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Can someone briefly explain how a model for a specific language is made for this tool?

Unfortunately, politicians are too busy playing culture war to dig deep on policy for just about anything. They choose inaction, they choose ignorance. Carbon aside, it will be int…

Maybe the biggest advancement in societal development is the idea that in some ways, many ways actually, non-development is the most advanced form of development.

Many types of music have additional requirements, at least for discovery. For example, how about cover songs? It would be nice to find every available version of All Along the Watc…

That’s even more crazy. Patching one app into another for improved UX and categorization is bonkers. Also, my kid wanted to use Apple Music classical first thing this morning (he’s…

One fallacy of web design, of any design, is that in order to be “good” it must be easy. Sometimes there is a learning curve. Conceptual hurdles abound with a complex tool like Git…

It’s worth noting that this particular Warhol piece was done much later in his career after he had established his style. Usually he didn’t even execute the work, it was done by as…

Publish all content to blockchain and let the users create their own interfaces as they choose. But first make all content equally and indisputably available? I’d be cool with this…

If filtering is not publishing then what is it? Do we need a new term for this arrangement?

Yes! Absolutely.

Yet Facebook and Twitter literally base their business model on sorting out what you get to read. These companies manipulate access to speech when their algorithms decide what you …

This article is a recipe for ensuring you look just like thousands of other websites out there.

I get the feeling that iOS runs photos through a neural net filter by default. It would be nice to know exactly what is behind any given shot, both my personal images and those of …

Lost me at California as center of universe. And again with the musk name drop. So much for off the beaten path.

Morels are a spring mushroom.

And in the bedroom

The reality is that the people doing the tracking are the real users. What a boring relationship to the network - tracking and spying, and grifting.

I was trained in Archaeology as an undergrad. I have considered neural nets as a possibility for classification tasks that may otherwise be time consuming. But the material still n…

This is how you architect a boring web.

Web site as functional editorial. I really appreciate the effort and hope it continues to emerge into a good resource.

Thomas J Watson Sr. was a salesman.

What a long, drawn out departure from Eliot Noyes’ techno-corporate utopian dream this has been.

Yes, but what are you making?

Bringing back skeuomorphic ornamentation is not “fun.” Susan Kare’s original Mac icons, (bitmap icons, not that it matters), now those were fun!