Source: This Gyro-Inspired Casserole Is the Perfect Dish for the Inebriated
Month: April 2018
Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre
Source: Survival of the Mediocre Mediocre
Premature optimization, noted Donald Knuth, is the root of all evil. Mediocrity, you might say, is resistance to optimization under conditions where optimization is always premature. And what might such conditions be?
Infinite game conditions of course, where the goal is to continue the game indefinitely, in indeterminate future conditions, rather than win by the rules of the prevailing finite game. Evolution is the prototypical instance of an infinite game….
Mediocrity is not a position on some sort of performance spectrum, but a metacognitive attitude towards all performance that leads to middling performance on any specific performance spectrum as a side effect.
Can a Male Artist Still Paint a Female Nude?
The Body That Understands What Fullness Is – Unruly Bodies – Medium
What Does The Amazon Echo Look Mean For Personal Style? – Racked
https://www.racked.com/2018/4/17/17219166/fashion-style-algorithm-amazon-echo-look
We find ourselves in a cultural uncanny valley, unable to differentiate between things created by humans and those generated by a human-trained equation run amok. In other words, what is the product of genuine taste and what is not. (This lack of discernibility also contributes to the problems of fake news, which algorithmic feeds promote like any other content, however inaccurate.)