servytor

Cool, it's written primarily in Clojure!

I think you might like fintract[0]; never tried them just stumbled upon them.

[0]: https://www.fintract.io/en/

The idea of McDonald's diplomacy may not be absolutely true[0], but it is a good indicator. Good multinational corporations care about their customers no matter where they are. If corporations think that they can 'virtue signal' that they are following the latest trend, and it happens to be anti-Russian this time, then things get bad. This is horribly different than companies supporting LGBTQ. Instead of cutting off customers in Russia, these companies should be donating to the Red Cross, or some such thing with an outcome that betters the situation, instead of trying to put their voice in the communal amplifier for their 15 minutes of extra news time and accepting nods today that will be forgotten by all tomorrow.

Note: I find it very odd that I wrote this, and yet I saw Elon Musk's post yesterday. I guess cognitive priming is a lot more effective than I thought. Still agree with what I wrote.

[0]: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/mcdonalds-countries-war/

Personally, I wish Amazon always showed 'People also looked at ...' and 'People also bought ...'. It is so useful! But it seems like it only shows up for certain things, and refreshing doesn't change the chance of it being displayed.

MIT had an interview with a Putin deepfake a while ago[0].

[0]: https://www.businessinsider.com/vladimir-putin-deepfake-mit-...

I remember reading this finding it really interesting the techniques the lengths they went to to emulate generics in Kubernetes. At least that was my understanding of it.

I read somewhere, and this guy was talking about how if you want your house to sell for more, invest in everything you physically touch. High quality doorknobs, faucets, and light switches have a marked impact on our unconscious valuation of a house.

I remember reading about how they were using electricity to enhance the growth of coral[0]. Is it possible, that someone could somehow find a way to enhance the growth of trees via electricity?

[0]: https://www.globalcoral.org/to-rebuild-coral-reefs-quickly-j...

I remember part of this book called "The Symbolic Species: The Co-evolution of Language and the Brain", and the author got so angry when layman compared birdsong to speech. It was a very interesting book though.

I remember it from the cover[0], it's titled "Switched On: A Memoir of Brain Change and Emotional Awakening".

[0]: https://images-na.ssl-images-amazon.com/images/I/91mEWtZ15qL...

"A think tank, or policy institute, is a research institute that performs research and advocacy concerning topics such as social policy, political strategy, economics, military, technology, and culture."

The first sentence of the wikipedia page for 'thinktank'.

I found this about implementing Imp[0] in Coq (which is the language he writing tree-sitter for) to be interesting as well.

[0]: https://softwarefoundations.cis.upenn.edu/lf-current/Imp.htm...

I just find it really weird that there wasn't a thinktank in 2005 or so, that said "Okay, what are the next big phone applications?" and invented Uber and a few others. What is the point of these thinktanks if they can't predict 3 years ahead along our current technological advancement curve?

I'm racking my brains, but in the #lisp channel I read a discussion about dealing with parentheses before paredit, and it was really interesting. I entirely forget the key-chords that were mentioned though...

My professor said that a good example of the Nash equilibrium is the double yellow line on the road. You have no incentive to go past it, just like the people driving at you in the other lane have no incentive to go into your lane. Game theory can explain a lot of human actions, alone or in groups.

Here is the pdf[0].

[0]: https://dl.acm.org/doi/pdf/10.1145/3401071.3401659

The UK has been indecisive about trusting Huawei [0 (sorry for the Daily Mail link),1,2,3]; I don't know why and find it very interesting. I am used to reading about nation states having an unwavering opinion, not flipping back and forth (unless because of political lines). They claim that their hand has been forced by the USA [4].

[0] https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-7935905/MI5-MI6-GCH...

[1] https://www.cnbc.com/2019/10/09/former-uk-spymaster-john-saw...

[2] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-britain-huawei-tech-five-...

[3] https://www.ft.com/content/90c07bbe-38ce-11e9-b856-5404d3811...

[4] https://www.euractiv.com/section/politics/short_news/uk-bann...

The Lisp version (Church) is here[0]. The current version is just a JavaScript library.

[0]: http://v1.probmods.org/

I worry about the ethical implication of a self-driving car (a slave AI smarter than it's occupant) being forced to go to McDonalds.

Another word is “stratocracy” which defines Russia, as Putin is ex-KGB.

I think meditation is a way of being nice to our right hemisphere. Our left hemisphere is responsible for speech, and our right hemisphere is mute. Be nice to your right hemisphere, it's you too, and it doesn't like listening to your jibber-jabber.

On a semi-related note, I think the movie 'Us' by Jordan Peele is about our split-minds. The protagonists are the left-hemispheres, and the clones are our right hemispheres (they cannot speak). I read a book called "Of Two Minds: The Revolutionary Science of Dual-Brain Psychology" recently and it just reinforces it. So if you break it down that way theoretically, our right-hemispheres live impoverished lives eating cold, raw rabbit and are experimented on, forced to be 'tethered' to us, listening through us to 'pop' music and the 'government' getting angrier and angrier, fantasizing about using scissors on our own corpus callosum...

A kingdom of spiders, reminds me of "Deepness in the Sky". I will always think about how cool it is that space-arachnids, led by Sherkaner Underhill, managed to outsmart the 'Focused' Emergents.

This kills gnus/mu through Emacs, right?

I am commenting just because I want to remember KDE Connect. Had no clue that project existed.

The Information: A History, a Theory, a Flood by James Gleick.

What freaks me out is how quickly people copy the behavior of other people. I mean just pay attention to your posture and when you drink water, and you will notice other people's posture and drinking coffee/water triggers you. It's scary how quickly people copy each other.

I swear that's the plot to something I have heard of... wish I could be more helpful and suggest a link.

Anything by Cordwainer Smith[0]. He more or less invented psychological warfare, so his science fiction is quite interesting. It revolves around the "Instrumentality of Mankind"[1]. He created a completely consistent universe, and it is probably some of the best science fiction to ever be written.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cordwainer_Smith

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Instrumentality_of_Mankind

I like the fact they are queuing like polite people.