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Step changes from steady progress
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Device mapper
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OCI Image
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Transactional Systems
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Letter to Playspace
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How to Build a Universe That Doesn't Fall Apart Two Days Later
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Stay True
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Time A Very Short Introduction
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JPEG
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Node.js
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Overtone
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Willow Protocol
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Database
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SQL
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The purpose of a system is what it does
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Autoregressive Model
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The Mythical Man-Month
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Type Theory
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CORS
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Franz Kafka
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Web Tiles
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Self-effacing ends
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Simone Weil
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Parkinson's Law
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Scientific Freedom: The Elixir of Civilization
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Nov 10, 2023
The Sword of Damocles
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Abstract Machines
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Category Theory
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Homotopy Theory
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Lambda Calculus
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Tinkering
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Hash consing
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Disjoint-set
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Equality Saturation
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Equivalence Graphs
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Energy Maximalism
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Genetic Selection
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Jevons Paradox
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Mass Hysteria
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Nuclear Fusion
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Overton Window
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Religious Homeostasis
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The Machiavelli Effect
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Where Is My Flying Car?
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Cargo Culting
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Ionization Energy
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Nuclear Binding Energy
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Proxy Objects
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Minecraft End Poem
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Computer Architecture
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Jul 30, 2023
Calendar as task manager
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Deletion
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Digital urban design
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Network effects
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Jul 27, 2023
DWeb Camp: Gather by the Campfire
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Unicode
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Theseus DHT
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jazz.tools
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Lossiness as Mutation
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Speaking
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Colonial Debt
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SSL
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TLS
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Network Block Device
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Data Structures
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CodeMirror and ProseMirror
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LSP Server
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Strangler Fig Pattern
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Unix
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Abilene Paradox
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Myth of the Infrastructure Phase
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May 10, 2023
Forgetting
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May 09, 2023
Buddhist Economics
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Apr 30, 2023
ScrapScript
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Apr 30, 2023
The Anthropocene Reviewed
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Apr 30, 2023
Antifragility
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Block-reference mechanisms
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Seeing
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WebAssembly
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Websites as homes
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Wood wide web
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Kafka
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Joie de vivre
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Self-confidence
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Sleep
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Law of Requisite Variety
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Gossip
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Noise
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Rice's Theorem
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Compilers
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Declarative programming
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Time
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Operational Transform
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Upwelling
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Terminals
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Walking
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NeRF
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Coordinate systems
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Apr 06, 2023
A Pattern Language
