Good illustration of why I will never, ever, ever ride a bicycle on or near an American road.
Every Rider's Nightmare 🙈 pic.twitter.com/lts9ppuuIj
— Cycling Today (@CyclingTodayEn) February 18, 2019
As mentioned, I’ve had three friends die in traffic (not in cars, but as pedestrians or cyclists), all in Florida, and I don’t even know that many people and never have.
Mac Pro will be ‘easy-to-upgrade,’ debut in 2019 alongside 31.6-inch Apple 6K display.
Apple might be getting back into my good graces again. A 6K display. I love it already. (Yes, I know it’d have the same ppi as the 5K due to the size.)
Transcendence like authenticity is destroyed irrevocably, and by the same forces. There is no transcendence because we’ve already transcended, or rather we’ve exceeded the past ideas that such a thing is possible.
The only transcendence now is erasure, a dissolution of selfhood, Locke’s (and originally, Aristotle’s) tabula rasa returning one to some unsullied state where there is no notion of transcendence at all. A mind wipe will do; nothing else will, now.
I originally watched this to see if it was a cover of the excellent Selena Gomez song. It was not. However, the video (though not the song) is quite good and the dancer is just enviably graceful and powerful in her expressiveness.
The video is about how sometimes you give someone your all, everything you have, and they just don’t give a damn or really even notice — something we can all identify with I think.
Total shit parents. What a bunch of monsters. Not telling your kids something like this is child abuse. If I’d been in an actual loving family and my parents pulled something like this on me, I’d never have forgiven them.
(As a side note, how they met and started dating would be considered harassment today, as would 95% of pre-2005-ish relationships.)
In this universe, strict rationality gets you nowhere because of informational limits. Rationality is bounded by these limits are their infinite combinations, and the universe from our perspective is not; therefore intuition and probability must come into play. Probability and its actualization in statistics despite what you’ve been told is outside strict rationality and logic as it’s a method of formalized guessing (or post hoc correlation if “guessing” is too strong for you.)
Rationality and logic are all very fine, in a toy universe. But this is not a toy universe and if it is the manual has long since been lost and we have to get by on gut feelings formalized (probability, statistics), correlational frameworks, and heuristics (another quasi-scientific name for “guessing”).
Formalization of methods is better than not, but it can also lead down paths where the numbers in the spreadsheet or the R program are seen as truth when in reality they are the result of well-done guessing and correlation. Rationality is an overlay that helps, but it can conceal as much as it reveals because what’s known seems rational and what is unknown seems not.