Linear algebra explains why some words are effectively untranslatable

Steinbeck on Teleology

Process World, Object-Oriented Mind

Shake Up Your Boundaries

Hi No Youjin

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Mote: Interactive Ecosystem Simulation [video]

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Fitness Landscape

Do You Remember What You Read?

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Distant Writing: Literary Production in the Age of Artificial Intelligence

Patterns are anti-randomness and thought is made of pattern-stuff

I do not remember my life and it's fine

Tokyo House Prices

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Markov Chains: Why Walk When You Can Flow? (2017)

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Travel Guide for Stateless People

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Markov Chains Explained Visually (2014)

Matsuri's Grown-Up World – a first-person chronicle of a karoshi death

Ending the penny won't lead to more nickels

Don't Fork the Ecosystem

Whatever a Man or Woman Was Able to Accomplish Before, You Can Accomplish, Too

Google Earth has begun updating images of Gaza

The Luxurious Pain of Using My Time

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Machine Learning at Ente – On-Device, E2EE

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See the Living Loops

A Framing and Model About Framings and Models

There are more living cells than grains of sand or stars in the sky

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The Ill Will Effect: Who Likes Their Telco Provider? (2009)

When Finns snipped their cash in half to curb inflation

Financial Diaries – A glimpse into the financial life of low-income households

Memecoins Are the Point

Recursion, Tidy Stars, and Water Lilies

Ballistic Moments of Weightlessness

Reading Blood Meridian with Aphantasia

A List of Introspective Descriptions

The Odysseus Black Box – Curiosity as the drive to be changed by the world

You Don't Have Time to Read Books That Won't Change Your Life

A Black-Box View of Life

In Japanese You Need a Dictionary to Count Things

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Spurious patterns and where to find them

Who Killed the World?

Jack of All Trades, Master of Something

Aphantasia Is No Creativity-Killer

Digital Yoknapatawpha: sentence-level DB and analysis of Faulkner's whole oeuvre

Borges on Chaos Theory

Is There Anything Untranslatable?

Bamboo shoots through your house

Faking William Morris, Generative Forgery, and the Erosion of Art History

Renovatio monetae – when all coins were changed every year

BetterHelp customers begin receiving refund notices from data privacy settlement

A Medium-Agnostic Taxonomy of Notifications

Bumblebees socially learn behaviour too complex to innovate alone

Aphantasia – A Subjective Description of the Experience

The beautiful dissociation of the Japanese language

You Impersonate What You Think You Are

Reminiscence Bump

Don't Think and Write, They Say

IronLev – claims to be simple, cheap, and passive magnetic levitation

Spinning Worlds, Seasickness, and Dealing with Vestibular Neuritis

Boundaries Are in the Eye of the Beholder

Aphantasics less likely to be engaged with a short story, but still enjoy it

A transformer method that predicts human lives from sequences of life events

Ente successfully completes a security audit

Sketchy ideas for interfaces that play with the novel capabilities of LLMs

Mass-Producing the Mistake Minimizer

Three “what about?” questions when considering Shape Up

AML works, even if it intercepts less than 1% of criminal proceeds

Culture is made of humans, and generative AI can't change that

Toronto as Utopia

The Purpose of a System Is What It Does (Stafford Beer)