David Brin and Sheldon Brown gave a talk at Google. Visualization/Mapping at Problem Solving tool. See the Video. (more)

John Cutler: TBM 31/52: Bet Up Activity. We begin with work in progress (WIP). Teams reverse engineer a plausible driver tree, making an implicit strategy explicit. It might not be the perfect strategy—and ideally, we’d work the other way around—but it is what exists now. (strategic context) (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Covid-19 7/28/22: Ruining It For Everyone. An old Alzheimer’s paper that it seems the entire field of drug development and diagnosis was based around, and it turned out it’s not only fraud, it’s very obvious fraud once you actually look at the manipulated images (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: Monkeypox Post #2. Will we turn the tide soon? It briefly looked like this might have already happened, but it turned out not to be the case. I give us a reasonable chance to indeed turn the tide relatively soon, and without a broad spillover into the non-MSM community. There will of course be some cases of spread elsewhere, but my (not too confident) hunch is that the disease won’t robustly spread in most other places, and will remain mostly within MSM. (more)

Evrone: JSON Creator Douglas Crockford Interview. You participated in the “E” programming language development in 1997: Dean Tribble was developing an amazing language called Joule. Doug Barnes figured out a way to plop the best ideas of Joule onto Java, which we called E. Martin Odersky developed the first E compiler. Mark Miller redesigned E, eliminating many of the bad parts of Java. The goal of these languages was to support the development of secure, distributed systems. (E Lang) (more)

Scott Alexander: Adumbrations Of Aducanumab. Lots of people have been writing about aducanumab, but this Atlantic article in particular bothers me. (more)

Dave Winer product/project of 2021: my new outliner-based scripting system for the web... The same way Frontier was designed around an object database and the Mac filesystem (and later Windows), Drummer works with public and private files on a server... I am creating a product, but as with Radio UserLand, I also want to try to create a new use for our computers. With Radio it was blogging and RSS. This time it's a richer, better connected working environment on the net for power users and devs.... The key innovation in Drummer is JavaScript without the callbacks. (more)

Hank Levy was a saxophone player and briefly played baritone saxophone for Stan Kenton, but he was most known for his composing and arranging, specifically in odd time signatures. His interest in odd meters pre-dated Dave Brubeck's Time Out album https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hank_Levy The 2014 jazz film Whiplash takes its title from Levy's composition which originally appeared on the 1973 album Soaring by Don Ellis and portions of which are played throughout the course of the film. (more)

Cedric Chin: John Cutler's Product Org Expertise. Cutler’s superpower is that he is able to talk to a set of product people and — within 8-20 minutes — figure out the system dynamics of their organisation, and then suggest a bunch of experiments to make that system better. His interventions usually take on the form of a prioritised list of experimental changes or team interventions. (more)

Study Finds Another Condition That Vitamin D Pills Do Not Help. The vitamin pills do not prevent bone fractures in most people or protect against many other diseases, adding to questions about medical guidance many now take for granted. (more)

co-founder of Asana https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dustin_Moskovitz (more)

Dan Hon: Episode Forty Four: Snow Crashing. If you were going to read Neal Stephenson's Snow Crash again... then you might re-read it substituting all the stuff that didn't exist when Neal Stephenson wrote it with all the stuff that does exist now. (more)

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Cedric Chin: Don't Read History for Lessons. Here’s a real world story that you might be familiar with. The question I’d like you to ask while reading it is: what lessons might you take away from it? (more)

Robin Sloan: Whomst styles? a “whostyle”: an attempt to communicate more of an author’s voice, in the form of their personal design choices, in a quotation. (transclusion) (more)

Maya: initial musing on robin sloan’s spring ‘83 protocol idea (more)

people donating money to support someone's non-revenue-producing activities (more)

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