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10 September 2018
30 August 2018
From one piece Quickly assessing the credibility of public experts 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The likelihood that someone is providing high-quality information in these domains is lower than in less controversial areas like physics or neuroscience.
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The work of Philip Tetlock, PhD and others has shown that people who have one big idea to explain everything (“hedgehogs” or ideologues) are very bad at accurately modeling the world, predicting outcomes, and recommending effective actions.
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Changing your mind in light of new facts should be celebrated rather than held against you.Their words
Inability to change one’s mind is a hallmark of an irrational belief system.
22 August 2018
From one piece The Commons Clause will destroy open source 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A $250/mo recurring donation to would be a drop in the bucket of most businesses, but a major boon to any open source project, with which the business will almost certainly see tangible value-add as a result.
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I do not sign CLAs and I think they’re a harmful practice for this very reason. Asking a contributor to sign them is a slap in the face to the good will which led them to make a contribution in the first place.
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But the Commons Clause doesn’t present a solution for supporting open source software. It presents a framework for turning open source software into proprietary software.
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Maintainers of widely used open source software are not adequately funded, and that is a real and unsolved problem.Their words
What should we do about open source maintainers not getting the funding they need? It’s a very real problem, and one Kevin has explicitly asked us to talk about before we criticise his solution to it.
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Handing stewardship of Redis to a company whose goal is extracting profit was a mistake for the projectTheir words
Everyone who has contributed to the now-proprietary Redis modules has had their hard work stolen and sold by RedisLabs under a proprietary license.
18 August 2018
14 August 2018
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Readrcmnd.app
The Path to LoveTheir words
Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.
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Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic FieldTheir words
Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.
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The Gay ScienceTheir words
Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.
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Permutation CityTheir words
Vasishta Yoga, The Book of Nothing, Math (Better Explained), Skin in the Game, 12 Rules for Life, The Path to Love, Faraday Maxwell and the Electromagnetic Field, Direct Truth, The Gay Science, Permutation City, The Order of a Time, and many, many others.
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The Order of TimeTheir words
The Order of Time.
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Capitalism without CapitalTheir words
Capitalism Without Capital is the first book I’ve seen that tackles them in depth, and I think it should be required reading for policymakers.
9 August 2018
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The Algorithm Design ManualTheir words
To me, this book is an illustration of the power of names. Today, in the era of Google, if you know the name of something, you can find out about it with a simple search. But if you don't know of what you're looking for, it suddenly becomes much harder to find it. Having in the back of your head the names of common algorithms that help you solve problems is really powerful.
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The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to MasterTheir words
This is about the craft of software development, and thinking about how to produce good code. As the name suggests, it's a very pragmatic and hands-on book. It really helped me on my journey as a software engineer, to be able to write quality code day in and day out, and be confident that it's going to work correctly.
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The Art of Readable CodeTheir words
What I liked about this book is that it gives you a series of techniques to make that smell go away.
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Style: Lessons in Clarity and GraceTheir words
This book gave me the tools to analyze a text and identify the reasons why it doesn't work, for example stating the topic of a paragraph only in the middle of it. I found it very useful to consciously analyze my own writing.
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Likedrcmnd.app
Domain-Specific LanguagesTheir words
Partly because of another book that nearly made it onto my list: Domain-Specific Languages by Martin Fowler. It talks about the idea of writing a small language inside another language, to express ideas in a specific domain
3 August 2018
From one piece The Succession Problem 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When a functioning organisation dies, capital that cannot be sold or transferred dies with it.Their words
Functioning firms are repositories of many kinds of capital that cannot be liquidated, and when they die, it is destroyed.
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Silicon Valley celebrates disruption because it has given up on institutions ever solving their succession problem.Their words
Silicon Valley enthuses over “disruption” because we have become so used to the succession problem remaining unsolved within discrete institutions such as companies.
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The succession problem has two components: power succession (handing off the reins of the institution, keeping it piloted) and skill succession (transferring the skill needed to pilot the institution well, keeping it a live player).
1 August 2018
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Their words, before
One thing that I think hasn’t gotten enough attention is the fact that NuSI staff, particularly Attia, paid themselves enormous salaries while they were at NuSI
Their words now
NuSI executives didn’t set their own compensation, as I and others have implied.
