Boris Smus

interaction engineering

  1. ☆
    Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky
  2. Local e-ink handwriting recognition with on-device VLMs
  3. ☆
    The Crisis of Narration by Byung-Chul Han
  4. ☆
    Livewired by David Eagleman
  5. ☆
    Monkey by Arthur Waley
  6. The pursuit of frictionless capture
  7. ☆
    Hard to Be a God by The Strugatskys
  8. Battle of Maldon & Homecoming of Beorhtnoth
  9. ☆
    Piranesi by Susanne Clark
  10. ☆
    Secret of our Success by Joseph Henrich
  11. ☆
    Math from Three to Seven by A. K. Zvonkin
  12. ☆
    Abundance by Ezra Klein and Derek Thompson
  13. ☆
    VALIS by Phillip K. Dick
  14. ☆
    The Maniac by Benjamín Labatut
  15. Large and sometimes Oppressive Language Models (LOLs)
  16. ☆
    A Peace to End All Peace by David Fromkin
  17. Horsing around with invention.cards
  18. Invention & Discovery Cards work complete
  19. ☆
    John Dee and the Empire of Angels by Jason Louv
  20. ☆
    Use of Weapons by Iain Banks
  21. Unintended Consequences of False Equity
  22. ☆
    When We Cease to Understand the World by Benjamín Labatut
  23. Seattle Public Schools accountability problem
  24. ☆
    Absolutely On Music by Haruki Murakami
  25. Neurobiology of We by Daniel Siegel
  26. ☆
    Entangled Life by Merlin Sheldrake
  27. ☆
    Blindsight by Peter Watts
  28. Invention Cards enhanced by AI
  29. The Blessing of a Skinned Knee by Wendy Mogel
  30. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery 2.0
  31. ☆
    Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
  32. ☆
    A Sand County Almanac by Aldo Leopold
  33. Disappearance of Ritual by Byung-Chul Han
  34. ☆
    Good Omens by Pratchett and Gaiman
  35. ☆
    Mystery Teachings by J. M. Greer
  36. Technofeudalism by Yanis Varoufakis
  37. ☆
    David: The Divided Heart by David Wolpe
  38. ☆
    Every Life is on Fire by Jeremy England
  39. Telejam: Interplanetary Musical Ensembles
  40. ☆
    End of the World by Peter Zeihan
  41. Project Exupery
  42. Nine Links for Fall 2023
  43. Great Work Of Time by John Crowley
  44. ☆
    Letters to my Palestinian Neighbor by Halevi
  45. ☆
    Tales from the Ant World by E. O. Wilson
  46. ☆
    The Burnout Society by Byung-Chul Han
  47. Tools for Thinking in Systems
  48. ☆
    This is How You Lose the Time War
  49. Five Links for Summer 2023
  50. Empowered by Cagan & Jones
  51. ☆
    Russian Revolutions by Mike Duncan
  52. ☆
    The Mountain in the Sea by Ray Nayler
  53. Five Links for Spring 2023
  54. ☆
    Boyd by Robert Coram
  55. Seven Links for Winter 2023
  56. ☆
    Medieval Robots by E. R. Truitt
  57. ☆
    Old Man's War by John Scalzi
  58. ☆
    The Sabbath by Heschel
  59. ☆
    Impossible Owls by Brian Phillips
  60. Links for November 2022
  61. ☆
    The Timeless Way of Building
  62. ☆
    The Power of Ritual by Casper ter Kuile
  63. Links for October 2022
  64. Semantic Similarity for Note Taking
  65. ☆
    The Toynbee Convector by Ray Bradbury
  66. Links for September 2022
  67. ☆
    Wild Problems by Russ Roberts
  68. ☆
    Forever Flowing by Vasily Grossman
  69. ☆
    The Goal - A Business Graphic Novel
  70. Links for August 2022
  71. AI note garden: Dreamer, note collider
  72. The Secret Life of Groceries
  73. Links for July 2022
  74. ☆
    Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder
  75. ☆
    Parables by Franz Kafka
  76. Links for June 2022
  77. Arcadia by Tom Stoppard
  78. ☆
    Creativity by Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi
  79. Links for May 2022
  80. ☆
    The End of Eternity by Isaac Asimov
  81. ☆
    Genesis by ✨ translated by Robert Alter
  82. Links for April 2022
  83. Ministry for the Future
  84. ☆
    Grand Transitions by Vaclav Smil
  85. Links for March 2022
  86. Links for February 2022
  87. Links for January 2022
  88. Practical Doomsday by Michal Zalewski
