Tools for Conviviality

Tools for Conviviality

A work of seminal importance, this book presents Ivan I…

Convivial Computing

In 1973, Ivan Illich published Tools for Conviviality, a book about man's relation to tools 1. Illich pleaded for a pluralism of responsibly limited tools that guarantee an individual’s right to work with independent efficiency, the development of which is "as unpredictable, creative and lively as the people who use them" (Illich, 1973) 2. He pointed to overgrowth and overproduction threatening the right to a liveable environment, which unfortunately led him to ideas on gender and population control that are highly problematic 3. His ideas are included in the Catalog because of their influence on other practices, that picked up on his ideas about limited tools and turned a blind eye to the less appealing parts of his writing.

Build Reproducible Analytical Pipelines with Nix

Streamlines the creation of reproducible analytical pipelines using default.nix expressions generated via the rix package for reproducibility. Define derivations in R, Python or Julia, chain them into a composition of pure functions and build the resulting pipeline using Nix as the underlying end-to-end build tool. Functions to plot the pipeline as a directed acyclic graph are included, as well as functions to load and inspect intermediary results for interactive analysis. User experience heavily inspired by the targets package.

gavischneider/awesome-llm-wiki

A curated list of foundational blueprints, functional frameworks, and technical guides for building compounding, AI-compiled knowledge bases.

The Interface of Kai Krause's Software @mprove

Matthias Müller-Prove, Innovative Benutzungsschnittstellen, 1998/99, University of Hamburg

prime-radiant-inc/engineering-notebook

CLI tool that ingests Claude Code sessions, generates LLM summaries, and serves a browsable engineering journal

Claude Opus 4.8: Capabilities and Reactions

You need a lot of data points to understand a new model, and what you have.

Evaluating Claude with BioMysteryBench

BioMysteryBench tests Claude on 99 real bioinformatics problems. Opus 4.6 solved 77% of human-solvable questions and some that experts could not.

GitHub - DefenderOfBasic/open-memetics-institute: Studying memetics 100% in the open & building the open source tools we need

Studying memetics 100% in the open & building the open source tools we need - DefenderOfBasic/open-memetics-institute

Anna’s Archive: LibGen (Library Genesis), Sci-Hub, Z-Library in one place - Anna’s Archive

The world’s largest open-source open-data library. Mirrors Sci-Hub, Library Genesis, Z-Library, and more.