Michelle Pan
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- THE PROBLEM OF DESCRIBING TREES - Robert Hass - United States of America - Poetry International1 savers
- Tiffany Day: HALO Album Review | Pitchfork3 savers
- Story Seed Library1 savers
- Can we predict the jobs robots will do? \ Anthropic5 savers
- 'Dear Alice' | Solarpunk Animation2 savers
- Dear Alice - YouTube3 savers
- The Nothings Suite1 savers
- Goose — the robot works1 savers
- Moving Parts3 savers
- Science as Collective Sensemaking - by Charles Yang2 savers
- suchir.net/fair_use.html9 savers
- My Fiancée is Faster Than Yours - by Jules - Get a Life1 savers
- graduate school is just a metaphor - by john d. zhang10 savers
- on doing Real work - by jessica dai7 savers
- pguo-PhD-grind.pdf4 savers
- How I use Obsidian — Steph Ango3 savers
- Behavioral cloning mystery4 savers
- Impact, agency, and taste | benkuhn.net31 savers
- Diffusion Meets Flow Matching5 savers
- The Difference Between Ex-Ante, Post Hoc, Ex Post, A Priori, and A Posteriori | Daniel Miessler1 savers
- Is There Such a Thing as Good Taste?6 savers
- tsotchke on X: "if you're kinda weak on basic semiotics and your ontology is on shaky ground you're really going to have a rough time for the next couple of years adjusting to the sudden emergence of rhizomatic simulacra intruding into your daily life" / X1 savers
- Who Cares About the Shrimp? - by Alex Wennerberg - Reboot2 savers
- Why We Like Things—Asterisk5 savers
- Isys Information Architects - Error Messages1 savers
- The PKDicktionary2 savers
- Value Beyond Instrumentalization — Letters to a Young Technologist5 savers
- Living with Robots, Life with Robots: Human-Robot Coexistence in Japan | Stanford Digital Repository1 savers
- Refik Anadol’s Dataland Leaves Contemporary Art in the Dust1 savers
- Why Build a Robot Company? - by Benjie Holson1 savers
- Redwood Research1 savers
- Meditations On Moloch6 savers
- gemini_v1_5_report.pdf1 savers
- You're overspending because you lack values4 savers
- Welcome to Method of Action1 savers
- I Tried the Hobby that Took Over Japan in 1999 (Hikaru Dorodango) - YouTube2 savers
- Domain Naming3 savers
- Speculative Everything : Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming4 savers
- https://cs.stanford.edu/~jsteinhardt/ResearchasaStochasticDecisionProcess.html31 savers
- The Media Equation2 savers
- Details That Make Interfaces Feel Better43 savers
- June Huh, High School Dropout, Wins the Fields Medal | Quanta Magazine24 savers
- The Laboratory and the Artist - Cleveland Review of Books12 savers
- Simon Willison: TIL1 savers
- Sturgeon's law9 savers
- Eyebeam3 savers
- Conceptual writing1 savers
- Berries & Cream - The Funniest Version - YouTube1 savers
- Embrace friction · Ky Decker3 savers
- Pianos for Travelers | Public Pianos3 savers
- Youtube duet: Miles Davis improvising on LCD Soundsystem - YouTube4 savers
- Beyond Slop2 savers
- Panopticon2 savers
- US12293445B2 - Procedural animation engine and editor for sample-based design of stylized walking gaits for bipedal robots - Google Patents1 savers
- E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On anthropomorphism in science (EWD936)2 savers
- Webpage archive6 savers
- A handy guide to the types of street names (Avenue, Road, Street, etc.) and what they mean, courtesy of /u/acidnicibannac : r/bestof1 savers
- Collection of Metaphors for Human-Robot Interaction | Proceedings of the 2021 ACM Designing Interactive Systems Conference1 savers
- Andy Weir1 savers
- Kill Chain - by Kevin Baker - Artificial Bureaucracy1 savers
- What does 10^25 versus 10^26 mean? | Import AI2 savers
- Kidnapped robot problem1 savers
- Examples / Nature of Code6 savers
- 【Full HD】ABENICS: Active Ball Joint Mechanism With Three-DoF Based on Spherical Gear Meshings - YouTube1 savers
- Knuth: List of Diamond Signs1 savers
- A Brief Rant on the Future of Interaction Design5 savers
- Ice Cream Tester - YouTube1 savers
- it's time to start bullying young Palantir employees5 savers
- Star Gauge - Wikipedia2 savers
- 100 Best Books of the 21st Century - The New York Times7 savers
- Prosper7 savers
- [2404.01476] TraveLER: A Multi-LMM Agent Framework for Video Question-Answering5 savers
- Schej - Finding a time to meet, made simple4 savers
- Mamba: The Easy Way5 savers
- rabbit — research3 savers
- Prompt library3 savers
- [2203.02155] Training language models to follow instructions with human feedback3 savers
- Explorable Explanations10 savers
- Visual design rules you can safely follow every time15 savers
- Montague Semantics (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)2 savers
- daviddao/awful-ai: 😈Awful AI is a curated list to track current scary usages of AI - hoping to raise awareness1 savers
- Asterix Writer2 savers
- TikTok’s Secret Sauce | Knight First Amendment Institute3 savers
- intuition vs execution - by Ava - bookbear express9 savers
- forward momentum - by Isabel - Mind Mine8 savers
- Lexica3 savers
- You and Your Research80 savers
- The Bitter Lesson81 savers
- the friendship theory of everything69 savers
- How can we develop transformative tools for thought?52 savers
- Reality has a surprising amount of detail49 savers
- Cities and Ambition47 savers
- Mimetic - Brian Timar44 savers
- Cities and Ambition42 savers
- A Mathematical Framework for Transformer Circuits39 savers
- How to Do What You Love35 savers
- Invisible Details of Interaction Design33 savers
- How to Maximize Serendipity - David Perell32 savers
- Nadia Asparouhova | Idea machines31 savers
- Tyler’s guide to falling in love with NYC28 savers
highlights — 528
It's much easier to compare the month over month increase in number of interactions between two users of a platform than to deeply investigate the health of their relationship when compressed through such a system, or of the larger system around them.
