Author: robert.adlington

Those who haven’t anything in them to tell them what they like and what they don’t – whether it is breeding, or happiness, or wisdom, or a code, however old-fashioned or however modern, go Nazi,” Thompson wrote. — Read on www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/mar/19/maga-america-suburban-donald-trump

In that particular frame, after potting that last red, how did O’Sullivan know that the cue ball would come back down the table that way and land precisely where he wanted it? Of course it was only obeying the laws of physics. But if you wanted to calculate the trajectory of a cue ball coming…

Hyperlinked chunks of text superimpose themselves on each other as you dig deeper into the essay — Read on thehtml.review/04/new-legibility/

Literature that can only exist on the internet — Read on thehtml.review/04/

I think there should be a little bit of uneasiness in everything, because I do think we’re all really in a sense living on the edge. So much of life is inexplicable. Inexplicable things happen to me; things that are so inexplicable that I’m not even sure that something happened. And you suddenly think, ‘Well,…

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over with a working simple system. — Read on en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Gall_(author)

Build a semantic index (SI), and allow apps to access it via permissions given similar to what we do for Address Book or Photos. Maybe even make the permissions to the SI a bit more fine-grained than you normally would for other personal databases. Historical GPS locations? Scraping contents of the screen over time? Indexed…

GTFS is a popular CSV-based format for sharing transit schedules – here’s an official list of available feed directories. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/17/opentimes/

I define trait curiosity as the general tendency to seek out new information and experiences, drawing from the state-trait curiosity inventory which includes markers such as “new situations capture my attention,” “I enjoy exploring new places,” and “I like to experience new sensations.” What I call hypercuriosity manifests as an intensified, impulsive desire to know…

Claim: Mindspace is vast, so it’s likely that AIs will be completely alien to us, and therefore dangerous! Truth: Mindspace is vast, but we picked LLMs as the first viable AI paradigm because the abundance of human-generated data made LLMs the easiest choice. LLMs are models of human language, so they are actually not that…