2022 - To Read

The whole isn't greater than the sum of its parts; that's a flaw in our thinking. Non-reductionism requires magic, not merely science.

Maybe @Kurz_Gesagt you should read a thing or two about how long-termism panders to eugenics and colonialism (https://t.co/f3fY0DdYEq). And the audacity to post this video during a time which women are stripped of their rights for the "unborn" shows how tone-deaf you are.— Dr Heidy Khlaaf (هايدي خلاف) (@HeidyKhlaaf) June 28, 2022

It’s been a while! Let’s just say the past couple of weeks have not been kind to me and leave it at that. So, newsletter. I got 40% through writing about...

I suck at writing documentation. I suck at writing emails. I suck at writing project specifications....

Ever since Archimedes, mathematicians have been fascinated by equations that involve a difference between squares. Now two mathematicians have proven how often these equations have solutions, concluding a decades-old quest.

Remote workers are starting new businesses behind their bosses’ backs.

Work in modern society is a torment, an affliction arising from the nature of the economic system, which could not be more antithetical to the way we labored for more than 95 percent of the 200, 000 years of Homo Sapiens’ existence. Our labor has become a commodity, something bought and sold in the marketplace, just like any other commodity, no different in principle than raw materials, equipment, and the buildings that house our workplaces. And just as these non-human commodities are the property of those who own them, so too is our capacity to work.

A talk about bigotry was cancelled amid accusations of reverse discrimination. Whom was the company trying to protect?

I feel like a pretty slow learner, which may be surprising coming from a self-taught software engineer, but it’s true. I regularly need to learn a new technology, software, or toolset. More often than not I feel like I’m sitting there staring at the wall with no idea where to start. Can anyone relate? I think to myself:

Most of us suffer from this terrible syndrome. It's time we turn our focus to something more fruitful.

This is the antiquated system the IRS uses to process millions of tax returns each year.

To be able to speak meaningfully about any art you must be able to order that art into at least four categories, these are

Juris Hartmanis 1928-2022 On Friday, July 29th, I was in the immigration line at an airport in Mexico. My phone rang with Bill Gasarch on th...

A new way to think about brainpower.

OK, people, you worked hard to get me to 10K followers, so here is your reward! An epic 62-Tweet thread about the #Voynich manuscript coming your way, starting NOW! pic.twitter.com/iwuhRRMX6i— Lisa Fagin Davis (@lisafdavis) August 9, 2022

The Voynich Manuscript is a 15th Century illustrated cipher manuscript. In this overview of recent approaches to the Voynich manuscript, we summarize and evaluate current work on the language that un - lingbuzz, the linguistics archive

what is your favorite hard scifi?— Gordon Brander (@gordonbrander) August 9, 2022

Confused: I really do believe that "slow is fake" much of the time… and also that very important parts of my work get better when I get comfortable moving much more. slowly. "It's contextual"—but are there better heuristics?(Reflecting on @natfriedman's thoughtful belief list) pic.twitter.com/6wessZum2L— Andy Matuschak (@andy_matuschak) July 23, 2022

Sad to learn that Brian Fawcett has died. An insightful, outspoken, and brave writer, whom I saw already eyeing the ‘neocon’ future in British Columbia back in the Seventies. Also an urban gardener, he signed off in company https://t.co/iz1RMRdDPX— Patrick Wright (@tattery) May 4, 2022

Boats by Yoshida Hiroshi (1876–1950) pic.twitter.com/Lwgfl8mv9P— Federico Italiano (@FedeItaliano76) March 13, 2020

A blog post over-viewing how and why to host websites and blogs from home. First a tutorial, then a plea. Also some MidJourney AI Paintings!

The solutions to Einstein’s equations that describe a spinning black hole won’t blow up, even when poked or prodded.

Who decided that nothing should be something?

Attached: 1 image Just finished reading Blindsight by Peter Watts. In it, a post-human spaceship crew is on the verge of first contact. And just to make matters more complicated, the ship is sentient and the person in command is a vampire. This is so-called "hard" sci-fi, but unlike a lot of hard sci-fi that's really just arcane jargon en masse, this is actually hard (as in difficult), in that the technical matters are connected to what it means to be human — heck, to be alive.