meanderingexile @meanderingexile@schelling.pt

Did an hour of collar drags in BJJ, then hit up my first Muay Thai class in ages

Deadlifts tomorrow

One step at a time

The extent of premodern trade networks always blows my mind.
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RT @Patrick_Wyman
So cool: These beads made in Venice at some point in the 14th or 15th century (before Columbus) came all the way from the Mediterranean, along the Silk Road to East Asia or Siberia, then across the Bering Strait to 15th-century Indigenous sites in Alaska. https://gizmodo.com/found-in-alaska-these-blue-beads-could-be-the-oldest-e-1846208780?utm_medium=s…
https://twitter.com/Patrick_Wyman/status/1358244502666809344

Boyd's OODAtaktik is trying to shift the adversary toward the linear/Augustinian side of the spectrum, by compressing the timescale and disrupting feedback. A sufficiently Augustinian opponent is just an engineering problem.

Actually, that's kind of a fun thought- I wonder how much you can think of the A-M spectrum as just a function of timescale. On a short enough scale, every system is static. On a long enough scale, every system is adaptive.

Physical laws don't move in an attempt to thwart us, assuming that the idea of shifting fundamental constants doesn't turn out to hold some lurking complexity.

One one extreme, you might have physics; on the other hand, a game of bridge or jiu-jitsu against a highly skilled human opponent. Even if you identify a pattern, the moment you change to take advantage of it, your adversary will adapt.

This also links to Wiener's idea of Augustinian and Manichean demons; problems that, effectively, stand separate from the solver vs. those where you're coupled to the system.

This paraphrasing of Soros' reflexivity principle from https://allenfarrington.medium.com/the-complex-markets-hypothesis-44c2b2b191d2 is probably the clearest statement of it I've come across.

This was really cool! Like so much complexity stuff, I don't know what it *means*, exactly, but a lot of bits and pieces- like the idea that smaller animals would have much less of a sense of height- that are just neat
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RT @sfiscience
On the latest #ComplexityPodcast, @DoctorBugs (@Harvard /@NMNH) takes us to the treetops to talk #CanopyBiology, the hidden order of structural #Ecology, and what a careful study of #Ants can teach us …
https://twitter.com/sfiscience/status/1355202424399605770

If we can bootstrap lunar water and metals into a resource base for the cislunar economy, we can drum up enough support to build a lunar elevator

If we can build a lunar elevator we can get bulk metals to orbit cheaply

With bulk metals we can build the Ring

I tried to understand ECEF to ECI transformations again and now I don't know what's real

expected error <1 km, actual error ~17 km

big sad

moa crosspost test

be kind, have fun, become more capable, become more dangerous

at this point I've got a nested, keyboard-driven setup- xmonad for windows, qutebrowser for web, a host of CLI programs in tmux for anything that doesn't need a GUI. When it's good it feels amazing- that early Vim speed-of-thought experience, but for almost everything

then I break a config file and it's back to angery, but, y'know, take the wins

qutebrowser 2.0 pulled in Brave's adblocking library, and I think I'm ready to start using it as my primary browser at this point

Repaired a busted vacuum cleaner with a 30c 3D print- feels good, man.

TIL: short-term weather forecasting (24-48 hours) based on cloud patterns is actually a skill one can learn. Somehow I've spent a decent amount of time in the backcountry without paying attention to this

This Signal outage is a reminder that I should really get that Matrix server back up. I guess this will just be part of decentralization for a while- slightly more overlap and redundancy to cover lower reliability of individual systems