Misspelling the Multiverse
In one of the recent MCU installments Wanda Maximoff dreams of her children. In this story dreams are our windows into the Multiverse (for real homies). The thing is, Wanda gets the calculus wrong. She...
View ArticleOn the Mathematical Multiverse
Tt is easy to get bogged down in esoteric arguments for and against physicalism. One particular annoying offshoot is Mathematicism, the idea that all math is real and math is all there is — a sort of...
View ArticleSmoothness is an Abstraction which Could be Real
3D Game of Life – but is the real world discrete? Hope you appreciate the little play on words in the title. This post is dedicated to Professor Normal Wilberger who taught at the University of...
View ArticleOperational Non-Physicalism
A quick note on aspects of physicalism and philosophy of consciousness. The background: most philosophy contains deeply subjective opinions, it is not science, but we can apply logic and other...
View ArticleWhat is Socialism Really? — Or What Should It Be
Do you have issues with far right extremists (who legitimately loath the middle of the road conservative neoliberal right wing and who also loath the authoritarian capitalist) and do you also have...
View ArticleCollective Code Ownership
Adam Tornhill has some great little vignettes over at My Five Worst Bugs: Lessons Learned In System Design. However, in his vignette “Virtually Correct” (which technically is about the hazards of...
View ArticleDeep Learning and Asymptotics
Just came across a nice talk on deep learning by this dude Leo Dirac (any relation to the great Paul Dirac I wonder?) who is explaining how Transformers are replacing LSTM models. For any deep learning...
View ArticlePython Trolls
Want to know who is more awesome in the field of tech leadership than Steve Jobs? Guido van Rossum is one answer. Here is a nice keynote he gave which starts off talking about critics of Python (the...
View ArticleDebt for Thinking People — a response to “Debt for Dummies”
This is a response to a recent newshub article by Dan Satherley, which discussed the NZ government debt. The very title of the piece (“How the government borrows money“) was immediately an amateur...
View ArticleWhy a Job Guarantee is Superior to UBI in Every Conceivable Way
I’ve got at least 18 good reasons you should favour representatives who propose a Job Guarantee scheme rather than a UBI. (I think there could be several more reasons, write to me if you can think of...
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