Robustness and Efficiency in Large-Scale AI
Interesting talks.
How Trees Work
Not how you think.
Is the internet really dead?
This is why I ignore most of social media.
“Everyone Drank Raw Milk!” No They Didn’t
Do not drink raw milk.
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles
Explains a lot behavior of older people in societies that were agrarian quite recently, like Slovakia. “eyes are always watching and these are societies which expect the individual to place the community first, with individuals valued to the degree that… Read More »Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part V: Life In Cycles
Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction
It’s like taxes. You work huge part of the year to feed someone else. “from the perspective of everyone who isn’t our peasants is that if the peasantry only does the amount of agricultural labor necessary to subsist themselves and… Read More »Collections: Life, Work, Death and the Peasant, Part IVc: Rent and Extraction
Collections: A Trip Through Dhuoda of Uzès (Carolingian Values)
Unfortunately, I am also often guilty of this. “There are those who give good advice but who do not give it well, which is of no use to them nor lifting to anyone else.” https://acoup.blog/2020/03/27/a-trip-through-dhuoda-of-uzes-carolingian-values/
Collections: A Trip Through Cicero (Natural Law)
What is law and what is justice? “There is no one of any nation at all, who cannot arrive at virtue when they have found a guide” https://acoup.blog/2019/12/12/collections-a-trip-through-cicero-natural-law/
Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool
Ancient people dressed nice. “Seneca’s comment that legislation mandating a ‘uniform’ for enslaved persons at Rome was abandoned for fear that they might realize their numbers, the clear implication being that it was often impossible to tell an enslaved person… Read More »Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part IVa: Dyed in the Wool
Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round…
A lot of stereotypes have deep history. “E.W. Barber (Women’s Work, 29-41) suggests that this division of labor, which holds across a wide variety of societies (though commercial textile production was often done by men in pre-modern societies, something we’ll… Read More »Collections: Clothing, How Did They Make It? Part III: Spin Me Right Round…