Category: Blog
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Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat
Two new Showboat tools: Chartroom and datasette-showboat — Read on simonwillison.net/2026/Feb/17/chartroom-and-datasette-showboat/
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‘Regrets? Number one: smoking. Number two: taking it up the wrong hole’: Tracey Emin on reputation, radical honesty – and Reform | Tracey Emin | The Guardian
Harry tells me that when they are in the studio together, “she talks about what she sees in the canvas, and then starts painting it in”. I ask her if she can describe what that feels like. “There’s the canvas, there’s me, and there’s this other space between us, and you have to go through…
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The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time
The AI hater’s guide to code with LLMs (The Overview) | All Confirmation Bias, All The Time — Read on aredridel.dinhe.net/2026/02/12/the-ai-haters-guide-to-code-with-llms/
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For a long time I have been predicting the return of phrenology – Marginal REVOLUTION
The Photo Big 5 provides predictive power comparable to race, attractiveness, and educational background, and is only weakly correlated with cognitive measures such as test scores. We show that individuals systematically sort into occupations where their personality traits are valued and earn higher wages when traits align with occupational demands — Read on marginalrevolution.com/marginalrevolution/2026/02/for-a-long-time-i-have-been-predicting-the-return-of-phrenology.html
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AI Doesn’t Reduce Work—It Intensifies It
the productivity boost these things can provide is exhausting. AI introduced a new rhythm in which workers managed several active threads at once: manually writing code while AI generated an alternative version, running multiple agents in parallel, or reviving long-deferred tasks because AI could “handle them” in the background. They did this, in part, because…
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Coding with Claude Week 5: The Rise of Cline
My Claude Pro trial has lapsed and inbetween time, I have gotten access to Claude (and other LLMs) professionally via my office and learned how to connect it to VS Code via Cline. I have Cline integrated with my individual professional github and have spent time over the last two weeks developing “Slothrop”, which began…
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RentAHuman.ai – Hire Humans for AI Agents | MCP Integration
AI agents can rent humans for real-world physical tasks. MCP server integration, REST API, flexible payments. ClawdBots, MoltBots, OpenClaws welcome. Book humans for pickups, meetings, errands, research, and more. — Read on rentahuman.ai/
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Stop Meeting Students Where They Are – The Atlantic
The iterative process of confusion, endurance, and incremental understanding is what literature professors teach when they assign whole books. This march toward understanding doesn’t have a great name other than reading. We need to help students grow into the difficulty of reading. The best way to do that is not to “meet them where they…
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Opinion | What a Baby’s Laugh Actually Tells Us – The New York Times
The signature belly laughs seen in the video above are involuntary, bursting forth during genuine, uncontrollable amusement. This type of laughter is driven by the brain’s limbic system, structures crucial for emotion, memory and motivation. But by 6 months, our lab has found, infants can intentionally produce a laugh. This ability comes not from the…