Showing posts with label music. Show all posts
Showing posts with label music. Show all posts

Wednesday, March 16, 2016

Whatever

And so it begins. "Seems like Google's RankBrain AI is a Skynet in making because even the engineers working on it are unable to understand it."

Labor markets are hampered by occupational licensing laws. "Lower rates of worker mobility mean that workers are misallocated across the states in a similar way that price controls or discrimination misallocate resources and reduce total wealth. Lower rates of workforce mobility also increase the persistence of unemployment."

Terrorism becomes an opportunity. "[D]omestic law enforcement officials now have access to huge troves of American communications, obtained without warrants, that they can use to put people in cages. FBI agents don't need to have any 'national security' related reason to plug your name, email address, phone number, or other 'selector' into the NSA’s gargantuan data trove."

Don't piss of chess geeks they might pull out the DDoS gambit.

Music is always a social experience. "[R]ecent looks at the evolution and neurology of music suggest we are not waltzing by ourselves. Musical experiences are inherently social, scientists tell us, even when they happen in private. When we listen alone, we feel together."

Step 1 - stop sustaining criminal elites. "[A]dopting the rule of law is complex. A country needs to enact an immense number of rules. Crafting and enforcing those rules requires cooperation among legislatures, ministries, departments of ministries, the judiciary, local governments and more. At each stage, defenders of the status quo can sabotage or twist the effort to their advantage."

Path Dependent by William Dupre
Ask me where it is
I will say “The flow seems to take me there.”

I am an accumulation of lost experiences
Bridging a dependent path to others of me
Experiencing what again will be lost.

What parallels of me exist?
When did I become me?

Wednesday, March 02, 2016

Whatever

  • An open-source alternative to Android Wear OS
  • Wonderful piece, great player
  • Pirates of the 21st Century!
  • Help Wanted for hackers - "Some groups also offer incentives for new talent, such as promising fame and notoriety, profit-sharing, and travel expenses."
  •  How to make good decisions? Don't ignore the base rate.
  •  FBI's Tor hack shows the risk of subpoenas to security researchers - "If you're a researcher, you need to think: Am I going to get subpoenaed here? Should I be gathering this information and risking putting it into the wild?"

Oh, God! a lipogram in O by William Dupre
Oh! To know God’s blood,
Don’t brood on school’s rot
Or cool to Mom’s cocoon -
Stomp on roots of doom!

Look to books for food
To stop torpor’s hoofs.
Don boots to crook cons
Or to loot God’s boon.

Go now! Look how blooms
Took to soot on sod
On footholds of foo
To grow food for fools!


Pirate Ship image courtesy of EricaMaxine Price at Fine Art America

Wednesday, July 09, 2008

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Wednesday, May 14, 2008

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