The Funny Thing About “Unfunny” Women.
Hmm. Interesting. Maybe it’s the gender with so many roadblocks to being creative and funny who are bad hires.
Share Your Experiences with Impostor Syndrome.
Ingrid Brodnig: 7 types of misinformation in the German election.
Relevant: Not Real News – A look at what didn’t happen this week.
How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One; Part Two).
That’s one reason I don’t miss IT, because programmers are very unlikable people… In aviation, for example, people who greatly overestimate their level of skill are all dead.
Software 2.0 is written in neural network weights. No human is involved in writing this code because there are a lot of weights (typical networks might have millions), and coding directly in weights is kind of hard (I tried). Instead, we specify some constraints on the behavior of a desirable program (e.g., a dataset of input output pairs of examples) and use the computational resources at our disposal to search the program space for a program that satisfies the constraints.
What the idea of civilisational ‘collapse’ says about history.
The fall, like the rise of a civilisation is a highly complex operation which can only be distorted by oversimplification. It may be taken as axiomatic that there was no one cause of cultural collapse.
Move Slowly and Fix Things.
You might have optimistically deluded yourself into believing it’s always helpful because you’re a nice person, and design is a noble-seeming endeavor, and you have good intentions.
But let’s be brutally honest for a minute.
Relevant: Why the tech ethos is making employees unhappier, unhealthier, and unproductive — and what we can to change that.
Victories are a three piece groove-rock band from Essex.
Anleitung: Fake Tweets entlarven.
Der Datenjournalist Henk van Ess gibt im folgenden Video-Toolkit zehn Tipps, wie er dubiose Tweets entlarvt.
Privacy Tools for encryption against global mass surveillance.
You are being watched! Knowledge, encryption and privacy tools to protect you against global mass surveillance.
Relevant: The Motherboard Guide to Not Getting Hacked.