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Rawl's Theory of Justice
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Three Legged Stool
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Bitemporal
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Composable
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Data changes the application
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Housing
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Incremental view maintenance
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Rights
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Telepresence
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Microworld
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Locutus
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TLFS
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Affordance
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Counterculture
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Intersectionality
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Morality
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Network Time Protocol
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Pacing Problem
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Pascal's Wager
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Technosolutionism
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Universal Scaling Law
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Language development
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Linearizability
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Meaning-laden
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Observer-expectancy Effect
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Semilattice
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Spatial Computing
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Textures
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Types of goods
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Asch conformity experiments
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GOFAI
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Heidegger
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NFAI
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Agency
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Apr 01, 2023
Collective Intelligence
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Easy is not always better
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Fairness
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Garbage in, garbage out
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Paratelic Action
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Plurality
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Telic Action
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Illumination
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GLSL
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Texture Mapping
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Academia
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OODA
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Independent Research
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Mar 18, 2023
Notation
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Programming Models
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Website Inspiration
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Mar 09, 2023
Map as territory
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Mar 07, 2023
Milieu
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Attention
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Iconic Space
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Self-directed Growth
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Taste
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Feb 13, 2023
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
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Feb 11, 2023
Overlay Network
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Feb 06, 2023
Transformative Technology Trilemma
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Feb 05, 2023
Antimatter
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Coral: Sloppy Hashing DHT
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Computer Graphics
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Game Writing
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Rendering
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Ostrich Algorithm
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Transitive Closure
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Dec 29, 2022
Datalog
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git
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Dec 26, 2022
Postel's Law
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Games: Agency as Art
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Seeing like a State
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Dec 22, 2022
Syndication
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Small Technology
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DSL
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Gordian Knot
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Risk Homeostasis
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Dec 10, 2022
Systems Design
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Dec 09, 2022
LLMs
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Dec 08, 2022
AI Alignment
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Dec 08, 2022
Fundamental Tradeoff
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Dec 07, 2022
Autoencoders
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LSTM
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Generative Models
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Transformer Models
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Symbolic Execution
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Automatic Differentiation (AD)
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Neural networks
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Social Choice Problem
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Nov 30, 2022
Prolly Trees
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Information Scaling Threshold
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50 pounds of pots
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Nov 29, 2022
A Pragmatic Precautionary Principle
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Nov 29, 2022
Memex
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Nov 29, 2022
The Garden and the Stream
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Nov 25, 2022
Arrow's Impossibility Theorem
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XGBoost
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Nov 23, 2022
Latent-Factor Models
