2023 Week 47 - Weekly Notes
Thanksgiving holiday was this past week. I’m thankful for making through this hectic year, for friends and family going through the best and the worst, and for a loving partner. We’re taking this time of year to relax and take it easy.
- Effective Altruism vs. Effective Accelerationism, a Redditor explains
- Scott Adams (Cartoonist who produces Dilbert) write in his blog about how persuasive he sees Donald Trump. I can’t find the exact post, but he mentions how Trump is playing 4D chess against all of his opponents who don’t know his next moves. Trump supporters use this to boost their candidate. Source
- Navigating around in your shell
- Of all of the OpenAI drama posts there are (and there were too many), the only one I really cared to read was The End of OpenAI Hegemony - by swyx - Latent Space
- Reduce the noise, make space for progress - by Fran Soto
- File in Data Viz: GitHub - cxli233/FriendsDontLetFriends: Friends don’t let friends make certain types of data visualization - What are they and why are they bad.
- Films to watch: American Symphony (Trailer below)
- At some point, I want to do a short review of “Between Two Kingdoms”, which chronicles Suleika’s journey in healing from her Luekemia, and the parallels I had with my father’s ongoing recovery
- 2FA Directory - I didn’t know there was a directory for 2FA / MFA. I’m certainly going to review this
- Mysterious Respiratory Illness Affects Dogs in Multiple States - The New York Times - We keep an eyebrow raise for every cough our dog makes
- Writing as an engineer
- As someone who writes a lot more documentation than I used to, I agree with the time assessment
- Engineering strategy notes. | Irrational Exuberance
- Software you are thankful for | Lobsters
- Electric Composter - Lomi
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