Aneesh Sathe

Came across a heartwarming fan-made comic of a collaborative story told on tumblr. A farmer makes a temple to see who shows up and it’s a self-doubting god of transient beauty. This immediately brought back the Small Gods from Discworld, but also the poem Worm by Gail Mcconnell. The comic and the story are beautiful. Perhaps there is some sense to shrines… The God of Arepo- PDF available via metafilter

Trying something different for a few days. Instead of spamming all the social media accounts with daily links, I will post links only on the blog everyday. Maybe even multiple times a day. Still thinking about doing a weekly digest or something. Let’s see.

Table Turpentine # Came across the gt package for better tables in R. Might sound silly but it’s one of those cheap turpentine things. Who made the train? # via ChiPa Yunus Emre-The Watermill # via harvard blogs Translation Why do you groan, O Watermill; For I’ve troubles, I groan I fell in love with the Lord; For It do I groan They found me on a mountain; My arms and wings they plucked Saw me fit for a watermill; For I’ve troubles, I groan From the mountain they cut my wood; My disparate order they ruined But an unwearied poet I am; For I’ve troubles, I groan I am The Troubled Watermill; My …

Hardbreak: Hardware Hacking Wiki # This was a cool little find. I’ve always played with software in one form or another, but besides building PCs actual hardware hacking felt out of reach. Maybe I can start with some simple things like radio hacking. The beauty of understanding # My love for science seems to always involve some sort of rube goldberg machine: you set things up just so and discoveries magically flow out. Sure, designing pretty experiments is difficult and there is a lot of literal and metaphorical heartbreak along the way but to finally discover the way is all frisson.

AI slop is all around and increasingly extraction of useful information will face difficulties as we start to feed more noise into the already noisy world of knowledge. We are in an era of unprecedented data abundance, yet this deluge of information often lacks the structure necessary to derive meaningful insights. Knowledge graphs (KGs), with their ability to represent entities and their relationships as interconnected nodes and edges, have emerged as a powerful tool for managing and leveraging complex data. However, the efficacy of a KG is critically dependent on the underlying structure …