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The following lines from my makefile illustrate two tricks I enjoy.

%.pdf: %.text

pandoc -F pandoc-zotxt -F pandoc-citeproc $< -o $@

%.draft.pdf: %.text

pandoc -F pandoc-zotxt -F pandoc-citeproc --template=draft $< -o $@

(1) Automatically grabbing citation details from Zotero. (2) Using the extension of the requested output file to choose the appropriate template.

Not emacs specific, of course.

His emacs customization apparently: https://github.com/incandescentman/Emacs-Settings

His book /Men of Ideas/ is a set of conversations with leading philosophers (among them Searle, Chomsky, Quine), accessible to non experts. I read it as a kid and whenever I happen to revisit it I find just as inspiring. It seems to be out of print, though the videos from the BBC show are ironically on youtube,

/The Great Philosophers/ in which prominent philosophers discuss the major figures in the canon of Western philosophy (Plato, Aristotle, Hume, Kant, etc.) is also enticing, though less than /Men of Ideas/.

The idea that everything can be bought and sold, for example your feudal estate, is quite new. I think Varoufakis is a somewhat of a disciple of Karl Polanyi on these matters.

But I agree that the notion of "a new type of common ownership that works in sync with new technologies" needs much more spelling out.

Here's the bit that resonates with issues often discussed on HN:

"In the manifesto’s unforgettable words: “A society that has conjured up such gigantic means of production and of exchange, is like the sorcerer who is no longer able to control the powers of the nether world whom he has called up by his spells.”

The sorcerer will always imagine that their apps, search engines, robots and genetically engineered seeds will bring wealth and happiness to all. But, once released into societies divided between wage labourers and owners, these technological marvels will push wages and prices to levels that create low profits for most businesses. It is only big tech, big pharma and the few corporations that command exceptionally large political and economic power over us that truly benefit. If we continue to subscribe to labour contracts between employer and employee, then private property rights will govern and drive capital to inhuman ends. Only by abolishing private ownership of the instruments of mass production and replacing it with a new type of common ownership that works in sync with new technologies, will we lessen inequality and find collective happiness."

The famous public letter from Norbert Wiener declaring he will not work for the military: http://lanl-the-back-story.blogspot.com/2013/08/a-scientist-...

Is that the Ada code base?

Which conversion tools/services do you have in mind?

What are the best practices for doing the reverse: taking audio and producing text? I don't mind the translation to be rough, the error rate can be quite high for my purposes, but I want the process not to get stuck and recover so it processes a full length talk.

The classification is based on an R package for Generalized Boosted Regression Models[1]. Can anyone knowledgeable opine about this choice?

[]1 https://cran.r-project.org/web/packages/gbm/

I submitted this because of the Hinton thread...

Search the file for the description of the Jumbo architecture to get an idea of Douglas Hofstadter's computational approach.

You should check out the book. It is really fun (especially the illustrations).

DRH's /Le Ton Beau De Marot: In Praise Of The Music Of Language/ is a remarkable book about translation of literature (all of his books are must reads, btw). Still, it seems to me that shallowness is a feature, not a bug, of automatic translation.

So these guys apparently get hacked versions of software from Eastern Europe (according to the film). It was also reported that some in rural American areas developed sympathy for Russia and Eastern Europe (though that is probably very much over-reported). Can these things in some way be related? (Note: I am not claiming they are; just wondering out loud.)

My elementary school kids are told about CodeMonkey in school, and they play with it a bit, but it is just so sad to see them exposed to coding in a task oriented, graded system, as opposed to the way I was introduced to coding in school, with Logo.

Thanks for posting this link. The original link works for me (probably b/c I use university proxy which provides access to the journal; without it I get the blank page too).

Once upon a time the Kindle was great for magazine subscriptions. This is still how I read magazines, but these days I think texture is cheaper.

It's a very interesting interview, which led me to the link I posted!

> What books or online courses should I look into to know about memory, flops, and things like that?

What you are after are books/courses on "architecture", I think. A classic book on the subject is Hennessy & Patterson.

https://www.amazon.com/Computer-Architecture-Sixth-Quantitat...

Anyone know of, or can offer, a comparison of the existing notebook hosting services?

Someone cares to try to put this story in political perspective?

I really enjoyed Udi Manber's /Introduction to Algorithms: A Creative Approach/ when I was starting out. It is not the place for sexy new stuff, but it's a great resource for learning the fundamentals and developing a taste for the subject.

Some of you might be interested in an essay I wrote about von Neumann and Norbert Wiener that gives some of the background and context of this work.

http://www.ehudlamm.com/outsiders.pdf

Isn't there a world of difference between, say, blocking someone from commenting on your blog, or even booting someone off twitter, and blocking domain registration?

Yep, not much engagement so far.

The two must haves for me are integration with org mode (as was mentioned in thread) and with Zotero.

LtU thread: http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/5466

The LtU getting started thread[1] may be worth checking out.

[1] http://lambda-the-ultimate.org/node/492

The Landscapes of Collectivity book has two chapters about collective aspects of the immune system.

if you are interested in a computational perspective, the classic is (Hofmeyr and Forrest, 2000).