Why Working on ‘Tools For Thought’ Fails: Lots of Working for the Tools, Not Much Thought
Virtual comments: idea for LLM support for writing LessWrong posts
The Rollercoaster King: the Man behind the UK’s Fastest Thrill-Ride
Navigating Corporate Giants: Jeffrey Snover and the Making of PowerShell
People overlook subtractive changes differently depending on age, culture, and task
IconShop: Text-Guided Vector Icon Synthesis with Autoregressive Transformers
Why Sqlite3 Temporary Files Were Renamed etilqs_* (2006) [Discussion]
The Kellogg Doolittle Residence (High Desert House): Inside a Breathtaking Desert Mansion That Looks Like A Fossil
The Effect of Perceptual Load on Performance within IDE in People with ADHD Symptoms
The Art of the Shadow: How Painters Have Gotten It Wrong for Centuries [From The Visual World of Shadows]
Creative Writing with Wordcraft, an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
Expectation vs. Experience: Evaluating the Usability of Code Generation Tools Powered by Large Language Models
Adding Is Favoured over Subtracting in Problem Solving: A Series of Problem-Solving Experiments Reveal That People Are More Likely to Consider Solutions That Add Features Than Solutions That Remove Them, Even When Removing Features Is More Efficient
Entropy trade-offs in artistic design: A case study of Tamil kolam
Noise in the landscape: Disputing the visibility of mundane technological objects
All the money in the world couldn’t make Kinect happen: For a moment a decade ago, the game industry looked like a very different place
Co-dfns: A data parallel compiler hosted on the GPU § 2.1.4 Idiomatic APL
Dorodango, the Japanese art of making mud balls: Dorodango author Bruce Gardner shares the story of how he discovered the Japanese art of hikaru dorodango
Local-first software: You own your data, in spite of the cloud [web]
A to Z of Modern Living: future-proof design at furniture manufacturer Vitsœ’s headquarters in Leamington Spa
Fraidycat: Follow Blogs, Wikis, YouTube Channels, as well as Accounts on Twitter, Instagram, Etc from a Single Page
Capstone: A Tablet for Thinking § Visualizing the Copy-Paste Buffer
Can behavioral tools improve online student outcomes? Experimental evidence from a massive open online course
Amazon Celebrates 10th Holiday Season of Frustration-Free Packaging—An Invention That’s Helped Eliminate 181,000 Tons of Packaging and 307 Million Boxes, and Given Millions of Customers Holidays Without 'Wrap Rage'
Requiem for a Shuffle: Why Steve Jobs told me he loved the littlest iPod—and why we’re going to miss it
StreetStyle: Exploring world-wide clothing styles from millions of photos
The Work Life of Developers: Activities, Switches and Perceived Productivity
Deep Learning the City: Quantifying Urban Perception At A Global Scale
Why WhatsApp Only Needs 50 Engineers for Its 900M Users: One of the (many) intriguing parts of the WhatsApp story is that it has achieved such enormous scale with such a tiny team
Bored Mondays and focused afternoons: the rhythm of attention and online activity in the workplace
Evaluating Lehman’s Laws of Software Evolution within Software Product Lines: A Preliminary Empirical Study
The evolution of the laws of software evolution: A discussion based on a systematic literature review
The Third User, or, Exactly Why Apple Keeps Doing Foolish Things
An Empirical Study of Lehman’s Law on Software Quality Evolution
Evaluating the Design of the R Language: Objects and Functions for Data Analysis
Shiny balls of Mud: William Gibson Looks at Japanese Pursuits of Perfection
STEPS Toward Expressive Programming Systems: "A Science Experiment"
Utility of Human-Computer Interactions: Toward a Science of Preference Measurement
If You Don’t Change the UI, Nobody Notices: I saw a screenshot a few days ago that made me think Windows 7 Beta might actually be worth checking out.
The Impact of Control-Display Gain on User Performance in Pointing Tasks
The Art of Unix Programming § The Right Size for an Editor
Maxims or myths of beauty? A meta-analytic and theoretical review
How learning by doing is done: problem identification in novel process equipment
Designing to Facilitate Browsing: A Look Back at the HyperTIES Workstation Browser
Lisp: Good News, Bad News, How to Win Big [Worse Is Better]
Selection devices for user of an electronic encyclopedia: An empirical comparison of 4 possibilities
Document Examiner: delivery interface for hypertext documents
An experimental comparison of a mouse and arrow-jump keys for an interactive encyclopedia
A Retrospective on the Dorado, a High-Performance Personal Computer
On understanding laws, evolution, and conservation in the large-program life cycle
A Computer Movie Simulating Urban Growth in the Detroit Region
Logitech MX Master 3 vs 2S Teardown: Our Favorite Mouse Got Even Better
At Any Given Moment in a Process…we Have a Certain Partially Evolved State of a Structure. This State Is Described by the Wholeness: the System of Centers, and Their Relative Nesting and Degrees of Life.
Kingnobro/IconShop: (SIGGRAPH Asia 2023) Code of "IconShop: Text-Guided Vector Icon Synthesis With Autoregressive Transformers"
Loom: Multiversal Tree Writing Interface for Human-AI Collaboration
sam2_hierarch: Unsupervised Human-Friendly Online Object Categorization
The Secret of Minecraft, and Its Challenge to the Rest of Us
Alexander Graham Bell’s Tetrahedral Kites (1903–9) [image gallery]
Lewis Carroll’s Illustrations for Alice’s Adventures Under Ground (1864)
D. A. Rovinskii’s Collection of Russian Lubki (18th–19th Century)
‘Clouds of Unknowing’: Edward Quin’s Historical Atlas (1830)
Henrique Alvim Corrêa’s Illustrations for The War of the Worlds (1906)
Images from Japanese Design Magazine Shin-Bijutsukai (1902)
Flowers of Fire: Illustrations from Japanese Fireworks Catalogues (ca. 1880s)
An Iconic Line: Claude Mellan’s The Sudarium of Saint Veronica (1649)
Joseph Perry’s Medical Illustrations of Miscarriage (1834)
The Reverse of a Framed Painting, and Other Trompe L’oeil by Cornelis Norbertus Gijsbrechts (ca. 1670)
Solid Objects: 16th-Century Geometric and Perspective Drawings
Marxist Astronomy: The Milky Way According to Anton Pannekoek
Stuffed Ox, Dummy Tree, Artificial Rock: Deception in the Work of Richard and Cherry Kearton
A New Medium for Communicating Research on Programming Languages
The Forgotten Pixel Art Masterpieces of the PlayStation 1 Era by Richmond Lee
What Board Games Teach Us About Data Visualization by Johannes Wirges
How a Naked Skydive Inspired a Way to Keep Pilots Oriented in Flight
Studies on Natural Populations of Drosophila. II. Heritability and Response to Selection for Wing Length in Drosophila Melanogaster and D. Simulans at Different Temperatures
For Blind Internet Users, the Fix Can Be Worse Than the Flaws
HUMAN’20: ‘A Live Demo of the Intermedia Hypertext System’ (Norman K. Meyrowitz)
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IconShop: Text-Guided Vector Icon Synthesis with Autoregressive Transformers
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Creative Writing with Wordcraft, an AI-Powered Writing Assistant: Perspectives from Professional Writers
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Expectation vs. Experience: Evaluating the Usability of Code Generation Tools Powered by Large Language Models
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