“When I think about my desire for clear explanation, most of that is in the context of trying to make an idea comprehensible to people who don’t know how something works but are interested. That is a kind of thing that textbooks and popular science books do; there are a lot of explainers [..] . But these essays—they’re not just explainers. They’re actually essays in the original sense of the word: an attempt to make an argument.” - Ted C.
World: UK defence’s take on a volatile world. FTC take on Click to cancel (Doctorow). US manufacture decline: 87% of the jobs lost were due to technology, not geopolitics. Super fast EV charger every 60km, says EU?
Art: A generation that remembers life before Internet. Using bets to gather market/hive intelligence. Museum offering tattoos. Tomacco.
Tech: Digital whiteboards limits. A history, primer and outlook on neural networks in astronomy. Will A.I. Become the New McKinsey [Ted Chiang]? Brain-chips.
AI: AI social unrest. Anti-facial recognition cloths. LLAMA2 is not open source.
DIY: original Hardware hacking manual.
