Techno-cynics are all just wounded techno-optimists.

Let’s learn and grow. New things are cool!

Simple economic arguments for why solar, batteries, and other renewable energy technologies are possible RN and clearly the future.

And then some much needed discussion of politics.

at this point my reasons for wanting to kill myself are less personal and more just that’s the only way to avoid being surveilled or marketed to constantly. this is the only opt out button we have left

Project by Chaski ﹙Saskia Knowles﹚: Open visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field.

Also see: https://www.are.na/sam-hart/cybernetics-image-library

Project by Chaski ﹙Saskia Knowles﹚: Open visual archive on cybernetics in the expanded field.

Also see: https://www.are.na/sam-hart/cybernetics-image-library

Scattered IT Notes - by Stefano Marinelli

Rostiger’s personal website featuring a collection of his knowledge database, projects, and updates on ongoing work.

ELT is a bridge between silos. A world without silos is a graph.I’ve been banging my drum recently about the ills of Conway’s Law and the need for low-coupling data architectures. In my Curse of Conway and the Data Space blog post, I explored how Conway’s Law manifests in the disconnect between software development and data analytics teams. It is a structural issue stemming from siloed organizational designs, and it not only causes inefficiencies and poor collaboration but ultimately hinders business agility and effectiveness. This blog post argues for a paradigm shift away from the traditional ELT (Extract, Load, Transform) data pattern, advocating instead for a model based on graph structures to break down data silos and improve data integration.

This article examines the phenomenon of “character amnesia” in China, where the increasing reliance on digital devices and pinyin input systems is causing many people to forget how to write Chinese characters by hand.

This blog post shares the key professional and technical lessons the author learned over four years working in the field of Data Engineering, covering topics like infrastructure, pipelines, and career growth.

Stay up to date with the latest Google AI experiments, innovative tools, and technology. Explore the future of AI responsibly with Google Labs. Google Labs serves as the showcase and testing ground for experimental and early-stage products and features developed by Google, allowing users to try new ideas before they are widely released.

This article from Microsoft Unlocked details the collaboration between Microsoft and the Vatican Library to use digital technology and AI to preserve, digitize, and make accessible millions of pages of historic manuscripts.

When I was a kid, my sister and I had a tower of VHS tapes we watched endlessly. Fast-forward to today, and my children’s movie collection is vastly different. It’s completely digital and dispersed across services. This blog post details the process of creating a DIY movie library system for children that uses NFC tags and a Raspberry Pi to allow kids to start movies simply by scanning a physical object.

In a paper published in Chaos, researchers from Sergio Arboleda University in Bogotá, Colombia, and the Georgia Institute of Technology in Atlanta used an electrophysiological computer model of the heart’s electrical circuits to examine the effect of the applied voltage field in multiple fibrillation-defibrillation scenarios. They discovered far less energy is needed than is currently used in state-of-the-art defibrillation techniques.