How Google Interferes With Its Search Algorithms and Changes Your Results.

Lovely pictures: Dreamy Cave-Like Photos Taken Inside Musical Instruments.

Don’t use Windows 10 - It’s a privacy nightmare. — https://www.privacytools.io

The Language Agnostic, All-Purpose, Incredible, Makefile (via HN).

What Would the Father of Cybernetics Think About A.I. Today?

Wiener’s central insight was that the world should be understood in terms of information. Complex systems, such as organisms, brains, and human societies, consist of interlocking feedback loops in which signals exchanged between subsystems result in complex but stable behavior. When feedback loops break down, the system goes unstable. He constructed a compelling picture of how complex biological systems function, a picture that is by and large universally accepted today.

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A major fear of the singulariteers is that as computers become more involved in designing their own software, they’ll rapidly bootstrap themselves into achieving superhuman computational ability. But the evidence of machine learning points in the opposite direction. As machines become more powerful and capable of learning, they learn more and more as human beings do—from multiple examples, often under the supervision of human and machine teachers. Education is as hard and slow for computers as it is for teenagers.

  Anne Queffélec, Satie: Piano Works.

So the main selling point of this new, $2,399 computer is that it fixes some of the unforced errors that Apple made in 2016. You’re paying to get the same sort of keyboard, the same escape key, the same arrow keys that you could buy in 2015. Apple fans would pay even more to get the MagSafe charger they had back then, too, or to not have the TouchBar at all. — Something is wrong with computers

How To Keep Your Free Heroku App Alive and Prevent It From Going to Sleep.

TIL about Known, a collaborative social publishing engine, by reading Ben Werdmüller’s great advice of how to blog in 2020. So, what’s blogging?

Here’s what it’s not: professional article writing. If you want to go through multiple rounds of editing, please do. If you want to write two thousand word epics about your topic of choice, please do. But it’s also okay to write up a hundred quick words and post them without thinking twice about it.

When you blog, you’re building up a body of work that represents you online. It’s a gateway into your thought process more than anything else. So do what moves you - whether that’s short thoughts, bookmarks you like, essays, fiction, poetry, photo albums, and so on. You do you. The only thing that’s really important is that you keep doing it.

Thanks to Jan-Lukas Else for the pointer!

  Current Joys, A Different Age.