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Alan Kay: Shannon gave us a way of dealing with noisy channels [video]

Posted by behoove on Friday September 25, 2026 @02:37PM
from the youtube.com dept.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cjntrqhn8pk

The following explanation is taken from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=49622607:Alan Kay performs an improvisational avant garde layered audio feedback loop about Claude Shannon, live online during Kristen Nygaard's 100-year birthday celebration.Alan was scheduled to talk about how encountering Simula sparked his early thoughts about objects. During setup, somebody had the live stream...

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Re:Götz von Berlichingen – The “Iron Hand” of the Renaissance (2019) on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:59AM (#34970735)

Götz von Berlichingen – The “Iron Hand” of the Renaissance (2019)

Posted by behoove on Tuesday February 28, 2023 @10:58AM
from the ncbi.nlm.nih.gov dept.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7000084/

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Devouring the Heart of Portugal

Posted by behoove on Thursday May 05, 2022 @03:54PM
from the damninteresting.com dept.

https://www.damninteresting.com/devouring-the-heart-of-portugal/

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Against Translation

Posted by behoove on Sunday December 19, 2021 @02:16PM
from the libertiesjournal.com dept.

https://libertiesjournal.com/articles/against-translation/

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The Rooms Where It Happened

Posted by behoove on Sunday August 15, 2021 @02:47PM
from the wilsonquarterly.com dept.

https://www.wilsonquarterly.com/quarterly/conflict-resolution/the-rooms-where-it-happened/

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Our Funniest Front-End Bugs (2020)

Posted by behoove on Tuesday April 20, 2021 @02:59AM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/thron-tech/our-funniest-front-end-bugs-eb374b4d6ebc

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Merrymount

Posted by behoove on Saturday January 02, 2021 @01:17PM
from the publicdomainreview.org dept.

https://publicdomainreview.org/essay/lord-of-misrule-thomas-mortons-american-subversions

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Samuel Johnson, opsimath

Posted by behoove on Wednesday November 11, 2020 @05:19PM
from the commonreader.substack.com dept.

https://commonreader.substack.com/p/samuel-johnson-opsimath

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The Forecasting Fallacy

Posted by behoove on Friday September 18, 2020 @06:03PM
from the alexmurrell.co.uk dept.

https://www.alexmurrell.co.uk/articles/the-forecasting-fallacy

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Japanese aquarium urges public to video-chat with eels

Posted by behoove on Friday May 01, 2020 @11:57PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2020/may/01/japanese-aquarium-urges-public-to-video-chat-eels-who-are-forgetting-humans-exist

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Clayton Christensen taught me patience, showed me love, confidence and hope

Posted by behoove on Friday January 31, 2020 @09:04PM
from the qz.com dept.

https://qz.com/africa/1792488/harvards-clayton-christensen-leaves-a-legacy-of-love-and-hope/

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What happens when you add a new teller? (2008)

Posted by behoove on Tuesday December 03, 2019 @03:08AM
from the johndcook.com dept.

https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2008/10/21/what-happens-when-you-add-a-new-teller/

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The Deceptive Simplicity of ‘Peanuts’

Posted by behoove on Wednesday October 30, 2019 @04:58PM
from the theparisreview.org dept.

https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2019/10/23/the-deceptive-simplicity-of-peanuts/

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The Story of a Great Monopoly (1881)

Posted by behoove on Saturday October 05, 2019 @02:34PM
from the theatlantic.com dept.

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1881/03/the-story-of-a-great-monopoly/306019/

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The 'last Botticelli'?

Posted by behoove on Friday September 13, 2019 @12:50PM
from the theartnewspaper.com dept.

https://www.theartnewspaper.com/news/is-usd30m-portrait-the-last-botticelli

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Has esketamine been overhyped?

Posted by behoove on Tuesday July 30, 2019 @12:57AM
from the gq-magazine.co.uk dept.

https://www.gq-magazine.co.uk/lifestyle/article/esketamine-antidepressant

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More and more people loathe Renoir – Is it time for a revival?

Posted by behoove on Wednesday June 26, 2019 @12:36PM
from the washingtonpost.com dept.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/museums/more-and-more-people-loathe-renoir-is-it-time-for-a-revival/2019/06/24/b0b3c5d8-8ded-11e9-b08e-cfd89bd36d4e_story.html

( Read More... | 4 comments | 12 points | on HN )

For the Love of Goats

Posted by behoove on Thursday May 23, 2019 @08:26PM
from the hedgehogreview.com dept.

https://hedgehogreview.com/issues/the-human-and-the-digital/articles/for-the-love-of-goats

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How to Do Nothing: Resisting the Attention Economy

Posted by behoove on Wednesday May 01, 2019 @03:16PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/30/books/review/jenny-odell-how-to-do-nothing.html

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Operation Columba

Posted by behoove on Wednesday April 03, 2019 @09:48PM
from the lrb.co.uk dept.

https://www.lrb.co.uk/v41/n07/jon-day/operation-columba

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The Political Economy of the Safari

Posted by behoove on Friday March 08, 2019 @10:03PM
from the nybooks.com dept.

https://www.nybooks.com/daily/2019/03/06/the-political-economy-of-safari/

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When Was the First Handshake?

Posted by behoove on Wednesday January 30, 2019 @03:00PM
from the daily.jstor.org dept.

https://daily.jstor.org/when-was-first-handshake/

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A Caravaggio for Christmas?

Posted by behoove on Monday December 17, 2018 @01:10PM
from the theguardian.com dept.

https://www.theguardian.com/artanddesign/2018/dec/16/a-caravaggio-for-christmas-is-his-stolen-nativity-masterpiece-about-to-return

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Help Wanted: America’s love affair with amateur advice

Posted by behoove on Tuesday October 30, 2018 @01:52PM
from the weeklystandard.com dept.

https://www.weeklystandard.com/caitrin-keiper/asking-for-a-friend-review-help-wanted

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A ‘Dinosaur Artist’ Who Trafficked in Stolen Fossils

Posted by behoove on Tuesday October 02, 2018 @04:14PM
from the nytimes.com dept.

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/01/books/review/dinosaur-artist-paige-williams.html

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Marvelous Muriel

Posted by behoove on Tuesday September 11, 2018 @03:58PM
from the newcriterion.com dept.

https://www.newcriterion.com/issues/2018/9/marvelous-muriel

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An Homage to Teotihuacan

Posted by behoove on Saturday July 07, 2018 @06:53PM
from the sapiens.org dept.

https://www.sapiens.org/culture/teotihuacan-art-homage/

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Re:50th Anniversary of May 1968, Paris: Memories of an Illusory Revol... on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:54PM (#17221923)

I found these reflections interesting. Since she was there at the time and doesn't draw any simplistic conclusions, I thought the essay might make an interesting HN post. It's a political site, but the article is not so politicized.

This one is slightly more ideological but still more personal and also quite interesting: http://hitchensblog.mailonsunday.co.uk/2018/05/some-reflecti.... I found it pretty consistent with Diana Johnstone's piece.

50th Anniversary of May 1968, Paris: Memories of an Illusory Revolution

Posted by behoove on Sunday June 03, 2018 @04:08PM
from the consortiumnews.com dept.

https://consortiumnews.com/2018/05/29/may-1968-paris-memories-of-an-illusory-revolution/

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