nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
nico λ
@nicomeemes
just a hacker tryna survive
Immanuel Kant, in the eighteenth century, said that the universe as it truly is must be unknowable, and all we ever know is the world through our senses: he made a clear distinction between phenomena , our perceptions of objects, and noumena , the things in themselves.5 More than that, he foreshadowed the Bayesian model of the brain: he argued that
... See moreThe point of Bayesian decision theory is to help make a decision. Or, more accurately, to describe the optimal way of making a decision, given uncertainty about the outcome.
My biggest issue with tools like Delphi that promise to help creators scale their time infinitely is that most people aren’t lacking information or insight. They are lacking the peer support, accountability, and belief capital needed to put the knowledge into action.
Like Om said: "Bumper sticker" gurus being automated means even more performative
... See moreThere are so, so many of these men freckled throughout history. Paul Erdős, a renown mathematician characterized by his eclectic genius and all-consuming obsession with math, didn’t butter his own toast until he was an adult. There are several stories recounting how he often offloaded domestic or non-math related tasks to the women in his life
A large fraction of the flaws in software development are due to programmers not fully understanding all the possible states their code may execute in. [...] No matter what language you work in, programming in a functional style provides benefits. You should do it whenever it is convenient, and you should think hard about the decision when it isn’t... See more