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just a hacker tryna survive

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Mastery is the best goal because the rich can't buy it, the impatient can't rush it, the privileged can't inherit it, and nobody can steal it. You can only earn it through hard work.

― Derek Sivers

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Jones’s mistake is one she shares with much of the contemporary Democratic Party. She writes extensively about the need for more government funding to solve every problem imaginable, while disdaining religion and family—the very things that sustain working Americans. A dismissive quip about a family member “colonized” by Fox News epitomizes the... See more

Zoning Out - First Things

I don’t talk about it much but I do work at Google and I just want to contribute, as a small addendum to the wider conversation about AI, and how much it sucks, and how stupid it is, and how if you make garlic oil like it tells you to you will give botulism to your entire family -

we don’t use it.

like internally. we don’t use it.

I mean that we... See more

Pyrrhic Comedy

i really hate that computing and STEM have this mystique in our society. to the extent that engineering demonstrates intelligence, it's by repeatedly forcing you to confront the results of your own mistakes , in such a way that errors can't be ignored. there are lots of ways to do that which don't involve programming or college-level math!... See more

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Pythagoras, as everyone knows, said that “all things are numbers.” This statement, interpreted in a modern way, is logically nonsense, but what he meant was not exactly nonsense. He discovered the importance of numbers in music, and the connection which he established between music and arithmetic survives in the mathematical terms “ harmonic mean”

Bertrand Russell • History of Western Philosophy

Tl;dr: I think personal knowledge management, in many cases, is a fruitless effort and there are generally only very few cases (see above) in which note taking actually makes sense.

reddit.com • R/ObsidianMD - Is the Concept of Personal Knowledge Management Flawed?

Thirdly, it turns out this is all actually brilliant because that's exactly what the real world is like . A handful of assignments (read: good teams) where everyone's effort actually matters, but it's mostly sort of just blundering around until everyone limps past the finish line, declares mission accomplished, then all the savvy people leave... See more

Breaking My University's Machine Learning Competition — Ludicity

Snapshot of a “theoretical” life

– Loves learning for its own sake; regards wisdom as a permanent quest.

– Accepts leisure (scholē) not chiefly for recreation but for reflection.

– Feels reverence for what is permanent and overarching—nature, being, the divine—rather than for shifting public opinion.

– Skeptical of power when it threatens the