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"Modernity died at the gates of Auschwitz", which is the Lyotard quote that I usually bust out when trying to explain Postmodernism to undergrads. Even though it isn't entirely tru…

So how would this process work in the context of a self-organizing criticality (SOC) [0]? I've long taken that to be one of the more plausible mechanisms for getting to simple auto…

Games are, and won't be a "consumer luxury good", as the article states, unless we're getting into bespoke CAVE systems or Westworld-like theme parks. Consoles have achieved that p…

Well, an academic paper is basically code; you have a lot of dependencies in there, and if you don't get all your #includes right, it'll likely fail to compile. Similarly, knowledg…

So you're saying there /are/ things that the social sciences can contribute to data science? This is my complete lack of surprise...

I'm not seeing it. Fast seconds are a thing, and will come in and take your lunch money. I'm also not entirely sure how it connects to "defensible" software. The ability to set a s…

Thanks for sharing; it was a good quick read, and I found it instructive. What I'm not sure is how the lessons of a material production culture might translate to the digital one t…

I've been liking the material at https://aeon.co/ for a while now.

To pick an example out of thin air, think of stage act trying to keep a number of plates spinning. You can keep a number of them going, but the LRU one is the one most likely of fa…