If you were to scan a computer with enough precision, you’re going to find a physical manifestation (physical, electro-magnetic…) to every “1” and “0” inside of the SSD cells, and whatever it is that we think of as purely non-physical “software” still somehow leaves a physical trace everywhere it goes.īack to my original point: I’m fascinated by the “binary code” of the brain. Though if you want to be really precise about it, our digital computers are also united on the hardware-software level. Thankfully our minds are more malleable than that, but we’re also not like a Linux server that can download and run anything and access and modify its own low-level kernel to debug things and make changes. As far as I know, these used to be hard-coded at the hardware level to play a certain game, and couldn’t do anything else. With the human brain, hardware and software are a lot closer to being the same thing in many ways, with physical structures that hard-encode a lot of the ‘software’ that our brains run, which is why we’re all a lot more similar than we’re different - we’re not blank slates that could go in any direction in the vast expanse of possible minds, our brains are evolved organs with a certain shape and architecture that constrains possibilities heavily…Īnyway, this makes our brains more similar to early arcade machines than general purpose computers in some ways. It’s the most useful way to abstract things. With digital computers, we’re used to thinking of hardware and software separately. Thinking about this some more, another aspect of the brain that I find fascinating is the low-level language used to transmit and store data. ? This is follow-up to what I wrote in edition #197 about how our brains perceive 3D space visually and are able to mesh complex data and compress all that info into just a “feeling” that we have that something is close or far, big or small. I already have a couple carbon monoxide (CO) detectors because we have a gas furnace, but this would be more about air quality than safety.Īfter a quick look, I found a few on Amazon that aren’t too expensive, but I wonder if consumer-grade models are sensitive enough to be used to optimize/modulate airflow somewhere (like my office), or if they’re more about warning you of very abnormal situations, but are otherwise not really useful purely to tweak things at the margin.Īnother rabbit hole for another time… ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ ? I recently made a note to research buying a CO2 detector for my home. Google is adding similar concepts to Google Docs, including interactive checklists and quick linking to other documents via an symbol.In theory, theory and practice are the same. 'So, Microsoft Office is changing with the times.' Microsoft isn't the only one rethinking its approach to the document editor as tools like Notion gain traction. 'New kinds of content, formats, and channels demanded more flexible, powerful, and fluid tools to allow everyone to deliver a more impactful message and collaborate at their own pace,' McKelvey wrote. In a blog post, Microsoft 365 General Manager Wangui McKelvey acknowledged that people are looking beyond the confines of Office for their document-editing needs as the world moves to remote and hybrid work. The idea, self-serving as it may be for Microsoft, is that you might still want to create distinct document files that live alongside Loop's free-flowing pages. Users can add links to traditional Word, Excel, and PowerPoint documents, and theyâ(TM)ll appear in the sidebar and as stylized thumbnails inside of Loop pages. But while those other editors want to eliminate Office files entirely, Microsoft acknowledges their persistence by integrating them with Loop. There's a sidebar for toggling between pages, interactive elements including charts and task lists, and the ability to move parts of a document around by dragging and dropping. From a report: On Tuesday, the company announced Microsoft Loop, a new Office app that takes clear inspiration from online collaborative editors, such as Notion and Coda. Microsoft isn't standing still as other companies try to reinvent the document editor.
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