From e8991f9e7c5288452184c91fd7c60c261d85524b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: jermspeaks Date: Wed, 27 Nov 2024 11:54:37 -0800 Subject: [PATCH] Add weeknotes for week 44 and 45 --- .../writing/2024-11-06-w44-weekly-notes.md | 100 ++++++++++++++++++ .../writing/2024-11-27-w45-weekly-notes.md | 70 ++++++++++++ 2 files changed, 170 insertions(+) create mode 100644 src/content/writing/2024-11-06-w44-weekly-notes.md create mode 100644 src/content/writing/2024-11-27-w45-weekly-notes.md diff --git a/src/content/writing/2024-11-06-w44-weekly-notes.md b/src/content/writing/2024-11-06-w44-weekly-notes.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..71242a4d --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/writing/2024-11-06-w44-weekly-notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,100 @@ +--- +description: "Looking beyond ozempic, Dublic halloween hoax, my dive into fabrics, radical covenants, and obits." +draft: false +heroImage: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1506485338023-6ce5f36692df?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2370&q=80 +heroImageAlt: Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar +pubDate: "2024-11-06T00:00:00.000Z" +tags: ["weeknote", "focus"] +title: "2024 Week 44 - Weekly Notes" +--- + +> Practice = Purpose + Frictionless Systems + Consistency +> -- Source Unknown + +Last week felt weird. Like a strange Halloween that was misplaced. I was heavily distracted by election news this week and have been putting off the previous week's notes. + +BBC - [Dublin: Hundreds gather in streets for hoax Halloween parade](https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cjr4y1j91x7o) + +I'm continuing the week notes format like I did last week with topic-based notes. It seems to be helping me get acclimated to stop organizing everything. + +Expect more election news next week as I get caught up. + +### Pendulum Therapeutics - Beyond Ozempic + +Kevin Rose interviews Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe - [Beyond Ozempic: The Probiotic That Finally Stops Chocolate (& Food) Binges. Join Our Science Trial.](https://www.kevinrose.com/p/a-natural-alternative-to-glp-1-drugs) + +Also, Peter Attia's interview with Dr. Colleen Cutcliffe - [Gut health & the microbiome: improving and maintaining the microbiome, probiotics, prebiotics, innovative treatments, and more](https://peterattiamd.com/colleencutcliffe/) + +Unfortunately, the [promotion](https://pendulumlife.com/products/glp-1-probiotic-kevin-rose-partnership?dsc_appld=true) has ended. A normal 3 month supply will cost $185 - [Store Page](https://pendulumlife.com/products/glp-1-probiotic) + +### Mixing ML with Alternative Meats + +Frontiers publication - [Artificial intelligence and machine learning applications for cultured meat](https://www.frontiersin.org/journals/artificial-intelligence/articles/10.3389/frai.2024.1424012/full?mc_cid=bcaf8c7510) + +> We address four major areas of cultured meat research and development: establishing cell lines, cell culture media design, microscopy and image analysis, and bioprocessing and food processing optimization. + +### Fabrics + +I've been reading [The Golden Thread](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/43862307-the-golden-thread), and that reminds me I should listen to [Articles Of Interest](https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast). + + + +### Abstraction-less + +Adam Argyle - [Headless, boneless, skinless & lifeless UI](https://nerdy.dev/headless-boneless-and-skinless-ui) + +### Sunbelt meets TSMC + +Bloomberg - [TSMC’s (2330 TT) Arizona Chip Production Yields Surpass Taiwan’s](https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-10-24/tsmc-s-arizona-chip-production-yields-surpass-taiwan-s-a-win-for-us-push?