notes and quotes from things I read
programming practices - Torvalds' quote about good programmer - Software Engineering Stack Exchange
Introduction to Mechanistic Interpretability – BlueDot Impact
How to use field recordings as a songwriting tool
Energy economics and rocket science with Casey Handmer
conversation_2024-08-28T19-40-20-814Z.txt · GitHub
Apply for The Job You Want
counterpoint
Microsoft rename Remote Desktop to 'Windows App'
there are some bizarre branding decisions happening at Microsoft
yetone/avante.nvim: Use your Neovim like using Cursor AI IDE
Unprecedented Rainfall event in the Sahara desert
The Fast Track – Sheafification
"textbooks one can study to reach expertise in mathematics and physics in the most efficient manner possible"
safePower - Tutorial Australia
michael/editable-website: A SvelteKit template for building CMS-free editable websites
Learning Modern 3D Graphics Programming
Happiness | Awareness Games
Sunlight Technology — YUJILEDS High CRI Webstore
GoJS - Interactive Diagrams for the Web in JavaScript and TypeScript
Toasts are bad UX | Hacker News
The Most And Least Attractive Male Hobbies
Seabins
Trash collection for the ocean
rasteri/SC1000: An open-source digital portable turntablist instrument
New Technique Removes More Than 98% of Nanoplastics From Water
Good programmers worry about data structures and their relationships | Hacker News
Burst Damage
Ask HN: Tired of software career. What now? | Hacker News
What’s Really Going On in Machine Learning? Some Minimal Models—Stephen Wolfram Writings
Classifying a bunch of PDFs
Khanlou
UV - Unified Python Packaging
hopefully this doesn't just turn into the 15th competing standard
The Tibetan Book of Living and Dying
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.
The Door Problem
even what seems like the simplest thing has hundreds of factors
Why toilet paper keeps getting smaller and smaller
bigger rolls in the streets, shrinkflation in the sheets
Ladybird browser
a very ambitious important thing
The Difference @ Things Of Interest
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
RET2 WarGames Security Training
Piano cheat sheet
cool little overlay to print and sit above piano keys, shows different scales
Why does Ozempic cure all diseases?
Portals - Strangest Loop
need more of this
Alien - Artificial Life Environment
more fun things to waste time learning about
Weave Agent DevLog #0 - The Core Problems
Tool to develop prompts into full models
Overtone - music app
currently on waitlist. Music app to consolidate different streaming apps
Deconstructing PO-33 backup format
still limited knowledge
Profinet
Industrial ethernet, stands for "Process Field Network"
Postgres Sandbox
postgres db in the browser. Requires log in for the AI bit
Performance Issues | The Point Magazine
New msu study fewer people want to stand out in public
Clueyness: A Weird Kind of Sad
Rust Compiler Development Guide
good example of an overview doc, from twitter thread on benefit of higher level docs rather than docstring and type annotations only
Profile of Palmer Luckey
How I use 'AI' - Nicholas Carlini
Great list. Learning things, automation, and coding one-offs
Ana Tudor 3d text spiral animation
Living and working in space
they have sunrise every 90 minutes!
Font with built-in syntax highlighting
Dataset of all human diseases
"Way more data coming" has never felt so threatening
ChatGPT is bullshit
Bear Blog
this looks quite great. Simple and fast
Timelinize - combine data from accounts to a single timeline
Honest Wedding Vows for Real Marriages
Fix pacman corrupted keys error
update regularly!
Diablo I in the browser!
Comparing accuracy and speed of different whisper packages
great analysis. Found via reddit thread.
whisperX is apparently the winner
taste testing cities
Loneliness in early parenthood
Drumpad generated by Claude
cool that it generated the sounds from sine waves
Boring Billion
The most boring period in Earth's history
Ted Chiang - What's expected of us
AutoAlbers
Exploration of color and perception.
n for a new composition, space to pause, arrow keys to navigate through the compositions, f to go fullscreen.
API Churn vs Security
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.
The Controversial Issue of Men & Jewelry
Public Work
fun UI for scrolling through public domain works
local-first podcast
DMT as antidepressant treatment
Schopenhauer - The Art of Literature/On Thinking for Oneself
Radio Garden
Listen to radio from around the world
How to fix slow ps4 downloads
It works! Pause for about 10s then resume
The vast emptiness of social psychology
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.
The Art of Dithering and Retro Shading for the Web
cooool
What is a spectrogram?
good explanation and illustrations
Music Speed Changer iOS App
this looks quite fun, sadly it seems to be iOS-only
fal.ai FLUX Playground
Sadly no longer free to access without login. This was a great way to demo current state of image generation
Dropping hashes: an idiom used to demonstrate provenance of documents
Dating preferences of individuals with social anxiety disorder
x86re - Reverse Engineering for Noobs
The way we interact with apps is changing, so should the way they are designed.
The art of leaving on a high note
How Cicadas Make Their Noise
4.3kHz tone, 100db at 1m
Generative AI is not going to build your engineering team for you
94000 free samples from SampleRadar
On speaking to AI - Ethan Mollick
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.
Move Better Project
the home of Move Better Sam
List of Twitter memes
Jack Bauer non-stop yelling and dammits
ARI_Abundance of deer in Victoria_Technical Report 368_OCTOBER 2023
Yasuaki Shimizu - Kakashi (1982)
"Judging from the comments, everybody got here by accident and everybody is glad that they did. I am glad too."
Why SQL is Forever
Samsung 600-mile solid state EV battery with rapid charging
Ray Tracing in One Weekend Series
I like that part 3 is "Ray tracing for the rest of your life"
Praise for Assassin's Creed 2
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
Writing advice from visakanv
key is to know what you want to say, before anything else
Relationship Contract - Self-Reflection Worksheet
Hoʻoponopono
"If you are angry for two or three days, sickness will come"
FreeOTP
open-source one-time password app published by Red Hat
FastHTML - Modern web applications in pure Python
Confessions of a cheeseburger ethicist
Why you should write more
improves thinking, and increases compatibility of people who contact you
Dancing proves the top treatment for depression
Confronting impossible futures and planning for weirder worlds
A Camera, Not an Engine
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?
The Electrostatic Brain: How a Web of Neurons Generates the World-Simulation that is You
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.
People who demand nothing of you
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.
GABA receptor - Wikipedia
Eurobridges Spijkenisse - Wikipedia
making the made-up bridges from Euro banknotes real
Distributed Systems Reading List
Wirth's law - Wikipedia
A very sad one. Software gets slower more than computers get faster
What Happens When You Drink an Entire Bottle of Weed Lube
not recommended
Stop perfecting your config
How to get in touch with your body
Do you mind if I close the issue? / I don't mind.
beautiful exchange.