At VCF West

Also two great machines I didn't snap photos of: the TMC Connection Machine (from the permanent exhibit) and the SiliconGraphics Indigo2

It should be legal to acquire single-use copyright of a book by purchasing a physical copy and destroying it

What is the true meaning of life? What can free us from being trapped in meaninglessness, boredom and mediocrity? The fullness of our existence does not depend on what we store up or what we possess. Rather, fullness has to do with what we joyfully welcome and share.

Well if Wikipedia says so

Notes on the visual design of the Connection Machines from Tamiko Thiel. Hypercube supercomputer topologies were a major cultural fixation in the 80s, apparently

It is like the light of the sun and the moon, It is luminous and totally pervasive. If we investigate it, we do not find anything. If we let it be, it arises in various ways. ~ The Royal Tantra on the Brilliant Diffusion of Majestic Space

Holy shit it’s so much easier to work on a problem you care about

擇不處仁焉得知

TIL that Aristotle's name in Ge'ez came to mean "wizard" because the Greek philosopher was considered to be a wizard! I wonder if other sources in Late Antiquity attest a similar conception of Aristotle.

I saw this film during its original run. The visuals are stunning and basically unparalleled in Western animation. Seems under-reported, though, that it's a very in-your-face critique of US foreign policy; I suppose this is what it's like to be on the receiving end of soft power

You have 2 years left to get enough sleep

Coworker found me photosynthesizing on a park bench today. He’d been looking at a house in the neighborhood; I was gawking at charts of tank production in WW2; we made perfunctory conversation about Romanian oil and Palo Alto rents and he carried on with his stroll

Excuse me

The best piece of often overlooked advice that I got at rentech (by Jim himself) in the earlier days was : “Always remember, first sort, then regress”. We lived by this rule. If you have data (X,Y) sort X and Y independently, this gives a better fit.

Been 7 yrs and I still experience random urges to buy the sterile abstraction train set and conductor’s cap

Southbound on 101 devising a form of deity yoga wherein the tantrika visualizes and identifies with cherished divinity John Carmack in his Buff aspect

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