# thought (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1037 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover thought. Page: Feed: --- ## [Transformers, deep learning](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/05/transformers.html) _8888-01-05 · David Corney_ (Not NLP-specific work.) Things I want to learn: Transformer architecture TensorFlow and alternatives conditional random fields ## [NLP, language models, linguistics](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/04/NLP.html) _8888-01-04 · David Corney_ Things I know about: language models BERT Things I want to know (more) about: BERT alternatives - mT5, GPT3 ## [Digital Media and (modern) journalism](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/03/digital-media.html) _8888-01-03 · David Corney_ https://www.journalismaifestival.com/ Seminar: most journalists are NOT technical, often have slow take up of new tech. So they’re cautious of AI tools. A few pioneers may embrace them, but things spread slowly within newsrooms. Should therefore involve editorial in decisions about AI tech early on. AI = NLP for analysis; synthetic text; finding patterns in data faster than people can; article… ## [Plans for notes about ideas](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/01/ideas.html) _8888-01-01 · David Corney_ So new plan (from December 2020): I want to raise my public profile as an expert in using NLP/AI for digital news analysis, especially around trust, verification, misinformation etc. I want to identify a series of areas and become an expert in them: read key papers, make notes on them (hereish), share findings with colleagues. And I want to raise my profile through regular blogging, engaged… ## [Data Feminism, bias detection](https://dcorney.com/thoughts/8888/01/01/data-ethics.html) _8888-01-01 · David Corney_ Notes from the book “Data Feminism” and related sources I’m slowly reading Data Feminism, by Catherin D’Ignazio and Lauren Klein. It’s good - lots of it is eye-opening to me, as it shows data science from a perspective other than my own. Matrix of domination (p.15): Four domains of domination structural Plans and policies hegemonic cultural disciplinary enforcement interpersonal invidival… ## [It's Never the Right Season](https://crescendo.bearblog.dev/its-never-the-right-season/) _2026-08-25 · crescendo · Writing things down_ Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 makes me melancholic about summer, again . It's been colder for a while here where I live. I'm not good with lower temperatures nor the humidity 1 , so I await autumn and then winter with a bit of a defeated spirit. A lot of people argue that "you can dress warmer when it's cold", but they don't feel it in their bones like I do! And besides, you can't compare crazy hot global… ## [Your Role Isn’t To Conform To What Exists... It’s To Create What Doesn’t](https://mattgottesman.substack.com/p/your-role-isnt-to-conform-to-what-3e9) _2026-08-25 · Matt Gottesman · The Niche is You®_ LIVE WORKSHOP - Saturday August 29th... The Modern Creator - The Art of Taste & Design... How to Build Work That’s More Recognizable & Unmistakably Your Own. ## [2026-08-25 Notes](https://waylonwalker.com/2026-08-25-notes/) _2026-08-25 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ notes for 2026-08-25 ## [Murdoku](https://crescendo.bearblog.dev/murdoku/) _2026-08-24 · crescendo · Writing things down_ Sounds familiar? I came across this book called Murdoku at the beginning of the year. It sounded right up my brother's alley, so I got it to him real early , planning to give it to him for Christmas. I bought it in June, not expecting him to message me last month asking me about my opinion on it since he wanted to get it for his time on the beach... so I told him the truth, I didn't want to spoil… ## [The Sea at Night](https://crescendo.bearblog.dev/the-sea-at-night/) _2026-08-23 · crescendo · Writing things down_ Playing Boku no Natsuyasumi 2 lately, which is set on a seaside town, is reminding me of how nice the sea at night is. I've already talked about my relationship with being born on an island , so I won't dwell on that. Tomifumi, the town the game is set in, isn't anything to scream about: it's got a hostel