How Silicon Valley is not like Wall Street.
On Wall Street, everyone was not only okay with being the douchebag, they often troublingly wanted to be the douchebag. In Silicon Valley, no one yet seems to want to admit they're the new douchebags. And this more an observation than a value judgment. Power and money beget douchebags. It’s just the nature of the beast.
Florian Schneider – Stop Plastic Pollution.
Programming Languages 2020
Some of the up-and-coming languages I also would like to do something with rather sooner than later (in alphabetical order):
- Elixir
- Elm
- Kotlin
- Rust (especially for WebAssembly)
Relevant: So You Think You Know C? And Ten More Short Essays on Programming Languages.
Like the way we understand animals…?
From algorithms to aliens, could humans ever understand minds that are radically unlike our own?
How Futurists Cope With Uncertainty.
If you’ve ever driven on a slippery road and started to lose control of your car, your instinct is to slam down on the breaks. That’s your limbic system dealing with uncertainty and clouding what should at that very moment be rational thought. Your rational mind would tell you to remain calm and avoid overreacting. Allow the car to pass over the ice by keeping the steering wheel straight or even steering gently into it if you’re not going to hit anything. You’re not being passive or giving up! You’re slowing down to see plausible outcomes so that you can take incremental actions.
Good to see alternatives still coming up to challenge the Github hegemony.
sourcehut – the hacker's forge.
Algorithmic Pricing and the Price of Rice.
(…) when sellers configure their algorithms to always set prices just slightly above the price of their competition, the constant price changes can lead to skyrocketing costs for consumers. In one bizzare instance, two competing algorithms drove the price of a science textbook up to $24 million.
Say goodbye to the information age: it’s all about reputation now.
What a mature citizen of the digital age should be competent at is not spotting and confirming the veracity of the news. Rather, she should be competent at reconstructing the reputational path of the piece of information in question, evaluating the intentions of those who circulated it, and figuring out the agendas of those authorities that leant it credibility.
Test it now!
Make hip hop music using the Library of Congress’ public audio collections. Coming Summer 2020.
Free Public APIs collections for software developments.
A Collection of Free and Public APIs has more than 1000 Public APIs collection like movie APIs, weather APIs, music APIs, games and comics APIs, sports APIs, science APIs, open data APIs, etc.