A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
A Human on a Bicycle Is among the Most Efficient Forms of Travel in the Animal Kingdom
A famous graphic, now updated, compares locomotion in the animal kingdom
What's good?
I want to start by talking about some things that seem like potential ways out of the dark forest tangle—even if they’re imperfect, which they all are.
Seven Sketches in Compositionality: An Invitation to Applied Category Theory
This book is an invitation to discover advanced topics in category theory through concrete, real-world examples. It aims to give a tour: a gentle, quick introduction to guide later exploration. The tour takes place over seven sketches, each pairing an evocative application, such as databases, electric circuits, or dynamical systems, with the exploration of a categorical structure, such as adjoint functors, enriched categories, or toposes. No prior knowledge of category theory is assumed. A feedback form for typos, comments, questions, and suggestions is available here: https://docs.google.com/document/d/160G9OFcP5DWT8Stn7TxdVx83DJnnf7d5GML0_FOD5Wg/edit
Searching for Birds
An interactive story about the birds that capture our curiosity, told through data, visuals and illustrations
Anthropic's Scion is heavily inspired by Mononoke · sunshowers
It is important to provide credit.
Sorting Things Out: Classification and Its Consequences
Classification and Its Consequences
Always Interesting: “52 Things I Learned in 2022”
Something I look forward to at the end of each year is Tom Whitwell’s list of 52 things I learned in 20221 because I know I’m about to read about a bunch of int
36 Things I Learned in 2022
Inspired by Tom Whitwell’s annual list (here is 2022’s), I kept a list of interesting things I learned this year. There are supposed to be 52 things but I took
joão (@johnfields091.bsky.social)
Lisboa/Portugal Books, comics, records/music, films, games (interests, not activities). Mostly random thoughts in short form here, and in long(ish)-form on my blog. https://sobreiromecanico.tumblr.com/ (Photo: Eurasian Eagle Owl by Paul Bankowitsch)
In Depth: Miscellaneous
*this is a giant, everchanging collection of micellaneous tidbits about my life and career.* On The Moniker I had a habit as a kid of creating fictional enti...
What I Learned About the Future by Reading 100 Science Fiction Books, Part II
This is Part 2 of an experiment in science-fiction prototyping, in which I try to visualize the future by pulling together ideas from 100…
Opinion | We Aren’t Built to Live in the Moment (Published 2017)
What best distinguishes human beings from other animals is our foresight, as scientists are just beginning to recognize.
52 Interesting Things I Learned in 2023
Inspired by Tom Whitwell’s annual list, I kept track of some things I learned this year, one for each week. Here we go: Ciabatta was invented in 1982. “If our p
I’ve been hearing about this project for years from @fernpizza.bsky.social and I’m stoked to see it out. It’s wildly elegant mixture of theory and empirics, with novel methods that manages to ask and answer deep questions about selection. Paper of the year. science.org/doi/10.1126/science.adx0665
Intracellular competition shapes plasmid population dynamics
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Updated 17d
Things I find interesting and want to keep for later. Will hopefully categorize later.
