counterpoint

there are some bizarre branding decisions happening at Microsoft

"textbooks one can study to reach expertise in mathematics and physics in the most efficient manner possible"

Trash collection for the ocean

hopefully this doesn't just turn into the 15th competing standard

This quote has nice sentence rhythm

Naturally there are difference species of laziness: Eastern and Western.
The Eastern style is like the one practiced to perfection in India.
It consists of hanging out all day in the sun, doing nothing, avoiding any kind of work or useful activity, drinking cups of tea, listening to Hindi film music blaring on the radio, and gossiping with friends.
Western laziness is quite different.
It consists of cramming our lives with compulsive activity, so that there is no time at all to confront the real issues.

even what seems like the simplest thing has hundreds of factors

bigger rolls in the streets, shrinkflation in the sheets

a very ambitious important thing

maybe this is it! I have been looking for this or a similar short story for 1.5 decades. This seems a little different to the one I remember but similar premise

cool little overlay to print and sit above piano keys, shows different scales

need more of this

more fun things to waste time learning about

Repo

Tool to develop prompts into full models

currently on waitlist. Music app to consolidate different streaming apps

still limited knowledge

Industrial ethernet, stands for "Process Field Network"

postgres db in the browser. Requires log in for the AI bit

good example of an overview doc, from twitter thread on benefit of higher level docs rather than docstring and type annotations only

Great list. Learning things, automation, and coding one-offs

they have sunrise every 90 minutes!

Codepen example

"Way more data coming" has never felt so threatening

this looks quite great. Simple and fast

update regularly!

great analysis. Found via reddit thread.

whisperX is apparently the winner

cool that it generated the sounds from sine waves

The most boring period in Earth's history

Exploration of color and perception.

n for a new composition, space to pause, arrow keys to navigate through the compositions, f to go fullscreen.

if you want to avoid this API Churn vs. Security complexity trade off entirely, there is a great way to do it: move things back to the server side.

fun UI for scrolling through public domain works

Listen to radio from around the world

It works! Pause for about 10s then resume

The marshmallow experiment, Stanford Prison Experiment, cooperation breakdown in nature and tribes - all apparently bad science

Where social psychology has been used to:

• portray humans as dumb pieces of clay to be molded
• unduly indict groups that researchers dislike
• to provide convenient experimental confirmation of bits of popular wisdom (“power corrupts”, “evil is banal”, etc.)
• contraindicate views researchers call “narratives” but which are really ‘views researchers dislike’
• affirm the singular importance of small, unreliable aspects of human behavio

then it’s probably wrong.

cooool

good explanation and illustrations

this looks quite fun, sadly it seems to be iOS-only

Sadly no longer free to access without login. This was a great way to demo current state of image generation

4.3kHz tone, 100db at 1m

Wild comparison of Siri with ChatGPT voice - on how they handle interruptions and correctly maintain context.
Conversational vs task-oriented assistants.
And the weirdness of it having intonation and pauses for breath.

the home of Move Better Sam

"Judging from the comments, everybody got here by accident and everybody is glad that they did. I am glad too."

I like that part 3 is "Ray tracing for the rest of your life"

we've sat through some poor AC games because we're always hoping they get back to recapturing the magic of AC2

I only really played the first two but this tracks

key is to know what you want to say, before anything else

"If you are angry for two or three days, sickness will come"

open-source one-time password app published by Red Hat

improves thinking, and increases compatibility of people who contact you

We’re already doing things like decoding whale song with AI, or figuring out molecular structures of all proteins. But why stop with datasets that induce languages with “grammars” that can be rendered legible to us? Could you make a “Large Solar Flares and Sunspots Model” (LSFASM) and learn to talk to the Sun and ask it where it might flare up next? How about a Large Oceanic Model that allows ships to talk to ocean currents? Or a Large History Model that works as a Prime Radiant for Asimovian psychohistory? Maybe a Large Climate Model constructed out of weather data can talk to us and supply strategies for climate change?

What is this simulation made out of though? What are its functional parts? How does a squishy, wet, and electrically intertwined sponge generate the 3D simulation you are inhabiting right now? The Brain as a Non-linear Optical Computer (BAANLOC) theory proposes that the brain enlists electromagnetic waves to create a powerful computational medium. In other words, evolution has co opted the EM field for its massive parallelism, holistic behavior, and self-organizing tendencies, to unleash its computational potential with non-linear wave interactions. In this article we describe supporting evidence for the Brain as a Non-linear Optical Computer theory and speculate on how it may be implemented by existing neuronal mechanics in the brain.

At first, I had "ask nothing of you" but it didn't quite feel right. It felt too detached, like they wanted nothing from others, like they never invited you to things or asked for commitment, and this isn't true of the people I'm thinking of. The most charismatic people I know, who seem to have this radiant, magnetic quality to their presence, are actually those who actively invite you to things with your best interests in mind but are totally okay with you declining, and they really mean it.

making the made-up bridges from Euro banknotes real

A very sad one. Software gets slower more than computers get faster

not recommended

beautiful exchange.