aka CognitiveBehavioralTherapy, see REBT, see also Behavior Change (more)

non-reactivity, chill; no anxiety

Steph Ango: Calmness is a superpower. The cover of The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy has two simple words of advice for intergalactic travelers: Don’t panic. (more)

Bucky Fuller concept of measuring the true cost of anything (object/product or process/service) in terms of total-life Energy consumption (in making, operating, disposing, etc.) (Transparent Society) (more)

Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking is a 2011 cookbook by Nathan Myhrvold, Chris Young and Maxime Bilet. The book is an encyclopedia and a guide to the science of contemporary cooking.[1] It is notable for the use of elaborate equipment that many non-professional kitchens lacked at the time (sous vide machines, vacuum-chamber sealers, culinary centrifuges, culinary torches, high-precision gram scales) and for its lush photography. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_Cuisine (more)

Fusion cuisine is cuisine that combines elements of different culinary traditions that originate from different countries, regions, or cultures. The term fusion cuisine, added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2002, is defined as "a style of cookery which blends ingredients and methods of preparation from different countries, regions, or ethnic groups; food cooked in this style." https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fusion_cuisine (more)

Within artificial intelligence (AI), explainable AI (XAI), generally overlapping with interpretable AI, interpretable machine learning and explainable machine learning (XML), is a field of research that explores methods that provide humans with the ability to exercise intellectual oversight over AI algorithms.[1][2] The main focus is on the reasoning behind the decisions or predictions made by the AI algorithms,[3] to make them more understandable and transparent.[4] This addresses the need for users to know the AI-safety of the algorithms and scrutinize the automated decision-making in applications.[5][6] XAI counters the "black box" tendency of machine learning, where even the AI's designers cannot explain why it arrived at a specific decision.[7][8] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Explainable_artificial_intelligence (more)

In the field of artificial intelligence (AI), alignment aims to steer AI systems toward a person's or group's intended goals, preferences, or ethical principles. An AI system is considered aligned if it advances the intended objectives. A misaligned AI system pursues unintended objectives.[1] It is often difficult for AI designers to specify the full range of desired and undesired behaviors. Therefore, the designers often use simpler proxy goals, such as gaining human approval. But proxy goals can overlook necessary constraints or reward the AI system for merely appearing aligned.[1][2] AI systems may also find loopholes that allow them to accomplish their proxy goals efficiently but in unintended, sometimes harmful, ways (reward hacking). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AI_alignment (more)

Mechanistic interpretability (sometimes abbreviated as mech interp, mechinterp, or MI) is a subfield of research within explainable AI that aims to understand the internal workings of neural networks by analyzing their concrete structures, algorithms and circuits. This approach seeks to analyze neural networks in a manner similar to the reverse engineering of conventional software.[1][2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mechanistic_interpretability (more)

co-founder Anthropic

I do research at OpenAI on what neural networks learn. It turns out their inner world is beautiful, and I helped try to share a glimpse of it with Zoom In. I'm on the Distill team dreaming up new ways of publishing science, like scientific threads. Outside of machine learning, I care a lot about psychedelics, which I believe will give us a broad-spectrum cure to trauma in the short term, and long term hopefully let us access more of our vast world inside us. http://nickcammarata.com/ (more)

Molecular Expressions of Work - Steve Yegge AI agent framing. (more)

Kleptones: William Orbit mix - Hectic City 26! Here's a slightly unexpected new Hectic City mix...So, a couple of months back it was reported that William Orbit had died (more)

Generative Music Apps Let Your Phone Write Songs for You. Endel, for iOS and Android, builds on the concept of generative music to create sound environments based on your surroundings. The app pulls data from your mobile like the weather, the time of day, and your GPS location, then adjusts the sonic output to match your activity and state of mind, whether you’re at home, out walking, or driving in rush-hour traffic. It can siphon heart-rate and step data from your smartwatch and build a beat to match your pulse or footfalls (more)

Kleptones: Paths To Graceland - Hectic City 15. If you google “Gumboots: Accordion Jive Hits, Volume 2”, you may well be surprised at the number of results. A popular record, you might think; well known and discussed. But try to find a copy, and you’ll while away a day or more clicking from site to site. The “Gumboots” album, should you be unaware, has been awarded it’s place in history due to a cassette copy which found its way into Paul Simon’s car stereo sometime in 1984-85 and providing him with the initial inspiration to seek out (and eventually travel to South Africa to record with) the musicians playing on the Graceland album. (more)

Project-oriented Roadmaps are counter-productive for Software Product Teams. (more)

Predictability is the degree to which a correct prediction or forecast of a system's state can be made, either qualitatively or quantitatively. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Predictability

Edward Norton Lorenz (May 23, 1917 – April 16, 2008) was an American mathematician and meteorologist who established the theoretical basis of weather and climate predictability, as well as the basis for computer-aided atmospheric physics and meteorology.[1][2] He is best known as the founder of modern chaos theory, a branch of mathematics focusing on the behavior of dynamical systems that are highly sensitive to initial conditions. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Norton_Lorenz

book by Maggie Bullock ISBN:0063042649 about J. Crew (more)

Michael Ellsberg book, ISBN:1591844207 on Making A Living (more)