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cgrinker / Lakoff.md
Last active September 22, 2021 04:52
Lakoff.md

With all the talk about what constitutes a chair lately I thought folks might be interested in a primer on the limits of classical categorization (or taxonomy if you like) and how Prototype Theory can help you avoid spiraling into a nihilistic hellhole where words have no meaning. Don't believe the hype: You know what a chair is.

This post is based primarily on the textbook Women, Fire and Dangerous Things by George Lakoff, which was assigned reading at Evergreen, former home of everyone's second least favorite Weinstein, Brett.

It's important to remember that categories are just tools, and the imperfect taxonomies we see in classical categorization work just fine until they don't. As an analogy if you are measuring something in physics and the object is moving slower than 1/10th the speed of light you don't need Special Relativity; Classical Mechanics will work just fine. It's the point when things don't fit cleanly into our categories t

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cgrinker / index.js
Created April 13, 2019 18:21
Export all files in a directory
const fs = require('fs');
module.exports = fs.readdirSync(__dirname )
.filter((e)=>{return e !== 'index.js'})
.map((e)=> {
return [e.split('.')[0], require(`./${e}`)]
})
.reduce((acc, val)=> {
acc[val[0]] = val[1];
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cgrinker / foo.cult
Created March 26, 2018 21:05
Some Stuffs
(define foo "fishtacos")
(print (fmt "var foo is set to {foo}"))
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cgrinker / gist:e08c429e432139b438191769b9cc9278
Last active June 3, 2017 06:05
Things I need to remember about c++
[When to Use Typename](https://stackoverflow.com/a/613132)
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cgrinker / foo.json
Created May 31, 2017 21:36
Cool Labels
{
"data": {
"repository": {
"id": "MDEwOlJlcG9zaXRvcnk0MTQ1OTk4NA==",
"labels": {
"edges": [
{
"node": {
"id": "MDU6TGFiZWwyNTMxMjc0MjM=",
"color": "1a1a00",
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cgrinker / rinker15.md
Last active April 26, 2017 19:56
# The 15% Corporate Rate

The 15% Corporate Rate

The purpose of this note is to expand on my post regarding the potential 15% Corporate tax rate floated by the Trump administration. Before I begin though, three caveats:

  1. I am not a tax professional. I also don't give good advice. Do not take this as tax advice

  2. I voted for Clinton. I caucused for Sanders, not that the Washington Caucus has ever affected the outcome of the election.

  3. These comments are in reference to the median household income of $51,939 and assumed to apply to Single Filing Individual and Married filing jointly. When discussing ammounts I'll use the notation

$(Single.Filer/Maried.Jointly) 
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cgrinker / pokemons.json
Created March 12, 2015 07:02
Some Pokemon
{
"Pokemon": [
{
"name": "1. Bulbasaur",
"img": {
"text": "",
"src": "http://static.giantbomb.com/uploads/scale_small/13/135472/1891758-001bulbasaur.png"
}
},
{
var HelloMessage = React.createClass({
render: function() {
return <div>Hello {this.props.name}</div>;
}
});
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cgrinker / gist:526acf430d13a16de425
Last active August 29, 2015 14:03
Massive Dangerzone Cheatsheet

Command Line Usage

Starting the Daemon

python main.py daemon

Cleaning, wraping, building

python main.py command clean

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