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See yesterday’s Links and Antidote du Jour here. This entry was posted in Links on About Lambert Strether Readers, I have had a correspondent characterize my views as realistic cynical. Let me briefly explain them. I believe in universal programs that provide concrete material benefits, especially to the working class. Medicare for All is the prime example, but tuition-free college and a Post Office Bank also fall under this heading. So do a Jobs Guarantee and a Debt Jubilee. Clearly, neither liberal Democrats nor conservative Republicans can deliver on such programs, because the two are d...

SuperWorld Partners With Outlier Ventures News provided by Share this article Share this article LOS ANGELES, May 25, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- SuperWorld, the virtual world in Augmented Reality (AR), today announced that it has joined the Outlier Ventures portfolio of future-forward Web 3.0 companies. With this partnership, SuperWorld will also join other fast-growing, elite startups for the Base Camp Open Metaverse cohort a three-month intensive program with a world-renowned investor and mentor ecosystem that includes some of the biggest names in deep technology, including Fetch, Ocean, Boson...

Stephan Wolfram, is a computer scientist, physicist and the author of "A New Kind of Science."

February 21, 2019 The Pursuit of Productivity I’m a person who’s only satisfied if I feel I’m being productive. I like figuring things out. I like making things. And I want to do as much of that as I can. And part of being able to do that is to have the best personal infrastructure I can. Over the years I’ve been steadily accumulating and implementing “personal infrastructure hacks” for myself. Some of them are, yes, quite nerdy. But they certainly help me be productive. And maybe in time more and more of them will become mainstream, as a few already have.

Infinite Negative Utility September 28, 2014 Apparently, I've got a theme going of Weird Syntax. Let's run with it. Konrad Zuse was an early pioneer in computer science, although his name is perhaps somewhat less well-known than others. Zuse holds the honor of having built the first programmable computer—-the Z3—-back in the 40's, as well as several other computing firsts 1. Of particular interest to this blog post is his early unimplemented programming language, Plankalkül. Plankalkül was, like the Z3, in many respects ahead of its time. Zuse's explicit goal was to be able to describe ...