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by forkandwait 8y ago
The real question is why would anyone even try to have a conversation on twitter?
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Steps to an Ecology of Mind by Gregory Bateson. Almost convinced my wife and me to get dolphin tattoos ; read the book and you will understand. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Steps_to_an_Ecology_of_Mind
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Elon Musk isn't an expert on urban design, so why should we care that he has a simplistic quip about a really hard problem?
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Well in my experience they are a waste of time, but that's just me.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Depending on your background, you probably don't have enough information to pick a long-term goal anyway. I am afraid that sounds curmudgeonly, but I have also seen students shoot themselves in the foot because they decided they didn&#
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by forkandwait 8y ago
I always got more from working problems on my own with an occasional consult from peers or a teacher. A danger is that you think your group sessions substitute for working problems.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Well, we disagree. Plus, taking on some crazy problem without background saps motivation as well.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
I suggest you get the syllabi from a state college, and then follow that. "work through" the books : copy each page of exposition by hand, try to do the examples and proofs before looking, do all or most of the problems with answe
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Personally, I think this is bad advice, because without an undergrad+ background, the projects above will either be impossibly frustrating or you will make up some crackpot bullshit. Plus, the undergraduate curriculum is its own reward.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
What I especially like is that he knew that public life should be full of art and personality, not just pasty faced bureaucrats who try to avoid attention.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
My (poorly articulated) point is that all the non-class markers we use to oppress people - whether skin color, religion, accent, clothing style, music preferences, etc - just disguise class oppression. In the USA, I think we emphasize color
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Poverty is a class issue, not a race issue. Sometimes they are correlated (US cities, all of the US southeast), sometimes not (west Virginia, rural everywhere EXCEPT the southeast, everything Irish - - you can't get whiter than Irish)
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by forkandwait 8y ago
It's crazy to say, but no one with a college degree takes the current president at all seriously.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
A lot of Chinese organizations make stuff and sell that.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
A lot of us don't really think intellectual property is actually property and thar the notion of IP is, well, bullshit.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
I think you picked the only nice example of powershell in the entire universe (yuck!). Also -- guess which script is shorter....
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by forkandwait 8y ago
> The big fundamental structures describing nature its working are more or less known. It's about details nowadays and it takes more time and effort to get the details right. This (bullshit) is what they thought in the 1890s,and is
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Am I the only one who considers companies like Internet pollution and hopes they all die?
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by forkandwait 8y ago
> Of course, the reason we invest so much in mathematics is because it is somewhat mysteriously effective for describing the observed world. Any particular "arbitrary formalized language of symbols" is validated by experiment
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by forkandwait 8y ago
I would like something with simple functionality, where I can just specify the table name, the category column, and the data column and get a new table transposed ibto columns. I would be happy to do the aggregation outside the pivot proces
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Thanks for a perfect example of a strawman fallacy. Nobody is arguing completely independent, just free of masters
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Is there a roguelike engine?
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by forkandwait 8y ago
The act of clicking on links and adding bookmarks, well, just doesn't feel the same as interacting with a physical book. I think the 3 dimensionality of the book adds intuition, cues, and a coherence that are lacking in the free for al
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by forkandwait 8y ago
I think for reading fiction, ereaders are great, bascially because you read straight through and illustrations/ equations are not important. I find for technical books, paper is far superior. The layout is much better for graphics&#x2
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by forkandwait 8y ago
In the pnw it's because of a remarkable storm free October. The trees are progressing the same as always, but the leaves aren't getting knocked off. I think.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
I think it's just the human condition.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
The same can be said of private industry. True in my experience.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
Nice, places, but I don't think they count as "affordable" by most standards.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
I think the turn sequence in Diplomacy is actually the genius of it, and I am surprised it isn't incorporated into more boardgames.
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by forkandwait 8y ago
They are tech, just not silicon valley tech. More engineers per capita in Michigan etc.,etc.

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