Great book. Just finished. Whenever I read Castoriadis it is a pleasure.
I suppose next days I will be commenting some quotes.
Great book. Just finished. Whenever I read Castoriadis it is a pleasure.
I suppose next days I will be commenting some quotes.
Pourvu que certaines conditions soient remplies, il est beaucoup plus facile d'adopter un objet technique nouveau que d'inventer una nouvelle relation technique (Philippe Descola, Par-delà nature et culture, Cap. 15, p. 653)
Útil reflexión en torno a las adopciones técnicas al fin
Para comentario (q siempre se necesita), artículo en torno a claridad y confusión en teoría/acción social. La idea central es q la exigencia de claridad muchas veces la aplicamos no tanto en el modelo sino en el *objeto*. Pero nuestro objeto es confuso.
When white supremacy starts losing elections, white supremacists game the system to hold power anyway.
This is why the United States lacks democratic legitimacy.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2023/jul/27/georgia-augusta-judicial-circuit-split-republicans
Every time someone talks to ChatGPT for 20 exchanges or so ...
... Microsoft's servers use a half-liter of freshwater to cool down
AI is *thirsty*
My essay on some implications of this: https://clivethompson.medium.com/ai-is-thirsty-37f99f24a26e
A "friend" link, in case you don't subscribe to Medium: https://clivethompson.medium.com/ai-is-thirsty-37f99f24a26e?sk=f5b2ea10c649a34236577139fecfd86a
I've been upgrading my SADI code for lifecourse sequence analysis in #Stata (categorical time-series stuff, in effect).
As a side exercise I adapted the TWED distance measure for continuous variables, not just categorical. Time Warp Edit Distance stretches and compresses the time axis to calculate similarity in time-series, allowing recognition of similarity displaced in time (with penalisation).
Here I cluster country-level COVID19 data, specifically per-million daily death rates.