owned by the protagonist's relatives, a playground, lots of greenery and a ferry to get the… ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/BXlufiasUbrb) _2026-08-23 · **Sponsored**_ Deploy apps from your repo with auto-config, instant previews, scaling, and monitoring. ## [Mary O’Malley’s “Holy”](https://ordinaryplots.substack.com/p/mary-omalleys-holy) _2026-08-23 · Devin Kelly · Ordinary Plots: Meditations on Poems + Verse_ Thoughts on what is holy. ## [Learning how to make cookies made me avoid them](https://lazynessy.site/2026/08/22/learning-how-to-make-cookies-made-me-avoid-them/) _2026-08-23 · Nessy · Lazy Nessy's Gala Archives_ Circa 2018 – I think… One of my teammates (hello, ate Dana) brought a bag of chewy cookies the size of my palm with rock salt on top of it. We ate it at 9 pm starting our shift with sugar rush as we go through the night shift, doing our best to work well, \[…\] ## [AI and Value](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-23-ai-and-value/) _2026-08-23 · Heart Soul Machine_ Watching AI devalue so much around us - we need to change the conversation. Less about how much more we can do, and more about how we can do better – it all depends on what we value. ## [A quote from Linus Torvalds](https://waylonwalker.com/a-quote-from-linus-torvalds/) _2026-08-22 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ Will models become more stubborn as we use them more and feed us using them as long running agents where we simply ask for what seems to be an impossible... ## [Sorting, Tagging, and Ordering (Part 2)](https://crescendo.bearblog.dev/sorting-tagging-and-ordering-part-2/) _2026-08-22 · crescendo · Writing things down_ My archiving journey continues. Apparently, media is one of those things that should not organized through folder hierarchy, but which benefit from a robust metadata system. The organization of my music library is a matter that will warrant another blog post along the way, but today I took some time to install Jellyfin locally to sort out all the movies, anime, tv series, stage plays and concerts… ## [I promise it's not cheating](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/i-promise-it-s-not-cheating.html) _2026-08-22 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ I just need to write a quick post to make sure the recent changes to Preposter.us didn't break anything. Jason J. Gullickson, 2026 ## [Fosi Audio MC331](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/fosi-audio-mc331.html) _2026-08-22 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ I've been struggling a bit putting together a sound system for the new print shop space. Now that it's shared with Bones In Jars , we needed something a little bigger than the Soundburger + Model 1 setup used in the old space and I wanted to offer more source options than only radio and vinyl since we'll be sharing the system now. I tried using a very weird little class-d + Bluetooth amp I've used… ## [No Slop](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/no-slop.html) _2026-08-22 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ ## [second brain slop is dumb](https://waylonwalker.com/ping-72/) _2026-08-22 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ The second brain hype train of people looking at fancy graphs in obsidian of the content their clanker wrote for them is top tier cringe. If you actually... ## [New Laptop, New Setup](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-22-new-laptop-new-setup/) _2026-08-22 · Heart Soul Machine_ A quick list and quick install of my go-to apps for a new Mac. ## [Anthony Ettinger on LinkedIn (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/xqVQ74VYuHBY) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Public LinkedIn profile at linkedin.com/in/anthonyettinger. ## [Some fun Portuguese words used in Brazil](https://robida.net/entries/2026/08/21/some-fun-portuguese-words-used-in-brazil) _2026-08-21 · Unknown · Beto Dealmeida_ I only noticed how silly and fun these are after I moved to the US: Tomara-que-caia: "I hope it falls" or "I hope it slips" is how everyone calls tube tops . Camisa de Vênus: a "Venus shirt" is the name we give for condoms . Popularly called "little