New blog post:
"Higher orders need higher standards"
https://skewed.de/lab/posts/higher-standards
I discuss our current work disentangling misconceptions around "higher-order" networks.
I know git doesn't track renames. I know it constructs them from adds and deletes. I know my repo has lots of similar (not identical!) boilerplate files ... I still renamed a bunch of directories and was surprised that merging this change into existing feature branches produced phantom changes that existed on neither branch!!
Here's the blog post: https://lornajane.net/posts/2026/git-renames-are-not-renames
"Ungleichheit zerstört nicht nur Solidarität, sie schwächt auch die Wirtschaft. Wenn Talente verloren gehen und soziale Herkunft über Lebenswege entscheidet, verlieren Unternehmen, Staat und Gesellschaft. Ungleichheit ist kein Motor – sie ist eine Wachstumsbremse."
Marcel Fratzscher
#Ungleichheit
Anthropic's data shows software engineering accounts for ~50% of its AI agent tool calls; the remaining verticals are greenfields most founders are overlooking (Garry Tan/Garry's List)
https://garryslist.org/posts/half-the-ai-agent-market-i…
Posts by PMs claiming they can now contribute complete features by vibe coding is the scariest shit ever. Not as an engineer but as an inhabitant of this world.
I understand Dunning-Kruger is not a thing but we NEED a term for this kind of ignorance-based overconfidence.
stackoverflow: Stack Overflow favorites (2011)
A bipartite network of users and the posts they have favorited, from the online Q&A site Stack Overflow. An edge (i,j) connects a user i to a post j if that user "favorited" that post (a kind of a rating). Edges are timestamped.
This network has 641876 nodes and 1301942 edges.
Tags: Economic, Preferences, Unweighted, Timestamps
If you ever feel like you aren’t achieving as much as you want to, just remember there are people out there who are content with having read just one book in their lives, convinced it means they know everything there is to know about the world.
That said, try not to dwell on the fact that they’re the ones running the world right now or you might feel bad again.
(Sorry, I clearly shouldn’t be writing inspirational posts.)
Wintersterfte onder honingbijen zorgelijk hoog: 28 verschillende pesticiden gevonden
https://www.rtl.nl/nieuws/binnenland/artikel/5592624/wintersterfte-onder-honingbijen-opnieuw-alarmerend-hoog
⬆️ dit soort zaken zijn een belangrijke reden dat ik zoveel mogelijk biologische honing koop. In de praktijk honing met een veel duidelijker eigen smaak.
Niet dus zo'n algemene 'nergens naar smakende' goedkope honing.
POSTDOC> 2026-2028 Ho Center for Buddhist Studies at Stanford Postdoctoral Fellowship https://networks.h-net.org/group/announcements/20138845/2026-2028-ho-center-buddhist-studies-stanford-postdoctoral-fellowship
TIL that you can store WiFi Credentials on an NFC tag and people can scan this tag to connect to your WiFi. https://mdias.info/posts/a-geeks-approach-to-guest-wifi/
...on Android. iOS does not support this, it seems. 😩
Also, I felt like I had found a kindred spirit …