Filterworld, Flatworld
From a book review in last Friday’s WSJ:, for this book:…
2024
Something I've been saying recently is: "I don't know what's going to happen this year, but whatever happens, it's going to be unprecedented!" To put things charitably: We’…
Best of Lex
Had been recommending Lex Fridman to my wife for a while, and she finally tried it out, with one of the best episodes of all, the one with Yuval Noah-Harari. She later asked me about other possible o…
Interceptors
Patriot missiles are in the news again I remember the name from the Gulf War (the "first" Iraq war for the younger folks), when the idea of one missile knocking out another one ("Scuds…
War Journalism
It's rare to see this, but ideally there'd be much more of it. A gritty account of a few days at the front, courtesy the WSJ: https://www.wsj.com/world/europe/ukraine-russia-war-counteroffens…
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All’s fair
Marked out the takeaway from an article about Ukraine (From WSJ, the Jan 5, 2024 issue)…
"Live" Objects
An interesting new paper on "Live Metacircular Runtimes" (or, to put it a bit edgily, "making live objects great again" 😀) The examples and focus are from "the Smalltalk sc…
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Random sketches
Accompanying my daughter to guided drawing from “Art for kids hub”…