severak
22.7.2025 09:57:49
Who is Nicolai Winther?
Who is Nicolai Winther? — and why does OpenAIs Whisper impersonate him when transcribing Norwegian? Does he exist, or is he merely a…
severak
16.7.2025 11:40:47
10 Most(ly dead) Influential Programming Languages
The other day I read 20 most significant programming languages in history, a “preposterous table I just made up.” He certainly got preposterous right: he lists Go as “most significant” but not ALGOL, Smalltalk, or ML. He also leaves off Pascal because it’s “mostly dead”. Preposterous! That defeats the whole point of what “significant in history” means. So let’s talk about some “mostly dead” languages and why they matter so much.
severak
24.6.2025 11:46:38
Supercon 2024: Repurposing ESP32 Based Commercial Products
from https://hackaday.com/2025/06/10/supercon-2024-repurposing-esp32-based-commercial-products/
severak
17.6.2025 10:52:02
Mankeeping: why single women are giving up dating
As the male social circle continues to shrink, their partners have to take on much more emotional labour – and many are opting to spend their lives alone instead
severak
12.6.2025 15:49:39
Walter Molino
Walter Molino was an Italian comic artist and illustrator, notorious for his sensational cover paintings for the weekly Domenica del Corriere, that depicted mayhem and disaster in everyday situations. His illustrations for the women's weekly Grand Hotel popularized the...
severak
9.6.2025 17:15:01
Inside the AI Factory
As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.
severak
3.6.2025 15:40:21
GenAI is Our Polyester
The best way to understand generative AI art and aesthetics is to consider how previous "synthetics" lost value in the long-run For the first half of the 20th century, white-collar workers wore business shirts made from cotton or linen that wrinkled in the wash. Ironing them into a presentable shape
severak
3.6.2025 10:33:59
How to store data on paper?
How to print my voice? How to put music on paper? How to print an executable program? All this boils down to storing digital data on paper. This is also called paper data storage. Arrived in this domain from poetry, I’ve been investigating the area for some time. Here is what I found.
severak
22.5.2025 17:13:08
The Price of Remission
When I was diagnosed with cancer, I set out to understand why a single pill of Revlimid cost the same as a new iPhone. I’ve covered high drug prices as a reporter for years. What I discovered shocked even me.
severak
20.5.2025 15:30:19
Stopping All Stations - The Pyongyang Metro
from https://www.earthnutshell.com/stopping-all-stations-the-pyongyang-metro/
severak
6.5.2025 14:06:46
Tech Companies Apparently Do Not Understand Why We Dislike AI
from https://soatok.blog/2025/05/04/tech-companies-apparently-do-not-understand-why-we-dislike-ai/
severak
19.4.2025 10:12:33
Cellphone cameras have changed how you see cats (and everything else)
from https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHsKYsRNQts
severak
17.4.2025 14:26:55
Globalizace kolabuje. Ničí ji hněv strádající třídy
Krach globalizace je výsledkem nerovností ve společnosti. Strádající sociální třída se vzbouřila ve Spojených státech a bouří se i v Evropě, včetně Česka.
severak
14.4.2025 22:11:06
They wanted to save us from a dark AI future. Then six people were killed
How a group of Silicon Valley math prodigies, AI researchers and internet burnouts descended into an alleged violent cult
severak
14.4.2025 17:01:16
Odpověď na otázku, zda nás zničí umělá inteligence: Ano - Smrtelník
from https://www.smrtelnik.cz/clanky/odpoved-na-otazku-zda-nas-znici-umela-inteligence-ano
severak
13.4.2025 20:44:52
Meziválečné nouzové bydlení na území hlavního města jako extrémní podoba bytové krize
severak
9.4.2025 15:22:11
Take Picture
In June, 2001, Konstantin Petrov, an immigrant from Estonia, got a job as an electrician at Windows on the World, the restaurant atop the north tower of the World Trade Center.
severak
8.4.2025 09:46:01
Rosemary Jacobs My Story page
For forty years I tried to blend into the crowd, but when I discovered that the quacks were back, I knew that I couldn't do that anymore. I had to stand up and shout, "Look at me! I'm gray." I had to warn the public. A local newspaper broke my story with the headline, "The silver woman from Long Island. The face that no one forgets."
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