jasoncrawford

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Exponential Growth Is the Baseline(rootsofprogress.org)
2 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|1 comments
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Who is Scott Alexander and what is he about?(jasoncrawford.org)
65 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|67 comments
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by jasoncrawford 6y ago
My understanding was that it was also about the long tail. With millions of titles in print, and a minimum selection of thousands to make a decent bookstore, you can't print a decent catalog and mail it. Before Amazon, the biggest mail
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by jasoncrawford 6y ago
I heard the same story (I joined in 2004). The version I heard was that Jeff was driving cross-country NY -> Seattle and was on the phone with his lawyer about incorporation papers, and the lawyer misheard “Cadabra” as “Cadaver”. That&#x
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Technological stagnation: Why I came around(rootsofprogress.org)
7 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|2 comments
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When life was literally full of crap(rootsofprogress.org)
43 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|8 comments
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by jasoncrawford 6y ago
Well, there's genetic engineering. We might want to create new proteins—enzymes for chemical reactions, for instance.
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by jasoncrawford 6y ago
(1) Simplistic because it isn't binary, solved vs. not solved. There's still improvement to do in the solution. And we won't really know if it's “solved” until we start trying to use these structures for practical purp
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by jasoncrawford 6y ago
Well, there are. Actually, misfolded proteins are implicated in some diseases. I'm not sure if every possible sequence of amino acids has a unique dominant folding. But ones that don't, wouldn't be nearly as useful biological
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What is protein folding? A brief explanation(rootsofprogress.org)
314 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|78 comments
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The 300-year journey to the Covid vaccine(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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A Review of Where Is My Flying Car?, By J. Storrs Hall(rootsofprogress.org)
4 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Technology and Its Side Effects(rootsofprogress.org)
2 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Some Elements of Industrial Literacy(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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The Rise and Fall of American Growth: A Summary(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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by jasoncrawford 6y ago
No, that is the exact opposite of what I'm suggesting! We should appreciate the progress we've made so far, and we should absolutely seek further progress.
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Industrial Literacy(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Progress: Fluke or Trend?(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Progress studies: many hard questions(worksinprogress.co)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Indignation in Response to the 1890 Census(rootsofprogress.org)
2 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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19th-Century Progress Studies(rootsofprogress.org)
2 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Why haven't we celebrated any major achievements lately?(rootsofprogress.org)
12 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Crowdfunding a Transcontinental Railroad in 1857(rootsofprogress.org)
34 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|10 comments
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How to analyze progress, stagnation, and low-hanging fruit(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Pasteur's Quadrant(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Shuttling between science and invention: What we can learn from the transistor(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Progress Studies for Young Scholars, an online high school summer program(progressstudies.school)
2 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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My current obsession: funding for research(rootsofprogress.org)
2 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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How can nonprofits gain the advantages of the for-profit model? Five ideas(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments
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Why anything that can be for-profit, should be(rootsofprogress.org)
1 points by jasoncrawford 6y ago|0 comments

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