Mandelmus

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by Mandelmus 5y ago
It was directed at the all-male agents, no?
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
Agreed, I also found that rather confusing.
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
I’m doing the same this year. AoC in Julia and Pluto.
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
> people who like to see things happen immediately Our modern culture and lifestyle cultivates a desire for instant gratification in ways that make rigorous study of math and theory incredibly hard for most people who don't have the
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
I could well imagine those lines in a dystopian 80s scifi novel right next to Neil Postman’s “Amusing Ourselves to Death” on the shelf.
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
I think attention spans have shortened (which is arguably devastating for maths), and the materials considered "state of the art in modern pedagogy" are the ones that take that into account in ways that a book from 1987 does not.
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
Why did she consent to a relationship after having been raped and traumatised by him before?
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
Could you recommend some notable history books related to computer science that don't fall into the Great Man history genre?
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
Love their software but Designer still (with 1.10) takes almost 30 seconds to launch on my maxed out MacBook Pro 16”.
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Ezra Klein Interviews L.M. Sacasas on the Questions Concerning Technology(nytimes.com)
2 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|0 comments
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
> you spend money to convenience yourself and save time/energy because you value your time/energy at that higher rate of income. Agreed, but the way I put it is that the higher consumption is done to compensate for the stresses
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
Blender was extremely hostile to UI change suggestions as well until only recently when they changed things drastically with the insanely successful Blender 2.8 project. From then on donations (including corporate sponsors) grew massively
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
I’d also much prefer to work in such a team than one where people keep their cameras off.
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
> There should be no requirement to have the camera on, it really adds very little over voice alone I couldn’t disagree more. You can see if people are agreeing, disagreeing, confused by something someone said, even if they won’t say it
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
There are so many shops in Berlin where I constantly wonder how the hell they make enough money to even afford the rent. I suspect that the rapidly rising real estate prices in Berlin will make most of them infeasible soon, but so far Berli
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
AR will become a game changer once the hardware is there, i.e. glasses than can be worn comfortably and anywhere. Everything before that is just practice for the software and UI.
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
I don't think I'm merely being a luddite or overly conservative when I say that the exponential rise of parasocial entertainment worries me greatly. There's a rising loneliness epidemic in much of the developed world, and ent
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
I'm not trying to avoid that recognition at all! But somebody put those systemic objectives and incentive structures into place. The fact that societies like the ones described in the podcast have such different incentive structures is
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
I did not mean to come across as unempathetic, on the contrary! My view is that only if you admit some level of design in our inhumane system can you even expect that we can change anything about it. If it were all automatic, doesn't t
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
That escalated quickly. From disagreeing with my comment to lamenting I exist is a bit of an extreme jump, wouldn't you say?
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
> Animation: Maya and Blender are comparable I’m a VFX artist who loves Blender but unfortunately they’re not even close when it comes to animation, even less so rigging (the process of making a 3D mesh animatable). Maya allows for much
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
It's surprising especially since Tim Cook said: > "We believe that we need to own and control the primary technologies behind the products we make, and participate only in markets where we can make a significant contribution.&q
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
> thoughtful in a similar way to Lex Fridman I don't think that's a great plug tbh.
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Mocrosoft’s CausalCity simulation for causal inference in ML(microsoft.com)
6 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|0 comments
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
It's a collective design that's been arrived at iteratively over many generations but it's still designed insofar that it's composed of countless consciously created and refined incentive structures, cultural norms, lega
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
>I don't want things modern and clean. Please stop making things modern and clean. I want things that are human and have some kind of soul left in them instead of being antiseptically scoured of anything resembling personality. It s
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Apple employees are going public about workplace issues(theverge.com)
27 points by Mandelmus 5y ago|14 comments
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
> “Isometric perspective is interesting, because nothing recedes to a vanishing point,” Rudnick says, “and therefore it also eliminates the variable of time.” He points out that this type of design is particularly popular with fintech an
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
This Apple Music “spatial audio” just means Dolby Atmos. It is not the same gyroscope-based spatial audio that they use on Apple TV.
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by Mandelmus 5y ago
I think there are huge differences between being a carpenter and being an assembly-line worker though.

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