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A mostly automated roundup of what the Yak Collective was up to this week. Yaks can jump on the server to join in. If you’re not yet a member, consider joining.

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Astonishing Stories. Fiction study group that occasionally publishes speculative fiction

General Discussion. I’m looking to assemble a computing reading starter pack that contains, at most, 10 books. Assume, say, an undergrad level of familiarity with computer science and programming. What ten texts are up for inclusion? / Anyone interested in a decentralized finance study group? thinking about starting one up / Anyone interested in regular weekly coworking sessions?

Infrastructure. how hard would it be to write the readingadd url list to a spreadsheet? reflecting on the governance chat exercise we just did, starting to summarize/tag a year’s worth of readings to make a summary whitepaper, it strikes me that piping link shares into a spreadsheet creates a very useful starting point in general, for many accumulating value conversations

New Old Home and Country. Making a call for interesting case studies in the emergent roles & projects spun up or faltered during the course of the pandemic. This would begin as a slide presentation just like last year’s The New Old Home and could go for there to multimedia formats.

Online Governance Studies. Today‘s coworking session on the 6-pager. Agenda: 10 minutes reading, 10 minutes comments, 40 minutes working on the spreadsheet together (should be obvious what we‘re trying to do from the spreadsheet, but I‘ll provide some direction). But just for fun, we'll also do a very quick reading/discussion too of a very relevant article, as we attempt to do this... Metacrap: Putting the torch to seven straw-men of the meta-utopia - Cory Doctorow

Philosophy. we are currently on hiatus; I'll have a time confirmed this week for the beginning of the next which will be early July

Quantum Computing. Would anyone be interested in a project or study group on quantum computing? I don’t have a specific direction in mind, but with tools like Qiskit https://qiskit.org/ it looks not so hard to play around and do something interesting.

Yakfit. Exploring wearables and fitness goals for yaks.

yak rover updates

This week‘s meeting notes.

Nature is Murder. Got started on CAD model of the actual final design, ordered a bunch more goodies. Boot up the BBBlue and get to led blink on it. CAD is an REPL even though it doesn't look like it

Wonderful Wandering Growth. debugged video source duplication (for streaming, dual access to images) and googledrive and twitter integrations. wrote some underlying code for twitter usability. finish tweepy based twitter integration. using tools/libraries with version 0.X is "fun"

Abio Flex Wanderer. Tentative coding on BOS to cover goal modeling and planning in the bot. The context is for the bot to "discover" what to do when it cannot progress (e.g. never walked up stairs, how to). Continue on BOS tentatives, and complete what I could not this week on the OAK-1 camera. Remote access to the bot is down, and I lost my opportunities this week to deal with the OAK-1 configuration. A discussion with Maier on my work compared my approach to SLAM (the now famous problem definition). In fact this work could be seen as some form of SLAM for concepts/knowledge. Tentatively calling it CLAM.

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Venkatesh Rao @vgr
Hehe triple-hybrid test assembly: CAD printout, pen lines on paper, some actual components. This could be an art form.
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8:50 PM ∙ Jun 20, 2021

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Current gigs. Details on the server.

Was asked to spread word about this position at the Exeter Ed Incubator - part of the prestigious University of Exeter. It’s a remote job, but you’ll need to based in the UK. id 14

I am looking for a product engineer to work on a new headphone project I am looking to get off the ground. essentially the idea is modular over ear headphones where if anyone any one part breaks then as part of a subscription you can get a replacement part without having to replace the whole thing. id 18

looking for a graphic designer who can take technical process and architecture diagrams and make them look attractive. id 19

Client is looking for a react-native front-end dev for a 2 week UI sprint towards launch. id 20

cool job alert: Linktree is hiring a Head of Creators and a friend is leading the recruiting for the role. who’s the right person for the job? id 23

came across this 6 week research project for a food business thought someone here might be interested. id 26

