Jonah Lehrer on the Wisdom and Foolishness of Crowds | Head Case - WSJ.com
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Thomas Sutton
Daily notes and photos.
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2011-06-03
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2011-05-27
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2011-05-04
Magical Block Store: When Abstractions Fail Us « Joyeur
An interesting perspective in the aftermath of the Amazon EBS outage that it’s philosophical root cause is a problem of abstractions: that developers demanded and Amazon promised to provide an untenable abstraction. Perfectly reliable and available networked disk storage is just a fantasy we need to move beyond and its lack is something applications will just have to handle. I think I agree.
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2011-05-03
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2011-05-02
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2011-05-01
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2011-04-30
[T]he hipster moment did not produce artists, but tattoo artists[.] It did not produce photographers, but snapshot and party photographers[.] It did not produce painters, but graphic designers. It did not yield a great literature, but it made good use of fonts. And hipsterism did not make an avant-garde; it made communities of early adopters.
— What Was the Hipster? by Mark Greif in New York Magazine
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2011-04-29
On Cyber-Utopianism
A great critique of the views of cyber-utopians, who think the Internet will make us all well-informed, participating and free while destroying authoritarianism. Alas, it also uses the word “webmaster”.
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2011-04-28
Back home in Perth
After six nights in Tokyo I’m now back home in Perth. My stay in Tokyo was not quite as super awesome as I expected it to be but still pretty fantastic. I particularly enjoyed my visits to the Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography and the Mori Art Museum which both had impressive exhibitions. I also visited the National Museum of Western Art with its Rembrandt: The Quest for Chiaroscuro exhibition but was less impressed with the collection (I thought there too many oils and too many religious works, though the various Rodin sculptures were nice to see).
I’ll write up some more complete notes in the next few days.
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