Junio

Posts:

• Build Systems à la Carte, a classification of build systems and their capabilities, with an associated Haskell library. It’s cute to see spreadsheet software as a build system.
• What Happens Next Will Amaze You, a transcript on a talk on how to fix the digital surveillance nightmare. See also The Website Obesity Crisis.
• One Man’s Modus Ponens, an explanation of the saying ‘One man’s modus ponens is another man’s modus tollens’.
• Why is printf better than echo?, on why echo is considered (mildly) harmful.
• The Making of Youtube Radical, an example of far-right radicalization boosted by Youtube’s recommendation algorithm.
• FBI agent accidentally reveals own 8chan posts; attempts to redirect white supremacist rage against Russia, on the strategies used by the FBI on white supremacist’s forums to steer their interests away from the FBI/CIA/Mossad and towards Russian intelligence agencies.
• Questions For Our Opponents, Answered, where Ozy answers questions from a TERF. I don’t usually like this kinds of posts (I think most of the time these kinds of questions are not intended to spark a fruitful conversation but rather they are wielded as a propagandistic ‘weapon’) but I think this is genuinely informative if you have nver understood trans issues.
• What The Hell Is Going On With UFOs And The Department Of Defense?, on how the United States’ DoD might be promoting the UFO myth to distract people from classified experiments with advanced hardware. Big caveat here about this being very speculative.
• Let It Bleed: Libertarianism and the Workplace, on the nightmare the US is for workers’ rights, and on how libertarians contradict themselves when speaking about coertion in the workplace.

Videos and TV shows:

• Twin Peaks seasons 1 & 2, a fascinating 90s classic.

Videogames and board games:

• Azul, 2018’s “Game of The Year”. A beautiful-looking competitive puzzle game.

Podcasts:

• #144 Dark Pattern - Reply All, a podcast on TurboTax’s deceptive schemes for hiding its free version.

Projects:

• I finished my bachelor’s thesis, entitled “Quantum computational models”, on quantum complexity theory and concrete quantum algorithms. I am sure there is plenty of errata or omissions lying around, but overall I am quite satisfied with the result. I wish I had had time to rewrite some of it using a more categorical language, maybe I will do so at some point. Constructive criticism is welcome.

• Di una charla (otra más) sobre algoritmos cuánticos en Quipper en esLibre.