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bengo, 4 days ago to random

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iterated_function

bengo, 4 days ago to random

"By zigzagging, we’re not climbing a ladder—we’re spinning a career web, one that can extend infinitely in any direction, with many options for development and progress. It isn’t just more exciting and interesting than the alternative. It also opens us up to a world of possibilities that might have otherwise remained impossibly out of reach. By the way: It’s way less roundabout and indirect than it may seem."

https://www.fastcompany.com/91133376/why-zigzagging-is-key-to-a-successful-career?utm_source=pocket-newtab-en-us

bengo, 4 days ago to random

"Archives as Commons" @dsearls

https://doc.searls.com/2024/04/21/archives-as-commons/

bengo, 4 days ago to random

Finally listening to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_1619_Project and it's so good (and obv sad) yall. go read or listen to it

bengo, 4 days ago to random

"In this paper, we have asked: what motivates those who aspire to build AGI — a system, which, although it does not have one definition even among those who claim to be building it, seems to be an all-knowing machine akin to a “god”? The answer is that the current push for AGI is driven by a set of ideologies which we label the “second wave” of eugenics."

https://firstmonday.org/ojs/index.php/fm/article/view/13636/11599

bengo, 4 days ago to random

"every age has its delusions and every cause its traitors. But the danger here is radical. Our leaders themselves are bemused; so that treachery can pass unnoticed and even think itself fidelity”... Dingle argued that it is we who must decide what is “proper”—to “deduce particular conclusions from a priori general principles or derive general principles from observations?... whether the foundation of science shall be observation or invention”

https://direct.mit.edu/posc/article/25/3/324/15528/Why-These-Laws-Multiverse-Discourse-as-a-Scene-of

bengo, 10 days ago to random

https://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/public-solid/2024May/0009.html

bengo, 19 days ago to random

https://genius.com/The-beatles-revolution-lyrics

bengo, 19 days ago to random

“AI and Democracy’s Digital Identity Crisis

By understanding how identity attestations are positioned across the spectrum of decentralization, we can better grasp their costs/benefits. Improving and integrating them into our interactions with the digital sphere will help protect democratic systems from AI-generated harm.”

https://stanford-jblp.pubpub.org/pub/ai-democracy-digital-identity/release/1

bengo, 20 days ago to random

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"corroborate previous findings in the Americas of cultural evidence that dates to the Last Glacial Maximum (26,500–19,000 years ago)18, and which push back dates for human dispersal to the region possibly as early as 33,000–31,000 years ago."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-020-2509-0

bengo, 20 days ago to random

"Democratic Erosion of Data-Opolies: Decentralized Web3 Technological Paradigm Shift Amidst AI Disruption"

https://www.mdpi.com/
2504-2289/8/3/26

bengo, 22 days ago to random

“They could flame and troll with a fearlessness that was harder to get away with under the material coercion of the state, or the physical consequences of talking when you were supposed to be listening. Without the oddly providential cyberlibertarian vision to give a reason for good behavior, cyberspace looked a lot more like the history of civilization than it did an unencumbered new chapter.”

https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/ielx7/85/7898753/07898759.pdf

bengo, 22 days ago to random

When I was growing up in KS, we called this edge of town “the end of the world”

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bengo, 22 days ago to random

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bengo, 25 days ago to random

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bengo, 1 month ago to random

“Everybody who reasons carefully about anything is making a contribution to the knowledge of what happens when you think about something”

skinnylatte, 1 month ago to food

Starting a thread on the different types of tofu and how to cook them. (Some of these are vegan, some are not. In Chinese cooking, tofu is not a vegan protein):

1. Egg tofu

This is one of my fave tofus. It isn't vegan. It's made with soy beans AND eggs. It has a eggy taste that egg lovers will love; but that goes way entirely when it's panfried lightly.

And this is the egg tofu dish I always order at restaurants (and now make at home) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uthY_SuR_7w&pp=ygUec3BpY2VzIG4gcGFucyBzaXpsaW5nIGVnZyB0b2Z1

#Food #Tofu

a photo of egg tofu, sliced

bengo, 1 month ago to random

"Emergence of fractal geometries in the evolution of a metabolic enzyme" https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07287-2

bengo, 1 month ago to random

"While Open works as a strategic (and narrative) approach in specific fields of application, it no longer provides a more general vision of a more just and egalitarian digital society." http://paradox.openfuture.eu/ @openfuture

bengo, 1 month ago to random

"An off-chain system trending towards oligopoly subsumed an on-chain egalitarian system, quietly and opaquely. Achieving de jure sybil-resistance (filtering humans from bots) revealed a deeper challenge of de-facto sybil resistance (filtering humans acting like bots), which could not coherently or computationally be disentangled from the problem of collusion-resistance."

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=4749892

bengo, 2 months ago to random

"Percolating adaptive functionality from one level of competent subunits to a higher functional level of organization requires collective dynamics: multiple components must work together to achieve specific outcomes."

https://www.nature.com/articles/s42003-024-06037-4

bengo, 2 months ago to random

https://science.nasa.gov/centers-and-facilities/goddard/hubble-view-of-a-galaxy-resembling-an-atomic-nucleus/

bengo, 2 months ago to random

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