Some post­mod­ern thoughts for the week­end. So much to com­pre­hend!

”No oth­er idea from the human­i­ties had so mas­sive, if murky, an influ­ence”

The Birth, Death, and Rebirth of Post­mod­ernism

Man­ton Reece — Open gar­dens

You will be dear­ly missed, mr. Reben­nack… Mama Roux — Gris Gris (1968)

Teach­ing a Neur­al Net­work How to Dri­ve a Car

”One of the rea­sons I find neur­al net­work train­ing so fas­ci­nat­ing is that you can observe […] the basic method by which all life on Earth evolved the abil­i­ty to do things like move, see, swim, digest food […] and use tools.”

Fol­low­ing Schrödinger’s cat to its death and giv­ing it a reprieve

“Quan­tum mechan­ics encour­ages jour­nal­ists to overuse words like “mys­te­ri­ous” and “spooky.” Giv­en that we can mod­el quan­tum sys­tems to an accu­ra­cy that would make a god cry, where is the mys­tery?”

Very curi­ous about this book.
The Pen­e­trat­ing Gaze of One of America’s Most Bril­liant Art Crit­ics

“This tiny crea­ture, with a brain the size of a pin­head and no oppor­tu­ni­ty to learn from old­er, expe­ri­enced indi­vid­u­als, under­takes an epic inter­con­ti­nen­tal migra­tion in order to find plants for its cater­pil­lars to eat.”

Secrets of Paint­ed Lady migra­tion unveiled

Help the elder­ly, and the results will help many more, includ­ing your­self, some­day.

Don Nor­man on how design fails old­er con­sumers

Jum­bo the pri­va­cy app just got a lot bet­ter. Love the smart pri­va­cy set­tings for Google and Twit­ter. Total­ly rec­om­mend­ed!

”Face­book has time and time again exhib­it­ed a com­plete dis­re­gard for our democ­ra­cy, free­dom of expres­sion and pri­va­cy. There­fore, Bits of Free­dom called on the House of Rep­re­sen­ta­tives to take action.”

Face­book lies to Dutch Par­lia­ment about elec­tion manip­u­la­tion