Ansh Arora
What I read this week #2

What I read this week #2

Published on: 2024-07-14

The Butterfly Effect


On a winter day 50 years ago, Edward Lorenz, a mild-mannered meteorology professor at MIT, entered some numbers into a computer program simulating weather patterns and then left his office to get a cup of coffee while the machine ran. When he returned, he noticed a result that would change the course of science.



Related: The Butterfly effect in technology


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Kailash Nadh



"Free as in sexist?" Free culture and the gender gap


Despite the values of freedom and openness, the free culture movement exhibits the same (or worse) imbalance in female participation as the computing culture from which it arose.



Microsoft is dead [2007] - Paul Graham


also Microsoft is dead (cliffs notes)



Chart of the century


Everything in red is regulated in such a way that market forces don’t apply freely.

Blue lines are unencumbered. https://t.co/GCK8Ubl82R

— tobi lutke (@tobi) July 13, 2024