Random thoughts, musings and things I think are interesting…
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The rest of the story
I was listening to the Peter Schiff show last week. Mr Schiff was out for some reason and he had Stefan Molyneux filling in. I was just going to link to the podcast of the show, and tell you to go listen, but I can’t find it anywhere (without registration anyway) so I will…
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I come from a long line of stupendous bad asses
“Like every other creature on the face of the earth, Godfrey was, by birthright, a stupendous badass, albeit in the somewhat narrow technical sense that he could trace his ancestry back up a long line of slightly less highly evolved stupendous badasses to that first self-replicating gizmo—which, given the number and variety of its descendants,…
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Facebook is mainstream
Media that is. And not in a good way. In the “we control the channel and use it for our benefit” way. Veritasium did a great job of explaining what they are doing and why it’s bad in this video: Although some are distracted by the wrapper that Facebook puts around our content, there is…
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All alone
There was a great write up on the FBI report on mass shootings over on Gun Nuts media. Its worth a read, but here are a few of the better quotes: The FBI report is acknowledging a simple, inescapable truth: You are on your own. We don’t like being on our own. We don’t like the thought…
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Divide et impera
I just knew my High School latin would come in handy one day!* The title of this post is famously attributed to Julius Caesar, but the concept (in different words) goes back to ancient Greece. Many believe that Caesar was referring to his enemies on the battlefield, when in fact he was talking about those…
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The only thing stopping you is "wanna"
We had a snow day on Saturday. No, school wasn’t going to be in and was cancelled. It just snowed through the day and we didn’t need to go anywhere so we didn’t. In between driveway plowing sessions I ended up getting sucked in to a few projects that had been on my “someday –…
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Avoiding confirmation bias
As many have already observed, these days there is absolutely no reason to be ignorant about any subject that interests you. Well at least not a good reason. I won’t bore you with all the stats and figures about how often human knowledge doubles, about how many searches there are each second, or about how…
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PRISM proof your life
If some have their way,the names Edward Snowden and Glen Greenwald will be erased from the history books. I doubt they will be successful, but I think that of the two, Mr. Greenwald’s name will have more staying power. While Snowden provided the ingredients, Greenwald orchestrated the meal. The way he structured the stories and…
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A computer has simulated 1 second of human thought…in 40 minutes
So if you apply Moore’s law to this, it would seem that we are only decades (years?) away from machines that have faster (better?) brains than humans. What a waste of computing power…imagine how many FPS you could get in Crysis 3 with 705,024 processor cores and 1.4 million GB of RAM. Brought to you by: