Incoming links and notes
March 5, 2020 — September 25, 2024
Assumed audience:
Me
Things that I think should be noted and filed in an orderly fashion, but which I lack time to address right now. Content will change incessantly.
1 To subscribe to
- Planned Obsolescence
- Homegrown Humans Newsletter
- Unsolicited Reflections
- The Moloch Trap of Environmental Problems
- If everything is genetic, then nothing is genetic
- Quiet Activism - Bryant Research
- Chinese Doom Scroll
- Fancy math doesn’t make simple math stop being true
- Confidence and Joy by Emily Nagoski
- Adjacent Possible—Steven Johnson
- Phenomenologicc
- Ontologicc
- Epistemink
- George3d6
- Traditions of Conflict | William Buckner
- Public
- Patrick McKenzie, Bits about Money
- Big things start small: How Substack sparked its early community of writers
- Ouroboros housing collective
2 To post to team chat
The data engineering lifecycle is not going anywhere | Yanir Seroussi | Data & AI for Startup Impact
Full Steam Ahead: The 2024 MAD (Machine Learning, AI & Data) Landscape – Matt Turck
[2112.15275] Learned Coarse Models for Efficient Turbulence Simulation
Can the climate survive the insatiable energy demands of the AI arms race?
Wheal’s Homegrown Humans Newsletter is interesting.
Make better documents. - Anil Dash
Even very smart, capable communicators routinely send important documents that distract from, or even undermine, their goals.
Ten Hard Problems in and around AI
We finally published our big 90-page intro to AI. Its likely effects, from ten perspectives, ten camps. The whole gamut: ML, scientific applications, social applications, access, safety and alignment, economics, AI ethics, governance, and classical philosophy of life. Intended audience: technical people without any ML experience.
Two years, 400 journalists and 50 climate experts: Here’s what we learnt about how to report on climate change by the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
2023’s best global tech stories we wish we’d written—Rest of World
Second-Generation Americans: What to Do When Loved Ones Are Sharing Misinformation—The Markup
Mapping Australia’s groundwater | Ministers for the Department of Industry, Science and Resources
Stable Fiddusion — Acko.net fascinating hacker approach to noise generation via intuitive FFT
Andy Matuschak - Self-Teaching, Spaced Repetition, Why Books Don’t Work
Experiment metascience grant
pyg-team/pytorch_geometric: Graph Neural Network Library for PyTorch
Eight Graphs That Explain Software Engineering Salaries in 2023
Brittany Johnson-Matthews: Causal testing: understanding the root causes of defects
Tianyi Zhang: Interactive Debugging and Testing Support for Deep Learning
Eugenio Culurciello, The fall of RNN / LSTM. We fell for Recurrent neural networks…
3 Links
Can i claim AI subscription fees for learning work related learnings | ATO Community
Free Anagram Sentence Generator for English, German, French, and Spanish
[2102.05095] Is Space-Time Attention All You Need for Video Understanding?
Jamie Wheal | Tackling the Meaning Crisis | Win-Win with Liv Boeree
Reflections on 2020 as an independent researcher | Andy Matuschak
Defying Cavity: Lantern Bioworks FAQ - by Scott Alexander / Lumina Probiotic
Kate Wagner’s piece Behind F1’s Velvet Curtain was taken down shortly after publication
The Shift from Models to Compound AI Systems – The Berkeley Artificial Intelligence Research Blog
Interesting synth: Vital
Ask a Neoliberal: An Interview with J. Bradford DeLong - Dissent Magazine
Mary Harrington, Prison Pod Cities and Killer Robots
GitHub - ml-explore/mlx: MLX: An array framework for Apple silicon
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Argues that for a given limited event budget, closed captioning is more inclusive than hiring a signer to interpret, since many deaf people do not sign, plus captions assist austistic and non-native english speakers in addition.
2023’s best global tech stories we wish we’d written - Rest of World
Science communicators need to stop telling everybody the universe is a meaningless void
Accelerating Natural Gradient with Higher-Order Invariance | Yang Song
How to Find the Taylor Series of an Inverse Function - Randorithms
Remix - Build Better Websites — distributed, rather than static, site rendering. backed by shopify.
f-DM: A Multi-stage Diffusion Model via Progressive Signal Transformation | OpenReview
Invertible Gaussian Reparameterization: Revisiting the Gumbel-Softmax
[2309.10068] A Unifying Perspective on Non-Stationary Kernels for Deeper Gaussian Processes
Monitoring, Streamlining and Reorganizing Work with Digital Technology.
