Isamu

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by Isamu 4y ago
> Building a more compassionate society means reminding ourselves of luck, and of the gratitude and obligations it entails, against inevitable resistance. No, not at all. Moral obligations come from the idea of sharing your success with
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>The last decade was marked by dramatic evolution in China’s innovation capabilities and strategies, much of which was driven by the transition of Chinese Communist Party (CCP) and state leadership from Hu Jintao and Xi Jinping and the i
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Followed by “business is tied up in red tape! We need to deregulate to remain competitive!”
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To the point: >Despite the technical feasibility of the electrically-driven Haber–Bosch ammonia, the question still remains whether such revolution will take place. We reveal that its success relies on two factors: increased energy effic
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Avi Loeb at Harvard is the one advocating for interpreting this as an alien probe. He writes a very large number of very short papers, sort of idea papers, and he views himself as providing stimulating ideas. The object was interesting in t
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A classic resource. I have my own favorite sequences. Thanks Neil for this unexpected way of connecting to previous research!
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Don’t hesitate to change your work style to include more quick notes and simple diagrams scribbled down to keep your mental stack at a minimum. This helps a lot, it’s maybe unnatural at first to get used to but it helps to keep your mind mo
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>designed IMO for the low-attention-span trend Actually the original idea was about posting to the web from SMS, back in the days of limited message size
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Yeah people don’t remember but when the iPhone came out there was no support for native apps for a while and they were pushing web apps. And so developers were grumbling about this and of course Apple was evil because they didn’t allow nati
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There’s an intuition that recent products and inventions are more incremental and that historical innovations are more revolutionary- in the sense of lacking precedence. But this is an effect of the simplification of history, and when you r
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Come on, I didn’t downvote you but it is a lazy reaction to just repeat a tired label as if it explains something. All writing for the public tries to spice things up to engage the reader, some take it too far. We could talk all day about a
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Well over $500k in the US https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Income_in_the_United_States
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Actually being creative requires work, a lot of it, and the people who are very creative think the work is fun or have accepted it. Best to get into a regular groove of doing your creative work on a predictable schedule. The opposite of bei
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Pittsburgh, but don’t tell anybody
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When I was a kid somebody made a bunch of Christmas wreaths with punchcards. They were individually twisted in a cone shape and stapled together maybe 3 feet in diameter. And sprayed green. Kinda abstract which was a 70s style.
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>Like leeches, maggots have a long history in treating wounds. They are thought to have been used by the Mayan tribes of Central America and Aboriginal Australians. Their first recorded use by a doctor was during the American civil war.
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>But they can always quit You’d think, right? But part of the unrest leading to this point were two or three waves of breakouts of employees escaping lockdowns by jumping the fences and pushing past roadblocks set up by local authorities
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by Isamu 4y ago
It would be nice to see an article that bothered to explain the situation instead of an easy outrage piece. Engagement with China has gone very, very bad with Xi Jinping’s regime. He is absolutely the root of the problem and is doubling dow
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Background from https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Famine_in_India >Some prominent British citizens such as William Digby agitated for policy reforms and famine relief, but Lord Lytton, the governing British viceroy in
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The paper is on arxiv: “A Novel Actuation Strategy for an Agile Bio-inspired FWAV Performing a Morphing-coupled Wingbeat Pattern” https://arxiv.org/abs/2111.02118
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This is an example of state-of-the-art computer graphics at the time, using this method: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stromberg-Carlson >In the early 1960s, Stromberg-Carlson also produced the SC4020, a computer-
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by Isamu 4y ago
>literally insisting we do something we already did >I try to just own the fact that I didn't make my explanation clear and visible enough Exactly, I think this works the best. You don’t have to explain the reviewer’s mistake and
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I believe Hans Moravec also used compression to find classes of cellular automata behavior, with similar reasoning wrt entropy.
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by Isamu 4y ago
Thanks for this, it brings back memories. I did a similar search of rules way back when but much less systematic. HighLife and Day and Night were two rules that I found and shared with a private mailing list that Conway was on. He was very
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So more like one fix at a time? I agree with that. And that one fix is a big win if it addresses multiple problems. We should look for commonalities among problems.
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It would be interesting to estimate the millions of people in the world that are likely to be completely inaccessible and would never get a dollar. For example, North Korea. The government would insist on running the distribution itself, an
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Apple is known for having some of the lowest inventory in their “just in time” supply chains. Major Disruptions like this have an immediate impact.
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Lots of good responses here, so I’ll give an example that blew my mind in a negative way: Fortran IV code, thousands of lines, no functions, only GOTOs jumping everywhere randomly. Mostly one or two letter variables, lots of GOTOs that turn
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I had to look up the term link-boy: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Link-boy >The term derives from "link", a term for the cotton tow that formed the wick of the torch. Links are mentioned in William Shake
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Linus Pauling said the trick to having great ideas was having many ideas and then doing the work to prove most of them are terrible. I think it’s always a slog that most people aren’t willing to do.

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