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I have such nostalgia for that particular moment in time, and for me it was the Renderman Companion and Advanced Animation and Rendering Techniques. The web was still small, and the information density contained in Borders Books or Barnes &
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There's another crucial aspect to this which is that most orchards you see are absolute monocultures. There's an enormous value in planting a diversity of companion crops and staggering species in orchards, and you see a lot les
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We have a few acres of fruit trees and the truth is, it's possible to grow sustainably without chemicals, but most people don't do it because it's a lot of work. You need to pay extra attention to pruning to allow sunlight to
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This is basically intervening in the market though, by papering-over negative externalities. A true market efficiency scenario would mean that more sustainable upstarts have their shot. But if we keep giving established industries a pass, t
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A lot of these comments feel similar to how people reacted to early personal computers. With a kind of superiority around how 'serious' tasks were done on mainframes, and these 'toys' would never amount to anything. I th
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It's funny because while it may be hard for us humans to visualize extra spatial dimensions, many can easily reckon with the concept of a spreadsheet. If you think deeply about diffusion art models, you can start to grok extra dimensio
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One shower thought I've had is, what if something like an LLM could be conscious for the blink of an eye that it's processing information. Bare with me... I've never really heard a satisfying explanation for what human consci
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Exploring Simon’s Algorithm with Daniel Simon(aws.amazon.com)
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There's a kind of busywork in note-taking, list-making, organizing, that can often feel like you're getting something done, but is a kind of procrastination. Then, there's real value to taking notes that for me is most pronou
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Record-setting U.S. heat dome places 170M under alerts(axios.com)
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Sadly I've been in many organizations that have a kind of "vibes for me, data for thee" approach to things. Meaning, "data drives decisions" is the official philosophy ... until it isn't. It takes a certain amo
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There's a lot of different practices, though in a lot of schools that have practiced meditation for centuries, "Mindfulness" style meditation – what's largely practiced in the west – is just one aspect. The Dalai Lama, f
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Right, came here to ask if anyone had read the paper and looked at the correlation / causation methodology. Because another obvious hypothesis is that social media causes some kind of fight-or-flight response in people that triggers in
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Dang: Black bar please. Sad news. Like many I'm sure, one of my first magical experiences with computers was printing a color gradient on a Laserjet printer. Hard to overstate what an influence Adobe's products have had not just o
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Forgive me for making a comment that's very much not the point of the piece but I find Steve Jobs lack of nose in that illustration really unsettling. More to the point, I remember when our computer lab got an entire room of iMacs and
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Ah, yes — real programmers only work at the assembly level. Forget all this "rising levels of abstraction" nonsense.
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I mean, I make an earnest call for us to put politics aside and the response is a yahoo news story about AOC? C'mon, this is what I'm saying – let's make an honest attempt to focus on solutions we can agree on. Politicians ar
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Stewart Brand in his book "Whole Earth Discipline" — a book I've mentioned countless times here — talks about his role in the early environmentalist movement, and from that vantage point discusses how good intentions lead to
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Do yourself a favor and get lost on this website. There's so much great material — for years I've been ending up there after looking for implementation ideas on things like metaballs and isosurfaces, to fractal noise. I love the b
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Babylon 5 sat at a golden age of the Amiga/VideoToaster/Lightwave era of TV science fiction show. At the time it was very inspiring to see how visual effects companies were using non-SGI hardware to tell stories.
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"Vibes for me, data for thee". People lean heavily on anecdotes when it comes to worker productivity. But actual data is much more nuanced on the matter. People seem to have completely forgotten how worker productivity actually we
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You're missing an obvious real estate incentive: where people live. Often in very nice school districts, which they don't want to see depreciate in value due to an outflow of people to different communities. People moving into rus
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I don't think it's an 'of course' to everyone. But my larger point is that there's a benefit to keeping things somewhat simple to the point where you can identify what's growing, starting with slow incremental
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"Blackberries, for example, are widely eaten as a wild food in Britain, while the name Ivy holds a special place for some." Ok, gotta stop you right there, lol. Blackberries, particularly Himalayan Blackberries, in the PNW are a
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This was one of the first games to truly capture my imagination. Zelda was the very first, but I was more an observer, watching my older brother play. Super Mario Bros 3 was one I was capable of playing all the way through, together with my
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Arcade Manual Archive(archive.org)
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First, to anyone reading who has family or connections to the area – this is just awful, and there's really no words to offer that can change that. This summer has been absolute madness in terms of extreme weather. El Niño, combined wi
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Well, instead of focusing on frequency of hurricanes and cyclones we could look at intensity, which has markedly gone up since the 1990s: https://www.epa.gov/climate-indicators/climate-change-indica...
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As someone who lives in the PNW and has to be aware of fire, I've recommended (and implemented) a lot of the advice outlined here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/built-to-burn/
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It's been wild to see the amount of news stories that came out this summer all at the same time – this enormous back-to-office push that's not at all some kind of commercial real-estate PR campaign. Anyway, one thing that gets thr

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