492 bookmarks

2024-08-24

479.

Monopoly Money

www.wheresyoured.at/monopoly-money

2024-08-21

478.

I've Built My First Successful Side Project, and I Hate It

switowski.com/blog/i-have-built-my-first-successful-side-project-and-i-hate-it

2024-08-20

477.

Millennials Are Becoming Boomers - A Wealth of Common Sense

awealthofcommonsense.com/2024/08/millennials-are-becoming-boomers

2024-08-19

476.

The Broligarchs Are Trying to Have Their Way - The Atlantic

www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/tech-bro-male-billionaire-anti-democratic/679267

2024-08-17

475.

Programmers Don't Read Books -- But You Should

blog.codinghorror.com/programmers-dont-read-books-but-you-should

2024-08-15

474.

Образ сверхчеловека в шварцефильмах (этюд философии атлетизма)

nietzsche.ru/influence/cinema/schwarz

2024-08-12

473.

The Rise of Neotoddlerism - by Gurwinder - The Prism

www.gurwinder.blog/p/the-outrageous-rise-of-neotoddlerism

2024-08-10

472.

The Red Herring of Red Flags: Why Resumes Are a Relic of the Past in Tech Hiring

praachi.work/blog/red-flags-resumes.html

2024-08-08

471.

Burst Damage

www.wheresyoured.at/burst-damage

2024-08-03

470.

How to Build Anything Extremely Quickly - Learn How To Learn

learnhowtolearn.org/how-to-build-extremely-quickly

2024-08-02

469.

Why does the chromaticity diagram look like that?

jlongster.com/why-chromaticity-shape
468.

About Pool Sizing

github.com/brettwooldridge/HikariCP/wiki/About-Pool-Sizing
467.

Ok, Cloudflare I am leaving

www.lexx.gr/blog/post/ok-cloudflare-i-am-leaving

I read the terms before signing up with cloudflare for any of my sites, and it was quite clear it's not meant to be used as an image proxy

2024-08-01

466.

TheMoneyIllusion » Never reason from a quantity

www.themoneyillusion.com/never-reason-from-a-quantity

2024-07-31

465.

Here's How Music Industry Revenue Evolved Over Time 🎵 - Voronoi

www.voronoiapp.com/business/Heres-How-Music-Industry-Revenue-Evolved-Over-Time--272

2024-07-30

464.

All I Know About Certificates -- Certificate Authority | PixelsTech

www.pixelstech.net/article/1722045726-All-I-Know-About-Certificates----Certificate-Authority
463.

Rot Economics - An Interview With MIT's Daron Acemoglu

www.wheresyoured.at/rot-economics-an-interview-with-mits-daron-acemoglu

2024-07-26

462.

My Favorite Algorithm: Linear Time Median Finding

rcoh.me/posts/linear-time-median-finding

2024-07-25

461.

The bizarre secrets I found investigating corrupt Winamp skins / Jordan Eldredge

jordaneldredge.com/notes/corrupted-skins

2024-07-23

460.

A Few Indisputable Points About Poptimism and Then I Give Up

freddiedeboer.substack.com/p/a-few-indisputable-points-about-poptimism
459.

CrowdStruck

www.wheresyoured.at/crowdstruck-2
458.

Jade Rubick - How to avoid being a bottleneck leader

www.rubick.com/bottleneck-leaders
457.

Copying is the way design works || Matthew Ström: designer & developer

matthewstrom.com/writing/copying

2024-07-21

455.

Japanese web design: weird, but it works. Here's why - YouTube

youtube.com/watch?v=vi8pyS076a8
454.

Young Adulthood Is No Longer One of Life’s Happiest Times | Scientific American

www.scientificamerican.com/article/young-adulthood-is-no-longer-one-of-lifes-happiest-times

2024-07-20

453.

Never update anything

blog.kronis.dev/articles/never-update-anything

Bring back the old days where we engineered software to be used long term, instead of the current day world of: "Move fast and break things... oh, and don't bother thinking about what'll happen in 10 years, because your CV will be full of bleeding edge stuff, your bank account will be loaded and the troubles with most of the projects behind you won't be the slightest of your concerns." Realistically, you probably don't care about this stuff, but on the grand scale of things, perhaps you should.

