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Brazilian Government Makes Critical Decision About Indigenous Lands
How To Make Your Own Healthy Marshmallows
This looks fun. http://www.realfarmacy.com/healthy-marshmallow-diy/
The neutral pole... decides everything
We usually think of the pole of the switch as some kind of neutral, like the definition of the word "set" in set theory, the neutral pole at the center of a rotary switch (see below). This pole is us, interacting with analog interfaces into the great digital Cybernetic Intelligence we've […]
Everybody knows - Leonard Cohen - YouTube
Everybody knows. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lin-a2lTelg
The Guy Who Posts Leonard Cohen's "The Partisan" On Your Wall Every Day
It's a bot. Stops working on Veteran's Day. Doesn't exist, just an idea. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S34cVkL6zCE
Gieseking in 1944 Berlin: First Complete Stereo Tape Recording
Beethoven: Piano Concerto in E Flat, Op. 73, "Emperor," with Artur Rother conducting the Berlin Reichsander Symphony Orchestra. Historic Stereo by the Music and Arts Programs of America, 1990 CD 637. by Jared Smith Listen closely to this 1944 recording of Beethoven's Fifth Piano Concerto, […]
Time for Morality Engines, Ethical Overrides, and Cybernetic Governors
More importantly than techie cops in this story from Wired, we need the cybernetic intelligence to be self-governing, and that requires some kind of morality engine. I know the approach in the link above is more concerned about policing the people who are developing AI, but it sparks the […]
Well this idea went from obscure to mainstream fast
via A quantum revolution against Feynman diagrams | Ars Technica.
Lions do not fight mosquitos
They don't.
These two GIFs make me happy and fall in love with math
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How to backup your iPhone if your screen is not working
Very cool that this worked, so I figured I'd share online in case it happens to you. The screen went bad on my iPhone 5, so I couldn't tell the iPhone to trust iTunes in order to make a backup. It kept prompting me to enter a passcode which I couldn't enter. Hold your power and home buttons down for […]
What Kind of Group Work Encourages the Most Original Thinking?
what we discovered was great originality comes from being quick to start but slow to finish. That when you dive right into a task, you close yourself off to incubation. If you finish early, you're stuck only with your most conventional ideas, your first ones. You never have time to think outside […]
I'm right you're wrong OR I'm wrong you're right
When a child is young and does not know much in the way of the world, he must engage on the assumption that he is wrong and the world is correct. Evolution has provided significant reinforcement of this approach. For example, assuming the other way around, that he is right and the world is wrong […]
DMCA and the Internet of Things - Schneier on Security
"In theory, the Internet of Things promises to make your life easier and your work more efficient, ... saving you time, money, and energy... except when the companies that make these connected objects act in a way that runs counter to the consumer's best interests -- as the technology company […]
Articles: The Quiet Revolution: How the New Left Took Over the Democratic Party
http://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2015/08/the_quiet_revolution_how_the_new_left_took_over_the_democratic_party_.html Gramsci argued that communists’ route to taking power in developed, industrialized societies such as Europe and the United States would be best achieved through a “long march […]
The declining half life of secrets
If I had time I'd write a book on this immediately and expect it would sell well -- there is a hungry audience for this kind of analysis. Bruce Schneier linked to this, and I find it fascinating. It's a powerpoint, so to make it easy for you, I'm including a few screenshots below. The title is: […]
Visual Studio breakpoints break in the wrong place
This is obscure, so I'm posting it here to save someone the few hours I just spent. I recently clicked "Tools/Options/Debugging/Require source files to exactly match the original version." A little later, without realizing it was related to this config change, I discovered my debugging […]
Ten things to give your children (DRAFT)
Children natively love both parents no matter what, as a force more powerful than just about any other they carry. This is the essence of what we destroy in children to make them into grumpy grownups like us -- it is what was destroyed in us, remember? (Oh child of the Cold War where everybody […]
It's simple. If we can't change our economic system, our number's up
Monbiot "buries the lede" in this story, but it's a good one from this point forward: The Ecuadorean government decided to allow oil drilling in the heart of the Yasuni national park. It had made an offer to other governments: if they gave it half the value of the oil in that part of the […]
Walking away
My father taught me well how to walk away from what I love. I have since learned that this is not the best use of the skill of walking away. I am now learning how to walk away from what I hate. I believe it is a much more sustainable use of this difficult skill.