  89. AI note garden: link suggestions
  90. ☆
    A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Becky Chambers
  91. Article highlights of 2021
  92. AI note garden: summarizer
  93. ☆
    Collapse of Complex Societies by Joseph Tainter
  94. ☆
    Understanding How We Learn: A Visual Guide
  95. ☆
    The Scout Mindset by Julia Galef
  96. History of Future Cities by Daniel Brook
  97. ☆
    The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism by Max Weber
  98. ABC by Illich and Sanders
  99. File Systems for Thought
  100. ☆
    Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
  101. ☆
    Gardener & Carpenter by Alison Gopnik
  102. ☆
    Late Middle Ages
  103. ☆
    Medieval Technology and Social Change
  104. ☆
    Understanding Complexity by Scott Page
  105. Diffusion of Literacy in 19th Century Canada
  106. Consider Phlebas by Iain M. Banks
  107. Why Information Grows by Cesar Hidalgo
  108. ☆
    Emotional Life of the Toddler
  109. ☆
    High Middle Ages
  110. Thirteenth Tribe
  111. Evogami: evolution meets origami
  112. ☆
    Early Middle Ages
  113. ☆
    Why Greatness Cannot Be Planned
  114. ☆
    How to Take Smart Notes
  115. ☆
    Thinking in Systems: A Primer
  116. ☆
    Sid Meier's Memoir!
  117. Article highlights of 2020
  118. ☆
    Profiles of the Future by Arthur C. Clarke
  119. ☆
    Dune by Frank Herbert
  120. ☆
    Night by Elie Wiesel
  121. ☆
    Tools for Conviviality by Ivan Illich
  122. ☆
    Frank Herbert by Tim O’Reilly
  123. ☆
    Story of Us by Tim Urban
  124. ☆
    Rewiring America
  125. ☆
    Братья Карамазовы, читает Ульянов
  126. ☆
    Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson
  127. ESUP Builders
  128. ☆
    The Road by Cormac McCarthy
  129. ☆
    Red Plenty by Francis Spufford
  130. Shadow of the Torturer
  131. DIY Community Library
  132. ☆
    Selected Short Stories of Philip K. Dick
  133. ☆
    Where Good Ideas Come From by Steven Johnson
  134. ☆
    Lost Enlightenment by Frederick Starr
  135. ☆
    Debt: The First 5000 Years
  136. Revenge of Analog
  137. Visual Chronology of Science & Discovery
  138. The Circle by Dave Eggers
  139. Fatherhood in Pieces by Chabon
  140. Smoke and Mirrors by Neil Gaiman
  141. Books highlights of 2019
  142. Article highlights of 2019
  143. The Right It (audio)
  144. WebUSB, Arduino, and Nunchucks!
  145. The Name of the Wind (audio)
  146. ☆
    The Fiddler is a Good Woman
  147. ☆
    Range by David Epstein (audio)
  148. ☆
    Timefulness by Marcia Bjornerud (audio)
  149. Toddler’s First Music Box
  150. Yes Brain by Siegel and Bryson
  151. Link's Awakening LEGO Mosaic
  152. ☆
    Diamond Age by Stephenson (audio)
  153. ☆
    Hyperion by Dan Simmons (audio)
  154. Deschooling Society by Ivan Illich
  155. ☆
    Asimov's Chronology of Science and Discovery
  156. Palaces for the People (audio)
  157. ☆
    The Odyssey translated by Emily Wilson (audio)
  158. ☆
    The Fifth Season by N. K. Jemisin
  159. Avoiding local maximums
  160. Radical Markets by Posner and Weyl
  161. ☆
    Seeing Like a State by James Scott
  162. ☆
    Invisible Cities by Italo Calvino
  163. ☆
    The Story of Medieval England (audio)
  164. Real Estate and Cash Flow
  165. ☆
    The New Father
  166. ☆
    Tribe by Sebastian Junger
  167. 12 Rules for Life
  168. Building a Bridge to the 18th Century
  169. Reading in 2018
  170. ☆
    Infinite Planets
  171. ☆
    Bowling Alone by Robert Putnam
  172. The Shape of Tomorrow by George Soule
  173. Bird by Bird by Anne Lamott
  174. ☆
    The Fall and Rise of China (audio)
  175. ☆
    War and Peace and War by Peter Turchin
  176. ☆
    Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin (audio)
  177. Comparing classical music interpretations
  178. ☆
    Book of Why by Judea Pearl
  179. ☆
    Living the French Revolution (audio)