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcyOTgzMDExOSwiZXhwIjoxNzMwNDM0OTE5LCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTTFRTODlUMVVNMFcwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJFQTExNDNDNTM4NEE0RUY5QTg5RjJEN0IxMTg2MzcwOSJ9.PLKspxac5LtsWqeVAHUyInvC-yO8VcFVgDTcantJkBI) + +### Embeddings + +Kayce Basques - [Embeddings are underrated](https://technicalwriting.dev/data/embeddings.html) + +### Process Studies Takeaways + +Astral Codex Ten (Scott Alexander) - [Notes From The Progress Studies Conference](https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/notes-from-the-progress-studies-conference?hide_intro_popup=true) + +- Progress is good, but progress slowed around 1970. Nobody knows why, but theories include shifting social attitudes, over-regulation, or exhausting the potential in a few big inventions like electricity and mass production. This slowing was a great historical tragedy. + +### A good tool is worth its price + +Dylan Fitzgerald - [Good tools are worth paying for](https://dylanfitzgerald.net/blog/good-tools-are-worth-paying-for/?utm_source=changelog-news) + +### Election Chaos + +I'm writing this post-election, so some of this is kind of outdated now. + +- [Did My Friends Vote](https://app.impactive.io/did_my_friend_vote) - the website is now down until counties finish counting. This was good to double check my voting record. +- [Hundreds of ballots possibly burned after Vancouver ballot box arson: FBI investigating](https://katu.com/news/local/vancouver-ballot-box-seen-smoking-same-morning-as-portland-ballot-box-arson) - No wonder the pre-election chaos was so noisy. This happened close to where some friends live + +### Impact Printing + +Ars Technica - [3D printing buildings without cement](https://arstechnica.com/science/2024/10/impact-printing-is-a-cement-free-alternative-to-3d-printed-structures/) + +### Racial Covenants + + + + +- [Stanford RegLab, Princeton, and the County of Santa Clara Collaborate to Use AI to Identify and Map Racial Covenants From Over 5 Million Deed Records](https://law.stanford.edu/press/stanford-reglab-princeton-and-the-county-of-santa-clara-collaborate-to-use-ai-to-identify-and-map-racial-covenants-from-over-5-million-deed-records/) +- [AI for Scaling Legal Reform: Mapping and Redacting Racial Covenants in Santa Clara County](https://reglab.github.io/racialcovenants/) + +### Obits + +- [Paul Morrissey, Andy Warhol’s Cinematic Collaborator, Dies at 86](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/28/movies/paul-morrissey-dead.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20241029&instance_id=138078&nl=the-morning®i_id=197092347&segment_id=181637&user_id=53888c42b17ce2b613ad43a8e73d64ef) + - The Criterion Collection - Current - [Paul Morrissey, Before and After Warhol](https://www.criterion.com/current/posts/8639-paul-morrissey-before-and-after-warhol) +- [Teri Garr, Comic Actress in ‘Young Frankenstein’ and ‘Tootsie,’ Dies at 79](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/arts/teri-garr-dead.html) + - [Teri Garr’s Life in Pictures](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/10/29/movies/teri-garr-photos.html) diff --git a/src/content/writing/2024-11-27-w45-weekly-notes.md b/src/content/writing/2024-11-27-w45-weekly-notes.md new file mode 100644 index 00000000..a084d0ad --- /dev/null +++ b/src/content/writing/2024-11-27-w45-weekly-notes.md @@ -0,0 +1,70 @@ +--- +description: "Week notes are back. There's a backlog of content. We are mostly busy from moving, so these will be more sporadic. We cover election week, a warning from the EFF, a look BTS for Google's NootbookLM, and some more obits and recommendations." +draft: false +heroImage: https://images.unsplash.com/photo-1506485338023-6ce5f36692df?ixlib=rb-4.0.3&ixid=M3wxMjA3fDB8MHxwaG90by1wYWdlfHx8fGVufDB8fHx8fA%3D%3D&auto=format&fit=crop&w=2370&q=80 +heroImageAlt: Unsplash image from Jazmin Quaynor showing a weekly calendar +pubDate: "2024-11-27T00:00:00.000Z" +tags: ["weeknote", "focus"] +title: "2024 Week 