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Nov 23, 2022
Maximum a Posteriori (MAP) Estimation
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Maximum Likelihood Estimation (MLE)
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Nash equilibrium
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Pareto optimality
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Nov 21, 2022
Sequential Games
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- PHIL321A
Nov 17, 2022
Distributed Web
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Nov 16, 2022
A Certain Tendency Of The Database Community
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Nov 03, 2022
Change of basis
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- CPSC340
Nov 03, 2022
Convolutional Neural Networks
Nov 01, 2022
Formality considered harmful
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Oct 28, 2022
Newcomb's Problem
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Support Vector Machine
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Binary Classification
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Causal decision theory
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Multi-class Classification
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Probabilistic Classifier
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Symmetric Key Cryptography
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Oct 25, 2022
Program Analysis
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Oct 21, 2022
Gaussian RBFs
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Oct 21, 2022
Fair Betting Quotient (FBQ)
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Hyper-parameter Optimization
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Oct 20, 2022
I-Confluence
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Oct 19, 2022
Dutch Book
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Oct 19, 2022
Regularization
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Oct 18, 2022
Feature Selection
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Oct 16, 2022
Intellectual Property
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Oct 12, 2022
Gradient descent
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Oct 05, 2022
Linear Regression
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Social Contract Theory
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Interval scale
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Outlier detection
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Virtue ethics
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K-means
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Convex
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Density-based clustering
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Hierarchical Clustering
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Utility
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Kant
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Utilitarianism
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Clustering
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Unsupervised learning
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Curse of Dimensionality
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Decisions under risk (DUR)
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Ensemble method
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k-Nearest Neighbours (KNN)
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Sep 23, 2022
Precautionary Principle (PP)
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Random Forest
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Ethics
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Sep 19, 2022
Naive Bayes
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No Free Lunch Theorem
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Sep 12, 2022
Decisions under ignorance (DUI)
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Sep 12, 2022
Calculus
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Decision Tree
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Sep 12, 2022
Logical fallacies
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Sep 11, 2022
Linear Algebra
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Probability
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Sep 09, 2022
Data mining
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Exploratory data analysis (EDA)
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Supervised learning
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Decision theory
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Sep 07, 2022
Evolutionary game theory
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Bluetooth
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Aug 18, 2022
Intro to Computer Networking & P2P
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Aug 16, 2022
Access control
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Aug 16, 2022
r/K Selection theory
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Aug 13, 2022
Disrupting routine
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Aug 12, 2022
CALM Theorem
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Aug 12, 2022
CRON Theorem
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Aug 11, 2022
Braid HTTP
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Aug 11, 2022
Hypercore
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Aug 11, 2022
OrbitDB
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Aug 11, 2022
Secure Scuttlebutt (SSB)
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Aug 11, 2022
Yjs
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Aug 11, 2022
Petname
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Aug 10, 2022
HoneyBadgerBFT
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Aug 10, 2022
LR Permissionless Result
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Aug 10, 2022
Sandglass
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Aug 10, 2022
Authenticator complexity
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Aug 09, 2022
Casper FFG
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Aug 09, 2022
HotStuff
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Aug 09, 2022
SBFT
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Aug 09, 2022
Weaving the Web
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Aug 09, 2022
Hypertext
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Aug 08, 2022
BitTorrent
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Aug 08, 2022
Byzantine Faults
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Aug 08, 2022
Key Sharing Problem
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Aug 08, 2022
MAC
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Aug 08, 2022
RSA
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Aug 08, 2022
Tangaroa
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Aug 08, 2022
