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https://meaningness.com/geeks-mops-sociopaths
http://web.archive.org/save/http://zvedavec.org/komentare/2019/04/7885-automaticka-kontrola-vozidel.htm
https://fs.blog/2018/10/long-game/
https://fs.blog/category/mental-models/
https://edition.cnn.com/2019/04/19/asia/thai-sea-home-us-bitcoin-trader-scli-intl/index.html
https://aiweirdness.com/post/172894792687/when-algorithms-surprise-us
https://vorpus.org/blog/why-im-not-collaborating-with-kenneth-reitz/
https://medium.com/@marekkcichy/does-ai-have-a-dirty-mind-too-6948430e4b2b
https://lobste.rs/s/cggv9e/cidco_mailstation_as_z80_development
https://blog.stephenwolfram.com/2019/05/what-weve-built-is-a-computational-language-and-thats-very-important/
http://amontalenti.com/2014/11/02/clojonic/
https://riceo.me/posts/software-engineering-lessons-from-aviation/
http://www.loper-os.org/?p=3256
https://ovid.github.io/articles/alan-kay-and-oo-programming.html
https://arstechnica.com/gaming/2019/05/one-week-with-the-valve-index-a-vr-game-changer-with-a-few-question-marks/
https://www.rifters.com/crawl/?p=8169
https://divan.dev/posts/visual_programming_go/
https://karpathy.github.io/2019/04/25/recipe/
https://people.kernel.org/monsieuricon/patches-carved-into-developer-sigchains
https://www.inkandswitch.com/capstone-manuscript.html
https://hauleth.dev/post/eli5-ownership/
https://ai.googleblog.com/2019/08/an-interactive-automated-3d.html
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190819
https://queue.acm.org/detail.cfm?id=3212479
https://mtlynch.io/status-updates-to-nobody/
https://cleantechnica.com/2019/08/26/tesla-vertical-integration-is-value-integration/
https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2017/09/saving-the-world-from-code/540393/
https://tashian.com/articles/print-out-your-code/
https://www.nayuki.io/page/creating-a-qr-code-step-by-step
https://kevinlynagh.com/notes/pricing-niche-products/
https://nakedsecurity.sophos.com/2019/10/17/pen-testers-find-mystery-black-box-connected-to-ships-engines/
https://blog.metaobject.com/2019/11/what-alan-kay-got-wrong-about-objects.html
https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/05/26/the-atomic-bomb-considered-as-hungarian-high-school-science-fair-project/
http://www.paulgraham.com/genius.html
https://journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2015/02/01/what-color-is-your-function/
https://web.archive.org/web/20160325182936/http://asperger.tribe.net/thread/8725f112-ca77-4a8a-be19-38fb08728089#12bbb347-0430-4ea9-b548-af6ad3867077
http://worrydream.com/Engelbart/
https://djrobstep.com/posts/programs-are-a-prison
https://josephg.com/blog/war-over-being-nice/
https://medium.com/the-spike/yes-the-brain-is-a-computer-11f630cad736
https://arstechnica.com/science/2020/03/inside-elon-musks-plan-to-build-one-starship-a-week-and-settle-mars/
https://tasshin.com/blog/monasteries-of-the-future-a-summary/
https://medium.com/croquet/a-few-grains-of-sand-76c2dfb9bfab
https://medium.com/@saadsahawneh/keeping-douglas-engelbart-alive-c1e6c167972a
https://medium.com/croquet/the-internets-n²-problem-36410bbd65af
https://medium.com/@saadsahawneh/im-sorry-alan-kay-e215e73f01aa
https://www.dotyk.cz/byznys/i-mala-firma-muze-byt-svetovou-jednickou.html
https://writings.stephenwolfram.com/2020/04/finally-we-may-have-a-path-to-the-fundamental-theory-of-physics-and-its-beautiful/
https://kevingal.com/blog/mona-lisa-gol.html
http://acko.net/blog/software-development-as-advanced-damage-control/
https://voynichportal.com/2020/06/07/cars-and-cetacea/
