Buenas tardes, miserables.
Ustedes han sido inmensamente generosas/os conmigo durante este año. Me salvaron la vida (junto con otras personas e instituciones).
Por eso esta vez les pido por mi amigo @beckermatic, quien está vendiendo este teclado (de los de hacer música, no de escribir).
Esto puede no gustarle y lo digo a mi riesgo para que vean por qué me lo tomo personalmente: lo que está pidiendo por el instrumento es menos que la plata que me dio sin expectativa de devolución. Le estoy enormemente agradecida. Así que si me aprecian, ayúdenlo en mi nombre a venderlo. O cómprenselo. Capaz para donarlo a una escuela que lo precise...
Nada. Eso. Sepan que yo no me olvido nunca. Aunque mi capacidad de dar de vuelta sea un poco limitada por el panorama desastroso de mi salud mental.
Yeah, I get that some of you are excited about Voyager 1 getting close to one light-day from here.
Forty-eight years!
To me it just means that we have to get better interstellar propulsion, and that means nukes. Lots of nukes.
As Douglas Hofstadter has noted, in an open letter to a former student, then at Google working on this project:
It worries me and in fact deeply upsets me that Google is trying to undermine things that I depend on on a daily basis, all the time.When I put something in quotes in a Google search, I always mean it to be taken literally, and for good reason. For example (just one type of example among many), as a careful writer, I am constantly trying to figure out the best way of saying something in one language or another, and so I will very frequently check two possible phrasings against each other, in order to see whether one has a high frequency and the other a very low frequency. This is an extremely important way for me to find things out about phrasings. If Google, however, doesn’t take my phrasings literally but feels free to substitute other words willy-nilly inside what I wrote, then I am being royally misled if I get a high count for a certain phrase. This is very upsetting to me.I want machines to be reliably mechanical, not to be constantly slipping away from what I ask them to do. Supposed “intelligence” in machines may at times be useful, but it may also be extremely unuseful and in fact harmful, and in my experience, the artificial intelligence (here I use the word “artificial” in the sense of “fake,” “non-genuine”) that these days is put into one technological device after another is virtually always a huge turnoff to me.I am thus not delighted by what your group is doing, but in fact greatly troubled by it. It is just one more attempt to make mechanical devices not reliable as such. You ask Google to do X, presuming that it will do precisely X, but in fact it does Y instead, where Y is what it “thinks” you meant. To me, this kind of attempt to read my mind is fantastically annoying if not dangerous, because it almost never is correct or even in the right ballpark. I want machines to remain reliably mechanical, so that I know for sure what I am dealing with. I don’t want them to try to “outsmart” me, because all they will do in the end is mislead and confuse me. This is a very elementary point, and yet it seems to be being totally ignored at Google (or at least in your group). I think it is a very big mistake.
(Personal correspondence, 2010, with Abhijit Mahabal; quoted in Daniel Dennett's From Bacteria to Bach and Back, 2017)
Yes, I've highlighted the date. Think about it.
Internal memo:
For self preservation, don't ever argue a technical topic on social networks. Not even mathematics or physics. Definitely not economics. Programming languages? Do you want a war of religion? Because that's how you get a war of religion. Biology?Medicine? GTFO. We don't want no fancy suicides here.
When I'm having a bad day (tip: don't talk to me today) I block the assholes that get attracted to your posts. Reasonable satisfaction at low effort.
It makes me happy to know you exist in this world. But tonight I wish we were closer.
#subtoot
Piove, governo ladro!
"Yes, I'm her. Name's Ángela now."
"But what was your name back then?"
Don't be that fucking asshole.
#deadname #necrónimo
Yo sé que ustedes disfrutan de "medios" que titulan de esta guisa:
La nube de polvo patagónica avanza sobre la provincia y podría alcanzar al AMBA y La Plata
Pero si usan los ojos habrán observado que
a) ayer tuvimos un atardecer rojísimo sobre esta costa del Río de la Plata, y
b) hoy el cielo estuvo blanco con características de dispersión que claramente no son de nubes de agua.
En cualquier caso. Los aeropuertos de la región no informan de visibilidad reducida, así que la estratósfera estará empastada pero al nivel del suelo se puede operar normalmente.
No es el humo de abril de 2008, quiera Satanás que no se repita.
Buen día, miserables.
Anoche tuve una conversación telefónica de 39 minutos y 9 segundos.
Naturalmente recordé que en la era heroica de los circuitos integrados analógicos existió el chip LM3909, cuya única función era hacer parpadear un LED. ¡Eficientemente, para no agotar la pila! Y con sólo cuatro transistores, no las multitudes innumerables del Arduino con el que la juventud se da por experta en electrónica... copiando unas líneas de código C. En las que hay que cambiar números y no capacitores para variar la frecuencia, claro, eso es progreso.
(¿Alguien se ofrece para explicarme todo lo más que puede hacer un microcontrolador? Ah. Menos mal.)
La hoja de datos está fechada en 1995 pero me consta la larga preexistencia del componente, y varios elementos de contenido y estilo textual y gráfico me dicen años setentas.
Sí, lo único que me queda es la nostalgia. I drink and I know things, como dijo el poeta.
Ángela Stella Matutina