2024 Week 48 - Weekly Notes

Thanksgiving week, and for the past few weeks I haven’t been keeping up with my notes. But I still continue to do it.

We hosted a friendsgiving, so here’s some of the things I used to get through cooking.

• The Kitchn - How To Make Vegetarian Thanksgiving Lasagna

Attacked for Bitcoin?

GitHub - jlopp/physical-bitcoin-attacks - Physical Bitcoin Attacks: A list of known attacks against Bitcoin / crypto asset owning entities that occurred in meatspace.

The world is more dangerous than we know it. Thank you, crypto bros

Where’s Your Ed At?

Ed Zitron’s newsletter, “Where’s Your Ed At?” is absolutely worth the read. His latest newsletter, Lost In The Future, has an insightful reflection on the Trump win, and the sentiments we all feel.

See also: Stratechery by Ben Thompson - A Chance to Build

And this: Vitalik Buterin - From prediction markets to info finance

Codex Operandi

Nabeel S. Qureshi’s Principles

Open Sourced AI

The Open Source AI Definition — by The Open Source Initiative

Now let’s see how many closed models will follow along. See Why Compound AI + Open Source will beat Closed AI.

And I’ll leave this essay by Aidan McLaughlin here: The Problem with Reasoners

I just really like this title

Hazel Weakly - Home Baked Abstractions, Store Bought Implementations

And this: Henrik Karlsson - A blog post is a very long and complex search query to find fascinating people and make them route interesting stuff to your inbox

Bear With Us

When you stay at the Fat Bear Lodge

Many Ways to Skin a

1 dataset. 100 visualizations.

Reminds me a lot of Giorgia Lupi and Stefanie Posavec

See also: Lila Shroff - Datasets as Imagination

Empowering for future me

What does it mean to end a career?

Bitfield Consulting contemplates this in A career ending mistake.

Local Happenings

KTVU FOX 2 - Beloved Puerto Rican restaurant La Perla moving out of Oakland

KQED - Omar Torres Resigns From San José City Council, Is Arrested

Newsletter Recs

• for Big Culture Essays;
  • Sam Kriss
  • The Scholar’s Stage
  • rayne fisher-quann
• for art/literary criticism;
  • Garth Greenwell
  • Sam J
  • Brandon
• for U.S. election news;
• Nate Silver
• ettingermentum
• for nuanced tech takes;
  • AI Snake Oil
  • Reboot (self-plug)
• for fun;
  • Good Hang
  • Max Read
• for visual inspiration;
  • Lyndsey Kong
  • Stefania Culafic

How to make it perform

eieio.games - The secret inside One Million Checkboxes