At dusk the birds hurry as though they were lost.
Loaded with wood he moves slowly homeward.
He moves slowly, knowing the way.”
Anon. trans W.S. Merwin
with Nguyen Ngoc Bich
When I think about math, I quite like the term “computational thinking.” It’s a way of thinking about life. The point about computational thinking is under the surface of any subject, there is a process you can run, and we have fantastic machinery to work out complex computations.
Sometimes you need to come out with a number or specific answer. Sometimes I think you don’t have a clear-cut answer. Sometimes, you need to know how to think about how to weigh risks or assess how, for example, politicians explain different kinds of facts. Most problems in business, or in other walks of life, are not multi-choice questions. You don’t get five choices, one of which is right and the other four are wrong.
We should think about applying computational thinking across different subjects—like computational history, computational English.
Conrad Wolfram, Let’s build a new math that assumes computers exist.
(via bridgeandburn)
the machines
just move the hunger two flights higher,
now it rests in the heart.”
Rolf Jacobsen (1975)
trans. Roger Greenwald
Kent Porter’s photo of the 747 being used in firefighting in California.
I-10 outside Houston. 26 lanes wide.
Random dinosaurs by James Gilleard
1) Mussaurus
2) Majungasaurus
3) Gigantspinosaurus
4) Psittacosaurus
5) Yutyrannus
6) Baryonyx
7) Mamenchisaurus
(via saucerkommand)
Very much digging Shawna-x’s work. This is from her Soliloquies: Electric Objects series.