Category: Blog
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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/
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How to Guess If Your Job Will Exist in Five Years – The Atlantic
To Dorsey, people are horses. Innovation is driving them out of existence. But people are coal—or, to be more precise, coders seem to be coal at the moment. Businesses employ 6 percent more software engineers now than they did a year ago, in part because corporate executives are desperate for workers to figure out how…
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Working with agents doesn’t feel like flow — Bill de hÓra
After a stint of deep work, I usually feel the tiredness of having held a line of thought together for a long time via concentration. After a stint with agents, the tiredness feels more like the aftermath, again, of sustained play or competition. The accumulation of lots of small judgments, many state updates, repeated course…
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The Apple Charging Situation — Built by Grumbles
The Apple Charging Situation — Built by Grumbles — Read on randsinrepose.com/guides/apple-charging-guide.html
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Quirky table tennis equipment promotes “more creative” play
Exercice has installed a set of unconventional table tennis tables at a school in France to encourage children to make up their own rules. — Read on www.dezeen.com/2026/03/27/quirky-table-tennis-equipment-french-school/
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What major works of literature were written after age of 85? 75? 65?!
Unless an author makes a major stylistic turn later in their career, I can’t imagine any new work being favorably compared against the earlier work that established the style and sounded so fresh. On the other hand, it’s not always the first work that is considered the best. It can still take time to perfect…
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The Claim Upon the Training Data — Jônadas Techio
What is at stake, if this changes, is not the catastrophe Dennett feared — not “counterfeit people” flooding the zone, though that too. It is something quieter and deeper: the shared fictions losing their grip, not because they are falsified but because the infrastructure maintaining them no longer has a stake in their coherence. A…