Charles Ying

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So You Think You Could Be An Electrician?

Funny how the people telling kids to get jobs in the trades tend to be white-collar.

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What Would A Serious AI Product Look Like?

Every “AI” tool is missing critical features that you would need if you wanted to do real work with them. What would those look like, if they existed?

drewdevault.com

Why is Hacker News like that?

Bastardica

Bastardica

A type foundry for bastard web fonts.

Lisa Melton

Memories of Steve

Originally published elsewhere on Thursday, April 10, 2014. I have no plans to watch that new movie about Steve Jobs. As I have no plans to read Walter Isaacson's biography of him. It's not because I think those efforts are somehow not worthy of his memory. It's just that I have my own recollections of [...]

The Onion

Amount Of Water Man Just Used To Wash Dish To Be Prize Of Hand-To-Hand Combat Match In 2065

HARTFORD, CT—Noting how it would one day be regarded as an almost unimaginably precious bounty, sources confirmed Tuesday that the quantity of water local resident Kevin Lachowsky just used to wash a single dish will be the same amount awarded as the grand prize of hand-to-hand death matches in the year 2065. According to reports, the volume of water that passed down the 33-year-old’s drain as he cleaned a small salad bowl will, in 50 years’ time, be battled over by pairs of men who will repeate

The Pat Hatter: So Let's Talk About That Jeopardy! Episode

Community Letter from Tim

Community Letter from Tim

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Inigo Quilez

Articles on computer graphics, math and art

36 Doctors Just Staged the Quietest Coup in American History

The press looked away for a reason.

BREAKING: Trump Administration Orders Dismantling of the U.S. Forest Service

The headquarters is going to Utah. Every regional office is being shuttered. The research program is being destroyed.

Ted Chiang: Fears of Technology Are Fears of Capitalism

Writer Ted Chiang (author of the fantastic Exhalation) was recently a guest on the Ezra Klein Show. The conversation ranged widely — I enjoyed his thoughts on s

Dara

Minneapolis, tear gas, mourning our heroes, and resolve

The Four Horsemen of Agentic Coding

Slop, Alienation, Deskilling, and Team Fallout

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Sunil Sadasivan

First Principles Thinking

On first principles thinking, learning to work with agents, and setting experience aside long enough to see a problem clearly.

The VIEWS project

Experiencing writing at our recent Chinese calligraphy workshop

Our summer Visiting Fellow Roland Buckingham Hsiao very kindly led a workshop on Chinese calligraphy a few weeks ago, which we greatly enjoyed. It was not only an opportunity to learn but to experi…

Apple Copland D11E4 booting in your Browser

Apple’s ill-fated Copland operating system is notoriously hard to run on real hardware, and has not previously been available in emulation. Here is the last build D11E4 in an improved DingusPPC. The 11 patches necessary for unlocking Copland are on this branch of my fork. DingusPPC does not take…