On freedom, authority and responsibility. Theorist Todd McGowan joins us to talk about the End of History, what Hegel can teach us about emancipation, and why Slavoj Zizek’s reinterpretation of Hegel is so important. If contradiction is the basis of modern politics, what is its link to freedom? And what is the connection between freedom and authority? Are stable sources of authority even possible in modernity? We also put some listener questions to Todd, as we learn that the Right, just as much as the Left, evades authority and is unwilling to take responsibility. Readings: Emancipation After Hegel: Achieving a Contradictory Revolution Review of book in Marx & Philosophy
Ali Whitelock is a Scottish poet and writer living on the South coast of Sydney with her French, chain-smoking husband. Her latest poetry collection, the lactic acid in the calves of your despair, is published by Wakefield Press and her debut collection, and my heart crumples like a coke can (Wakefield Press, 2018) has a…
We know that many processes are running in an operating system concurrently. Processes running concurrently means there may be two or more processes run at the same time. But the actual concurrent…
Defence has named Anduril’s extra-large autonomous undersea vehicle “Ghost Shark” at an event on Sydney Harbour. During the naming ceremony, Anduril’s 2. 8 tonne “Dive-LD” autonomous sub
We perform Singular Value Decomposition (SVD) calculations on large datasets.
We modify the computation both by using fully precise and approximate methods, and by using both CPUs and GPUs.
In the end we compute an approximate SVD of 200GB of simulated data and using a mutli-GPU machine in 15-20 seconds.
Then we run this from a dataset stored in the cloud where we find that I/O is, predictably, a major bottleneck.
For many years I managed the British and Irish literature section of McNally Jackson (McNally Jackson divides lit into regions, thus you do not go to any one ‘Fiction’ section, but must first identify the nationality of the author before commencing your search). As a consequence it meant that I was attuned to British and Irish publishing in a way I might otherwise not need to be as an Australian in America. I could recommend good books by the small presses we were table to stock, like