Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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