@Elmkast @msweet ha I remember playing Skyrim and I couldn't carry all my stuff ( too much weight), so I started going through my inventory and getting rid of everything that I didn't need. And then I looked over at my closet and realized that I was willing to spend 10 minutes throwing away things I didn't need in a video game, but not willing to spend 10 minutes doing the same for my closet. That's a real world application for me.
"Correlation is not causation!" shouts the Chief of Police.
But that's EXACTLY the argument we'd expect from someone whose organization is found at the scene of every major crime in this city.
I need to rave about #Python.
One of my colleagues has deep knowledge about #GreenhouseGas calculations but doesn't write code, in any language. She was giving me instructions on how to perform a calculation, which I kept getting wrong. Frustrated, I just show her my Python code. She instantly recognises the error and tells me how to fix the code. This is the first time I show her Python.
Can *your* programming language do this?
I'm one of those weirdos that thinks Soylent tastes fucking delicious.
@adrianmryan the show The Good Place is kinda light fun
Lately I've taken to signing my name with just a Z whenever asked.
Signatures are societal cruft left over from a bygone era, the appendix of security.
U. Chicago drops SAT/ACT requirements https://www.chronicle.com/article/An-Ultra-Selective-University/243678
Pair with: Harvard Asian admissions discrimination lawsuit https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/15/us/harvard-asian-enrollment-applicants.html#click=https://t.co/nwcqy0JsbZ
Has anyone done the numbers on the combined valuation of companies that create a service around specific Apache products?
Case:
- Astronomer.io - Apache Airflow
- Databricks - Apache Spark
- Mesosphere - Apache Mesos
- Confluent.io - Apache Kafka
- Datastax - Apache Cassandra, Tomcat, Lucene, Solr, Hadoop, Spark, TinkerPop
- Cloudera - Apache Hadoop
Boring Startup success formula : Create managed service from incubating Apache project...
Human body is 70% of water so we’re basically cucumbers with anxiety.
Prediction
Dennis Rodman is outed as being the true Satoshi Nakamoto. Rodman immediately flees to N. Korea.
Potcoin becomes the official currency of N. Korea under Rodman (Nakamoto) and it MOONS along with the N. Korean economy.
N Korea is forced to suspend its nuclear program because Kim Jong Un gets high and loses the nuke codes.
Kim Jong Un dreads out his hair and goes into self-exile in Bali as a crypto billionaire.
Reunification.
I’m having a blast at this #internetarchive meetup— hearing about https://indieauth.net/ , decentralized PKI from Christopher Allen, demo of the webtorrent desktop app, and now an #ipfs update https://indieweb.org/events/2018-06-13-decentralized-web-meetup #decentralizedweb
"We own the nervous system of your internets and we can rain doom on you, peasants, if you don't follow our orders" https://social.coop/media/c1KEdn6BxXS211itbKE
2018: begging your parents to stop watching so much TV because it rots their brains / not to believe everything they read on the internet
Big list of failed social psych results https://twitter.com/jamesheathers/status/1006287906087071748?s=21
looking back over a month of revisions on a creative project and realizing that every iteration was somehow worse than the one before
endless tweaking/rewriting usually *feels* productive in the moment but is actually...not
@zacharius @vgr iv'e given up on keeping notes.
My process of internalizing a book's main groks is to engage in peer groks (2-3 people) basically book club but less boring.
I'm intrigued by how Joe Rogan processes information on his podcast videos.
He engages in conv. w/another person & has a minion call up wiki or google search obscure references in front on a giant LCD screen to clarify some vague fact to further the conversation.
Low friction, passive info seeking to enhance the grok.
@britt Ah, that's a useful distinction. Google doesn't seem to have the incentive to properly distinguish those two cases.
@jbond De-listing or aggressively demoting HTTP only sites in ranking seems like too heavy handed of an approach.
@akkartik I think there is something useful about telling people your blog is not encrypted, though it shouldn't be marked "dangerous" like submitting an unencrypted form. Whoever is sitting on the network can see that I'm going there which is a bit of my data, but also I can't know that the contents haven't been tampered with in transit. Seems tinfoil hat until you use hotel wifi.
