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How to write non violent creative code(docs.google.com)
2 points by joelg 7y ago|1 comments
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Muse: A fluid workspace, for your best ideas(museapp.com)
2 points by joelg 7y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 7y ago
This class of argument is incredibly common (e.g. Pinboard criticizing the NYT piece on ad trackers for having ad trackers itself) and is incredibly counter-productive. It's the equivalent of smarmy relatives commenting "oh yeah?
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by joelg 7y ago
I don't think it's a standard term but you can extrapolate from https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Noosphere . Maybe "the sport of influencing opinion at mass scale"
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by joelg 8y ago
Cool, but I don't think I could get away with marketing a raspberry pi as a "quantum computer" because its bits change suddenly, discretely, and without intermediate steps. Like it or not, "quantum" has accumulated
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by joelg 8y ago
:-) You might be interested in the Underlay Project that Danny is starting: https://underlay.mit.edu/
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Notion brings its powerful note-taking app to Android(theverge.com)
1 points by joelg 8y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 9y ago
Try https://www.notion.so ! It combines docs, wikis, and todos; it's collaborative, and it's beautifully designed. It's perfect for building knowledge bases for teams. (Disclaimer / I worked there in the pas
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Paste: Making slides simple(fiftythree.com)
45 points by joelg 9y ago|8 comments
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There are now ads in Messenger(twitter.com)
4 points by joelg 9y ago|1 comments
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by joelg 9y ago
"There are no such things as bugs in code; the computer always executes the code as written." Loopholes and bugs are differences between intent and effect.
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Elementary Cellular Automata(joelgustafson.com)
40 points by joelg 9y ago|5 comments
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Ask HN: I feel like I've destroyed my attention span. How do I get it back?
83 points by joelg 9y ago|66 comments
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Elementary Cellular Automata(joelgustafson.com)
5 points by joelg 9y ago|0 comments
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Coda – It's a new day for docs(coda.io)
5 points by joelg 9y ago|2 comments
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by joelg 9y ago
This is actually exactly the topic of the 3Blue1Brown video on Hilbert Curves: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3s7h2MHQtxc Space-filling curves are a sort of optimal mapping strategy for compressing two dimensions down into
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by joelg 9y ago
One of the original Lambda the Ultimate papers was "Lambda: the Ultimate Opcode" that described the hardware design of a computer whose ISA was Lisp itself. The paper is full of strange alien ideas like not having an ALU (Lisp i
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Cathode: Vintage Terminal(secretgeometry.com)
2 points by joelg 9y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 9y ago
That's neat, but the pictured shipwreck is only in 6 feet of water. Lake Superior often has visibility of 100 feet or deeper! I remember canoeing on the lake with my dad and seeing the bottom of the lake crystal-clear, 70 feet down. S
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One-dimensional Cellular Automata(joelgustafson.com)
3 points by joelg 9y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 9y ago
Reminds me of the Aaronson Oracle: http://people.ischool.berkeley.edu/~nick/aaronson-oracle/ It's a simple algorithm to predict human-generated coin flips by exploiting our aversion to extremes.
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A ten-minute introduction to the Y Combinator(joelgustafson.com)
1 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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by joelg 10y ago
To be fair, it's probably true that the admit rate for MIT legacy applicants is also higher than the overall admit rate. It's just that the MIT admissions committee doesn't consider legacy status in admissions. It's hard
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by joelg 10y ago
To be fair, "algebra" means very different things to different people, so I don't think Grue3 meant to be quite as brash as it may have sounded.
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by joelg 10y ago
How are so many people bringing up Aaron Swartz? Media Lab !== MIT and this is probably entirely Joi's idea. And the MIT administration has changed significantly since 2013.
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Some Computer Conversation Is Changing Human Contact (1990)(nytimes.com)
2 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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One-dimensional Cellular Automata(joelgustafson.com)
1 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Ozymandias, an MIT Scheme environment for the browser(joelgustafson.com)
3 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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Disney Drops PewDiePie and After Reports of Anti-Semitic Videos(nytimes.com)
4 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments
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Show HN: Ozymandias, an MIT Scheme environment for the browser(github.com)
5 points by joelg 10y ago|0 comments

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