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Stories are more real than facts.
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The big problem is "How do I connect the money to the work". In large corporations, this becomes project -> plan -> work. The project gets a budget based on the plan, then you do the work based on the plan. The problem is th
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I like Timothy Snyder's thoughts on freedom. Freedom is not a natural state of being, it requires work. It turns out we've been living on the tragic and slippery slope of the commons; politicians and media figures are incentivized
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> But what does the author argue is a violation? This question seems to suggest that there is some external or higher referee for this peace treaty. There isn't. The real cop was inside you all along. Lots of things can be violation
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https://hackaday.com/2022/09/01/iron-nitrides-powerful-magne... Iron Nitrides
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Crystals! (Tangent, but fun) Lab Grown Quartz https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fcu8Lz5PHMw Alan Holden https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wp6bN9vN6e4
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It seems like their main complaint is with NASA management - though it did sound like it bled over onto engineering as well. That feels like a very natural human response - to paint with a wider brush than is needed.
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I just finished "The Undoing Project" - about Kahneman and Tversky. It covers quite a lot of territory, but the title is about mentally 'Undoing' disasters. Generally speaking, people pick a proximate human action or ina
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Bureaucracy is, among other things, Someone Else's Moat. As in, Title Search and Title Insurance could be treated as a Public Good and administered by a government entity (shock, horror!). But people are making a lot of money off of it
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> rigorous way to quantify quality. Most rigorous definitions of quality incorporate a target expectation that is impossible to exceed. You are removing errors, so best case, exponential improvement in quality adds nines - a la the sigmo
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> b) this is sloppy/inappropriate/dangerous language for this topic Yes, I'm describing Untrue Scotsmen. I'm hoping for a citation or something I can google. People are farting in my rational cleanroom and I don'
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Are these two limitations of rational thought described in the literature: 1. Rational thought takes place in an irrational environment. As much as we try to control for biases, fallacies, heuristics, effects, etc, our evaluation of a scena
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Since finishing Blindsight, I've been thinking about juggling (real physical juggling, not a metaphor). Specifically, I can teach someone to learn to juggle , but I can't teach a person to juggle directly. My thinking brain canno
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Interesting to me that xylitol is used for dental health (especially among some Asian populations), and dental health is associated with cardiovascular health, but the data suggests problems anyway.
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The enemy of my enemy ... is an asshole.
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> "They estimate that the island could support about 3,000 people—roughly the same number of inhabitants European explorers encountered when they arrived."
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> "Developed by IBM" I wonder how many people got fired.
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A really useful meta-question is: How much work is it to answer that question? A few examples: Junior devs asking about how to do something - sometimes the answer is clear, there's a standard or a decision has already been made - somet
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To me, Wave/Particle means that we have observations consistent with waves and observations consistent with particles. I don't think you really have to go beyond that - except that is not how things behave in the macro world. The
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> I will believe in Solid State batteries when iPhones come with them. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23681778
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I believe that we CAN make EVs work with the grid in a way that's good for both, but I increasingly worry about political fights about EVs and grid stability.
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Could you drop a link to the podcast episode if it's out?
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> you can't be sure if they are bugs or intentional behavior. I'm in the middle of a huge legacy codebase and I keep asking two questions: HOW was this working? WAS this working?
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Disclosure: I work for a Tesla competitor, not on self-driving. This is solely my own opinion. More and more, I feel that we need at least a couple more paradigm changes - specifically: - More understandable models - being able to get
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They don't do a great job of highlighting the final output, but they use both.
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Worse is better. Also, python is just the glue, the work happens in libraries.
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Write and call your congresscritter.
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Reminds me of Mise en Place or Knolling
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do geometric sequences care about the base?
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Reminds me of this: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40266464 https://eugeneyan.com/writing/simplicity/ “Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to a

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