Watching
Tár (2022) - An excellent film
Reading
The Open Secret of Google Search & https://twitter.com/alex_buraks/status/1618988134850785280
Reading a bit about search as Yandex’s source code was leaked. Interesting to get some insight into what factors are considered for ranking, age of links is a novel one.
Two Hunters by Astrid Anne Rose
A short horror story I thought was pretty good, some strong imagery.
What Problem Are You Trying to Solve?
On learning, a good read.
Wolfe’s Arcana. Or: Midjourney, Meet Gene Wolfe
Some fantastic images, and I wasn’t aware Wolfe had written any poetry at all.
Neuromancer Turns 25: What It Got Right, What It Got Wrong
Continuing my Neuromancer interest, reading more on Gibson and the book. Interesting to hear Gibson liked the work of Robert Stone, he is a great short story writer (Bear and His Daughter was great), I should read some of his other stuff.
Other
Spent some time cleaning up the bibtex I keep of the papers I’ve read, reminded me of some fun papers I’ve read in the past, including1 and.2
Dennis Upper, “The Unsuccessful Self-Treatment of a Case of ‘Writer’s Block’,” Journal of Applied Behavior Analysis 7, no. 3 (1974): 497, https://doi.org/10.1901/jaba.1974.7-497a. ↩︎
Alexander FG Goldberg, Klaus Roth, and CJ Chemjobber, “A Comprehensive Overview Chemical-Free Consumer Products,” Chemie in Unserer Zeit 50, no. 2 (2016): 144–45. ↩︎