There have been very few times that I can name that have dramatically affected the trajectory of my life. Events that I turn over and over again in my head to try to make sense of. Events that I can knowingly point to and say “this is where a new Lilly began”
Category: aside
Angsting about CMS and Robotics
It’s “ethics week” in Petey and Mehitabel’s “Networked Cultures class” and I accidentally wrote 2.5 benkrafts on this prompt. I guess if you haven’t talked to me in a while, it’s a pretty good summary of my screaming for the last two years.
inb4 Ava gives me yet more grief for not using my insane fellowship money for just fucking off and actually just doing CMS full time, aka. “When was the last time you touched a robot?”
DQ1: Read deTar. Share an occasion where you have felt the terms of your professional or educational success were in conflict with your ethics. Can you apply this advice practically?
CMS Snippets
“Do you just… apply theory to everything?” – Eurah Hashtags are really just human classification of metadata – information which is traditionally used by computers to classify data. Does this mean that there’s this strange human-computer collaboration / hybrid happening? Given the NSA disclosure that they were snooping on conversations but “it’s ok since it’s […]
Quotes
a feat requiring years of retraining of the mind and sensory organs, a painstaking human rewiring, or upgrade, if you will, while on the ground the general sees his and disparate other contemporary narratives play out simultaneously, indeed as the emerging market equity trader does, and as the rapid-fire TV remote user and the multiple-computer-window […]
Contemplation on Jeopardy
I’ve finally finished cleaning out my aggregation of all of my Jeopardy observes into one post, so it’s time to share them out.
Posts can be found here and my compilation of social media comments can be found here. Passwords are [redacted – please contact me if interested]
The Unfortunate History of the “Kek” Article
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kek_(mythology)
https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Kek_(mythology)&action=history
I looked at the history because the 2016 election (and 4chan shenanigans) basically catapulted this obscure Egyptian god into internet fame. (Wikipedia version here)
Poetic Random Nerve Firings
When an engineer brags that they don’t like fiction That their bookmarks are filled of Medium articles and business koans Isn’t there something lost? You can not consume all the media in the world You can not consume all the media you want to consume You can not consume all the media you need to […]
CSAIL’s Song
Floor Dreyfus Five, thy postdoc lies Of his drinks are caffeinate; Bloodshot orbs that were his eyes; Written code won't terminate, Making loops quite intricate. Going down the infinite, PIs ask for "Progress, yet?" Knock-knock. Hark! now I hear them - knock-knock, "nyet".
with apologies to Shakespeare
Whimsical Map of the Institute
This is an old post – I took the picture on Feb. 4th, 2016 and only have now gotten around to doing the write up for this. I was in 38-4, the EECS office, in order to get some paperwork signed and found this really cool map posted on one of the cubicle walls – […]
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