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Terence Tao on the paradox of solving mathematical problems
5+ day, 18+ hour ago (168+ words) Mathematician Terence Tao, a 2006 Fields Medal winner and professor at UCLA, discusses with Big Think solving problems with AI and the process of finding solutions without. By using AI to effectively skip over the mistakes, challenges, and learning towards a…...
Trustworthy data visualization
3+ week, 8+ hour ago (138+ words) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpj-zqkiiXQ Kieran Healy, a professor of sociology at Duke University, gives an enjoyable lecture on the limits of trust in data visualization. We were already approaching a place where people could say what they wanted with charts, regardless of what…...
Maintaining a vibe-coded internet
2+ mon, 21+ hour ago (103+ words) The internet runs on a foundation of open-source software, but codebases, the learning process, and project maintenance grows more muddled as it gets easier to produce code without knowing what any of it means. For the Financial Times, Sam Learner…...
Showing when the data flips
3+ mon, 3+ day ago (131+ words) This is issue No. 392 of the Process, where we make charts that pull focus, because letting the data speak is for chumps. I’m Nathan Yau. This week, we focus on when there is a sudden change or flip in the…...
Bot traffic surpasses human traffic
3+ mon, 6+ day ago (109+ words) Traffic has been rising extra quickly these past couple of years. Unfortunately (or fortunately, depending on your point of view) it’s mostly from automated AI bots scraping all they can get. From Matthew Prince, the CEO of Cloudflare: Welp, that…...
What LLM speed looks like when generating output
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (110+ words) LLM speed is commonly expressed as tokens per second, which is kind of meaningless for the uninitiated. Mike Veerman made a more intuitive view for what various speeds look like. More tokens per second means faster generation, which you can…...
Visualization is not the goal
3+ mon, 1+ week ago (120+ words) This is issue No. 391 of the Process, where we strive to understand the data and help others do the same. I’m Nathan Yau. This week, we look past the chart and ponder its true purpose. To access this issue of…...
Visualization tools, resources, and data, May 2026 roundup
3+ mon, 2+ week ago (127+ words) This is issue No. 390 of the Process, where we look for balance between advancing and the human side of visualization. I’m Nathan Yau. Every month I collect tools, data, and resources in search of the balance. Here’s what happened in…...
Weakness of a bar chart
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (116+ words) This is issue No. 389 of the Process, the member-only newsletter where we push past defaults. I’m Nathan Yau. This week, we talk limitations of the defaultiest of defaultiest chart types. To access this issue of The Process, you must be…...
Book about future of truth contains generated quotes
3+ mon, 3+ week ago (108+ words) Steven Rosenbaum wrote The Future of Truth, a book about AI and reality that was published this month. It has generated and misattributed quotes throughout. Benjamin Mullin reports for the New York Times: When asked about the quote, Ms. Swisher…...