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Acceptance test is validation: are we building the _right_ thing? #DjangoCon 🐂
"I love attaching my name to little projects" #DjangoCon 🐂
"I would like to see software humanized. I honestly think we're in danger of a world where humans are software-ized" @EvilDMP #DjangoCon 🐂
(Also apologies for Americanizing the spelling)
"Just write a JIRA [ticket]. It's fine!" --Pat
"We are very bad at noticing how our imagination informs and directs our thinking." @EvilDMP #DjangoCon 🐂
@FlipperPA @EvilDMP "He was completely horrified when people started taking Eliza seriously. Even more horrified when people started suggesting that it might be used as a therapeutic tool. Again you heard some of this earlier from @FlipperPA" #DjangoCon 🐂
Back-reference to @FlipperPA's talk mentioning Eliza @EvilDMP
Joseph Feissenbaum created it as an argument against the idea the symbolic processing "could amount to a genuine intelligence"
"If you can read the subtitle, it's 'the journal for progressive computing,' not 'the magazine of soon to be obsolete shit you can buy'" @EvilDMP #DjangoCon 🐂
"And there's bad paleoart. And there's also bad art of this kind. You know, technically, imaginatively, scientifically, artistically, and even morally bad... it was an act of the imagination and it's not neutral and it's not passive... In 40 years time, people will be looking back or we'll be looking back and thinking how is it possible that we failed to notice what was right in front of us?" @EvilDMP #DjangoCon 🐂