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Can you please create a PR? I will gladly go through the content

• thanatropism 8y ago
  I'm actually not strong on those topics. It's on my neverending list, but... Continental philosophy and "theory" are time-consuming in that one needs to grep for the truffles in the mud. I've spent >10 years reading Gilles Deleuze in my free time and now I see him as the harbinger of surprisingly useful ideas (many of which the "technical community" has discovered independently, from computer viruses to the tension between decentralization and centralization, but still really novel for 1970-1980 when his core works were published) -- but it was difficult getting there! I got into Deleuze because I fell in love with the prose, but you will be forgiven if you group him with Derrida and Foucault and even French Marxists because he's (1) a creature of his time and friends with many of those now-irrelevant figures and (2) fluid and ambivalent almost if required to be consistent with his own teachings. So... I wish I had time for "software studies", but I'm currently working on a method for betting on horses^H^H^Hmarathon runners using the gamma process and the idea of risk-free measures from finance.