30 July 2018
29 July 2018
28 July 2018
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The Messy MiddleTheir words
I was up very late last night reading a great book that will appear in stores soon written by Scott Belsky entitled The Messy Middle that explains why this passion is required.
25 July 2018
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The Courage to Be DislikedTheir words
Wow. A profound little philosophy book from Japan, communicating the psychology of Alfred Adler - a rival of Freud. Told as a conversation between an angry student and a patient teacher. A little book so good that I rushed home from other activities to keep reading it, and finished in a day. A surprisingly fresh perspective on how to live. (The “disliked” part is not the point, so don’t let the…
16 July 2018
14 July 2018
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On changing their mind
I’ve historically done this myself, but I’ve moved towards innovating within existing teams.
From one piece Sizing engineering teams. 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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New teams should be budded off an existing team grown deliberately large, never created empty and staffed afterwards.Their words
To create a new team, grow an existing team to eight to ten, and then bud into two teams of four or five. Never create empty teams.
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Small teams (<4) are not teams. I’ve sponsored quite a few 1-2 person teams, and each time I’ve regretted it. To repeat: I have regretted it every single time.
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Managers should support 6-8 engineers. This gives them enough time for active coaching, coordinating and furthering their team’s mission by writing strategies, leading change, and so on.
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Oncall rotations want 8 engineers. For production oncall responsibilities, I’ve found that two-tier 24/7 support requires eight folks.
13 July 2018
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korrents.com
Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.Their words
So that's precisely what I've done - intercepted my own traffic passed over an insecure connection and put together a string of demos in a 24-minute video explaining why HTTPS is necessary on a static website.
9 July 2018
From one piece Functional Institutions are the Exception 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It is much more difficult to make a dysfunctional institution functional than to create a functional institution from scratch; institutions will nearly always have internal forces that resist change, and diagnosing institutional dysfunction in the first place is challenging.
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And just as a tornado cannot assemble a Boeing 747 by passing through a junkyard, functional institutions are not spontaneously generated. The machinery, if it functions, was assembled by someone with good judgment: the institution’s founder.
5 July 2018
From one piece Advice 3 beliefs · patrickcollison.com
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People who did great things often did so at very surprisingly young ages. (They were grayhaired when they became famous... not when they did the work.)
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More broadly, nobody is going to teach you to think for yourself. A large fraction of what people around you believe is mistaken. Internalize this and practice coming up with your own worldview.
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To the extent that you enjoy working hard, do. Subject to that constraint, it's not clear that the returns to effort ever diminish substantially.
3 July 2018
From one piece Why the carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is probably wrong: A supplementary reply to Ebbeling and Ludwig’s JAMA article 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The question we must answer is not “can we find evidence that supports the CIM”, but rather “does the CIM provide the best fit for the totality of the evidence”.
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The carbohydrate-insulin model of obesity is probably wrong: it does not fit the totality of the evidence.Their words
Certain forms of carbohydrate probably do contribute to obesity, among other factors, but I don’t think the CIM provides a compelling explanation for common obesity.
2 July 2018
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The right to fork is still critical as an implied threat to keep the system in check. But major political forks aren’t as common, and certainly not as top-of-mind, anymore.
30 June 2018
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Likedrcmnd.app
The Complete BordeauxTheir words
It is not dry and scientific. I don't think Stephen is particularly interested in science. It's got lots of value judgements, and it is a good solid read.
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Thirsty Dragon: China's Lust for Bordeaux and the Threat to the World's Best WinesTheir words
This a journalistic book, a very sound bit of journalism by Suzanne Mustacich. She is based in Bordeaux, but she clearly travelled to China an awful lot and unravelled a most amusing commercial battle that went on in the early years of this decade between the Bordeaux chateau owners and merchants on the one side and Chinese business people on the other.
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The Juice: Vinous VeritasTheir words
I've chosen his third collection of writing about wine, The Juice. They're all fun. They're all very well written because Jay is a very good writer, and doesn't take it too seriously.
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Inside BurgundyTheir words
There's a very good book on Burgundy called Inside Burgundy by Jasper Morris, which is really nice and beautifully designed as well. I would certainly recommend it to anyone.
