Tag: philosophy
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Entropy Gonna Get Your Data
Here’s some followup to my Norton’s Law post — Quinn Norton explained “The main thing I’d add, and I should revisit this, is that it’s an expression of not too complex information theory/physics in our current data landscape: information, in all its glorious forms, requires energy, and if it doesn’t…
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Software Bubbles
You know what I love about software? For any problem, there’s a solution that will automate doing a half-ass job on the easy parts of the problem, and a bubble based on claims that it will solve the whole problem and a couple of ancillary problems along the way. There’s…
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Norton’s Law
There’s a great xkcd about the 10,000 people hearing about a thing for the first time today:.. so perhaps today is your day for hearing about Norton’s Law. In 2015, Quinn Norton wrote Norton’s Law in Hello, Future Pastebin Readers. To wit: over time, all data approaches deleted, or public.…
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