3/4 update

journals/2024_02_27.md

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-- [Implementing GPT2 in 500 lines of SQL](https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/) #PostgreSQL #SQL #transformer #[[neural network]]
+- [Implementing GPT2 in 500 lines of SQL](https://explainextended.com/2023/12/31/happy-new-year-15/) #PostgreSQL #SQL #transformer #[[neural network]]
+- via New APPs, [LLM, Inc.](https://www.newappsblog.com/2024/02/llm-inc.html) - what can large language models tell us about speech acts? what do they mean for the intentionality model of discourse, and why are so many of us focused on attributing intentional states to LLMs? maybe [[Derrida]]'s critique of [[Searle]]  can give us some clues! #[[machine learning]] #[[philosophy of language]] #LLM #[[neural network]] #RLHF
+	- prior art:
+		- [Implicit Normativity in Reinforcement Learning with Human Feedback in Large Language Models](https://www.newappsblog.com/2023/11/implicit-normativity-in-reinforcement-learning-with-human-feedback-in-large-language-models.html)
+		- [RLHF and Curation Transparency](https://www.newappsblog.com/2023/11/rlhf-and-curation-transparency.html)
+		- [Iterability and Implicit Normativity](https://www.newappsblog.com/2023/12/iterability-and-implicit-normativity.html)
+- [Ideological Bayesians: Why limits on attention can lead reasonable people into bias and polarization](https://kevindorst.substack.com/p/ideological-bayesians) #stats #Bayes #[[cognitive biases]]
+- via Aeon, [Folklore is philosophy](https://aeon.co/essays/folktales-like-philosophy-startle-us-into-rethinking-our-values) - *Both folktales and formal philosophy unsettle us into thinking anew about our cherished values and views of the world* #philosophy #folklore

journals/2024_02_28.md

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+- [Are new technologies harming liberalism?](https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/new-technologies-new-totalitarians) #[[political philosophy]] #[[philosophy of technology]]

journals/2024_02_29.md

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+- Happy [Josiah Carberry Day](https://ksetiya.substack.com/p/josiah-carberry-day)! #hoaxes #psychoceramics

journals/2024_03_03.md

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+- via patio11, [a fascinating history and analysis of bank holidays](https://www.bitsaboutmoney.com/archive/financial-systems-take-a-holiday/) #banking #holidays
+- via Adiran Ivakhiv, [Why "religion" isn't (coherent)](https://blog.uvm.edu/aivakhiv/2024/02/29/why-religion-isnt-coherent/), a take on whether the term "religion" means much anymore, or if we need a new framework to talk about our self-making, life-changing practices by way of [[Derrida]] and [[Sloterdijk]] #[[philsophy of religion]] #[[philosophy of language]]

journals/2024_03_04.md

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+- via Aeon, [Rethinking the homunculus](https://aeon.co/essays/the-iconic-brain-map-thats-changing-neurosurgery-and-gaming) #[[cognitive science]]  #[[philosophy of mind]]
+	- an interesting discussion of: the differences in the male and female [[body map]]; the [[hippocampus]] and its place cells, head direction cells, and grid cells; whether the [[Penfield homunculus theory]] is broadly right or if other cognitive functions (planning, visual processing) are bound together in the brain with the body map
+- TBM on [why your organization pursues "bad" strategy](https://cutlefish.substack.com/p/tbm-275-bad-strategy-why), and why the delta between what you think strategy is and what you see in practice is wide for good reasons #strategy

logseq/bak/journals/2024_02_28/2024-03-03T22_25_45.417Z.Desktop.md

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+- [Are new technologies harming liberalism?](https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/new-technologies-new-totalitarians) #[[political philosophy]] #[[philosophy of technology]]
+-

logseq/bak/pages/dividend yield/2024-03-03T22_25_45.436Z.Desktop.md

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+tags:: finance, ratio analysis
+
+- dividend yield = dividend per share / price per share * 100%
+-

