Notices by Strange Attractor (strangeattractor@refactorcamp.org), page 24

Timelapse camera ran out of card, so it's as good a time as any to post the video.

4 years of apples growing, at 4 seconds per year.

You can see them puff into blossom and you can see the sun's elevation change as the times of the year go by.

https://orbides.org/page.php?id=908

One of my favorite coworkers had to leave because of (USA) visa issues. Her student visa expired and our startup's attempts to get her an H1B ended in failure. It's really sad! She was a good friend as well as one of the smartest people I know.

Now I have:

1. a recommendation for a really good data scientist, who will be looking for a job in Canada or Europe soon

2. a job opening for a really good data scientist to work on solar power in the US

Direct message me if interested in either.

I’m looking for good case-study type reads on decentralized and federated architectures, business models, economic dynamics, polities, biological systems etc based on real examples (ie not speculations, whether with or without blockchains).

Also looking for analytical things like CAP theorem, Mundel-Fleming trilemma etc.

@nindokag back when I was doing product management, I'd divide the backlog into three kinds of features, which I called stabilize/evolve/jump and allocated across them.

Stabilize = in production things into which we're integrating bug fixes and stuff

Evolve = incremental feature expansion things into next release that had low probability of destabilizing production

Jump = radical feature expansions that could destabilize the product, often on a branch

Risk mgmt = rebalance the 3.

What's wrong with social media, theory 2:

On tumblr and twitter, there's no such thing as "a local community with the power to ban people", the way subreddits and livejournal groups can ban people.

Without the tools to enforce a boundary around it, you can't establish a voluntary community with higher standards of behavior than the base platform.

The "anything goes" standards of the base platform tend to drag all discussions down towards the "4-chan" level.

Web 3.0 is bigger than blockchain. The way I'm thinking about it at the moment is, web 2.0's relationship with media is what web 3.0's relationship with power will be

Speaking of weird, having made a DIY laptop i noticed plenty of weird design decisions in all of the consumer models.

Mine got:
-Power in *and out*, since why carry a huge battery around if it's not accessible, i.e. to run a soldering iron?

-HDMI *input* and USB *output* options, since a laptop is a screen+keyboard terminal useful to attach other computers to.

-Is mostly battery by weight, since what's the point if it can't run for a day?

-Got a removable core, since upgrades will happen.

Ok, can this thing do images? Here is something from the recent storm.
Input:

As I've gotten more confident as a programmer, I've really started to see the value in looking at the source code underlying APIs I'm using, and I've also learned that most software is hilariously bad

Conservative culture is a safe space where members can doubt the scientific status quo. The tribe reacts quickly to science that disrupt narratives around identity and belonging. Because group identity centers on belief in God, scientific knowledge is regarded as personal (not tribal). Diverse theories and varied levels of sophistication are tolerated--group identity is uncorrelated with most scientifically attained beliefs. Signaling doubt in God, however, is generally grounds for dismissal.

Liberal culture relies on the conclusions of science, and protects its members from doubt or uncertainty that would motivate replication or re-examination. Members of the liberal tribe are aligned around scientific consensus, and act quickly on new scientific findings. Scientific knowledge is considered tribal knowledge. If you’re young or naïve, it’s important to "learn the facts" from the central library. The culture provides a safe space for spiritual theories and un/beliefs in God or gods.