Mark Englehart Evans

oh look, everything is on fire.

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What’s a tiny piece of advice that has improved your life substantially?

Mine was from a chef I worked for: “taste everything twice”

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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

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“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

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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

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Shiny sports! Magisterial Messi, Baseball in Bhutan and a bunch of unrelated shiny things from the junk drawer of the internet
https://t.co/kag5NSLWmA

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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.

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The awkward realities of digital book lending -- Private Equity, Public Good, Publishers, authors, internet activists, it's a fascinating mess. https://t.co/cXI6YQTNzP

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shiny questions 24 - wait what the F#*@? https://t.co/CSYvdP2lfe

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Shiny things 23 -- a bunch of links asking the hard questions.
https://t.co/a7cFmdu4il

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@TheOffsideRules One of those moments where you stop caring what the eventual and inevitable downsides might be for the league. Gotta appreciate the spectacle

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five tasty links exploring how to do everything: https://t.co/2k5hprHdNH

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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

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In 10 years we will remember Twitter like we think of livejournal today. Fun at the time but in retrospect WTF

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Newsletter! Shiny Things 20/ everything is probably probabilistic

https://t.co/Mlh5CZrv1t

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@IanKarmel Reddit /happycrowds is full of these. They are heartwarming

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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

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Remember when we were all into sea shanties? What a weird Tuesday.

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How on earth are there still Long John Silvers restaurants?

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Paging @allroads

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"All Roads Lead to China"

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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