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I haven't promoted it much (because I keep telling myself I'll reprocess it into a more readable version)
But my dissertation is available to read online
galaxykate.com/pdfs/kcompton-…
(note, file is huge)
Dr Kate Compton
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Dr Kate Compton
@GalaxyKate
Weird Futurist. Maker of many interesting things, now playing with toys in Denmark (all hot takes here are my own) Ask me about JavaScript. She/her
Joined May 2009
- Sometimes I get frustrated when I compare arts and tech salaries, but look tech people I'm not saying you are the problem I'm saying the exchange rate is in our favor and someone with a FAANG salary could literally commission their own opera once per year so we should do that
- I tell people to stop worrying about futuristic runaway smart AI, because it's stupid current AI that will kill us, this is what I mean. Someone bought a product that *literally* text-matched the word "charity" as 'good' and "vodka" as 'bad' and is making hiring choices with it.You’re unable to view this Post because this account owner limits who can view their Posts. Learn more
- Replying to @GalaxyKateThe Renaissance was a notable cultural era not because of good marble or new paint but because a bunch of newly-rich Florentine wool merchants discovered Spite Patronage
- "Animal Crossing now more cyberpunk than any game named 'cyberpunk'"“All the facial parts or hairstyles are all gender-free. So you can select from a pool of hairstyles and facial features and then they’re also changeable at any point in the game. So if you feel like a certain way one day, then you can make that change pretty easily.”
- Replying to @GalaxyKateRich people realizing that Great Artists can be rented for pennies + Proudly displaying both Revenge and Cringe commissions = World changing art movement Don't sleep on your destiny, my spiteful overpaid nerds.
- Replying to @GalaxyKateSure, you could post on Stack Overflow, OR pay 10% of your salary for a 20 person off-broadway production of "cryptodaddy47, You Are Wrong About C Pointers (and Everything Else)"
- Buddy, u aren't gonna get killed because AI went evil, ur gonna get killed because an AI robot traffic cone placement robot thought u looked like a traffic cone
- if-statements show a lack of conviction. your code should execute all the time
- I would like to alarm you: today's CS students do not know what "an XKCD" is
- Gender reveal parties are a security risk. Only ever reveal the hash of your baby's gender.
- Hahahahaha, welcome to Programmer Hell Apple's new Jony Ives interior features desks with no visual/audio blocking, next to meeting tables
