Graph me like one of your French creams

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The effects of insufficient water are felt by every cell in the body, but it’s the brain that manifests our experience of thirst.

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CyberCat is a network of researchers established in 2022 with the common goal to develop leading-edge knowledge in categorical cybernetics and applied category theory, and to show its economic usefulness. The Institute for Categorical Cybernetics was incorporated as a non-profit in 2024 to provide an institutional backbone for the network’s activities. Its purpose is to support CyberCat’s whole innovation pipeline from basic research to spinning off high-tech ventures. At the basic research level, it coordinates research activities among its members including funding and joint implementation of research projects, as well as hosting informal and formal events. At the other end of the funnel, the Institute acts as an incubator for ventures with the express goal to discover and commercialize economically useful technologies.

Low-level Concurrency in Practice. This practical book helps Rust programmers of all levels gain a clear understanding of low-level concurrency. You’ll learn everything about atomics and memory ordering and how they’re combined with basic operating system APIs to build common primitives like mutexes and condition variables. Once you’re done, you’ll have a firm grasp of how Rust’s memory model, the processor, and the role of the operating system all fit together.

via: https://folk.computer/newsletters/2025-08

On inboxes as application-specific todo lists.

Thomas Bloom’s erdosproblems.com site hosts nearly a thousand questions that originated, or were communicated by, Paul Erdős, as well as the current status of these questions (about a third of which are currently solved). The site is now a couple years old, and has been steadily adding features, the most recent of which has been…

This is how we do math in the 21st century.

The post does a beautiful job demonstrating a real-world application of monoids: trivializing type unification! Now I know how to make all those JSON to TypeScript generators you see online.

Ending the war on poverty will take more than cash transfers

Certain ideas naturally resist being encoded into a given medium of communication; epistemic communities built around that medium therefore fail to appreciate the ideas which that medium cannot successfully communicate.

Or: cybernetics has a medium problem.

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via: https://www.marginalia.nu/log/a_123_index_io/

see: https://db.cs.cmu.edu/mmap-cidr2022/

The antimeme of the antimeme no longer exists.

via: https://kevinmunger.substack.com/p/the-antimeme-haunting-western-philosophy

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What liberalism means to me

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You’ve heard of one-hit wonders

These platforms do not exist as a place for art to live and flourish. They exist as a place to flatten art into commodity. There is no context here. Instead there are small armies of lawyers trying to make sure a rich person doesn’t get fined for letting a 13-year old medieval music nerd see the Latin prepositional word for “with”.

I invented a new instrument: The Qweremin is a qwerty theremin.