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by lordleft 4y ago
Beautiful & compelling presentation
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by lordleft 5y ago
Does anyone else always think of Socrates' Daemon?
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by lordleft 5y ago
An amazing blog that has made a lot of math more accessible to me.
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by lordleft 5y ago
I sympathize but this is still better than direct war. The alternative is what -- allow Putin to run roughshod over Ukraine and expand his capacity to imperil our security?
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by lordleft 5y ago
The irony is if we want to make war between NATO and Russia unlikely, the non-military responses to Russia need to be dramatic. I'm concerned NATO nations will bungle this. Seize oligarchic holdings. Shutdown Nord Stream 2. Make Russia
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by lordleft 5y ago
Totally agree with this. If you're going to block yt ads, at least acknowledge that you're expecting content for free. Maybe you can find a way to ethically justify that for yourself (you buy merch from the company, etc), but own
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Why James Baldwin Loved Henry James(christopherthomas.substack.com)
1 points by lordleft 5y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 5y ago
Amen. Even the best coder can write trainwrecks if given sufficiently little time and subject to enough pressure.
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by lordleft 5y ago
I’ve been using this for years for the 5e game I run. It’s surreal seeing it here but it’s a great tool
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by lordleft 5y ago
Mathematics is such a creative discipline, and so applicable to so many scenarios, but the way math is taught really obfuscates that. If I have motivation or context for why I'm learning something, I'm dramatically more likely to
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by lordleft 5y ago
I also went to an ivy and echo this comment. The math classes were geared towards people who had considerable expertise / interest in mathematics to begin with, which didn't help someone like me who didn't have that expertise
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by lordleft 5y ago
Listen, I love the baroque and rococo but Bauhaus is gorgeous. It's far better than 90% of the offerings of brutalism.
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by lordleft 5y ago
I'm really surprised by the pushback this sentiment and the related idea of Chesterton's Fence gets from a lot of folks at HN. It seems eminently sensible to me. I understand how some people might think it would promote inertia, t
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by lordleft 5y ago
The more I work with JSON, the more I crave some kind of dedicated json editor to easily visualize and manipulate json objects, and to serialize / deserialize strings. This is especially the case with truly massive JSON objects with mu
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by lordleft 5y ago
It's a good reason if you're an autocrat threatened by pro-democracy movements and polities.
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by lordleft 5y ago
Naming one of the most inconsistent technologies I've ever used on the festering tooth of a dead king seems about right
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by lordleft 5y ago
I work at AT&T Labs, one of Bell's heritor institutions, and we still do work that intersects with switches & telephony hardware
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A Meditation on Huge Books(christopherthomas.substack.com)
1 points by lordleft 5y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 5y ago
I'm a big Morrowind fan, and Tamriel Rebuilt is an impressive undertaking, but a part has always wondered -- where are they getting all this content from? Is there some design bible from which they are filling in the gaps? Are the ques
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Surprising Things I learned in 2021(christopherthomas.substack.com)
2 points by lordleft 5y ago|0 comments
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by lordleft 5y ago
Right? A little but very useful thing
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by lordleft 5y ago
Everyone knows WW0 was when the Sea Peoples ravished Bronze Age societies
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by lordleft 5y ago
I'm Indian and I had the exact same reaction. It's like naming your company Dukka. Or maybe it's more like the Sanskrit Maya, which I suppose is not a completely negative term (but can be in certain Indian philosophical-theol
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by lordleft 5y ago
I strongly suspect I'll want like, the 3 or 5th iteration of this device
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by lordleft 5y ago
I feel like I've read this exact headline like 5 times over the last 7 years
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Why philosophers should care about computational complexity (2011)(arxiv.org)
171 points by lordleft 5y ago|143 comments
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by lordleft 5y ago
> Leibniz’s central argument was that all human thoughts, no matter how complex, are combinations of basic and fundamental concepts, in much the same way that sentences are combinations of words, and words combinations of letters. He bel
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by lordleft 5y ago
I became a goon in 2008. For better or for worse, it shaped my life on the internet. This is a jarring headline to see, and I hope he rest in peace, and that anyone he harmed also finds peace.
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by lordleft 5y ago
I think it's gorgeous.
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Spinoza's Ethics 2.0 – A new way to read Spinoza(ethics.spinozism.org)
2 points by lordleft 5y ago|0 comments

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