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The Wines of BordeauxTheir words
He was chairman of the Wine Society and wrote a fantastic book called The Wines of Bordeaux, which was an increasingly thick Penguin paperback.
17 June 2018
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korrents.com
Innovation tends to come from slack time away from firefighting, not from being fully utilized.Their words
In this case, it’s to maintain enough slack in your team’s schedule that the team can build quality into their work, and operating continuously in innovation, and avoid backtracking.
13 June 2018
From one piece Who pays the toolmakers? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Open source projects on GitHub represent billions of dollars in value creation, but none of that is captured on GitHub.
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Successful open source developers get “acquihired” by a company who values their reputation and skills, which has the perverse effect of making them less noisy about how to make a living off of open source.
12 June 2018
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Making a chess variant, a dice variant and a Pong variant is a worthwhile exercise for any game designer.Their words
It's been my view for a while that it's a worthwhile exercise for any game designer to make a chess variant, a dice variant and a Pong variant.
7 June 2018
5 June 2018
From one piece Nota bene: Tabular figures 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The number 1 is the most significant digit about 30% of the time.
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Pretty much any time you're using numbers outside a regular sentence, you should be using tabular figures.
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Substack's platform design emphasizes paid subscriptions so strongly that it obscures the option to sign up for free.Their words
Substack is focused mainly on generating paying subscribers, rather than just subscribers, and so it can be hard for people to realize that it's entirely possible (and welcome!) to sign up for free.
3 June 2018
From one piece If you're not feeling “hell yeah!” then say no 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Refuse almost everything. Do almost nothing. But the things you do, do them all the way.
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The hell-yeah rule is for people who are already overwhelmed; someone starting out should say yes to almost anything.Their words
Though it's good to say yes when you're starting out, wanting any opportunity, or needing variety, it's bad to say yes when you're overwhelmed, over-committed, or need to focus.
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If you're not feeling “Hell yeah, that would be awesome!” about something, say no.
2 June 2018
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Thinking in BetsTheir words
Amazing point: Would your belief in something stand up to the question, “Wanna bet?” If you had to gamble significant money on that belief, would you still feel 100% about it? Or maybe more honestly 60%? This creates healthy skepticism encouraging you to seek the best information instead of just defending your belief. Now objective accuracy wins instead of argument. Combine with “The Biggest Bl…
From one piece Nota bene: Habitat 67 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Repeating a single floor plan vertically remains the default model for large-scale residential construction.Their words
I wish he were right, but the fact is the repeat-the-floor-plan model is very much the default, still.
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A dense-looking building does not by itself create a livable dense suburb without supporting schools and shops.Their words
A higgledy-piggledy apartment building doesn't create density on its own, and Habitat 67 remains, half a century after its construction, bereft of the kind of schools and shops and other facilities that would help to kickstart a genuinely livable suburb.
30 May 2018
25 May 2018
21 May 2018
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Origin StoryTheir words
It does a fantastic job distilling the latest thinking about the origins of the universe.
18 May 2018
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The Communist ManifestoTheir words
I chose The Communist Manifesto, rather than, say, Capital because it shows in a much easier-to-read, shorter work something that is central to Marx's vision.
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On LibertyTheir words
I chose this book particularly because we are having a lively discussion about freedom of expression today. Some of the challenges to freedom of expression today come from the left rather than from the right, although some of them still do come from the right. In this context, Mill's arguments are still relevant and deserve to be more widely known and more widely thought about.
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The Descent of ManTheir words
I like The Descent of Man better than The Origin of Species because Darwin is prepared to be much bolder in The Descent of Man. In The Origin of Species he was still a little bit timid.
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The Methods of EthicsTheir words
Parfit himself said that The Methods of Ethics contains more true statements about ethics than any other work: it builds on the work of other great scholars, but it contains more truth than other works. I do think it is a wonderful work, and if it is not the best book written on ethics, I'd like to know what is.
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Utilitarianism: A Very Short IntroductionTheir words
But I hope if they read our Utilitarianism: A Very Short Introduction, they'll at least have some idea why he is so significant.
