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Honoring Ada & Joan Riviere

by Latrippi on March 24, 2010

In honor of Ada Lovelace, I made a pledge to post — something here today. What I pledged to myself, actually, was just to reboot this weblog. Yes, I thought, happening across the pledge site, I owe it to myself (…)

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Hard to Explain

by Latrippi on May 27, 2007

“Pay attention, that’s all,” Eliza said. “Notice things. Connect what you’ve noticed. Connect it into a picture. Think of how the picture might be changed; and act to change it. Some of your acts may turn out to have been (…)

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discarding information

by Latrippi on November 13, 2006

It costs to possess knowledge of the world: not necessarily because it costs anything to obtain this knowledge, but because it is difficult to get rid of it again. Pure, clear consciousness is the true cost — and we cannot (…)

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