Curt Doolittle

Category: AI, Computation, and Technology

  • “Calling himself “dangerously addicted” to the Drudge Report, Thiel praised Inte

    ——-“Calling himself “dangerously addicted” to the Drudge Report, Thiel praised Internet media mogul Matt Drudge for “transform[ing] the media industry massively in the ‘90s.”’——-

    Don Finnegan

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-27 08:59:00 UTC

  • (Domain transfer compete. We now own “www.aristocratia.com”. All I need now is t

    (Domain transfer compete. We now own “www.aristocratia.com”. All I need now is time to work on it and get others involved.)

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-15 11:26:00 UTC

  • SMARTPHONE QUESTION You know, I’m not really an apple fanboy, but I use apple eq

    SMARTPHONE QUESTION

    You know, I’m not really an apple fanboy, but I use apple equipment because everything works together fairly flawlessly, and I can count on it and count on not having to toy with it.

    I have used iPhones as a late adopter, staying one generation behind (which has usually been beneficial given some of the problems.)

    But seeing the iPhone 6, I’m just having trouble justifying buying it compared to the Galaxy s5. The S5 has a much better camera, a much better screen, and all around better numbers. I can get my favorite wallet-case (Incipio Stowaway) for it as well, meaning that I still don’t need to carry a wallet, just my phone with cash, credit card and ID inside it.

    Sorry if I have to ask this, but If I left the iphone, what would I be giving up by doing so? (Serious answers pls)

    Thanks

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-12 11:38:00 UTC

  • OVERSING UPDATE Oversing is a full fledged application running in a browser, not

    OVERSING UPDATE

    Oversing is a full fledged application running in a browser, not a set of web pages that are repeatedly disposed of. And so we burden the browser pretty heavily. The past couple of days the guys are working on JS memory leaks that are more apparent when you manipulate the DOM rather than just terminate and load a new one.

    My heroes. I would hang myself. lol

    Its really cool to look at the Agile Board view of your workspace and see cards fly around as people work on them, and then we update automatically by websockets. It’s really terrific.

    Seems like so much work left to do but really there is so much there now. It’s crazy. Enormous. But I’ve lost that concern that it will be hard to use or learn. It really isn’t. Sure, the workspace is a bit of a new paradigm, but not that much that it’s a stretch. I mean, we modeled it on working with an Excel spreadsheet for goodness sake. And we’ve added ‘modes’ of increasing complexity so that beginning users can just start out and see it as a sort of glorified email system. While at the other end a COO can really run the entire company from it.

    Anyway. Just want to thank the guys for their hard work.

    Curt

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 09:51:00 UTC

  • WE PURCHASED NEW DOMAINS 🙂 After some work, we have just purchased domains ARIS

    WE PURCHASED NEW DOMAINS 🙂

    After some work, we have just purchased domains ARISTOCRATIA.COM, ARISTOCRATIA.NET. This allows us to separate my work from everyone else’s contributions. ( A site for “Us” site rather than just me.)

    Obviously I want to address the categories:

    1) Aristocratic Egalitarianism. (source of property rights)

    2) Propertarianism (trust, prohibition on free riding, voluntary exchange, common law.)

    3) Testimonial Truth and Operationalism. (epistemology)

    4) Contractual Government. (which I haven’t come out of the closet with yet)

    5) Revolution and Reformation (nullification, secession, insurrection, civil war)

    6) Counter-Enlightenment (inequality, diversity, compatibility)

    7) Counter-Critique (Speaking the Truth rather than lying and obscurantism).

    8) Debate (rhetoric)

    I think we should:

    a) Use a wall street journal format of some sort. (abstracts linking to articles). And keep a lot of active articles on the front page.

    b) Not be afraid to link to other web sites and ideologies if they post good content.

    c) Allow users to ‘rate’ articles both with likes/dislikes (along with comment), and most importantly to select which form of argument is being made (see my forms of argument). This last bit educates authors and readers about the quality of their arguments. Although I suspect this will require editorial effort. Lastly, to allow users and authors to rate whether an article (or post) is criticism or advocacy.

    d) Promote active posters and their names and faces.

    e) Set our goal of 100 people who can argue the four topics, and use the site to recruit and train those people.

    f) Try to advocate solutions rather than just levy criticisms.

