Mayo y junio

Happy? Pride. This bimonthly log edition is dedicated to Hatsune Miku, for her novel series Harry Potter.

En Español

• “Bebe con moderación” y otras mentiras de la industria del alcohol
• La sentencia de las banderas, sobre las banderas LGTB en ayuntamientos.
• Mujeres, política y la búsqueda del traje perfecto.

Projects

• I published fa-scrapper as a pip package.
• Spent quite some time installing Kodi on a Raspberry Pi without a keyboard until I figured out it has a screen keyboard you can use from the very beginning :clown:
• Mostly focused on getting used to work so not much more but I have some public projects in mind to maybe do for the next two months (!) (no hard promises)

Videos & Podcasts

• Cringe, by Contrapoints. A bit too long but it’s definitely worth it.
• The Scaredy Cats Horror Show, a five episode podcast show about horror films which includes awesome discussions on some of my favorite films of the last few years like Midsommar and Get Out.
• #80 - Professor Stuart Russell on why our approach to AI is broken and how to fix it, interesting although a bit hand-wavey, but I haven’t read the HCAI book yet.
• RESET - Recode Daily - Tear Gas, explained, on the famous chemical which is banned at war but used against protestors all over the world.

TV Shows, movies & documentaries

I think I have never posted this here, but you can see all films I have watched since 2017 here. New films that I really liked in these past two months are:

• But I’m a Cheerleader
• O Auto da Compadecida
• ¡Vampiros en La Habana!

Math & Computer Science

• “The Chromium project finds that around 70% of our serious security bugs are memory safety problems.”
• Presentation on Purely Functional Data Structures,
• A brief overview on how do Vocoders work
• Compiler Compiler: A Twitch series about working on a JavaScript engine this is quite cool!

Science & Economics

• What Does Any of This Have To Do with Physics?, at some point in my life I really wanted to be in academia and I became disillusioned with it because of all the demoralizing stats and disheartening stories. This is one of those stories.
• Relevant pre-AGI possibilities, a fun speculative list of relevant technological and social changes for AGI
• Facebook Novi & Surveillance Finance

Politics & society

• Fuck the Bread. The Bread Is Over.
• Little Soldiers – Inside the Chinese Education System
• Yes, We Mean Literally Abolish the Police. I get a little tired about some debates on reform v. abolition (imo many of them boil down to irrelevant semantics issues) when it comes to police and prisons so I am sometimes hesitant to call myself an abolitionist but this is an article I think I could fully endorse.
• Hack Brief: Anonymous Stole and Leaked a Megatrove of Police Documents
• My Little Pony Fans Are Ready to Admit They Have a Nazi Problem
• The Internet Furry Drama Raising Big Questions About Artificial Intelligence
• NYT Is Threatening My Safety By Revealing My Real Name, So I Am Deleting The Blog.
• I learned prison farms are a thing in the USA in 2020, jeez.