meanderingexile @meanderingexile@schelling.pt

another attack on general purpose computing, growing out of the school/surveillance system

surprise
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RT @Wikisteff
I know it's on Mastodon, but it's not long and it's thoughtful, and you should all read how Chrome is implementing the ability to block "View source" from webpages so that the poorly written Google forms that leak answers to students can be "protected" against.
@doctorow https://twitter.com/textfiles/status/1458556434124…
https://twitter.com/Wikisteff/status/1458746114883174409

I think this is good advice, both as a thing to do, and in terms of practical behaviour change

replacing a habit is a lot easier than a hard stop
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RT @lauralondon_
Pro tip: anytime you want to apologize for something express gratitude instead

Instead of saying "sorry this took me so long" say "thank you for waiting for me."

This is a small thing, but did really make me feel a lot better when I started doing it.
https://twitter.com/lauralondon_/status/1350232003296317441

broke: send people to-dos
woke: send people intrusive thoughts
bespoke:
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RT @hdevalence
@vgr @liminal_warmth @p_millerd it’s a technology that allows you to send taxable events over the internet
https://twitter.com/hdevalence/status/1458237746376437762

I'll forgive a lot of limtiations in capacity for minimal friction in testing and quickly implementing simple patterns of movement

this kind of fits with the "bash for robotics" kick I'm on at the moment- I feel like I can't use robotics/automation for more stuff at home or at work isn't that solutions don't exist, it's that I don't have the scale to make the setup time worth it

This seems cool- not quite $20k cool right now, but being able to SSH into one of these at the lab from anywhere would be pretty great

https://hello-robot.com/product

Neat little trick: gut massage with a ball for stress

I'm not clear on how this works, but it really feels like it does. Helping to relax the psoas, maybe, or just encouraging diaphragmatic breathing (like Kelly says partway through)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5k2p7ZUvX7k

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RT @meanderingexile
In general, I guess this is why I find military strategy a useful discipline for people interested in decision making and complex sociotechnical systems.
https://twitter.com/meanderingexile/status/1357658649481543680

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RT @meanderingexile
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.
https://twitter.com/meanderingexile/status/1357652482659295232

underneath all the terrible sun tzu references and navy seal comparisons, though, there is probably something to be said for thinking about "what if this system were actively trying to foil me" and the (very old) folk wisdom we have for dealing with that

Luttwak's "paradoxical logic" is similar, and other concepts from military strategy

strategy is something I found really interesting when I was younger, and then drifted away for a while, basically because most references it outside academia or actual war are cringe

this is interesting- especially the ecosystem comparison

there's a point where complex adaptive systems are responsive enough to what you do that it makes sense to treat them as an adversary

I guess this is why things like Boyd's OODA are useful in lots of places
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RT @0xdoug
1/ Zillow made the same mistake that every new quant trader makes early on: Mistaking an adversarial environment for a random one. https://twitter.com/macrocephalo…
https://twitter.com/0xdoug/status/1456032851477028870

petition to make vcs dress like caesar instead of those puffy vests
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RT @balajis
What comes after VC thesis statements and portfolio pages?

The tech tree. A constantly updated open source map of everything you want to fund, how it interrelates, and what remains to be built. A vision of the definite future that still accommodates uncertainty and creativity.
https://twitter.com/balajis/status/1456163613857570821

yes, yes, monte carlo tree search search

brains are not computers, etc., but I wonder if there's a common principle at work there

mcts search relies on taking one possible branch of reality at a time to its logical conclusion, taking some aggressive shortcuts to make that tractable

it occurs to me that I do the same thing- naturally thinking in possible stories, not odds

and also horrifying, in some small ways

slowly merging with a computer is different when you don't own the thing you're merging into