BERT-Base model from scratch on the MosaicML platform for $20. We’ve released the pretraining and finetuning code, as well as the pretrained weights.
Note: Only shows FDIC-reported bank failures; does not include investment banks and non-U.S. banks. Data: FDIC, FRED
2016 Oscar-Winning Short: “Stutterer” | The Screening Room | The New Yorker
Good basic explainer on vector databases.
Sometimes referred to as the "crown jewel" of the UK's technology sector, Arm was founded in Cambridge, England, in 1990. Arm Limited (“Arm”) has confidentially submitted a draft registration statement on Form F-1 to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (the “SEC”) relating to the proposed initial public offering of American depositary shares representing Arm’s ordinary shares. The Arm IPO will likely double, or possibly triple, the $3.5 billion listing of Kenvue, the consumer health business of Johnson & Johnson
Sam Altman is the CEO of OpenAI, the company behind GPT-4, ChatGPT, DALL-E, Codex, and many other state-of-the-art AI technologies.
When we peer into our patient portals, we don’t always see ourselves more clearly.
Use the new GPT-4 api to build a chatGPT chatbot for multiple Large PDF files.
The Center for Public Opinion & Policy Research (CPOPR) is a full-service survey research and data analysis entity at Winthrop University, specializing in telephone and online surveys.
An invitation to readers from every walk of life to rediscover the impractical splendors of a life of learning
Pew Research Center - In 2021, there were 2,590 gun deaths among U.S. children and teens under the age of 18, up from 1,732 in 2019.
This time, we spent the whole episode talking about large language models: ChatGPT, GPT-4, Bing, Bard, Claude, LLaMA and more.
Long before the invention of the general-purpose computer, bureaucrats and researchers had begun gathering and cross-tabulating sets of numbers about populations—heights, weights, ages, sexes, races, political parties, incomes—using punch cards and tabulating machines. Sergey Brin said "Auto insurance companies analyse accident data and set insurance rates of individuals according to age, gender, vehicle type,” he pointed out. “If they were allowed to by law, they would also use race, religion, handicap, and any other attributes they find are related to accident rate.”
Talk with an LLaMA AI in your terminal / Port of OpenAI's Whisper model in C/C++. Contribute to ggerganov/whisper.cpp development by creating an account on GitHub.
The New Yorker | OpenAI’s chatbot offers paraphrases, whereas Google offers quotes. Which do we prefer?
Grace Hopper - Computer Scientist - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper
Twitter thread from Jackson Fall on using gpt to create a website for making money.
We report the development of GPT-4, a large-scale, multimodal model which can accept image and text inputs and produce text outputs. While less capable than humans in many real-world scenarios, GPT-4 exhibits human-level performance on various professional and academic benchmarks, including passing a simulated bar exam with a score around the top 10% of test takers.
Dataset Repository of Awesome ChatGPT Prompts from https://github.com/f/awesome-chatgpt-prompts
The Oatmeal - You're not going to believe what I'm about to tell you - This is a comic about the backfire effect.
A creature is formed of clay. A puppet becomes a boy. A monster rises in a lab. A computer takes over a spaceship. And all manner of robots serve or control us. For generations we’ve told ourselves stories, using themes of magic and science, about inanimate things that we bring to life or imbue with power beyond human capacity.
Linux now supports the ARM ( Apple M1 ) architecture
Let’s start with one of those insights that are as obvious as they are easy to forget: if you want to master something, you should study the highest achievements of your field. It is therefore not surprising that those who grow up to be exceptional tend to have spent their formative years surrounded by adults who were exceptional.
MotherDuck: Big data is dead. Long live easy data.
A man who’s been called “the chief shaman of the paranoid school of American fiction” can be expected to act a little nervous.
VRBO - Horseshoe Hill - Polk County
Proving you're a human on a web flooded with generative AI content
is the earthy scent produced when rain falls on dry soil
Reid Hoffman - Many of the most popular websites leveraged humanity’s less virtuous impulses.
If someone can taste the difference between a Merlot from ’78 and a Merlot from ’98, they are conservative but have a son who dropped out of college to join Antifa.
Artists’ meditations on time suggest that speed needn’t be the only goal in our online experiences.
The Earth is, on average, located in the habitable zone, but at any given time it has a certain probability of being outside it, which is why life exists on Earth but is mortal.
We chat with Lee Robinson, VP of Developer Experience at Vercel about the company’s vision for evolving from Webpack to Turbopack
John Shelton Reed (born 1942) is an American sociologist and essayist, author or editor of 23 books, most of them dealing with the contemporary American South.
