A teacher who made mistakes on purpose
He was worried about losing them. He could write equations on the blackboard all day long, but if he didn’t find a way to connect with them soon, they’d never master multiplication up to 100. One day, once again concerned about reaching his third-graders, he was lost in thought and wrote “3 x 4 = […]
Do AI Companies Work?
The market needs to be irrational for you to stay solvent. I mean, surely something in this sequence is wrong, right? Large language models cost a fortune to build. OpenAI, which is reportedly in the process of raising $6.5 billion, needs $6.5 billion dollars, because, “by some estimates, it’s burning through $7 billion a year […]
96% of climate policy since 1998 failed
An international research team has unveiled the first comprehensive global evaluation of 1,500 climate policy measures from 41 countries across six continents, between 1998 and 2022. Published in the prestigious journal Science, this unprecedented study provides a detailed impact analysis of the wide range of climate policy measures implemented over the last two decades. The […]
Visual Studio Code is designed to fracture
A couple of moments ago, I finished reading the article by Rob O’Leary about the pervasive data collection done by Visual Studio Code. Now that I’m no longer an employee at Gitpod, I’m finally able to author a blog post freely about something that has been troubling me for quite some time… Whilst Visual Studio […]
Tracking the historical events that lead to the interweaving of knowledge (2021)
“Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” —George Santayana Back to Top Key Insights Data was considered a material object, tied to bits, with no semantics per se. Knowledge was traditionally conceived as the immaterial object, living only in people’s minds and language. The destinies of data and knowledge became bound together, […]
Open-Source Flipper Zero Firmware: Unlock Your Device’s Full Potential
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Gavin Newsom vetoes SB 1047
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Ask HN: What are you working on (September 2024)?
I’m working on software that isn’t source-available (as of now, anyway). I’ve written an app that is aimed at a specific demographic (so I’m not linking to it), and I’m developing an improved backend admin app. This involves mostly Swift, using UIKit, to produce an app that will run on iOS, iPadOS, and MacOS. The […]
Ted Kaczynski’s Low-Tech Lifestyle
Average Days Joy Richards Interview with Ted Kaczynski BVD: What was an average day like for you in Lincoln? TJK: That’s a very difficult question to answer because I don’t know that there was an average day. My activities varied so much according to the season and according to the tasks I had before me […]
Cite-seeing and reviewing: A study on citation bias in peer review
Abstract Citations play an important role in researchers’ careers as a key factor in evaluation of scientific impact. Many anecdotes advice authors to exploit this fact and cite prospective reviewers to try obtaining a more positive evaluation for their submission. In this work, we investigate if such a citation bias actually exists: Does the citation […]