Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 9/22/22 : The Joe Biden Sings. When Bob Wachter says it is a judgment call whether the pandemic is over, you know the pandemic is over. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 8/18/22: CDC Admits Mistakes (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 8/11/22: The End Is Never The End. The biggest development this week in things-relevant-to-my-interests was that PredictIt’s no action letter was revoked, effectively forcing it to shut down its prediction markets in February 2023 unless something changes by then. The most credible story is that this is new prediction market website Kalshi performing a hit job to take out the competition, but I have not had the time to look into it yet. Whether or not that was the reason, the shut-down is quite bad, speaks quite badly of everyone who let this happen, and is something worth fighting against if there is a practical way to do that. PredictIt was far from perfect, but it was a dim light in a dark world. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 6/16/22: Do Not Hand it to Them. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 3/17/22: The Rise of BA.2. Omicron has made its way through every major country except one: China. Its time seems to have come (more)

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Few statements about the real world are "true": All Models Are Wrong. But we make Claims all the time anyway. We try to call some of them "facts" or "assumptions" or "beliefs" or "hypothesis" or "models" as though those were well-distinguished things, or at a "hypothesis" is "based on" facts and assumptions. But the Nature of Truth is messier than that. (more)

Group at MIT founded by Jay Forrester to study Systems Thinking. (more)

System dynamics is a methodology for studying and managing complex FeedBack systems, such as one finds in business and other Social System-s. (more)

There are many users for new note-taking apps. So why Don't More People Share Their Digital Gardens? By "share" I don't mean "let anyone edit them", but just "let anyone read them". (more)

note-taking app heavily driven by zettelkasten approach - https://www.zettlr.com/ (more)

creator of Zettlr - https://www.hendrik-erz.de/ (more)

Frank Carver: Whither Zettlr. The Zettlr project is ongoing, and the different views of the purpose of the application are causing tension when considering improvements, implementing new features and prioritising bug fixes. (See Hendrik Erz response further below.) (more)

Joel Hooks: My blog is a digital garden, not a blog. I'm considering how it affects the way I approach my little slice of the web at https://joelhooks.com. It is a blog, sure, but it is also a wiki. It's a spot where I can post ideas, snippets, resources, thoughts, collections, and other bits and pieces that I find interesting and useful (more)

Rika Goldberg #40: We need quality. Since making another attempt at building a note-taking system, I have noticed that I am becoming more scrupulous of my writing. (more)

David Kadavy: My Zettelkasten: An Author’s Digital Slip-Box Method Example (Using Plain-Text Software) – Love Your Work, Episode 250. I talked about Zettelkasten in my How to Take Smart Notes book summary on episode 249, but here’s a quick review (more)

Nick Milo: In what ways can we form useful relationships between notes? (more)

Meet Logseq, an open-source knowledge management system that ‘stores data like a brain’. With support for markup languages such as Markdown and Emacs’ Org-mode, Logseq enables users to create tasks, manage and store notes or to-do lists, embed pages, annotate PDFs and create links between all the information contained within, to create a free flow of information. (more)

David Pierce: Users are taking the internet back. One reason Obsidian has recently captured the imagination of so many people in the tech world is that it comes awfully close to turning that model on its head. (more)

h-entry is a simple, open format for episodic or datestamped content on the web. h-entry is often used with content intended to be syndicated, e.g. blog posts. h-entry is one of several open microformat standards suitable for embedding data in HTML. http://microformats.org/wiki/h-entry https://microformats.org/wiki/microformats2#h-entry (more)