Robert Heinlein: A human being should be able to: change a diaper, plan an (more)

John Salvatier: Reality has a surprising amount of detail. My dad’s preferred method of improving his lot was improving lots, and my brother and I were “voluntarily” recruited to help working on the buildings we owned. (more)

Notre Dame releases climate change vulnerability assessment of more than 270 US cities. Picking a Future Home Recognizing Climate Change (more)

I need Sticky Android Alarms and Timers. When I set timers and alarms for tasks during the day, I often don't Do them immediately. Then I forget they happened. With the Timer app, it's even worse, since I can't even label a count-down in the first place. (more)

modelling when we hit the maximum oil production per year (either per nation or globally) (more)

Vinay Gupta believes Fracking probably holds the global economy together long enough for cheap Solar Power to take over by 2020.

John Robb proposes more "omnivorous" systems of distributed Energy production to increase Resilience. (more)

Vaclav Smil has Bill Gates’ ear, which is part of the problem with Gates’ climate change actions. Smil is one of Gates’ favorite analysts, but unfortunately Smil gets a few things wrong about energy. (more)

From the Great Depression through now. 2 separate Economic Transitions. (A Brain Fart started in 2009.) (more)

John Ohno: Small computing, artisanal computing. A computer is both an expression of our worldview (i.e., an art-work) and an extension of our mental space (like a journal, mood-board, scrapbook, sketchpad, or face). When it works, it’s an auxiliary brain lobe with a slow connection. The degree to which it functions as an extension of our mental space (outboard brain) is dependent on the degree to which it’s representative of our umwelt. (more)

music livecoding online? https://www.pastagang.cc/

a MIDI wind controller http://vindormusic.com I bought an ES2 in 2021 and did nothing with it. (more)

Simon Willison: Embeddings: What they are and why they matter. Embeddings are a really neat trick that often come wrapped in a pile of intimidating jargon. (more)

Ilya Sutskever FRS (Hebrew: איליה סוצקבר; born 8 December 1986) is an Israeli-Canadian computer scientist who specializes in machine learning.[6] He has made several major contributions to the field of deep learning.[7][8][9] With Alex Krizhevsky and Geoffrey Hinton, he co-invented AlexNet, a convolutional neural network.[10] Sutskever co-founded and was chief scientist at OpenAI.[11] In 2023, he was one of the members of OpenAI's board that ousted Sam Altman as its CEO; Altman was reinstated a week later, and Sutskever stepped down from the board. In June 2024, Sutskever co-founded the company Safe Superintelligence alongside Daniel Gross and Daniel Levy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ilya_Sutskever

Word2vec is a technique in natural language processing for obtaining vector representations of words. These vectors capture information about the meaning of the word based on the surrounding words. The word2vec algorithm estimates these representations by modeling text in a large corpus. Once trained, such a model can detect synonymous words or suggest additional words for a partial sentence. Word2vec was developed by Tomáš Mikolov, Kai Chen, Greg Corrado, Ilya Sutskever and Jeff Dean at Google, and published in 2013.[1][2] Word2vec represents a word as a high-dimension vector of numbers which capture relationships between words. In particular, words which appear in similar contexts are mapped to vectors which are nearby as measured by cosine similarity. This indicates the level of semantic similarity between the words, so for example the vectors for walk and ran are nearby, as are those for "but" and "however", and "Berlin" and "Germany". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Word2vec

Decentralized identifiers (DIDs) are a type of globally unique identifier (GUID, UUID) that enables an entity to be identified in a manner that is verifiable, persistent (as long as the DID controller desires), and does not require the use of a centralized registry.[1] DIDs enable a new model of decentralized digital identity that is often referred to as self-sovereign identity or decentralized identity.[2] They are an important component of decentralized web applications. (web3) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decentralized_identifier (more)

Erlend Sogge Heggen: Evergreen content gardens. A year ago in Feed Overload I wrote: 99% of all microblog (and chat) content is ephemeral by design, meant for a specific moment in time. But the 1% that should endure past the 24hr cycle doesn't have good ways to do so in the current paradigm. (2023-03-27-ErlendFeedOverload) (more)

*Open Source Practitioner • bullish on kindness. (more)

(esp as relate to use of WikiForCollaboration Ware) (more)

Data, Information, Knowledge, Wisdom (more)