Victor Loux → Bookmarks

The Problem with Video Game Luck

nautil.us/issue/44/luck/how-designers-engineer-luck-into-video-games

• game_design, tag
• luck, tag
• chance, tag
• random, tag
• ·8 years ago

Don’t Tell Your Friends They’re Lucky

nautil.us/issue/44/luck/dont-tell-your-friends-theyre-lucky

• luck, tag
• culture, tag
• information, tag
• facts, tag
• ·8 years ago

In Response to Guardian’s Irresponsible Reporting on WhatsApp: A Plea for Responsible and Contextualized Reporting on User Security | technosociology

technosociology.org/

• security, tag
• journalism, tag
• encryption, tag
• whatsapp, tag
• ·8 years ago

Iceland knows how to stop teen substance abuse but the rest of the world isn’t listening | Mosaic

mosaicscience.com/story/iceland-prevent-teen-substance-abuse

• health, tag
• drugs, tag
• youth, tag
• addiction, tag
• culture, tag
• ·8 years ago

25 points for new PhD students | High Noon GMT

highnoongmt.wordpress.com/2012/03/30/25_points_for_new_phd_students/

I wrote these at the conclusion of my PhD summarizing how I survived the tortuous process that was as much intellectually as psychologically challenging.1. I am not my work; my work is not my worth.This took a while to learn, but once I did I was no longer offended by my algorithms performing 250% shittier…

• phd, tag
• thesis, tag
• graduate_school, tag
• ·8 years ago

RethinkDB: why we failed

defstartup.org/2017/01/18/why-rethinkdb-failed.html

When we announced that RethinkDB is shutting down, I promised to write a post-mortem. I took some time to process the experience, and I can now write about i...

• database, tag
• startup, tag
• entrepreneurship, tag
• retrospective, tag
• ·8 years ago

Rise of Worse Is Better

dreamsongs.com/RiseOfWorseIsBetter.html

simplicity / correctness / consistency / completeness in lisp and C

• software_design, tag
• code, tag
• architecture, tag
• MIT, tag
• software, tag
• development, tag
• ·8 years ago

Why There Will Never Be Another RedHat: The Economics Of Open Source | TechCrunch

techcrunch.com/2014/02/13/please-dont-tell-me-you-want-to-be-the-next-red-hat/

Open source software powers the world’s technology. In the past decade, there has been an inexorable adoption of open source in most aspects of computing...

• open_source, tag
• economics, tag
• sustainability, tag
• design, tag
• business, tag
• software, tag
• ·8 years ago

TOR Node List

dan.me.uk/tornodes

Displays a full TOR node list no more than one hour old. Includes detailed information in script-readable format

• tor, tag
• list, tag
• blacklist, tag
• security, tag
• ·8 years ago

Animation: From Cartoons to the User Interface

cc.gatech.edu/classes/AY2009/cs4470_fall/readings/animation.pdf

• paper, tag
• animation, tag
• motion, tag
• ui, tag
• cartoon, tag
• mental_models, tag
• filetype:pdf, tag
• ·8 years ago

SFPC | School for Poetic Computation

sfpc.io/

• computing, tag
• education, tag
• code, tag
• art, tag
• programming, tag
• ·8 years ago

olebedev/when: A natural language date/time parser with pluggable rules

github.com/olebedev/when

• nlp, tag
• date, tag
• language_processing, tag
• golang, tag
• parser, tag
• ·8 years ago

mathisonian/awesome-visualization-research: A list of recommended research papers and other readings on data visualization

github.com/mathisonian/awesome-visualization-research

A curated list of data visualizations research papers, books, blog posts, and other readings. I aim to limit this to pieces that will be of interest to practitioners as well as academics.

• data_visualisation, tag
• paper, tag
• list, tag
• research, tag
• academic, tag
• ·8 years ago

dfahlander/Dexie.js: A Minimalistic Wrapper for IndexedDB

github.com/dfahlander/Dexie.js

• database, tag
• api, tag
• browser, tag
• javascript, tag
• indexeddb, tag
• ·8 years ago

The 'Credit Card Number' Field Must Allow and Auto-Format Spaces (80% Don't) - Articles - Baymard Institute

baymard.com/blog/credit-card-field-auto-format-spaces

Despite 5% of users abandoning checkouts due to credit card validation errors, 80% websites don't actively aid their users in typing and validating the 16-digit card number by auto-formatting it with spaces

• ui, tag
• usability, tag
• card, tag
• input, tag
• forms, tag
• UX, tag
• ecommerce, tag
• ·8 years ago

Alphabets and Ideographs – Medium

medium.com/@cwodtke/alphabets-and-ideographs-486d59d1dc01

• visual_thinking, tag
• vocabulary, tag
• visual_grammar, tag
• drawing, tag
• idea, tag
• thinking, tag
• creativity, tag
• ideographs, tag
• ·8 years ago

In defense of the visual alphabet – The XPLANE Collection – Medium

medium.com/the-xplane-collection/in-defense-of-the-visual-alphabet-a8dcca7cf151

• visual_culture, tag
• alphabet, tag
• symbols, tag
• ideographs, tag
• drawing, tag
• doodles, tag
• standards, tag
• evolution, tag
• ·8 years ago

Build your own T-Loop System

mreilly.com/WebPages/loop/loop.html

• diy, tag
• accessibility, tag
• audio, tag
• feedback_loop, tag
• hearing_aids, tag
• electronics, tag
• AFIL, tag
• ·8 years ago

Joss Research Institute Web Report #17: More Explorations in Translucency

jonsinger.org/jossresearch/tjiirrs/017.html

• material, tag
• porcelain, tag
• research, tag
• triaxial, tag
• quartz, tag
• ·8 years ago

SICV

sicv.activearchives.org/logbook/

Scandinavian Institute for Computational Vandalism

• art, tag
• vandalism, tag
• ocr, tag
• computer_vision, tag
• computers, tag
• computational, tag
• dissidence, tag
• data, tag
• ·9 years ago