DrImplausible

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   by DrImplausible 8y ago

   "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 true. It probably died at Verdun and the Somme.
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   by DrImplausible 8y ago

   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 automata. I guess this could work in conjunction with SOC,
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   by DrImplausible 8y ago

   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 point of ubiquity that they're a co
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   by DrImplausible 8y ago

   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, knowledge management is inherently multi-disciplinary, so
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   by DrImplausible 8y ago

   So you're saying there /are/ things that the social sciences can contribute to data science? This is my complete lack of surprise...
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   by DrImplausible 8y ago

   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 standard so that you're able to bu
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   by DrImplausible 9y ago

   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 that most of HN (presumably) interacts with. Version co
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   by DrImplausible 9y ago

   I've been liking the material at https://aeon.co/ for a while now.
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   by DrImplausible 9y ago

   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 falling because it's lost some energy, and you need to ch