OLPCâs $100 laptop was going to change the world â then it all went wrong - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/4/16/17233946/olpcs-100-laptop-education-where-is-it-now
If you need something to watch, start with these: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16857613
Not news to anybody paying attention, but I still feel like it’s worth a visibility boost: https://developers.googleblog.com/2018/04/text-embedding-models-contain-bias.html
Parsing timeline v3: https://jeffreykegler.github.io/personal/timeline_v3
The reason it’s a bad idea is that the kind of people who badmouth poststructuralist methods as unscientific will do so even while using them. (See: Jordon Peterson)
Bad idea of the day: quantitative poststructuralism (with corpus statistics ofc)
2017 ACM PPoPP Keynote: It’s Time for a New Old Language - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7HKbjYqqPPQ
Chain Letter Evolution http://www.silcom.com/~barnowl/chain-letter/evolution.html
How to change the course of human history | Eurozine https://www.eurozine.com/change-course-human-history/
Cambridge Analytica is bad, but Palantir is fucking terrifying | The Outline https://theoutline.com/post/3978/peter-thiel-knows-you-ran-that-red-light
graydon2 | programming languages and empiricism https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/259333.html
GitHub - geophile/osh: Osh (Object SHell) is a command-line and API toolkit combining cluster access, database access, and data slicing and dicing. Sort of like awk and cssh morsels wrapped up in a Python crust. https://github.com/geophile/osh
If nothing else, Peterson is really good at making people write at length about him, even when they’re not sure if he’s actually saying anything: http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/04/03/highlights-from-the-comments-on-twelve-rules/
Xanadu Basics 1a - VISIBLE CONNECTION - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMKy52Intac
Changlin Li - Moving Beyond Defensive Programming - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Csj3lzsr0_I
Web 2.0 Expo NY: Clay Shirky (shirky.com) It’s Not Information Overload. It’s Filter Failure. - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LabqeJEOQyI
Urasawa Naoki no Manben: Itou Junji (S4E2, 2017) [english subs] - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OZ44yJgPBzE&list=PL1JoX06lyHW58diQaYk_wFyCw1jVC02NH
The Web That Wasn’t - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=72nfrhXroo8
How Uber Got Ahead By Breaking The Rules - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Jm4I93gVVP4
The Thin White Duke: David Bowie’s Darkest Character - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ofeSZJJ_fxQ
Video Ethnography of “ICARUS ” on the Xerox Alto - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BauuOoB6EIU
Kyousougiga And The Nostalgia Of Home - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYLTAqMv1DM
Band name of the day: the dark courage to sin
Let’s Replace JavaScript with Something Better https://john.ankarstrom.se/english/texts/replacing-javascript/
Kaukatcr: an experiment in language design for multi-dimensional spaces http://www.lord-enki.net/medium-backup/2018-04-12_Kaukatcr–an-experiment-in-language-design-for-multi-dimensional-spaces-cc038caafff9.html
Band name of the day: powerhammer
Epistemic status: U MAD BRO?
I love Wait But Why, and so it’s a real shame that Tim Urban has transformed into Elon Musk’s personal PR guy for the past few years, rather than writing on a wider array of topics.
Oh hey this paper is making the rounds again: http://journals.plos.org/ploscompbiol/article?id=10.1371/journal.pcbi.1005268
Band name of the day: the teeming millions
Band name of the day: the jugglaries of the memnonium
Gödelâs Second Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers — Adventures https://dvt.name/2018/04/11/godels-second-incompleteness-theorem-programmers/
Gödel’s First Incompleteness Theorem for Programmers — Adventures https://dvt.name/2018/03/12/godels-first-incompleteness-theorem-programmers/
How American Chopper, And Other Preferential Memes, Took Over The Internet - Digg http://digg.com/2018/american-chopper-meme
I Lived Exclusively Off Doomsday Prepper Food for a Week - MUNCHIES https://munchies.vice.com/en_us/article/vbx399/what-does-prepper-food-taste-like-v25n1
The junhu and the art of everyday politics in imperial China | Aeon Essays https://aeon.co/essays/the-junhu-and-the-art-of-everyday-politics-in-imperial-china
Listen to the Sick Beats of Rhubarb Growing in the Dark - Gastro Obscura https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/forced-rhubarb-makes-sound
Band name of the day: the vocal statue
Band name of the day: seated humans with large heads
Creating Passionate Users: Is Twitter TOO good? http://headrush.typepad.com/creating_passionate_users/2007/03/is_twitter_too_.html
PaintsChainer http://paintschainer.preferred.tech/index_en.html
Reddit redesigned its site and it could kill discussion subreddits – Change My View https://changemyview.net/2018/04/11/reddit-redesigned-its-site-and-it-could-kill-discussion-subreddits/
Center for a Stateless Society » Black Market Mutualism and the Soul of Society https://c4ss.org/content/50650
Band name of the day: suddenly hyperconnected to the real
Have you tried proving parts of the problem insoluble?
Re: TLS in Gopher https://lists.debian.org/gopher-project/2018/02/msg00038.html
The gopher onion initiative project gopher://bitreich.org/1/onion
Eromanga-Sensei: One Year Later - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4QVE87UfX8
TXR Language http://nongnu.org/txr/
TXR Language http://nongnu.org/txr/