  180. Against retweets
  181. Make twitter great again?
  182. Lynched on Twitter
  183. ☆
    Tao of Philosophy by Alan Watts
  184. The difficult middle
  185. Bad Blood by John Carreyrou
  186. ☆
    Darkness at Noon by Arthur Koestler (audio)
  187. Required reading for VR enthusiasts
  188. You Belong to the Universe (audio)
  189. Balancing technological pessimism
  190. Unsong by Scott Alexander
  191. ☆
    Reason in Human Affairs by Herbert Simon
  192. ☆
    The Fourth Turning by Howe and Strauss
  193. How rationalists can win
  194. The Coffee-House: A Cultural History
  195. ☆
    Player of Games by Iain M. Banks
  196. Skin in the Game by Taleb (audio)
  197. ☆
    The Modern Political Tradition: Hobbes to Habermas
  198. ☆
    Scale by Geoffrey West
  199. Anthem by Ayn Rand
  200. ☆
    Impro by Keith Johnstone
  201. Web-based voice command recognition
  202. ☆
    The Truth of Fact, the Truth of Feeling by Ted Chiang
  203. Is That a Fish in Your Ear? by David Bellos
  204. Audio features for web-based ML
  205. ☆
    My Russian Grandmother... by Meir Shalev
  206. UIST 2017 highlights
  207. ☆
    The neurochemistry of music
  208. Memento Mori
  209. ☆
    On the Shortness of Life
  210. ☆
    Stories of Your Life and Others
  211. ☆
    Nothing is True and Everything is Possible
  212. Benjamin Franklin: An American Life
  213. A respectful truce?
  214. Filter playground
  215. The end of endings
  216. ☆
    Whole Earth Discipline by Stewart Brand
  217. Intelligence, aliens, and self-improvement
  218. Convincing the inconvincible
  219. Climate metaquiz results
  220. On Tyranny by Timothy Snyder
  221. ☆
    The Psychology of Curiosity
  222. ☆
    Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
  223. Viewpoint tolerance through curiosity
  224. Remembering my personal wiki
  225. Short posts using split Markdown
  226. Analogies from the industrial revolution
  227. Finite and Infinite Games by James Carse
  228. ☆
    Homo Deus by Yuval Noah Harari
  229. ☆
    Understanding Japan: A Cultural History (audio)
  230. ☆
    The Lessons of History by Will and Ariel Durant
  231. ☆
    The Wind's Twelve Quarters by Ursula K. Le Guin
  232. ☆
    Deep Work by Cal Newport
  233. Debaters: friendly disagreement
  234. Headlines, meet sparklines: news in context
  235. ☆
    Mindstorms by Seymour Papert
  236. Don't Think of an Elephant by George Lakoff
  237. Tools for making better decisions
  238. ☆
    The Futurological Congress by Stanislav Lem
  239. ☆
    On Venus, Have We Got a Rabbi by William Tenn
  240. ☆
    Superforecasters by Phil Tetlock
  241. ☆
    Why Teach Thinking by Jonathan Baron
  242. Front page blues
  243. VR View 2.0: JavaScript API
  244. Election 2016
  245. ☆
    Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
  246. Ray Input: WebVR interaction patterns
  247. ☆
    Future Babble
  248. I Am A Strange Loop
  249. ☆
    The Hedgehog and the Fox
  250. ☆
    Sapiens (audio)
  251. ☆
    How to Actually Change Your Mind by Big Yud
  252. ☆
    Exploring the World of Lucid Dreaming
  253. Copresence in WebVR
  254. The Persuaders (audio)
  255. ☆
    The Righteous Mind by Jon Haidt
  256. Must Mankind Repeat History's Great Mistakes
  257. ☆
    The Man Who Loved Only Numbers
  258. ☆
    Mother of All Demos
  259. ☆
    The One Minute Manager
  260. ☆
    Gantenbein by Max Frisch
  261. ☆
    Physics Beyond the Edge (audio)
  262. Inspirata: for what inspires you
  263. Browsing Wikipedia in VR
  264. ☆
    Great Ideas of Philosophy (audio)
