Category: LessMore
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XEROX demo, wmn
A wonderful moment in GUI and computing history from XEROX PARC in the 70s, demonstrated by my father, featuring briefly: me. Watch the video from the Computer History Museum here.
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Kottke OpenAI sora
Kottke covers the big news from OpenAI today: The Age of Realistic AI-generated video is here.
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Dollars to donuts
Steve Portigal is back with his podcast: Dollars to Donuts. This new episode is with guest Noam Segal. “AI will help us see opportunities for research that we haven’t seen.”
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SFI political economy trailer
A new ‘trailer’ from the Santa Fe Institute on its Emergent Political Economies project. Watch it here: SFI Emergent Political Economies 2024
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Double diamond squiggle
“I’m not sugesting we all start using Danien Newman’s Design Squiggle — but…” Interesting piece on process diagrams by Dan Ramsden, The limitations of the double diamond.
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Nvidia LLLM
Nvidia’s chatbot makes your files a local large-ish language model combined with YouTube. I may have to buy a PC to try this. Nvidia’s Chat with RTX is a promising AI chatbot that runs locally on your PC.
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Dim the sun.
Geo engineering may be closer than we think, or like. Someone is going to dim the sun, and it will be soon. Via TLDR
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Glowing plants
Light Bio, a synthetic biology startup, announced that it is now selling its bioluminescent petunias in the U.S. Fun. Via HN
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handwriting paper
What practices have the best learning effect in what context? A recent paper in developmental neuroscience, by Van Der Weel and Van Der Meer: Handwriting but not typewriting leads to widespread brain connectivity: a high-density EEG study with implications for the classroom
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Jose Torre’s talk Design process is a lie
José Torre’s talk on The Design Process is a Lie. Is something I absolutely have to refer to from here.
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Kottke Stinge Watching
There’s much to share about this, but Kottke introduces Stinge Watching. Do you do it too?
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smart terminals history
A thoroughly enjoyable trip down memory lane of smart terminals. Smart Terminals: Personal Computing’s True Origin?