Things on the internet that I like

I Don’t Need Anything From Here by László Krasznahorkai

Meditations on Moloch by Scott Alexander

Pitchfork review of Kid A1

On Chomsky and the Two Cultures of Statistical Learning by Peter Norvig

1993 Toni Morrison interview by Charlie Rose (especially around 38:00 to 40:30)

Andrej Bauer’s photos of mathematicians

Mac is Catholic, PC is Protestant by Umberto Eco

Flannery O’Connor’s self-portrait2

Lena Zavaroni sings Going Nowhere and Ottessa Moshfegh interview where I found this video

these versions of Terry Riley’s In C: Bang on a Can, “Mantra” by L’infonie3, Shanghai Film Orchestra4, In C Mali

People of Programming Languages, interviews at POPL 2018

What Is Like To Be A Philosopher? interview series, especially those of Agnes Callard and David Chalmers


Are you sure your name is not misspelled? I could’ve sworn it had an ‘a’ in it.

Yes.


Here’s some reviews of books that I’ve read.

Some notebooks about random topics.

Footnotes

  1. To be clear, I don’t think this is a good review.

  2. Letter dated Oct 30, 1955 (presumably from The Habit of Being): “I first sent Harper’s Bazaar my self portrait and can you imagine, they said: this is not exactly what we want, a little stiff, couldn’t you send us a snapshot? I also sent it to Harpercourt Brace to use on the jacket of my book. They said: this is a little odd, we don’t think it would increase the sale of the stories.”

  3. This version is also found in Reed Streams by Terry Riley.

  4. This is the first version of In C I’ve heard, as part of the MoMA exhibit Easter Morning by Bruce Conner. I didn’t like the exhibit but I immediately looked up what the music was.