particular apparatus

2009

December
October 20
August 69
July 5
June 90
May 71
April 86
March
February
January
nonparametric: [snip] Consider: Action precedes perception. Or: There is something outside the...
Nov 12th
Hah! I lol’d. Thanks Kristen. Really bummed I’m...
Nov 12th
noosphere: If it were ideal, the plan would include how to get around the folks that need turning...
Nov 12th
(via lilzet) #obnoxious #worthless #offensive #superfluous...
Nov 12th
nerdshares: sexartandpolitics: Graphic Sociology »...
Nov 12th
Nov 11th
“They always say time changes things, but you actually have...”
— A. Warhol (comment from...
Nov 11th
“You want a proof. I guess that means that you want to be...”
— Imprudence, in...
Nov 9th
Win
Nov 7th
nerds, i love them.
Nov 7th

Renewable energy now, for great...

navigolucky: [snip thread] Will get around to reading this!  What is intrinsically wrong with more...
Nov 4th

Renewable energy now, for great...

This one’s for navigolucky (and Jacobson and Delucchi). From Byrne et al., “Relocating...
Nov 4th
Elinor Ostrom has won the “Nobel Prize in Economics”. I call this a great win....
Nov 4th
…the other lives at the heart of the technological essence we so long fondly thought was ours,...
Nov 3rd
“Of course, there is no beginning—everything began a very...”
— J. Derrida,...
Nov 3rd
“In all rigor you don’t know what you think you know...”
— J. Derrida, “My Sunday...
Nov 2nd

re Halting Problem

tristn: particularapparatus: Also, who cares? “What are the civilian applications?” It matters...
Nov 2nd

Halting Problem

tristn: Or rather a variation of it called “the acceptance problem”. Suppose we have a program P...
Nov 2nd
navigolucky: [snip thread; click link above for it] AUGH, I made substantial progress on this reply...
Nov 2nd

Where is Phil Agre? What would it mean...

Philip Agre, author of Computation and Human Experience and the many-inspiring essay “Toward a...
Nov 2nd
Does the Vaccine Matter? - The Atlantic, part...
Nov 1st
Does the Vaccine Matter? - The Atlantic, part...
Nov 1st

Kohn, "Why self-discipline is...

I won’t pretend that Jonah Lehrer’s article “Don’t!”, subtitled...
Nov 1st