Category: Blog
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How The Heck Does Shazam Work? (An Interactive Exploration)
Recognition, it turns out, is mostly an exercise in ignoring the right things. — Read on perthirtysix.com/how-the-heck-does-shazam-work
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BEWARE SOFTWARE BRAIN | The Verge
But: not everything is a business. Not everything is a loop! The entire human experience cannot be captured in a database. That’s the limit of software brain. That’s why people hate AI. It flattens them. Regular people don’t see the opportunity to write code as an opportunity at all. The people do not yearn for…
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“Even the Weather Felt Expensive”
Who is more likely to lie, cheat, and steal—the poor person or the rich one? It’s temping to think that the wealthier you are, the more likely you are to act fairly. After all, if you already have enough for yourself, it’s easier to think about what others may need. But research suggests the opposite…
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This Ping Pong Robot Can Beat Elite Human Players
Sony’s AI division has designed a robot that can beat elite human players at table tennis. From the paper: Evaluated in matches against elite and pr — Read on kottke.org/26/04/this-ping-pong-robot-can-beat-elite-human-players
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What really controls our appetite – hunger, stress or habit? | Health & wellbeing | The Guardian
Hunger is regulated by the hypothalamus, which sits behind the bridge of the nose, at the base of the brain, monitoring your body’s levels of blood sugar and the hormones leptin and ghrelin to check whether you’re in an energy deficit. Fullness is regulated by the hindbrain, located roughly where your skull meets your neck:…
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To see or not to see? Every single Shakespeare play – ranked! | Theatre | The Guardian
Antony and Cleopatra? Exhausting. Lear? Magnificent but flawed. Hamlet? Limitless. For Shakespeare’s birthday, the Guardian’s former theatre critic ranks all the plays — Read on www.theguardian.com/stage/ng-interactive/2026/apr/22/every-shakespeare-play-ranked-lear-antony-cleopatra-hamlet
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“Context is that which is scarce” – Marginal REVOLUTION
3. One correspondent from a successful company wrote me: “- I’ve been onboarding ~5 people every two weeks for my team. – The number of them that actually learn all the important stuff in under a month is zero. The number of them that have a self-guided strategy to learn what is relevant is almost…
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Sperm whales’ communication closely parallels human language, study finds | Whales | The Guardian
“They have very different lives to us – they’re not stuck to the ground all the time, they float in the water, they sleep vertically,” said Beguš. “Yet you realize that there’s a lot that unifies us. They have grandmas, they babysit each other’s calves, they give collaborative births, they’re very loud during a birth…
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Pejac Transforms Basic Graph Paper into Detailed, Trompe-L’œil Tableaux — Colossal
Pejac’s graphite drawings on graph paper challenge our sense of space and the possibilities of the “blank slate.” — Read on www.thisiscolossal.com/2026/03/pejac-graph-paper-graphite-drawings/
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The Virtue of Laziness
LLMs highlight how essential our human laziness is: our finite time forces us to develop crisp abstractions in part because we don’t want to waste our (human!) time on the consequences of clunky ones. — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Apr/13/bryan-cantrill/