Urban tech startup is looking for a contract mobile developer, for a small project, to get an app on the app stores (it’s a single-task app for sensor installers, with no commercial activity on the app) id 29

Justice tech startup is hiring a Product Designer! id 30


yaks at work

The Ultimate Guide & Reasons To Take A Sabbatical
Communal computing, part 1. How do we build devices that are shared… | by Chris Butler | Medium
Transduction — leading transformation — Issue #2 | by Benjamin P. Taylor | Medium
Links for June, 2021 - What I’m Reading
Making sense of systems change and systems leadership | by Benjamin P. Taylor | Medium
Building a healthier internet with Jeremy Hurst, co-founder of Idenati - Ness Labs
spring-summer-2020
What I learned from 100 intentional LinkedIn posts | by Benjamin P. Taylor | | Medium
In world of infinite overlapping possibility and multiple, irreconcilable differences, what does #education mean? | by Benjamin P. Taylor | Medium
An ode to slowness: the benefits of slowing down - Ness Labs
Accidental Designs – 1 - Ribbonfarm Studio

links shared

Astonishing Stories: Weird is part of the job
Roam Research – A note taking tool for networked thought.
Yak Collective Calendar
Critical Business School
Playing with RISC-V #shorts - YouTube
Qiskit Learn
76: Comparative Analysis of Organizations – Charles Perrow – (1967) Talking About Organizations Podcast | Systems Community of Inquiry
Refactoring
Ideas That Created the Future | The MIT Press
503 - Service Unavailable Error
fast.ai · Making neural nets uncool again
The History of Clarus the Dogcow – 512 Pixels
The Fart Limit #shorts - YouTube
Facebook
Archaeologists recreated three common kinds of Paleolithic cave lighting | Ars Technica
Twitter Rallies Behind HBO Max Intern Blamed for Test Email Accidentally Sent to Subscribers
Apply for the CabinDAO Creator Residency Program — Mirror
Who wants to run a B2B SaaS startup?
Diagram Transformation — The Sub Bench
Kurt Daradics ⚡ on LinkedIn: Head of Creators - Linktree
Numina | Know Your Streets - Multimodal data for urban planners & facilities managers
Paladin
Product Designer. Remote | by Felicity Conrad | Paladin | Medium
The Norwich Conference Network » WARRIOR, WALDGAENGER, ANARCH
Eumeswil - Wikipedia
RUF - Chrome
Governance Chat 6-pager - Google
Qiskit
Quantum computing for the determined | Michael Nielsen
Quantum Country
Shtetl-Optimized » Quantum
Learn quantum computing: a field guide - IBM Quantum
Composer - IBM Quantum
Animation Obsessive
Travis McGee - Wikipedia
Astonishing Stories
Adactio: Journal—Notified
Company Starts Shipping Its $50,000 Mind-Reading Helmet
michael jantzen unveils five experimental greenhouses from 1972 to 1980
Weekend Linkages: Regime of Signs | Root Simple
‎inspectAR PCB Tools on the App Store
Slab - Knowledge Base & Wiki That Democratizes Knowledge
Slab - Your Team’s Long Term Memory
Alison Gopnik on the different (and similar) ways robots and children learn - The Robot Brains Podcast | Podcast on Spotify
Desoldering Header Pins - Collin’s Lab Notes #adafruit #collinslabnotes - YouTube
