Today I launched google search and saw a tiny, self-effacing, non-intrusive little grey banner at the top of the search page. It was asking for donations to …
Whiplash: it needn’t all be whip and lash…
First off, Whiplash is an awesome movie. I loved how different the story was, and I thought the casting was very apt (Paul Reiser as …
Holography Schmolography
[updated 2014-09-04] The whole holography thing. YES. I am actually going there! I’m going to place a bet against (some) physicists. I have absolutely nothing …
By extension of the earth plus plastic paradigm…
In a not-quite-recent discussion about macro scale structures (mostly corporations, governments, skewed economies, social / digital media spaces etc) and how they might be screwing …
Krishna visits.
Led I had tumbled out of the movie theater far too soon, leading to a rather strong inclination to just eff it and head home. I don’t …
The Generalist Manifesto (version 001)
“A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, …
Absurcracy
I’ve learned some fascinating things reading news headlines over the last year or so. This is mostly thanks(?!) to an app on my phone, which …
Computations with a big ‘C’, vs little ‘c’ computations
In the computing / computable universe worldview, the universe is akin to a giant computation. This inevitably leads to anthropic questions like, ‘what solution is …
Space invaders vs Space Builders : pick your Fermi-antiparadox
Updated 2011-03-24 As I said before, my guess is that sentience is overrated. That was going to be the expanded-upon point of my whole post, …
Traffic flow, ‘jamitons’ and trucks
…I like the word jamiton*… this idea of a traffic jam “particle”… a component of a deceleration wave travelling backwards through traffic from something concrete …