2024-07-19

452.

Put Up Or Shut Up

www.wheresyoured.at/put-up-or-shut-up

Last week, HR platform Lattice announced that it would be, to quote CEO Sarah Franklin, "the first company to lead in the responsible employment of AI ‘digital workers’ by creating a digital employee record to govern them with transparency and accountability." This buzzword-laden nonsense, further elaborated on in a blog post while adding absolutely nothing in the process, suggested that Lattice would be treating digital workers as if they were employees, giving them "official employee records in Lattice," and "securely onboarding, training and assigning them goals," as well as performance metrics, "appropriate systems access, and even a manager, just as any person would be."

451.

The Semmelweis Myth And Why It’s Not Really True | Digital Tonto

digitaltonto.com/2018/the-semmelweis-myth-and-why-its-not-really-true

The truth is that we need more Jim Allisons and fewer Ignaz Semmelweises. Innovation takes more than having ideas and expecting others to immediately accept them. If your idea is important enough, then it is your job to take responsibility for it and see it through.

450.

Darwin Machines

vedgie.net/writing/darwin_machines.md

Sensory input comes in and causes minicolumns to fire in certain patterns. The resulting pattern is influenced by the input and the "tendencies" of the minicolumn that have been spatially encoded over time. Each firing pattern, each message, competes with other messages from minicolumns within its network. Through this competition each network settles on the most fit message, the message that best correlates with sensory input and the tendencies of its minicolumns.

2024-07-18

449.

Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil

arendjr.nl/blog/2024/07/post-architecture-premature-abstraction-is-the-root-of-all-evil
448.

The Functional Core, Imperative Shell Pattern – Kenneth Lange

kennethlange.com/functional-core-imperative-shell

2024-07-15

447.

Just Be Rich 🤷‍♂️

keenen.xyz/just-be-rich

2024-07-14

446.

There's not that much wealth in the world - by Noah Smith

www.noahpinion.blog/p/theres-not-that-much-wealth-in-the

2024-07-13

445.

Метод предложений

bureau.ru/soviet/20140408
444.

Someone is wrong on the internet (AGI Doom edition)

addxorrol.blogspot.com/2024/07/someone-is-wrong-on-internet-agi-doom.html?m=1
443.

Why doesn't advice work?

dynomight.net/advice
442.

What happened to the artificial-intelligence revolution?

www.economist.com/finance-and-economics/2024/07/02/what-happened-to-the-artificial-intelligence-revolution

2024-07-09

441.

Pop Culture

www.wheresyoured.at/pop-culture

The training data crisis is one that doesn’t get enough attention, but it’s sufficiently dire that it has the potential to halt (or dramatically slow) any AI development in the near future. As one paper, published in the journal Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition, found, in order to achieve a linear improvement in model performance, you need an exponentially large amount of data.

2024-07-08

440.

Как не замучить пользователя плохими контролами / Илья Бирман

www.youtube.com/watch?v=KWSaJJsDvtw
439.

Miniver Cheevy: “AI”, students, and epistemic crisis

miniver.blogspot.com/2024/07/ai-students-and-epistemic-crisis.html?m=1

Weird interaction with a student this week. They keep coming up with weird “facts” (“Greek is actually a combination of four other languages”) that left me baffled. I said let’s look this stuff up together, and they said OK, I’ll open a search bar, and they opened … Ch*tGPT. And I was like “this is not a search bar” and they were like “yes it is, you can search for anything in here”.

2024-07-07

438.

Tokens are a big reason today's generative AI falls short | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2024/07/06/tokens-are-a-big-reason-todays-generative-ai-falls-short

Rarely are digits tokenized consistently. Because they don’t really know what numbers are, tokenizers might treat “380” as one token, but represent “381” as a pair (“38” and “1”) — effectively destroying the relationships between digits and results in equations and formulas. The result is transformer confusion; a recent paper showed that models struggle to understand repetitive numerical patterns and context, particularly temporal data. (See: GPT-4 thinks 7,735 is greater than 7,926).

437.