Small 6V 1W Solar Panel - Silver : ID 3809 : $19.95 : Adafruit Industries, Unique & fun DIY electronics and kits
Extending the RISC-V architecture with domain specific accelerators - Embedded.com
Acoustic simultaneous localization and mapping (A-SLAM) of a moving microphone array and its surrounding speakers | IEEE Conference Publication | IEEE Xplore
To build in public or not… that’s the question, eh? | by Kanika Tibrewala | Jun, 2021 | UX Collective
Alison Gopnik The Gardener and the Carpenter
Buttondown’s API schema
Buttondown Integrations | Connect Your Apps with Zapier
On Rover Languages · Discussion #3 · rhettg/stubborn · GitHub
Embedded EcoSystem for Rovers - Beyond Arduinos - to edit - العروض التقديمية من Google
Yak Rover Weekly Standup
Record a video meeting - Google Meet Help
Fomu | Crowd Supply
Amazon SageMaker Neo
Apache TVM
GitHub - abcminiuser/avr-tutorials: LaTeX typeset versions of my popular AVR Tutorials.
Motionographer Hold me, I’m scared: Your guide to navigating the hold system
FreeRTOS - Real-time operating system for microcontrollers - AWS
The µLab Kiwi Aims to Simplify FPGA Programming, Offers a Quick-Start Smart Project Generator - Hackster.io
OrangeCrab: A Formidable Feature-Packed FPGA Feather - Hackster.io
Starlink review: dreams, not reality - The Verge
Revealed: why animals’ pupils come in different shapes and sizes
Revealed: why animals’ pupils come in different shapes and sizes
Analog electronic design without the trial and horror – Bits&Chips
Search for Life: NASA JPL Explores Martian-Like Caves - YouTube
What is the difference between a fast computing system and a real-time computing system? - Quora
Hyundai x Boston Dynamics | As mobility evolves so does humanity - YouTube
Modern Microprocessors - A 90-Minute Guide!
Unitree - Go1
This $2,700 robot dog will carry a single bottle of water for you - The Verge
Unitree A1 Quadruped Robot
Thermocline - Wikipedia
Reterritorialization — Part 2 — The Individual | by Accelerating Meltdown | Bleeding Into Reality | Medium
The Alignment System - True Neutral
Partial Common Ownership - RadicalxChange
Stewardship of global collective behavior | PNAS
11 strategies for keeping your coliving community clean - Supernuclear
The 9 types of people you find in coliving - Supernuclear
Group decision-making in coliving - Supernuclear
The Time Machine - Wikipedia
GitHub - HewlettPackard/swarm-learning
Build and Fund the Open Web Together | Gitcoin
III. CBDCs: an opportunity for the monetary system
How Haier Works - Video Animation - YouTube
‘At first I thought, this is crazy’: the real-life plan to use novels to predict the next war | Life and style | The Guardian
Zira
/r/Productivity
Yak Bot Project · GitHub
Blog – Wider.Team
Phil Wolff – Wider.Team
Scripting News: Wednesday, June 23, 2021
Nakatomi Space – BLDGBLOG
Yak trails 2021-06-20 | Project exhausts and Discord convos
Color Combinations - mymind
BSAG » Exporting references from Zotero to Tiddlywiki
Orger: plaintext reflection of your digital self | beepb00p
Notes to Self - Phil - This wiki now lives at https://youneedastereo.com/
Using DevTools to Tweak Designs in the Browser | CSS-Tricks
Yak trails 2021-06-20 - Yak Talk

