Official myths | A Working Library
aworkinglibrary.com/writing/official-mythsLet’s engage with office culture as it really is, not how we imagine it used to be.
Your Career Is Just One-Eighth of Your Life - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/newsletters/archive/2022/09/career-ambition-advice-data/671374/Five pieces of career advice, shaped by economics, psychology, and a little bit of existential math
Deep Learning and Human Disposability
logicmag.io/home/deep-learning-and-human-disposability/Toward an anti-fascist AI.
Excuse me but why are you eating so many frogs
experimentalhistory.substack.com/p/excuse-me-but-why-are-you-eatingWe've got the wrong theory about how minds work and it's ruining our lives
Histogram vs eCDF - Marc's Blog
brooker.co.za/blog/2022/09/02/ecdf.htmlIt's trivial to transform an eCDF into a histogram, by bucketing up first differences (fn+1 - fn). You can't go from the histogram to the eCDF so easily in general, because bucketing loses data.
The optimal amount of fraud is non-zero
bam.kalzumeus.com/archive/optimal-amount-of-fraud/Counterintuitively, businesses, customers, and society prefer having fraud to what they'd need to do to not have it.
In-App Subscriptions Made Easy – RevenueCat
revenuecat.com/RevenueCat makes it easy to build, analyze, and grow in-app purchases and subscriptions on iOS, Android, and the web – no server code required. Get started for free.
Code: Falsehoods programmers believe about email
beesbuzz.biz/code/439-Falsehoods-programmers-believe-about-emailIn the spirit of falsehoods programmers believe about names and time, here’s some falsehoods about email which are all too common.
Data Is Plural
data-is-plural.com/A weekly newsletter of useful/curious datasets.