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Bill Thurston writes:
Mathematics is a process of staring hard enough with enough perseverance at the fog of muddle and confusion to eventually break through to improved clarity.
Andy, Matuschak • Cultivating Depth and Stillness in Research
on a deeper level, writing is more than just the process by which you obtain a piece of text, right? it’s also about finding out what you wanted to say in the first place, and how you wanted to say it. this post existed in my head first as a thought, then it started to gel into words, and then i tried pulling those words out to arrange them in a... See more
I don't care how well your "AI" works - fiona fokus
Strauss therefore argued that political philosophy must re-open the “theological-political problem” rather than declare it settled. That does not mean re-imposing dogma; it means rediscovering, through thinkers such as Plato, Maimonides, and even Hobbes and Spinoza at their best, the ways in which reason and revelation, liberty and moral limits,... See more
Readwise
The digital dominance of the 21st Century has sorted us into our own tailored versions of online reality, where we drown in ads and information. It's overwhelming, noisy, and ephemeral. It's hard to have a simple conversation, let alone align the globe on a future worth building.
cameronwiese.com • It's time to build: A New World's Fair
When working on a team, you should usually ask the question
There’s a spectrum of “trying to figure out everything for yourself” to “bugging your coworkers with every little question”, and I think most people starting their careers are too far on the former side. There’s always someone around that has been in the codebase longer, or knows... See more
There’s a spectrum of “trying to figure out everything for yourself” to “bugging your coworkers with every little question”, and I think most people starting their careers are too far on the former side. There’s always someone around that has been in the codebase longer, or knows... See more
Marcus • Marcus' Blog
In a nutshell, the way I have understood it, given a specific set of data, the frequentist believes that there is a true, underlying distribution from which said data was generated. The inability to get the exact parameters is a function of finite sample size. The Bayesian, on the other hand, think that we start with some assumption about the... See more
When are Bayesian methods preferable to Frequentist?
Changing the scale of these simple thought experiments adds complexities that completely change the calculus of the scenario
Erik Hoel • EconTalk on Apple Podcasts
More and more, I think my issues with conventional productivity advice – indeed, with the very notion of productivity – boil down to this: Spending your days trying to get through a list of things you feel you have to do is a fundamentally joyless and soul-destroying way to live; and most productivity problems, like distraction or procrastination... See more
The key to using optimism to enhance resilience is in rejecting black-and-white, either/or thinking. Resilient people use both optimism and pessimism strategically to gain the critical insights and information they need to adjust to change.