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“The notes may read as oppositional, because, well, I'm opposed.” https://dynamicland.org/archive/2017/Is_this_the_civilization_we_really_want%3F Periodic thread of what I think of as extremely Berlin moments: Stopped at a red light on my bike while riding home from the gym yesterday, I hear a familiar beat slowly coming into audio focus behind me. Smiling, I look back to see a tall person of indeterminate gender piloting a speaker-laden cargo bike containing an extremely chill golden retriever. All three of us seemed to be bobbing our heads in unison to The Prodigy’s Firestarter. Later in the day, while walking home with groceries from the nearby market hall, I see two skinny 20-something lads struggling to hand transport a very tall potted plant. Once I’m close enough I see that it’s a very healthy, leafy, and productive Cannabis plant (newly legal to grow for personal use). After our paths cross, I smell it for the rest of the block. ‘We're always rationally explaining and articulating things. But we're at our most intelligent in the moment just before we start to explain or articulate. Great art occurs—or doesn't—in that instant. What we turn to art for is precisely this moment, when we “know” something (we feel it) but can't articulate it because it's too complex and multiple.’ Photo: Akira Kurosawa / Text: George Saunders To all my #clojure people, you probably want to sign up for this: “Ideally, adults over age 60 should be lifting weights two to four times per week.” Younger adults too, but it only gets more important with age.  @jack I am coming around to this, the trend line in particular. I'm still doing body weight stuff so far, but I seem to be sticking with it. So I have a few years to get into weights 🙂 It's easier now to stick with it than when I was younger, because I see the results in increased capability much more quickly, usually the same day. And I also see the effects of missing 2 days in a row. Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists, when the latter requested a debate.
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Condensed visual tutorial in #Bauhaus style for a subset of the #Clojure sequence API. Textual version here:  @jack I love it :) Reminds me of this explainer on combinatory logic: https://wiki.xxiivv.com/site/logic.html In September, a bunch of us took a 3-day train ride from Seattle to St Louis for the last edition of Strange Loop. This video documents that journey, which we called the Trainjam. Featuring @neauoire @spiralganglion @avi @akkartik @pvh @disconcision @aconbere @mkvlr @unkai   @jack @spiralganglion @avi @akkartik @pvh @disconcision @aconbere @mkvlr @unkai @mattwynne @blaine This #clojure procedural animation was inspired by the design aesthetic of the Penguin paperbacks I read as a boy… This 1957 photo from the construction site of the Atomium looks like a still from the greatest sci-fi film never made… TIL when Peano wrote the 1890s textbook that established much of modern mathematical notation, he did the first few editions in French and the 5th in Latino sine flexione — a simplified Latin of his own creation! I'll be a talk in the PWL track of Strange Loop this year. Hope to see many of you there! :) https://thestrangeloop.com/2023/from-geometry-to-algebra-and-back-again-4000-years-of-papers.html   @jack Looking forward to... the recording. Geometric algebra deserves to be much better known! "Technology is the active human interface with the material world." Half of what’s wrong with American tech-adjacent intelligentsia stems from reading too much Heinlein and not enough Lem. The simple beauty of modulus arithmetic extended to 3D, coded in #clojure. Inspired by some of @guidoschmidt recent renders :) @jack Dude 😍 this is so cool. I think this is the first time I am credited as inspiration 🤘 |
