It’s troubling when the counterculture, often the only voices that rise against fundamentalism of all stripes, succumbs to the same kind of mechanistic thinking. The apocalyptic tenor that is part of the psychedelic subculture’s obsession with 2012, for example, starts to sound like those evangelical Christians who use a convoluted kind of gematria to come up with specific dates and times for the rapture. Things like 2012 have the potential to function as useful metaphors for describing the need for cultural and economic transformations. When these ideas become “Real” they are incapable of producing any real call to change, or any kind of art or expression that really matters. Wilson writes, “Once again, it appears that the materialist model of mechanical consciousness covers some but not all experience, and it excludes precisely that part of experience which makes us human, esthetic, moral and responsible beings.
AI Class Playlists - O! Mr Speaker!
Lil’ reference for anyone doing the Stanford AI class… It’s a collection of playlists for each unit, so you can grab them with something like youtube-dl (I use the command youtube-dl -w -t -f 18 http://playlisturl. I didn’t check what those flags do, but it says “wtf”, and that’s all that matters).
The problem with the make included with MozillaBuild is that it doesn’t take advantage of multiple processor cores on Windows. So even if you have a crazy-powerful 8-core machine, when you just use the vanilla “make -f client.mk” command, you’re only going to be using one of your cores. Enter pymake. Pymake is a Mozilla-maintained mostly-compatible implementation of make in Python. The advantage? On Windows, we can finally use all of our cores.
http://mikeconley.ca/blog/2011/11/30/build-thunderbird-faster-on-windows/
Source: mikeconley.ca
CANABALT
great free online game! wot?!
'The Little Schemer' for rather common lispers
explains stuff from ‘The Little Schemer’ in ordinary prose. Uses Common Lisp for examples