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23420786
https://buttondown.email/hillelwayne/archive/syntax-highlighting-is-a-waste-of-an-information/
https://www.extremetech.com/extreme/282534-mits-implosion-fabrication-shrinks-objects-to-create-nanoscale-versions
https://www.designedbycave.co.uk/2020/LEGO-Interface-UX/
https://jalammar.github.io/how-gpt3-works-visualizations-animations/
https://www.armadninoviny.cz/ngad-americane-testovali-demonstrator-stihacky-6-generace.html
https://blog.luap.info/drafts/i-built-a-lay-down-desk.html?hnn
https://jenda.hrach.eu/w/ebroker#konkurencni_brokeri
https://www.fastcompany.com/40435064/what-alan-kay-thinks-about-the-iphone-and-technology-now
https://blog.cloudflare.com/introducing-workers-durable-objects/amp/?__twitter_impression=true
https://matklad.github.io/2020/04/13/simple-but-powerful-pratt-parsing.html
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/alison_killing/china-ex-prisoners-horrors-xinjiang-camps-uighurs
https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/meghara/china-new-internment-camps-xinjiang-uighurs-muslims
https://is.cuni.cz/webapps/zzp/detail/213939/
https://www.seznamzpravy.cz/clanek/tajemny-muz-ktery-na-jare-zachranil-cesko-exreditel-ceske-pojistovny-124767
https://www.biospace.com/article/-oak-ridge-researchers-use-supercomputer-on-covid-19/
https://spectrum.ieee.org/tech-history/space-age/the-11-greatest-vacuum-tubes-youve-never-heard-of
https://uxdesign.cc/design-is-not-science-art-or-engineering-5e8d2f499494
http://acko.net/blog/on-headaches-and-aspirin/
https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/reverse-engineering-source-code-of-the-biontech-pfizer-vaccine/
http://www.vpri.org/pdf/m2004001_power.pdf
https://medium.com/@marekkcichy/does-ai-have-a-dirty-mind-too-6948430e4b2b
https://www.root.cz/clanky/fsp-protokol-internetova-legenda-10/
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20201227
https://lord.io/blog/2020/spreadsheets/
http://agentydragon.com/posts/2015-08-24-tricks-of-the-trade.html
http://agentydragon.com/posts/2020-02-21-you-are-an-optimizer.html
https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/life-before-autocad-1950-1980/
https://athenawalker.substack.com/p/tip-the-scales-in-your-favor
https://dfens-cz.com/ekonomie-penize-a-bitcoin/
https://web.archive.org/web/20131130191257/http://www.shirky.com/writings/group_enemy.html
https://corecursive.com/066-sqlite-with-richard-hipp/
https://www.kalzumeus.com/2012/01/23/salary-negotiation/
https://antonz.org/sqlite-is-not-a-toy-database/
https://optimal-codestyle.github.io/
https://dariusforoux.com/prices-law/
https://jlcollinsnh.com/2017/07/26/time-machine-and-the-future-returns-for-stocks/
https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2021/08/23/why-is-it-so-hard-to-be-rational
https://thehftguy.com/2020/10/27/my-experience-in-production-with-flask-bottle-tornado-and-twisted/
https://zpravy.aktualne.cz/ekonomika/zkusili-jsme-doplnit-ztracene-odpracovane-roky-do-evidence-a/r~cba8a594fb8111ebbc3f0cc47ab5f122/
http://nathanmarz.com/blog/suffering-oriented-programming.html
https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/20054/we-are-agile
https://markets.businessinsider.com/news/currencies/hamster-trading-cryptocurrencies-rigged-cage-goxx-bitcoin-price-ether-doge-2021-9
https://devlog.hexops.com/2021/I-write-code-100-hours-a-week
https://mattferraro.dev/posts/caustics-engineering
https://imjustcreative.com/pure-storage-logo-design-case-study/2019/09/18
https://www.notion.so/blog/alan-kay
https://rogersbacon.substack.com/p/snosh Joscha Bach story.
