willturman

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by willturman 10mo ago
This is mentioned in the post: > Indeed, the stronger explanation for Times New Roman’s long reign isn’t aesthetic excellence, but practicality and inertia. Times New Roman was among the small set of typefaces bundled with early version
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by willturman 10mo ago
> And why is grit such a good indicator of successful founders? Based on what? Biographical accounts by successful founders? Nassim Taleb's Fooled By Randomness [1] covers the topic of mis-attribution of some causal factor X (i.e. g
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by willturman 10mo ago
I (mis)attributed an element of pre-destination to the word emergent that apparently doesn't map to the word properly used. That said, there's a petroglyph (circa 1150-1600 CE) of a macaw (among other sign-like petroglyphs)[1] on
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by willturman 10mo ago
Revenue generation via advertising is an emergent property of humanity?
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by willturman 10mo ago
At what point is the internet just ... dead? AI posts with AI comments generated for the sole purpose of spamming affiliate links to drop-shipped products we don't need to generate ephemeral satisfaction in fulfilling our purpose as an
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by willturman 10mo ago
This feels like one of those moments where you're witnessing history be made in real-time. And I hate it. It takes approximately zero effort to see how this could be both monetized and used for harm. This episode of Black Mirror is wri
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by willturman 10mo ago
I'm not ironic, you're ironic.
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by willturman 10mo ago
I think this kid's mom was mentioned in the Atlantic article [1] the link in the post is based on. > Other accommodations risk putting the needs of one student over the experience of their peers. One administrator told me that a stu
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by willturman 1y ago
Ira Glass’ take on the creative process [1] really resonated with me in the context of creating software or otherwise. [1] https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=GHrmKL2XKcE
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by willturman 1y ago
David Foster Wallace made a similar argument about Television being able to absorb, re-contextualize, and subsequently market any effort opposed to it as a cause of malignant addiction and abdication of societal responsibilities in his essa
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by willturman 2y ago
User credit_guy advocates for technical debt.
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by willturman 2y ago
It’s unbelievably lazy to trivialize biodiversity loss given the fact that we’re in the midst of the Anthropocene Extinction. We should all be grateful to Canada for being a refuge for so many species we slaughtered with westward expansion.
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by willturman 2y ago
> “We’re used to seeing America’s national bird depicted as a majestic hero plucking wild salmon from pristine streams. But here you can see eagles for what they really are: scrappy, opportunistic feeders. If fresh fish isn’t available,
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by willturman 2y ago
This is so unbelievably lazy. You even say this in reference to Eagles, which are a migratory species whose range crosses hemispheres, as if the contiguous United States is some small aside on that path. “Don’t worry about the regional exti
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by willturman 2y ago
The technical term for the number of times a dollar is spent in a given time period is the velocity of money [1]. The velocity of money in the United States has dropped sharply over the past 30 years [2] as inflation on inelastic goods like
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by willturman 2y ago
Without a mechanism to detect output from LLMs, we’re essentially facing an eternal model collapse with each new ingestion of information from academic journals, to blogs, to art. [1][2] [1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki&#
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by willturman 2y ago
> I am struggling to come up with some mainstream uses for this. Grilling with Mark Zuckerberg? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ibm3WhfLk08
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by willturman 2y ago
Diagnosed or otherwise.
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by willturman 2y ago
Taylor Wilson built a nuclear reactor at his home when he was 14. People build jet engines and put them on modern model aircraft every day. If the instructions aren’t immediately available, the internet provides connections and forums to fi
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by willturman 2y ago
What more could someone want than instantaneous consumption and on-demand video? We’re truly living in a frictionless utopia.
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by willturman 2y ago
Definitely go surfing, but forget the movie - read Barbarian Days by William Finnegan, it checks the boxes for surfing, journalism, and apartheid South Africa instead of the American reboot. Oh, it won a Pulitzer Prize too.
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by willturman 2y ago
Ah, you're citing that inviolable document, the United States Constitution, which brought forth the even-handed dawn of a legal caste system.
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by willturman 2y ago
Cadillac Desert by Marc Reisner is about America’s water infrastructure and does an incredible job of outlining the mind-blowing scale of it all as well as the political / historical context in which bureaucracies like the Bureau of Re
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by willturman 2y ago
Productivity in knowledge work is not difficult to measure, just very laborious. A few aspects need to be untangled to do it, though. Goodhart's law [1] is an adage often stated as, "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to
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by willturman 2y ago
> In a less urban area, this is far less like. The core of intellectual pursuit isn’t just smart people, but the confluence of people who have the same interests and who are also well positioned. The idea that spontaneous interactions le
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by willturman 2y ago
Alan Greenspan phrased it as “irrational exuberance”. Also, most Americans’ tax advantaged retirement accounts (via 401Ks) are locked in with consistent contributions to diversified index funds or ETFs containing primarily large market cap
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by willturman 2y ago
1. Immediacy trumps quality. The current headline on the Washington post is talking about Israeli strikes in Iran. Is that the most immediate event pertaining to Israel? Probably. Is that the most important recent event pertaining to Isr
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by willturman 2y ago
Counterpoint: But surely you must not understand my ethics.
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by willturman 2y ago
Maybe? It’s almost a certainty that the news media outlets are outright bullshit and/or attention sucking propaganda. https://fs.blog/stop-reading-news/
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by willturman 2y ago
> When the National Association of Realtors signed a landmark $418 million settlement in March, economists and academics predicted that the deal — which included an agreement to upend key practices concerning how real estate agents are p

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