45 - Weekly Notes" +--- + +This was election week. And frankly, one that was a [hard pill to swallow](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/06/us/politics/trump-america-election-victory.html). There are a range of responses, but I'm going to keep my head down as we move into our new place. + +### Federated Learning Coming + +[Lucy Bellwood](https://lucybellwood.com/) and [Scott McCloud](http://scottmccloud.com/) created a comic about [AI and privacy for Google](https://federated.withgoogle.com/). + +### Deceitful Manifest v3 + +EFF issued this: [Chrome Users Beware: Manifest V3 is Deceitful and Threatening](https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/12/chrome-users-beware-manifest-v3-deceitful-and-threatening) + +### Misc. Dev Related + +Josh W. Comeau - [A Friendly Introduction to Container Queries](https://www.joshwcomeau.com/css/container-queries-introduction/?from=newsletter) + +Bluesky Starter Pack - Diversify Tech: [Starter Pack](https://bsky.app/starter-pack/diversifytech.com/3l7bakgvapc2m) +- And Joel Hooks' [Starter Pack](https://bsky.app/starter-pack/did:plc:urqqcsulsrxjf2mwy6qauxuu/3kvubopznv42u) + +[Behind the product: Google’s NotebookLM | Raiza Martin (Senior Product Manager, AI @ Google Labs)](https://www.lennysnewsletter.com/p/googles-notebooklm-raiza-martin) + +[The architecture of a conference application built with Expo](https://expo.dev/blog/the-architecture-of-a-conference-application-built-with-expo) + +Rohan Ganapavarapu - [MOATs Aren't Useful](https://rohan.ga/blog/moats/) + +Engineering Codex - [7 simple habits of the best engineers I know](https://read.engineerscodetwitter.com/p/7-simple-habits-of-the-top-1-of-engineers) + +### Right to fix those McDonald's Ice Cream machines + +[Victory Is Sweet: We Can Now Fix McDonald’s Ice Cream Machines - iFixit](https://www.ifixit.com/News/102368/victory-is-sweet-we-can-now-fix-mcdonalds-ice-cream-machines?utm_source=changelog-news) + +### Your News, Reduced Bias + +[Find Your News - Match me with nonprofit newsrooms](https://findyournews.org/) + +While nowadays I don't read much from news websites, it's really nice to find the hyperlocal websites that I am interested in. + +### On the feed + +Newsletter (Substack) - Embedded by Nick Catucci - [My Internet: Jasmine Sun](https://embedded.substack.com/p/my-internet-jasmine-sun) - Jasmine is the Substack core product leader and Reboot cofounder + +[18 Life-Learnings from 18 Years of The Marginalian – The Marginalian](https://www.themarginalian.org/2024/10/22/marginalian-18/) + +[AI for Startups - Microsoft On the Issues](https://blogs.microsoft.com/on-the-issues/2024/11/01/ai-for-startups/) - This is on re-evaluation given the election results + +Vox - [Denaturalization, explained: how Trump can strip immigrants of their citizenship](https://www.vox.com/2018/7/18/17561538/denaturalization-citizenship-task-force-janus) + +### Obits + +[Quincy Jones dies: Music titan produced Michael Jackson's 'Thriller' among others | AP News](https://apnews.com/article/quincy-jones-dead-a9e31c7e39c448d8971519f47a22dd21) +- [Quincy Jones, In Conversation](https://www.vulture.com/article/quincy-jones-in-conversation.html) + +[Bernie Marcus, Home Depot Co-Founder, Is Dead at 95](https://www.nytimes.com/2024/11/05/business/bernie-marcus-dead.html?campaign_id=9&emc=edit_nn_20241106&instance_id=138860&nl=the-morning®i_id=197092347&segment_id=182412&user_id=53888c42b17ce2b613ad43a8e73d64ef) + +### Recommendations + +Book - [We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships](https://www.amazon.com/Should-Get-Together-Cultivating-Friendships-ebook/dp/B083H3FCXB) by Kat Vellos +- And don't forget the newsletter - [The We Should Get Together Newsletter](https://weshouldgettogether.com/newsletter) + +Newsletter - [Reboot](https://joinreboot.org/) + +Newsletter - Dan Pfeiffer's Substack - [The Message Box](https://www.messageboxnews.com/)