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Too much efficiency makes everything worse: overfitting and the strong version of Goodhart’s law
This blog is intended to be a place to share ideas and results that are too weird, incomplete, or off-topic to turn into an academic paper, but that I think may be important. Let me know what you think! Contact links to the left.
What Excessive Screen Time Does to the Adult Brain
By Mary Grace Descourouez, MS, NBC-HWC Binge-watching television, watching YouTube videos for hours, or scrolling on your phone every morning may seem harmless, but research shows that too much screen time may be detrimental to your health. We know children’s brains are affected by spending too much time glued to their cell phones, however research shows that […]
It’s Time to Give Up on Everything but Email – Manu
I was sitting there, minding my own damn business, surfing the web, clicking around, enjoying my time, when I stumbled on this article, by Ian Bogost …
The 3 AI Use Cases: Gods, Interns, and Cogs
Simplifying and navigating the AI noise by segmenting everything into 3 big use cases.
The strange and turbulent global world of ant geopolitics | Aeon Essays
Over the past four centuries quadrillions of ants have created a strange and turbulent global society that shadows our own
The Shirky Principle: Institutions Try to Preserve the Problem to Which They Are the Solution – Effectiviology
Why Are (Most) Sofas So Bad? - Dwell
The most important piece of furniture in your home is in need of assistance. How did we end up here? And how can we fix it?
Life after Ozempic | Health | EL PAÍS English
Half of the people who take these weight loss drugs stop treatment within a year. Most regain two-thirds of their lost weight, but a new study suggests there is a way to avoid the rebound effect
How to wirelessly plot with the AxiDraw
Using a Raspberry Pi and Saxi
The Virtuous Mean Between Time Drunkenness and Work Martyrdom
I have been thinking about work lately, as my relationship with it has always felt uncalibrated. To explore this topic, I am reading a book by philosopher Raymond Geuss called A Philosopher Looks at Work. Geuss examines the modernist notion of work, positing that there are six criteria for defining it, with the first three constituting its essence:
According to my armchair psychologizing, many work martyrs grew up with “learned industriousness,” a work ethic established through positive reinforcement, usually from parents or early-life mentors. The fundamental phenomenon can be described as children receiving reinforcement for exerting high effort, which also reinforces the sensation of exerting such effort, thereby conditioning the state of effortfulness as something inherently valuable
Le Canada, « cible numéro un » de fraudeurs internationaux | Radio-Canada
L'inaction des autorités canadienne est pointée du doigt par un expert et un lanceur d'alerte ayant déjà travaillé en tant que fraudeur.
Non-code contributions are the secret to open source success · GitHub
Why non-code contributions like documentation and support are so important to open source, why even experienced programmers should make non-code contributions, and how your project can attract more...
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The rise of obituary spam - The Verge
AI-generated obituaries are beginning to litter search results, turning the deaths of private individuals into clunky, repetitive content.
The Rural Ski Slope Caught Up in an International Scam | The New Yorker
A federal program promised to bring foreign investment to remote parts of the country. It soon became rife with fraud.
Dorf Fort
Dwarf Fortress art.
Fast Fashion Casino
The house always wins.
The year Twitter died: a special series from The Verge
The platform was a news accelerator, a tool of mass harassment, and an infinite joke machine.
Age of Invention: Cash Cows
He was born, farmed, and died at Dishley, much like his father before him. But Robert Bakewell, unlike most people, caught the improving mentality, or attitude — the one thing all inventors, both then and now, have in common — which had him viewing everything around him in terms of its capacity for betterment. The improving mentality was a reframing the status quo as a problem to solve. A habit of optimisation. A compulsion to perfect.
How We Lost Our Ability to Mend
I was folding away some laundry the other day when I noticed a hole in my J. Crew sweatshirt. It’s about the size of my pinky nail, but threatens to get bigger, and it’s located in the very...
How I won $2,750 using JavaScript, AI, and a can of WD-40
I’ve won many marketing video contest promotions over the past decade using my proven techniques and tactics. This particular haul, however, was the first where I can give at least partial credit to the application of code and AI tools.
Repair and Remain
Escaping our problems, whether in our homes, our marriages, our careers, or elsewhere, is easier than remaining where we are and doing the hard work of repair.
This Perth Family Home Paves The Way For Sustainable Design
This architect's own family home has been carefully designed as carbon negative, without compromising on style or liveability.
oh my goddddd
researchers built a smartwatch heart beat monitor that uses a slime mold for its operation. the slime mold has to be fed and cared for, so the users in the trial... developed an emotional attachment to it 😭😭
— ely (@ElytraMithra)
How EMDR therapy helped me heal from the trauma of a carjack | Aeon Essays
I was the victim of a carjacking. The trauma from that experience was unendurable. Then I discovered eye movement therapy
Billionaire Philanthropy Is a Scam
A new study describes in grotesque detail the extent to which the ultrarich have perverted the charitable giving industry.
A deep dive into how developers trick App Store review into approving malicious apps
We recently reported on how multiple pirate streaming apps for iOS managed to get approved on the App Store by...
Opinion | This Is Not the Way to Help Depressed Teenagers
Large-scale, “light touch” interventions have backfired.
Pluralistic: Autoenshittification (24 July 2023)
Meet AdVon, the AI-Powered Content Monster Infecting the Media Industry
Our investigation into AdVon Commerce, the AI contractor at the heart of scandals at USA Today and Sports Illustrated.