Hello, I’m Jay.
I like and do a lot of things. I am currently interested in Cloud / System Administration / Development. Lately I’ve been developing a few applications back-ended by Imagemagick and FFmpeg. I’ve also written a few actively running twitter bots that use AWS Lambda and Python. I don’t like a bio that says a bunch of stuff about somebody without giving you any insight as to what they’re about, and I’m not saying the below is what I’m about per se, I’m just saying it’s better than nothing:
My view of two characters in The Watchmen series
- The world’s smartest man would not allow himself to be called that. Somewhere out there, in the real world, there’s a world’s smartest man, and none of us know who he is, because he is the world’s smartest man.
- Jon Osterman would have been a better off reconstituting himself the same way he went into the intrisic field chamber, but instead he decided to become a giant blue naked guy who gets depressed. At least it is established he is not the world’s smartest man.
Some pet peeves
- When people refer to the institutions of science as science, instead of the process. Science doesn’t say anything. People say things. And people are often wrong. Which is why science is even a thing.
- When people diminish the hypothesis generation part of science as if it is not part of science.
- The splintering of “Natural Philosophy” into “Science” and “Philosophy” that happened a few hundred years ago. That really grinds my gears. Don’t even think about trying that kind of thing with me. Not on my watch.
Unification of Art and Science
I like an artist named Bill Drummond. At some point he put out a book called “How to be an Artist.” On his website at some point he mentioned the first title of the book, which was “Well, I could fuckin’ do better than that.” That’s something art and science have in common. Walking into the proverbial room and thinking “Everyone else is wrong.” Albeit, most of the time, only slightly – though occasionally a great deal more than that. The only way to know is to check it out or make something new.