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by streamofdigits 5y ago
is the focus on wrapping existing algorithms (like statsmodels) or are you developing at that level as well?
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
The curious thing about the past, present and future of AR... if there was low hanging fruit (in terms of irresistible applications) that people must absolutely have, love at first "sight" experiences, wouldn't it have happen
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
If julia could become a native vector/gpu programming language that is usable by mere mortals this could be a niche that might eventually grow into mainstream. But I can't help but notice that e.g. nvidia's github mentions on
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
you may not like it now, but a future you will be craving it https://www.nia.nih.gov/health/smell-and-taste
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
There should be a theorem that says a society will either drift into trustless oppressive state that imposes a functioning order by force or evolves a dense graph of trust relations where changes improving collective welfare propagate witho
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I think anybody developing open source / collaborative commons software that targets non-technical users could learn some tricks from streetcomplete. It has managed to lower barriers to entry and seems to get many people engaged in wha
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
You could call this literate management :-). Not sure how this works for some purposes though, do audit / risk people make important decisions on docs they have just read? The ritualistic sounding silence of the first half of the meeti
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
a man's got to do what a man's got to do. talk up his book. cheerlead the workforce towards the next big thing etc. the fact is an idiotic strand of rna has defeated us all. our collective intelligence crumbled. toilet papers and
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
its all linked. you can't just gift stuff without destroying much of economic organization and ownership concepts etc. you can't get local production going without owning the problem of corrupt local elites (which most likely you
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
I've come to appreciate the enduring importance of "wisdom traditions" after (at some random time) seeking the etymology of Ubuntu (the operating system). The concept of humans acquiring their humanity through others resonate
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Goodhart's law
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
its the defining issue of our times and there is some of nuance: First, there is room (imho) for conventional growth in many parts of the world. Its insane that people go starving, without shelter or water while others throw away truckloads
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
We have gotten to the point where the simple (and arguably essential) task of individuals learning about what the economy is producing is degenerating into a societal gangrene. No, this is not all the handywork of Zuck and the "don&#x2
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
What is it with the British Isles and their "job specialization" in arbitraging / milking the economy of continental Europe? From the financial rent seeking of London, to the tax and privacy regulatory arbitrages of Ireland t
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Is there a trend of written language simplifying over the ages? (Greek and Chinese examples come to mind). Is there an objective way to measure / rank script complexity? Assuming its true, is it correlated with more people becoming lit
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
It is absurd to compare "Europe" with the US or China and I suppose in the future also India. Europe is a collection of nation states where a nationalist landmine always awaits to blow on our faces (See Brexit which deprived the E
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
On second thought it is true that there has been a fairly major UI breakthrough since Engelbart: The touchscreen. It is arguably still underutilized, mostly an ersatz mouse function. What would be the paradigm-shifting multitouch applicatio
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
preprint version [available here]( https://arxiv.org/abs/2103.05623 )
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
My sense is that GUI evolution has stagnated because the driving force behind Engelbart's (and others) thinking, the idea of a computer as an augmentation device that empowers individuals has been essentially abandoned. Peak "augm
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Graeber's weakness of not being a bean counter (and maybe at a deeper level also not a "systems" thinker) was also his incredible advantage: to be able to sense and interpret the current "reality" of much of the wes
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
"Data science is not about data" - I can see a pattern here
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Surveillance capitalism will implode not because of its exceptionally bad karma but under the weight of its own economic stupidity. In the "Mystery of Capital" de Soto waxes lyrical about "why capitalism triumphs in the west
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by streamofdigits 5y ago
Its a worthwhile read, if nothing else it highlights the enormous talent, energy and conviction that went into so many projects that adopt some sort of federated / distributed architecture. Ergo, the "solution" is not technic