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Phase Blindness(blog.superb-owl.link)
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by superb-owl 2y ago
The pattern here with Wells Fargo is interesting (you may recall they got into a ton of trouble by setting aggressive sales targets, causing employees to defraud customers). There’s clearly a huge disconnect between the numeric targets they
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by superb-owl 2y ago
I've been working on translating and summarizing some of Grothendieck's esoteric writing from his later years. It's...pretty bananas. But some fascinating stuff--clearly brilliant and a little crazy. https://github
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by superb-owl 2y ago
There’s a new model on the way, with better specs: Jelly Max I have an original Jelly and I love it. Highly recommend getting a tiny smartphone if you want to minimize your screen time
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Phase Blindness(superbowl.substack.com)
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by superb-owl 2y ago
I disagree with the slippery slope argument here. Waits won because they were clearly intending to impersonate his voice, while singing his song. Not because a random guy on the radio sounded like him. Ditto for SJ--there was a clear intent
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by superb-owl 2y ago
Unlike most of you, I strongly disliked Dennett's philosophy. But he seemed like a wonderful human, and he always made me think.
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by superb-owl 2y ago
Highly recommend the book “Tuning Timbre Spectrum Scale” for engineers interested in music theory https://sethares.engr.wisc.edu/ttss.html
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I wrote a bit about Cantor's quest to get people to take infinity seriously here: https://superbowl.substack.com/p/church-of-reality-cantor-on...
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by superb-owl 3y ago
It reminds me closely of Gary Webb's death, though the circumstances are different: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gary_Webb#Death But more to your question, I think a great example of corporate self-interest leadi
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I was super excited to take a robotics class in college. I'd fallen in love with programming and was excited to take all that magic into the real world. We all had to buy roombas to program. The final exam was getting it to traverse a
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by superb-owl 3y ago
> Writing about the best essay implies there is such a thing, which pseudo-intellectuals will dismiss as reductive, though it follows necessarily from the possibility of one essay being better than another. Not to be a pseudo-intellectua
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by superb-owl 3y ago
"Holding on to anger is like grasping a hot coal with the intent of throwing it at someone else; you are the one who gets burned." --Paraphrasing of the Dhammapada
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Mix Math and Morality in Moderation(superbowl.substack.com)
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The Intersubjective Continuum(superbowl.substack.com)
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Female neediness is real, but it's not a tragedy(writingruxandrabio.com)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
The “cocktail” thing is real. A while back I tried to get DALLE to imagine characters from Moby Dick [1], but it completely refused. You’d think an AI company could come up with a better obscenity filter! [1] https://superb-owl.l
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Zan also recently wrote about how to break habits (like caffeine): https://zantafakari.substack.com/p/how-to-tame-your-impulsiv...
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I often go down rabbit holes like this, trying to collapse and simplify the application stack. But inevitably, as an application grows in complexity, you start to realize _why_ there's a stack, rather than just a single technology to r
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Ego Death by Any Other Name(superbowl.substack.com)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
No to be pedantic, but payroll isn’t 100% of cost. Plus cash flow issues, sales volatility, probably declining revenue as you scale down…my guess is the headcount should be more like 20-30. And that might not cover their personnel needs if
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by superb-owl 3y ago
This is great. I wish the left side showed the frequency ratio as well as the raw frequency
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Controversy over Hugo Nomination Statistics(corabuhlert.com)
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The Paintings of Hilma Af Klint(superbowl.substack.com)
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Learning Synths(learningsynths.ableton.com)
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by superb-owl 3y ago
I'd love to see this on a toroidal surface
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by superb-owl 3y ago
> A sibling comment mentions search engines. I think there's a big difference. A search engine doesn't replace the source, not at all. Google has been accused for years of replacing sources with their "One Box"--the b
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Aella has collected some great stats on polyamory https://aella.substack.com/p/polyamory-vs-monogamy-how-relat...
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Protip: don't create aliases that override common commands (e.g. alias cp='cp -r'). Months down the road, you'll try to copy/paste some long piped command, and be confused as to why it works on everyone else's
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by superb-owl 3y ago
Yeah that jumped out to me too

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