Bookmarks

From 2017: A biologist believes that trees speak a language we can learn I haven’t followed up yet on the book being written about here, but I do have the general sense that we’re going to be surprised how many living things this will end up being true of. This is a large part of why machine learning is interesting to me. If it’s about nothing else, machine learning is all about pattern recognition–finding patterns that are too complex for us to find on our own, or in a latent space that we aren’t really able to comprehend. Like non-human communication.

I have about 3,000 web bookmarks I’ve collected over the years. The current collection started somewhere around 2010. I had them in Pinboard for a while, then moved over to Raindrop.io. I treat bookmarks they way most people do: Find an interesting web page somewhere. Say to myself “Wow, that looks neat! Maybe important! I need to read that!”. Bookmark it. Let the bookmark sit unused for several years. So maybe it’s time to go off-script. My hope is to every so often to pull up a randomly-fetched bookmark, finally read whatever it’s pointing to, and post it here with or without some trenchant commentary.