Victor Loux Bookmarks

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No, Evolution Is Not Always Dog-Eat-Dog

nautil.us/issue/46/balance/survival-of-the-friendliest
Survival of the Friendliest: It’s time to give the violent metaphors of evolution a break.

Colormind - the smart color palette generator

colormind.io/
Colormind is a deep learning AI that knows color theory. It can generate color palettes from scratch, or it can take your input and intelligently fill in the blanks.

Millennials aren’t coddled—they just reject abuse as a management tactic – Daily Inequality

dailyinequality.com/2017/03/22/millennials-arent-coddled-they-just-reject-abuse-as-a-management-tactic/
Yes, it can be irritating to hear our younger colleagues complain of hurt feelings. But millennials aren’t wrong to expect a kinder, gentler work environment. The rest of us are wrong for clinging to the useless and outdated notion that to thrive in business, you have to be an asshole.

Timescale

timescaledb.com/
An open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries.

Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms

spin.atomicobject.com/2014/09/03/visualizing-garbage-collection-algorithms/
Developers take garbage collection for granted, but it's hard to see how it works. Watch 5 different GC algorithm visualizations.