#Abstraction

I need a *spatial* and *visual* tool for thought, with back-linking. There is a particular itch I’m trying to scratch for thinking through ideas and processes — and I can’t
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One reason you know Mama Diaspora and other Nigerian elites aren't serious about the diaspora (and @cchukudebelu talks about this often) is that diaspora-building gets harder as communities get more
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My takes on BLS384 vs EIP2537 (and general sentiment regarding updates to #ethereum). The following thread is strictly my own opinion and not of the geth team.Today we had
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Tuesday marked 6 years since getting my first dev job at 28 I worked right through it & didn't even realize it. Looking back, years 2-3 were the hardest
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An image of @BarackObama getting upsampled into a white guy is floating around because it illustrates racial bias in #MachineLearning. Just in case you think it isn't real, it is,
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In context, Kierkegaard is distinguishing between abstract future-oriented and concrete present-oriented responses to suffering. The passage from which Biden quotes is taken from Kierkegaard’s The Gospel of Sufferings in Upbuilding
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Appreciate many on the NPC & the attempt to recognize the issues facing BIPOC folks & BIPOC led organizing efforts in DSA Still I think this statement misses some things
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In Guattari's "Regimes, Pathways, Subjects" he lays out 3 paths/voices of apparatuses (assemblages): 1. "power over exterior territorialities" 2. "deterritorialized modes knowledge about human activities and mac
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Thread about what's wrong with machine learning tools today. 1/ It's almost every week that some new "no-code" machine learning tool is released. They usually have a pretty sleek
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"There are only two hard things in Computer Science: cache invalidation and naming things." - Phil Karlton"Naming things" is obvious, but why "cache invalidation"? It's hard because it implicitly conflates
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I’ve seen a few tweets framing protest in Belarus as a the end of a post-Soviet social contract where people gave up democratic representation for the stability of authoritarianism. People
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By now you might have heard the good news that #rstats is getting a new shorthand function syntax. Soon you'll be able to write the following in R!add
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I made a list of the essays on software eng that I find myself citing in conversation (or just thinking about) over and over again: http://benkuhn.net/progessays/ What's in that category for
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On Joshua Clover's 'Riot Strike Riot', and the question of what is a riot - a thread. Theory Time! How do we define a riot? Is it just signaled by
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Oh I think about hit points a lot and Dee goes into something that I went through that really helped me define how I look at designGimme a sec it's
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Largely agree with Ben's points here, some other thoughts...In physics, mathematical models are either basically correct or not. Newton's laws either hold in all cases or are a wrong (or
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