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severak 10.3.2026 12:00:04

VisiCalc started it, but 1-2-3 finished it. "It" being the discussion of what a spreadsheet can be, and also VisiCalc itself.

severak 6.12.2025 15:48:28

A theory of culture and attention

severak 18.9.2025 16:29:27

Zažíváme společenskou změnu, v níž vítězí totalita? - Visegradský jezdec 🏇

from https://www.visegradsky-jezdec.cz/zazivame-spolecenskou-zmenu-v-niz-vitezi-totalita/

severak 12.8.2025 16:18:10

Is David Woodard's Life His Art?

from https://www.ocweekly.com/is-david-woodards-life-his-art-6393040/

severak 12.8.2025 13:16:29

A global look at teletext

from https://text-mode.org/?p=23643

severak 22.7.2025 09:59:13

If you generate complete silence in a wav file and run whisper on it, it will always hallucinate the same thing ffmpeg -f lavfi -i anullsrc=r=44100:cl=stereo -t 30 silence.wav whisper ./silence.wav...

severak 22.7.2025 09:57:49

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

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 9.6.2025 17:15:01

As the technology becomes ubiquitous, a vast tasker underclass is emerging — and not going anywhere.

severak 3.6.2025 15:40:21

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 20.5.2025 15:30:19

Stopping All Stations - The Pyongyang Metro

from https://www.earthnutshell.com/stopping-all-stations-the-pyongyang-metro/

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

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

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

from https://denikalarm.cz/2025/04/mezivalecne-nouzove-bydleni-na-uzemi-hlavniho-mesta-jako-extremni-podoba-bytove-krize/

severak 11.4.2025 00:15:19

Vzpomínky vojína na léta 1972-74

severak 9.4.2025 15:22:11

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 09:45:47

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."

severak 7.4.2025 12:16:09

In the fall of 2018, the 26-year-old American missionary traveled to a remote speck of sand and jungle in the Indian Ocean, attempting to convert one of the planet's last uncontacted tribes to Christianity. The islanders killed him, and Chau was pilloried around the world as a deluded Christian supremacist who deserved to die. Alex Perry pieces together the life and death of a young adventurer driven to extremes by unshakable faith.

severak 24.3.2025 15:16:22

How an American Evangelical arts and crafts empire managed to loot antiquities en masse from a long-lost Mesopotamian city-state. (Part 1)

severak 22.3.2025 21:17:17

Spoiler: The Qianlong Emperor's cats are (probably) fakety fake-fake-fake.

severak 14.3.2025 16:35:12

A firsthand account of the Chinese capital’s struggles to preserve its past in the face of rapid development and Olympic glory.