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by effed3 2y ago
Just the beginning is demoralizing. There are many kinds of trust, and quite all are to be gained. True learning require interest and passion, and the teacher has to discover and suggest this in Students. this kind of reasoning seems by the
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by effed3 2y ago
> If software is about people, not code, who would you expect to manage it better - an engineer whose undergraduate and graduate training was in code, or a business MBA whose training was in people? Both. The strict separation between te
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by effed3 2y ago
don't forget Karl Kraus, was somewhere around, and has something to say....
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by effed3 2y ago
agree, forgotten genius AND lonely madman, there is no contradiction.. In mathematics, and science, these people are not uncommon.
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by effed3 2y ago
also: https://web.archive.org/web/20060511054748/https://www.pierg...
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by effed3 2y ago
the history of p101 from one of the creators: https://archive.org/details/programma101 . It's a fascinating reading (sorry, Italian language, hire google for help..), directly from the source, about those years whe
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by effed3 2y ago
In theory, at sunrise surfaces are cooler, less atmospheric convection, less dust in air, more red in light. At sunset surfaces are hotter, more atmosferic convection, more dust in air, less red in light. I think dust natural or not is the
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by effed3 2y ago
..but what if the Simulation is simulated? https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1375666/?ref_=nm_knf_t_1 unless some true evidence by some kind of experiment, seems pure metaphysics...
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by effed3 2y ago
..there is no man more in need of money than a rich man..
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by effed3 2y ago
cit "there is no time to do it right, but there is always time to do it again" little pessimistic, i know. Maybe the foundation of any real change to a better world is justice (climatic, energetic, economic, social..) at any scale
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by effed3 2y ago
Or maybe actually this is a measure of the fact we are still quite deaf (and blind) about what is, in wide sense, life, not event about intelligent one. Plate tectonics, water and dry land are really necessary? And some intelligent beings
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by effed3 2y ago
A trillion people to sell something to. genial, just imagine the delivery. Seriously, it sounds like -look at the sky, forget about down here-, propaganda to distract about all the real problems we have on the third planet.
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by effed3 2y ago
Not even wrong (imho) art is not spreading a message, in some art someone see a message, and having a message someone put it in artistic form. art is (beside all) about meaning, and is way wider than the realm of all possible messages or pr
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by effed3 2y ago
Creativity see things behind (apparent or not) randomness. And indeed: what is really -randomness-?
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by effed3 2y ago
After filling the word with AI, we all will discover the basic fact: we cannot eat AI. Ai dont's have a salary, Ai can't buy items and sustain a real economy. AI is not even Intelligent, or Artificial, it's our same stuff rep
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by effed3 2y ago
Somemone say success is 1/10 genius 9/10 hard work (and a big supply of pencil paper and erasers), to -create- something (software too) is understanding how to do it right, not only how to do it work, is know the 'rules'
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by effed3 2y ago
Hypothesis: postmodernism = decadence. When our ever growing set of tools (ideas, techs, powers, knowledges..) correspond to a ever shrinking set of highers things to apply on (goals, directions..), so without a true significance every too
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by effed3 2y ago
many advanced economies now have a lower grow than usual, even china, so it's not difficult to grow more with a war-economy, but this not reflect in real grow for the whole society, how long can go?
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by effed3 2y ago
I read the number, but statistics about safety sometimes seems to me a little as magician, (not only about Nuclear) EG: Chernoby disaster, after 30 years there is no agreements in the numbers of deaths. I remember some expert counting only
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by effed3 2y ago
"sustainable" is a big word in 2014, and even more today, but the idea of having some fission (and fossil) minority energy source as bootstrap and reserve is not total wrong (imho)... but: Australia and Canada have big uranium res
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by effed3 3y ago
Science is about facts, evidences and models, theory. If someone belive in something without critical thinking, was missing one key fact that made science successfull.. and can become propaganda, or even worse, so often the need of so many
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by effed3 3y ago
IN Science talking about -reality- is, less or more, same as talking about a deity or truth or aeternity or infinite.. not very clear, what is -reality-? Scientific theory are first about -facts-, measures, events, and they are not -true&#x
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by effed3 3y ago
Other than Fortran, there are billion lines of code or more, of obsolete and extinct systems and languages, so many man-year of work and research, only a minimal part being preserved, for historical reason, and some being rewrited again and
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by effed3 3y ago
Interesting concepts, so in the -unknow-, in the -improbable- are hidden the knowledges of tomorrow?.. maybe. And sometimes seems to me that are the book that chose the reader, and remain closed till the right moment.. “It is our knowledge
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by effed3 3y ago
Quite right!... "Engrish"? :) like it.. so babel tower was not built in vain.
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by effed3 3y ago
English not my home/mother/original language :)
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by effed3 3y ago
This apply not only the mall, even in a museum, disco, party, crowds, time perception will be altered, i suspet the key is in the moltitude moving around the person, this can be distracting, dimming the simple original task we have entering
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by effed3 3y ago
Maybe underestimated: looks more like 50 years than 500, is closer. Apart title, the ideas behind are right, many feels something is going bad, but luddism is a wrong choice, tech actually is necessary to do things better..
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by effed3 3y ago
probably, (this) AI rust things, mainly brains.
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by effed3 3y ago
Probably the -value- of F.Herbert Dune is high enough to survive a film transposition, givin an higher-than-mean Director (in theory), and in pratice all those read and love Herbert work will see his message and meanings behind a movie.. L

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