Zebras All the Way Down - Bryan Cantrill, Uptime 2017 - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fE2KDzZaxvE
Band name of the day: redundant and degenerate
Gerry Sussman - We Really Don’t Know How to Compute! - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O3tVctB_VSU
The Lebowski Theorem of machine superintelligence https://kottke.org/18/04/the-lebowski-theorem-of-machine-superintelligence
countercomplex: Slower Moore’s law wouldn’t be that bad. http://viznut.fi/texts-en/slower_moores_law.html
An interesting correspondence table: http://viznut.fi/texts-en/ancient_binary_symbolism.html
Don’t submit yourself to a game machine! | Countercomplex http://viznut.fi/texts-en/dont_submit_yourself_to_game_machine.html
International May Day » The Haymarket frame-up and the origins of May Day http://internationalmayday.org/the-haymarket-frame-up-and-the-origins-of-may-day/
countercomplex: Bringing magic back to technology http://viznut.fi/texts-en/magic_back_to_technology.html
Probability Theory (For Scientists and Engineers) https://betanalpha.github.io/assets/case_studies/probability_theory.html
Palantir Knows Everything About You https://www.bloomberg.com/features/2018-palantir-peter-thiel/
In The Mesh - Scuttlebutt, A Decentralized Alternative To Facebook https://www.inthemesh.com/archive/secure-scuttlebutt-facebook-alternative/
Bad idea of the day: a program that computes the degree to which the response to a query meets gricean maxims and, if beyond a threshhold, produces potential implicatures, on a synthetic logic-based language and an ontology
What lies behind the simplistic image of the happy Buddhist? | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/what-lies-behind-the-simplistic-image-of-the-happy-buddhist
Bad idea of the day: a prolog repl, except pred definitions are checked in reverse definition order and all pred definitions not starting with underscore are persistent. you can export the persistent environment image as a regular prolog file.
Band name of the day: a lawsuit waiting to happen
Multics https://ban.ai/multics/
countercomplex: Counteracting alienation with technological arts and crafts http://viznut.fi/texts-en/counteracting_tech_alienation.html
How city birds evolved to be smarter than rural birds | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/how-city-birds-evolved-to-be-smarter-than-rural-birds
This one is good too – you know somebody’s taking it seriously when they include a book of random digits: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/george-dysons-selections-for-the-manual-for-civilization-3efb5ab3db
Oh hey one of these is actually good: https://medium.com/the-long-now-foundation/megan-and-rick-prelingers-selected-books-for-the-manual-for-civilization-1853c7b93f2d
Hot take: If you believe technological determinism cannot be effectively resisted, then how much the projected trajectory benefits you personally determines where you fall on the scale from Kevin Kelley to the Unabomber
Construction grammar - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Construction_grammar
Eminent Philosophers Name the 43 Most Important Philosophy Books Written Between 1950-2000: Wittgenstein, Foucault, Rawls & More | Open Culture http://www.openculture.com/2018/04/eminent-philosophers-name-the-43-most-important-philosophy-books-written-between-1950-2000.html
Claire Evansâs âBroad Bandâ Excerpt http://nymag.com/selectall/2018/04/claire-evanss-broad-band-excerpt.html
Is This Creepy Sculpture An Ad For Soylent? https://www.buzzfeed.com/katienotopoulos/soylent-sculpture-girlfriend
TIL that the technology for viewing US census data summaries is called DADS: https://factfinder.census.gov/help/en/data_access_and_dissemination_system_dads.htm
My Five Discordian Rituals | Historia Discordia http://historiadiscordia.com/my-five-discordian-rituals/
Hans Holbeinâs Dance of Death (1523â5) – The Public Domain Review http://publicdomainreview.org/collections/hans-holbeins-dance-of-death-1523-5/
Reminder: submissions open tomorrow for the no-budget film contest: https://medium.com/@/announcing-the-2018-no-budget-film-contest-e023a922fadd
countercomplex: The resource leak bug of our civilization http://viznut.fi/texts-en/resource_leak_bug_of_our_civilization.html
Loper OS » Seven Laws of Sane Personal Computing http://www.loper-os.org/?p=284
Loper OS » Why Hypercard Had to Die http://www.loper-os.org/?p=568
Bad idea of the day: twitch plays pictionary
Mathematicians Explore Mirror Link Between Two Geometric Worlds | Quanta Magazine https://www.quantamagazine.org/decades-old-graph-problem-yields-to-amateur-mathematician-20180417/
Charting Death https://owenshen24.github.io/charting-death/
Band name of the day: it’s coming through your hands
This Must Be David Byrne | GQ https://www.gq.com/story/david-byrne-talking-heads-icon-profile
GitHub - luanfujun/deep-painterly-harmonization: Code and data for paper “Deep Painterly Harmonization”: https://arxiv.org/abs/1804.03189 https://github.com/luanfujun/deep-painterly-harmonization#user-content-examples
Thread by @ptychomancer: “I love maps & their promise of fractal discovery. I love procedural generation and the aesthetics of the unauthored. Where do these two [â¦]” https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/980968298002006016.html
BBC Sound Effects Archive Resource ⢠Research & Education Space http://bbcsfx.acropolis.org.uk/
mikeash.com: Friday Q&A 2009-02-20: The Good and Bad of Distributed Objects https://www.mikeash.com/pyblog/friday-qa-2009-02-20-the-good-and-bad-of-distributed-objects.html
Preface - APL and J https://crypto.stanford.edu/~blynn/c/apl.html
Band name of the day: international space crimes
Pete Corey - Writing Mandelbrot Fractals with Hooks and Forks http://www.petecorey.com/blog/2018/04/16/writing-mandelbrot-factals-with-hooks-and-forks/
Encoding data in dubstep drops https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/encoding-data-into-dubstep-drops
The Overlooked Wonders of Soviet-Era Industrial Design - Atlas Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/soviet-design-history
The chemistry of William Gibson’s Neuromancer. » Chemistry Blog http://www.chemistry-blog.com/2018/04/16/the-chemistry-of-william-gibsons-neuromancer/
The citation graph is one of humankind’s most important intellectual achievements / Boing Boing https://boingboing.net/2018/04/14/open-graphs.html