notes and quotes from things I read
Sex differences in the developmental trajectories of impulse control and sensation-seeking from early adolescence to early adulthood
I think this is the source of the "men at 25 at mature as women at 18" thing.
You Can’t Trust the AI Hype
when everything is AI, nothing is
Perdido (oil platform)
learned about this on a video of "depth of different bodies of water".
yoheinakajima/instagraph
not sure if I would actually find this useful, dense multi-arrowed charts are often hard for me to follow. Cool though!
The Problem of Male Grief
… in speaking to women’s groups, I have suggested that women look at men this way: If they took away their own network of intimate friends, those with whom they share their personal journey, removed their sense of instinctual guidance, concluded that they were almost wholly alone in the world, and understood that they would be defined only by standards of productivity external to them, they would then know the inner state of the average man.
—Finding Meaning in the Second Half of Life, by James Hollis
With so few socially acceptable avenues for processing these emotions, it isn’t uncommon for men to find other ways of managing them. Sometimes we isolate ourselves or disassociate. We may distract ourselves, keeping busy enough that the inner world can’t catch up. Other times, we numb ourselves by drinking or using substances. When pushed too close to our emotions, unresolved grief can come out as anger.
Happy Monday get out there and stop grinding
truly inspirational stuff
Have you noticed that everyone’s teeth are a little too perfect?
Christian Keil's site
reading list portfolio page
StableAudio
Challenges and Applications of Large Language Models (pdf)
- Immense training datasets are impossible for individuals (or anyone?) to validate
- Cost and memory constraints
- Prompts are hard to get right
- Output is unpredictable, or indeterminate
goldbaby free sample packs
Aardvark'd: The Fog Creek Documentary, 18 Years Later
I love this. Glad he finally found it. And youtube video still sub-200 views.
openai/openai-cookbook
Buzzy AI Startup for Generating 3D Models Used Cheap Human Labor
Similar worries to a number of the training steps for these.
The Stoic Mind
Temporal association between SARS-CoV-2 infection and the development of type 1 diabetes–associated autoimmunity in children
not great news
The Browser Operator
web emulator for po-33
The Decomposition of Rotten Tomatoes
Effectiveness of physical activity interventions for improving depression, anxiety and distress: an overview of systematic reviews
exercise!
Suprachiasmatic nucleus
Body clock - the bit of your brain that is controls circadian rhythms, regulates a bunch of different functions.
Ethical Hacker - Skills for All
Python packages with pyproject.toml and nothing else
I currently don't have any need for this but like the idea
Siamese Dream
jsconsole
how to run JS snippets when you're on your phone
the more you know, the worse you write
when more familar with a topic, we use more jargon and write less directly
Acoustic treatment for your home studio (on a budget / DIY)
An introduction to graph theory (pdf)
Graduate-level introduction to graph theory, for Math 530 in Spring 2022 at Drexel University
Against Automaticity
any field with “behavioral” in its name is not real
Questionable Advice: Can Engineering Productivity Be Measured?
Why transformative artificial intelligence is really, really hard to achieve
Cultural Capital Is No Substitute for Cold, Hard Cash
How To Become A Hacker (2001) - Eric Raymond
How to Drop Out (2004)
Selfhosting 50+ Docker containers on the Raspberry Pi 4
excessive, but impressive.
Stop Giving Big Oil a Carbon Fig Leaf
Inefficiencies of trying to scale carbon capture
Normcore LLM Reads
the anti-hype reading list
Making Large Language Models work for you
fantastic written version of his talk of youtube.
I like his ethics point on respecting reader's time - don't publish things that take someone longer to read than they do to write. Also on the code one, though I'm looser on that since I don't understand what my own code does.
llm CLI tool is fantastic.
The GPU-Poors
An Excruciatingly Detailed Guide To SSH (But Only The Things I Actually Find Useful)
Modelling 100% renewable grid for Australia, with just a few hours of storage
surprised by how much wind was in it
Canada in the Year 2060 - Macleans.ca
grim
PERSONAL PROJECTS — ERIK JOHANSSON
yaelwrites/Big-Ass-Data-Broker-Opt-Out-List
More America-centric, but amazing project
Good Sign, Bad Sign - Monty Norman
from an abandoned 1950s musical which later became the basis for Monty Norman's James Bond Theme
Paper drinking straws may be harmful and may not be better for the environment than plastic versions, researchers warn
many contain PFAS
The biggest likely source of microplastics in California coastal waters? Our car tires
Now is the time for grimoires - by Ethan Mollick
An introduction to graph theory
The Freeze Response
50s radio voice:
When bad things happen, does your mind suddenly go blank?
Do you feel tired?
And just end up not responding?
Your brain might use ‘the freeze response’ in the face of stress.
aider is GPT powered coding in your terminal
another ai code tool to try
Atlas of Anomalous AI
My Crypto Hell Journey Started With a Wrong Number Scam Text
wild story.
Visualizing the mysterious dance: Quantum entanglement of photons captured in real-time
why are they yin-yangs
China’s Abandoned Electric Cars Pile Up After EV Boom Fueled by Subsidies
Pragmatics of human communication : a study of interactional patterns, pathologies, and paradoxes
Marrawa by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri
This and Tali were some favorites
Teardown USB Wall Socket Charger
everything ends up being quite complicated
How to Twitter Successfully
On underused features and growing accounts.
use lists, DM people, and "optimize for virality only at the cost of your soul"
OpenFarm
Choose a Crop / Find a Guide / Grow!
COVID Docs - Google Drive
Reproductive health needs more hard science, not just more apps
Probabilistic Machine Learning: Advanced Topics
Mediterranean Sea of Australia
Surprising tree die-offs in formerly resilient forests
The formula for working out if you should buy an electric vehicle, simplified
Classic album: Trentmoller on The Last Resort
Brain scans of porn addicts
Carbon dioxide removal is not a current climate solution
Akrasia
learned from Hidden Brain - Slow Down
Ask HN : What are the big/important problems to work on? : Hacker News
very HN that first reply is "work on open-source software"
Microplastics effect on brain underestimated - worse with weathered plastics
I’m moving into my own place, and I’m sad about it.
Maurice Hilleman
According to one estimate, his vaccines save nearly eight million lives each year.
The Great Inflection? A Debate About AI and Explosive Growth—Asterisk
Myths are clouding the reality of our sustainable energy future
These emissions [for wind turbines, solar panels, and batteries] could amount to a cumulative 15-35 gigatonnes of CO₂ equivalent over the next 30 years: but that compares with around 40 Gt CO₂ equivalent produced every year by the fossil fuel based energy system.
Why every developer needs to use Obsidian
Hyperbole, but it is a pretty great editor.
Throwback Thursday: “Cello Concerto in E minor, Op. 85, Adagio Moderato,” Edward Elgar Meets Venetian Snares
Heard a familiar sound while watching Tár
Why America is going backward: Being the richest nation in history isn't enough
Registry of Interests
comprehensive list of his income and assets. Great thing to be public
microplastics trigger more severe inflammatory response in the brain than previously though
made worse by the effects of weathering on the plastic
Big/Important problems to work on
in classic HN style the first comment was "write free software to prevent authoritarian regimes".
Thread on loneliness and time spent alone
How Should One Read a Book?
It depends on the book. Talks about different authors approaches to describing the same scene; the focus is completely different for each, and so each would be read very differently.
Interesting to re-read How I read and see if anything has changed.