Tools for Thought dev https://alexanderobenauer.com/ (more)

Ben Hunt: Why Am I Reading This Now? Game of Thrones’ creators David Benioff and D.B. Weiss are set to adapt the hit book Three Body Problem trilogy for Netflix. The Senators’ accuse the streamer of “normalizing” China’s extra-judicial detention of over one million Muslims in Xinjiang, referencing past comments from the books’ author Liu Cixin supporting the program. (more)

Ben Hunt: Why Am I Reading This NOW? Do I think that both China and Russia are bad actors through and through? Do I think their cadres and apparatchiks will stop at nothing to promote their state interests and undermine the state interests of the United States? YES. Do I ALSO think that Western governments and their cadres and apparatchiks – including their useful idiots in the media – will stop at nothing to promote their state interests? Yes. Yes, I do. (more)

reminder from Epsilon Theory that nothing in media is organic. See Semantic Signature.

Josh Kaufman re-frames the "TenKHours of Deliberate Practice to Mastery" rule and claims you can learn any skill pretty well (Good Enough?) with 20 hours of practice. (more)

team sports for kids (fyi a big business with a growing private equity involvement) (more)

Jacob Falkovich: Winning is For Losers. Imagine if we were trying to design a Community of people devoted to cooperation, based on everything we learned about competitive and cooperative games. How should we approach this? We would build a community dedicated to creating something new, a freshly baked pie. It would have to be a long-term project. It would have an important and purely collective reward at stake, like protecting against a common tragedy (Grand Challenge, Plausible Promise). It would involve a bunch of weirdos. It would be something like transhumanism. (more)

Retroactive Public Goods Funding. Note: The Optimism team has long been in search of a solution on how to sustainably fund public goods, and we now have the structure of our first experiment thanks to a brilliant design by Vitalik Buterin. This post is a collaboration with Vitalik as a guest author in section 2. (more)

EpsilonTheory model of a narrative - cf embedding?

We believe people understand the world through stories. Here at Panoptica, we aim to help you see through those stories. Panoptica is a new media site from Perscient, the longtime publisher of Epsilon Theory and the company that pioneered the field of narrative analytics. Our ambition is simple: to be the world’s central clearinghouse for the stories and narratives used to frame how the world is presented to you. Panoptica sees through stories not only within financial markets but across media, politics, sports, technology, and culture. https://www.panoptica.ai/ (more)

Saw this toot where someone has a GoogleDoc as a "Career Search Brief" (job market) (more)

Cal Newport book on having a Remarkable Life. ISBN:978-1455509126 (more)

John von Neumann (/vɒn ˈnɔɪmən/ von NOY-mən; Hungarian: Neumann János Lajos [ˈnɒjmɒn ˈjaːnoʃ ˈlɒjoʃ]; December 28, 1903 – February 8, 1957) was a Hungarian and American mathematician, physicist, computer scientist and engineer. Von Neumann had perhaps the widest coverage of any mathematician of his time,[9] integrating pure and applied sciences and making major contributions to many fields, including mathematics, physics, economics, computing, and statistics. He was a pioneer in building the mathematical framework of quantum physics, in the development of functional analysis, and in game theory, introducing or codifying concepts including cellular automata, the universal constructor and the digital computer. His analysis of the structure of self-replication preceded the discovery of the structure of DNA. During World War II, von Neumann worked on the Manhattan Project. He developed the mathematical models behind the explosive lenses used in the implosion-type nuclear weapon.[10] Before and after the war, he consulted for many organizations including the Office of Scientific Research and Development, the Army's Ballistic Research Laboratory, the Armed Forces Special Weapons Project and the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.[11] At the peak of his influence in the 1950s, he chaired a number of Defense Department committees including the Strategic Missile Evaluation Committee and the ICBM Scientific Advisory Committee. He was also a member of the influential Atomic Energy Commission in charge of all atomic energy development in the country. He played a key role alongside Bernard Schriever and Trevor Gardner in the design and development of the United States' first ICBM programs.[12] At that time he was considered the nation's foremost expert on nuclear weaponry and the leading defense scientist at the U.S. Department of Defense. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_von_Neumann (more)

Accelerated Expertise expert: https://acsilabs.org/team/lia-a-dibello/

In political jargon, a self-licking ice cream cone is a self-perpetuating system that has no purpose other than to sustain itself. The phrase appeared to have been first used in 1991–1992, in a book about Gulf War weapons systems by Norman Friedman,[1] and On Self-Licking Ice Cream Cones, a paper by Pete Worden about NASA's bureaucracy, to describe the relationship between the Space Shuttle and international Space Station. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Self-licking_ice_cream_cone (more)

a place, also a type of calculation-by-simluation

The concept that internal details of a system can be ignored if you know the overall inputs, outputs and behaviour, so that the component may be used as part of a larger system or to operate on its own.

Observability is a measure of how well internal states of a system can be inferred from knowledge of its external outputs. (black box)

Observable is a platform where you can collaboratively explore, analyze, visualize, and communicate with data on the web. In this demo, you'll see how to work with your own data and discover business insights in just five minutes. https://observablehq.com/ (more)

Kin Lane proposes Bot (Daemon) Observability For Every Platform (more)