Ohai!
More on biases
Last issue was all about biases. This week, there's even more biases!
It's a topic that continues to fascinate me. Humans have done some amazing things, but our ability to overestimate and deceive ourselves continues nonetheless. And if you don't know anything about biases, you're wide open to being exploited by them. Hell, even if you know about them, you're still vulnerable, but now you at least have a fighting chance.
~Markus
Programming & Technology
Animated Bézier Curves
If you've ever used bezier curves, and wondered how they worked, this is a wonderful tool to play around with how various curves are generated.
jasondavies.com
The Polyglot's Dilemma
Why the idea of a "journeyman developer", one with broad, but shallow knowledge, might be detrimental to a programmer's career, even though it improves the odds of getting a job.
dzone.com
Cooking & Food
Why You Shouldn't Hesitate to Add More Oil to a Sauté Pan
Basically, letting a pan become too dry means your food won't cook as well, due to the difference in heat transfer.
seriouseats.com
Humans
The 'Busy' Trap
Nowadays, if you ask anyone how they're doing, they'll include the word "busy" in their reply. Except this busyness is our own fault, and doesn't get us anything, except more anxiety and guilt, all in an effort to avoid being bored.
nytimes.com
The advice gold rush
On the Bullshit Industrial Complex and why purpose is still important.
pjrvs.com
Don't let gurus sell you on survivorship bias
On the survivorship bias, or why we regard people who "made it" so highly, and most likely for the wrong reasons.
sjo.com
Avoiding the trap of low-knowledge, high-confidence theories
More on how psychological biases, specifically priming, can influence you when it comes to decision making, and how you can improve the decision making process.
asmartbear.com
Roses are red, violets are insane…
Just to drive home that our brains aren't all that great, here's a very cool optical illusion.
kottke.org
Software
An AI wrote all of David Hasselhoff’s lines in this bizarre short film
Even though the lines are kinda nonsensical, they get the feeling of their training corpus across, and it's amazing how well David Hasselhoff brings his lines to life.
arstechnica.com