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inigojonesguyon An unwanted update to your Google Account

My google account is associated with Switzerland, which is not in EU, although I am in Romania, which is in EU. I never received such a message from google.

inigojonesguyon The inventor of the black box was told to drop the idea

"Execution is everything" is always true after the fact. Good and bad ideas are treated with disdain because that is how people are. Until a random person gets profit from execution, then is praised for the profit, because people desire and envy profit.

If there is a myth here, it is that it matters who executed it first. It's random.

inigojonesguyon In Argentina, cheap government-issued netbooks sparked a musical Renaissance

>Well, giving a computer to someone doesn't turn them into a Bill Gates or Steve Jobs just because they own it.

I read this comment, I read the article and can't stop thinking what if Zuck were among these kids them maybe we could admire him as a musical talent like L-GANTE (link from the article) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SacHyFb_j1o

inigojonesguyon 1931: Kurt Gödel shows limits of math, logic, computing, AI

Schonfinkel (1920)

inigojonesguyon Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser

Thanks everybody, indeed, that's it!

inigojonesguyon Wayfinder – a relaxing 'art game' in the browser

Is weird, I'm a forever quake fan, however some years ago I played (at a friend' house) a beautiful game where the player was the wind, there were no words, nor obvious hints, but instead a slow idea of the game goal, which was to somehow save the nature. Anybody can tell what game was that one?

inigojonesguyon Survey shows people no longer believe working hard will lead to a better life

Concerning the deterioration in social mobility, in France, this book from 2005 opened my eyes "Generation 69, les trentenaires ne vous disent pas merci".

In France "generation 69" are the boomers, to simplify. Therefore a rough translation of the title would be: "Boomers, the 30 something don't thank you".

It passes, in a humorous way, through all problems which later will be more and more magnified.

https://www.michalon.fr/index.asp?navig=catalogue&obj=livre&...

inigojonesguyon Coq mulls new name for programming language

Tits alternative is a great theorem in mathematics.

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

inigojonesguyon Universities have formed a company that looks a lot like a patent troll

I have two questions:

1. many times in HN comments I saw the opinion that ideas are cheap and scaling is everything, so why do you care if universities keep the patents?

2. from the point of view of the academic researcher, is there any difference between patent kept by university and no patent, but scaled by a company?

inigojonesguyon I want to learn D3. I don’t want to learn Observable. Is that ok?

I used D3 v5 only for the force directed graphs part, independently in an artificial life & lambda calculus project. Is maybe too much for such an austere domain, since I saw comments that the result is "unnecessarily flashy". Give me any other visually comparable, but lower level js library for the same purpose and I'll take it. I'm not a programmer, but to paraphrase Mark Twain from A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur's Court, I felt "I was standing in the awful presence of the Mother of the" functional_programming "language".

inigojonesguyon Taildrop was kind of easy

>There’s an open source project called headscale

This? https://github.com/juanfont/headscale

inigojonesguyon May 2021 Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior Report

Coordinated Inauthentic Behavior, good name for a band.

inigojonesguyon A Mycological Foray: A new look at John Cage and his mushroom obsession (2020)

>"(His class on mushroom identification at the New School for Social Research was immensely popular.) How Cage accidentally poisoned himself and some friends"

I just read it and find this delightful, independently of John Cage. This formulation begs the question about how many of the students of this "immensely popular" class were later accident prone.

Maybe is voluntary humour from the part of the author, but I'd not bet on that.

inigojonesguyon Why Can’t I Sleep?

[1] fits exactly my behaviour, thanks for the link :) I don't experience it as a disorder, except when I'm faced with early morning nazis.

inigojonesguyon Linus Torvalds on mRNA Vaccines

A good, no nonsense reply! The world is complicated. There are so many people who want the vaccine and can't access it and other people who do have access to the vaccine and don't want it.

inigojonesguyon I am an object of internet ridicule, ask me anything (2013)

By writing this I'll contradict what I'm going to say, but, generally, not applying to this thread, I observed that many times people spend their precious time to write a reply instead of using it to better understand TFA.

inigojonesguyon DNA jumps between animal species, but no one knows how often

Again I agree with you, because I had a similar experience. But, again, my conclusion is different than yours.

You write that we should not talk about biochemistry as computation, as far as I understand. Instead I'd say that we have not studied enough how nature does computation without programmers or even human friendly semantics.

Is still computation, involving space and physics. Too complex to efficiently simulate it (for now) but not big enough so that the emerging behaviour is simple, like for a gas.

inigojonesguyon DNA jumps between animal species, but no one knows how often

I agree with you here but I get to a happy conclusion. The (self- or culturally imposed) constraint on computation to be semantically meaningful for humans does not apply for genomes. But this is already useful, because it means we at least have a hint about where to dig more in programming.

There is Theory of Computation and there is Theory of Programming. Your arguments apply to TOP but not to TOC.

https://pron.github.io/posts/what-we-talk-about-when-we-talk...

inigojonesguyon DNA jumps between animal species, but no one knows how often

>Don't try to think about genomics in programming terms.

At some point, some Newton person will figure it. It always happen.

As for now, it might be interesting to understand why exactly the analogy between genomics and programming fails. It might bring interesting insights into both fields.

So why not try to think about?

inigojonesguyon IRS records reveal how the wealthiest avoid income tax

Looks like a confirmed prediction from The Sovereign Individual.

Probably familiar to many of you, but I have my coke and mentos moment while I read it, in 2021. Here is a link to archived pdf, for others like me

https://web.archive.org/web/20210112042733/https://www.lopp....

inigojonesguyon Australian Federal Police and FBI nab underworld figures using encrypted app

Many people like me wish to hide from Google and Microsoft, not from NSA. Because of two widespread reasons.

- I don't want to have a personalized experience on the net.

- I don't want Google algorithms to hide my new bike frame invention because I also posted an opinion about bing censoring tank man, or about Google cache as commons.