  265. Three approaches to VR lens distortion
  266. How to Fail at Almost Everything by Scott Adams
  267. Art of Tidying by Marie Kondo
  268. Embedding VR content on the web
  269. ☆
    The Moral Landscape by Sam Harris
  270. ☆
    A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller Jr
  271. Simulating wealth inequality
  272. ☆
    In Praise of Idleness by Bertrand Russell
  273. ☆
    Gateway by Frederik Pohl
  274. ☆
    Sophie's World by Jostein Gaardner
  275. Sensor fusion and motion prediction
  276. The United States and the Middle East (audio)
  277. Hot bread: delicious or deadly?
  278. UbiComp and ISWC 2015
  279. Science and Human Values
  280. ☆
    Thinking Fast and Slow by Kahnemann & Tversky
  281. Magnetic Input for Mobile VR
  282. ☆
    Skeptic's Guide to American History (audio)
  283. Digital Signal Processing Coursera
  284. ☆
    Understanding the Secrets of Human Perception (audio)
  285. Site redesign, version five
  286. ☆
    John Napier - Hands
  287. Vernor Vinge - Rainbow's End
  288. Spatial audio and web VR
  289. Blue Mind
  290. Responsive WebVR, headset optional
  291. Web Sensor API: raw and uncut
  292. UIST 2014 highlights
  293. Spectrogram and oscillator
  294. Addressable apps
  295. The ebb of the web
  296. Remote controls for web media
  297. UIST 2013 highlights
  298. Responsive image workflow
  299. Ultrasonic networking on the web
  300. Easier link blogging
  301. Installable webapps: extend the sandbox
  302. Gestural music direction
  303. Web Audio book
  304. Really simple social syndication
  305. Interactive touch laptop experiments
  306. From VPS to static hosting
  307. Internet mashup of things
  308. Reusable JavaScript for MVC frameworks
  309. How the web should work
  310. Generalized input on the cross-device web
  311. Platform fertility: open for innovation?
  312. Let's get physical (units)
  313. New design
  314. Backbone and ember
  315. PDF conversion and client-side scraping
  316. A mobile web application tech stack
  317. Hybrid operating systems
  318. Stack Exchange question notifier
  319. UIST 2011 greatest hits
  320. Screen video capture for Chrome OS
  321. Loading large assets in modern HTML5 games
  322. Developing multiplayer HTML5 games with node.js
  323. Global chrome media keys with Key Socket
  324. Extending chrome developer tools
  325. OAuth 2.0 from chrome extensions
  326. Brazil trip
  327. Dynamic chrome extension icons
  328. Crunching numbers for the NHL finals
  329. Chrome developer tools cheatsheet
  330. Multi-touch for your desktop browser
  331. jQuery conference 2011
  332. From Wordpress to Hyde
  333. Chrome media keyboard shortcuts
  334. Chronos: Chrome browsing metrics
  335. SXSW LEGO MINDSTORMS hackathon
  336. Soundsourcing: the sound of the crowd
  337. CrowdForge: crowdsourcing complex tasks
  338. KML tours in Google Earth
  339. Tweetbacks in JavaScript
  340. WebIntent, an Android PhoneGap plugin
  341. jQuery mobile hacker news
  342. PhoneGap games in the Android Market
  343. Chrome extension for thesixtyone
  344. The best question answering sites
  345. An onslaught of mobile HTML games
  346. Instant search in 60 lines
  347. Stairs or elevator? Use bluetooth!
  348. Skip to skip: a running gesture
  349. Minimal business card design
  350. Android-powered mindstorms
  351. Prototyping with Wii remotes in python
  352. Nike+ hacking with python
  353. Jam Hunt: friendly jam sessions
  354. CHI 2010 poster
  355. Lightweight Wordpress on Slicehost
  356. Visualizing MTurk requesters
  357. Crowdsourcing code
  358. Crowdsourcing articles with mechanical turk
  359. Ubiquitous drums
  360. Arduino-nerf mashup
  361. New design
  362. Offline web apps on the iPhone
  363. Never delete your gmail account
  364. Plotting something radial
  365. Extending Google Wave terminology
  366. Generating guitar chord diagrams
  367. Carnegie Mellon University!?
  368. Guitar Unleashed
  369. Prettifying embedded YouTube
  370. Clean drag and drop upload in Safari
  371. iPhone car kit: roll your own
  372. Performance of canvas versus SVG
  373. iWork.com feedback
  374. I see dead CSS
  375. Musical mashups in pure JavaScript
  376. Moving day
  377. Robotic piano playback
  378. The sorry state of HTML mail
  379. Top 5 sessions of Web 2.0 Expo NY