Editor • Writer • Researcher • Teacher • Public Speaker | Fountain NC. ( sent the email about Dirty Dan ) | Won the 2021 NC Award for the Humanities. Owns R.A. Fountain ( https://rafountain.com )
Jerusalem is a novel by British author Alan Moore, wholly set in and around the author's home town of Northampton, England. Combining elements of historical and supernatural fiction and drawing on a range of writing styles, the author describes it as a work of "genetic mythology"
Kagi is a privacy-focused, user-centric search engine. Built by Vladimir Prelovac: Telcis Search ( http://teclis.com ) and Orion Browser ( https://browser.kagi.com )
Children's stories produced with actors and musician guests - https://www.rabbitears.com
The brief is submitted in the interest of at least mitigating their future punishment for parody. See also AP News - https://apnews.com/article/the-onion-supreme-court-parody-72a286d21f2d484326b13a5b18884f93
Tango Brock - San Francisco/Los Angeles Production Engineer - https://www.tanobrock.com/about
The series has sold more than two hundred and seventy million copies since its launch, in 1979. It’s the fourth-best-selling children’s-book series of all time.
An era of remarkable prosperity has ended. Brad DeLong felt confident that the story started in 1870. The polymath economist was writing a book on economic modernity—about how humans transitioned from eking out an existence on our small planet to building a kind of utopia on it—and he saw an inflection point centuries after the emergence of capitalism and decades after the advent of manufacturing at scale.
Issue #199 - Do you have a safe space? How would you describe it?
From December 1876 to April 1877, both the Republican and Democratic parties in South Carolina claimed to be the legitimate government.
Flat Rock Historic District, Boundary Increase, Boundary Decrease, and Additional Documentation
Andrew Johnstone, owner of Annandale Plantation, later renamed Millbrook, was a prominent Georgetown rice planter who annually took his family to cooler climes to escape the heat and mosquitos of the Lowcountry from May to October. He sold Annandale in 1863 and retired to Flat Rock, North Carolina. The following story, reported in Georgetown Times, date unknown, by Louise Bailey brings to light the troubling times of the era even in an idyllic setting
One of the more dramatic and violent moments in the history of Flat Rock occurred during the Civil War. Beaumont, owned by Andrew Johnstone of Georgetown, SC, was one of the earliest grand homes in Flat Rock and during the final chaotic year of the war, a band of “bushwhackers” descended upon the estate on a warm June day in 1864 - with tragic consequence.
( Gerd Gigerenzer -Max Planck Institute for Human Development - Psychological Review © 2017 American Psychological Association 2017, Vol. 124, No. 2, 179–196) Ignorance is generally pictured as an unwanted state of mind, and the act of willful ignorance may raise eyebrows. Yet people do not always want to know, demonstrating a lack of curiosity at odds with theories postulating a general need for certainty, ambiguity aversion, or the Bayesian principle of total evidence.
Journalist John Markoff writes about technology, society and the key figures who shaped Silicon Valley and the personal computer revolution. Markoff has distilled Brand's formative rise from the Merry Pranksters and the Whole Earth Catalog, to the marriage of environmental consciousness and hacker capitalism into his newest book, Whole Earth: The Many Lives of Stewart Brand. Explore the full series: http://longnow.org/seminars
My personal website is an over-engineered playground where I can tinker, learn new things, test new tools, break all the rules, and just scratch that itch deep in my brain that wants to understand how the hell web software works.
Apple's Open Source efforts with the Darwin project have been a failure. Apple failed to build a community around Darwin in the 7 years since its original release because it was not a corporate direction, but rather a marketing stunt. Culturally, Apple did not and does not understand what it means to be open source or to build a working community.
From the 1997 compilation album Now and In Time to Be, a musical celebration of the Irish poet William Butler Yeats.
The barn was originally built as a granary and cattle shed in 1846 by William Windham, then owner of nearby Felbrigg Hall. It is located at the heart of a historical farming estate that has belonged to the owner’s family for almost a century.
How to Make Automatic Supercuts from the Command Line.
The original book is far more grisly than the beloved Disney classic—and has an unsettling message about humanity.
Nick Bostrom is a professor at Oxford University, where he heads the Future of Humanity Institute as its founding director.
Issue #91 - I've been listening to Bob Dylan's new song for most of the day. I can't shake it. Can't grasp it. It makes me wince and laugh and then, every time, it makes me cry. I think it might be a masterpiece. Do you like it?
a good presentation by John Mauriello - Industrial Designer
Developer of Teclis, TinyGem, Kagi, & Orion.
