Google Search is prioritizing ‘helpful content made by, and for, people.’

iOS 16 features a new Find My sound — that’s louder, clearer, and more annoying (it should be so). This might help you find your devices faster.

In the summer of 1956, AI pioneers John McCarthy, Marvin Minsky, Nat Rochester, and Claude Shannon wrote: “The study is to proceed on the basis of the conjecture that every aspect of learning or any other feature of intelligence can in principle be so precisely described that a machine can be made to simulate it. An attempt will be made to find how to make machines use language, form abstractions and concepts, solve kinds of problems now reserved for humans, and improve themselves.” They figured this would take 10 people two months.

…is, in the lack of a better word, strange. When Kent Beck explains how he invented TDD, he claims: «If an idea is good, and turn out to be true, somebody else will have done it; but, if an idea is stupid, you have a chance that nobody else is dumb enough to try it, then, if it happens to work, you really have something.» He literally describes TDD as a stupid idea.

He was the manager but without the title and its weight

“These violent delights have violent ends.”