Doodling with the Mac’s command icon – alexwlchan

alexwlchan.net/2024/command-icon

The command key (⌘) has been a ubiquitious part of the Mac for over forty years. It was chosen by legendary icon designer Susan Kare, who picked it from a symbol dictionary – this shape was already being used in Sweden to highlight an interesting feature on a map.

436.

Anxious Generation — How Safetyism and Social Media are damaging the kids

matija.eu/posts/anxious-generation-safetyism-social-media

2024-07-06

435.

Doctors Are Not Trained to Think Critically - Mad in the UK

www.madintheuk.com/2024/06/doctors-not-trained-to-think-critically

Medical research is largely funded by the pharmaceutical industry, papers ghostwritten by the pharmaceutical industry and influencers paid by the pharmaceutical industry. Regulators are not independent either and so it is that most doctors have become pawns in a system, used to deliver the drugs which provide the fundholders with the maximum profit. So far, the system has failed to eliminate corruption and bias, for one reason only, that is there is no such thing as a free lunch.

434.

Meta-analysis: On average, undergraduate students' intelligence is merely average

www.researchgate.net/publication/378173544_Meta-analysis_On_average_undergraduate_students'_intelligence_is_merely_average

These findings have wide-ranging implications. First, universities and professors need to realize that students are no longer extraordinary but merely average, and have to adjust curricula and academic standards. Second, employers can no longer rely on applicants with university degrees to be more capable or smarter than those without degrees. Third, students need to realize that acceptance into university is no longer an invitation to join an elite group. Fourth, the myth of brilliant undergraduate students in scientific and popular literature needs to be dispelled.

433.

Something happens to everyone

www.alexmolas.com/2024/07/05/something-happens-everyone.html
432.

DevOps Isn't Dead, but It's Not in Great Health Either - The New Stack

thenewstack.io/devops-isnt-dead-but-its-not-in-great-health-either

Out of the tens of thousands of developers surveyed by SlashData’s Developer Nation, a mere 14% can get code into production in a single day.

431.

Generative AI is a climate disaster

disconnect.blog/generative-ai-is-a-climate-disaster
430.

Male dance moves that catch a woman's eye | Biology Letters

royalsocietypublishing.org/doi/abs/10.1098/rsbl.2010.0619

Linear regression subsequently revealed that three movement measures were key predictors of dance quality; these were variability and amplitude of movements of the neck and trunk, and speed of movements of the right knee

429.

Today’s Cheap AI Services Won’t Last - Vincent Schmalbach

www.vincentschmalbach.com/todays-cheap-ai-services-wont-last
428.

(the software crisis)

wryl.tech/log/2024/the-software-crisis.html

2024-07-04

427.

The saddest "Just Ship It" story ever

www.kitze.io/posts/saddest-just-ship-it-story-ever
311.

How Did Silicon Valley Turn into a Creepy Cult?

www.honest-broker.com/p/how-did-silicon-valley-turn-into
310.

On the origins of DS_store

www.arno.org/on-the-origins-of-ds-store

2024-07-03

309.

We are at our most creative just before we fall asleep, scientists say

www.weforum.org/agenda/2022/01/creativity-hotspot-just-before-sleep
308.

Париться ли о выпирающих прописных буквах в заголовках?

bureau.ru/soviet/20240703

2024-07-02

307.

The Shareholder Supremacy

www.wheresyoured.at/tss

2024-06-27

237.

Кириллица в Google Fonts: гуманистические гротески

type.today/ru/journal/humanist
238.

Кириллица в Google Fonts: неогротески

type.today/ru/journal/neo

2024-06-23

425.

Очень простой алгоритм подбора цвета, который работает

scribe.rawbit.ninja/@iammishaanikin/98b8f0dcfdc5

2024-06-17

303.

Don’t store your cucumbers in the fridge

www.rootsimple.com/2012/06/dont-store-your-cucumbers-in-the-fridge
302.

Pop Culture Has Become an Oligopoly

www.experimental-history.com/p/pop-culture-has-become-an-oligopoly

2024-06-07

198.

How to keep using adblockers on chrome and chromium · GitHub

gist.github.com/velzie/053ffedeaecea1a801a2769ab86ab376
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