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To really understand something on a fundamental level, you have to be able to implement a toy version first. It doesn’t matter if it’s any good; you can throw it away later.
learnbyexample weekly #186: Reinvent the Wheel, Minimal IRC server, CLI Keyboard Shortcuts, etc
A characteristic of human action is that it always begins something new, and this does not mean that it is ever permitted to start ab ovo , to create ex nihilo . In order to make room for one's own action, something that was there before must be removed or destroyed, and things as they were before are changed. Such change would be impossible if we... See more
John Ganz • Reading, Watching 11.10.24
Today, we live in a world in which many, or even most, people no longer have a sense that there is a permanent moral order to the universe. More than that, many have come to regard the traditions of moral practice that were so central to the ancient worldview as too inhibiting—they get in the way of maximum individual freedom. As MacIntyre put it... See more
Why Do So Many People Think That Trump Is Good?
Many scientific theories assume constructs that are not directly observable (muons, genetic drift) but whose existence is inferred. In mental health research, psychiatric diagnoses play such a role. We assume that constructs, such as schizophrenia or alcohol use disorder, exist but we can only observe the signs, symptoms, and course of illness that... See more
Antirealism Will Not Save the DSM From Empirical Inadequacy
So the other comments are mostly "nah, this isn't like The Game of Consequences cause technology had nothing to do with it." But I firmly disagree. The piece of technology that wreaks havoc in Most Hated in the Nation isn't the killer bees (even though they are scary), but the social media that enables them. The internet and sites like facebook,... See more
r/blackmirror - Reddit
What’s more, since data flows that are implemented with pure functions are relatively easy to manage, they largely avoid the need for more complex architecture to manage them. This is the ultimate spirit of Post-Architecture: To use simple, straight-forward tools to solve our problems so that we can not only postpone potentially risky architectural... See more
Arend van Beelen jr. • Post-Architecture: Premature Abstraction Is the Root of All Evil
No physical process can grow indefinitely.
There are always friction terms in the dynamics equation that eventually become dominant (energy consumption, heat dissipation, quantum effects, thermal fluctuations, communication bandwidth, mass/energy density....).
Even processes that *appear* exponential on a long time scale are actually a succession of... See more
There are always friction terms in the dynamics equation that eventually become dominant (energy consumption, heat dissipation, quantum effects, thermal fluctuations, communication bandwidth, mass/energy density....).
Even processes that *appear* exponential on a long time scale are actually a succession of... See more
Yann LeCun • Tweet
He categories different biases:
- Availability bias - the tendency to judge the likelihood of an event by the ease with which relevant examples come to mind
- Confirmation bias - confirming what you expect to find by selectively accepting or ignoring information
- Affective bias - the tendency to make decisions based on what we wish were true