Replicating the expeience of using Claude Code

GitHub - eranto/shelter_placement: A repository for an optimal placement of roadside shelters in Israel to protect citizens against ballistic missile attack A repository for an optimal placement of roadside shelters in Israel to protect citizens against ballistic missile attack - eranto/shelter_placement

The GitHub repository includes the code, an Excel sheet detailing the assumptions, and an interactive map. Feel free to explore, download, improve, comment, and share: github.com/eranto/shelt...

map of israel with shelter placement

336 units should suffice, at an estimated cost of 33m NIS. This estimate is based on a classic heuristic (Gonzalez k-center), under several assumptions: shelters have unlimited capacity (an assumption worth revisiting), differences in alert times are ignored, and no traffic congestion >>

While driving out of Tel Aviv with my kids during a missile alarm, I found myself searching for a roadside shelter and coming up empty. That led me to ask: what would it take to ensure that drivers on intercity roads can reach a shelter within 5 minutes? >> eranto.github.io/shelter_plac...

אוף

אוי. מה עם המעלית? אם היא קיימת?

What a terrible conclusion to this great article.

Hashing isn’t a magic incantation that anonymizes your data.

תודה!

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We developed a relatively simple learning algorithm that identifies trademark images and links them to textual information. Thanks to the newspaper’s fixed format, we were able to identify a systematic time-dependent bias, which can shape what we can see digitized sources.

Logos

In the paper, "Temporal bias in historical newspaper digitisation — evidence from reconstructing the British Mandate trademark registry", we describe how we reconstructed a database of trademarks (i.e., logos) from the Palestine Gazette, the official newspaper of the British Mandate government >>

Scanned newspaper

While we were in the shelter, I received an email announcing that my paper, co-authored with Bar Ifrah (whom I supervised on a master’s project) and @birnhack.bsky.social, has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Documentation >>

Eternal Afternoon on Steam Spend one last afternoon exploring your childhood neighborhood before the world ends at 6:38 PM.

The game Eternal Afternoon by Alex Klexber is perfect for these end times. A kid living in some generic housing block has 20 minutes before the world is destroyed in a giant wave. How do you pass the time in the last 20 minutes of your life? Again and again? store.steampowered.com/app/3924170/...

התחלנו לשחק בHaifa - משחק מקסים על חיפה בזמן המלחמה. גיבור המשחק הוא נרי שיוצא לחפש את חברו איברה שנעלם. האווירה קודרת (מלחמה), אבל יש במשחק הרבה יופי חיפאי - על הנופים, האנשים, הרב-תרבותיות, ועוד. חובה לחיפאים/ות ומומלץ מאוד לכל השאר.

זכור לי שאחת המפתחות היתה בבלוסקיי. מישהו זוכר?

This has just been published in “Theory & Society” (formerly) considered THE top #sociology /theory journal, after Springer Nature redid the board, installing Steven Pinker among them. Shame shame shame

Is there even some definition of “parasitic ideas” that’s not taken from something Karl Schmitt had written?

The question, as you well know, is why was Gail’s vandalized and not Burger King. And the article explains pretty well the true reason.

Bain also owns Burger King.

Did you ever stopped to think about what your column means for British Jews? That they can be used as the target for the ire of people because protest against Israel is unsuccessful? That their windows can be smashed? And the sensible people write columns that try to normalize this?

יש משהו לא הוגן בלקיים סקרים בזמן מלחמה. זה לא זמן נורמלי.

But what’s their strategy?

open access funding

Open-access publishing models allow well-funded academic institutions (such as my university) to use their financial resources and purchasing power to give their faculty an unfair advantage in the number of publications and citations. Isn't pay-to-publish more harmful than pay-to-read?

OpenAI is in the big Latex business now x.com/OpenAI/statu...

מאוד מזכיר את ורסאי. המעבר לפרוורים כדרך לבדל את עצמך מההמונים.

This matters because cities often design and promote these systems for certain residents and not others. User-facing digital services tend to cluster in certain neighborhoods, while city-led infrastructure, such as bike-sharing, shows a more equitable distribution.

In a new paper, we show that where you live matters as much as who you are. Using survey data from four very different neighborhoods in Tel Aviv, we find that neighborhood context explains technology adoption far better than demographics alone. >>

Urban technologies, such as digital resident platforms like Tel Aviv’s DigiTel or parking apps, are now common in cities, yet adoption remains uneven despite major public investment. >>

Urban technology journal

We’re happy to announce that our paper, “Place Matters: Neighborhood Effects on Smart City Service Adoption,” has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Urban Technology. >>

Quentin Tarantino on a bike lane in Tel Aviv -- and the city's response

“Let’s make this clear right now: unless you’ve made at least two masterpieces and changed the face of cinema forever — don’t walk on bike lanes.”

Well played, Facebook account of the City of Tel Aviv-Jaffa

So proud of the work we’ve done in CHI’s Privacy and Security subcommittee. It was really a privilege co-chairing this subcommittee with Florian and Emilee. Sadly, our lab’s papers weren’t so lucky.