delocalized

Really interesting, feels reminiscent of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octopolis_and_Octlantis (my favorite non-human settlements, if they can be called that).

I wonder how long no-code is going to stay relevant in the age of AI. It feels like the segment of "what a novice with no-code can do that a novice with an appropriate AI tool can't" is ever-shrinking and the tail of "what specialized use cases AI can cover that no-code can't" continues to grow.

I appreciate the flaws pointed out in specific studies in this article, but the detour into phenomenology at the end (a philosophy on the subjectiveness of reality) gave me a bit of whiplash. It seems that the author here writes "we are not so irrational that a little nudge suddenly changes our whole character" and derives "so everyone's own reality is their definition of rational."

A more logical antecedent in my opinion is "we are influenced mostly by concrete priors, rather than minute nudges in behavior."

I always wonder what a popular science/math magazine would look like if it were oriented towards hackers. In this I mean people who have little background in the field but also the type of person who is used to bluntness and knows to RTFM.

I would subscribe to one. Journal articles are often opaque to people who aren't already in the field, and popular science falls too often into the storytelling trap seen here.

I was gifted Designing Data-Intensive Applications in high school and it changed the course of my CS education. Beautiful, beautiful book.

Maybe there's something I'm missing, but I don't really understand the author's focus on monetary value here. The question I would be asking is: how is the capability of the individual changing? There is little point in comparing the value of a journey by horse four hundred years ago to the same journey by aeroplane today. To reduce each to a numerical value feels like a conflation that makes this argument deeply flawed at minimum.

I spent a few high school years facilitating oral history interviews and curating a podcast for my school's social studies program in collaboration with a local radio station (WILL). One thing that always struck me then, as it strikes me here, is how such a format draws deep humanity out of a person. Thank you for sharing this here and opening a window into the soul of a computer-science pioneer.