Posts by David Hood
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Something from Motherboard's Uber week articles
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I assume everyone is obsessively watching Soundbreaking on Prime, which in the first episode some weeks back there was a long segment on Rick Rubin working with Johnny Cash.
Of relevance to this post, the other day there was a Rolling Stone interview with James Blake
where he talks about working with Rick Rubin
"He settled into a nice routine with Rubin. "I would do this 45-minute improv, and then I would be able to just sit down." Blake, pretending to reenact his satisfied studio self, emitted a big sigh and slouched back on his couch in triumph. Then he demonstrated Rubin's role in the studio, which was to lie horizontally and scrutinize the recording – while incessantly stroking his beard. The engineer would mark parts that earned Rubin's approval, and many of these snippets were eventually transformed into songs."
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It is Uber week over at Motherboard, so there will be a lot of articles there
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I am reminded of the cocaine contaminated currency
http://www.snopes.com/business/money/cocaine.asp
Except this is like testing a beneficiaries wallet and cancelling their benefit if cash tests positive. This is not to be taken as a suggestion, it is to be taken as an illustration of how stupid the policy is.
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Hard News: The media awards are dead –…, in reply to Ian Dalziel,
‘Worst Pun on an Award Winning Blog; Comments Section’ category
I thought there were already awards for pundits? :)
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Dunedin Botanic Gardens
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A couple from Christchurch Botanic Gardens last week
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Cracker: Breaking the Silence, in reply to BenWilson,
Especially the question about the level to which scientists should gain power.
I think it was called the Enlightenment.
But more seriously, there are a bunch of sources of unease that have come and gone over time- the Cold War nuclear anxieties, seeing the generalisability of science as linked to globalism, modern suspicion of climate science from the right, from GM from the left.
But I see great hope in open data and reproducible research for a vast strengthening of "evidence based ..." So even if so think the opinions of scientists are as easily bought as lawyers, the weight of knowledge is apparent to all.
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p.s. These are the polls I was talking about
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/05/what-landslide/482088/
