Ad hoc heuristics for approaching complex systems and the "unknown unknowns". Techne & episteme. Verum ipsum factum. In the words of Archimedes: "Give me a lever and a place to rest it... or I shall kill a hostage every hour." Rants, share-worthy pieces and occasional insights and revelations.
24 Jan 2021 6 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
Stumbled upon this in Twitter and couldn't help share it and then got carried away expanding on it all a bit..... Wow! Nicely put! The schizo state of psychotic free-flowing semiosis and loosened associat...
24 Jan 2021 2 minute read 2 comments rhyzom
The Socratic method refers to a mode of cooperative argumentation or discourse between two or more individuals (in good will, that presupposition is really important - that is, the argumentation's purpose is to discover the truth, not to win an argum...
23 Jan 2021 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
Some of you may be familiar with Dmitry Orlov. He's one of the immanent collapse doomsday sayers, like Joseph Tainter and some of the Cliodynamics people. Engineer by education and WITH a sense of humor (as you'll notice in his excellent talk here):...
23 Jan 2021 6 minute read 3 comments rhyzom
“We neither think nor reason. Rather, we work on fragile materials — texts, inscriptions, traces, or paints — with other people.” Bruno Latour Programmers and software engineers often lack a wider breadth and scope of how they approach and...
23 Jan 2021 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
The honeycombOS was specifically designed and tailored for running on and meeting the demands of IOTA-based nodes and clients and tangle-related tools. (The tangle is IOTA's ledger which maps and records transactions as directed acyclic graphs, wh...
23 Jan 2021 6 minute read 3 comments rhyzom
Blockchan: 4Chan-Like Image Board on the Ripple Ledger Using IPFS Blockchan's front page, with a set of boards pretty much almost identical to 4chan's and the option to create new ones as well. Most of us are familiar with the t...
23 Jan 2021 17 minute read 7 comments rhyzom
“Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately it also brought mortis.” - Kenneth Boulding "Practical men who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Ma...
20 Jan 2021 5 minute read 0 comments rhyzom
In case some/any of you haven't by now gotten familiar with the Sleaford Mods, here's one of their more well-known performances: When I come across some new, unique favorite English band of mine that I spin for weeks after, I always recall Bjork's c...
20 Jan 2021 8 minute read 10 comments rhyzom
Throughout the years I've mostly stuck with Arch Linux (a very minimalist, build-it-yourself KISS type of distro), but lately have moved over to Manjaro - an Arch-derived distro that spares you the 3 days of editing .conf files and customizing your e...
20 Jan 2021 12 minute read 4 comments rhyzom
Link to the entire original blog post here (have quoted/cited about half the article here): Last year, I got invited to a super-deluxe private resort to deliver a keynote speech to what I assumed would be a hundred or so investment bankers. It was b...
