Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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