Future of Sex reviews some science fiction movies and novels that speculated what sex might be like in the far future of the present| Future of Sex
Future of Sex postulates what we might need in order to create a world full of pleasurable possibilities - and love| Future of Sex
I’m enjoying this series by Anthropic, even if it’s largely a new language for things I’ve already argued in Generative AI for Academics. I like their description of three modes of working with LLMs: In these terms my stance has been that augmentation offers tremendous intellectual possibilities for academic work but that the political economy […]| Mark Carrigan
Here’s Stephenson, from his Substack: Speaking of the effects of technology on individuals and society as a whole, Marshall McLuhan wrote that every augmentation is also an amputation. I first heard that quote twenty years ago from a computer scientist at Stanford who was addressing a room full of colleagues—all highly educated, technically proficient, motivated… Read More »Neal Stephenson on augmentation as amputation The post Neal Stephenson on augmentation as amputation appeared fi...| Driverless Crocodile
In preparation for the Fritzes, a review of sci-fi movies from 2024 highlighted the prevalence of heads-up displays (HUDs). Analyzing five films, the author categorizes HUDs based on functional sop…| Sci-fi interfaces
Updated: July 2019 Amniotic sac and fluid play an important role in the labour process and usually remain intact until the end of labour. However, around 10% of women will …| Dr Rachel Reed
img {border-style: groove; border-width: 1px;} I love Autohotkey so much that it keeps me on Windows. It’s the best GUI automation tool out there. Here’s a shortcut that opens my current browser tab in the Wayback Machine: #HotIf WinActive("ahk_exe firefox.exe") >!^s:: { Keywait("RControl") Keywait("RAlt") SendEvent("^l") SendInput("{left}https://web.archive.org/web/*/{enter}") } #HotIf By comparison, the official extension takes four files to do the same thing. Four files!1 But I come he...| Hillel Wayne
People think it’s weird that I do all my development on a Windows machine. It’s definitely a second-class citizen experience in the wider development world, and Windows has a lot of really frustrating issues, but it’s still my favorite operating system. This is for exactly one reason: AutoHotKey. AHK is an engine for mapping keystrokes to scripts. I wouldn’t call it particularly elegant, and it’s filled with tons of redundancy and quirks.| Hillel Wayne