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About a million years ago, I was discussing the FOAF (Friend of a Friend) ontology with its early proponents. It allowed you to define a machine-readable semantic relationship like "Alice is married to Bill" and "Bill is Carol's child" and "Carol works for David". That sort of thing. At the time, all the FOAF…
Recordings of disappearing, obscure and obsolete sounds wanted for new global collaborative sound project Obsolete Sounds.
Web3 has been a very fashionable term this year, mostly for the alt-finance cartoon characters and tech world’s ultrasophisticated twitter-thread authors.
The Microsoft and Stripe developer keynotes were both examples of the rise of Thin Platforms
Bureaucratic and logistical roadblocks, not the science, stand in our way
William James, Aldous Huxley, and the functions of religion
It is the best of times for electronic ink but it is the worst of times for actually reading eBooks.
With the Supreme Court poised to rip away a constitutional right that’s been the law of the land for nearly half a century by overturning Roe v. Wade, it’s time for the gloves to come off in the encryption debate. For a quarter of a century, it has
Why would I pay $36 for a pair of underwear?
Plus! Money and Equilibria; eSports; The Price of Liquidity; Plausible Deniability; The Illiquidity Premium, Continued; Diff Jobs
A single employee leaked sensitive data to secret services, potentially also to Russia.
Unless Maybe You are Adele
January 16, 2022 Latest Article: The Importance of Price Signals This newsletter issue takes a look at the self-reinforcing cycle that stuffed excess global capital into the US stock market over the past 40 years (and especially the past decade) like a sponge soaking up water, along with an examination of catalysts…
If at first you don’t succeed, goes the old saying, try, try again. Good advice, up to a point. But let me offer a modification: even when you do succeed, try, try again. Tempting as it is to decla…
something not often talked about is the barrier that seemingly exists between the self and other people. that almost impermeable barrier, where you try to co...
I wrote my law school dissertation on a very niche area of law which interests me a lot, and perhaps interests you too.
"Privacy" can mean different things in different contexts. Tracking-reduction and tracking-evasion represent different goals with some conflict and overlap.
Britain's computer crime cops are targeting youngsters as young as nine years old in an attempt to dissuade them from embarking on a life of cybercrime.
Without cryptocurrency, a cashless society is a surveillance society
How a Few Activists Made ChatGPT Deny Basic Science
Farewell to orange
Philip Ball on the visual ordering of all the elements known to humankind—and how we might order them differently.
Some speculative hypotheses
Around half of all software engineers are self-taught, One way to approximate this number is via the Stack Overflow developer survey . Another rough approximation comes from the fact that over the last decade, typically only 40-60K students graduated each year with a CS major from a US university, whereas the total…
Eight studies reveal a (possibly universal) bias in human imagination
