A benefit for US Googlers I wasn't aware of until I was searching for advice internally:
https://sites.google.com/a/google.com/us-benefits/family/care-com-services
Love this definition from the original paper:
... any program is a model of a model within a theory of a model of an abstraction of some portion of the world or of some universe of discourse.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lehman%27s_laws_of_software_evolution
Change isn't a sprint
Change isn't a marathon
Change is a relay race
-- Yancey Strickler, cofounder Kickstarter
https://teamhuman.fm/episodes/ep-142-yancey-strickler-a-more-generous-world/
Good episode. And http://bentoism.org/ looks like an valuable framing tool..
In the interests of bringing you a G+ that's not gloom and pitchforks I present to you the 10 minute version of Devo and Neil Young performing Hey Hey, My My.
I saw this, so now you have to as well. Those are the rules.
https://youtu.be/Pv9ZGP1_JUo
CW: health issues
It's 2:30am 4:00am and I've just spent an hour talking and consoling my wife through a manic episode caused by brain metastasis. I sit down, exhausted and peer through the rain spattered window. I see the homeless encampment in Mosswood park with dozens of ramshackle tents.
It is with gratitude that I have the benefits as a Googler to spend time caregiving through four recent hospitalizations in the last month.
I still feel the guilt of being so less productive at work. I still feel sad that those below likely won't get the same level of care.
Care for and support those close to you and everywhere around you.
Used up my FSA and hit my out-of-pocket max on the same day.
Not sure where to file feedback about things, but my Pixel 2XL screen started to fail so got a Pixel 3 XL (want to keep fingerprint sensor, plus way discounted and pink!)
Anyone worried about AI apocalypse stories should just point a nest camera at a TV and chuckle..
Location Kaiser Oakland
Caption: Large white great Pyrenees with a hospital bed in the background.
A reminder that the thing with two arrows is TAB.
Oh and this is an EKG, so yeah, nothing life-or-death about confusing software.
Looking for a break? Want to improve fairness for Google products? Have a supportive manager? Then check out this short-term opportunity on the John Henry Team:
https://grow.googleplex.com/opportunity/job/2000000070880
So what exactly would you be doing you might ask...
- Work with a system that pulls all the term lists used for blocking through Google and properly categorize them based on identity facets.
- Work with research/product partners to apply this merged, vetted Societal Context dataset. Help remove bias from underlying systems and ML algorithms
- Build tools that will help us develop System Dynamics as a common practice in policy making and the product design process.
- Have fun!
Our environment is Java+Spanner with a goal of migrating to GraphStore in 2020.
Happy to chat about this opportunity or the project as a whole.
There's a JFK quote that goes like this:
Those who make peaceful revolution impossible will make violent revolution inevitable.
Now substitute internal dissent above and think about the changes that have happened in the past year. Paradoxically increasing the domination of communication channels doesn't remove the dissent, it only displaces it into channels where it is much harder to control.
This follows https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variety_(cybernetics)#Law_of_requisite_variety which states that a stable control mechanism contains as many states as the system being controlled. Recent moves like removing live questions, less TGIFs reduces the variety of the control system. Sadly it appears that to make that work we are reducing variety of the system being controlled by pushing out "troublemakers".
My suggestion? Embrace dissent. Make peaceful revolution possible. Recognize and absorb that variety instead of shunting it aside.
A really simple way is having a strong Ombudsman or employee representative. This provides a mechanism to peacefully handle the dissent and channel it towards solutions instead of revolt.
Foone had a great article about the https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1190784395356950535 device. So I made a joke that today they'd have your allowance on the blockchain, with an Alexa "CleanRoom" Oracle that rewarded you with "ChoreCoin".
Turns out someone beat me to it....
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=tech.sweetcandy.chorecoin&hl=en_US
Time for "Managing within the Law" Bingo.
I hear that the course is better these days. Hope I can remove my M&Ms square.
Much of this reminds of the HP and Compaq merger...
https://newrepublic.com/article/154944/boeing-737-max-investigation-indonesia-lion-air-ethiopian-air...
@groby this @supermicro_SMCI mini-tower is one of the best investments I've ever made. ~35W idle power draw, 4 hot swap bays, 8 Xeon-D cores. Add a NAS distro like UNRAID or OpenMediaVault and you're GTG
https://www.supermicro.com/products/system/midtower/5028/SYS-5028D-TN4T.cfm
Algedonic Meters? Real time citizen feedback? For Chilean people? Looks like Cyberfolk 2019!
https://twitter.com/cesifoti/status/1188143056878538753
@mulegirl I also sent a copy over to the Cybernetics Library in NYC. (@cyberneticslib) Check them out at https://cybernetics.social/
aside: ... thanks for all the superb @muledesign work for Six Apart back when..