Value Beyond Instrumentalization — Letters to a Young TechnologistIf Rothko sought the sublime amid the growing noise of postwar consumer culture, Anadol must find it in an age of endless scrolling.
Refik Anadol’s Dataland Leaves Contemporary Art in the DustHe took that criticism and turned it into Dataland, which is so immersive, so expansive and incredible, a screensaver on steroids that feels so real you could live inside it, that it functions not only as a giant fuck you to Jerry but also feels like an official ushering into our new contemporary art world.
Refik Anadol’s Dataland Leaves Contemporary Art in the DustThe trouble with the metaphor is, firstly, that it invites you to identify yourself with the computational processes going on in system components and, secondly, that we see ourselves as existing in time.
E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On anthropomorphism in science (EWD936)A more serious byproduct of the tendency to talk about machines in anthropomorphic terms is the companion phenomenon of talking about people in mechanistic terminology.
E.W. Dijkstra Archive: On anthropomorphism in science (EWD936)although we use technology, the ability to improve on improvements (bootstrapping, "getting better at getting better") resides entirely within the human sphere
Engelbart's lawWork expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.
Parkinson's lawHis first work to gain significant attention was "The Egg", a 2009 short story that has been adapted into a number of YouTube videos and a one-act play, and is the overarching concept of 2017's Everybody, the third album by American rapper Logic.[2][14]
Andy WeirFinally, he said that he often feels like he is a tool being used by others (family, corporations, etc.), and so he did not want KUKA to be a human-looking robot. Rather, his choreography involves one tool dancing with another.
One tool dancing with another: Huang Yi & KUKA - CriticalDanceA corollary to the Bitter Lesson is that, for any learning-enabled system, any component that is not learned but instead designed by hand will eventually become the bottleneck to its performance.
Sporks of AGI - by Sergey Levine - Learning and ControlThis is the basic reason why the doctrine of “social responsibility” involves the acceptance of the socialist view that political mechanisms, not market mechanisms, are the appropriate way to determine the allocation of scarce resources to alternative uses.
A Friedman doctrine‐- The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits - The New York TimesHere the businessman—self‐selected or appointed directly or indirectly by stockholders—is to be simultaneously legislator, executive and jurist. He is to decide whom to tax by how much and for what purpose, and he is to spend the proceeds—all this guided only by general exhortations from on high to restrain inflation, improve the environment, fight poverty and so on and on.
A Friedman doctrine‐- The Social Responsibility of Business Is to Increase Its Profits - The New York TimesYour ancestors’ wildest dreams was not to work at lockheed martin stop lying on them folks.
it's time to start bullying young Palantir employeesIs the fear of precarity a good enough reason for my classmates to sell their souls?
it's time to start bullying young Palantir employeesWhat is important now is to reco ver our senses. We must learn to see more, to hear more, to feel more.
Microsoft Word - Against Interpretation.docTransparence means experiencing the luminousness of the thing in itself, of things being what they are.
Microsoft Word - Against Interpretation.docput silence into poems and to reinstate the magic of the word
Microsoft Word - Against Interpretation.docSometimes a writer will be so uneasy before the naked power of his art that he will install within the work itself—albeit with a little shyness, a touch of the good taste of irony—the clear and explicit interpretation of it.
Microsoft Word - Against Interpretation.docThe modern style of interpretation excavates, and as it excavates, destroys; it digs “behind” the text, to find a sub-text which is the true one.
Microsoft Word - Against Interpretation.doc"The greatest shortcoming of the human race is our inability to understand the exponential function."
Arithmetic, Population and Energy - a talk by Al Bartlett on the impossibility of exponential growth on a finite planetI think we are well advised to keep on nodding terms with the people we used to be whether we find them attractive company or not. Otherwise they turn up unannounced and surprise us, come hammering on the mind’s door at 4 a.m . of a bad night and demand to know who deserted them, who betrayed them, who is going to make amends
00-On-Keeping-a-Notebook.pdfBut our notebooks give us away, for however dutifully we record what we see around us, the common denominator of all we see is always, transparently, shamelessly, the implacable “I.
