https://jaimeyap.com/blog/ Jaime Yap’s blog. Software, systems, and some occasional philosophical rambling. en-us https://jaimeyap.com/blog/i-choose-to-believe-in-free-will/ https://jaimeyap.com/blog/i-choose-to-believe-in-free-will/ Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:26:53 +0000 Bell’s theorem leaves one loophole — superdeterminism — and taking it costs you causation itself. A short follow-up on why the loophole is untestable, and unnecessary. superdeterminism determinism free will https://jaimeyap.com/blog/monkey-realism-and-wet-meat-robots/ https://jaimeyap.com/blog/monkey-realism-and-wet-meat-robots/ Sun, 27 Sep 2015 17:09:04 +0000 Sam Harris and Daniel Dennett disagree about free will, and most of the disagreement rests on determinism being a thing. A materialist argument for why quantum indeterminacy plus chaos means it isn’t. free will consciousness determinism sam harris daniel dennett quantum mechanics https://jaimeyap.com/blog/doing-the-expedient-thing/ https://jaimeyap.com/blog/doing-the-expedient-thing/ Wed, 13 Mar 2013 17:05:00 +0000 “Do the expedient thing first” is good advice that developers routinely misread as a license to write spaghetti — and in doing so they violate the very premise that justifies the shortcut. software engineering mvp https://jaimeyap.com/blog/adventures-in-browser-security/ https://jaimeyap.com/blog/adventures-in-browser-security/ Wed, 06 Mar 2013 17:47:00 +0000 Chrome’s multi-process architecture permeates its extension system, so Chrome extensions end up as distributed systems running inside a distributed system. A case study in how fast that gets complicated. chrome extensions complexity browsers security