    ALSO – NEWS SITE

    We are also working on a NEWS SITE for Europe. 🙂 But I’m not driving that one. And I haven’t seen the editorial strategy or talking points, but we’re going to get that moving too.

    Slowly. One thing at a time.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-08 07:28:00 UTC

  • WTF: RUSSIANS TRY TO HACK AND CRASH MY WEBSERVER LAST NIGHT So I don’t know if i

    WTF: RUSSIANS TRY TO HACK AND CRASH MY WEBSERVER LAST NIGHT

    So I don’t know if it’s a coincidence, but I posed three pro-ukrainian articles and made some comments on RT web sites, and almost immediately the webserver logs were filled with streams of IP addresses from Russia trying to hack the server, and then they just overloaded it, and took it down.

    Psychos. Nazis have nothing on these guys.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-06 10:45:00 UTC

  • Untitled

    http://geekologie.com/2014/08/new-butter-knife-spreads-cold-butter-wit.php

    Source date (UTC): 2014-09-04 18:29:00 UTC

  • Is It Good To Do A Ph.d. In Theoretical Computer Science (e.g. Complexity) If You Intend To Go To Work In The Industry?

    As far as we know, a PhD does not increase you earning capacity or your credibility and demonstrably harms it. The value of a PhD is either entirely personal (and expensive) or necessary as entry into the teaching field.  In practice a PhD is certification by a board of specialists that they can treat  you as a relative equal in the field – of teaching.

    Nearly all problems in computer science are not complicated, but instead, are bounded by hardware costs tolerable by the end consumer of the application (the imputed price).  Most innovation takes place in either adapting to new hardware capacity (software generations) or adapting to new hardware capability (user interface improvements). But the number of ‘problems’ we solve in computer science is still a manageable set, small enough to roughly refer to as design patterns.

    Furthermore the value of your earning capacity (working in the industry) is determined by your ability to learn and dispose of ideas, not by your expanding specialization in ideas. 

    (Personally, I would do it anyway. lol)

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-good-to-do-a-Ph-D-in-theoretical-computer-science-e-g-complexity-if-you-intend-to-go-to-work-in-the-industry

  • Is It Good To Do A Ph.d. In Theoretical Computer Science (e.g. Complexity) If You Intend To Go To Work In The Industry?

    As far as we know, a PhD does not increase you earning capacity or your credibility and demonstrably harms it. The value of a PhD is either entirely personal (and expensive) or necessary as entry into the teaching field.  In practice a PhD is certification by a board of specialists that they can treat  you as a relative equal in the field – of teaching.

    Nearly all problems in computer science are not complicated, but instead, are bounded by hardware costs tolerable by the end consumer of the application (the imputed price).  Most innovation takes place in either adapting to new hardware capacity (software generations) or adapting to new hardware capability (user interface improvements). But the number of ‘problems’ we solve in computer science is still a manageable set, small enough to roughly refer to as design patterns.

    Furthermore the value of your earning capacity (working in the industry) is determined by your ability to learn and dispose of ideas, not by your expanding specialization in ideas. 

    (Personally, I would do it anyway. lol)

    https://www.quora.com/Is-it-good-to-do-a-Ph-D-in-theoretical-computer-science-e-g-complexity-if-you-intend-to-go-to-work-in-the-industry

  • OVERSING UPDATE Getting much closer to feature complete. Not sure yet how long f

    OVERSING UPDATE

    Getting much closer to feature complete. Not sure yet how long from feature complete to release, but feature complete s getting close, and it is becoming very clear that nothing on the market compares.

    So cool.

    Source date (UTC): 2014-08-22 13:23:00 UTC