2022 - To Read

I really like decision tables but they’ve fallen out of common knowledge. Let’s fix that. A decision table is a means of concisely representing branching and conditional computations. In the most basic form, you have some columns that represent the “inputs” as booleans and some columns that represent outputs and effects. It looks like this: A B C f(A, B, C) T T T 1 T T F 3 T F T 7 T F F “cucumber” F - - NullError - means that it doesn’t matter what the value is.

The Dutch firm ASML spent $9 billion and 17 years developing a way to keep making denser computer chips.

Upcoming board game sees players using cards to plan moves three turns ahead of their opponents.

When trying to understand something, often get - an intense feeling of nausea/falling when confused- a feeling of being spatially 'in' a place and constructing something in 3D around meCurious if these are common/what other things people feel when internalizing a new concept— Laura Deming (@LauraDeming) October 31, 2021

Reminded of Wheeler's great advice: "In any field, find the strangest thing and explore it" There are so many interesting & weird biological machines.— Michael Nielsen (@michael_nielsen) November 5, 2021

Making sense of the NFT craze.

Interactive article explaining how curves and surfaces are modelled.

Update: The code for these animations is available here. The Frisch-Waugh-Lovell theorem states that within a multivariate regression on $latex x_1$ and $latex x_2$, the coefficient for $latex x_2$…

I had no idea how touch screens worked until today. pic.twitter.com/zJCve9Yff0— Dan Hollick 🇿🇦 (@DanHollick) November 3, 2021

i just wanna talk to my friends, please don't make me click 300 little tabs to do it

At its core, creativity is unexpected connections between disparate (but not random) concepts. Most tools for thought steer us towards convergence; refining pre-existing connections. We need more tools to inspire creativity! This is a great example. https://t.co/GRcxQo0zGd— Kasey Klimes (@KaseyKlimes) November 3, 2021

The Zigzag Man: Christopher Alexander's Dual Regard Alexander is at once analytical, focused, and linear, but also intuitive, receptive, and embodied. His style is the summation of both attitudes. Jenny Quillien Photo by Kenrick Mills Author: Jenny Quillien  Affiliation: Sustasis Foundation Web: Academia.edu | Sustasis.org Date: November 3, 2021 We cannot enter a world for which we have no language. - David Whyte   I climb out onto the very far end of a tree branch and only then do I worry about how the hell I'm going to get back down. - Christopher Alexander   Christopher Alexander is a Janus-headed

I think of my build software faster work as research. I'm trying to understand how to reach a goal, and the way is unclear. I don't know if I've discovered anything new, yet, and I don't know if that will be required. My goal is to reach the goal, not to expand human knowledge for its own sake.

Overview

#plateau21 is underway! @joshmpollock and @ohnobackspace are giving a great talk on "Design Spaces of Domain-Specific Languages: Comparing and Contrasting Approaches in PL and HCI." https://t.co/5p0NXUTeqH pic.twitter.com/DpkX5YCsCw— Joshua Sunshine (@joshsunshine) November 9, 2021

Socorro, NM It’s my birthday again. My second as a nomad and my first in a relationship. Some reflections on life, inspired by this past year of adventuring across the continent. Some are new learnings; others are re-discovering consistencies in life. Grateful to everyone in my life who made the past year a beautiful one and looking forward to the next one. Also very excited about no more young driver’s fee on my rentals.

The best blog posts are always the ones that go from a random scribble during a conversation—to a few bullet points—to a paragraph—to a full page—to, reluctantly, end up being a full-blown blog post.I guess I'll put it up.— Linus (@thesephist) November 16, 2021

Design engineer in love with emotional interfaces.

A tiny little drawing app.

all my works are developed in this rapid-prototyping custom construct, 7.9 milliseconds to compile and test new ideas | @onatt0

Lessons I learned during my PhD that can be applied to virtually any job.

100% free and open source. Integrates with your existing workflows.

one of my most interesting projects last year was designing the branding system for @Cron. The word mark was inspired by the Bauhaus movement and also doubles as a pattern that shows up in very unexpected ways in the app. Excited to see it out in the wild! https://t.co/ciS4dLz3QI— Jason Yuan (@jasonyuandesign) November 19, 2021

Lots of fascinating ideas in cognitive psychologist Barbara Tversky’s book Mind in Motion, which argues that “movement and our interactions in space are the true foundations of thought” pic.twitter.com/AkYSdPp1pV— Tiffany Tseng 🍡 (@scientiffic) November 22, 2021

I’ve had some lingering thoughts over the past year about what it means to be a “creator,” further accelerated by a recent conversation with a friend, and I want to try to unpack those feelings here.

Speculative futures I would like to help make real.