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Hacking

…but as the TMRC [MIT’s “Tech Model Railroad Club”] people used the word, there was serious respect implied.  While someone might call a clever connection between relays a “mere hack”, it would be...

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We are data

…data is just a dumb kind of programming.  We are data, pieces of a cosmic computer program that is the universe.    ~ Hackers, heros of the computer revolution, Steven Levy

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Enigma

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High Frequency Algos

It’s not just that humans are less and less involved in trading; it’s that they can’t be involved. By the time the ordinary investor sees a quote, it’s like looking at a star that burned out 50,000...

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It’s over, and then it begins again…

Big business may stumble upon and commodify hackers’ breakthroughs, but the hackers will simply move on to new frontiers.    ~ Steven Levy, Hackers  

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The Essence of the Hacker Ethic

The technology has to be considered as larger than just the inanimate pieces of hardware.  The technology represents inanimate ways of thinking, objectified ways of thinking. The myth we see in War...

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Computing Form Factor

Computers have been getting smaller and closer to our faces since their very beginning. First they were in big rooms, then they sat on desktops, then they sat on our laps, and now they’re in our palms....

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How to Create a Mind

Both hardware and software are progressing exponentially.  If logical thinking were the essence of intelligence, then computers would already be superior to us.  The area where humans still have an...

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Collective Thinking

In terms of the Internet, it’s like humanity acquiring a collective nervous system. Whereas previously we were more like a… collection of cells that communicated by diffusion. With the advent of the...

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Apple Design Credo

if everyone   is busy making everything… how can anyone perfect anything? we start to confuse convenience      with joy. …abundance with choice. designing something requires focus. the first thing we...

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