Category: LinkOffs
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Pi, an AI Assistant
Really impressive AI assistant from Inflection AI. They’ve gotten the tone right. Not OpenAI based. https://pi.ai/talk Me: Can you introduce yourself so I can write about you? Pi: Absolutely! I’m Pi, an AI chatbot developed by Inflection AI. I’m designed to be friendly, informative and engaging, and I can chat about a wide range of…
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Big redesign in the sky
This is perhaps one of the greatest articles every written on software rewrites. Every single developer should read and understand what it is trying to say. …but the reality of green field projects is that they create the illusion that your messes don’t matter. Your messes do matter. Every single one of your messes matters.…
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Pace Layering
This is a fantastic read about how ecological systems, like human society, are arranged in layers. Some layers react quickly to changes while others move very slow. These layered systems absorb shocks, survive and sustain change. Perhaps the most interesting is to understand how things go wrong. Each layer must respect the different pace of…
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Meno’s Paradox and Fallacy of Equivocation
I learned about 2 interesting concepts over the weekend, thanks to Reddit and MasterMementoMori. The fallacy of equivocation is when the same concept or word is applied in two separate contexts but a conclusion is drawn disregarding those different contexts. “A PB&J is better than nothing. Nothing is better than being in love. Therefore a PB&J is…
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🎧 Difference between RGB, CMYK and Pantone
https://www.theverge.com/2022/11/17/23464129/ai-photoshop-robot-art-and-a-big-fight-about-the-future-of-colors AI Photoshop, robot art, and a big fight about the future of colors. We covered all that on the latest episode of The Vergecast, along with what Dall-E and other platforms will mean for copyright law, the difference between CMYK and RGB, and much more. AI art is coming, y’all! I finally know why…
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🎧 Is Google Search getting worse?
Great Freakanomics podcast episode to inspect if Google Search is getting worse. There is a part in there about how Google accidentally ran a 1% hold out group that don’t see ads for 8 years. They found “3 percent more searches from people who had ads than didn’t”. Great insight. If you liked that episode,…
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Wise words from a tall man: playing the long game
Vithun with some words of wisdom: vithun.com/posts/playing-the-long-game …the longer the game one is in, the more they have got to be able to let something go. And not just let it go, but take it off their mind and start from blank for the next thing coming their way. Reacting to everything is something one…
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🎧 The amazing history behind The Pirate Bay and its fight to stay open
A gripping story about a few kids getting together and fighting power in the open Internet. Account given by one of the founders. Love it. Have a listen. https://darknetdiaries.com/episode/92 The Pirate Bay is a website, a search engine, which has an index of torrent files. A lot of copyrighted material is listed on the site,…
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A messy change in direction for iPad
Enjoyed reading this article from David Pierce at TheVerge on Stage Manager. It is not going well for Apple as far as iPadOS is concerned. Here in the real world, trying to figure out how Stage Manager works turns into a wild puzzle requiring a wall of Polaroids and a ball of yarn. The issue…