13 May 2018
6 May 2018
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The IliadTheir words
The “Iliad” really stood out for me, that was probably a couple of weeks ago.
20 April 2018
19 April 2018
16 April 2018
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That the Best Physician is Also a PhilosopherTheir words
There's another ancient text I could have mentioned: Galen's That the Best Physician is Also a Philosopher. It's essentially a call to arms for doctors to concentrate on the perfection of their clinical skills and to give up on ideas of attempts to get rich through their art. It shows all the ways in which he doesn't trust those doctors who use their talents for a gain other than the benefit of their patients. It is short and elegant.
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Mixed onrcmnd.app
On Being IllTheir words
I think it's a really important piece of writing just because it's so beautifully executed. That said, it does lose its way about half way through, and Woolf goes off in pursuit of some enthusiasms that I don't share.
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A Fortunate Man: The Story of a Country DoctorTheir words
The book becomes an extended meditation on the practice of medicine, which is an attempt to engage a deep sense of fraternity.
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Intoxicated By My IllnessTheir words
I appreciate this book for its irreverence, the elegance of its prose and because the essays in it are succinct, punchy, with the tyrannical discipline that newspaper journalism has to have.
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FrissureTheir words
So it's a book which is utterly original and gets at something very real and valuable about convalescence. Sometimes I find myself recommending it to patients.
13 April 2018
10 April 2018
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Emfit QS+ActiveTheir words
I've found the only thing I'm consistent with are in the set-it-and-forget-it category, and I really like the Emfit QS+Active
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Chili PadTheir words
I use a Chili Pad to be cold while I sleep if I can't get the room cold enough, which is great but loud (I set it up to have the cooler unit outside my room).
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full spectrum LED lightTheir words
I use a full spectrum LED light most mornings for about 10-15 minutes while I catch up on email. It's great—if you try nothing else in here, this is the thing I'd try. It's a ridiculous gain for me.
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12 Rules for LifeTheir words
A unique thinker with strong opinions presented as indisputable fact. More surprisingly interesting ideas than almost any book I've ever read. Extremely thoughtful, but occasionally abruptly concludes with an unsupported point. It has a conservative “this is how it is” certainty. It’s a broad collection of thoughtful insights on life, mixed with a lot of Bible interpretation.
5 April 2018
3 April 2018
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Visual Studio CodeTheir words
Visual Studio Code is the go-to editor for some complex languages like React using JSX or TypeScript and I finally agreed with Wes Bos that VS Code is better for development of React JS.
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Cobalt2 Theme OfficialTheir words
Cobalt2 Theme Official is the theme used by Wes Bos, which comes with a nice user experience and a lot of awesome features. I am using a modified version of Cobalt2 that's a crossover between Monokai and Cobalt2.
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iTerm2Their words
iTerm 2 (macOS Specific) is a replacement for Terminal and the successor to iTerm.
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WinSCPTheir words
I haven't seen any other software that's as stable as this one.
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FannyTheir words
Fanny (macOS Specific) is a free Notification Center Widget and Menu Bar application to monitor your Macs fans. Allows me to know the speed of my fans and heat generated by the CPU, so that I can make sure I keep my apps to a minimum and get the maximum performance.
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FactfulnessTheir words
Factfulness is a fantastic book, and I hope a lot of people read it.
27 March 2018
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Turtles All the Way DownTheir words
Paper Towns is still my favorite John Green book—but my family loved talking about Turtles at the dinner table, and I think yours will, too.
23 March 2018
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The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.Their words
The more your tests resemble the way your software is used, the more confidence they can give you.
22 March 2018
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Enlightenment Now: The Case for Reason, Science, Humanism, and ProgressTheir words
So my advice is this: buy Pinker's book and read it.
9 March 2018
From one piece Frankle & Carbin, "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks" (arXiv) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A small enough winning ticket learns faster than the network it was cut out of, and ends up more accurate than it.Their words
Above this size, the winning tickets that we find learn faster than the original network and reach higher test accuracy.
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The winning tickets we find have won the initialization lottery: their connections have initial weights that make training particularly effective.
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We find that a standard pruning technique naturally uncovers subnetworks whose initializations made them capable of training effectively.
