maegul

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by maegul 3y ago
Yep, Ancient Greek has great particle game that English just can’t translate at all. And as you say, they’re really like gesture words, which make so much sense, especially as text is now read/written without any human speaking behavio
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by maegul 3y ago
For me this moment was when computers were no longer “magical” to me and that I found comments to this effect (even from those that know more than I and were more senior) odd and kinda culturally cultish.
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by maegul 3y ago
So Google did a Xerox PARC or an IBM PC (to a lesser extent)? It’s curious how predictable it is that a major player is going to fall into this trap at any point in time. There’s probably some way you could measure its likelihood if you wer
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by maegul 4y ago
I’d even go so far as to say that human civilisation struggles with the longevity of humans. We’re rather short lived compared to the impacts our actions can have, as a technologically enabled and socially civilised species. Life really is
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by maegul 4y ago
I’m with you on this. I suspect with hindsight the Twitter story will have “self importance” and traditional cultural factors like journalism and political institutional buy-in as major factors behind its apparent significance. Its friendli
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by maegul 4y ago
Gave it a shot. I’m sure it’s competitive with the alternatives on iOS. But, I found it pretty disappointing and even embarrassing. IMO, too much of the shallowness of the streaming approach to music apps (which I found insultingly dumb TBH
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by maegul 4y ago
I’ve wondered about this, and can’t help but feel that what’s missing are good solid foundations from which webdev and general programming skills could build out everything we’d need to migrate from latex. I would bet the community would mo
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by maegul 4y ago
Another factor I’ve wondered in both myself and others: those who choose to be grad students often do so because of irrational unresolved issues or dissatisfactions with life. Grad work doesn’t help with these issues at all, only adds more
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by maegul 4y ago
My simple take on this is that summaries are for consumption or extraction in pursuit of a task essentially extraneous to the source material. Reading the original (properly) is for participating in the discourse, which entails the potentia
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by maegul 4y ago
Similarly with ethics/activism driven NGOs (eg Greenpeace and the like), at least last time I was in touch with that part of the world. There was a knowing extraction of youthful “enthusiasm to do good”. It became a common warning pas
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by maegul 4y ago
All absolute true I think. My only addition is that in my educational experience, a number of times someone would came in to teach with an entirely practical and non-academic background, and it was always a clear and tangible breath of fres
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by maegul 4y ago
Yea, interesting! If there's something to this analogy, I feel like it'd be worth being more commonly known. For me, as a Millennial/Xennial, I sure as hell criticised the elders close to me for their smoking and their taking
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by maegul 4y ago
I've recently spent some time moving around the rural areas around my city and been really bothered by just how flat agriculture has made so much of the land. Sure there are preserved parks and even areas with some form of forest ming
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by maegul 4y ago
It’s curious the talk of low light suburbs. Not sure how I feel about them. My instinct is that they’re an anti pattern because of the safety concerns and I’m sure many would have the same thought, but I’m sure there’s more nuance to them
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by maegul 4y ago
Sounds like some form of collective action could go a long way here to the point of being imperative. Get like minded parents and teachers and administrators together on this and work together to preview and encourage alternatives. Tangenti
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by maegul 4y ago
Curious, haven’t really thought about this before. Seems like your observation is a strong sign that schooling and academia are run by people who’ve only worked in schooling and academia, which isn’t news obviously, but made more salient b
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by maegul 4y ago
For me this is an argument in support of higher density living and against suburban sprawl. If the distance between the urban artificial environment and an undeveloped “natural” environment beyond the city can be minimised, then there’ll be
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by maegul 4y ago
Yep, me too. The recipe I was drinking had a high amount of potassium in it. There isn’t a strict guideline on how much potassium you should consume, so there tends to be plenty of it in soylent or similar drinks/powders (I’m not sure
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by maegul 4y ago
Yea, this. The same point or a similar critique can be made a few ways, I’d say. Running with the brain/neuron analogy, there’s a measurement problem (as there is in real neuroscience!). The synaptic activity of the “meta-mind” has bee
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by maegul 4y ago
Huh … Thanks for the praise, but I’m way too disorganised for that and hardly have thoughts worth more than a paragraph like above!
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by maegul 4y ago
Beyond the adaptation to AI angle on this, the idea is compelling in its own right I'd say. Anyone who's gone on to mark/grade or write assessments would probably attest to the perspective it provides. Whatever your opinion o
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by maegul 4y ago
Not to detract from your feeling, but I suspect it’s more universal than you might think, and probably stands as a significant critique of mainstream conceptions of “work” where human problem solving is treated as a machine or resource rath
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by maegul 4y ago
Agree. Also, from what I've gathered, she's relatively junior, in that she only recently completed her PhD and is a postdoc now (thus, I suspect, the "Dr" in the handle?). Which is a good thing! You're getting th
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by maegul 4y ago
All of the AI-weirdness aside, it’s probably not surprising that Dates and Times are still tripping up our software.
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by maegul 4y ago
Yep, agreed. Kinda alluded to in my "random walk" metaphor. On the "Einsteins", you could go further and ask what happens to the ones that just lucked out and couldn't get the patent job? What if they needed to ea
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by maegul 4y ago
I’d add that there’s also somewhat of a random evolutionary walk in the way an individual’s intrinsic qualities end up aligning (or not) with the skills, values, temperaments and opportunities of their environment. Even how they match the n
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by maegul 4y ago
In my time hanging out on Mastodon, I feel like I’m seeing this play out. Many people who openly identify as “tech” people asking for new features, more or less complaining about the resistance to such new features and arguing that the cult
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by maegul 4y ago
What's been interesting me with this is how much novelty there is in observing a new pandemic virus hit humanity (or any species for that matter) with the attention and accuracy of modern medicine and population statistics. It could ju
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by maegul 4y ago
For me, just with the color slider, there was nearly always some sort of illusory motion. Transparent perception of the actual motion of the pigeons was either impossible or required precise conditions, which really affirms the power of th
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by maegul 4y ago
It certainly seems that way. Guido wasn’t interested in solving it and it was probably one of the things, like a gradual typing system which he was interested in, that he should have made a core issue because of its centrality. Curiously, I

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