Lucky Luke and the Psychology of Denial
niko
analysis
On Dreams and Dreaming
michael-graeme
Does this still work?
Jablecki Notes
Haven’t posted in ages, mainly curious if the plumbing still works on this. Hello?
Learning Elixir #2: Fun with Elixir
Jablecki Notes
In this video about the actor model (which I shared in my last post) Hewitt talks about indeterminacy. Indeterminacy goes hand in hand with robust concurrency. He spoke of an actor, who upon receiving a start command will send two messages, a “go” message, and a “stop” message. They are sent via...
Learning Elixir #1
Jablecki Notes
Browsing hacker news, I came across Learning Elixir: My side-project and it motivated me dig deeper into elixir. My day job involves a lot of PHP and a fair amount of devops type work, and it has been ages since I’ve set out to learn something really different. My next stop was Why Elixer from...
Hario Scale
Jablecki Notes
My wife got me a Hario digital scale to make coffee with. This is a great example of a thoughtful gift. I’m an enthusiast of coffee preparation methods, and I love (particularly) methods which use, primarily, inert bits of glass, plastic or metal, plus hot water, plus time. I mean that in...
Victor's Delusion
Jablecki Notes
I’ve seen the argument that the poor and disenfranchised “simply aren’t trying hard enough” as an undercurrent supporting US capitalism. The idea started to ricochet around my brain a bit, and some of the veneer began to chip off. Let’s take trust fund babies off of the top of a cross-section of...
What is a President Good For - Part One
Jablecki Notes
I’ve never paid much attention to politics. Presidential elections brought me in the same way that the Super Bowl pulls in non-fans - it’s a Big Show. This is important to realize. However, in accordance with the general pattern of “the internet makes all things more visible,” this election cycle...
AlphaGo and Deep Learning
Jablecki Notes
AlphaGo is making news for a five-game match against top go player Lee Sedol. AlphaGo is a go computer engine built with deep learning. A vast number of games are fed into a neural network, and we let the program learn. Is this the promised future? Don’t solve a problem, instead: define a...