Against Rereading(theparisreview.org)

55 points by lermontov 2 years ago | 39 comments

Kurt Vonnegut's House Is Not Haunted(theparisreview.org)

39 points by prismatic 2 years ago | 16 comments

J. G. Ballard’s brilliant, “not good” writing(theparisreview.org)

108 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 56 comments

The Silurian Hypothesis (2020)(theparisreview.org)

51 points by andsoitis 3 months ago | 93 comments

Fernando Pessoa’s Unselving(theparisreview.org)

71 points by Caiero 3 years ago | 12 comments

“The Dead Silence of Goods”: Annie Ernaux and the Superstore(theparisreview.org)

19 points by Amorymeltzer 3 years ago | 19 comments

Artificial intelligence is losing hype(economist.com)

453 points by bx376 2 years ago | 663 comments

An Economist Free exchange column arguing that artificial intelligence is losing hype and asking whether that signals the technology will eventually succeed.

The Corporate Happiness Treadmill and the Case for Doing Less(0xff.nu)

37 points by hxii 15 days ago | 31 comments

A personal blog essay arguing against the corporate pursuit of constant growth and happiness, advocating for doing less at work to avoid burnout.

Ozempic is changing the foods Americans buy(news.cornell.edu)

411 points by giuliomagnifico 9 months ago | 748 comments

Cornell Chronicle article on research finding that GLP-1 drugs like Ozempic and Wegovy are associated with reductions in Americans' grocery and food purchases.

I miss thinking hard(jernesto.com)

1166 points by jernestomg 8 months ago | 633 comments

A personal blog post venting that the author rarely spends days thinking hard about difficult problems anymore, tagged as an opinion piece on AI.

The characters of plastics (2024)(yarchive.net)

19 points by thelastgallon 23 days ago | 4 comments

A 2024 blog post comparing common plastic types such as polyethylene and nylon to human characters, explaining their chemical properties and uses.

So you want to parse a PDF?(eliot-jones.com)

369 points by UglyToad 1 year ago | 199 comments

Blog post by Eliot Jones explaining how PDF parsing should work per the spec, covering headers, cross-reference tables, object offsets and trailers, and its real-world pitfalls.