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2024 Memo

Toolhouse's 2024 memo outlines their mission to develop a personal product generator that empowers users to create custom, personalized 3D objects through the integration of AI and agile production methods.

toolhouse.build

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The content appears to be an encrypted or obfuscated text, possibly involving technical data or coded information, with patterns resembling programming or data structures.

monoskop.org

Challenging * Mattering = Meaningful

Exploration of the relationship between challenges, meaning, and personal growth, emphasizing the significance of pursuing difficult endeavors that matter and reframing obstacles as opportunities for strength and development.

blas.com

The Interpreter

newyorker.com

Programming as Theory Building

Peter Naur's "Programming as Theory Building" discusses programming as a knowledge-building activity, emphasizing the importance of tacit knowledge, collaboration, and effective documentation in developing and maintaining software systems.

ratfactor.com

On Nonscalability: The Living World Is Not Amenable to Precision-Nested Scales

The document explores how scalability, the ability to expand without changing the framework, has shaped modern projects, economies, and knowledge, leading to a loss of transformative diversity.

asletaiwan.org

Gordon surmised that the Pirahã provided support for a controversial hypothesis advanced early in the last century by Benjamin Lee Whorf, a student of Sapir’s. Whorf argued that the words in our vocabulary determine how we think. Since the Pirahã do not have words for numbers above two, Gordon wrote, they have a limited ability to work with... See more

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Are Blockchains Decentralized? Unintended Centralities in Distributed Ledgers

The report investigates the true decentralization of blockchains, highlighting various forms of centralization, vulnerabilities in consensus protocols, and the implications for security and immutability in networks like Bitcoin and Ethereum.

blog.trailofbits.com

London Review of Books

lrb.co.uk