Julio y agosto

En Español

• Zara no es una marca española: el entramado fiscal de Amancio Ortega
• ¿Se puede divorciar el rey?

Proyectos

• Publiqué Cómo ser ingeniero de software: una perspectiva personal, un texto que escribí para unos amigos.
• Tengo una nueva página para contactarme: Contact

Videos

• Why Taiwan and China are Battling over Tiny Island Countries, geopolitics meets Oceania.
• My Carbon Footprint is Broken, the video the fossil fuel industry doesn’t want you to see.
• Why We’re Afraid To Abolish The Police, on police defunding and abolition.
• Code Completion with GPT-3 demo, a demo on GPT-3 writing code.

Podcasts

• The man who was caged in a zoo, on a Congolese man living on a human zoo.
• Ten doors, on how to escape prison during the South African apartheid.
• Jennifer Doleac on ways to prevent crime other than police and prisons, a very interesting interview on strategies for crime reduction, with the creator of:
• Probable Causation, which is also an excellent podcast.
• How to Sell A Haunted House, on the legal intricacies of selling a “haunted” house.
• The business of kidnapping: inside the secret world of hostage negotiation, on kidnapping insurance and how it works.

Films & TV Shows

• Jojo Rabbit, a comedy about Nazis.
• Inside No. 9, a dark comedy anthology from the BBC.

Board games

• The Crew: The Quest for Planet Nine, an incredible cooperative puzzle board game.
• Fantasy Realms, lighlty themed fantasy hand-building.
• The Thing, a hidden roles game that I found interesting although a bit too chaotic.
• Blood Bound, another hidden roles hit which is quite dynamic and fun.

Math & Computer Science

• Testing Firefox more efficiently with machine learning – Mozilla Hacks : the Web developer blog, from the now defunct Hacks Mozilla blog (RIP :( )
• Abstracting away correctness
• Giving GPT-3 a Turing Test
• Cloudflare outage on July 17, 2020
• The Busy Beaver Frontier [insert comment here about not wanting to be associated with the author’s political views]
• A short (and mostly wrong) history of computer networking
• Bloom filters debunked: Dispelling 30 Years of bad math with Coq!
• Complex-Step Differentiation, I probably should have known this, but I didn’t and it’s quite neat.
• The Haskell Elephant in the Room, on the cryptocurrency companies that are invading the Haskell ecosystem.

Science & economics

• We Need To Take CO2 Out Of The Sky, on carbon capture.
• The uncanny mountain: p-values between .01 and .10 are still a problem,
• The Marx Ratio and the Trouble with Coops

Politics & society

• The People’s Republic of Walmart, a book on how the world’s largest corporations are building the foundation to socialism.
• Fast food outlets, physical activity facilities, and obesity among adults: a nationwide longitudinal study from Sweden: a puzzling (in my view) study on obesity.
• Unscrupulous Flattery, a model of authoritarian societies.
• Amazon’s Disposable Tech Is Waste Even as It Leaves the Factory
• The Cost of Torture: Evidence from the Spanish Inquisition, a fascinating, detailed look on to how the Inquisition worked.
• Slate Star Codex and Silicon Valley’s War Against the Media, on SSC disappearence.
• Twitter’s latest hack postmortem: An update on our security incident
• University of Chicago engineers develop tool to protect your photos from facial recognition. I hope privacy wins this arms race.