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However, contemporary experience is that the sparse architectures produced by pruning are difficult to train from the start, which would similarly improve training performance.
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Neural network pruning techniques can reduce the parameter counts of trained networks by over 90%, decreasing storage requirements and improving computational performance of inference without compromising accuracy.
From one piece Frankle & Carbin, "The Lottery Ticket Hypothesis: Finding Sparse, Trainable Neural Networks" (arXiv) 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A small enough winning ticket learns faster than the network it was cut out of, and ends up more accurate than it.Their words
Above this size, the winning tickets that we find learn faster than the original network and reach higher test accuracy.
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The winning tickets we find have won the initialization lottery: their connections have initial weights that make training particularly effective.
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We find that a standard pruning technique naturally uncovers subnetworks whose initializations made them capable of training effectively.
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However, contemporary experience is that the sparse architectures produced by pruning are difficult to train from the start, which would similarly improve training performance.
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Neural network pruning techniques can reduce the parameter counts of trained networks by over 90%, decreasing storage requirements and improving computational performance of inference without compromising accuracy.
7 March 2018
6 March 2018
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Richie Doodles: The Brilliance of a Young Richard FeynmanTheir words
In summary, the illustrations are awesome, the explanations aren't.
5 March 2018
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korrents.com
Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.Their words
"Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration." - @rauchg Here's my talk from @assertjs two weeks ago dissecting that statement.
24 February 2018
From one piece Takeoff speeds 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Things are usually preceded by worse versions, even in cases where there are weak reasons to expect a discontinuous jump.
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In particular, this means that incredibly powerful AI will emerge in a world where crazy stuff is already happening (and probably everyone is already freaking out).
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The main disagreement is not about what will happen once we have a superintelligent AI, it’s about what will happen before we have a superintelligent AI.
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There will be a complete four-year doubling of world output before there is ever a one-year doubling.Their words
There will be a complete 4 year interval in which world output doubles, before the first 1 year interval in which world output doubles.
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I currently think a slow takeoff is significantly more likely.
22 February 2018
From one piece Hidden Homework (updated 2021) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Creative work is better served by a diverse toolkit of specialized tools than by one universal tool.Their words
I don't want a single tool that I can use for any game... I want a digital toolshed that looks like Depeche Mode's synth collection.
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Maze puzzles are unengaging on their own but become interesting when paired with a strong extrinsic motivator.Their words
Mazes are not the most interesting gameplay element if you're relying on intrinsic motivation - they're just not very entertaining - but if there's some sufficiently compelling extrinsic motivator I think their irritating properties become quite interesting.
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For me, a good prototype expresses a single idea or tests a single hypothesis, so a prototype is actually a great container for a creative prompt, which typically takes the form of a single encapsulated concept or provocation.
17 February 2018
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Galileo's Middle FingerTheir words
This is ultimately why Galileo's Middle Finger is a vitally important work, and why I recommend that people read it in spite of its flaws.
13 February 2018
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Adam Grant's Twitter accountTheir words
please stop reading this immediately, and click over a remarkable place that, in my opinion, delivers more good ideas per square inch than anything else on the web: Adam Grant's Twitter account.
11 February 2018
9 February 2018
From one piece Everything Easy is Hard Again 4 beliefs · frankchimero.com
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Directness is best in my experience, so a great photo, memorable illustration, or pitch-perfect sentence does most of the work. Beyond that, fancy implementation has never moved the needle much for my clients.
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I wonder if I have twenty years of experience making websites, or if it is really five years of experience, repeated four times. If you’ve been working in the technology industry a while, please tell me this sounds familiar to you.
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Illegibility comes from complexity without clarity. I believe that the legibility of the source is one of the most important properties of the web. It’s the main thing that keeps the door open to independent, unmediated contributions to the network.
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So, I thought it would be useful to remind everyone that the easiest and cheapest strategy for dealing with complexity is not to invent something to manage it, but to avoid the complexity altogether with a more clever plan.
31 January 2018
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ResetTheir words
So much to learn from this experience.
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The Ascent of MoneyTheir words
Traces the history of money, the role it’s served over time, and the development of some of the major aspects of our modern financial system.
