Sunday, 15. October 12023
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Н is N, m is t!

just as I was a little bit proud of myself being able to – slowly, very slowly – read and write the Ukrainian alphabet, I now was told there are handwritten Cyrillic cursive letterforms that look different to their corresponding typeset counterparts… 😭

Eikichi Yazawa is a Japanese singer-songwriter, and a prominent figure in Japanese popular music.

He has been nicknamed as Ei-chan (永ちゃん), Boss or The King of Rock. (…) In 1981, he released his first English album Yazawa. This album was produced by Bobby LaKind of the Doobie Brothers, and Paul Barrere of Little Feat.

Monday, 9. October 12023
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Joanna Pianka & Veronika Suschnig: Perceptual Grounds.

Sunday, 8. October 12023
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Tired: Microserfs
Wired: Incels go Mars

Oh boy…

Chatbot Hallucinations Are Poisoning Web Search.

The age of generative AI threatens to sprinkle epistemological sand into the gears of web search by fooling algorithms designed for a time when the web was mostly written by humans.

Thursday, 5. October 12023
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Great film, great soundtrack.

In Fabric.

I still � Unicode.

The Absolute Minimum Every Software Developer Must Know About Unicode in 2023 (Still No Excuses!)

Source: tonsky.me

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Leporello.js – Interactive functional programming IDE for JavaScript,

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Conventional Comments – Comments that are easy to grok and grep.

Donald E. Knuth poses some questions to Chat Geppetto.

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.

I myself shall certainly continue to leave such research to others, and to devote my time to developing concepts that are authentic and trustworthy. And I hope you do the same.