Boris Smus

interaction engineering

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