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by gdubs 6y ago
Amazing. Literally yesterday I was wanting to hear Ray Charles sing “Michelle” by the Beatles and thought, neural nets should be able to do this some day. It’s interesting how the Holodeck from Star Trek suddenly seems — at least in parts —
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by gdubs 6y ago
I was reading Carl Sagan’s “Dragons of Eden” years ago and realized that while humans may have intellect, emotionally we’re very similar to other animals. Then I had the thought: when it comes to being slaughtered, what’s worse; having an i
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s really the extensive Apple frameworks that make a Mac or iOS app — the layer written in Swift that’s not using UIKit or AVFoundation, etc, is probably minimal in comparison. So, direct ports are unlikely to be made that much easier
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by gdubs 6y ago
Curious: did you complete all the exercises in the book? Not doubting you in any way, just wondering if that’s a possibility. I know I’ve gone through books without doing the work, while on others I have done the work — and it’s usually a p
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by gdubs 6y ago
I’m very in favor of remote work, but I think it remains unfair to compare this current situation with working in the office. The more extroverted types already prefer the social interactions of the office — but right now, most people can’t
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is just my random thoughts, but it would seem like Apple learned a lesson with the Mac Pro that they're not looking to repeat. The other advantage of creating high-end tools in-house is that it moves hardware, which remains a huge
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by gdubs 6y ago
Anecdotally — I have a lot of friends and colleagues in the music industry — I wouldn’t say Pro Tools is more prestigious. It seems pretty split on people’s preferences and old habits die hard, but a LOT of top composers and producers use L
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by gdubs 6y ago
In the book he uses the example of trying to get a stripped screw out of something. It’s a classic example of where a lot of people will kind of mindlessly make the problem worse. But when you approach it calmly, maybe it leads you to reali
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by gdubs 6y ago
Someone already mentioned “Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance”, so I’ll go with something I read last year, Carlo Rovelli’s, “Reality is Not What it Seems.” I don’t think I really ever grasped the concept of relativity fully until re
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by gdubs 6y ago
There’s another great book on Zen called “Zen Mind, Beginner’s Mind”. I think what Persig is getting at is “non-judgmental observation”. The ability to look at things with no ego involved, like an absolute beginner — so that you’re mind is
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by gdubs 6y ago
This is an awesome accomplishment. I remember seeing this work when it first came online years back — pretty mind-blowing, especially some of the transitions between [dimensions] in his flagship game.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Humans, basically — the majority of agriculture.
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by gdubs 6y ago
It’s really only recently coming into focus. Because if you look sector by sector it’s not clear (in terms of emissions). But when you look close it’s clear that a sector like chemical production is heavily weighted towards producing fertil
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by gdubs 6y ago
Oh my god, nostalgia — I complete forgot about the “V Chip”. [1] 1: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/V-chip
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by gdubs 6y ago
“In the beginner’s mind there are many possibilities, but in the expert’s there are few.”
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by gdubs 6y ago
Ah, another favorite. Computer Love is a brilliantly sweet song. It actually is a great encapsulation of their genius — somehow marrying human warmth with technology.
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by gdubs 6y ago
Legend. I saw Kraftwerk live years ago and it was one of the most overwhelming performances I’ve ever seen in my life. Beneath the bouncy, poppy hooks there was a massive darkness — the pairing of visuals with the music really drove that ho
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by gdubs 6y ago
Hmm, maybe this is stupid but I wonder if another advantage of wearing a mask is that it creates a kind of humid “microclimate” around your sinuses — combined with plenty of fluids, maybe a healthier scenario overall?
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by gdubs 7y ago
The scatterplot of the library data is fascinating — looks like an organism.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Technical trading is astrology — convince me otherwise.
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by gdubs 7y ago
It’s too bad college has become so transactional. Not judging — there’s a lot of wealth inequality in the world, and the vast majority of people don’t have the luxury. But there’s another aspect to college — the friendships, the discovery,
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by gdubs 7y ago
They’re also a really good opportunity to focus on career questions — where do you want to end up, what kind of projects will be best for getting you there, etc.
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by gdubs 7y ago
I posted a New York Times opinion-piece a little while back on a woman who created an online support group for people recovering. I found the article because I was looking for some info myself on how long to expect things to last. I was fee
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by gdubs 7y ago
This links to a quick morning show clip that doesn’t really say a whole lot; here’s the official press release from the Pentagon: https://www.defense.gov/Newsroom/Releases/Release/Article/21...
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by gdubs 7y ago
We keep in touch with our old nanny from a couple years back who became close with our family — just spoke to her and while they’re doing alright for now, it’s an uncertain and scary time for them. Same for friends and family in service and
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by gdubs 7y ago
He kinda goes into a blind rage though, which could still fit. Further complicating things — they drink wine relentlessly throughout.
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by gdubs 7y ago
I always wondered if Achilles was struggling with PTSD during The Iliad . He had seen so much fighting and bloodshed that he became depressed and sat in his tent, refusing to budge. Maybe the anger at Paris was just a front.
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by gdubs 7y ago
The thing is so wide that light needs to travel 140,000 years (!) to get from one side to the other. That’s just so hard to wrap my head around. I never even really considered that our own galaxy is 100,000 light years across. Think of all
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by gdubs 7y ago
I think there’s some funny context here given his ... fraught relationship with Steve Jobs, who was — famously — a fan of LSD.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Amazing. I got into film photography in college with Holga cameras — toys, essentially, which had the wonderful upside of using medium format film, as well as introducing all kinds of “happy accidents”. It was not a cheap hobby in terms of

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