Planes don’t flap their wings: does AI work like a brain?
‘There is enough dung as it is. Why make more?’
How Long Is a Moment?
For centuries, and as late as the early 19th century, a “moment” was something quite specific—a 40th of an hour, or around 90 seconds. But modern English doesn’t treat the word this way.
The 19 Women Who Accused Trump of Sexual Misconduct.
The "Weinstein effect" continues to roil the nation’s power centers. But the allegations against the president have largely stayed in the background.
Relevant: The Richest People Men In Cryptocurrency.
Everything Easy is Hard Again.
(…) it is a bit spooky to sit down and learn more about it, because every time I see a diagram explaining how CSS Grid works... I’m reminded of the table layouts I was doing in 1997. There’s a voice in the back of my head saying we’re stuck in a loop and it’s repeating. We’ve completed a lap on a cycle which will go around forever. Another approach for layout will come along five years from now, it will probably resemble floats, and not knowing how to clear a float will bite me in the ass for the second time in my career.
What the hell is water?
A speech by the late David Foster Wallace.
A huge percentage of the stuff that I tend to be automatically certain of is, it turns out, totally wrong and deluded.
Jóhann Jóhannsson dies at 48 (9 Feb).
Few things are as dangerous as economists with physics envy.
Noting that human data differed from that in the natural sciences by its fluid nature, Leontief said that economists would do better to spend less time perfecting their mathematics, and more time getting down and dirty with their data.
Same same but different.
Pogona aka bearded dragons.
From visualization with D3 to Jupyter-like notebooks.