Musings on Media in the Age of AI
Photo by Jeremy Bishop on Unsplash I recently wrote about the future of the browser and Surf, a new app from the creators of Flipboard. Both stories explore the c…
Why should I avoid regular expressions?
Regular expressions are wondrous, but they’re ill-suited for many tasks; parsers are often more reliable.
The Joy of Missing Out: Lessons from a Church-Wide Digital Detox
How Churches can help roll back the phone-based life
In GPU We Antitrust
With all of this chatter about China looking into possible violations of antitrust law by Nvidia, and regulators in both the United States and the
Too Much Fun: The Five Lives of the Commodore 64 Computer (MIT Press)
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Subchannel Stations: The Radio Broadcasts You Didn’t Know Were There
Analog radio broadcasts are pretty simple, right? Tune into a given frequency on the AM or FM bands, and what you hear is what you get. Or at least, that used to be the way, before smart engineers …
Human Civilization And The Black Plastic Kitchen Utensils Panic
Recently there was a bit of a panic in the media regarding a very common item in kitchens all around the world: black plastic utensils used for flipping, scooping and otherwise handling our food wh…
Why Did Early CD-ROM Drives Rely On Awkward Plastic Caddies?
These days, very few of us use optical media on the regular. If we do, it’s generally with a slot-loading console or car stereo, or an old-school tray-loader in a desktop or laptop. This has …
Versatile, Yet Grounded: The Rotodyne Revisited
When it comes to aviation curiosities, few machines captivate the imagination like the Fairey Rotodyne. This British hybrid aircraft was a daring attempt to combine helicopter and fixed-wing effici…
Retrotechtacular: 1980s Restoration Of San Francisco’s Cable Car System
The cable car system of San Francisco is the last manually operated cable car system in the world, with three of the original twenty-three lines still operating today. With these systems being inst…
The Hovercraft Revolution And Finding The Right Niche For A Technology
In the world of transportation, some technologies may seem to make everything else appear obsolete, whether it concerns airplanes, magnetic levitation or propelling vehicles and craft over a cushio…
Disc Film,When Kodak Pushed Convenience Too Far
Having a penchant for cheap second-hand cameras can lead to all manner of interesting equipment. You never know what the next second-hand store will provide, and thus everything from good quality r…
On Versioning Observabilities (1.0, 2.0, 3.0…10.0?!?)
Hazel Weakly, you little troublemaker. As I whined to Hazel over text, after she sweetly sent me a preview draft of her post: “PLEASE don’t post this! I feel like I spend all my time trying to hel…
What Do You Lose When You Abandon the Cloud?
Cloud repatriation might seem like a solution for high infrastructure costs, but it can prove short-sighted as an organization scales.
Why All the Major Cloud Platforms Are the Same
AWS, GCP, Azure and Oracle didn’t start out being so similar, but they’ve evolved and converged over time. Why, and what does that mean for you?
Surf the Human-Curated Internet
By Om MalikMike McCue, the founder of Flipboard, loves the media. He loves reading, watching, and immersing himself in what other Silicon Valley types...
Why probability probably doesn’t exist (but it is useful to act like it does)
Nature - All of statistics and much of science depends on probability — an astonishing achievement, considering no one’s really sure what it is.
What just happened
A transformative month rewrites the capabilities of AI
Can AI models reason: Just a stochastic parrot?
Some argue AI models don't truly reason. AI models can indeed just repeat their training data mindlessly. However, they are able to do more than just this.
Estimating projects sells them short (and that's okay) | nicole@web
Write code with your Alphabet Radio on
We can only write good code together
Gregorian Calendar and Number Theory
The design of the Gregorian calendar can be explained by looking at how best to approximate 365.2422 with a rational number.
Perpetual Calendars
There are 14 possible calendar patterns using the Gregorian calendar. Why is that? How common is each one
Snapshot Isolation vs Serializability - Marc's Blog
Bounga’s Home
Thoughts about Ruby, Rails, Hanami, Elixir, Phoenix, Javascript and Unix.
Quick takes on the recent OpenAI public incident write-up
OpenAI recently published a public writeup for an incident they had on December 11, and there are lots of good details in here! Here are some of my off-the-cuff observations: Saturation With thousa…
The AI we deserve ⊗ The “AI is fake and sucks” debate ⊗ What would a world with abundant energy look like?
No.337 — The alchemy that powers the modern world ⊗ Building A Circular Future ⊗ Open Source AI year in review 2024
The Antikythera mechanism
A couple of followups on a recent episode of In Our Time.
What Really Matters: Memories
“It’s generally human nature to overestimate risk and underestimate opportunity. Thinking small is a self-fulfilling prophecy.” Jeff Bezos, founder, Amazon On My Mind We, as modern humans, try to c…
Traceroute is real – I should know, I was there with MPLS
Gather around the fire for another retelling of computer networking history