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My current subscription list includes; Wired -- has slipped a bit, I worry they have lost the will to cover cutting edge. Smithsonian -- a wide variety of top
by ChuckMcM 5y ago
My current subscription list includes;
Wired -- has slipped a bit, I worry they have lost the will to cover cutting edge.
Smithsonian -- a wide variety of topics, some tech, some archeologh etc.
Smithsonian Air & Space -- (now quarterly :-() which has good space technology as well as interesting stories of both military and civilian aircraft.
Science News -- which culls from a lot of journals and finds interesting papers to highlight (I will often follow up on an article by writing to the researchers for copies of their papers)
Popular Science, Popular Mechanics -- These have become remarkably similar in their content focus, that said they keep me up to date on a lot of commercial gizmos that I might otherwise miss in the noise.
QST (part of the ARRL membership) -- Which is all about Amateur Radio and so it hits a lot of interesting topics as I continue to explore software defined radios both in theory and in practice.
I use Scansnap scanner and paper guillotine to save articles that I find either particularly interesting, or I am curious if they will go anywhere. There are many interesting "over night" revolutions that appear years earlier as some sort of "wouldn't it be cool if ..." article. Indexing them is a pain, my indexing foo is weak :-).
- WalterBright 5y ago> Indexing them is a pain, my indexing foo is weak OCR them, then `grep`
- ChuckMcM 5y agoSadly this is not nearly as effective as one might like, even with soundex hacks (or Levenshtein distance hacks). When I joined Google they had a class/project for new hires that taught the map reduce system which was to process the complete works of Shakespeare (it is an easy corpus to get online) and come up with an index to extract interesting information or find specific quotes etc. It was a good way to develop an intuition for some of the challenges. Some things that bite you are of course spelling errors and OCR errors and sometimes formatting things (like where a line break ended up). There are strategies for overcoming those (some more effective than others) but as you dig into the problem you can develop a good feel for the complexity.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y agoInteresting, Wired has a Pinterest channel, but no Telegram channel. Thankfully, they still have an RSS feed, so added it to Telegram through rss bot.
- ComodoHacker 5y agoWhat bot are you using? The ones I tried quickly became unbearable because of annoying ads.
- Jaruzel 5y agoI've recently written a basic telegram bot. It really is quite trivial; could be easily done via a bash script calling cURL and installed as a cron job.
- EVa5I7bHFq9mnYK 5y ago@rss2tg_bot
- basisword 5y agoI find this quite interesting - is it common for publications/websites to have Telegram channels now? Is this to use it as an RSS reader?
- ComodoHacker 5y agoIt's common in countries where Telegram is popular.
- tinyprojects 5y agoI'm glad I'm not the only one who thinks WIRED has gone down hill a bit recently.
- rileymat2 5y agoBy recently, do you mean 2005?
- ttul 5y agoI once owned most of the Wired magazines from 1995-1999. I stupidly sold them on eBay.
- rileymat2 5y agoI had a subscription for a long time, I think I cancelled in 2008 after being unhappy for a while. The worst one was Scientific American, I loved that one, and it dove worse.
- znpy 5y agoAround that time I bought two or three issues (of the italian edition) due to it being often cited. I wasn't thrilled at all. It honestly seemed like it was written by some recently-graduated (so like a twenty-something) tech enthusiast. A lot of willingness to spend moneys on the latest gizmos, a lot of advertising, very little interesting pieces (and none of them went any deep on the topic).
- gompertz 5y agoNo kidding on 2005. I now only associate this magazine for mostly wannabe managers who want to read some entry-level article (likely while on an airplane), who go into their next monthly meeting spouting off what they passively read with little real understanding of the subject.
- ryeguy_24 5y agoI’m still pissed that they cheapened the cover material. Used to be that amazing thick rugged cover. Plus, I’m much less excited to read it in the last year or two than previous 20 years.