Always On, Always Connected, Always Searching, Always Distracted
Lifestyle mindfulness etc
Scientific papers: innovation … or imitation?
Reactions to pioneering scientific publications often focus only on the small details of the discovery. We would do better by looking at the bigger picture.
History and Pop culture
Politic
Smart People Don't Chase Goals; They Create Limits
A few years ago, I sat across from a friend at a late dinner. He was telling me about his new promotion, the big title, the bonus, the corner office. I remember watching his face as he described it. He looked like someone describing a story he’d once believed but no longer knew how to finish.
Later that night, walking home alone, I realized I had spent the last year of my life pursuing a goal I barely remembered choosing. I had grown proficient at producing, scaling, optimizing. I had systems.
Cultivating a state of mind where new ideas are born
Solitude, creativity, Bergman, Grothendieck, and the pursuit of great ideas.
Primary Years Programme (PYP) - International Baccalaureate®
The International Baccalaureate (IB) Primary Years Programme (PYP) for children aged 3 - 12, develops active, self-regulated learners in a transdisciplinary curriculum framework.
Washington Post's Privacy Tip: Stop Using Chrome, Delete Meta's Apps (and Yandex) - Slashdot
Meta's Facebook and Instagram apps "were siphoning people's data through a digital back door for months," writes a Washington Post tech columnist, citing researchers who found no privacy setting could've stopped what Meta and Yandex were doing, since those two companies "circumvented privacy and sec...
Self-hosting your own media considered harmful according to YouTube | Hacker News
Cos'è ESCO?
ESCO (European Skills, Competences and Occupations) è la classificazione europea multilingue di abilità, competenze e occupazioni.
Cockatoos have learned to operate drinking fountains in Australia
The behavior—never before seen in birds—may be a developing cultural tradition among one population
Whatever happened to cheap eReaders?
Way back in 2012, The Guardian reviewed an eInk reader which cost a mere £8. The txtr beagle was designed to be a stripped-down and simplified eReader. As far as I can tell, it never shipped. There were a few review units sent out but I can't find any evidence of consumers getting their hands on one. Also, that £8 price was the subsidised price when purchased with a mobile contract. Their w…
bionic mosquito: Decentralization Hidden in the Dark Ages
For longtime readers, this is a condensed version of the several posts I have made on this subject. I have also added a minor amount ...
Going Dark expert group – EU’s surveillance forge – Patrick Breyer
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Contents:· What is #EUGoingDark?· What are the Pirates doing about this?· The 42 key points of the secret #EUGoingDark surveillance plan· The dark work methof of the #EUGoingDark group· Media reports· Documents
What is #EUGoingDark?
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Restaurants and places
Will crypto replace banking? The Trump administration can’t decide
The MAGA movement can’t decide whether crypto is a new means of banking or merely a speculative asset class.
Thrive in obscurity
The path to creative mastery begins with years of silence. Publish anyway.
If you are useful, it doesn’t mean you are valued
The difference can be subtle
Being useful means that you are good at getting things done in a specific area, so that people above you can delegate that completely
the fewer headaches you create for your leadership chain, the bigger the rewards.
Being valued, on the other hand, means that you are brought into more conversations, not just to execute, but to help shape the direction
La storia che rifiutiamo di accettare: non siamo mai stati meglio
Negli ultimi anni, il contesto globale non offre molti motivi per essere ottimisti: assistiamo a conflitti, guerre, ansia e la tecnologia sta diventando semp...
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Life Really Is Better Without the Internet
What happened after my wife and I removed Wi-Fi from our home
What happened after my wife and I removed Wi-Fi from our home
How Developers Stop Learning: Rise of the Expert Beginner
In this post, I describe the phenomenon of the so-called expert beginner -- someone with mediocre skill who thinks he's an expert.
With no patience for learning that, I discovered I could do a pretty good job faking it by putting no fingers and thumbs in the ball and kind of twisting my elbow and chucking the ball down the lane.
There’s nothing you can do to improve as long as you keep bowling like that. You’ve maxed out. If you want to get better, you’re going to have to learn to bowl properly.
The model lists five phases of skill acquisition:
Novice
Advanced Beginner
Competent
Proficient
Expert
skill acquirers move from “dogmatic following of rules and lack of big picture” to “intuitive transcending of rules and complete understanding of big picture.”
After a relatively short phase of being a complete initiate, however, one reaches a point where the skill acquisition becomes possible as a solo activity via practice, and the renewed and invigorated acquirer begins to improve quite rapidly as he or she picks “low hanging fruit.”
The Advanced Beginner stage is the last one in which the skill acquirer has no understanding of the big picture.
As such, it’s the last phase in which the acquirer might confuse himself with an Expert
if I don’t understand it, it must be easy
I go from my optimistic self-assessment to a logical fallacy as my bowling career continues: “I know that I’m doing it right because, as an expert, I’m pretty much doing everything right by definition.”
ten years of experience or the same year of experience ten times,”
It’s during the full lifetime of a project that a developer gains experience writing code, source controlling it, modifying it, testing it, and living with previous design and architecture decisions during maintenance phases
L'esperienza nel software si matura con la gestione del progetto sul mantenimento annuale
They’ve officially become Expert Beginners, and they’re ready to entrench themselves into some niche in an organization and collect a huge paycheck because no one around them, including them, realizes that they can do a lot better.
Explained: Generative AI’s environmental impact | MIT News | Massachusetts Institute of Technology
MIT News explores the environmental and sustainability implications of generative AI technologies and applications.
The computational power required to train generative AI models that often have billions of parameters, such as OpenAI’s GPT-4, can demand a staggering amount of electricity, which leads to increased carbon dioxide emissions and pressures on the electric grid
Furthermore, deploying these models in real-world applications, enabling millions to use generative AI in their daily lives, and then fine-tuning the models to improve their performance draws large amounts of energy long after a model has been developed.
Science
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IA sfida i comandi umani e rifiuta di spegnersi
Durante un esperimento alcuni modelli hanno deciso di sabotare il comando di spegnimento. (ZEUS News)
Gilbert U-238 Atomic Energy Laboratory - Wikipedia
Adventures in Symbolic Algebra with Model Context Protocol
Personal Blog
The core idea of MCP is to standardize the way language models call external tools, instead of writing custom connectors for each AI model and each tool, you implement the protocol once on each side
I feel like a lot of people are going to install these MCP servers without knowing what they're doing and thus install a lot of malware and exploits
Pocket is Saying Goodbye: What You Need to Know | Pocket Help
More information about the end of support for Pocket.
We’ve made the difficult decision to shut down Pocket on July 8, 2025. Thank you for being part of our journey over the years—we're proud of the impact Pocket has had for our users and communities.
It Looks Like You’re Trying To Take Over The World · Gwern.net
Fictional short story about Clippy & AI hard takeoff scenarios grounded in contemporary ML scaling, self-supervised learning, reinforcement learning, and meta-learning research literature.