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Week Notes No. 47: Learning Currents

By Justin G. on 25MAR18TUE

Another crop of unrelated trivia this week.

Articles & Newsletters
- Learned about Albion’s Seed by Fischer from the Why Is This Interesting newsletter interview with Rett Wallace. Wallace sounds like a character, dodging the question on what media to consume, but I was intrigued by the book he suggested and its description of America’s origins. So, I found Slate Star Codex’s book review/recap and decided to buy a used copy of this giant tome. We’ll see. Maybe I just need the recap.
Podcasts
- Ezra Klein’s rant about making functional government is right.
- From a pragmatic point of view, I agree with the Panic World guys that you can’t just ignore AI and expect that it will go away. I assume they got royally roasted for taking this position, but unfairly so. It’s kind of another sign that people you would expect to be reality based are not, in fact, based in the same reality as you are. The next few years are gonna be messy, folks.
- I found the Vox article on AI coming for the laptop class interesting and good for establishing some concrete possibilities to evaluate for their abilities to bear loads. Via Links I would GChat you.
  - One possibility is “the world now, but moreso” with even more economic output and more worker displacement.
Words
- The word record is related to the word heart, and that is an unexpected connection I learned today, with all kinds of intriguing possibilities leading out from there. The connection is the proto-Indo-European root &ast;kerd- which means heart.¹ I’ve been reading Shipley’s The Origins of English Words and I have to agree with the subtitle; discursive is an understatement. This book is a wealth of information, but it’s all just kind of shoved in there. It’s like you stopped in some energetic fellow’s office with one question, got an earful, and left with ten more. Awesome and overwhelming in equal measure.
Links
- A decoder ring for feature to model mapping schemes.

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