"So make your late-night, five-minute grilled cheese as many times as you'd like. We're not stopping you. But in the light of day, when you've got ten minutes, a jar of mayo, and the desire to treat yourself to a little something extra, this recipe's here for you."-Emma Wartzman, "6 Rules for a Perfect Grilled … Continue reading 6 Rules for a Perfect Grilled Cheese, Every Time
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Scratch: Hip Hop Turntablism Documentary
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4I3CovIKJWE The important thing to remember is that this basement isn’t packed with treasure. It’s packed with junk. You have to spend the time to sort through the junk to find the treasure. There is no shortcut. There is no algorithm. There is only time, attention, noticing — digging...I like to try to apply this spirit … Continue reading Scratch: Hip Hop Turntablism Documentary
Cormac McCarthy’s Tips on How to Write a [Great Blog Post]
"Finally, try to write the best version of your paper: the one that you like. You can’t please an anonymous reader, but you should be able to please yourself. Your paper — you hope — is for posterity. Remember how you first read the papers that inspired you while you enjoy the process of writing … Continue reading Cormac McCarthy’s Tips on How to Write a [Great Blog Post]
Dunning-Kruger Effect = Satisfaction
"...people with the biggest gap between their abilities and their view of [themselves] say they have the highest levels of satisfaction with their life, career and relationships. “People who report being more adjusted are those who have a combination of relatively lower true abilities and actual higher views of themselves,” says Stéphane Côté, a social … Continue reading Dunning-Kruger Effect = Satisfaction
Monkey Trap
"...take a hollow gourd or coconut and drill a small hole in it. Size matters. The hole should be just barely big enough for a monkey to get a hand inside. Place a treat—bananas, rice, etc.—in the gourd and tie it to a tree. Then wait.Eventually a hungry monkey will come by, stick in their … Continue reading Monkey Trap
Fitzcarraldo Editions
"Like some other small imprints – and some record labels' singles clubs – Fitzcarraldo runs an annual subscription scheme. For £100, subscribers get a year’s worth of books – in 2019, the label will publish 12 titles – and Testard gets some small measure of financial breathing space, with income that may not be received … Continue reading Fitzcarraldo Editions
A Second ‘Second Life’: Facebook Horizon
"Welcome to Facebook Horizon, an ever-expanding VR world where you can explore, play, and create in extraordinary ways. At Horizon, you’re not just discovering a new world, you are part of what makes it great."-Facebook Horizon At first glance, Horizon seems like a modernized Second Life, a first-person Sims, a fulfillment of the intentions of … Continue reading A Second ‘Second Life’: Facebook Horizon
The Trump-Zelensky Conversation
"For present purposes, it suffices to note that the text of the memo offers not a whiff of support for the president’s claims about what he did. That text unambiguously reflects conduct intolerable in a president in a number of different respects. And it does so in five brief, easy-to-understand pages, in which Trump clearly … Continue reading The Trump-Zelensky Conversation
The Snowden Principle
"The determination to live in an honest world, a world where people could show their true faces and own their full history, a world without shame."—Edward Snowden, "Why I Decided Not To Delete My Old Internet Posts." The Intercept. September 21, 2019.
Alternative Biometrics
Facial recognition is just the tip of an iceberg. Techniques for identifying people by their walk, heartbeat, indoor movements, microbial cells, scent, and shape of their ass are all in the works or already possible. https://www.wired.co.uk/article/surveillance-technology-biometrics
Meet the Quds 1
"While at this point there are still more questions about the attack than answers, it might be a good idea to take a closer look at the Quds 1. Do the pictures in the desert actually show a Quds 1? And is the Quds 1 really just a smuggled Soumar?...Well, it turns out cruise missiles … Continue reading Meet the Quds 1
Tragedy of the Commons After 50 Years & A New Model of the Rational Actor
"[Elinor Ostrom] then developed a 'second-generation model of rationality' in which humans are 'complex, fallible learners who seek to do as well as they can given the constraints that they face and who are able to learn heuristics, norms, rules, and how to craft rules to improve achieved outcomes' (E. Ostrom 1998, p. 9). The … Continue reading Tragedy of the Commons After 50 Years & A New Model of the Rational Actor
Lithium: The Gripping History of a Psychiatric Success Story
"Some 70 years ago, John Cade, an Australian psychiatrist, discovered a medication for bipolar disorder that helped many patients to regain stability swiftly. Lithium is now the standard treatment for the condition, and one of the most consistently effective medicines in psychiatry. But its rise was riddled with obstacles. The intertwined story of Cade and … Continue reading Lithium: The Gripping History of a Psychiatric Success Story
Weitzman’s The Noah’s Ark Problem
"The "Noah's Ark Problem" is intended to be an allegory or parable that renders a vivid image of the core problem of maximizing diversity under a budget constraint. What is treated here is actually not the most general form of the underlying mathematical problem. Some slight generalizations are possible, but they would come at the … Continue reading Weitzman’s The Noah’s Ark Problem
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