Interesting Ideas
Random things I find interesting.
Interesting Ideas
Part 1 of 2. First a dark look at how and why humans ignore an impending catastrophe like climate change or minimize for the most part the dismantling of democracy. Because by the time you see it as a certainty, it’s already too late. Figuring out how to survive the coming catastrophe that is already upon us. #ClimateChange #GeometricProgression... See more
instagram.comAI discovered wholly new proteins before it could count the ‘r’s in ‘strawberry’, which makes it neither vaporware nor a demigod but a secret third thing.
“It may be that when we no longer know what to do we have come to our real work, and that when we no longer know which way to go we have come to our real journey.”
—Wendell Berry
—Wendell Berry
Steve Schlafman 🐌 • Tweet
The iconic example might be the “tech guy” at a small, non-technical firm. He “knows computers,” so as the company grew and evolved to have some mild IT needs, he became a programming dilettante out of necessity. In going from being a power user to being a developer, his skills exceeded his expectations, so he became confident in his limited,
... See moreErik Dietrich • The Expert Beginner
The hard part of computer programming isn’t expressing what we want the machine to do in code. The hard part is turning human thinking – with all its wooliness and ambiguity and contradictions – into computational thinking that is logically precise and unambiguous, and that can then be expressed formally in the syntax of a programming language.