@mulegirl if anyone wants to buy this book you can get it direct from the author
http://wavestonepress.co.uk/contact-us-news.html
Let's start the Cybernetic Renaissance -- anyone up for organizing a 2020 Macy Conference?
Title: Quantum Supremacy, An Outsider's Perspective
https://drive.google.com/file/d/11MGmTiCSBKDF0l-UxSwaxVctex5SaRkz/view
This was a good overview of the recent quantum news.
@bentarnoff The Team Human podcast (@teamhumanshow) by @Rushkoff is left oriented and covers varied topics including platform coops, media, climate and how technology affects society.
https://teamhuman.fm/ourepisodes/
@n_srnck @bentarnoff also check out the @giunitpod episode with Logic contributor Wendy Liu (@dellsystem)
http://generalintellectunit.net/e/030-organising-tech-with-wendy-liu-jason-prado/
This is an amazing history of technology in Minnesota. The rise and decline can be traced directly to military expenditures.
It also goes into the fascinating connection between the declining streetcar industry and how those engineers created the first disk drives using electric motors and spinning wheels.
Also tune-in for the coverage of Oregon Trail and of course Internet Gopher....
https://www.tpt.org/solid-state/video/solid-state-minnesotas-high-tech-history-35848/
An interesting read on the rise of SV and the role that the military-industrial-complex played in that.
Who can deny that today’s commercial Internet has largely fulfilled this cyberpunk nightmare? Someone should ask Gore what he thinks.
https://www.thenation.com/article/silicon-valley-history-book-review/
2 months notice for the death of Yahoo Groups. Google Group folks take notice, this is not acceptable for preserving the history of the internet.
Did you know your hard disk is descended from a streetcar? Learn how in "Solid State: Minnesota's High Tech History". Also includes Cray, the Oregon Trail and yes, Internet Gopher.
https://www.tpt.org/solid-state/video/solid-state-minnesotas-high-tech-history-35848/
via @tpt
This is a lot of history crammed into an hour. Goes from the early code-breaking work and the development of Drum Memory at Engineering Research Associates.
ERA merged with Sperry/Univac/Remington and then begat Control Data, Cray, Unisys and many others.
Also tune in for some history of the Oregon Trail by Minnesota Educational Computing Consortium (MECC) and how that ties into the rise of Internet Gopher.
Oh and disclaimer: former Gopher Dude here.
A few hiccups but finally have something that's stable..
Power Sources:
- Battery: B Class with 36kWh battery and 400W Inverter
- Sun: Solar with up to 1500W
- UPS: 1500W, 900Wh APC
Devices
- Refrigerator ~100-150W while running 250W peak
- Internet: 15W ONT+Router
- Electric Blanket 60W
- LED Lamps ~15W
- Laptop w/85W or 45W charger
- cords, lots of cords
I charge the car battery @1000W during the day with other loads. Using Inverter at night.
The APC UPS was supposed to provide stability, but it kind of sucks:
- slow trickle charge
- Can't charge off the inverter most of the time.
- Has a bad odor.
For now I just use it for the fridge when I have to run errands
Apple: Introducing Dark Mode for iOS 13
Android: Try our new Dark Theme in Android Q
PG&E
Expect outages of my #indieweb @withknown host 1500wordmtu.com due to @PGE4Me power cuts.
My low-power home server, solar panels, and batteries are pretty solid. ISPs? Not so sure....
https://gilligan.fandom.com/wiki/Electric_Generator
So looks like PG&E will be draining my home metro because their infrastructure causes wildfires.
Looks like my fridge draws 100 to 160W. My solar system has a backup outlet with up to 1500W so maybe I can work out a battery system before tomorrow
This is wild...
Individuals are therefore defined in terms of ongoing, bounded information processing units rather than lists of static features or conventional replication-based definitions which tend to fail in the case of cultural change.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/269338907_The_Information_Theory_of_Individuality
Chrome GPU process is taking up 3GB of memory on Mac, even up to 8GB once. Help!
I tried looking for a way to report this and found some stale things on crbug. Anyone know how to address this?
I know about chrome://gpuclean but that doesn't do much. chrome://gpu doesn't show anything actionable afaik.
10 Years ago today: Sundar tells you why SideWiki is cool.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html
10 Years ago today: Sundar Pichai tells you why SideWiki is cool.
https://googleblog.blogspot.com/2009/09/help-and-learn-from-others-as-you.html
@sundarpichai
Like the fish that cannot see the water...There are times when the only way to perceive the system from within it - - is when it cracks. The fissures and fractures are coming fast now. -- Nora Bateson