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oldeuropeanculture @serbiaireland
A bucranium coin minted in Lamponeia, Troad (Troas) in 6th century BC... en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lamponeia en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troad en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucranium
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9:16 AM ∙ Jun 20, 2021
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Venkatesh Rao @vgr
My patience for project management level of procedural meta thinking is at a lifetime low... just wanna fingerspiutzengefuhl my way through shit in a well-appointed environment that magically translates vague intentions into quality output with nothing in between
6:08 PM ∙ Jun 17, 2021
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Chase Saunders @MaineFrameworks
Reports of Organized Fraud in ACM/IEEE Conferences. medium.com/@tnvijayk/pote…
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2:02 PM ∙ Jun 9, 2020
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Paul Graham @paulg
"Those lucky enough to have become full professors — supposedly the light at the end of the tunnel for struggling junior scholars — spend just 17 per cent of their time on their own research."
timeshighereducation.comIf you love research, academia may not be for youDutch figures show just how little time professors get for their own research. It may be easier to pursue your intellectual interests outside the university system, says THE reporter David Matthews
5:03 PM ∙ Jun 13, 2021
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Luca Dellanna @DellAnnaLuca
@paulg Academia is a "good spot for research" (as per the parable below)
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GuruAnaerobic @GuruAnaerobic
A popular fishing spot, but not because of the fish. https://t.co/em4pHVPfXd
8:19 AM ∙ Jun 18, 2021
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RealClearScience @RCScience
An ancient giant ‘rhino’ was truly giant. " The 26-foot-long (8 meters) beast had a shoulder height of 16.4 feet (5 m), and it weighed as much as 24 tons (21.7 metric tons).” via @LiveScience realclearscience.com/articles/2021/…
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1:30 PM ∙ Jun 18, 2021
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Sarah Constantin @s_r_constantin
🧵: One like = one piece of advice from Wine Mom Sarah to the youths (Specific questions also welcome)
9:20 PM ∙ Jun 16, 2021
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ᗪᗩᐯᕮ SᑎOᗯᗪᕮᑎ 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿 🇪🇺 @snowded
Idle moments while elevating infected foot and using icepack; playing with a matrix to position various consultants, exorcists and shallow thinkers
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4:08 PM ∙ Jun 19, 2021
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Shift @shift_org
Pls share: *Calling Researchers!* We're looking for a #researcher to design the #evaluation approach, data collection & analysis plan for our #foodventure. 6 week project starting immediately. For more info & how to respond take a look over here 👇 shiftdesign.org/careers/
shiftdesign.orgCareers - ShiftCurrent Vacancies Introduce yourself We always need great people with different skill sets. Feel free to get in touch and ...
4:46 PM ∙ Apr 14, 2021
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Junye Huang @HuangJunye
We were blown away by the creativity and enthusiasms of #IBMQuantumChallenge participants! Who knows what might happen if we devised a challenge to tackle an unsolved problem in the research field?
research.ibm.comIBM Quantum Challenge generates better solutions than challenge creators thought possible | IBM Research BlogFrom May 20 to 26, 1,431 people from 76 countries participated in the IBM Quantum Challenge 2021, a celebration for 5-year anniversary of IBM Quantum and 40 years of quantum computing.
4:28 PM ∙ Jun 18, 2021
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Rob Henderson @robkhenderson
Dan Harmon on writer's block news.ycombinator.com/item?id=230926…
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10:21 PM ∙ Jun 17, 2021
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Federico Campagna @FedCampagna
Really happy to launch my first podcast series, "Overmorrow’s Library"! Each episode in the library for "the day after tomorrow" presents a book that engages with the challenge of world-making, with the end-time of a world, or with the eternal unworldly. e-flux.com/announcements/…
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Centre d'Art Contemporain Genève @cacgeneve
NEW PODCAST on the 5th Floor! We are pleased to launch “Overmorrow’s Library”, a new podcast series by Federico Campagna. Discover the first three episodes with Franco Berardi Bifo now. And keep an eye for our weekly update on Thursdays! NOW ONLINE: https://t.co/3Hn2VSpiEd https://t.co/04UZSI9kh2
3:53 PM ∙ Nov 19, 2020
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Sachin @SachinB91
