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I have a longer post coming one of these days about all the web comics I love. But I was just talking to someone in the office about Wallace the Brave and threw some links into a chat. What better follow up than posting those links here? So if you feel like it, check out [ ]
Manuel Moreale has a comment up on his blog that’s in response to someone else s writing. This post of mine is in response to Manuel’s post. It’s somewhat unfortunate that Manuel hasn’t linked to that original newsletter or post or article or whatever it is. Because this could very well be a chain of replies, [ ]
Internet experts Tim Wu, Cory Doctorow, Farhad Manjoo and many others were just plain, flat out wrong about this, mostly due to their anti-capitalist mentality. Source: Net neutrality, we hardly knew ye Marginal REVOLUTION This sort of conclusion shows that it really, really matters where you get your information from. In this case, the [ ]
they said on yet another social media platform Source: The internet is now five websites – Manu Seriously. The least these armchair commenters could do it go create an account on one of the million other websites still out there, building the Internet as it grows. A better step would be to make their [ ]
My year in books, dedicated to my Mom, who we lost this last month. She was the kindest soul I’ve ever known, and she loved reading. I was at 45 books on December 30th, but spent the last day racing through John Scalzi’s Old Man’s War. Partly because it’s a great novel and partly because [ ]
How to Raise a Genius: Lessons from a 45-Year Study of Supersmart Children Pioneering mathematicians Terence Tao and Lenhard Ng were one-percenters, as were Facebook s Mark Zuckerberg, Google co-founder Sergey Brin and musician Stefani Germanotta (Lady Gaga), who all passed through the Hopkins centre. Such results contradict long-established ideas suggesting that expert performance is [ ]
I ve had Perplexity Pro for over a month now and I ve dived deep into it. I ve made it my primary search engine on my computer s Chrome browser. I ve downloaded their Mac and iOS apps and given them a prominent place on my digital yard. I ve started using it for every search under the Sun (except [ ]
I struggle to journal or otherwise write privately: I don t find myself a worthy audience. Source: se acercan tiempos oscuros (el finde) yours, tiramisu This is what I struggle with too. I feel like people who are successful at journaling every day must really enjoy being told what went on with their own lives. [ ]
I don’t think I’ll ever be able to do a Novel writing month, but I have signed up for writingmonth.org with the idea that I want to write at least 10,000 words in my journal (this blog counts) and another 10,000 words at least for office work. For office work, I’ll only count words I [ ]
Academic journals, archives, and repositories are seeing an increasing number of questionable research papers clearly produced using generative AI. They are often created with widely available, general-purpose AI applications, most likely ChatGPT, and mimic scientific writing. Google Scholar easily locates and lists these questionable papers alongside reputable, quality-controlled research. Our…