Cryptography
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Encryption
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Aug 08, 2022
Hash function
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Aug 05, 2022
Byzantine Agreement
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Aug 05, 2022
PBFT
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Aug 05, 2022
State Machine Replication (SMR)
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Aug 04, 2022
Holochain
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Aug 02, 2022
Jestermaxxing
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Aug 02, 2022
Cascading failures
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Aug 02, 2022
Credible exit
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Aug 02, 2022
Inevitability of Recentralization
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Aug 02, 2022
Rhizomatic vs Arborescent Systems
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Aug 01, 2022
GDPR
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Aug 01, 2022
Network Theory
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Jul 29, 2022
The Writing Life
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Jul 24, 2022
NVIM Cheatsheet
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Jul 17, 2022
Tools for Conviviality
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Jul 16, 2022
Identity
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Jul 14, 2022
Merkle-DAG
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Jul 14, 2022
Causal Tree
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Jul 11, 2022
CRDT Implementations
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Jul 10, 2022
Privacy
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Jul 10, 2022
Visualization
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Jul 08, 2022
Order theory
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Jul 07, 2022
Neutrality
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Jul 05, 2022
Arcosanti
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Jul 05, 2022
Longest-chain consensus
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Jul 05, 2022
Math
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Jul 03, 2022
33% Impossibility Result
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Jul 03, 2022
Sidetree
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Jul 03, 2022
Tendermint
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Jul 03, 2022
Liveness
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Jul 03, 2022
Safety
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Jul 01, 2022
Byzantine Broadcast
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Jul 01, 2022
FLP Result
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Jul 01, 2022
PSL-FLM Impossibility Result
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Jul 01, 2022
Public-key Infrastructure
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Jun 29, 2022
PMOG
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Jun 29, 2022
Morphology
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Jun 29, 2022
Phonetics
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Jun 29, 2022
Phonology
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Jun 29, 2022
Pragmatics
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Jun 29, 2022
Sociolinguistics
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Jun 29, 2022
Syntax
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Jun 28, 2022
Creative writing
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Jun 24, 2022
CouchDB
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Jun 24, 2022
Hyper Hyper Space
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Jun 23, 2022
Elliptic-curve Cryptography (ECC)
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Jun 23, 2022
Filecoin
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Jun 23, 2022
File system
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Jun 22, 2022
Hold the Fries
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- writing
Jun 15, 2022
ActivityPub
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Jun 15, 2022
Bluesky
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Jun 15, 2022
Farcaster
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Jun 15, 2022
Matrix
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Jun 15, 2022
UCAN
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Jun 15, 2022
Digital signatures
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Jun 12, 2022
Verifiable Credential
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Jun 09, 2022
Linked Data Platform (LDP)
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Jun 09, 2022
RDF
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Jun 09, 2022
Decentralized marketplace
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Jun 08, 2022
FOAF
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Jun 07, 2022
DHT
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Jun 07, 2022
Kademlia DHT
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Jun 07, 2022
Solid
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Jun 07, 2022
Sybil Attack
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Jun 07, 2022
WebID
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Jun 05, 2022
CID
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Jun 05, 2022
IPFS
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Jun 05, 2022
Content addressed storage
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May 28, 2022
DID
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May 28, 2022
State Channels
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May 26, 2022
Federation
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May 25, 2022
Authorization
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May 19, 2022
Zooko's Triangle
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May 18, 2022
Language
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May 14, 2022
Idea machines
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May 10, 2022
Prefigurative Politics
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May 06, 2022
Rhizome Philosophy
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May 05, 2022
Conflict-free Replicated Data Type (CRDT)
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May 05, 2022
RPC
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May 05, 2022
Causality
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May 05, 2022
Clocks
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May 05, 2022
Collaborative software
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May 05, 2022
Consistency
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May 05, 2022
Idempotence
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May 05, 2022
Message broadcast
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May 05, 2022
Quorum
