Aneesh Sathe

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 …

Font fight! # The fonts have assembled, their ligatures sharp their curves are shiny. They all line up with perfect kerning… or do they? Your eyes and mind are their battlefield. https://www.codingfont.com/ I got JetBrains mono btw. Decentralization is just partial centralization # Renée DiResta writes about the social media flux in Noema. Decentralization places a heavy burden on individual instance administrators, mostly volunteers, who may lack the tools, time or capacity to address complex problems effectively.

Crystal-Bison # I don’t want to give away much of the poem but it captures the nature, ferocity, and purpose of life. Ghost Exits # Aligning with the idea that blogs will be the last of the [good internet](http://Jan. 3, 2025) there is a broader question about platforms and their methods. Long before meta and X abandoned all pretense the internet was already under attack while we were believed this was fine.