Interesting comment on regression vs. black swans
Why we fight, and can we stop
Interesting, but I disagree with the conclusions in this article. The key to overcoming human biases is not to teach 7 billion people to become meta-aware. It’s to design a system where those biases are constructive, not destructive forces. Anti-fragility, as Nassim Taleb would say.
# 2013.10.26 – 09:43
Vivaldi Unbound
Vivaldi and Kanye West in one article: “This is the difference between works that are kept alive in the fenced-off wildlife preserve of the academy and works that survive on their own, in the jungle of popular consumption.”
# 2013.10.25 – 20:31
Tweet by devinpangaro
@cuppingmaster Hey girl, are you speaking my language? No? Well let me find Ariel Prieto.
— Devin Pangaro (@devinpangaro) October 25, 2013
via http://twitter.com/devinpangaro
# 2013.10.25 – 13:47
The Obamacare Suits/Geeks Divide
“One of the worst things that can happen on a systems project is to find yourself revisiting the business-technical negotiations process after writing a lot of code.”
# 2013.10.25 – 00:43
The Tantalizing Tree Of Knowledge
“Metaphorically, this image teaches us that we must not be greedy for knowledge that is more than we can bear. In time, after we mature and advance in perfection, things will be made known to us that, if we received them now, would ruin us.”
# 2013.10.23 – 12:12
Why People Mistake Good Deals for Rip-Offs
Beer and art share an awkwardly named property: they’re “inherently inevaluable.”
# 2013.10.22 – 18:25
Dishing Out Insulin: How Feel-Good Viral Machines like Upworthy and BuzzFeed Filter Reality
“The web is, in many ways, a manifestation of the human id. It’s gossip and sex and jealousy and the tribal mindset.”
# 2013.10.22 – 17:32
Tweet by DSzymborski
Antrel Rolle, and the walls fell. Freeman in Minnesota. Rick Spielman, his eyes uncovered! Freeman on the waiver wire. #darmok
— Dan Szymborski (@DSzymborski) October 22, 2013
via http://twitter.com/DSzymborski
# 2013.10.21 – 19:43
Tweet by fastballs
@kenarneson @Kevin_Goldstein The Astros have people better than me at parsing XML.
— Mike Fast (@fastballs) October 21, 2013
via http://twitter.com/fastballs
# 2013.10.21 – 15:32
Christian, Not Conservative
“We have forgotten… about building the stately mansions of the soul … Instead, we adopted this very small view of ourselves and others, as consumers and patients and members of interest groups.”
# 2013.10.20 – 18:43
God and Evil, Part 2: Satan’s Work
“It is a bittersweetness that lies at the heart of all faiths. It is often in conditions of extreme suffering that many people discover, or recover, their bonds with God. And yet nothing more questions those bonds, or the God, than that very suffering itself.”
# 2013.10.20 – 15:43
God and Evil
“The story of Adam and Eve was initially, then, a fable about the attainment of free will and the embrace of moral responsibility. It became a tale about the corruption of free will and the constraints on moral responsibility.”
# 2013.10.20 – 15:25
Art As Means Of Religious Conversion
Re: Dante: “These souls, these gluttons, are now, in Purgatory, using their mouths to sing hosannas as they march toward purification and final redemption. By their hunger they are healed. Seriously, I don’t think I will ever see fasting in the same way again.”
# 2013.10.20 – 12:50
Vimeo: Leaving Home – Uit Huis – by Joost Lieuwma
Leaving Home – Uit Huis – by Joost Lieuwma
# 2013.10.19 – 17:05