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May 05, 2022
Replication
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May 05, 2022
System model
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May 03, 2022
Rhizome Research Log
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- rhizome
May 03, 2022
Solana
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May 03, 2022
Distributed Systems
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May 01, 2022
Raft Consensus Algorithm
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- technical
May 01, 2022
Mechanism design
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Apr 28, 2022
Rhizome Specification
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- rhizome
Apr 28, 2022
Self-sovereign Identity (SSI)
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Apr 26, 2022
CAP Theorem
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Apr 26, 2022
Lattice Proposal
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Apr 25, 2022
Valve Handbook
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Apr 25, 2022
Local-first software
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Apr 12, 2022
Paperclip optimizers
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Apr 11, 2022
NLP
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Apr 07, 2022
Public-key Cryptography
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- CPSC317
Apr 07, 2022
Writing
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Apr 05, 2022
Idealism
Apr 05, 2022
Metaphysics
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- PHIL451A
Apr 05, 2022
Monism
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- PHIL451A
Apr 05, 2022
Ontology
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Apr 04, 2022
Intersubjectivity
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Apr 03, 2022
Primacy of Consciousness
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- PHIL451A
Apr 03, 2022
Pattern Matching
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Apr 01, 2022
In-group bias
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Mar 31, 2022
Democracy
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Mar 30, 2022
Peer to peer
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- CPSC317
Mar 29, 2022
Algorithmic decision making
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Mar 23, 2022
Bentoism
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Mar 23, 2022
Community of Fate
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Mar 23, 2022
Mutual aid
- seed
Mar 23, 2022
Burnout
- seed
Mar 23, 2022
Religious authority
- seed
- PHIL240A
Mar 21, 2022
HTTP
- seed
- CPSC317
Mar 21, 2022
Lost knowledge
- seed
Mar 15, 2022
Bias in Search
- fruit
Mar 15, 2022
Moderation
- seed
Mar 15, 2022
Gate Keeping
- seed
Mar 14, 2022
Rhizome Proposal
- evergreen
- rhizome
Mar 13, 2022
Consciousness is not Information
- fruit
- PHIL451A
Mar 12, 2022
Panpsychism
- seed
- PHIL451A
Mar 11, 2022
TCP
- seed
- CPSC317
Mar 11, 2022
Autopoiesis
- seed
Mar 11, 2022
Death
- seed
- PHIL451A
Mar 11, 2022
Interdependence
- seed
Mar 11, 2022
The self
- seed
- PHIL451A
Mar 10, 2022
Dreams
- seed
- PHIL451A
Mar 09, 2022
Nagel's Bat Argument
- seed
Mar 09, 2022
Epistemic Authority
- seed
- PHIL240A
Mar 08, 2022
Data Capitalism
- seed
Mar 07, 2022
In Over Our Heads: The Mental Demands of Modern Life
- seed
- book
Mar 07, 2022
Nyāya
- seed
- PHIL240A
Mar 07, 2022
Root Verses on the Middle Way or the MMK
- seed
- PHIL240A
Mar 07, 2022
Testimony
- seed
- PHIL240A
Mar 04, 2022
Integrated Information Theory of Consciousness (IIT)
- seed
- PHIL451A
Mar 04, 2022
Neural Correlates of Consciousness (NCC)
- seed
- PHIL451A
Mar 04, 2022
Stream of Consciousness
- seed
- PHIL451A
Mar 04, 2022
Pain
- seed
Mar 03, 2022
Double-consciousness
- seed
- PHIL240A
Mar 03, 2022
Games
- sapling
Mar 02, 2022
Epistemic injustice
- seed
- PHIL240A
Mar 02, 2022
Power
- seed
Feb 26, 2022
Address Resolution Protocol (ARP)
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
Application Layer
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
DHCP
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
DNS
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
IP Address
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
Internet
- sapling
Feb 26, 2022
Link Layer
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
Network Address Translation (NAT)
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
Network Layer (IP)
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
Physical Layer
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
Protocols
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
Transport Layer
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
UDP
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 26, 2022
VPN
- seed
- CPSC317
Feb 21, 2022
Functional Programming
- sapling
- technical
Feb 20, 2022
Urbit
- seed
Feb 20, 2022
Ask vs Guess culture
- seed
Feb 20, 2022
Personal and cozy software
- sapling
- pattern
Feb 20, 2022
People as lighthouses
- sapling
Feb 20, 2022
Software Principles
- sapling
Feb 18, 2022
Archipelago
- seed
- book
Feb 18, 2022
Self-knowledge
Feb 17, 2022
The Midnight Library
- seed
- book
Feb 12, 2022
Dark Forest Theory of the Internet
- seed
Feb 12, 2022
Moving Castles
- seed
Feb 12, 2022
Metalabel
- seed
Feb 09, 2022
Contact Language
- seed
Feb 08, 2022
Soulbound
- sapling
Feb 04, 2022
The Dragon and the Bridge
- fruit
- PHIL240A
Feb 01, 2022
Arweave
- seed
Feb 01, 2022
Knowledge Argument
Feb 01, 2022
Meditation
- seed
- PHIL451A
Jan 31, 2022
Hard problem of consciousness
- seed
- PHIL451A
Jan 30, 2022
Chesterton's Fence
- seed
- pattern
Jan 30, 2022
Matthew Effect
- seed
Jan 30, 2022
Context
- sapling
Jan 28, 2022
Indeterminacy
- seed
- PHIL240A
Jan 28, 2022
Phenomenology
- seed
Jan 28, 2022
Philosophical Realism
- seed
- PHIL451A
Jan 20, 2022
Art
- sapling
Jan 20, 2022
Pace Layers
- fruit
- pattern
Jan 19, 2022
World Building
- fruit
Jan 18, 2022
Buddhism
- seed
- PHIL240A
Jan 18, 2022
Materialism/Physicalism
- seed
- PHIL451A
Jan 18, 2022
Reductionism
- seed
Jan 18, 2022
Emptiness
Jan 18, 2022
Epistemology
- seed
- PHIL240A
Jan 17, 2022
Internet Computing
- sapling
- CPSC317
Jan 12, 2022
Descartes' Meditations
- seed
- PHIL240A
Jan 12, 2022
The Upanisads
- seed
- PHIL240A
Jan 12, 2022
Awareness
- seed
Jan 12, 2022
Philosophy of Mind
- sapling
- PHIL451A
Jan 08, 2022
Web3 Critique
- sapling
Jan 07, 2022
Mangrove Theory of the Internet
- sapling
- pattern
Jan 07, 2022
Aperture Problem
- sapling
Jan 07, 2022
Information Scales
- sapling
- pattern
Dec 29, 2021
Desire path
- seed
- pattern
Dec 25, 2021
Brains in a Vat
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Brentano's Thesis
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Searle's Chinese room argument
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Degraded Blockchain problem
- sapling
Dec 25, 2021
Goodhart's Law
- seed
- pattern
Dec 25, 2021
Nozick's Experience Machine
