DanielBMarkham

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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Nope. The mistake we made, one that we continue to make, is conflating human communication and social interaction with just moving bits around. We thought the net would be great because we have these bits other people might want. Let's
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Good times. Most of us hadn't gotten "high on our own supply" yet, and the field was wide open. You got the feeling of a thousand developers all running off in different directions, exploring the human and condition and all o
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I'm betting on #2. We only have our own planet to look at, but if we could somehow rank all of the species on the planet according to intelligence, just jumping a couple of levels up or down you enter a completely different world of ex
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
1. Whenever anyone in the organization has an interesting conversation about the product they take notes. They're just plaintext notes using notepad or whatever. 2. There are about 20 keywords. They are represented as ALL CAPS 3. When
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
We are very much on the same page. I wrote about it here https://danielbmarkham.com/outlines-of-a-supercompiler-in-f/ Our industry tends to over-complicate things and get in its own way of making the world a better pla
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Very cool. I created an analysis compiler that takes intent information and makes it part of the Enterprise DevSecOps pipeline in order to share realtime analysis with the entire organization. As I continued that work, I've also starte
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Relative Quantum Mechanics(en.wikipedia.org)
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The Rant [video](danielbmarkham.com)
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
People are the same. I believe the confusion here is thinking that the things we type and the things we say and act in person have the same meanings, both internally and socially. Long discussion goes here, but human language is a socially-
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Idea Assembly Part #473(danielbmarkham.com)
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
I know that this is about inserting data into training models, but the problem is generic. If our current definition of AI is something like "make an inference at such a scale that we are unable to manually reason about it", then
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
Learn to complain better. Seriously. There's a theory about learning and creating addictive games created by Jean Piaget [long story goes here]. Basically, if you don't feel the need for a change, the gut feeling that the universe
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by DanielBMarkham 4y ago
I grew up a bit before that. I'm fortunate to have seen society change from mostly-computer-free to folks swimming in tech. I've also written about half-a-dozen apps that somebody later took and made into a super cool startup. I d
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Towards a New Online Ethics(danielbmarkham.com)
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by DanielBMarkham 5y ago
I know it's good commenting style on HN to avoid quick one-liners, but TDD is one of those topics that we've kicked around forever. Perhaps a one-liner would help clarify things. TDD is a coding practice to help the programmer un
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by DanielBMarkham 5y ago
Fixed. Checked on FF on Pixel and Chrome on generic droid. Thanks.
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by DanielBMarkham 5y ago
Related question: I do hour-long, 4-10 party video conference calls about once a week. Each one might have between 10-200 viewers. This seems like a good area to get screwed, ie, pay a huge difference between a COTS black-box solution and j
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by DanielBMarkham 5y ago
I'll take a shot, assuming that you are asking how to manage a technology team, not how to understand technology at a wider scale. You need both tech leadership and end-to-end/shallow-deep abilities. But the tech side is a differe
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Masterclass: Cross-Checking(danielbmarkham.com)
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What's the Frequency, Kenneth? (F#)(danielbmarkham.com)
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by DanielBMarkham 5y ago
I find with a lot of more interesting topics, I have to come up with my own definition, then measure it against what various people say. Good art, at least to me, is art that has emotional impact over time. I can view a painting by a master
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Feedback Loops Are Bullshit(danielbmarkham.com)
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It's interesting. There _is_ a monoculture here, perhaps even an echo chamber, but it doesn't break down along the usual lines. I like good conversations, like most. Not arguments, but folks simply talking and asking questions abo
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by DanielBMarkham 5y ago
Great comment by @dang downstream in that thread. I missed it the first time around. Thanks @jackquesm! My little bit to add here, for what it's worth. (I've been here since the first few months or so). Good conversations don&#x27
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by DanielBMarkham 5y ago
> However, as Michael Gordin, professor of the history of science at Princeton University, notes early on in his lively and thought-provoking survey of multiple dodgy and perhaps-not-as-dodgy-as-you-thought scientific areas, falsificatio
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2021-10-08 Nerd Roundup [video](danielbmarkham.com)
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Yes we are still talking about Facebook. In regards to boiling the ocean, it is a hugely-complex system involving billions of people all interacting in millions of various dynamic subgroups using technology sometimes in ways even the design
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by DanielBMarkham 5y ago
As one wag said about a famous politician many years ago, "That guy's got a hundred ideas a day! But only one or two of them are worth a damn" So yes, I got some ideas. I hate going so far down in a thread. I will try to be a
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I don't think this ends by something or somebody you can point a finger at and say "that did it" Looking throughout history, these kinds of interlocking systemic crises always end in ways the participants did not expect and c
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Systemic problems get worse the more you pull on the levers that are normally used to correct things. That's why they're called systemic problems. Good, intelligent people in various symbiotic systems can act wisely and with good

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