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Optimizing Siri on HomePod in Far‑Field Settings - Apple
The typical audio environment for HomePod has many challenges — echo, reverberation, and noise. Unlike Siri on iPhone, which operates close…
Emily’s Hourly Comics Day Thread
pic.twitter.com/DRD9DUZh5Y— bb ghost (@emilywithcurls) February 2, 2019
On repeat topic forum dynamics
hot take it should be completely normal for people to come to forums and post a simple question, get directed to an existing thread, and everyone says "thanks / you're welcome" instead of the hostility i've seen towards this on forums for 20 years— Sega Protogenesis (@gravislizard) February 2, 2019
Mary Oliver’s Poetry Found a Second Life As a Meme
But of course, the magic of the poem, and that of many of Oliver’s poems in particular, is how it creates this sense of being implausibly singled out and told what you were waiting to hear.
Eleven years later and I’m moving on
I fell in love with Tumblr the day I first saw the product.
Don’t Go to College
Make friends, make love, make lots of things. Make something great. Because that is what will make you happy for the rest of your life. I don’t think it’s luck. I work insanely hard, all the time.
Modeling Your View Models as Functions
At Grailed we’ve turned to functional programming for inspiration on how to write testable, well-structured view models.
#77: Perfect Sound Forever
Sharing Options
Transverse
This domain may be for sale!
You’re Up
Just remember: most people want to meet you as much as you want to meet them, especially in social situations like this. No one would prefer to stand there and stare at their phone when there are tons of fascinating people around.
Preetam’s Quotes List
The Casper Glow
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The Hassle of Haskell
A case of dis-functional programming.
Going Indie
The End of Quotebook
Culture Rot
A talk at the Difficult to Name reading series about the disappearing web and what we can do to stop it.
Matthew Bischoff’s Release Notes ‘16 Talk
Jenn Schiffer XOXO ‘16 Talk
Jersey City-based artist/engineer Jenn Schiffer makes art with code, teaches code with art, and open-source tools for playing with both. Her hilariously deadpan writing satirizes tech culture and programming tutorials, roping in clueless mansplainers for literally years after publication.
Follow Jenn on Twitter: https://twitter.com/jennschiffer
And on Medium: https://medium.com/@jennschiffer
Her official site: http://jennmoney.biz/
Recorded in September 2016 at XOXO, an experimental festival celebrating independently produced art and technology in Portland, Oregon. For more, visit http://xoxofest.com.
Introductory music: "Flaws Run Deep" by Jim Guthrie.
Video production by brytCAST.
Video thumbnail by Searle Video.
Captions by White Coat Captioning.
How To Make Coffee choose-your-own-adventure comic
aah I love this How To Make Coffee choose-your-own-adventure comic my coworker @akvanh made for the @honeycombio kitchen!! \o/✨my favourite is the "cleanup" step (: pic.twitter.com/NYRb08C3vq— daiyi! ✨ (chris) (@daiyitastic) January 31, 2019
Nadia’s Notes
Shamelessness as a strategy
Everyone else had invested years into optimizing for the most legible version of the rules. They’d look silly if they were to admit she had found a better way of doing things. The shameless strategy feels counterintuitive, because our first instinct is to want to punish that sort of behavior. And historically, those sanctions have been effective. Punishing outlandish behavior is an important aspect of cooperative governance: it preserves social order by ensuring that we all play by the same rules. One explanation might be that it’s an expected effect of the blurring of social boundaries today. In the past, if the size of your community was finitely bounded (like a village, or an aristocratic social class), people didn’t enter or exit these communities as frequently. Under these conditions, sanctions are probably still effective. But the borders to online communities are much more fluid - perhaps even nonexistent. Under open borders, sanctions will backfire, because they just serve as a signaling boost for the transgressor, attracting outsiders who resonate with that person’s message. What’s meant to be punishment instead becomes a flare shot straight into the night sky.
FTC ETC 004: For Lack of a better word
Filing issues with observed behavior or desired outcome
File issues about the problem you’ve observed or the outcome you want, not about the approach you think should be taken to resolve them.— Rob Rix (@rob_rix) January 31, 2019
An old thread w/ number theory facts
“1 like = 1 fun number theory fact”
On reaching for day-before-Valentine’s-Day reservations
The myth of passive income
I never make products because I want to make money while I sleep or hear beeps on my phone alerting me of sales, while I sit around in my underpants. I make products because I enjoy making things and providing value to others. I also make products because I enjoy actively doing work. I don’t care about the easy road or hacking the system to make money without effort. I like making money because there’s effort involved. It’s hard work, and it feels good.
Interpersonal Legibility
Interpersonal legibility is approximated by how quickly a stranger can grok you. Choosing how legible we want to appear involves making an interesting trade-off.On one extreme we can become a Del
How bias can slip into compression algorithms
“A pretty great illustration of the human impact on “just math” algorithms from @djrupture’s excellent Uproot”