- sapling
Dec 25, 2021
Plato's Ship of State
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Putnam's Ant Argument
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Social Bias in Information Retrieval
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Turing Test
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Twin Earth Argument
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Censorship
- sapling
Dec 25, 2021
Colour
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Conceptual models
- sapling
Dec 25, 2021
Connectionist networks
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Constructionism
- seed
- pattern
Dec 25, 2021
Crutch and Shoe metaphor
- seed
- pattern
Dec 25, 2021
Hedonic Treadmill
- sapling
Dec 25, 2021
Hermeneutical injustice
- sapling
- PHIL240A
Dec 25, 2021
Information Foraging
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Information Systems
- sapling
Dec 25, 2021
Instrumentalism
- sapling
Dec 25, 2021
Interpretive Labour
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Philosophy of science
- seed
Dec 25, 2021
Potemkin villages
- sapling
- pattern
Dec 25, 2021
Prestige
- sapling
Dec 25, 2021
Stone Soup metaphor
- seed
- pattern
Dec 25, 2021
Utopia
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Algorithms of Oppression
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Collingridge Dilemma
- seed
- pattern
Dec 24, 2021
Dunbar's Number
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Gall's law
- seed
- pattern
Dec 24, 2021
Roko's Basilisk
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Theory of Niche Construction
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Vanilla Ice Cream effect
- seed
- pattern
Dec 24, 2021
Carbon Credits
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Complexity
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Desktop Metaphor
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Generational Learning
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Governance
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Imaging
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Innovation
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Libraries
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Maintenance
- sapling
- pattern
Dec 24, 2021
Mimetic
- sapling
Dec 24, 2021
Niche at scale
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Object Classification
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Object Detection
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Optical Flow
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Recommendation System
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Right to be forgotten
- seed
Dec 24, 2021
Skyhooks
- sapling
- pattern
Dec 23, 2021
Digital Mindfulness
- sapling
Dec 23, 2021
Linguistic Relativism
- sapling
- pattern
Dec 21, 2021
A Tale for the Time Being
- sapling
- book
Dec 21, 2021
Friction
- seed
Dec 21, 2021
Traditional Knowledge (TK)
- seed
Dec 15, 2021
Quotes
- evergreen
Dec 12, 2021
Mental Models
- seed
Dec 12, 2021
Page Layout
- seed
Dec 12, 2021
Prototyping
- seed
Dec 10, 2021
NFTs
- sapling
Dec 10, 2021
Friendship
- sapling
Dec 10, 2021
Tribe Flourishing
- sapling
Dec 09, 2021
Automation
- sapling
Dec 01, 2021
Interoperability
- sapling
- pattern
Dec 01, 2021
Terminology
- sapling
Nov 24, 2021
Evaporative Cooling Effect
- seed
- pattern
Nov 23, 2021
Do Artifacts Have Politics
- seed
- pattern
Nov 14, 2021
Atlas of AI
- seed
- book
Nov 14, 2021
How to do Nothing
- seed
- book
Nov 11, 2021
Bandwidth
- sapling
Nov 07, 2021
The Grasshopper: Games, Life and Utopia
- seed
- book
Oct 30, 2021
Kernel Curriculum
- seed
Oct 30, 2021
Bias
- sapling
Oct 30, 2021
Freedom
- seed
Oct 30, 2021
Tools for Thought
- sapling
Oct 30, 2021
Transparency
- seed
Oct 27, 2021
Lindy Effect
- seed
- pattern
Oct 26, 2021
Economics
- seed
Oct 26, 2021
Game Design
- sapling
- pattern
Oct 26, 2021
Positive Sum
- sapling
Oct 26, 2021
Teaching
- seed
- pattern
Oct 26, 2021
Zero-sum
- sapling
Oct 25, 2021
The Making and Maintenance of Open Source Software
- seed
- book
Oct 24, 2021
Banking
- seed
Oct 24, 2021
Fiction
- sapling
- pattern
Oct 23, 2021
Debt
- seed
Oct 22, 2021
Questions
- sapling
Oct 21, 2021
The Information Professions: Knowledge, memory, heritage
- seed
Oct 20, 2021
Incentives
- sapling
- pattern
Oct 20, 2021
Information Behaviour
- seed
Oct 20, 2021
Rationality
- seed
Oct 20, 2021
Resource Interaction
- sapling
Oct 20, 2021
Selfish
- sapling
Oct 19, 2021
Information Retrieval
- seed
Oct 15, 2021
Hackers
- seed
Oct 15, 2021
Play
- sapling
Oct 14, 2021
Meaning
- sapling
Oct 14, 2021
Security
- seed
- CPSC317
Oct 14, 2021
Value
- sapling
Oct 13, 2021
User Involvement
- seed
Oct 12, 2021
Search
- sapling
Oct 11, 2021
Explainability
- sapling
Oct 09, 2021
Bitcoin
- seed
Oct 09, 2021
Ethereum
- seed
Oct 09, 2021
Task-Centered System Design
- seed
Oct 08, 2021
Blockchain
- sapling
Oct 08, 2021
Money
- sapling
Oct 08, 2021
Trust
- sapling
Oct 05, 2021
Black boxes
- sapling
Oct 05, 2021
Interviews and Data Recording
- seed
Oct 03, 2021
Design Goals
- seed
Oct 03, 2021
Interaction Failures
- seed
Oct 02, 2021
The Psychopathology of Everyday Things
- seed
Oct 02, 2021
Double Diamond Model of Design
- seed
Oct 02, 2021
Human Centered Design (HCD)
- seed
Oct 01, 2021
Scientific Progress
- sapling
Sep 21, 2021
Intentional Arrangement
- seed
Sep 21, 2021
Intentionality
- sapling
Sep 21, 2021
Collections
- seed
Sep 21, 2021
Information
- seed
Sep 21, 2021
Organizing Systems
- sapling
Sep 21, 2021
Praxis
- seed
Sep 16, 2021
Computer Vision
- seed
- technical
Sep 14, 2021
Human Computer Interaction (HCI)
- sapling
Sep 08, 2021
Degrowth
- sapling
Aug 30, 2021
Truth
- sapling
Aug 30, 2021
Qualia
- sapling
Aug 30, 2021
Downward Causation
- seed
Aug 30, 2021
Learning Frameworks
- sapling
Aug 29, 2021
Knowledge Distillation + Teaching
- sapling
Aug 29, 2021
Mindfulness
- sapling
Aug 25, 2021
Optionality
- seed
Aug 25, 2021
VR
- sapling
Aug 19, 2021
Data Distributions
- sapling
- pattern
Aug 17, 2021
A City is not a Computer
- seed
Aug 13, 2021
Consciousness
- sapling
- PHIL451A
Aug 12, 2021
Game Theory
- sapling
- PHIL321A
Aug 10, 2021
Post-It Note City
- seed
Aug 10, 2021
Consensus
- sapling
Aug 10, 2021
Proof of Work
- seed
Aug 07, 2021
React in 30 minutes
- fruit
- technical
Aug 07, 2021
Proof of Stake
- seed
Aug 07, 2021
Quadratic Funding
- seed
Aug 07, 2021
Decentralization
- sapling
Aug 06, 2021
Computability
- seed
Aug 06, 2021
Funding
- sapling
Aug 06, 2021
Effective Altruism
- sapling
Aug 06, 2021
Accountability
- sapling
Aug 06, 2021
Longevity
- sapling
Aug 03, 2021
Progress
- sapling
Aug 02, 2021
Research Institutions
- sapling
Aug 01, 2021
Memory Palace
- sapling
Jul 28, 2021
Tragedy of the Commons
- sapling
- pattern
Jul 28, 2021
Public Goods
- sapling
Jul 28, 2021
DAO
- seed
Jul 28, 2021
Social Contracts
- sapling
Jul 28, 2021
Web3
- sapling
Jul 28, 2021
Silicon Valley: An unrepeatable miracle?
