Furniture shopping
Month: September 2017
👓 Here’s Why Steve Bannon Wears So Many Shirts | The Cut
His spokesperson and other highly knowledgeable play sources attempt to explain the former presidential counselor’s questionable fashion choice.
👓 Why I’m leaving a Research I University for a Liberal Arts College | AMS Blogs
I knew at a pretty early stage in my life — my freshman year of college, to be exact — that I wanted to become a research mathematician. I have degrees from fancy research universities…
Checkin The Home Depot
What idiot plumber installed a 3/8" valve on the hot water and changed to 1/2" for cold?!
👓 The History of the Future of Learning Objects and Intelligent Machines | Audrey Watters
Audrey Watters (Hack Education)This talk was delivered at MIT for Justin Reich’s Comparative Media Studies class “Learning, Media, and Technology.” The full slide deck is available here.
👓 Ex-C.I.A. Official Resigns After Harvard Courts Chelsea Manning | New York Times
The dean of the Kennedy School said the selection of Ms. Manning for a fellowship had been a mistake, after protests from current and former C.I.A. officials.
👓 How To Make Homemade Sauerkraut in a Mason Jar | Kitchn
When life gives you cabbage, you make sauerkraut.
👓 Is Tribalism a Natural Malfunction? | Nautilus
What computers teach us about getting along. From an office at Carnegie Mellon, my colleague John Miller and I had evolved a computer program with a taste for genocide.
This article reminds me that I need to go back to reading Fukuyama’s two volume series (Origins of Political Order) and apply more math to it as a model. I can see some interesting evolution of political structures spread throughout the modern world and still want a more concrete answer for the jumps between them. I suspect that some of our world problems are between more advanced political economies and less advanced (more tribalistic ones — read Middle Eastern as well as some third world nations) which are working on different life-ways. Are there punctuated equilibrium between the political structures of economies like the graph in this paper? What becomes the tipping point that pushes one from one region to the next?
I also feel a bit like our current political climate has changed so significantly in the past 20 years that it’s possible we (America) may be regressing.
Check out this referenced paper:
🔖 Barasz, M., et al. Robust cooperation in the Prisoner’s Dilemma: Program equilibrium via provability logic. arXiv 1401.5577 (2014).
👓 The First Species to Have Every Individual’s Genome Sequenced | The Atlantic
It’s an endearing, giant, flightless, New Zealand parrot, and it’s a poster child for the quantified-self movement.
👓 Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript? | Medium
I recently had the opportunity to speak at Web Directions Code 2017 over in Melbourne. While there, I was part of a panel with Mark Dalgleish and Glen Maddern (who gave spectacular talks I might add). We’d just finished a set of talks about CSS, and during the panel we got a question along the lines of (paraphrasing): “Is there a place in the industry for people who just write css and html” To me, this could easily be interpreted as, “Is there any value in people who cannot write JavaScript?”, based on some comments from the audience after, this seemed to be how many understood question. So, we asked the audience if they hire people who just write CSS and HTML. No-one put their hand up. And I, for one, was disappointed.
I know which mushroom circle the fairies danced around last night
Checkin Dunsmore Park
Morning walk as someone is up early for baseball practice.
Checkin Carl’s Jr.
It’s been a junk food kind of morning.