https://www.esat.kuleuven.be/cosic/blog/dumping-and-extracting-the-spacex-starlink-user-terminal-firmware/
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20211201
https://cray-history.net/2021/11/04/cray-customer-service-by-charles-clark/
https://www.danstroot.com/posts/2018-10-03-hammer-factories
https://www.raptitude.com/2022/01/everything-must-be-paid-for-twice/
https://ai.facebook.com/blog/ai-rsc
https://scottaaronson.blog/?p=6288 AlphaCode as a dog speaking mediocre English
https://lukasz.langa.pl/5d044f91-49c1-4170-aed1-62b6763e6ad0/ Notes From the Meeting On Python GIL Removal Between Python Core and Sam Gross
https://gankra.github.io/blah/c-isnt-a-language/
https://ciechanow.ski/mechanical-watch/
https://maggieappleton.com/metaphors-web
https://antonz.org/protocol/ Flying Pig, or Protocols in Python
https://maggieappleton.com/block-data
https://maggieappleton.com/epistemic-disclosure
https://arkadiuszchmura.com/posts/my-key-takeaways-from-the-pragmatic-programmer/
https://martinheinz.dev/blog/70 Python fstrings.
https://roman.pt/posts/dont-let-dicts-spoil-your-code/
https://aaronhertzmann.com/2022/02/28/how-does-perspective-work.html
https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/ Brilliant article about biology, with a bunch of links to relevant books.
https://observablehq.com/@jsomers/we-need-more-tiny-knowledge-projects-heres-one
https://jsomers.net/blog/more-people-should-write
https://fortelabs.co/blog/how-to-build-your-personal-productivity-stack/
https://gbracha.blogspot.com/2022/06/the-prospect-of-execution-hidden.html
https://eugeneyan.com/writing/uncommon-python/
https://jalammar.github.io/illustrated-stable-diffusion/
https://tratt.net/laurie/blog/2022/uml_my_part_in_its_downfall.html
https://www.shadertoy.com/view/4dsXzM Fovea detector. Look at any specific point, and you should clearly see the extent of your fovea (the stars only seem to be rotating in a small circle at the center of your vision). Move your head back and forth to see it grow/shrink.
https://world.hey.com/dhh/an-ode-to-software-products-over-software-services-c2705aff Mostly obvious points about why cloud-based software products sux.
https://thenewstack.io/oxide-computings-bryan-cantrill-on-the-importance-of-toolmaking/ Interesting point about why we are not focusing on tool making in the software world.
https://www.lowtechmagazine.com/2016/03/hydraulic-accumulator-power-water-networks.html Quite fascinating read about hydraulic power networks which were in use in some cities a century and a half ago, delivering power using high-pressure water.
https://www.sequoiacap.com/article/notion-spotlight/
http://tao.kvalitne.cz/horak.html Tao in Czech Language.
https://astralcodexten.substack.com/p/janus-simulators Chat GPT, GPT3, and how alien it actually is.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/aPeJE8bSo6rAFoLqg/solidgoldmagikarp-plus-prompt-generation?commentId=zKayW2ZYYamwDLfkN Super interesting GPT weirdness.
https://towardsdatascience.com/demystifying-efficient-self-attention-b3de61b9b0fb GPT, language models and attention.
https://brandnewbox.com/inthestacks/ Lovely story about a librarian, and a synthetizer.
https://www.notion.so/blog/data-model-behind-notion How notion stores and operates on “blocks”.
https://phaazon.net/blog/development-environments Composability of unix applications, and how much it sux.
https://dallasinnovates.com/exclusive-qa-john-carmacks-different-path-to-artificial-general-intelligence/ Interview with John Carmack about his AI research.
https://ruudvanasseldonk.com/2023/01/11/the-yaml-document-from-hell The yaml document from hell
https://cyberscoop.com/boston-l0pht-hackers-tech-scene/
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/6Fpvch8RR29qLEWNH/chinchilla-s-wild-implications Highlights the importance of data scaling in language model performance, arguing that data is a more significant constraint than model size.
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/bxt7uCiHam4QXrQAA/cyborgism
https://www.lesswrong.com/posts/566kBoPi76t8KAkoD/on-autogpt
https://web.archive.org/web/20140527121332/http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm
https://apenwarr.ca/log/20230415
https://www.cs.cornell.edu/~asampson/blog/flattening.html Quite interesting and seemingly simple parsing optimization.
https://blog.gopenai.com/how-to-speed-up-llms-and-use-100k-context-window-all-tricks-in-one-place-ffd40577b4c
https://donhopkins.medium.com/the-shape-of-psiber-space-october-1989-19e2dfa4d91e Weid UI built on top of postscript. Looks a bit like Self / Morphic.


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