Power Ballad bangers make shopper buy more. John McPhee. HTML Tags ruined literally everything. P ≠ NP... we hope. Another bucket of weird stuff in Shiny Things 28/
https://t.co/ohcxmz8rxA
“There’s a growing consensus that we probably won’t be able to achieve everything that we want in AI just with deep learning.” -- so... then what? meet 3DP3.
This is #asingleshinything from a previous issue of my newsletter.
https://t.co/on9jqu0xC1
Lupe Fiasco's latest release is a LLM collab with Google - you read that right.
New Yorker has details on boy-king Elon Musk controlling critical battleground technology
and 3 more internet oddities in this issue of Shiny Things. #newsletter
https://t.co/M0eKvV2OCM
Hey Mark, what's the weirdest book you've read recently? UNDERBUGS. https://t.co/uCgF7PXxe7
there's an amazon review somewhere that says "this book is about termites the way the bible is about men with beards."
This is #asingleshinything from a previous shiny things newsletter.
The awkward realities of digital book lending -- Private Equity, Public Good, Publishers, authors, internet activists, it's a fascinating mess. https://t.co/cXI6YQTNzP
@TheOffsideRules One of those moments where you stop caring what the eventual and inevitable downsides might be for the league. Gotta appreciate the spectacle
shiny things 21/ variations on a complex topic
A brief dive into the past and present of complexity Science, through resources plebes like me can understand.
https://t.co/iNk9CIpCi5
This is truly a pile of shiny bits from the junk drawer of the internet. Oppenheimer, ultra-nerd market dynamics, a podcast about the preposterous universe and a timely reminder that eugenicists suck.
Shiny things 19/ microfractures in microstructures https://t.co/MQrNWLQ1px
I’ve shifted my newsletter a bit - each edition will have an idea, a book, a podcast + a pile of other shiny links.
Idea: What happens to aesthetics when everything must be quantified?
Book: the great reclamation
Podcast: Infinite Loops
https://t.co/465ChEitiY