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by bschne 5y ago
What got me started was probably this from "The Thought Emporium", and other videos on his channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J3FcbFqSoQY (obvious don't try this at home disclaimer). What I'm readi
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That reminds me (tangentially) of this piece I read a while back: https://jsomers.net/i-should-have-loved-biology/ I felt mostly neutral about biology back in high school (mostly due to the fact that I didn't find
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Looking into space pays off at home(spinoff.nasa.gov)
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I'm not sure it's entirely correct to refer to this instance by the term of "anthropic reasoning" too, but: The viruses we see are common because they reproduce, it's not that they reproduce because they have some d
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The Venture Capital Math Problem (2009)(avc.com)
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Prof. Dr. Style (2010)(contemporary-home-computing.org)
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Book Review: The Future of Fusion Energy(martin.kleppmann.com)
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With the GIT thing my usual stance is that there's no need to make this a hill to die on. Some people feel better about it, it's next to zero effort, so it's no big deal wether I personally think it's absolutely necessar
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From the op-ed in question: > And the descriptions and importance of ant societies existing as colonies is a component of Wilson’s work that should have been critiqued Is she... drawing a connection between the term "ant colony&quot
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Ah, now you could build that CPU up to a point where it could emulate a eurorack synthesizer. Which you could then use to emulate a CPU. Maybe I should finally read GEB...
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Tufte can be quite dogmatic and not all of his principles should be taken as gospel at all times (then again, nothing should, probably). But one thing that stood out to me is that some of his examples remind you not to get too smart — just
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The Shoot-the-Moon Strategy(lesswrong.com)
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If you want to get into reading some CS papers, I can also recommend these sources: 1. The unfortunately defunct blog "The Morning Paper" that provides a short write-up/explainer of each paper. https://blog.acolyer
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w/o paywall: https://archive.is/OyUfo
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TikTok Should Worry Economists(bloomberg.com)
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I wonder if, in some ways, this might also lead to more centralization. If your answer to "control == liability" is decentralized protocols, the answer is obviously no. But if these protocols either don't exist for your use
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Wouldn't things that are some combination of continuous variables be called a "space", and not a "spectrum", in the common usage of those terms? To use the color example in this post, we for instance talk about the
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While you could create infinite amounts of money, that's not very meaningful if it serves as an abstract means of exchange for goods which are ultimately somewhat constrained/scarce. Also, I am pretty sure it'd be a challenge
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Why Not?(whynot.net)
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Ameerpet, India’s unofficial IT training hub (2017)(economist.com)
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Stephen Diehl's Contact Page(stephendiehl.com)
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Vermeer Goals(jlord.us)
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> As you may know, Vermeers are so few and far between that it's entirely possible to see every one (~36) if you're able to travel the world. As someone has actually done and made a website about: https://jlord.us&#x
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> 4. Rich editing similar to Google Doc is very very complicated subject with lot of landmines They (Ink & Switch) are actually working on that too, see https://www.inkandswitch.com/peritext/
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Are gunshot-detecting microphones worth the money?(economist.com)
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Can you give some pointers to said literature? It's a topic I keep coming back to but haven't really read about much...
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For those wondering "but separation of concerns!" or "but code reuse!", the dev behind Tailwind wrote a post about his thinking around this, which IMO makes quite a lot of sense, a while back: https://adamwath
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State of European Tech 2021(stateofeuropeantech.com)
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There's something interesting about the way we as a species think about death. Say you're working on "immortality" or on "solving aging", and most people outside a small subset of the tech/SV crowd will th
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My recollection of the story is a bit spotty and I can't re-read in full right now, but: I think the point this is trying to make is that we accept death of old age as a natural fact and think it is odd to want to "solve" it,

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