“If the peasants are sufficiently well-fed, then grain production in the country suffices only to meet their needs, but the cities are without grain… In the present circumstances we are still not in a position to allow the peasants to eat as much as they want.”
— Liu Shaoqi to Vasily Kuznetsov
Some things I noticed 11/21/2020:
- “Fractal reminds of computing, everywhere an abstraction. Biology much worse, living systems not designed. All a slop of global mutable state.“
- “Of course we need to teach more people how to draw. It’s an underrated skill.”
- “I am sympathetic to a certain strain of conservatism in the sense that I’m not just a materialist. I’m not an economic determinist.“
- “if we hadn’t been going through a financial crisis, my posture would have been more explicitly contentious around trade issues”
- “I just thought basically if I get hit by a bus, they’re all in the will. So why the fuck am I waiting to get hit by a bus?“
- “Why wouldn’t you do that, you schmuck?”
- “Having patience is not something we can control anymore if the whole world is always in a hurry. So we end up going along with it.“
- “Chimera Painter, a trained machine learning (ML) model automatically creates fully fleshed out rendering from a user-supplied outline.“
- “the UN and humanitarian community translate international solidarity into concrete actions“
- Ninja Nerd Lectures — Acids & Bases