VirtualTam's bookmarks

1. SimCities and SimCrises - Transcript of the keynote for the 2017 International City Gaming Conference 2024-11-22

   tags: architecture/urban-planning, city, game/sandbox, game/sim-city, game/simulation, politics, research, science-fiction, society/demographics, weather

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   • Matteo Brittanti - How to get rid of homeless? - A 600-page epic split in two volumes documenting the so-called “homeless scandal” that affected the newly released game SimCity (Maxis/Electronic Arts, 2013)
   • Stanisław Lem - The Cyberiad
   • MIT - Urban Intervention Simulation (archive)
   • MIT - City Science Research Group
   • The Landlord's Game, a realty and taxation game intended to educate users about Georgism
   • Invisible Cities, prose poems describing 55 fictitious cities, many of which can be read as commentary on culture, language, time, memory, death, or human experience
2. Protoscope - A simple, human-editable language for representing and emitting the Protobuf wire format 2024-10-23

   tags: network/grpc, network/protocol-buffers, programming/go

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3. Leela Zero - Go engine with no human-provided knowledge, modeled after the AlphaGo Zero paper 2024-05-02

   tags: game/go, neural-network, programming/c++, programming/java, research

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   • leela-zero/leela-zero
   • featurecat/lizzie - Leela Zero Interface
   • Mastering the game of Go without human knowledge [PDF]
4. OpenPose: Real-time multi-person keypoint detection library for body, face, hands, and foot estimation 2019-10-19

   tags: body, detection, human, image, machine-learning, stream, video

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5. Software disenchantment @ tonsky.me 2019-10-17

   tags: architecture, human, performance, programming, quality, software, speed

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6. Elementary OS | Human Interface Guidelines 2019-08-28

   tags: linux, user-experience, user-interface

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7. 4000 Years of History Displayed in a 5-Foot-Long "Histomap" (Early Infographic) From 1931 | Open Culture 2019-08-23

   tags: civilization, history, human, visualization, world

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   • https://www.visualcapitalist.com/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/histomap-big.html
8. Mercury | A speculative vision of the operating system, driven by humane design principles 2019-05-30

   tags: design, minimal, operating-system, user-experience, user-interface

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   • https://uxdesign.cc/introducing-mercury-os-f4de45a04289
9. The Maintainers 2019-04-16

   tags: behavior, city, human, maintenance, research, science, technology

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   The Maintainers is a global, interdisciplinary research network that takes a different approach, one whose conceptual starting point was a playful proposal for a counter-volume to Isaacson’s that could be titled The Maintainers: How a Group of Bureaucrats, Standards Engineers, and Introverts Made Technologies That Kind of Work Most of the Time. Network members come from a variety of fields, including academic historians and social scientists, as well as artists, activists, engineers, and business leaders. All share an interest in the concepts of maintenance, infrastructure, repair, and the myriad forms of labor and expertise that sustain our human-built world.

10. numfmt - reads numbers in various representations and reformats them as requested 2018-09-24

    tags: bit, byte, file, filesystem, gnu, size, unit

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    • https://unix.stackexchange.com/questions/44040/a-standard-tool-to-convert-a-byte-count-into-human-kib-mib-etc-like-du-ls1
11. How to Do Code Reviews Like a Human (Part One) - Silly Bits 2017-10-13

    tags: code, development, review

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12. Dealing with Human Language | Elasticsearch: The Definitive Guide [2.x] 2017-10-01

    tags: engine, language, natural, observability/elastic/elasticsearch, processing, search

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    • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/language-intro.html
    • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/identifying-words.html
    • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/token-normalization.html
    • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/stemming.html
    • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/stopwords.html
    • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/synonyms.html
    • https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/guide/current/fuzzy-matching.html
13. Tomorrow Corporation : Human Resource Machine 2017-09-25

    tags: game, indie, programming

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14. Time for Sushi 2017-09-09

    tags: body, doll, experimental, human, motion

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15. bitmath — bitmath 1.3.1 documentation 2017-05-22

    tags: bit, byte, convert, file, programming/python, size, unit

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    • https://github.com/tbielawa/bitmath
    • via https://stackoverflow.com/questions/14996453/python-libraries-to-calculate-human-readable-filesize-from-bytes
16. Start Here, iOS and Swift tutorials for humans - Digital Leaves 2017-05-13

    tags: mobile, mobile/ios, swift

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17. PEP8 for Humans: The Style Guide for Python Code 2017-02-13

    tags: guide, pep8, programming/python, style

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18. Introduction to Literate Programming 2016-03-29

    tags: development, editor/emacs, error, literate, mode, org, programming, trial

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    "Instead of imagining that our main task is to instruct a computer what to do, let us concentrate rather on explaining to human beings what we want a computer to do."

    • Donald Knuth
19. Mother Gaia - Humon Comics 2015-09-22

    tags: comics, environment, gaia, human, nature, pollution

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20. xkcd: Keyboard Mash 2015-05-28

    tags: keyboard, solitaire, spider, typo

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    I'm a normal human, typing with my human hands