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by pjmorris 4y ago
I love this idea. Do you have any specific courses you can point to?
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The extreme money printing (look at the Fed's balance sheet before and after 2008 [0]) showed up as inflation in house prices, which have ballooned in relation to wage income. This was done for the explicit purpose of keeping the bigge
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Same here. I was toward the end of an associate's degree in programming and finding Knuth Vol 1 in the library stacks felt like discovering there was a whole continent of intellectual effort where I'd only seen a tiny neighborhood
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I would tell you a UDP joke but you probably won't get it.
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The Fed is housed in a building named for a former chair, Marriner Eccles. He said something similar to Stewarts' formulation: "It is utterly impossible, as this country has demonstrated again and again, for the rich to save as mu
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I was introduced to both Dennett and Lem through 'The Mind's I: Fantasies And Reflections On Self & Soul', an anthology edited by Hofstadter and Dennett that I chanced upon in the university library. I recognized Hofstadt
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The scenario you paint could easily describe most of human history and even describes some places in the world today. That you are here to write this suggests that a long chain of people found something worth living for even in such environ
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> Whales are an example of a resource that collapsed with little felt economic pain. I was reading GP's comment as not so much about whales as about the kind of thing that could happen to any flora or fauna, e.g. bees. Sooner or lat
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Tim Bray wrote a blog post series on building a full text search engine [0] [0] https://www.tbray.org/ongoing/When/200x/2003/07/30/OnSearchT...
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aka "Representation is the essence of programming" - Fred Brooks, Mythical Man Month
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Which is actually an argument for non-updatability.
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I read the New Testament 2-4 times per year (and the Old Testament every year or so) and I'm convinced I don't understand him. But I'm trying.
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Corporations have no fiduciary duty to produce a profit. Thinking that they do has been attributed to Milton Friedman's 1971 NY editorial [0], but some argue that the notion can't be pinned on him [1] It's more accurate to sa
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Thanks, I'd never seen the article and I will add it to my pool.
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At the risk of butchering an old joke, my attempt at the ELI5 small town version of a recession is the following story, but the rich tourist never shows up.... From [0]: It’s a slow day in some little town…….. The sun is hot….the streets ar
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Your comment shocked me. I checked and it looks like the Books & Books on Lincoln Road is gone but the web holds out hope that the main store in Coral Gables is still there. I hope that's true.
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> The solution is to build more, and the success of Vienna does not come from public intervention but from the added supply. Population densities (per sq k): Manhattan: 38000 Tokyo: 6158 Vienna: ~5000 I don't see how supply is Manha
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FTA: "By combining sentiment data with de-identified calendar and email metadata, we found that those with the best of both worlds had five fewer hours in their workweek span, five fewer collaboration hours, three more focus hours, and
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I've only read the first four, but fell in love with the writing. I've bought most of the rest of the series and 'Desolation Island' sits high on the to read next pile.
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I'm a desk jockey in my late 50's, and have fallen in with other 40- and 50-somethings who will do multi-day 8-12 mile hikes on the Appalachian Trail. I am, by far, the slowest of the group and depend heavily on their experience a
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by pjmorris 4y ago
Not GP, but 'IBM's 360 and Early 370 Systems', Pugh, Johnson, Palmer is solid.
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Another reason sentience matters for AGI is that the presence of sentience supports an AGI's ability to reason correctly about sentient being, e.g. like its creators. I suppose you could call it Artificial Empathy.
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Could you point to a link or such regarding 'managing electrolytes?' I took my desk-bound self on a four day Appalachian Trail hike with friends recently and burned out hard at the end of the second day (~2600 ft elevation gain, s
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Looks like they could even personalize their desks (note lamp unique to the guy in the foreground.) Reminds me of the 'bookBot' at NC State [0]. [0] https://www.lib.ncsu.edu/hunt-library/bookbot
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'toxic assets' may have been a misleading phrase here, but I think there is a component of federal Reserve assets you are overlooking that the poster rightly identifies, namely the amount of mortgage-backed securities currently on
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Ten years ago, somebody built a squirrel detector/watergun combo to protect their bird feeders without harming the squirrels, [0] [0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPgqfnKG_T4
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I can say that I know of communities (and am part of one) of Christians in the US who view the journey here and now as vital. If you're interested, consider the book 'We Make the Road by Walking', McLaren, or the BEMA Discipl
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Could one application of this technique be a non-nutritive cereal varnish?
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"If you must panic, panic early. Be scared when you can, not when you have to. " @nntaleb I was an independent consultant from a 2001 dot-bomb layoff to the beginning of 2008. I saw hard times coming and took a job with the most
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Congratulations on your progress. Guitarist Pat Metheny has suggested one approach to growth is to "Be the worst guy in every band you're in." Dave Hoover applied that to his own learning in software development and wrote it

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