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This is a great example!

In the UK, most GPs use SystmOne. Some screenshots:

https://support-s1.ardens.org.uk/support/solutions/articles/...

What the heck happened to Photoshop and Illustrator (and the whole Adobe suite)? They monochromed all of their icons and removed most of their text and tooltips.

As a casual user, I used to be able to use their tools fairly proficiently, but now I find them virtually unusable.

For illegal good behaviour, see Aaron Swartz

It has been a dream of mine to visit one of the research stations in Antarctica since I was a child. Unfortunately, my professional career has not yet provided me the opportunity :(

There is a lot to digest here, but the presentation of the activation networks is fascinating (not to mention the stunning visualisations).

I would love to have access to these kinds of visualisations and audit trail when using an LLM.

"How to read a book" sounds like a ridiculous premise for a book, but I can't recommend it highly enough. It's one of the best introductions to academic skills I've ever read. I assimilated much of Adler's advice at university through trial-and-error, but seeing the reading process analysed and systematised into an algorithm was genuinely enlightening.

Worth noting that Adler was also the editor of Encyclopdia Britannica's Great Books Series:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Books_of_the_Western_Wor...

An important reason to continue buying printed books and supporting print media.

Most web content I've consumed in my lifetime is already lost, many floppy disks and burned CD-ROMs I held onto are now unreadable, and in 200 years, the situation will only be worse.

But I can go to the British Library and read a 1000+ year old text without much difficulty.

There are two books which do a fantastic job of this:

Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers, by Jan Gullberg

and

Mathematics: A Cultural Approach, by Morris Klein

Not knowing much economics, I'm struggling to parse this sentence. ELI5 please?

For anyone wondering what this comment is talking about:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w

Chronic pain probably plays a part too. I know I get grumpy and miserable when I'm unwell or in pain.

Critical infrastructure projects require proper due diligence.

Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that. On opening it, my mind went immediately to the 3D virtual tours in Encarta.

What happened to these? They were on every website, then without me even noticing, they just disappeared.

Some things can only be achieved by large and inefficient organisations though. E.g. no for-profit enterprise would have been able to get to the moon in the 60s.

Any large organisation operates the same way. Once a business reaches a certain size, you can't implicitly trust every individual with critical functions. Statistically, someone will eventually break something in a catastrophic way.

To prevent that, organisations introduce policies, processes, and review committees to keep things running smoothly.

It’s always possible to cut back bureaucracy, but it’s a constant balancing act between efficiency and security.

I miss practical physical interfaces. Touchscreens are a big step back in terms of usability.

I had a similar experience when deeply intoxicated, I saw a shadow that reminded me of the texture of the wallpaper in the first home I grew up in -- it unlocked a cascade of memories from my early childhood (I must have been 2) that I never would have been able to recall otherwise. But I can't remember what I had for breakfast yesterday.

Here's a new one for you:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_viruses

"Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in marine environments. On average there are about ten million of them in one milliliter of seawater."

If enough people get seawater up their nose, it's just a matter of time before there's a crossover event :)

There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once... shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again!

One of the mechanisms that provides for strong institutions is filtering who is accepted and promoted within it.

The systems and concepts, like the Nolan Principles, are nothing more than words -- but if the majority agree to them, then the minority who violate them should be prevented from growing their influence.

In the US, it seems that despite having strong public institutions, the leadership of the country has reached a tipping point where those institutions are no longer valued.

Isn't that all of modern AI?

You're not dumb. I think it's just poorly written and full of errors.

I had no idea this was part of a triptych! A quick google search tells me there is also "Unix Feuds" and "Unix Views".

Any idea where I can find them?

EDIT: For those interested, this is what they look like together. Unable to find high-resolution scans of all three though :(

For a nice reminder of how science communication used to be, there's always the BBC archive:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bb6yTPZrnA

There's a pervasive idea amongst science communicators that you have to use common childlike words to make science accessible -- there's a fear that technical words are elitist and exclusionary. The end result is that every science documentary is now presented like a kids TV show, even when it's targeted at adults.

EDIT: Forgot to add, the researchers referred to it as a "Ferroelectric soft material".

Unfortunately, some people view accessibility as an ideology.

I just want to add my voice to say that my life completely disintegrated a few years ago. I lost almost everything, including my partner of over a decade, and reached a point where I didn't even have the motivation to wash or feed myself... because, what was the point? I was expending energy just to continue a pointless, joyless, struggle.

Battered husk is the best description I can think of for how I felt.

It took a while, but I was extremely lucky to find the right combination of therapy, SSRIs, and life changes to drag myself out of the hole. I now have a stable job doing something that sparks my interests and makes a meaningful contribution, and my love of life has returned. I still have the occasional day where it feels like I start to backslide, but they are getting rarer.

I want to reassure anyone who feels tired, burnt-out, and hopeless, that things can and do get better.

Couldn't agree more. If the most interesting part of your project is your technology stack, you're probably not working on something interesting.

It's like those hobbyists who invest all of their time and money into buying high-end expensive kit, but lack ability.

The challenge is getting software engineers to learn and use UML properly. As a discipline, we seem to be in a perpetual state of reinventing the wheel, when we have plenty of mature tools and established best practices that people don't care to learn.