Daily Shaarli

All links of one day in a single page.

March 12, 2021

Why Mormons Make Great FBI Recruits - Atlas Obscura
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Now that's a fairly surprising situation. In some way this is logical though and can be seen through recent history. Unsurprisingly, this comes with its own clique effects challenges like discrimination or overprotecting "your group".

From Vim to Emacs in Fourteen Days - The Chronicle

I keep having a love/hate relationship with Emacs and thus I tend to stick to Vim. But since everyone is not me and I might revisit the question at some point. Let's have a good path to transition. :-)

Stimulus: A modest JavaScript framework for the HTML you already have.

It looks like an interesting JS framework. I'm not a huge fan of the big ones which force on you how to structure everything... the apparently minimalist nature of that one feels fairly appealing. Of course need to find the contexts where is works and the ones where it doesn't.

Everything You Need to Know About “this” in JavaScript | Hacker Noon
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A good summary and reminder on how complicated something as mundane as this can be. From the callee you never quite know what it'll end up being, it's the call site which matters most.

Self-supervised learning: The dark matter of intelligence
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Interesting account on the recent research around self-supervised learning. In my opinion this is still the early days but already gives some interesting results. A good reminder for me to read up more on the energy-based models. :-)