Taking what might be Garbage and making it valuable/useful/used. (more)

book by SusanLammers, 1986?, ISBN:0914845713 (more)

Game Engine https://godotengine.org/ Godot is completely free and open-source under the very permissive MIT license. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godot_(game_engine) (more)

Dan Shipper: Is NotebookLM - Google’s Research Assistant - the Ultimate Tool for Thought? I sat down with bestselling author Steven Johnson to see if we could come up with a concept for his next project—using AI. We loaded 200,000 words of interview transcripts that NASA conducted and all of Steven’s reading notes since 1999 into NotebookLM, Google Labs’s personalized research assistant. (podcast notes) (more)

Steven Johnson: Introducing NotebookLM. About five months ago, I shared the news that I was collaborating with Google on a new AI-based tool for thought, then code-named Project Tailwind. (more)

Steven Levy: Google’s NotebookLM aims to be the ultimate writing assistant. For over a year now, Steven Johnson's been a full-time employee of Google, a status that’s clear when he badges me into the search giant’s Chelsea offices in New York to show me what his team has been creating. (more)

Introducing NotebookLM. At Google I/O this year we introduced a number of AI-first experiments in development, including Project Tailwind — a new kind of notebook designed to help people learn faster. (more)

Journaling File System for Linux. http://www.namesys.com/ (more)

Chet Richards 2004 book Certain to Win: The Strategy of John Boyd, Applied to Business ISBN:1413453767 (more)

Howard Bloom (born June 25, 1943) is an American author. He was a music publicist in the 1970s and 1980s for singers and bands such as Prince,[1] Billy Joel,[2] and Styx.[3][4] He has published a book on Islam, The Muhammad Code, an autobiography, How I Accidentally Started The Sixties, and three books on human evolution and group behavior: The Genius of the Beast (2010), Global Brain (2000), and The Lucifer Principle (1995). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Howard_Bloom (more)

Philosophy created by Alfred Korzybski. His key book was Science And Sanity, which I have but will probably never read in full. (Here's the archive of an online reading group from 1996.) (more)

Central tenet of General Semantics, as defined by Alfred Korzybski. A good reminder against Model Theism. (more)

Danny Ayers is working on an IBIS vocabulary for RDF.

Dorian Taylor tool. In­ter­tw­ing­ler is an engine for making websites. Its specific focus is managing very large numbers of very small objects, densely connected to one another in disparate ways. It was borne out of an observation that the Web, at least out of the box, is actually pretty bad at this.... End Users: In­ter­tw­ing­ler was designed primarily as a substrate for communicating complex topics. It’s made to maximize linking between small pieces of information, in a style called dense hypermedia (IBIS?). This helps you gain comprehension while only having to read the parts you need to... Self-Hosters: In­ter­tw­ing­ler is designed to ship as a single, stand-alone, open-source package that you can run on your personal computer, your server—​whether in your house or in a data centre—​or your cloud account. Eventually, a version of In­ter­tw­ing­ler will run on your phone. In­ter­tw­ing­ler is designed to federate with other instances of itself, not only for scale but also for balancing security and availability. With In­ter­tw­ing­ler, your single source of truth can be virtualized and spread across multiple physical locations, for a single, seamless information space. https://intertwingler.net/ (more)

Why Barack Obama Failed to Build an Enduring Movement. How did this happen? In 2010, the meme that began to arise via articles in Rolling Stone and elsewhere is that Democratic political operative David Plouffe was to blame. From RS: After the 2008 election, Plouffe had taken OFA, previously known as Obama for America, and moved its entire operation into the Democratic National Committee. 2009-09-03-NoWeCant (more)

Baldur Bjarnason: The risks of OpenAI's Whisper audio transcription model. This weekend a story from ABC News on issues with audio transcription machine learning models did the rounds. “Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said”. The report highlights a number of very serious and real issues, but in the process glosses over a few details that might be important. ((2024-10-25) Researchers Say An AI-powered Transcription Tool Used In Hospitals Invents Things No One Ever Said) (more)

Researchers say an AI-powered transcription tool used in hospitals invents things no one ever said. OpenAI has touted its artificial intelligence-powered transcription tool Whisper as having near “human level robustness and accuracy.” (more)

Bluesky is an initiative to develop a decentralized social network protocol. Organized by Twitter as a non-profit initiative, it was announced in 2019 and is in a research phase as of 2022. Bluesky is owned by the team itself, without any controlling stake held by Twitter. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky_(protocol) cf Open Social Networking Model (more)

Brian Balfour: There are four essential fits: Market Product Fit (not Product Market Fit), Product Channel Fit, Channel Model Fit, Model Market Fit. I'm going to dedicate a post to each of these fits, along with how you can apply this framework. (more)

Brian Balfour: Why Product Market Fit Isn't Enough. (Four Fits) There are certain companies where growth seems to come easily, like guiding a boulder down hill. These companies grow despite having organizational chaos, not executing the “best” growth practices, and missing low hanging fruit. I refer to these companies as Smooth Sailers (more)