Joseph Stiglitz explained why he and others got the Nobel prize.

... economists used simple economic models that assumed that information was perfect – i.e. that all participants have equal and transparent knowledge of the relevant factors. They knew that information wasn't perfect, but hoped that a world with moderate imperfections of information would be akin to a world with perfect information. We showed that this notion was ill-founded: even small imperfections of information could have profound effects on how the economy behaved.

Some parts (like the AI bit) didn’t age so well, but this is a fascinating piece by all means. I’m reading part II (the 2021 update) now.

viznut.fi has no HTTPS support, so if your browser complains about it just dismiss the warning and go on like it’s the 1990s… 🖧

This is a collection of random thoughts regarding the application of permacultural ideas to the computer world.

Maintained, extensible, comprehensible, popular, efficient, short config. Do not hoard.

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A tiny volumetric display!

See 953 for a video.

Нередко приходится приводить этот сайт в пример мощного веб-дизайна, сохраню на всякий.

The offpunk repository

A collection of notes.

A month after reading this article, I learned the same thing at the university.

Doldrusidus is an open-ended, obscure simulation realized as a multiplayer game taking place in a small universe. At its core, the engine is a simulation of entities possessing a number of different components that represent their properties. One such property is the ability to emulate machine code assembled for the uxn fantasy architecture.

• https://desertslug.itch.io/doldrusidus

Bitters is an open-source text editor. It's heavily inspired by the Canon Cat computer: it builds on the Cat's novel ideas, and adds some of it's own to the mix!

45M is a uxn-inspired virtual console with a 16x16 display and 256 bytes of memory.

There's also a manual:

• https://45m.m15o.net/manual.html