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Harold Jarche says Soft Skills are permanent skills (more)

John Boyd's Roll Call: To Be Or To Do? (more)

services providing Internet-accessible space for your files (PayLoad), either for your own use/Back Up/Data Synch, or for File Sharing - your online Hard Drive (more)

Ron Jeffries reference to fact that most software developers are working on boring stuff, under industrial age culture/conditions (what's the mental equivalent of Black Lung?). (more)

the Virtual World from SnowCrash, or a more general conception of the same thing http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metaverse (more)

Gordon Brander: Aggregators aren't open-ended. Aggregators are network effect monopolies. (more)

not having to route around a gate-keeper

Surprise! The Future of Media Involves a Crypto-Based Popularity Contest. I asked my followers to help me win a popularity contest. It’s called the Write Race, and despite the name, it doesn’t involve much writing. Though contestants have the option to write a couple sentences about what they will do if they win, it’s mostly a winkingly dystopian game of clout, with the end goal of being voted into a mysterious online community called Mirror.xyz. (more)

Max Read: Why Your Group Chat Could Be Worth Millions. Andreessen Horowitz has invested $5 million in a group chat. Friends With Benefits, which describes itself as “the ultimate cultural membership powered by a community of our favorite Web 3 artists, operators, and thinkers bound together by shared values and shared incentives.” While it may be that, in practice it’s mostly a chatroom on the app Discord, populated by around 1,500 crypto enthusiasts, artists, NFT collectors, and various hangers-on. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: COVID-19 11/4: The After Times. The hope is that the pandemic will be fully and truly over because case counts will be sufficiently low, and vaccination rates sufficiently high, that we can all agree to move on and resume our lives. The fear is that this will never happen. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: COVID-19 10/28: An Unexpected Victory. in the land of Covid-19, things continue as you might expect. (more)

Zvi Mowshowitz: COVID-19 10/21: Rogan vs. Gupta. I got a chance to listen to the Joe Rogan podcast with Sanjay Gupta, and have an extensive write-up on that. It was still a case of ‘I listen so you hopefully do not have to’ but it was overall a pleasant surprise, and better than most of what passes for discourse these days. (more)

DAOs May Be the Future of Work, but Don’t Bet on Them Being the Next Big Asset Class. A growing number of Ethereum enthusiasts believe that decentralized autonomous organizations (DAOs) could be the future of work, cultural communities and human organization (more)

A Game Theory strategy based on the Prisoners Dilemma. (more)

creator of Second Life (launched 2003) http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_Rosedale (more)

Sansar is a social virtual reality platform developed by the San Francisco-based firm Linden Lab, and now owned by San Francisco-based firm Wookey Project Corp. It launched in “creator beta” to the general public on July 31, 2017.[1] The platform enables user-created 3D spaces where people can create and share interactive social experiences, such as playing games, watching videos, and having conversations in VR. Each participant is represented by a detailed avatar that is the graphical representation of the user including speech-driven facial animations and motion-driven body animations... On March 23, 2020, Linden Labs announced the sale of Sansar to San Francisco-based technology company Wookey Project Corp,[9] who will continue Sansar's current event based strategy. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sansar_(video_game) (more)

Anaconda is a distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing (data science, machine learning applications, large-scale data processing, predictive analytics, etc.), that aims to simplify package management and deployment. The distribution includes data-science packages suitable for Windows, Linux, and macOS. It is developed and maintained by Anaconda, Inc., which was founded by Peter Wang and Travis Oliphant in 2012.[8] As an Anaconda, Inc. product, it is also known as Anaconda Distribution or Anaconda Individual Edition, while other products from the company are Anaconda Team Edition and Anaconda Enterprise Edition, both of which are not free. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anaconda_(Python_distribution)

Context: want to have a Meaningful Life while keeping your sanity (more)

Gordon Brander: Search reveals useful dimensions in latent idea space. When you train a deep learning system, it builds up a a latent space. A latent space is a hyperdimensional space where things that are similar along some dimension are near to each other along that dimension. Latent space is like a map you can use to correlate things with other things, along many dimensions. (more)