Links for Friday November 30th 2018

Links for Wednesday November 28th 2018

Treat Games
There are a lot of interesting looking games here. Warning: the javascript on this site is a bit flaky, but it's worth braving it for the damage it'll do to your wallet if you're anything like me.

Are Pop Lyrics Getting More Repetitive?
I'm impressed by the technique used, the pop music science produced, and the design of this essay,

Swoole – PHP asynchronous programming framework | Swoole
This looks like it could be really useful for work and a few personal projects.

How AI Agents Cheat
This is brilliant. And disturbing. If we are all wiped out by an AI in the future, this is going to be why – not because an AI has applied a moral judgement to us, just because wiping us out represents the most efficient path to the goal we've programmed it with. Imagine, for example, an AI with the goal "prevent the largest possible number of humans from dying". An efficient path to this goal would be to entirely wipe out the human race. Sure, it kills billions, but it efficiently prevents a potentially infinite number of humans from dying.

How to use Eloquent ORM migrations outside Laravel – siipo.la
New job, new round of bookmarking for tools I'll find useful in the medium term.

Now That’s What I Call Music: How one compilation came to rule them all – BBC News
A history of the music compilation albums. Lots of interesting stuff in here. (In case you're curious: I owned NOW 3 and listened to it exhaustively. It was ace.