Some kind of virtual assistant that helps you with your information strategy.
Daemon in the computer sense, and maybe daemon in the His Dark Materials sense, too.
I’m sure that there’s a lot of prior work on this – just need to look it up!
Month: March 2020
Heritage Foundation met and came up with a wish list of “pro-free market” solutions to Katrina. We can be sure that exactly the same kinds of meetings will happen now— in fact, the person who chaired the Katrina group was Mike Pence.
Disaster capitalism is how private industries spring up to directly profit from a crisis. The article doesn’t really give much examples here, but a couple we’ve seen already are the attempt to profit from vaccine patents, and medical equipment manufacturers hiding behind patents to keep schematics closed.
A total galaxy brain for me just now with regards to progressive summarisation. I’ve realised that just by virtue of having ‘layer 0’, the source text, as part of the progressive summarisation process – I feel less bad about having hundreds of unread articles saved in Wallabag. I feel good about it in fact! It’s the first step of note-taking – I know I have source material on the topic to come back to, recommended by someone I trust, when this topic comes back into my focus. I can dig deeper into it then if I want.
This is very positive. I had started to think of the wealth of information out there on the web as information overload. But now I can go back to thinking about it as an amazing resource, to be tapped into when needed. (AKA opportunistic compression).
Getting started with Ansible. Definitely enjoying it as a reproducible way of documenting all the steps involved in a server’s setup.
But… am I going to forget how to do all the actual underlying commands if everything is just an Ansible task in a yaml file? What if I need them in an emergency??
It’s a shame we haven’t invented the Metaverse yet, it would be quite handy during this lockdown.
(Although… I guess it didn’t go so well in Snow Crash when it comes to viruses).