On this day: 13 Feb

Posts made on this day (and the previous 2 weeks) from the archives.

12 Feb

• Anxious feelings about optimisation through complexity
  14.50, Friday 12 Feb 2021
  721 words, 4 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: complexity

• Filtered for things to watch
  10.25, Monday 12 Feb 2018
  209 words, 9 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• Filtered for Muybridge and Moorcock
  10.19, Thursday 12 Feb 2015
  775 words, 14 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• 30_year_prediction
  09.46, Monday 12 Feb 2007
  149 words, 4 links

11 Feb

• Extending AI chat with Model Context Protocol (and why it matters)
  13.13, Tuesday 11 Feb 2025
  2,995 words, 24 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2025, 5-most-popular-in-2025

• Playing board games, thinking about Excel: Wingspan Edition
  18.06, Friday 11 Feb 2022
  1,315 words, 8 links

• first_dates_and_monkeys
  18.37, Friday 11 Feb 2011
  143 words, 3 links

• next_up
  16.31, Monday 11 Feb 2008
  165 words, 16 links

10 Feb

• A notification center for progress bars that sounds like birdsong
  15.37, Friday 10 Feb 2023
  1,294 words, 4 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: sound-and-music, speculative-in-2023

• Memexes, mountain lakes, and the serendipity of old ideas
  19.42, Wednesday 10 Feb 2021
  1,050 words, 18 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2021

• the_visual_cortex_of_developing_ferrets
  00.06, Sunday 10 Feb 2008
  555 words, 13 links

9 Feb

• Singularities and jackpots and fugues
  21.00, Wednesday 9 Feb 2022
  1,634 words, 9 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: comets, eschatology

• Filtered for TIL
  18.54, Monday 9 Feb 2015
  753 words, 7 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: filtered-for

• twitter_parade
  12.07, Wednesday 9 Feb 2011
  76 words, 6 links

• tiny_nasty_extra_face
  12.20, Wednesday 9 Feb 2011
  74 words, 2 links

• impro
  22.24, Saturday 9 Feb 2008
  1,090 words, 5 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts

8 Feb

• Animals driving cars and other jobs
  10.43, Monday 8 Feb 2021
  408 words, 6 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts

• sim_social_network
  20.07, Tuesday 8 Feb 2011
  991 words, 12 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

7 Feb

• Filtered for minimum viable identity
  17.55, Friday 7 Feb 2025
  970 words, 15 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts
  Tagged: filtered-for, multiplayer, robots

• The startling mundanity of robot cars
  19.22, Wednesday 7 Feb 2024
  1,471 words, 2 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• New thing! Browse the BBC In Our Time archive by Dewey decimal code
  18.17, Tuesday 7 Feb 2023
  1,208 words, 14 links
  Has 9 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2023, 5-most-popular-in-2023, gpt-3, in-our-time-episode-mentions

• hamster_exoskeleton
  12.32, Monday 7 Feb 2011
  343 words, 8 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• speaking_about_robots_feb_16
  18.10, Monday 7 Feb 2011
  85 words, 4 links

6 Feb

• The best event I’ve ever attended
  17.16, Friday 6 Feb 2015
  407 words, 3 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• questions_for_dolphins
  20.40, Sunday 6 Feb 2011
  149 words, 4 links

• new_presentation_online
  12.18, Wednesday 6 Feb 2008
  69 words, 4 links

5 Feb

• Filtered for tortoises and galaxies
  10.16, Thursday 5 Feb 2015
  482 words, 9 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

4 Feb

• The ancient Thames
  15.45, Friday 4 Feb 2022
  597 words, 5 links
  Tagged: in-our-time-episode-mentions

• Dowsing the collective unconscious with GPT-3
  17.01, Thursday 4 Feb 2021
  614 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post
  Tagged: dowsing-the-collective-unconscious, functional-divination, gpt-3

• Filtered for networks
  13.07, Wednesday 4 Feb 2015
  584 words, 6 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• japanese_fighting_robots
  10.27, Friday 4 Feb 2011
  166 words, 2 links

• why_rockets_wont_go_away
  12.13, Friday 4 Feb 2011
  315 words, 1 link

• computer_time
  13.37, Friday 4 Feb 2011
  166 words, 2 links

• best_conference_ever
  17.40, Monday 4 Feb 2008
  620 words, 9 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

3 Feb

• hypnosis_wrestling
  13.09, Thursday 3 Feb 2011
  57 words, 2 links

2 Feb

• Let’s think of some new vices to tax
  18.47, Tuesday 2 Feb 2021
  1,162 words, 5 links
  Has 1 follow-up post

• Consensus cosmogony
  16.39, Monday 2 Feb 2015
  475 words, 4 links
  Has 3 follow-up posts
  Tagged: eschatology

1 Feb

• Poem/1: 48 hours on Kickstarter
  10.02, Thursday 1 Feb 2024
  553 words, 8 links
  Has 4 follow-up posts
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2024, that-ai-clock-and-so-on

• Maybe buying and selling colours isn’t entirely nonsense
  21.00, Tuesday 1 Feb 2022
  1,304 words, 5 links
  Tagged: kinda-about-colour

• Golems, smart objects, and the file metaphor
  20.52, Monday 1 Feb 2021
  2,011 words, 13 links
  Has 5 follow-up posts
  Tagged: speculative-in-2021, yes-to-interoperability

• Filtered for some nice words
  10.20, Monday 1 Feb 2016
  348 words, 8 links
  Tagged: filtered-for

• Augustus and Caesarion
  11.55, Monday 1 Feb 2016
  204 words, 7 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• yellow_lines_and_self_signalling
  09.13, Tuesday 1 Feb 2011
  367 words, 3 links

• 100_year_artifact_spirits
  18.46, Tuesday 1 Feb 2011
  712 words, 9 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

• books_read_in_jan_2011
  20.08, Tuesday 1 Feb 2011
  83 words, 4 links

31 Jan

• The sword in the stone and the lady of the lake are blacksmithery, or nanotech
  16.30, Tuesday 31 Jan 2023
  726 words, 3 links
  Tagged: 20-most-popular-in-2023, speculative-in-2023, taking-magic-seriously

• Filtered for blue in history
  20.05, Monday 31 Jan 2022
  787 words, 9 links
  Tagged: filtered-for, kinda-about-colour, sound-and-music

• books_read_january_2008
  18.00, Thursday 31 Jan 2008
  102 words, 9 links
  Has 2 follow-up posts

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