00-On-Keeping-a-Notebook.pdfProgress is concrete. It’s steel; it’s speed. You can see it, touch it, ride it. It breeds a public expectation that the future is being built, and I’ll get a piece of it, even if I’m not one of the elites.
The One Chart That Explains Everything - by Howard YuI’m not here to call Amazon evil. Maybe this is just efficient capitalism doing its job.
The One Chart That Explains Everything - by Howard YuAcemoglu and Johnson call this “so-so automation.”
The One Chart That Explains Everything - by Howard YuBut even though the last one has stolen the name, all these scenarios are in fact a race to the bottom. Once one agent learns how to become more competitive by sacrificing a common value, all its competitors must also sacrifice that value or be outcompeted and replaced by the less scrupulous.
Meditations On MolochThe editor is required to set ego aside. Ego pridefully attaches to individual elements of a work. The editor’s role is to remain unattached and see beyond these passions to find unity and balance.
Creative wisdom from Rick Rubin - Big ThinkBrands function to soften and mask the raw deal at the heart of every capitalist exchange, helping justify the otherwise-insane markup.
Museum of Capitalism: There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch.pdfThe different watch values are, in the strictest sense, speech acts: the watch is $29.99 because someone said it’s $29.99. It’s $29.99 because a certain person is wearing it on Instagram; it’s $29.99 because it’s photographed next to flannel and a Chemex.
Museum of Capitalism: There's No Such Thing as a Free Watch.pdfHowever, in contrast to the books, the students seem to appreciate Sammy in the cartoon, as is seen in episodes like "Rat in Shining Armor" and "The Rat Truth," and as is seen in "The Rat Truth," whoever holds Sammy is capable of saying what is on their mind that they wouldn't otherwise be able to say.
Sammy | Wayside School Wikia | FandomBaudrillard sees four: (1) basic reflection of reality; (2) perversion of reality; (3) pretence of reality (where there is no model); and (4) simulacrum, which "bears no relation to any reality whatsoever"
SimulacrumAccording to Baudrillard, what the simulacrum copies either had no original or no longer has an original, since a simulacrum signifies something it is not, and therefore leaves the original unable to be located.
Simulacrumthe forgotten moments are the price of continued participation in life, a forced indifference to time
the problem with micro nostalgia - by Lydia KeatingNostalgia = memory - anxiety
the problem with micro nostalgia - by Lydia Keatingis an observation that in many real-life sets of numerical data, the leading digit is likely to be small
Benford's lawIt's in these more chaotic fields that it helps most to be in a great city: you need the encouragement of feeling that people around you care about the kind of work you do, and since you have to find peers for yourself, you need the much larger intake mechanism of a great city.
Cities and AmbitionThe reason Cambridge is the intellectual capital is not just that there's a concentration of smart people there, but that there's nothing else people there care about more. Professors in New York and the Bay area are second class citizens — till they start hedge funds or startups respectively.
Cities and AmbitionYou might think that if you had enough strength of mind to do great things, you'd be able to transcend your environment.
Cities and AmbitionThis is the place where all the words live and the writing's no good.
You’re probably using the wrong dictionary « the jsomers.net blogAs I say repeatedly, SF is not about the future: it's always about the present. Utopian stories tell us what people of their time thought they lacked; dystopian stories extend the worst aspects of the present to extremes.
A JOURNEY TO THE YEAR 2025 | flying-carsServants? Oh that was no servant that turned on the breeze. It was simply another phonographic lock. We have no servants but use phonographic locks instead. I can order any one of a thousand things by merely shouting the proper word.
A JOURNEY TO THE YEAR 2025 | flying-cars0.1 second: Limit for users feeling that they are directly manipulating objects in the UI.
Response Time Limits: Article by Jakob Nielsen - NN/GThe important details you haven’t noticed are invisible to you, and the details you have noticed seem completely obvious and you see right through them. This all makes makes it difficult to imagine how you could be missing something important.
Reality has a surprising amount of detailIf you’re a programmer, you might think that the fiddliness of programming is a special feature of programming, but really it’s that everything is fiddly, but you only notice the fiddliness when you’re new, and in programming you do new things more often.
Reality has a surprising amount of detailThus: "existence precedes essence".
Jean-Paul SartreThe emergent human-robot alignment stems only from the increase in the quantity and diversity of robot data from other tasks.
Emergence of Human to Robot Transfer in Vision-Language-Action ModelsPlay is, among other things, how people learn to initiate and direct their own activities.
#2. What Exactly Is Play? - by Peter GrayPlayers may exert great effort to move skillfully and create a beautiful product, but the reward comes from the doing and not from the product.
#2. What Exactly Is Play? - by Peter GrayThere is no such thing as “unstructured play.” Play is always structured by mental rules or concepts that the players either invent or freely adopt.
#2. What Exactly Is Play? - by Peter GrayThe activities we most clearly understand to be play involve “time in” and “time out.” Time in is time in the play world, and time out is time back in the serious world, perhaps to tie your shoes, or go to the bathroom, or renegotiate the rules.
#2. What Exactly Is Play? - by Peter Gray