"“Gas Town is an industrialized coding factory manned by superintelligent chimpanzees, and when they feel like it, they can wreck your shit in an instant.”
Two kinds of social solidarity: universal solidarity (respect for every individual's human rights, the basis of mutual care and civil society) and ethnic solidarity (dissolution of the individual, along with their rights, into a non-human amalgam).
Forgot to give the verdict. So impressive, so exasperating, so typical. It "works." Takes any csv, has clear instructions for domain customization, and suite of common analytical maneuvers and design knobs. And that was... 11 hours later.
Chat GPT sounding a like human high school math tutor this afternoon, finals week must be getting to it: "You can't ask, "What angle has a sine of 2?" — that's nonsense."
New research alert! Excited to present WatchLink - a low-cost platform to add niche sensors (think body temp, UV, even extra buttons!) to your smartwatch. It uses the ECG hardware to side-channel data. Huge shoutout to Ishan & @VikramIyerUW! #UIST24@uwcserb.gy/66lovc
Tiago invited me to come and present some methods from the upcoming book. (Working title: "Personal Science: Learning to Observe.") My session is at 1 pm on Friday, October 4. Los Angeles. Ping me if you're there or nearby.
every few years some fabrication tech goes from "submit a quote and we'll tell you to get lost" to "automated online quote and it will be less than $50", like PCBs, laser cutting plastics, 3D printing, it's really cool!
Can you use publicly available de-identified cell phone data to connect [physical visits from SEC offices] & [insider sales]. Yes, you can. papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.…
Our lords and masters have taken the simple experience of walking up to a ticket booth and turned it into a non-entertaining comedy of OAuth failures. We decided to stay home.