Andrei Stoica

"Meaning is not something you stumble across, like the answer to a riddle or the prize in a treasure hunt. Meaning is something you build into your life. You build it out of your own past, out of your affections and loyalties, out of the experience of humankind as it is passed on to you, out of your own talent and understanding, out of the things... See more

I'm curious as to your prefered choice. Also you might try to fill in

this blank first:

"Music is not in the piano" as "(blank) is not in the book"

You could also ask yourself what is (are) the special thing(s) about

humans that the computer might be great at amplifying.

I'm terrible at titles ... but good luck and let me know of your next

set of... See more

But the choice of a main programming language is the most important signaling behavior that a technology company can engage in. Tell me that you program in Java, and I believe you to be either serious or boring. In Ruby, and you are interested in building things quickly. In Clojure, and I think you are smart but wonder if you ship. In Python, and I... See more

I also suspect that Americans feel that their society is a highly mobile one. John Steinbeck is often (mis)quoted as saying that “socialism never took root in America because the poor see themselves not as an exploited proletariat but as temporarily embarrassed millionaires.” But the flip side of this is that a lot of rich Americans see themselves... See more

walked past this house earlier today and i don’t think i could ever be sad here https://t.co/OF2LW0IXtN

I make headphones and here's a thread of some of my designs. 🧵 (1 of 6) https://t.co/SyHjIOpfHa

The destiny of our species is shaped by the imperatives of survival on six distinct time scales. To survive means to compete successfully on all six time scales. But the unit of survival is different at each of the six time scales. On a time scale of years, the unit is the individual. On a time scale of decades, the unit is the family. On a time... See more