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...
View ArticleWe 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
View ArticleHigh 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...
View ArticleIt’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
View ArticleThe 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...
View ArticleComputing 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....
View ArticleHow 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...
View ArticleCollective 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...
View ArticleApple 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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