Smari being brilliant again
by Vinay Gupta • May 14, 2008 • Personal • 0 Comments
on the fact that cyberpunk is back
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The Bucky-Gandhi Design Institution
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potted truth
by Vinay Gupta • May 8, 2008 • Personal • 1 Comment
it is not enough to be correct, one also has to win.
Read more →new gear – zoom H2
by Vinay Gupta • April 26, 2008 • Personal • 0 Comments
I finally picked up a field recorder: the Zoom H2. Unexpected bonuses * extremely aggressive automatic gain control on “voice mode” * 24/96 recording * incredibly light but not chintzy * features like automatic gain control work even when it’s in USB mic mode – ideal for skype etc. quirks * UI is a bit [...]
Read more →The tragedy of computer science.
by Vinay Gupta • April 16, 2008 • Personal • 2 Comments
Faster computers do not make writing programs easier, any more than printing presses made it easier to write poetry. Vinay Gupta I’ve been trying to find a way of saying that for a while. Now, of course, conversely Computers which are too slow or too small for the problem at hand make programming harder because [...]
Read more →Theistic evolution…. pass the crack pipe
by Vinay Gupta • April 6, 2008 • Personal, Science • 0 Comments
Among Collins’s most controversial beliefs is that of “theistic evolution”, which claims natural selection is the tool that God chose to create man. In his version of the theory, he argues that man will not evolve further. “I see God’s hand at work through the mechanism of evolution. If God chose to create human beings [...]
Read more →Free Trade v Fair Trade – Sean Gabb
by Vinay Gupta • March 28, 2008 • Personal, The Global Picture • 1 Comment
http://www.seangabb.co.uk/flcomm/flc135.htm Really rather splendid short speech on free trade vs. fair trade vs. the current systems we have in place. I have a somewhat different parameterization of the problem (see Gupta’s Libertarian Observation – “free people create free markets, but free markets do not necessarily create free people”) but I think I agree with this. [...]
Read more →A tech tip for podcast interviews: double source podcasting.
by Vinay Gupta • March 9, 2008 • Personal • 1 Comment
1> Both parties use headphones, preferably in-ear or other closed headphones which do not let much noise back into the room. 2> Both parties run recording software which records what is audible through their computer microphone. Quicktime will do that out of the box. 3> The interview is conducted over Skype or a similar tool. [...]
Read more →Gupta’s observation on universal solvents
by Vinay Gupta • March 5, 2008 • Personal • 0 Comments
“all problems I am aware of are soluble in truth” Something I said in an IM chat which, after I’d said it, really struck me as being something of a personal compass point. I really believe this, and try to live it.
Read more →Infoglut and cognitive aesthetics
by Vinay Gupta • March 2, 2008 • Personal, The Global Picture • 1 Comment
It’s official: I’m not even able to keep up with the highlights of my blogs, never mind the real meaty content. And that’s having sacrificed pretty much all of my book time to blog time. Infoglut has overtaken me. What’s interesting is that I can’t really collaborate my way out of this. Smari, Marcin, David, [...]
Read more →The “Lawrence of Arabia” problem
by Vinay Gupta • February 8, 2008 • Hexayurt, Personal • 0 Comments
Lawrence: We’ve taken Aqaba. Brighton: Taken Aqaba? Who has? Lawrence: We have. Our side in this war has. The wogs have. We have… Brighton: You mean the Turks have gone? Lawrence: No, they’re still there but they’ve no boots. Prisoners, sir. We took them prisoners, the entire garrison. No that’s not true. We killed some, [...]
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