rhodri

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by rhodri 10y ago
> you may have experienced no amount of good parenting can protect us from real badness
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by rhodri 10y ago
I am a software engineer, and also a luddite. technology destroys jobs. the question is whether that destruction liberates or oppresses. do we fire some workers and overwork others, or find ways to reduce and share the burden and benefits o
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by rhodri 10y ago
> When they think like children, talk like children, and act like children, they shouldn't be surprised that they're treated like children. and does punishing children cause them to behave better?
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by rhodri 10y ago
> we sure don't patronize them, think them any less, or dismiss their and so many other people's genuine concerns be it immigration, or crime, or job security great! perhaps you have been raised well and have managed to recover
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by rhodri 10y ago
> Someone is going to build them if they can make a buck doing it, and empathy isn't going to somehow stop that. the problem is that we are all chasing that buck, rather than imagining what that buck could do > What if there were
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by rhodri 10y ago
one point is that most of SV's technology is in the hands of an elite of techno-libertarians and super-rich VCs with various chips on various shoulders. they have no interest in spreading technology's monetary or possible systemic
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by rhodri 10y ago
nicely written. reconciliation is not like the movies, it requires from us steadfastness and courage in the face of criticism and outright character assasination. as engineers we spend a lot of time dismissing the ethical or systemic conseq
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by rhodri 10y ago
drawing attention to a deep and abiding ideology here: economics often presents itself as a science describing a universal and indeed physical phenomenon. remember that "the market" as we it is not only an ideal model but a very l
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by rhodri 10y ago
Yarn came out this month
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by rhodri 10y ago
we're certainly capable of creating the most complex models – what's interesting about this very human tendency is that the models begin to take on a reality of their own, replacing our actual observations. we can see this most cl
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by rhodri 10y ago
good observation. makes me think also about the tendency of computers and the internet to actually slow us down in our work! their general-purpose nature means that our minds take on the additional complexity of context switching as we use
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by rhodri 10y ago
technology has no purpose. it is a natural phenomenon that arises without any in-built ethics or direction. technology can manifest as a tool (to amplify human potential) or a machine (to replace human labour). the effect of a technology ca
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by rhodri 10y ago
Death makes space for new life, and new strategies. It's a key part of the evolutionary process, and thus of life itself. Yet another sign of the desperate egocentrism of a generation alienated from what it means to live.
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by rhodri 11y ago
not sure why this has been downvoted, it's important to consider divination systems as fundamentally about exploring the psyche and its parameter space (which Jung – one of the fathers of psychology – characterised as archetypes)
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A Flag for No Nations(booktwo.org)
1 points by rhodri 11y ago|0 comments
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by rhodri 11y ago
So I suppose terrorists are like goths.
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by rhodri 11y ago
I can't imagine a parachute is that useful on a sinking ship
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by rhodri 11y ago
Indeed – illustrates very clearly how governments, institutions and corporations aren't the unified hierarchies they present themselves as, and instead can be many-headed organisms pursuing sometimes contradictory aims. Compare to Sams
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by rhodri 11y ago
Most of this bailout money will go straight back to paying interest on the bad loans that caused the crisis. Much of these loans came from banks in the very same Eurozone countries that are imposing this deal onto Greece. So much for Europe
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by rhodri 11y ago
I'll just leave this here: http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/jun/29/where-did-the-g...
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by rhodri 11y ago
I think you've misread the abstract. My understanding is that the 10nT field was the control. They talk about 1-10 uT fields causing the observed effect.
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by rhodri 11y ago
Here in the UK I get my decaf coffee through the mail from https://www.pactcoffee.com – it's bloody delicious.
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by rhodri 11y ago
there's some beautiful work here, plus code http://www.complexification.net/gallery/
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Modes of Existence(modesofexistence.org)
5 points by rhodri 12y ago|0 comments
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by rhodri 12y ago
My opinion is that most of the bad habits of inexperienced programmers are just manifestations of more general youthful hubris and inexperience in the nuances and complexities of life. I'll add to the list the most extreme form of &#x2
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by rhodri 12y ago
I'd like to see an article titled "Why Get a Quant Job in Finance?"
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by rhodri 12y ago
Don't confuse consumer credit – which is taking out loans in order to buy goods like toasters that will decrease in value – from a business loan – which is a bet that you can add value to what you buy with the loan, and thus earn e
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by rhodri 13y ago
I've found that trying to output audio or MIDI in real-time on the JVM (on Android or PC) is a lost cause, perhaps because of the unpredictability of GC
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by rhodri 13y ago
The appeal of physical pedals is still strong – as is a general aversion to taking a computer on tour with you. A laptop is seen as unreliable (or unauthentic) by most musicians I've encountered, even though most of those same musician
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by rhodri 13y ago
Radical! Produced something very similar as part of the Cambridge CS degree in 2010. We used ARM's mBed platform ( http://mbed.org ) to build a set of modular effect classes in C++ that could be chained together and blasted o

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