“Is the electron a particle or a wave? It’s neither: it’s a theory.” -Richard Feynman
Something many STEM types consistently forget: the map is not and never will be the territory.
Day: July 13, 2018, 10:57 PM
Tech Wreck Heck
It’s darkly comical that as tech is having more of an impact on all of our lives, economists insist that it’s having little to no effect because it does not show up in the very narrow set of 19th Century-oriented measures their profession uses as its benchmarks.
The world would be wholly better off if economics as such were eliminated, and the study of “political economy” resurrected. Never happen, though, as would require recognizing that economic choices are inherently political, are actually choices, and don’t require a hundred pages of abstruse math to comprehend.
Leaving Mac Vegas
I will be sad about leaving the software ecosystem of MacOS. While there is much less software available than in any other platform, it’s almost all high quality. Not so on other platforms. For instance, word processors. There are four or five available for the Mac and they are all pretty good to great.
For Windows, there are dozens if not hundreds and yet they all bite ass. For Linux, there are a few dozen and they are all just terrible.
But at least the fonts don’t look like festering crap stacks.