shirts". Vira-lata: a "can turner" is how we call street dogs . ## [Stop Making TUIs](https://waylonwalker.com/stop-making-tuis/) _2026-08-21 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ Hard to argue this so hard here. For me it's convenience. I work from a terminal most things that are real work get done there so this provide a convenient... ## [Lindsay Clancy and our Culture of Death](https://yourmomhasablog.com/2026/08/21/lindsay-clancy-and-our-culture-of-death/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=lindsay-clancy-and-our-culture-of-death) _2026-08-21 · Melissa · Your Mom Has A Blog_ Outside the courthouse where Lindsay Clancy is being tried for the murders of her three small children, ages 5, 3, and 8 months, women are gathering. Wearing pink, they carry signs that say “Justice for Lindsay.” When Lindsay’s defense attorney appears, they cheer, telling news outlets that he is a champion, “fighting for women’s rights.”... Read More ## [Manuals (as in Instruction Booklets, not the Opposite to Automatic)](https://crescendo.bearblog.dev/manuals-as-in-instruction-booklets-not-the-opposite-to-automatic/) _2026-08-21 · crescendo · Writing things down_ Yes, I'm being witty. I've got this fond memory of being in the back of my parent's car, driving back from the electronics store, a game box on my knees and an instruction booklet in hand. I used to get car sick like crazy, so reading in the car was a big no-no for me, but this didn't stop me from trying to savour the game before I could put the cartridge in the console. To read the plot, get to… ## [what about tomorrow?](https://hmmburger.com/napkins/082026) _2026-08-21 · vincent · Vincent Gonzalez_ A new napkin for Hmmburger. ## [Plug-in Solar](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/plug-in-solar.html) _2026-08-21 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ I learned about plug-in solar (or "balcony" solar) a few months ago when I read about a lawmaker who, while traveling in Germany observed solar panels hanging from the balconies of apartment buildings. When they asked if this is something that the landlords do, their host explained that this is something the tenants themselves can do in Germany and that it's very common and affordable. This… ## [Fluid Thoughts for UFC Sacramento](https://dantommma.substack.com/p/fluid-thoughts-for-ufc-sacramento) _2026-08-21 · Dan Tom MMA · Dan Tom MMA_ A look at Dan Tom's picks and plays for the upcoming UFC fight card ## [I don’t like winter](https://lazynessy.site/2026/08/21/i-dont-like-winter/) _2026-08-21 · Nessy · Lazy Nessy's Gala Archives_ It’s only been two weeks, but I’ve officially decided that I don’t like winter. I’ve always thought there’s something magical about the cold weather. I’ve always wanted to see snow. I still do. But now, surviving in the conurbano winter- it’s not even snowing – I’m starting to feel a certain type of fatigue that \[…\] ## [Now (Aug 2026)](https://niclake.me/now-aug-2026/) _2026-08-21 · Nic Lake • Feed_ Winter is coming. Maybe. Hopefully not anytime soon. ## [Bad Bots Hall Of Shame 🤖](/naughty-bots) _2026-08-21 · Mountain Of Code_ I wanted to set up a honey pot for bots which intentionally crawl links which are disallowed in the robots.txt file. I have no idea if there are any, I bet there are. The implementation is simple, add Disallow: /bad-bots to the /robots.txt file and log the user agents which visit. Additionally, I have included a visually hidden link to the honey pot with rel ="nofollow" Now we wait... Hall Of… ## [Trade Smarter With IBKR (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/GZsAitzv5sml) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Join Interactive Brokers through a referral and access low-cost global trading. ## [Design Tokens, Web Components, and CSS @layer](https://www.alwaystwisted.com/articles/design-tokens-and-web-components.html) _2026-08-21 · Always Twisted| Articles_ Chris kicked off a little 'blog and response' with Thinking Horizontally in CSS @layer . The idea was that if every component's custom properties live in a weak layer, unlayered CSS can override them without a fight. It is a wonderfully simple way to make the cascade feel a little less like a negotiation. I