The Vacation Links Edition (Day 2)

Hi, we’re taking a few days off from the daily drumbeat of WITI for the August holiday. Fear not, you’ll be supplied with some fresh links every day to tide you over. See you next week for MMD. - Noah and Colin

• A PDF of the essay “Not Knowing” by Donald Barthelme, which includes this excellent quote that I first ran into in the excellent Most Human Human: “The not knowing is crucial to art, is what permits art to be made. Without the scanning process engendered by not-knowing, without the possibility of having the mind move in unanticipated directions, there would be no invention.”

• The Logic of the Filing Cabinet Is Everywhere (NRB)

• I still think about this 2020 piece a lot: Heterogeneous Compute: The Paradigm Shift No One is Talking About (NRB)

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Noah (NRB) & Colin (CJN)

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