Consilience
Concepts
Topics sort posts vertically; concepts read horizontally. Each of these threads recurs in more than one topic — follow one to see the same idea from several angles.
Building in publicShipping with the workings visible — the products, the ventures, and the reasons behind them.2 postsCompression & retrievalHow machines find and shrink meaning — and how the same problems recur when a person reads and summarises.2 postsCraft & tasteDoing the work well for its own sake — in code, in hobbies, in the details no one is paying you to get right.2 posts