I’ve slowly started blogging again, mostly because I have a lot of thoughts and I find it helpful to write those thoughts down. I’m making it public because I’ve received enough feedback to convince me that some people my ideas helpful.
By day I am a full time computer programmer specialized in data processing, and machine learning infrastructure. On the side I provide technical support for a number of digital humanities projects. A mostly complete list can be found here.
Note: This blog is available on Mastodon or any platform implementing ActivityPub at @ryan.
Why does the pursuit of technological progress so frequently lead to disaster? Here we explore the concepts around optimization in order understand better why technological utopias can’t last.
What started as an attempt to answer the question, “What exactly do I believe?” turned into an in depth examination of what actually caused me to leave evangelicalism.
The difficulty with discussing truth is that there are two things we could be referring to. Here I talk about magicians, tables, human souls, and their relationship truth.