Link. Hope they don’t get bought.
Monthly Archives: August 2017
“Trump, he has a revanchist racist politics because he is a revanchist racist. Once you accept that, a lot falls into place”
Link. Nati.
“opinions that the president had long expressed in private”
Link. Key phrase. In private Trump is nati.
Adventure
Link. Really neat range of bikes
How to bike in the city.
Link. Every city, not only NYC. Superb.
The Economist responds to James Damore
Link. Very strong, but firing is weakest part.
Fidget spinners, disintermediation, and DHgate.com
Link. The middle could add value.
Trump Manufacturing Advisory Council looks less good on resume.
Link. Only Republicans will remain.
Knee arthritis is much more mysterious than most believe.
Link. Not wear and tear for most.
Trump walks back his anti-nati statements.
Link. Be grateful he is stupid.
“Charlottesville, this was exactly the America I knew.”
Link. A young doctor’s story. Ultimately encouraging.
Japan: Keynes might be working.
Link. Enormous debt.
Primary care absorbs increased service demand
Link. Very rapid change.
“Trump adopted a platform tailored to white working-class Democrats”.
Link. Race resentment big factor. BLM?
Education is not dominant force in economic success.
Link. Skirts genetics.
TV messy now, likely to worsen.
Link. Good time to take up exercise.
Three with courage: CEOs who walked away.
Link. A black man leads.
CEOs who serve Trump: “Just look at what he did to Ken. I’m not sticking my head up.”
Link. Tim Cook serves.
On the Google memo, the secular humanist perspective.
Link. Mine too, but human progress seems to need extremism.
“Mr. Murdoch …. said Mr. Bannon had to go.”
Link. The Master speaks.
“122 random bits, it would take petabyte-sized pile of UUIDs (2^46) to even bring the chance of a collision into the realm of feasibility”
Link. UUIDs.
A Brief History of the UUID.
Link. I have wondered.
APFS: “it’s not ready, and I think Apple is pushing it too early”
Link. Strictly for the reckless.
Google pays $3 billion for default search on iOS, estimated to be bulk of Apple services business
Link.
“On your left!” must die.
Link. I prefer to pass with such a margin and so slowly that no warning is needed.
“an unambiguous and firm denunciation from President Trump”
Link. Attacking Merck CEO.
Antifa – Enablers of the Nati
Link. Same temperament as the white nationists.
Doxing is a vice.
Link. Wrong means.
Highest of High tides.
Link. Astrology from this.
Lessons from Ulysses
Link. Anything you use might go subscription. Don’t get locked in. Choose carefully.
Music therapy doesn’t alter autism outcomes.
Link.
Momentum and position: “pair of conjugate variables”
Link. A lot of physics derives from pairs that are different transforms of the same information.
Fuitcake – food of the Explorer.
Link. Each Christmas my sister-in–
In an early 20th century context Trump is not atypical.
Link. The most caustic critiques are dry and cold.
The Moral Shambles That is Our President. Scalzi.
Link. White nationist.
Disentangling the 21st century crisis
Racism? Inequality? Productivity failure? Globalization? IT? AI? Rupert Murdoch? Capitalism crisis? Patriarchy collapse?
It is probably not one thing. It is probably interacting things.
So if we could change one or two components the result could change.
But which? Is there a critical vulnerability?
We do simulations of the evolution of the universe now. Could we simulate these kinds of interactions?
Seeking Psychohistory.
“many cherished human features may not have been uniquely derived evolutionary developments”
Link. “Species”, naming power, and hominid history.
Bejamin Lay: a man out of time.
Link. Disability, deformity, fierce opposition to slavery.
Transform sequence of Google Map waypoints into standard map form.
Google will generate a bike route given a sequence of up to @10 locations.
Please Google, give us a way to save this route as a standard map.
“Libertarianism/Anarchy on the far left, and Authoritarianism/Communism on the far right.”
Link. Like.
Dear Google Maps …
Please let me read street names obscured by the blue route line.
Please show me the name of a stream when I tap on it.
Thank you.
Neo-Nazi love of Trump grows today.
Link. They understand him.
“The calls are coming from inside the house.”
Link. Trump is white nationalist to the core.
“Jew will not replace us”
Link. Unmasked. That may be premature.
NK: The T advantage
China and KN knew Obama was utterly sane. NK would become a nuclear power.
Trump not only acts crazy, he is genuinely irrational and he is stupid.
Jong Un and Xi want to live long and rule.
Trump has an advantage here.
“deeplearn.js 0.1.0, an open source WebGL-accelerated JavaScript library for machine learning” for browser.
Link. Massively distributed machine learning next.
Allbirds: “Anything with laces becomes less efficient”
Link. I miss cool people.
Pruitt executes on plan to destroy EPA.
Link. Trump voters have vast debts.
Streets.app Adds User-Generated Panoramas.
Link. $2. I bought. Good I think.
Active Russian attacks on polls Nov 2016.
Link. FWIW.