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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.
- 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
