A poem by Richard Brautigan
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These days when I want to kill time, I check my LinkedIn feed. It’s not great but it’s better than Facebook. I just have to sift through the “ten habits of successful people” and “five reasons to quit your job” and “five life lessons from a celebrity” B.S. until I stumble upon something actually interesting and/or (mostly or) useful. In the process, I may “desperately” stop following or even remove connection with someone. To me, that someone’s social credit has run out.
Continue readingStupidity
The Dunning–Kruger effect is a cognitive bias wherein unskilled individuals suffer from illusory superiority, mistakenly assessing their ability to be much higher than is accurate. Continue reading
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Have I become old or some websites are really crappy these days? I would not doubt myself so easily on something I am have been really good at: browsing the internet, if these websites didn’t belong to some of the most prominent media outlets which have dominated both the online and the offline world.
Hybrid Smartwatches
Hybrid smartwatches, or analogue smartwatches (of today) are the ones that connect to your phone and, through your phone to the internet, like other smartwatches. They do almost everything a smartwatch does but look more like an analogue watch and don’t waste a lot of energy on a tiny touchscreen. In my not so humble opinion, hybrid smartwatches are better because they look nicer, are more practical, and are way cheaper than serious smartwatches.
Priming
Priming is a technique whereby exposure to one stimulus influences a response to a subsequent stimulus, without conscious guidance or intention.
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Modern Music is Terrible
I have always felt that popular music is becoming worse and worse. In the 90s I though the 90s music was terrible compared with 80s, 70s, and 60s, and now I think 90s was actually very good relative to today’s music.
It is explained in this video:
Cambridge Analytica
According to the New York Times and the Observer, Donald Trump’s 2016 campaign hired Cambridge Analytica, a data-analytics company that harvested private information from the Facebook profiles of more than 50 million users.
Christopher Wylie, a data scientists and a former employee of Cambridge Analytica, blowed the whistle on the company recently. Continue reading
Recuerdos de la Alhambra
Recuerdos de la Alhambra (Memories of the Alhambra) is a classical guitar piece composed in 1896 in Granada by Spanish composer and guitarist Francisco Tárrega. Continue reading
The Riddle of Experience vs. Memory
“The confidence people have in their beliefs is not a measure of the quality of evidence but of the coherence of the story that the mind has managed to construct.”
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