Larry Charles talks about Dylan's idea for a TV show that turned into Masked and Anonymous.
A few months ago a poet contacted me to ask if my Instagram account had been hacked. This was surprising because I didn’t think that I had an Instagram account. But when I looked online I discovered that I did and I was really quite popular.
A free color mixer, blender, info and modifier tool. Mix multiple colors, get links for design inspiration and stock images based on a color, view various color combinations and modify colors.
We are inviting artists to illustrate scientists, activists, poets, and pioneers who are not visually represented on Wikipedia
A guide to text analysis within the tidy data framework, using the tidytext package and other tidy tools
Generate printer-ready books and ebooks from R Markdown documents. A markup language easier to learn than LaTeX, and to write elements such as section headers, lists, quotes, figures, tables, and citations.
Get rid of legacy VR format and gain some Docker skills!
After HTML, CSS, and JavaScript, WebAssembly is the fourth official language of the web. WebAssembly is at an inflection point. Over the next few years, I expect to see increased adoption of WebAssembly across the tech sphere, from containerization to plugin systems to serverless computing platforms. The following is a discussion of what WebAssembly is, what makes it a relevant technology, and where it’s being used today. I’ll also describe some potentially high-impact applications and make some predictions about its future.
A report by the Royal Society on the impact of the internet on our information environment, and on misinformation relating to scientific issues.
Censys helps organizations, individuals, and researchers find and monitor every server on the Internet to reduce exposure and improve security. Scan apps/ports/protocols/network
A Times investigation reveals how Israel reaped diplomatic gains around the world from NSO’s Pegasus spyware — a tool America itself purchased but is now trying to ban.
~ Computer Scientist - Stanford Artificial Intelligence Laboratory... wrote "AI is a fantasy"
JavaScript Design Patterns is released under a Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 3.0 unported license. This edition was updated to ES2015+ syntax in 2021.
a blog by Jeff Atwood on programming and human factors
Stencil is a toolchain for building reusable, scalable Design Systems. Generate small, blazing fast, and 100% standards based Web Components that run in every browser.
Social media and many other facets of modern life are destroying our ability to concentrate. An edited extract from Stolen Focus: Why You Can’t Pay Attention by Johann Hari, published on 6 January.
This is a list of common misconceptions. A common misconception is a viewpoint or factoid which is often accepted as true in current times.
The ethics of AI are constantly debated. But does anyone ask the AI?
Ask HN: Best way to host a website for 500 years? | Hacker News
The first principle is that you must not fool yourself—and you are the easiest person to fool - Richard Feynman. Cargo cult science is a pseudoscientific method of research that favors evidence that confirms an assumed hypothesis.
Jacques Tati (French: born Jacques Tatischeff, 9 October 1907 – 5 November 1982)was a French mime, filmmaker, actor, and screenwriter
Ermanno Olmi (24 July 1931 – 7 May 2018) was an Italian film director and screenwriter.
July 15, 1979 - President Carter addressed the nation about the ongoing energy crisis and about the mood of America as a result of the crisis. He expressed concern that American democracy was threatened by “crisis of confidence” in which cynicism toward government had eroded faith in the American way of life.
Kajillionaire is a 2020 American crime comedy-drama film written and directed by Miranda July. The film stars Evan Rachel Wood, Debra Winger and Richard Jenkins as members of a petty crime family whose relationship becomes frayed when a stranger played by Gina Rodriguez joins their schemes.
20th Century Women is a 2016 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Mike Mills and starring Annette Bening, Elle Fanning, Greta Gerwig, Lucas Jade Zumann and Billy Crudup. The film is set in 1970s Southern California and based in part on Mills' childhood.
Snow Crash is a science fiction novel by American writer Neal Stephenson, published in 1992.
React framework from the creators of React Router
is an essay by American historian Richard J. Hofstadter, first published in Harper's Magazine in November 1964 soon after Senator Barry Goldwater won the Republican presidential nomination over the more moderate Nelson A. Rockefeller.
The Library of America (LOA) is a nonprofit publisher of classic American literature.
In cognitive linguistics, conceptual metaphor, or cognitive metaphor, refers to the understanding of one idea, or conceptual domain, in terms of another. An example of this is the understanding of quantity in terms of directionality (e.g. "the price of peace is rising") or the understanding of time in terms of money (e.g. "I spent time at work today").
Trees and Shrubs in Iva SC
How one video game tells the story of an industry.