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Otherblindness
I'm currently reading The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness by Michelle Alexander. The book, as you can probably tell from the title, makes the argument that the systems of mass incarceration in the U.S. are systems of racial control. Because these systems have been framed as tough on crime rather than tough on ni**ers, ( Read more... ) -
Books I Read in 2017
I made a concerted effort this year to read books that were not written by old white dudes. Books below with the author's name in bold are not white dudes. My apologies to all the authors for making ill-informed assumptions about their whiteness and dudeness.
Non-Fiction
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Last fall, I began working on a browser plugin to crowd-source image descriptions of social media (and other web) images to aid visually-impaired people browsing the web. I finally got enough ducks in a row on that project to make big strides over the last two weeks.
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Books I read in 2016
Here are the books that I read in 2016.
Fiction:
- NOS4A2 by Joe Hill [deadtree]
- Seveneves by Neal Stephenson (started in 2015) [ebook]
- Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling (reread) [audiobook]
- Consumed by David Cronenberg [ebook]
- Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets by J.K. Rowling (reread) [ ( Read more... )
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Let's Talk About Coin Flips
There has been lots of talk in the last 24 hours about coin flips. If a precinct had, for example, five delegates to award and the caucus-goers were evenly divided between two candidates, they would award two delegates to each and toss a coin to see which of them got the fifth delegate.
Most of the social-media that I've seen in response has been ( Read more... ) -
Books I read in 2015
I managed to read even more this year than last. Here's what I read in 2015.
Interesting to note: I had a really hard time remembering whether I read some of these as deadtree books or not. If I read it as an ebook or listened to it as an audiobook but saw a full-color book cover for the book, then I have some vivid memories of holding the ( Read more... ) -
JIT Outrage and Lazy Dogma
For maybe obvious reasons, I've been thinking a great deal this week about the strong opinions people form on very little information. Even worse, people tend to fixate on a subset of the limited information they have available while actively ignoring the rest.
JIT Compilers
A number of modern computer languages have what are called Just In Time ( Read more... ) -
Books I read in 2014
I managed to read even more this year than last. Here's what I read in 2014.
Fiction:- The Year of the Flood (MaddAddam Trilogy #2) by Margaret Atwood
- MaddAddam (MaddAddam Trilogy #3) by Margaret Atwood
- My Name is Asher Lev by Chaim Potok
- Sense and Sensibility by Jane Austen
- The Book of Lights by Chaim Potok
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Quote of the Day
Men have always had to pay for sex-in money, marriage, respect, long-term commitment, or willingness to help raise children. - Erotic Capital: The Power of Attraction in the Boardroom and the Bedroom by Catherine Hakim
It's not clear to me whether men have to give up some of the respect that would otherwise be theirs, have to respect women, or ( Read more... ) -
Lies are not statistics...
I am reading Erotic Capital by Catherine Hakim. One of the author's contentions is that despite large amounts of propaganda to the contrary, men generally do want sex more often than women do. To this end, she cites some surveys that asked the question: Do you wish there were more sex in your current relationship? The numbers seem ( Read more... )