Notices by Jack Rusher (jack@berlin.social), page 2

@nobodyinperson @SReyCoyrehourcq @khinsen I have code (including data analytics code) in C, Common Lisp, and scheme that runs exactly the same after 30+ years, Clojure after 15 years, R after 20+ years. The Python ecosystem is almost uniquely awful for backwards compatibility.

Bertrand Russell to Oswald Mosley, founder of the British Union of Fascists, when the latter requested a debate.

https://www.openculture.com/2017/02/bertrand-russells-artful-letter-refusing-to-debate-british-fascist-leader-oswald-mosley-1962.html

In September, a bunch of us took a 3-day train ride from Seattle to St Louis for the last edition of Strange Loop. This video documents that journey, which we called the Trainjam.

Featuring @neauoire @spiralganglion @avi @akkartik @pvh @disconcision @aconbere @mkvlr @unkai
@mattwynne @blaine
(and a couple whose Masto handles I couldn't find.)

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9qVT0URkkGE

“The [automatic machine/artificial intelligence] is not frightening because of any danger that it may achieve autonomous control over humanity... Its real danger is the quite different one that such machines, though helpless by themselves, may be used by a human being or a block of human beings to increase their control over the rest of the human race.”
— #NorbertWiener, The Human Use of Human Beings, 1950

This 1957 photo from the construction site of the Atomium looks like a still from the greatest sci-fi film never made…

https://drewdevault.com/2020/03/18/Reckless-limitless-scope.html

/cc @jstepien

“To handle a problem with 12 or 13 billion variables would take about 30 billion seconds, or roughly a thousand years.

Naturally, I have a reason for mentioning 12 million variables…”

https://crookedtimber.org/2012/05/30/in-soviet-union-optimization-problem-solves-you/

@faun @neauoire They didn’t know of each other’s work until a few years after they’d published independently on Algorithmic Information Theory. Kolmogorov acknowledged Ray’s priority in a paper in the late 60s.