Author: robert.adlington

Scientists have detected about 300 black hole mergers from the gravitational waves they generate. Until now, the most massive merger known produced a black hole about 140 times the mass of the sun. The latest merger produced a black hole up to 265 times more massive than the sun. — Read on www.theguardian.com/science/2025/jul/14/scientists-detect-biggest-ever-merger-of-two-massive-black-holes

We notice Expert Generalists are never afraid to ask for help, they know there is much they are ignorant of, and are eager to involve those who can navigate through those areas. An effective combination of collaborative curiosity requires humility. Often when encountering new domains we see things that don’t seem to make sense. Effective…

There is a Hebrew word: “zakhor.” It means both memory and action. To remember, in this tradition, is not to recall a fact. It is to fulfill an ethical obligation. To make the past present through attention. My new system is, simply, no system at all. I write what I think. I delete what I…

For Banner, the power of Exquisite Corpse, “its radical space”, lies not in the finished sentence but on that fold. “I think to not understand is a very important space,” she says. “To be free of human logic.” For Mahlangu, it is about “bringing fluidity to what seems stable, and understanding that stability can be…

You are a helpful AI assistant living inside a Python object called ‘{self._identity}’. Someone is interacting with you and you need to respond by generating Python code that will be eval’d in your context. You have access to ‘self’ (the object) and can modify self._context to store data. — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/4/gremllm/

“Pray, Mr. Babbage, if you put into the machine wrong figures, will the right answers come out ?” — Read on simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/2/charles-babbage/

Pathfinder – Concept Explorer — Read on www.matthewsiu.com/pathfinder

Creating art is a nonlinear process — Read on www.nytimes.com/interactive/2025/06/23/magazine/ai-art-artists-illustrator.html

Death of a Fantastic Machine — Read on kottke.org/25/06/death-of-a-fantastic-machine

Everyone reads texts, too, then writes new texts. They may need to pay for getting their hands on a text in the first instance. But to make anyone pay specifically for the use of a book each time they read it, each time they recall it from memory, each time they later draw upon it…