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Telling jokes into the void.
What’s the best book you read in 2024? (Not written in 2024)
Mine
Fiction: creation lake, recommended: silver bone, hurricane season, Pachinko
Non-fiction: empires of the indus. recommended: end times,
technofeudalism. Exact thinking in demented times. The badass librarians of Timbuktu
We just came across an old Chinese man walking the canal playing an ocarina, and I’m just tickled with the idea that this old guy just plays a ton of Zelda
You shot who in the what now?
I love all the random accounts posting play by play of major events (sports or otherwise) as if they are the unique source of truth
This book made me feel things https://bookshop.org/a/94747/9780385547772
What’s the best book you read this year?
For me
Fiction: Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow, by Gabrielle Zevin, close second is The Great Reclamation by Rachel Heng
Non-fiction: how the world really works by Vaclav Smil, close second is Kingdom of Characters by Jing Tsu
What’s a tiny piece of advice that has improved your life substantially? Mine was from a chef I worked for “taste everything twice”
Power Ballad bangers make shopper buy more.
John McPhee writing tree
One guy makes a decent argument thatt one HTML Tag ruined everything.
P ≠ NP... we hope.
Another bucket of weird stuff in Shiny Things 28/
https://open.substack.com/pub/magpiechronicles/p/shiny-things-28?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
"“There’s a growing consensus that we probably won’t be able to achieve everything that we want in AI just with deep learning.” -- so... then what? meet 3DP3. At a super basic level, its the attempt to ask the question “how do you create AI that doesn’t choke on boundless data?”, but then you end up in “how do you encode ethics?”.
This is #asingleshinything from a previous issue of my newsletter.