Let's have some "fn and Games with Arcadia" and _ youtu.be/LbS45w_aSCU #clojure #clojurenorth #arcadia

Dann Toliver asks questions about what is and isn't software. Let's think through them together in "Software, but not as we know it": youtu.be/iLeaXt9Bi58 #clojurenorth

We also have an industry panel! Panelists Jon Pither from JUXT, Morri Feldman from AppsFlyer Engineering, and Simon Belak from Metabase all gave their insights into how they manage data in their respective use cases. Moderated by dann youtu.be/4XuwiJnMn0Q #clojure #clojurenorth

Beautiful conversation by dann, Simon Belak, Morri Feldman and Jon Pither , discussing various aspects of their experiences working with data.

Deepfakes will save us all: like differential privacy for numerical data, deepfakes offer plausible deniability for the surveillance age. Corollary: unsigned data is inherently untrustworthy.

Anyone know of a Banach-Tarski-like construction that allows reassembly of a sphere from any sufficiently large subset of pieces (e.g., any three out of five)?

1) In 2008 a salmon (yes the fish) was put through an MRI scanner. The salmon was shown a series of photographs of humans in social situations, and asked to determine the emotion of the person in the photo (yes, really).

People tweet all sorts of things about real numbers, especially when it comes to computation. I've studied the topic for years, and I often disagree with such statements. Let me address just one such statement: "A computer cannot represent all reals, only the computable ones."

Write code. Mostly simple. Not too much.

While I was in grad school at CMU, I had the honor and privilege of learning from prof. John Reynolds. He was brilliant, but also incredibly humble. After knowing him, I stopped giving a pass to the "asshole genuis" types. Here are some stories. 1/

Want to help with #COVID19 while you're social distancing? Toronto JavaScript has partnered up with Dev Edmonton Society to help with CODEVID19 Hackathon! Lets solve this together!! #CODEVID19 #COVID19 #TorontoJS

"You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are complicated". RIP John Conway

CALL FOR PAPERS: Computational Governance and Majoritarianism We're delighted to be working with @mansoor_a_r Cambridge Computer Science dann Hazem Danny Al-Nakib @uclcbt Workshop 28 Oct (deadline for papers 24 Sep), leading to a special collection in D&P. bit.ly/3k1oIze

Exploring cellular automata with my kids, our five year old came up with an interesting set of rules that counts in binary. Anyone seen anything like this before? inatree.net/#Binary%20coun…

Thrilled that our paper on Ecological Memory Management won the coveted "Forgot to remove page numbers" award at SIGBOVIK! Read it here: orca.garden/pdf/Ecological…

This schematisation by dann is an interesting way to classify data structures — by analysing if they are abstract specifications/concrete implementations: youtu.be/2XH_q494U3U?t=…