The social status of computer scientists is zero. Why do so few people major in computer science? (2017) | Hacker News
📚 Finished reading A Mind for Numbers: How to Excel at Math and Science (Even If You Flunked Algebra) by Barbara Oakley
It’s not like YHWH is dead, but these days he’s just hopelessly outclassed by Science: Recursively self-improving doctrine, a steady stream of mana from animal and sometimes human sacrifices, a priestdom of millions
Grether Archive https://themanofstone.com/random/science_fiction_generator
Random link from the archives: https://www.wired.com/story/inside-the-mind-of-amanda-feilding-countess-of-psychedelic-science/ originally archived Fri Feb 16 12:08:27 EST 2018
Science Fiction | Flickr https://www.flickr.com/photos/mickythepixel/sets/72157616819585543
Introduction to Theoretical Computer Science: index https://introtcs.org/public/index.html
A superposition of possible facts causes quantum conflict | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/choose-your-own-facts-in-quantum-mechanics-you-kind-of-can/
Why debts associated with poverty can cause long-lasting problems | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/03/number-of-debts-not-just-amount-causes-psychological-burden/
The Revolutionary Discovery of a Distributed Virus - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/the-revolutionary-discovery-of-a-distributed-virus/584884/
Robert Heinlein and the Harsh Politics of Science Fiction | Leaping Robot Blog | Patrick McCray http://www.patrickmccray.com/2013/09/12/robert-heinlein-and-the-harsh-politics-of-science-fiction/
The Other Kind of Climate Denialism | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-other-kind-of-climate-denialism
The Software That Shapes Workers’ Lives | The New Yorker https://www.newyorker.com/science/elements/the-software-that-shapes-workers-lives
History is the time-inverse of science fiction: While coming from different directions, both write fictional accounts that converge on the present, and both are inspired by facts but usually not true to them.
Bighorn-Sheep Migration Routes Form Ancestral Knowledge - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/09/to-save-animals-we-need-to-save-their-knowledge-too/569503/
Chimpanzee Traditions Are Disappearing - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/we-are-destroying-chimpanzee-cultures/584146/
“Before it was a particular kind of story or plot, science fiction was a way of thinking about and interacting with emerging media.” https://manifold.umn.edu/read/the-perversity-of-things-hugo-gernsback-on-media-tinkering-and-scientifiction/section/71ba6e6b-b4b2-40a2-bdb1-af133fc6b93b
Science funding is a mess. Could grant lotteries make it better? - Vox https://www.vox.com/future-perfect/2019/1/18/18183939/science-funding-grant-lotteries-research
List of unsolved problems in computer science - Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_unsolved_problems_in_computer_science
The Green New Deal’s Big Idea - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/02/green-new-deal-economic-principles/582943/
Danish haunted-house studies seek to reveal the seductive appeal of horror | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2019/02/danish-haunted-house-studies-seek-to-reveal-the-seductive-appeal-of-horror/
Michael Crichton, Science Studies, and the Technothriller http://histscifi.com/essays/radin/technothriller
Masters of Science Fiction is actually pretty good if you can get over the extremely post-9/11 vibe, the use of the Star Trek Voyager font everywhere, & the ‘hosting’ being somebody using the Hawking synth to speak a line after every episode
A Self-Learning, Modern Computer Science Curriculum https://functionalcs.github.io/curriculum/
The MITRE Corporation’s project to use Chomsky’s linguistics for their weapons systems — Science and Revolution http://scienceandrevolution.org/blog/2018/1/28/the-mitre-corporations-project-to-use-chomskys-linguistics-for-their-weapons-systems
What It’s Like to Be Allergic to Corn - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/01/what-its-like-be-allergic-corn/580594/
Hopepunk can’t fix our broken science fiction. https://slate.com/technology/2019/01/hopepunk-cyberpunk-solarpunk-science-fiction-broken.html
Telling the China Story: The Rise and Rise of Chinese Science Fiction | FactorDaily https://factordaily.com/china-science-fiction/
Band name of the day: science weekends
Economists calculate the true value of Facebook to its users in new study | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/economists-calculate-the-true-value-of-facebook-to-its-users-in-new-study/
I don’t buy this at all. All the political radicals I know have incredibly elaborate meta-cognition and constantly-shifting meta-justifications, because you don’t become radical without curiosity. https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/radicals-dont-evaluate-their-mistakes-very-effectively/
Shtetl-Optimized » Blog Archive » Lecture notes! Intro to Quantum Information Science https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=3943
No Collision | Boston Review http://bostonreview.net/science-nature-politics/bonnie-honig-no-collision
Is Science Slowing Down? | Slate Star Codex http://slatestarcodex.com/2018/11/26/is-science-slowing-down-2/
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: What the New Science of Psychedelics Teaches Us About Consciousness, Dying, Addiction, Depression, and Transcendence by Michael Pollan
📚 Finished reading How to Change Your Mind: The New Science of Psychedelics by Michael Pollan
Are smartphones bad for you? The science is still out - The Verge https://www.theverge.com/2018/12/5/18126154/screen-time-smartphones-bad-health-risk-science-study-wrong-depression-anxiety
What the dip in US life expectancy is really about: inequality - Vox https://www.vox.com/science-and-health/2018/1/9/16860994/life-expectancy-us-income-inequality
Fractal structure produces fractal electrons with fractal energies | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/fractal-structure-produces-fractal-electrons-with-fractal-energies/
Complex networks study ranks the most influential films of all time | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/12/study-finds-the-wizard-of-oz-is-the-most-influential-film-of-all-time/
Project Troy: The Science of Cold War Psychological Warfare - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/12/project-troy-science-cold-war-psychological-warfare/576847/
The Journal of Controversial Ideas”academic freedom sans responsibility is reckless | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/11/the-journal-of-controversial-ideas-academic-freedom-sans-responsibility-is-reckless/
William Gibson: Technology, Science Fiction & the Apocalypse - YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4dlvle5YBv4
PERIPHERALS; It’s, Well, HyperCard - The New York Times https://www.nytimes.com/1987/08/18/science/peripherals-it-s-well-hypercard.html
Hot take: science fiction movies are extremely rare. Most films that are sold as science fiction are actually action-adventure with fantasy elements that are coded as scientistic.
Science Fiction Is Not Social Reality - Motherboard https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/article/43pxjd/science-fiction-is-not-social-reality
Science Is Full of Mavericks Like My Grandfather. But Was His Physics Theory Right? - The Atlantic https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2018/11/science-full-mavericks-like-my-grandfather-was-his-physics-theory-right/574573/
How to Teach Computer Ethics through Science Fiction | August 2018 | Communications of the ACM https://cacm.acm.org/magazines/2018/8/229765-how-to-teach-computer-ethics-through-science-fiction/fulltext
Acting like a psychopath is great for male CEOs, not so much for women | Ars Technica https://arstechnica.com/science/2018/10/acting-like-a-psychopath-is-great-for-male-ceos-not-so-much-for-women/
Dialectics of Darkness | Articles | Inference: International Review of Science https://inference-review.com/article/dialectics-of-darkness