- seed
Jul 25, 2021
Workflows
- seed
Jul 25, 2021
Interaction Design
- sapling
Jul 25, 2021
Originality
- sapling
Jul 23, 2021
Group Limits
- sapling
Jul 16, 2021
Boundary Objects
- seed
- pattern
Jul 15, 2021
Digital Commons
- sapling
Jul 15, 2021
Climate Tech
- seed
Jul 14, 2021
Communities
- sapling
Jul 13, 2021
Multiple Realization
- seed
- pattern
Jul 13, 2021
Software and Politics
- seed
Jul 03, 2021
Life
- seed
Jul 03, 2021
Telerobotics
- seed
Jul 02, 2021
Virtual Worlds
- sapling
Jul 02, 2021
Mind-Body Problem
- sapling
Jul 02, 2021
Language of Thought
- seed
Jul 02, 2021
Representation
- seed
Jul 02, 2021
Symbolic Systems
- seed
Jul 02, 2021
Embedded AI
- seed
Jul 02, 2021
Machine Learning
- sapling
- CPSC340
Jul 02, 2021
Semantics
- seed
Jul 02, 2021
Frame Problem
- sapling
Jul 02, 2021
Can Machines Think?
- sapling
Jul 02, 2021
Extended Mind Hypothesis
- sapling
Jun 24, 2021
Idolization
- seed
Jun 23, 2021
To Live in their Utopia
- seed
Jun 23, 2021
Fault Tolerance
- sapling
Jun 23, 2021
Creation vs Maintenance
- sapling
Jun 22, 2021
The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas
- seed
Jun 18, 2021
Research Debt
- sapling
Jun 17, 2021
Exploit Explore Problem
- sapling
Jun 17, 2021
Feedback Loops
- seed
Jun 17, 2021
Pseudonymous Web
- seed
Jun 17, 2021
Idea List
- evergreen
Jun 17, 2021
Attention Economy
- sapling
Jun 17, 2021
Emergent Behaviour
- sapling
Jun 17, 2021
A City is not a Tree
- seed
Jun 16, 2021
Building in Public
- seed
Jun 16, 2021
Ephemereal and Real-time Content
- sapling
Jun 16, 2021
Infrastructure
- sapling
Jun 16, 2021
Social Graphs
- sapling
Jun 16, 2021
Urban Planning
- seed
Jun 16, 2021
Mindstorms
- seed
- book
Jun 16, 2021
From Counterculture to Cyberculture
- seed
- book
Jun 16, 2021
Design Justice
- seed
- book
Jun 05, 2021
Introductions
- sapling
May 25, 2021
Catch 22
- seed
May 09, 2021
Digital Permanence
- sapling
May 05, 2021
Labels, quantization, and legibility
- sapling
- pattern
Apr 11, 2021
Rewriting ctrl-v using Next.js
- fruit
- technical
Mar 11, 2021
Value Setting
- sapling
Feb 27, 2021
Hackathons
- sapling
Feb 27, 2021
Reading
- sapling
Feb 27, 2021
Move Fast and Break Things
- sapling
Jul 22, 2020
Docker Explained
- fruit
- technical
May 10, 2020
reflect: NLP Model Explained
- technical
- fruit
Aug 30, 2019
Interning at Hootsuite in Highschool
- fruit
- personal

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