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It is offered from the perspective of how not to design systems, based on system engineering failures. The primary precept of the treatise is that large complex systems are extremely difficult to design correctly despite best intentions, so care must be taken to design smaller, less-complex systems and to do so with incremental functionality based on close and continual touch with user needs and measures of effectiveness.
There’s not going to be some new killer app that displaces Google or Facebook or Twitter with a love-powered alternative. But that’s because there shouldn’t be. There should be lots of different, human-scale alternative experiences on the internet that offer up home-cooked, locally-grown, ethically-sourced, code-to-table alternatives to the factory-farmed junk food of the internet. And they should be weird.
The latest weather forecasts for the UK and worldwide. Offering weather forecasts up to 14 days in advance, hourly forecasting, weather warnings and more.
Tech and the liberal arts have always been at war. Don’t assume Silicon Valley will win.
In typography/design, ‘sidenotes’ place footnotes/endnotes in the margins for easier reading. I discuss design choices, HTML implementations and their pros/cons.
A natural language interface for computers. Contribute to KillianLucas/open-interpreter development by creating an account on GitHub.
Next-generation therapeutics to improve brain health. MedRhythms is on a mission to help people living with neurologic injuries and diseases optimize their health and independence.
Uncontrolled corpus composition drives an apparent surge in cognitive distortions
a kind reader reached out about all of my iphone alarms and asked how specifically did I run OCR on my mac. I’m not one to gatekeep, so here’s how you can get yourself a nice local ocr ‘service’ that works in the terminal/CLI/python and costs 0 dollars:
Linguistic relativity holds that your worldview is structured by the language you speak. Is it true? History shines a light
What's different about LLMs versus traditional ML
Explore the timeline of milestones in the history of web design from 1990 to the present day.
While the EU is committed to net-zero emissions, the prevailing approach hinges on maintaining capitalist expansion, raising questions about the viability of a true green transition. The endeavor faces complexities, notably in the context of global competition and the imperative to secure essential raw materials, emphasizing extractive production models.
Elevate your professional style with the Konstella Collection by Toyo Steel. Luxurious briefcases that perfectly blend Japanese design and functionality.
From Ghent’s De Krook to Helsinki’s Oodi, recent civic constructions have shared a vision of the library as a living room for the modern city
As many as 40% of clothes made each year – 60bn garments – are not sold. Experts say tackling such obscene waste will require radical changes in production – and legislation
Don’t fear the future. Shape it to suit your context by taking a proactive look forward through the different lenses of strategic foresight.
My parents came to visit, I took pictures
What knowledge, wisdom, processes and skills are required to elegantly navigate the age of AI and enhanced computational processing?
PDF | This paper is an exploration of a new cybernetic approach to 'power' which is developed in a dialectical fashion out of a respectful response to... | Find, read and cite all the research you need on ResearchGate
Farm to Feet is committed to the goal of creating the world’s best wool socks by using an All-American recipe: US Materials, US Manufacturing, and US Workers.
Automatic/Controlled. Automatic (or implicit) mentalizing is a fast-processing unreflective process, calling for little conscious effort or input; whereas controlled mentalization (explicit) is slow, effortful, and demanding of full awareness.[19] In a balanced personality, shifts from automatic to controlled smoothly occur when misunderstandings arise in a conversation or social setting, to put things right.[20] Inability to shift from automatic mentalization can lead to a simplisti...
Dyborg made beautiful dyneema bags. Unfortunately they’re on hiatus.
Hardgraft makes beautiful leather things and stuff.