James Stevens
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Well red and well read.
Came for the creativity. Stayed for the community.
James Stevens
Some Notes Concerning Technique
Long have I thought that I should write a book on technique, as I have learned much over the years that may aid others in their or-chards. For now; I will simply state, for the record, my position on some of the great debates of our profession.
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Long have I thought that I should write a book on technique, as I have learned much over the years that may aid others in their or-chards. For now; I will simply state, for the record, my position on some of the great debates of our profession.
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Writers Like Whoa and Who gives a fuck about an Oxford comma?
North Woods - Daniel Mason
When it comes to gambling, the big argument used to be about state lotteries. These lotteries are taxes on the poor—a way for the government to raise funds without being on the hook for raising actual taxes on everyone.
But at least lotteries function like taxesin that the funds they raise are spent on social services within the state.
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But at least lotteries function like taxesin that the funds they raise are spent on social services within the state.
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Jonathan V. Last • Robot Gamblers Are Making People Poor
that kind of luxe just ain't for us; we crave a different kind of buzz
What’s interesting here is that Quantitative = squandering. Examples being ‘100 waiters when one will do the job / using 3 matches to light a single cigar.’
The web is infinite. Software offers no limits. Hence software is - by this definition - has negative connotations.
Our existential showdown with machine intelligence isn’t a martial conflict between Sarah Connor versus the Terminator, but a confrontation between the human conscience and the absurd. The language machine doesn’t care whether anybody’s eating glue pizza. Glue pizza is a “you” problem. You might think that a computer ought to supply instructions
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