[2302.03314] Federated Variational Inference Methods for Structured Latent Variable Models
[2302.02947] GPS++: Reviving the Art of Message Passing for Molecular Property Prediction
CodaLab Competitions: An Open Source Platform to Organize Scientific Challenges
pop Bayes
Pushover: Simple Notifications for Android, iPhone, iPad, and Desktop
Half-Truths (at Best) about Calculus of Variations and Optimal Control
Louis Tiao, Spherical Inducing Features for Orthogonally-Decoupled Gaussian Processes
“VC qanon” and the radicalization of the tech tycoons - Anil Dash
A relatively small amount of force applied at just the right place Y-Combinator back stories
Office for the Preservation of Normalcy - I feel confident enough to post these now. Cosmic horror warning posters.
Smart Countdown Timer is a good timer.
Smart Countdown Timer allows you to use natural language to set, modify and start a countdown on your Mac. Our simple and easy to use Ul just requires you to enter your countdown time using plain English, such as ‘1 hour and 35 mins’ or ‘add 25 mins’
cannerycoders/imgui-njs: Immediate Mode GUI for browser and electron environments.
LVGL is an stripped-down graphics/ UI library
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WebAssembly is a ‘first-class citizen’, one important motivation for the Sokol headers is to provide a collection of cross-platform APIs with a minimal footprint on the web platform while still being useful.
The core headers are standalone and can be used independently from each other.…
A blog post with more background info: A Tour of sokol_gfx.h
The Dissemination Game: Incentives of In-Person vs Virtual Participation
The Remarkable Decline of Homophobia – Probably Overthinking It
BookML: automated LaTeX to bookdown-style HTML and SCORM, powered by LaTeXML
Matt Bruenig, Equality and Equity
“Equity” is not used to promote any particular unit of equality — whether outcomes, opportunities, boxes, sightlines, luck-adjusted outcomes, primary goods, income, wealth, or capabilities — but is instead a word that you invoke any time you object to the unit of equality someone else is using, regardless of what, if any, your preferred alternative unit of equality is.
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Agenda’s unique approach of organizing notes into a timeline helps to drive your projects forward. While other apps focus specifically on the past, present, or future, Agenda is the only note taking app that tracks them all at once, giving you the complete picture.
firewire on modern macs
What’s causing Australia’s nightmare rental market? - Podcast
The first AI model based on Yann LeCun’s vision for more human-like AI/ [2301.08243] Self-Supervised Learning from Images with a Joint-Embedding Predictive Architecture
Love, Actually: The science behind lust, attraction, and companionship
Cadence Culture – Magazine for international underground electronic music culture
Bruce Schneier, On the Need for an AI Public Option
BIMLOGIQ is where Amir Dezfouli went to work.
Flyte: An Open Source Orchestrator for ML/AI Workflows - The New Stack
Build production-grade data and ML workflows, hassle-free with Flyte
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A project called CETI — Cetacean Translation Initiative — was initiated to help scientists study and understand the language of sperm whales.
Sam Kriss, All the nerds are dead, conflates geeks and nerds, but is funny anyway
The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money by John Maynard Keynes
The reasonable(?) effectiveness of data analysis
Why is it that we can be thrown into the work of other people, in a field we have zero experience in, and have any expectation of making any useful impact at all? When stated objectively, it sounds utterly ridiculous. But in my experience, a data team can find something to make an improvement on, even if the impact can sometimes be small.
Self-Healing Concrete: What Ancient Roman Concrete Can Teach Us
Serge Zaitsev, World’s smallest office suite
Annie Lowrey, We Haven’t Been Measuring How the Economy Really Works
Alternative to the tedious openhub workflow: analyzemyrepo.com | about
TIL Apophenia vs Pareidolia
Matthew Feeney, Markets in fact-checking
Étienne Fortier-Dubois, The elements of scientific style
Jason Collins, We don’t have a hundred biases, we have the wrong model
Neural Transducer Training: Reduced Memory Consumption with Sample-wise Computation
factorization_machine Something something kernels, something regression something interaction effects.
