Years ago, in my middling tech explorations, I setup an Apache webserver to privately serve my music collection. I shared the link and password with a longtime friend over Instant Messaging. As she browsed my collection, I watched the server logs and commented through IM on what she was looking at. She eventually told me …
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Snoop de Whoop
In a recent blog post I bemoaned how Duolingo’s streak gaming system has become something of a death march, how it’s an unavoidable slog, and how eventually I’ll be jumping off that treadmill so I can enjoy life and enjoy learning German instead of breathlessly trying to rip out a 3 minute lesson before midnight …
The Datacenter, Humanity’s Marketplace
So just what are the Holy Algorithms? They are the automatic schemes of man, human plans to model human behavior and optimize for some potential profit, either monetary gain or behavioral control. Humans make the algorithms for use on humans. Never forget that. Computers are only the agents of mass scale. How to resist? Simply …
She’s an Algorithm, She’s the Dance
The holy algorithms of the modern web give blessings to frequency over length, and music rankings is no exception. Favorite producer PERTURBATOR has dropped a new EP, “New Model”, and it’s worth it. Definitely more of the PERTURBATOR sound you and I love. I had hoped for a full-length album, but a man’s gotta go …
In Praise of the Holy Algorithm
It seems that I am, that we are, irredeemably under the thumb of the Facebook algorithm as far as getting any messages out. A week ago, I was having a particularly bad night, emotionally, and I posted a short message that could have been construed as a cry for help. What I got was absolutely …