The Curiosity Chronicle: Unveiling the Illusions and Unearthing Hidden Gems
Here’s your monthly dose of treats, goodies, ideas, pieces of research, principles, models, and other random stuff curated by Robert
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Misinformation studies as "Scientific" thought control
A search engine in 80 lines of Python.
‘Everyone looked real’: multinational firm’s Hong Kong office loses HK$200 million after scammers stage deepfake video meeting
A Modern Operating System in 1.44MBs
As we contemplate the possibilities of virtual reality (VR) and the Vision Pro, it is valuable to explore this article from the New York Times in 1985 that elucidates the reasons why there was skepticism about the desirability or necessity of owning a laptop.
George Hotz | Just Chatting | effective accelerationism | e/acc | Techno-pessimism | Deceleration
Americans’ social media use stats
Temu spent $3bn in marketing last year, according to Bernstein. Goldman Sachs estimated that $1.2bn of that went to Meta.
Research from the US takes a look at the links between time spent alone and loneliness, finding high levels of loneliness in those that spend over 75% of their time with others.
Francisco Franco, Robust Action, and the Power of Non-Commitment
This was the very first site on the Internet about saving electricity, launching in 1999
How a Nuclear Weapons Lab Helped Crack a Serial-Killer Case
How much does status competition lower Korean fertility?
All My Thoughts After 40 Hours in the Vision Pro
Political polarisation by gender: a matter of aesthetics?
(Almost) Every infrastructure decision I endorse or regret after 4 years running infrastructure at a startup
The theme here is scaling your brain. The journeyman learns to solve bigger problems by solving more problems at once. The master learns to solve even bigger problems than that by solving fewer problems at once. Part of the wisdom is subdividing so that integrating the separate solutions will be a smaller problem than just solving them together.
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👾 some YouTube video essays
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