if you click through to the linked Vannevar Bush article and scroll down there are a bunch of vintage ads around the prose that are kind of interesting. And some of the predictions have been well overtaken by events!
The brief appearance in Animal House is a little gem.
Have a look at Emmy: https://emmy.mentat.org
When I was in high school my desk had a graffiti carved in it of the three most important numbers: 69, 2112, and 714. 2112 was the Rush album (which I liked), and I had to ask a friend about 714: he explained that it…
My own thought (I know there is a great deal of room for disagreement) is that the J6 crowd saw no consequences for the attempts to obstruct the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation and thought the rules had changed. One of…
> Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and…
I have been interested in doing this for a long time, and have thought about doing it in Haskell. It would be a lot of work, and some of the type decisions that would be needed would probably complicate the UX of the…
(OT) I like iTerm for its smart select/copy behavior, mostly, but stopped using it about 3 months ago because I often caught it using immense amounts of RAM, slowing everything down on my 32Gb trashcan pro. I thought it…
I lived in France for a few years and wanted to become fluent in the language. One part of my strategy was just to try to brute-force through some novels with the aid of a dictionary and a conjugation chart. I started…
So you get one free murder? No, the deterrent had to be there beforehand, so that our hypothetical killer who is certain she only wants to kill one person will be exposed to that deterrence. Even if she is not thereby…
I maintain a port to Clojure https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils I haven't done much with it recently but have plans in the back of my mind for when I have more free time.
/me feels the unsettling presence of a doppelgänger
You are correct.
zoinks! I did the port but somehow missed my HN moment. Someday I was thinking this might be worth a show HN, if I get some more web pages up exploring what can be done with the system.
It's a treat. It's like a well-produced color mathematical atlas come to life.
The Scheme code that inspired this can work symbolically as well as numerically, since it contains a computer algebra system at its core.
I will never forget reading Sandkings in Omni as a kid. I couldn't sleep that night
I'm starting to evolve my work with SICM to cover "Functional Differential Geometry" [0], mostly because I hope to learn about relativity (special & general) while doing so. Your book evaluations will certainly help and…
The teenager has a job, which is a small but positive increment in the health of your community. For that, I would be willing to endure the (real) risks you mention.
In a weird coincidence, I watched the movie "Network" (1976) with my wife & kids last night, none of whom had ever seen it. They liked it. It didn't even feel very dated, despite the fact that the televisions all looked…
Reminds me of the Andromeda Strain (except that didn't have any amino acids) http://mymeaningfulmovies.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-andromeda...
True (oddly, the article uses the word "regurgitate" twice and left me wondering "whose nipples?")
This is the whole point of the movie the Great Escape. The allied prisoners know they won't be tortured since they're in a Luftwaffe camp and not a Gestapo one. After the escape, the ones who are recaptured are handed…
And now it hits me, for the first time, shamefully: the sense that Urbit is Pynchonesque... it's often said of Pynchon that nostalgia for the 60s is the animating theme of most of his later work, and here it is made…
I thought of eco-terrorism too. But then I thought of William Ayers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers
if you click through to the linked Vannevar Bush article and scroll down there are a bunch of vintage ads around the prose that are kind of interesting. And some of the predictions have been well overtaken by events!
The brief appearance in Animal House is a little gem.
Have a look at Emmy: https://emmy.mentat.org
When I was in high school my desk had a graffiti carved in it of the three most important numbers: 69, 2112, and 714. 2112 was the Rush album (which I liked), and I had to ask a friend about 714: he explained that it…
My own thought (I know there is a great deal of room for disagreement) is that the J6 crowd saw no consequences for the attempts to obstruct the Brett Kavanaugh confirmation and thought the rules had changed. One of…
> Although widely held, the belief that merit rather than luck determines success or failure in the world is demonstrably false. This is not least because merit itself is, in large part, the result of luck. Talent and…
I have been interested in doing this for a long time, and have thought about doing it in Haskell. It would be a lot of work, and some of the type decisions that would be needed would probably complicate the UX of the…
(OT) I like iTerm for its smart select/copy behavior, mostly, but stopped using it about 3 months ago because I often caught it using immense amounts of RAM, slowing everything down on my 32Gb trashcan pro. I thought it…
I lived in France for a few years and wanted to become fluent in the language. One part of my strategy was just to try to brute-force through some novels with the aid of a dictionary and a conjugation chart. I started…
So you get one free murder? No, the deterrent had to be there beforehand, so that our hypothetical killer who is certain she only wants to kill one person will be exposed to that deterrence. Even if she is not thereby…
I maintain a port to Clojure https://github.com/littleredcomputer/sicmutils I haven't done much with it recently but have plans in the back of my mind for when I have more free time.
/me feels the unsettling presence of a doppelgänger
You are correct.
zoinks! I did the port but somehow missed my HN moment. Someday I was thinking this might be worth a show HN, if I get some more web pages up exploring what can be done with the system.
It's a treat. It's like a well-produced color mathematical atlas come to life.
The Scheme code that inspired this can work symbolically as well as numerically, since it contains a computer algebra system at its core.
I will never forget reading Sandkings in Omni as a kid. I couldn't sleep that night
I'm starting to evolve my work with SICM to cover "Functional Differential Geometry" [0], mostly because I hope to learn about relativity (special & general) while doing so. Your book evaluations will certainly help and…
The teenager has a job, which is a small but positive increment in the health of your community. For that, I would be willing to endure the (real) risks you mention.
In a weird coincidence, I watched the movie "Network" (1976) with my wife & kids last night, none of whom had ever seen it. They liked it. It didn't even feel very dated, despite the fact that the televisions all looked…
Reminds me of the Andromeda Strain (except that didn't have any amino acids) http://mymeaningfulmovies.blogspot.com/2015/02/the-andromeda...
True (oddly, the article uses the word "regurgitate" twice and left me wondering "whose nipples?")
This is the whole point of the movie the Great Escape. The allied prisoners know they won't be tortured since they're in a Luftwaffe camp and not a Gestapo one. After the escape, the ones who are recaptured are handed…
And now it hits me, for the first time, shamefully: the sense that Urbit is Pynchonesque... it's often said of Pynchon that nostalgia for the 60s is the animating theme of most of his later work, and here it is made…
I thought of eco-terrorism too. But then I thought of William Ayers. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bill_Ayers