wonder if there are no new genres of fiction because there is no longer a need for sublimation of beliefs through fiction. Whatever crazy/taboo thing you believe you would have better luck finding other people by starting a subreddit or a conspiracy theory
7:11 PM ∙ Jun 24, 2021
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Noah Smith 🐇 @Noahpinion
1/Just for fun, here's a thread comparing retrofuturist art from the mid 20th century with the reality today! Some sources of art: 1. gizmodo.com/42-visions-for… 2.
pinterest.comPin on Retro FutureStep right up ladies and germs, and feast your eyes on the world of tomorrow!
4:12 PM ∙ Jun 20, 2021
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Phil Pawlett Jackson @ppawlettjackson
@meekaale @visakanv @michaelcurzi Alexander has a number of pieces in APL which allude to intergenerationality like Teenager's Cottage. There is an emergent typology of dualfrontdoor homes serving the grannyflat + boomerangkids + airbnbsublet. I'd like to see this APL'd.
11:17 AM ∙ Jun 25, 2021
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Venkatesh Rao @vgr
Little thread on what’s one of the harder hands-on engineering things I’ve done in my life. A real test of dexterity and eyesight: crimping a wire to put in a connector. A JST PH connector to be precise. What’s crimping? Here is an expert tutorial
iotexpert.comJST Connector Crimping Insanity – IoT Expert
11:56 PM ∙ Jun 18, 2021
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i_king_of_ml @ikingofml1
Tencent officially launched the first complete self-developed multi-modal quadruped robot #deeplearning #machinelearning #datascience #artificialintelligence #100DaysOfCode #BlackTechTwitter #Microsoft #30Daysofcode #Unity初心者 #arkit #unity3d #innovation #robot #robotics #ux
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2:59 AM ∙ Mar 15, 2021
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Venkatesh Rao @vgr
When did cheap C-flavored microcontroller boards first appear? Was Arduino the first one? How much did an Arduino equivalent boards cost in the 90s and aughts? I remember an Atmel board that was around $300 in 2006.
1:55 AM ∙ Jun 10, 2021
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AnandTech @anandtech
Intel to Create RISC-V Development Platform with SiFive P550 Cores on 7nm in 2022 trib.al/Yz88pgx Intel Licenses SiFive’s Portfolio for Intel Foundry Services on 7nm trib.al/dNfhYtF
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1:20 PM ∙ Jun 22, 2021
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Massimo @Rainmaker1973
The Modular Robotic Vehicle developed by NASA is well-suited for busy urban environments. The driver relies on control inputs being converted to electrical signals and transmitted by wire to the motors within the vehicle ow.ly/CKFv30oyzBw [video: ow.ly/JmmB30oyzC8]
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6:00 AM ∙ Jun 25, 2021
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David Lang @davidtlang
@vgr @inaturalist Long story! Short story is knockoffs flooded the market: amazon.com/s?k=underwater… They got better very fast, and much cheaper. But underwater drones are now more accessible than ever, which was the goal!
amazon.comAmazon.com : underwater drones
4:18 AM ∙ Jun 26, 2021
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C𐃏rtex Futura 🚢 9/30 Atomic Essays @cortexfutura
#roamans, what's the currently preferred way of reading .epub ebooks, making notes and getting things into Roam on iOS (yes, very specific question 😁)? I've been using Marvin but the last update was three years ago and I'm looking for something better. apps.apple.com/us/app/marvin-…
apps.apple.com‎Marvin 3Refined by years of reader feedback and suggestions, Marvin 3 is the sequel to the acclaimed eBook reader for your iPhone and iPad. With over 150 new features and enhancements, Marvin is the perfect companion for people who are passionate about their books and comics. Get Marvin and find out why rea…
8:03 AM ∙ Jun 25, 2021
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RoamHacker - exploring PKM and its future @roamhacker
@cortexfutura Few years ago I used MarginNote for ePub with great success. I also know some #roamans using it today. I haven’t used it for a while, but it advertises multiple format outputs.
apps.apple.com‎MarginNote 3MarginNote 3, all brand new e-reader to better study and digest your books Integrating powerful tools for book annotation, mindmapping, flashcards and more, to build up your reading notes as never before. ============================================ Welcome to MarginNote. This is a highly powerful …
8:09 AM ∙ Jun 25, 2021
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Federico Gaggio @federicogg
@cortexfutura Currently using Apple's Books and @readwiseio to transfer highlights and notes into Roam
help.readwise.ioHow do I import Apple Books highlights from my iPhone/iPad?To import highlights from Apple Books on your iPhone or iPad: Launch the Apple Books app on your device Open the book you want to import Select the overview scr
8:31 AM ∙ Jun 25, 2021
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