Saturday, March 30, 2019

Dominic Cumming's new political party?

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Dominic Cummings In his blog :  (my emphasis ): "Start rebuilding our network now. The crucial data to collect: name, email, po...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Beyond capitalism: is this the best we can hope for?

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It's to easy to reify capitalism. To see it as the capitalist class ( hiss !) bearing down upon the downtrodden proletariat.  Expropr...
Saturday, March 16, 2019

Post-capitalist and post-human?

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Amazon link I finally completed Poulantzas's turgid, repetitive, over-abstract and slightly-dated book. Far from a page-turner. Yet...
Sunday, March 10, 2019

GPT-2: what does it mean?

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This got a lot of attention. " System Prompt (human-written) In a shocking finding, scientist discovered a herd of unicorns li...

The misunderstandings of eusociality

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"An early 21st century debate focused on whether humans are prosocial or eusocial . Edward O. Wilson called humans eusocial apes, arg...
Friday, March 08, 2019

Lenin 2017: Slavoj Zizek

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Amazon link This was my first exposure to Slavoj Žižek's writing. He contributes a substantial opening essay and a small afterword....
Monday, March 04, 2019

Game Changer: AlphaZero (Book Review)

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Amazon link I bought this book because I was interested in how the architecture of a deep-learning neural-net chess program differs fro...
Sunday, February 24, 2019

TIG of the dump

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This is a post about The Independent Group . My reading about the (now ancient - 1998) dispute between Ellen Meiksins Wood and Nicos Poula...
Saturday, February 23, 2019

Theorising the contemporary left, its tasks and prospects

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Amazon link I've just read Ellen Meiksins Wood's rather turgid book (above) where she defends Marxism against the Eurocommunis...
Tuesday, February 19, 2019

A quick review of my plans (no more French classes!)

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My little foray into improving my French did not last long. I sent the following email this morning [ translation at the bottom of the page...