Facebook, Google Give Police Data to Prosecute Abortion Seekers
What’s the difference between a tutorial and how-to guide? - Diátaxis
Prof Steve Keen | Creating realistic economics for the post-crash world
Color Oracle simulates color blindness for accessibility of visualisations and plots etc
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Kolibri is an open-source educational platform specially designed to provide offline access to a wide range of quality, openly licensed educational resources in low-resource contexts like rural schools, refugee camps, orphanages, and also in non-formal school programs.
Cult Classic ‘Fight Club’ Gets a Very Different Ending in China
A Turkish Farmer Tests Out VR Goggles on Cows To Get More Milk
Pluralistic: Tiktok’s enshittification (21 Jan 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
In Which Long-Time Netizen & Programmer-at-Arms Dave Winer Records a Podcast for Me, Personally
A global analysis of matches and mismatches between human genetic and linguistic histories—PNAS
Desmos—Let’s learn together. graphing calculator online
One Useful Thing (And Also Some Other Things) | Ethan Mollick
Nicholas Gruen, Democracy: forking the project
The radical idea that people aren’t stupid paired with How to achieve self-control without “self-control”
Low-Rank Approximation Toolbox: Nyström Approximation—Ethan Epperly
The Australian academic STEMM workplace post-COVID: a picture of disarray
Merve Emre, Has Academia Ruined Literary Criticism?
Tom Stafford, Microarguments and macrodecisions
Kevin Munger, Why I am (Still) a Conservative (For Now)
Randy Au, in Data science has a tool obsession talks about Gear Acquisition Syndrome for data scientists.
Fission: Build the future of web apps at the edge incubates several decentralized protocols
danah boyd, What if failure is the plan?
Zoomers Co-Working Community (co-working for accountability)
Adam Mastroianni, The great myths of political hatred
Big correlations and big interactions ([2105.13445] The piranha problem: Large effects swimming in a small pond)
How to keep cakes moist and cause the greatest tragedies of the 20th century
Microsoft CSR’s Law Enforcement Request Report is disconcerting transparency
Marc ten Bosch, Let’s remove Quaternions from every 3D Engine (An Interactive Introduction to Rotors from Geometric Algebra)
Ti John’s Publications
GPflow/GeometricKernels: Geometric kernels on manifolds, meshes and graphs
Riemannian Score-Based Generative Modelling/ oxcsml/riemannian-score-sde: Score-based generative models for compact manifolds
Treehugger Introduces a Modern Pyramid of Energy Conservation
Christian Lawson-Perfect’s Interesting Esoterica is a collection of weird papers in maths.
Erik Hoel, Why do most popular science books suck?
Peter Woit, Symmetry and Physics
Oshan Jarow, Markets Underinvest In Vitality
Spirals of Delusion: How AI Distorts Decision-Making and Makes Dictators More Dangerous (not convinced tbh)
Darren Wilkinson’s Bayesian inference for a logistic regression model 1, 2, 3, 4, 5
https://www.patreon.com/posts/taylor-modeling-70131808
Book Review: Public Choice Theory And The Illusion Of Grand Strategy
https://downforeveryoneorjustme.com/
Census is a tool which links all the weird different data storage systems and CRM stuff
Nemanja Rakicevic, NeurIPS Conference: Historical Data Analysis
Keir Bradwell, #1: In-group Cheems
Samuel Moore, Why open science is primarily a labour issue
Adam Mastroianni, Against All Applications
Digital artists’ post-bubble hopes for NFTs don’t need a blockchain
ClearerThinking.org’s courses, e.g.
- Introduction to Decision Academy: The Science of Better Decisions
- Rhetorical Fallacies: Dodging Argument Traps
- Learning from Mistakes: A Systematic Approach
- Probabilistic Fallacies: Gauging the Strength of Evidence
- Explanation Freeze: Interpreting Uncertain Events
- Aspire: A Tool to Help You Improve Your Life
- The Sunk Cost Fallacy: Focusing on the Future
- When to Stop Exploring | The explore-exploit trade-off
Michele Coscia, Pearson Correlations for Networks
Machine Learning Trick of the Day (1): Replica Trick— Shakir Mohammed
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Forecasts of professional forecasters are anomalous: they are biased, forecast errors are autocorrelated, and predictable by forecast revisions. Sticky or noisy information models seem like unlikely explanations for these anomalies: professional forecasters pay attention constantly and have precise knowledge of the data in question. We propose that these anomalies arise because professional forecasters don’t know the model that generates the data. We show that Bayesian agents learning about hard-to-learn features of the data generating process (low frequency behavior) can generate all the prominent aggregate anomalies emphasized in the literature. We show this for two applications: professional forecasts of nominal interest rates for the sample period 1980-2019 and CBO forecasts of GDP growth for the sample period 1976-2019. Our learning model for interest rates also provides an explanation for deviations from the expectations hypothesis of the term structure that does not rely on time-variation in risk premia
Ryan Broderick, We were the unpaid janitors of a bloated tech monopoly
fastdownload: the magic behind one of the famous 4 lines of code
Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks/ Distill version of Multimodal Neurons in Artificial Neural Networks
https://cbergmeir.com/
http://i.giwebb.com/
Francis Bach Going beyond least-squares – II : Self-concordant analysis for logistic regression
On the Generalization Ability of Online Strongly Convex Programming Algorithms
4 Illustrations
5 Homeless links
Bookmarked but where will they ever go?
