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by westoncb 7y ago
The idea is that the eulogy talks about how you lived your life and what kind of person you were. The way Brooks is using it is just as a tool to grant some perspective; the eulogy in a literal sense is a convenient proxy for something deep
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by westoncb 7y ago
> If you get told you are rolling off, don't take it personal What do you mean by "rolling off" here?
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> If I'm building a project for fun at home, then it's typically specifically to learn about a new thing (which I kind of assumed was the case for most people) While I do sometimes get excited about learning a new technology, t
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by westoncb 7y ago
Location: Tucson, AZ Remote: yes Willing to relocate: probably not Technologies: JavaScript + various web technologies, Java, Objective-C, real-time rendering / computer graphics: opengl / webgl, glsl. I've been doing lots of
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by westoncb 7y ago
Here's an interesting new series addressing exactly the "crisis of meaning" issue you mention: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=54l8_ewcOlY I've only gotten through the first lecture—and it does take him
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by westoncb 7y ago
My situation was very similar: I got some kind of sense of what the "real thing" was from my dad who was doing research in cognitive psychology and HCI while I was growing up. That may be an ingredient in what creates perspectives
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by westoncb 7y ago
This echoes my experience. It wasn't until I was 17 or so that I figured out through independent reading that there actually are ideas in scientific work. There's this weird kind of fake enthusiasm that always seems to be at the
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I think that's a misleading characterization. It's actually a particularization not a generalization: the ordinary notion only deals with topological properties, fractal/Hausdorff dimension deals with metric properties as wel
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by westoncb 7y ago
That makes sense to me. There was a specific thing I was looking for in my original question which was to understand how related vs. arbitrary the shared term 'dimension' is. I think I found an answer after browsing a few Wikipedi
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To what extent is the concept of 'dimension' here the same as in everyday experience? (or, e.g. Linear Algebra, where the number of vectors in a basis correspond to dimension. I see that concept as roughly similar to the 'eve
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by westoncb 7y ago
I think you may be missing something here. > The "theorems" they then prove do not provide any new insight Knowing that you can model reaction networks using categorical concepts may not provide new insights IF you have no deep
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by westoncb 7y ago
The clearest and most concise treatment I've come across on how Category Theory is used is Tai-Danae Bradley's "What is Applied Category Theory": https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05923 (It's a 50 pag
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Someone want to break down how to calculate the odds here?
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To play devil's advocate a bit: I don't think you were wrong the first time. I mean, as long as hooks are strictly an addition, it's easy to argue greater simplicity without. That's kind of trivial though, so I would ask
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by westoncb 7y ago
It's not necessarily an issue—I am for now happy to have the badge/link on my repo. I would have been less suspicious if the messaging had been more straightforward (e.g. "Hey, we're seeing if some projects we like would
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by westoncb 7y ago
Somebody submitted a PR to a JavaScript/glsl game of mine last night ( https://github.com/westoncb/under-game ), adding a badge/link that would open the repo on repl.it. I looked around at the user's activ
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by westoncb 7y ago
There's a cancelling effect on some of these items, so that the total value in the outcome isn't clear. It seems to hinge on the specifics of how point 4 would play out, which is largely a moral question. Points 1 and 2 are negati
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by westoncb 7y ago
Yes, I'm sure a lot of people feel that way. Other people would like to be able to judge for themselves. Of course the extract is about the founder (who incidentally is not part of the project anymore), that's exactly why it'
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by westoncb 7y ago
It's less useful than it might seem to post a random Wikipedia extract when the subject is highly controversial / politically charged.
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There's an aspect of this that strikes me as a little strange: the basic recommendation here seems substantially more to the benefit of society than to the individual who might be encouraged to cultivate their own genius by this method
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by westoncb 7y ago
I agree with this. One thing I’d add from personal observation: things get more interesting the more time you spend with them. I’ve done ‘total immersion’ kinds of things with both math and the boardgame Go, with pretty good results in both
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by westoncb 7y ago
> Something I think ICs often overlook is a focus on leverage and scale to drive big improvements. Mind expanding on "leverage and scale" in this context?
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You should feel relief that you are only hacking in emacs and not paying to be tortured by a psychic.
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Yes. I also need to remember when sharing projects with programmers to ask for similar: I appreciate your help spotting the many flaws—but I'd be curious to hear about any bits you liked, too!
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lol yep. Incidentally I happen to be reading that right now 0_0
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Yeah... not sure what to make of this. Almost reads like an April Fools' article. I just can't imagine a person who would want to take part in this, nor a person who would want to run it... Then again people intentionally eat ghos
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by westoncb 7y ago
> They do, however, foster a prosecutorial attitude among academics and public intellectuals. As a colleague once told me: ‘I am always looking for the Freudian slip.’ He scours the writings of his peers to spot when they trip up and be
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by westoncb 7y ago
> no matter how right he believed himself to be. Does it change anything for you if it wasn't just his opinion, but some sort of majority consensus instead—even if that only arrives in the history books? (Only asking in principle, a
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by westoncb 7y ago
> Exchanging data for value will be normal and young people will ask how it ever could work without that. How is this different from using a credit card to e.g. purchase a streaming movie? Is it just more seamless? Or does the fact that
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by westoncb 7y ago
This is not true. I've watched conversations on this over the years on HN, and inevitably you get a few people saying the math is nothing to worry about, and then a bunch of people saying they had to give up because they didn't ha

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