Really cool stuff. Trained on the New York Times ingredients corpus (large 13.5MB CSV) and turns this

ingredients = [
  "3 large melons",
  "5 1/2 cups water",
  "2 cups flour",
]

into this

[
  {
    "name": "melons",
    "unit": None,
    "qty": 3.0
  },
  {
    "name": "water",
    "unit": "cups",
    "qty": 5.5
  },
  {
    "name": "flour",
    "unit": "cups",
    "qty": 2
  }
]

By Michael Dearing. Couldn’t find any video and not sure if this is tongue-in-cheek (like the “48 Laws of Power”.) The distortions are:

1. Personal Exceptionalism
   “I am special.”
2. Dichotomous Thinking
   “X is sh*t. Y is genius.”
3. Correct Overgeneralization
   “I see two dots and draw the right line.”
4. Blank-Canvas Thinking
   “Painting by numbers isn’t art. And I want to make art.”
5. Schumpeterianism
   “I am a creative destruction machine.”

TL;DR be a ruthless, inflexible, self-absorbed dick so you can identify, refine, and deliver Value™.

Our learning objectives are straightforward. After taking the course, you should be able to:

• Remain vigilant for bullshit contaminating your information diet.
• Recognize said bullshit whenever and wherever you encounter it.
• Figure out for yourself precisely why a particular bit of bullshit is bullshit.
• Provide a statistician or fellow scientist with a technical explanation of why a claim is bullshit.
• Provide your crystals-and-homeopathy aunt or casually racist uncle with an accessible and persuasive explanation of why a claim is bullshit.

Further,

We will be astonished if these skills do not turn out to be among the most useful and most broadly applicable of those that you acquire during the course of your college education.

I don’t think there’s more critical a juncture than now for courses like these. Just wish more people took them.

From over 10 years ago (I’m sorting through my old bookmarks). A single object looks like this:

{
    "ACCTOUNT_NUMBER":"1234567890",
    "CUSTOMER_NAME":"ACME Products and Services, Inc.",
    "ADDRESS":"123 Main Street",
    "CITY":"Albuquerque",
    "STATE":"NM",
    "ZIP":"87101-1234"
}

He tested the usability of a given browser while it loaded between 1 and 1,000,000 such records.

From this test, I am considering the sweet spot to be around 10,000 records at (1.55MB). The maximum number of usable records I would push to a browser would be around 25,000 records (3.87MB). Keep in mind there are numerous factors to keep in mind when determining how many records you should return to your JavaScript application. The purpose of this test was to help identify a general maximum number for conversations around large record sets with JSON.

Would love to see an updated version of the tests.

About as ‘essential’ as it gets if you want to appreciate a tool you work with every day. (Cached)

The focus of this project is to build a super reliable, durable, and stable network device from tried and tested tech. This is not a project for pushing the limits or testing out flashy new stacks. This affinity for ‘boring’ technology will reflect on most of the choices made here, from the hardware to the way we configure services and daemons.

Sounds lovely. (Cached)

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Here are her website and Wikipedia page.

by Andy Matuschak and Michael Nielsen

Learn C and build a basic Lisp #VALUE 😍