Bookmarks
Nicky Case - Ballot playground
theMage:
the ballot playground is an interactive explanation of several different voting systems and how each of them impacts the results, including mini-games that allow you to test how different elections play out with each of the different voting systems.
Gently Down the Stream - Kafka for kids
theMage:
Gently Down the Stream is a simple explanation of what Kafka is for kids, in the format of a small ilustrated book, using otters as the producers and consumers of messages
Calculating Empires
theMage:
Calculating Empires is a large-scale research visualization exploring how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries. The aim is to view the contemporary period in a longer trajectory of ideas, devices, infrastructures, and systems of power. It traces technological patterns of colonialism, militarization, automation, and enclosure since 1500 to show how these forces still subjugate and how they might be unwound.
Pivot to AI
theMage:
"It can't be that stupid, you must be prompting it wrong" - Pivot to AI is a blog about AI related things - companies that introduced AI into products where it makes no sense, stupid AI interactions and other similar topics.
Hugging Face - the AI community building the future
theMage:
Hugging Face is a community repository of AI modules and datasets that can be used to train new models.
Client API generator for OpenAPI
theMage:
Open API generator is a website were you can find code to generate API clients in a lot of different programming languages, based on the OpenAPI/Swagger documentation of an API.
Review of Lego's sun, earth and moon technic set
theMage:
This post is a review of Lego's technic set of the sun, earth and moon, all of which rotate
Dimensions - Database of Dimensioned Drawings
theMage:
Dimensions is a website were you can find properly scaled drawings with the dimensions of the objects drawn.
Commit Mono Font
theMage:
Commit Mono is a monospace font that you can customize in the website before you download it, to create the font that you like most (or not).
Futility Closet
theMage:
the Futility Closet is a blog of factoids of little relevance. Not too useful, but quite fun to read