took that idea and asked how to get the layer information out of hardcoded CSS and into the… ## [Obsidian and the Distributed Learning System](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-21-obsidian-and-the-distributed-learning-system/) _2026-08-21 · Heart Soul Machine_ A personal learning system built on Obsidian, your own Domain, and ActivityPub Hubs could finally make the Distributed Learning System I sketched in 2017 a buildable reality. ## [Almost fell in a Well, Actually](https://mattbee.mataroa.blog/p/well-actually/) _2026-08-21 · A Lovely Harmless Monster_ In my mandatory annual fire safety class the other day, they had us run through the same training exercise as always. There was a big box with LEDs that simulate a fire, a fake fire extinguisher with which we "put out the fire" with lasers, and a replica fire alarm trigger (the technical term is "pull station") on a portable stand. There's a scripted routine, which everyone in the class has to act… ## [Libido Dominandi](https://xtoblog.bearblog.dev/libido-dominandi/) _2026-08-20 · xtoblog · \[x\] personal blog_ Libido dominandi means the desire or lust to dominate. But I'm going to make this post about lust dominating us...and I feel like the latin phrase still fits. It is usually used when talking about political power, rulers, governments and the desire that people have to control other people. Augustine wrote about this desire because it is a part of our fallen nature. The woman was convinced by the… ## [It’s 2026. It’s faster to fix CVEs than argue about them](https://worklifenotes.com/2026/08/20/its-2026-its-faster-to-fix-cves-than-argue-about-them/) _2026-08-20 · taleodor · Work & Life Notes_ There is a lot of buzz regarding reachability and exploitability. Also, following latest Black Hat, there are ~1000 new CVEs reported against Linux kernel (a lot of them relate to privilege escalation). Additionally, a lot of our assumptions, such as those about network isolation, may not hold true in reality. With that, today frequently it… Continue reading It’s 2026. It’s faster to fix CVEs than… ## [Grug Speak, Grug Outside, Grug Happy](https://dergigi.com/2026/08/20/grug-speak-grug-outside-grug-happy/) _2026-08-20 · dergigi.com_ Before my thinkboi days I used to be a developer. Writing code instead of words, all day every day. Like most developers, I eventually joined a team, and various startups, and so on and so forth. I slowly but surely turned myself into a “software engineer,” or at least that used to be the lingo at the time. My first love was computers. My second love was the internet. I was a bit of a laggard when… ## [Tackling a Redesign Can Be Difficult](https://kpwags.com/posts/2026/tackling-a-redesign-can-be-difficult/) _2026-08-20 · Keith Wagner_ So I'm currently working on redesigning my personal site. So far, I think the hardest part is integrating all the little things I've built into my site over the course of the 13 years I've been building and writing on it. I'll give a simple example. If you go back to my early reading logs ( like this one ), you'll notice I have what I called in-depth pieces at the top. Eventually, they got… ## [I Finally Got a Woot Bag of Crap!](https://www.hung-truong.com/blog/2026/08/20/i-finally-got-a-woot-bag-of-crap/) _2026-08-20 · Hung Truong: The Blog!_ The mythical Woot bag of crap is finally mine! According to Woot , I've been a member since Wednesday, July 27, 2005, and in those 7,694 days of membership, I've never been able to score a bag of crap. Until now! ## [\[ESSAY\] Nietzsche a stoicismus: Dva recepty na překonání nicoty](https://kailo.bearblog.dev/essay-nietzsche-a-stoicismus-dva-recepty-na-prekonani-nicoty/) _2026-08-20 · hidden (kailo) · KailØ_ Populární představa staví Nietzscheho a stoicismus do přímého protikladu: na jedné straně dionýské přitakání chaosu a vášním, na straně druhé chladná racionální apatheia . Povrchní čtení Nietzscheho (často živené zjednodušujícími poučkami o tom, že máme „následovat svou závist“) navíc svádí k dojmu, že jeho filozofie nutně vede k úzkosti a vyhoření. Když však odhrneme rétorický patos obou stran,… ## [Personal websites](https://robida.net/entries/2026/08/20/personal-websites) _2026-08-20 · Unknown · Beto Dealmeida_ People now self-censor themself voluntarily, most are even not aware of that. What is left is mostly mimicry of corporate and government propaganda. The narrative script was installed and now it just runs safely. This. It feels different having a blog today compared to the early 2000s. Was I simply more naive? Do my opinions carry more weight now? Is it fascism? ## [BASIC](http://preposter.us/single-michigan-helium-network/basic.html) _2026-08-20 · mr's Preposter.us Blog_ As part of my work on "K" I'm re-reading the Commodore 64 Programmer's Reference Guide. This morning most of what I read covers the BASIC language. What jumps out at me reading this is how the keywords of BASIC are oriented towards things a person actually wants to do with the computer. This is distinct from the keywords or functions of other languages which tend to be more oriented toward the… ## [I Made a Font!](https://crescendo.bearblog.dev/i-made-a-font/) _2026-08-20 · crescendo · Writing things down_ As I mentioned yesterday , I wanted to make a custom font for a music video. Here it is! I thought the ideation process would be much harder, but I actually just doodled random shapes and tried to keep the gestures I used consistent, sometimes reusing the same glyphs and rotating and mirroring them, taking inspiration from other glyphs I'm familiar with. This video was eye-opening. I've used… ## [pulse n pause](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/pulse-n-pause/) _2026-08-20 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ Just a brief note - Pulse N Pause Coffee has been doing pop-ups at Paper Son in SF on and off for the last couple of weeks and I legitimately think it's the best coffee I've ever had. If you get a chance to try some, I recommend it! I did promise "something more cheerful" yesterday , right? ## [pulse n pause](https://www.roguelazer.com/blog/pulse-n-pause/) _2026-08-20 · James Brown · roguelazer's website_ Just a brief note - Pulse N Pause Coffee has been doing pop-ups at Paper Son in SF on and off for the last couple of weeks and I legitimately think it's the best coffee I've ever had. If you get a chance to try some, I recommend it! I did promise "something more cheerful" yesterday , right? ## [Coherent non-idea](https://cloudscloudsclouds.bearblog.dev/coherent-non-idea/) _2026-08-20 · cloudscloudsclouds · Cloud Watching_ I've used AI for non-technical work. Not work, stuff. Talking to a mirror that will say what you said and then some 1 . Some conversations move forward like a ping pong game where the table is moving forward into a destination. Some conversations stagnate and you remain in the place where you started playing ping pong. Others move backwards and you end up worse than before. I prefer any of those… ## [Trans New Weird | MetaFilter](https://robida.net/entries/2026/08/20/trans-new-weird-metafilter) _2026-08-20 · Unknown · Beto Dealmeida_ There’s something happening in trans cinema right now. It’s playful, messy, campy and decidedly raw. Film programmers Gabi Grossman and Aidan Dick, both of Frameline , have coined the phrase “Trans New Weird” to describe this emerging genre coming from mostly trans directors. “These films are extraordinarily playful,” Grossman says. ## [Boomer Chat Achiement Unlocked](https://waylonwalker.com/shots/boomer-chat-achiement-unlocked/) _2026-08-20 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ boomer chat achiement unlocked ## [Silhouettes](https://heartsoulmachine.com/blog/2026/08-20-silhouettes/) _2026-08-20 · Heart Soul Machine_ A silhouette strips away everything that makes us three-dimensional, yet somehow still carries something unmistakably true. ## [RE: Re: The Loss of Links Continues](https://lukealexdavis.co.uk/posts/re-re-the-loss-of-links-continues/) _2026-08-20 · Luke Alex Davis_ This is where my day job comes in handy ## [Answers to myself — Journal](https://journal.exploration.work/answers-to-myself/) _2026-08-20 · Exploration Work_ I want you to look into the content of journal.inner.observer and find any questions that I may be asking myself, especially for a future me. 19 Nov 2013, one week into The book of cataclysm, is a bare page of twelve questions and no answers. It's the only post in the corpus…