LearningToWalk

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Not Wrong(slow-thoughts.com)
1 points by LearningToWalk 10mo ago|0 comments
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by LearningToWalk 2y ago
I enjoyed Sabine Hossenfelder’s book Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions. It’s quite clear however that the author is out to pick fights, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she deliberately exaggerates her posit
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by LearningToWalk 2y ago
great post, on a somewhat related note: https://slow-thoughts.com/aspects-of-fashion/
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Startup vs. Upstart(slow-thoughts.com)
1 points by LearningToWalk 2y ago|0 comments
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by LearningToWalk 2y ago
While Seinfeld is only figuratively about nothing, Gefter’s subject is quite literal. Her book revolves around the attempt to grasp the bizarre state that existed prior to the Big Bang—though even the word ‘prior’ is misleading, as time its
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Half Baked: Why Podcasts Need to End(slow-thoughts.com)
2 points by LearningToWalk 2y ago|1 comments
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by LearningToWalk 2y ago
You can work your way into an existing team and be adopted as a full-status co-founder—if you’re prepared to pay with sweat, and lots of it. Or you can buy your way into a startup by putting hard cash on the table. Either option is a viable
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by LearningToWalk 2y ago
He is Poland’s most popular science fiction author. His work has been adapted for both film and a Netflix original series. He is the recipient of the European Union Prize for Literature and an inductee of the European Science Fiction Societ
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by LearningToWalk 2y ago
It’s true that Elon Musk was generally held in high regard for being one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our times, but that was before he went weirdly political. Because if there’s one thing that can probably be said about ‘us’, it’s that
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Keeping a commonplace book as a way of reflecting on your practice(slow-thoughts.com)
2 points by LearningToWalk 2y ago|0 comments
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Love, Math and Witchcraft(slow-thoughts.com)
2 points by LearningToWalk 2y ago|0 comments
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by LearningToWalk 2y ago
I’m thinking of the generation of sad Swedish novelists and how they seem to have gotten things backward. Perhaps, at the end of the day, they’re not very representative of how “Swedes feel”, just like there might be a pinch of self-delusio
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
Just five days ago, two papers were published in the same issue of Nature. Both point to a coming paradigm shift where photons – and phonons – eventually take over the role of electrons in both data storage and computing.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
this is a big deal
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Phononic switching of magnetization by the ultrafast Barnett effect(nature.com)
2 points by LearningToWalk 3y ago|1 comments
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
if we’re honest, there’s been times where we’ve too wanted to take on someone else’s skills, wit or winning personality by means of osmosis.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
What we’re left with in a post-canonical world, is lists. Lists reflect their creator’s point of view in ways that make for great conversation starters.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
It would be smart if we could incentivise up-and-coming players to compete on ideas and execution, rather than on who’s got the bigger machine.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
There’s a lot to like about Hello Tomorrow. What attracts me the most has to do with its tonality.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
We can capture the big picture with broad brush strokes, but only by sacrificing the details, or we can abandon clarity and gain knowledge of exactly where things stand right ‘now’, but perhaps we can’t have both.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
Von Neumann was a jack of many trades; apart from inventing computers and making fundamental contributions to both quantum mechanics and AI, he was also involved in the Manhattan project
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
We’re all copycats. Trying too hard to be unique will most likely just cause stagnation.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
When doomers predict that AI will steal our jobs, we picture remote and futuristic scenarios. The real threat is mundane and it’s happening now, right before our noses.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
Steve Jobs famously said that “real artists ship”, but Ulf Lundell was perhaps even more profound in stating that “a cancelled concert is also a concert.”
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
out of control
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
I spend my days working with inventors. They have some traits in common, sure, but when I zoom out and try to see common denominators the picture blurs.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
One year after the highly publicized match between AlphaGo and Lee Sedol, which had taken place in South Korea, the triumphantly flag-waving DeepMind team was invited to a rematch in Wuzhen, China, where they were up against reigning world
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
Viktor Frankl saw nihilism as the bane of the postwar era. Some seventy years later Oliver Burkeman sees “ego-centricity bias” as the biggest problem of our times, and wants to help by pointing out that everything is pointless anyway.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
The future is already here – it’s just not very evenly distributed.
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by LearningToWalk 3y ago
There ought to be a word for the special type of recursiveness that goes on when someone’s warning becomes a perfect example of the very thing they’re trying to warn us about.

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