Dispel your justification-monkey with a “HWA!” - Malcolm Ocean
Roger’s Bacon, Living and Dying with a Mad God
washable & breathable flexiOH cast adapts to the patient’s skin
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today I took a desk lamp whose Halogen light had burned out, whose crappy transformer always made those bulbs sputter, and whose mildly art-deco appearance I’d always liked, and swapped it out to run an LED bulb off USB power. It took about an hour’s work to replace the light with an LED, the switch with a nice heavy clicky one and now the whole thing runs off USB-C instead of wall voltage. It emits no appreciable heat, and if these calculations are to be believed, will run for decades for a few cents per year, assuming I leave it on all the time.
I hadn’t really appreciated how big a deal USB-PD voltage negotiation was until I found out that the little chips that handle that negotiation are about the size of the end of a pencil, that if you include the USB-C port you can replace basically any low-voltage transformer with something smaller than a quarter.
The magic search string, if you want to try this yourself, is “usb-pd trigger module”,
vscode-paste-image/README.md at master · mushanshitiancai/vscode-paste-image
mhoye/awesome-falsehood: 😱 Falsehoods Programmers Believe in
Communications’ digital initiative and its first digital event
Playable Half Earth Socialism simulator
flatmax/vector-synth: Old 2002 era vector synth code based on XFig
Nick Chater, Would you Stand Up to An Oppressive Regime.
Lambda School’s Job Placement Rate May Be Far Worse Than Advertised
I would like to read the diaries of Usama ibn Munqidh
The latest target of China’s tech regulation blitz: algorithms
State Power and the Power Law, State Power and the Power Law 2
Liquid Information Flow Control, a confidential computing DSL
Kostas Kiriakakis, A Day At The Park
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Absci is a generative AI drug creation company. Our mission is simple: create better biologics for patients, faster.
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By analyzing medical text and extracting biomedical entities and relations from the entire history of published medical science, Xyla can facilitate better real-world evidence-based clinical decision support and help make clinical research—such as research into new treatments, including de novo drug design as well as the repurposing of existing drugs—smarter and faster. In so doing, Xyla is fulfilling its mission of organizing the world’s medical knowledge and making it more useful.
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pyribs is the official implementation of Covariance Matrix Adaptation MAP-Elites (CMA-ME) and other quality diversity optimization algorithms.[…]
Quality diversity (QD) optimization is a subfield of optimization where solutions generated cover every point in a measure space while simultaneously maximizing (or minimizing) a single objective. QD algorithms within the MAP-Elites family of QD algorithms produce heatmaps (archives) as output where each cell contains the best discovered representative of a region in measure space.
Is Pandemic Stress to Blame for the Rise in Traffic Deaths? Nope, apparently it is decreased congestion making drivers drive faster on shit roads.
Black Americans are pessimistic about their position in U.S. society
A study of lights at night suggests dictators lie about economic growth
DIY Collective Embeds Abortion Pill Onto Business Cards, Distributes Them At Hacker Conference
Elizabeth Van Nostrand, A Quick Look At 20% Time
Chalk is a non-terrible calculator for macos, incorporating useful things like matrices and bitwise ops
Clive Thompson, The Power of Indulging Your Weird, Offbeat Obsessions
Another Pig Butchering take: 7 Months Inside an Online Scam Labor Camp
Victoria Falconer is incredible to watch
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River is a visual connection engine Clear your mind and surf laterally though image space. May contain NSFW content ? Right click any image to open it on Are.na for source, full res, and human-curated connections.