No model is perfect. But that doesn’t stop them being useful

AI's relationship with us will not be like our relationship with ants

The archives of declassified foreign relations documents from the United States, China and other countries can give us some insights. I’ve enjoyed reading some of the documents in Wilson Cent…

Carl Jeffrey @fellowcreative (fellow™) is a Designer and Doer sharing ideas and thinking on creativity, community, sustainability, strategy, technology…

Netflix in May started cracking down on password sharing in the United States, and the decision has worked in the company's favor, according to...

Ezra Klein recently interviewed psychologist Lisa Damour about teen depression where she honed in on the contributing factor of declining sleep levels. It’s an argument I hadn’t heard c…

It’s been over a decade since we’ve heard from the elusive White Stripes drummer. Could renewed attention over a Rock & Roll Hall of Fame nomination coax her back into the spotlight?

Content warning: Linux GUI

“Why are you unhappy? Because 99.9 percent of everything you think, and of everything you do, is for yourself — and there isn’t one.”

On June 8, 2023 Invidious received an e-mail from Google/YouTube to ask the project to be stopped.
Even though this e-mail is invalid from the start (since Invidious doesn’t use any part of the YouTube API and doesn’t do anything illegal), some people people…

A group of 1970s campus librarians foresaw our world of distributed knowledge and research, and designed search tools for it

Unique illustrations of combined emoji, cooked up in Google's Emoji Kitchen, and comprehensively available on the web

I already have a dedicated post about a hypothetical Zig language server.
But perhaps the most important thing I've written so far on the topic is the short note at the end of Zig and Rust.

Tyler’s two-thirds utilitarian, and Peter’s full on. Do either of them have the proportions right?

Large language models seem just like humans, but some of this is in our heads.

Scheme to be extended across the country after trial in nine departments led to extra €10m in tax receipts

Men in ancient Greek art exercise, fight battles, pursue lovers and mourn lost friends, all without their pants on. Why?

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