... I haven't been thinking about inflation ... But less jokingly, "you're wrong about X"/"you're doing X wrong" is quite clickbaity
imagine a writer writing more books than they read. imagine a film director directing more movies than they watch. imagine a software engineer writing more code than they read. imagine a musician writing more songs than…
(As an atheist who found The God Delusion to be one of the most important books I've ever read, as it gave me a solid framework of arguing in what I already considered to be true) It's okay to read more digestible…
Personally -- I couldn't get past the first 2 chapters of the book. The notations it introduces are pretty unfamiliar for a newcomer and it quickly becomes really hard to follow. I genuinely would like to hear from…
> I think less people are interested in actually owning their housing. How do you reconcile this impression of yours with the fact that housing prices are shooting up in all major cities, and have been so for decades?…
What I meant is that making fun about how silly he was is elitist, meaning people like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert did nothing to help the liberal cause. George Bush himself does indeed come from political royalty,…
> He's just lucky that President Trump came along to steal the title of "greatest criminal in the White House in the last 50 years" from him. Pretty hard to make the argument than in terms of kill count Bush doesn't win…
(a) & (b) definitely. But I think that looking at it in context, it was a piece that maybe liberals should have read. During the Bush years everybody liked to point out the gaffes Bush was doing as if intelligent…
> I agree that it's very obscure but I take that for Swedish with the silver lining that learning an obscure language will be, in the worst case, a good party trick. It takes years to become conversational in a language…
I expect it to become significantly less fun the moment one of them gets fired / lags behind the others on work performance / gets into a long term relationship and wants to move out and suddenly finds out they're not…
> One observation I'll make is that although adoption is considered a noble act in the US, many other countries consider it be throwing your baby away to be exploited. Adoption is considered a noble act in Romania
At the time there were two issues: - (I think) school teachers were better paid than now, relative to the average population - People in communism mostly knew the US through Hollywood films, which portray a way more…
I don't know man, I tried to use it two weeks ago and I couldn't even get the chat to work. Neither could I try out their functional programming language.
Actually I'm European. Though on European powers winning land wars in Asia -- I think it's a question of what are the boundaries of Europe, both in time and in space. And Kevin Kelly was wise not to get into that debate.
This reminds me a lot of that "wear sunscreen" chain mail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen These folksy wisdom thingies, especially from accomplished people, come off as patronizing to me.
I have been using #lang sicp in Racket to go through (most of) SICP -- and it's been mostly a smooth ride. DrRacket can get very slow on Linux, so eventually I switched back to vim+terminal once exercises started to…
I've been going through SICP for a year and a half now on and off. At this point I don't feel I've been getting back all the effort I put in it. I think it's mostly recommended by people who didn't do all the exercises,…
I think the point was that these studies aim to make a serious statement about serious topics, but they rarely get to be properly reproduced and tested. And when they're not challenged they can creep into our official…
I think Ubuntu Touch was supposed to be that, but it ended up being a market failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch
I don't think that is entirely true -- surely, "hobbies" is a relatively new word, but even in pre-industrial times people had plenty of spare time to waste on stuff like learning songs/poems/card games/etc. Not every…
This is really bad. It's a set of loose analogies that tries to borrow from the language of physics in order to justify some intuitions about software in general. On a quick skim there was no solid empirical principle,…
At one point I a friend was mentioning the regex golf https://xkcd.com/1313/ comic and how some insane person on the internet solved it. I mentioned my pains with the regex bit of the Design of Computer Programs course,…
Tried to go through the course a few years ago. In my case it was the regex bit. Trying to write the code is a massive chore with with very little payoff for going through it, and needing to go through the instructions…
A person working with ML would have to sink in an incredible amount of time to go through all these books. Doubt I know anyone that read more than two of the listed books, even if I use ML on a daily basis.
... I haven't been thinking about inflation ... But less jokingly, "you're wrong about X"/"you're doing X wrong" is quite clickbaity
imagine a writer writing more books than they read. imagine a film director directing more movies than they watch. imagine a software engineer writing more code than they read. imagine a musician writing more songs than…
(As an atheist who found The God Delusion to be one of the most important books I've ever read, as it gave me a solid framework of arguing in what I already considered to be true) It's okay to read more digestible…
Personally -- I couldn't get past the first 2 chapters of the book. The notations it introduces are pretty unfamiliar for a newcomer and it quickly becomes really hard to follow. I genuinely would like to hear from…
> I think less people are interested in actually owning their housing. How do you reconcile this impression of yours with the fact that housing prices are shooting up in all major cities, and have been so for decades?…
What I meant is that making fun about how silly he was is elitist, meaning people like John Stewart and Stephen Colbert did nothing to help the liberal cause. George Bush himself does indeed come from political royalty,…
> He's just lucky that President Trump came along to steal the title of "greatest criminal in the White House in the last 50 years" from him. Pretty hard to make the argument than in terms of kill count Bush doesn't win…
(a) & (b) definitely. But I think that looking at it in context, it was a piece that maybe liberals should have read. During the Bush years everybody liked to point out the gaffes Bush was doing as if intelligent…
> I agree that it's very obscure but I take that for Swedish with the silver lining that learning an obscure language will be, in the worst case, a good party trick. It takes years to become conversational in a language…
I expect it to become significantly less fun the moment one of them gets fired / lags behind the others on work performance / gets into a long term relationship and wants to move out and suddenly finds out they're not…
> One observation I'll make is that although adoption is considered a noble act in the US, many other countries consider it be throwing your baby away to be exploited. Adoption is considered a noble act in Romania
At the time there were two issues: - (I think) school teachers were better paid than now, relative to the average population - People in communism mostly knew the US through Hollywood films, which portray a way more…
I don't know man, I tried to use it two weeks ago and I couldn't even get the chat to work. Neither could I try out their functional programming language.
Actually I'm European. Though on European powers winning land wars in Asia -- I think it's a question of what are the boundaries of Europe, both in time and in space. And Kevin Kelly was wise not to get into that debate.
This reminds me a lot of that "wear sunscreen" chain mail https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wear_Sunscreen These folksy wisdom thingies, especially from accomplished people, come off as patronizing to me.
I have been using #lang sicp in Racket to go through (most of) SICP -- and it's been mostly a smooth ride. DrRacket can get very slow on Linux, so eventually I switched back to vim+terminal once exercises started to…
I've been going through SICP for a year and a half now on and off. At this point I don't feel I've been getting back all the effort I put in it. I think it's mostly recommended by people who didn't do all the exercises,…
I think the point was that these studies aim to make a serious statement about serious topics, but they rarely get to be properly reproduced and tested. And when they're not challenged they can creep into our official…
I think Ubuntu Touch was supposed to be that, but it ended up being a market failure https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ubuntu_Touch
I don't think that is entirely true -- surely, "hobbies" is a relatively new word, but even in pre-industrial times people had plenty of spare time to waste on stuff like learning songs/poems/card games/etc. Not every…
This is really bad. It's a set of loose analogies that tries to borrow from the language of physics in order to justify some intuitions about software in general. On a quick skim there was no solid empirical principle,…
At one point I a friend was mentioning the regex golf https://xkcd.com/1313/ comic and how some insane person on the internet solved it. I mentioned my pains with the regex bit of the Design of Computer Programs course,…
Tried to go through the course a few years ago. In my case it was the regex bit. Trying to write the code is a massive chore with with very little payoff for going through it, and needing to go through the instructions…
A person working with ML would have to sink in an incredible amount of time to go through all these books. Doubt I know anyone that read more than two of the listed books, even if I use ML on a daily basis.