pizza slow (high quality)

posts from 2023 / 03 / 14

  1. wind gust max speed in the mission hit 27.7 mph on my little sensor in the alley so far today. neat.

    24 hour line plot of wind gust speed maximums measured in miles per hour on March 14, 2023

  2. I read this one back in 2013 and I’m sure there are more modern treatments (which I’d be happy to hear about) but if you want get a 1987 perspective on the failed promises of computer skill acquisition you would probably do worse than to read Dreyfus & Dreyfus’s "Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/1039572.Mind_Over_Machine).

    This post was written by a human.

    The paperback cover of “Mind Over Machine: The Power of Human Intuition and Expertise in the Era of the Computer” (1987) by Hubert L. Dreyfus and Stuart E. DreyfusThe cover features two overlapping pink sillouettes of human facial profiles looking up and two the right over a black background.

  3. peeking into the party around the person I don’t know who opened the door: Hey!

    Slightly later over a beer: uh, so what do you do? (people love this question)

    Oh me? I’m a founder. We make [unintelligible]. Haha, yeah, no, it’s software for cold calling people. No yeah it still “works” ha ha ha. You don’t answer your phone? Wow do you mind if I double-click on that, I [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral at the party)

  4. Ah, jeeze, these hamsicks and circle-As are really picky about having the crust cut off of their diagonal cut PB&Js and the skins peeled off of their apple slices and etc, and etc. I really [looks into the camera] “do not get it” (I’m trying to make my catchphrase go viral)