pages/A Spirit of Trust (Lectures).md

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 			- the change is a change in the structure of *Geist*. it's a change from the [[scala naturae]], the Great Chain of Being, a hierarchical-obedience relation, into a modern, subjective self-consciousness
 			- this is the birth of [[sociology]] as much as it is a sea change in philosophy
 			- this is also really the root of the analytic-continental split! *should* we take modernity to be a philosophical problem? or not? for the analytics, maybe the rise of science, but not modernity
-		- Hegel "sees the worm in our apple"- the alienation we feel from our social norms, which is part of modernity. for Hegel, once we understand that, we'll understand what the next phase of Geist must be.
+		- Hegel "sees the worm in our apple"- the alienation we feel from our social norms, which is part of modernity. for Hegel, once we understand that, we'll understand what the next phase of Geist must be.
+	- how should we hermeneutically interpret texts? #hermeneutics
+		- easy to fall into a [[Lockean]]/[[Gricean]] picture of meaning, where it's a gem in the mind of the writer, and a successful act of communication is one that reproduces that gem in the mind of the reader
+		- consider [[Borges]]'s *Pierre Menard, Author of the Quixote* - a book about a man who rewrites the Quixote word-for-word, and is acclaimed for its rich literary allusions to the present times of the early 20th century
+		- Brandom follows an **inferential approach to meaning**, which rejects semantic atomism, and focuses on the conceptual and inferential roles things play in reasoning
+		- [[death of the author]] and [[Foucault]]'s writing on French police reports as "a work", [[Quine]]/[[Duhem]] on [[Two Dogmas of Empiricism]]
+		- a Hegelian reading is one that recollectively rationally reconstructs Hegel, just as Hegel in turn read Kant. it is valid to appeal to things that happened after Hegel, and arguments that Hegel did not make but later folks did.
+		- *de dicto* (what did the author really mean to say?), *de traditione* (what is the author's tradition, earlier and later, committed to?), *de re* (what is the author _really_ committed to, whether or not they meant to say it?) readings
+	- recommended reading:
+		- Inwood translation, or Miller
+		- Not Pinkard's translation
+		- [[Hippolyte]] - close to the text *de dicto* reading
+		- [[Kojeve]]
+		- Pinkard's commentary and biography
+		- Carlyle's [[Sartor Resartus]], a first-rate parody of Hegel

pages/Accelerate.md

@@ -10,6 +10,7 @@ tags:: books, devops, software engineering
 	- this only works if there's senior leadership support. with actions as well as words
 - # Part 1: What We Found
 - **Ch. 1: Accelerate**
+  collapsed:: true
 	- "business as usual" isn't good enough. we need to accelerate delivery of value to the custojmer- in the form of goods and services, market engagement to detect demand, anticipation of regulatory changes, risk response...
 	- in the modern world, software is at the core of this
 	- the practices developed by the [[devops]] movement are what this book will address and measure

pages/Apache ActiveMQ.md

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+tags:: message queue, distsys, Apache

pages/MLOps.md

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+tags:: machine learning, devops
+
+- the practice that sees machine learning through end-to-end, including deployment and monitoring. testing, versioning, [[continuous delivery]], and monitoring- these are all part of MLOps
+- there are _lots_ of other parts to a machine learning system than just the ML code!
+	- ![image.png](../assets/image_1709532720769_0.png){:height 297, :width 627}

pages/RabbitMQ.md

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+tags:: message queue, distsys

pages/Software Architecture Monday.md

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 			- ![image.png](../assets/image_1705018515144_0.png)
 - **Lesson 2 - How Kafka Differs From Standard Messaging (posted Jan 29, 2018)** #event-driven #distsys
   collapsed:: true
-	- [[Apache Kafka]] payloads are typically [[key-value pairs]] with atomic values, whereas "standard queues" like [[RabbitMQ]]/ [[ActiveMQ]] are typically more structured
+	- [[Apache Kafka]] payloads are typically [[key-value pairs]] with atomic values, whereas "standard queues" like [[RabbitMQ]]/ [[Apache ActiveMQ]] are typically more structured
 	- Kafka streams a continuous flow of data, others have distinct, bounded messages
 	- Kafka can handle throughput up to 1M messages/sec in a tuned instance, 100K/sec on an average instance. standard queues tend to handle 4K-10K throughput
 	- Kafka is especially good for *operational data*- about the health of the system. standard queues are good for transactional data

pages/Søren Kierkegaard.md

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 	- that doesn't mean it's immature and to be ignored! in fact, it is the preparation for his authorship; how he figured out what his philosophical project was
 - Hegelians criticized the law of the excluded middle, the "either/or" principle, which ignited a controversy- folks like [[Mynster]] called out how it was a cornerstone of logic dating back to [[Aristotle]], which folks like [[Martensen]] called out how it conflicted with Christian doctrine
 	- this inspired K's [[Either-Or]]. contra Hegel, the truth is not found by mediating the either/or, but in front of it
-- Kierkegaard thought that, though Socrates was not a Christian, modern day Christianity had much to learn from him
+- Kierkegaard thought that, though Socrates was not a Christian, modern day Christianity had much to learn from him
+- though he didn't write on politics, was a royalist- felt that popular rule would reduce the world to the lowest common denominator of public opinion. but refused to be drawn into politics and refused King Christian VIII's overtures to have him serve a role similar to Prussia's appointment of [[Schelling]] to stem the tides of left-Hegelian