Building a signal analyser with modern web-tech: “I’ve always tended to be a web maximalist, but I’ve never felt more optimistic than I do now about the power of the modern web as a true application platform.”
“pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis” lends itself to a great dad joke 😀
The Double Disconnect is more prevalent than execs recognise?
A fascinating interaction between two giants Donald Knuth & Stephen Wolfram involving ChatGPT. Quoting: “I find it fascinating that novelists galore have written for decades about scenarios that might occur after a “singularity” in which superintelligent machines exist. But as far as I know, not a single novelist has realized that such a singularity would almost surely be preceded by a world in which machines are 0.01% intelligent (say), and in which millions of real people would be able to interact with them freely at essentially no cost.”
Seth Godin: Which sort of sinecure?“The places we inhabit are external, for sure, based on how the world treats us. But they’re often internally driven as well, a story that felt comfortable for a while. But if that story has created a stable place of ennui, dread or dissatisfaction, it might pay to find someone who can help us see that it’s possible to move on.”
Thomas Kuhn’s “The Structure of Scientific Revolutions” is a text I’ve regrettably not read before. Time to remedy that this week. Found the word “Congeries” there: a disorderly collection, a jumble.
“No man treats a motorcar as foolishly as he treats another human being. When the car will not go, he does not attribute its annoying behavior to sin; he does not say, “You are a wicked motorcar, and I shall not give you any more petrol until you go.” He attempts to find out what is wrong and to set it right. An analogous way of treating human beings is, however, considered to be contrary to the truths of our holy religion. -Bertrand Russell”
Literally everything on the New Artisans this week. (note to self: Patina = a surface appearance of something grown beautiful especially with age or use)
Richard Merrick: Education, Learning, Discovery: Education is what we do to others; Learning is what we do for ourselves; Discovery is where we become ourselves.
NYT: The tyranny of convenience (2018): We must never forget the joy of doing something slow and something difficult, the satisfaction of not doing what is easiest. The constellation of inconvenient choices may be all that stands between us and a life of total, efficient conformity.
Flux Collective Review has multiple interesting thoughts this week. “…it is humbling and awe-inspiring to recognize the gift of others who voluntarily agree to pretend to be much simpler than their full selves in order to make the organization work. These people who we lead are reducing their variety of states to enable the larger group to function. Good leaders are those who retain this awe and humility and understand the preciousness of the gift of requisite variety — and treat it with appreciation and kindness it deserves”
Kent State University Choir covers Neil Young’s Ohio
