Mastodawn

Calculating Empires is a fascinating analysis but listen the audio tour to not get totally lost 🙂
https://calculatingempires.net/
#geopolitics #calculatingempires #technology #power #politics #communication #computation

Calculating Empires: A Genealogy of Technology and Power since 1500

Explore how technical and social structures co-evolved over five centuries in this large-scale research visualization.

>> indie on infosec exchange 2d ago

EFFecting Change is where we should be in our great #infosec neural net right about now, ya?

Doctorow on a bike with wheatpasting posters? Yes, that's where it starts in the retrocausality time loom.

Discussion also includes a reference to CARDIAC, or CARDboard Illustrative Aid to Computation, a fantastically neat circa-1968 resource for teaching / learning or (thanks to the blog offering the schemas downloadable) #CNC machining as a reference and #computation resource.

I really like the idea of ripping out everything trying to turn #AI into a metered "utility" like that other college dropout CEO, Sam Altman wants.

Because he lacks creativity,
has an alleged bloodthirsty thirst for control
thirst to control work
he did not create and
code could never code himself,

Cory Doctorow's take is not optimistic, but, as he says "hopeful" because hope involves the idea that you/me/we/us can do things to make the change. Where optimism is the idea that things will get better no matter what.

I don't think things are going to get better no matter what, but I do agree that open is the way to be.

And so there's only one way to fix this, and it's to rip out all the unauditable, opaque
remote controlled, untrustworthy proprietary software and replace it with transparent, public, international, open public goods that everyone can see and everyone can validate and that you can run locally on servers in your own country. And I think we're closer to that than we've ever been.

EFFecting Change: How to Disenshittify the Internet

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C.May 4

@ireneista

Oh, the connection between magic and mathematics is well known. @cstross has written a fair bit about events involving applied computational demonology, for example.

If there really is no comment syntax for magic spells, that's unfortunate. It means practitioners probably end up scrawling their notes to themselves as marginalia, and I don't know if the magic could leak across from the main spell or what undesirable side-effects that might have.

#magic #spell #mathematics #computation #AppliedComputationalDemonology #ComputationalDemonology #marginalia #oops #SideEffect

Joost Rekveld Apr 29

Just out and just in ! Curious about this one by Shintaro Miyazaki.

@algorhythmics
#endosymbiosis #computation #systemsthatmatter

N-gated Hacker News Apr 25

🤔 Ah, the eternal debate: is it the size of the #parameters or the motion of the #computation in the ocean that truly matters? 🏄‍♂️ Deep learning enthusiasts, gather 'round for this riveting tale where we learn that 1 million parameters = 1 million floating point operations! 🤯 Truly #groundbreaking stuff, folks!
https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/ #deeplearning #floatingpointoperations #debate #HackerNews #ngated

Params Vs Compute

Hacker News Apr 25

Which one is more important: more parameters or more computation? (2021)

https://parl.ai/projects/params_vs_compute/

#HackerNews #parameters #computation #AI #research #machine #learning #2021

Params Vs Compute

Writings of a Feral Goddess & Free Spirit Apr 24

The Hypothesis of Quantum Entanglement, Binary Structures, and the Unified Field of Awareness

An exploration of quantum entanglement, consciousness, and the hidden connection between biological systems and binary code—where science and awareness begin to converge.

https://kandiblaze.wordpress.com/2026/04/24/the-hypothesis-of-quantum-entanglement-binary-structures-and-the-unified-field-of-awareness/