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PrinciplesTheir words
Reading this because everyone else is too :) Lots of insights/lessons from Ray Dalio
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The One DeviceTheir words
Didn’t read this yet, but I love these recent tech history books.
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Area XTheir words
Reading the book ahead of time, before I see the movie!
26 January 2018
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Enlightenment NowTheir words
I read the book slowly since I loved it so much, but I think most people will find it a quick and accessible read.
24 January 2018
20 January 2018
16 January 2018
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The Dialogues: Conversations about the Nature of the UniverseTheir words
I would recommend this book to everyone who has an interest in the foundations of physics.
5 January 2018
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korrents.com
Genetically modified crops are dangerous enough that campaigning to destroy them is justified.On changing their mind
Five years ago, almost to this very day, I stood before you and offered an apology for my earlier anti-GMO activism.
3 January 2018
2 January 2018
From one piece Clojure - Rationale 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Born of simulation, now used for everything, even when inappropriate
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Locking is too hard for programmers to get right over and over again, so the language runtime should do that part.Their words
Locking is too hard to get right over and over again
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korrents.com
Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code: hard to understand, hard to test and hard to reason about.Their words
Mutable stateful objects are the new spaghetti code
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It reflects the reality that, for the concurrent programming future, pervasive, unmoderated mutation simply has to go.
1 January 2018
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Zero to OneTheir words
I think Peter Teal’s book is self recommending and is an excellent book, Zero to One
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The Hard Thing About Hard ThingsTheir words
If you want all the bad words, Ben’s book, The Hard Thing About Hard Things
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The Wizard of Menlo ParkTheir words
The Wizard of Menlo Park is a great biography of Edison.
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Walt Disney: The Triumph of the American ImaginationTheir words
So the author, Neal Gabler, who has written the best biography on Walt Disney. And it’s a phenomenal book.
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Lovedrcmnd.app
Halt and Catch FireTheir words
Halt and Catch Fire is extraordinary. It’s the best fictional portrayal of what a tech start up is actually like.
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Readrcmnd.app
Profit FirstTheir words
Podcast. A simple system for managing money based around human flaws. Written for entrepreneurs, but you can adapt it for personal finance.
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The Life-Changing Magic of Tidying UpTheir words
Podcast. Despite the apparent red flags about the book, it’s actually pretty genius! Read it with the right mindset (filter out bullshit), transform your relationship with objects, and declutter your life once and for all.
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The Culture CodeTheir words
Ideas about developing teams that work together better. Underwhelming — took just a few base concepts and then stretched them very thin by applying to them a dozen different (not always compelling) stories.
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Turn the Ship AroundTheir words
Guide to transforming top-down organizations into lean ones, where everyone is a leader. Written by a submarine commander, it’s mostly useful to managers in big corporations and other institutions.
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Finding My VirginityTheir words
Richard Branson’s second autobiography. As someone not very familiar with his work, it was an interesting read (but as always with autobiographies, take it with a grain of salt).
22 December 2017
18 December 2017
14 December 2017
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The Power of MomentsTheir words
You should check out Chip and Dan Heath's new book, which is essential reading for anybody who cares about culture and leadership.
9 December 2017
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The Misbehavior of MarketsTheir words
Mandelbrot and Richard Hudson are the authors of the influential book The Misbehavior of Markets: A Fractal View of Financial Turbulence. I suggest you read this book for yourself (even though it is not an easy book to read).
4 December 2017
29 November 2017
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Classic Food of ChinaTheir words
Classic Food of China was really her great work, though. I think it was the last book she produced before she died, some years ago. It's one of the few really well-researched historical and cultural Chinese cookery books.
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Food in Chinese CultureTheir words
It was probably the first book in English to bring serious academic scrutiny to Chinese food culture, and to use the scholarly techniques applied to other subjects to food, offering the views of different experts on different periods of Chinese history.
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The Food of ChinaTheir words
It offers a good counterpart to the KC Chang. It's very well researched and comprehensive, covering all aspects of Chinese cooking – ingredients, cooking techniques, history, agricultural system and so on.
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China to ChinatownTheir words
He has drawn together all kinds of different sources that would be a lot of work to find on your own.
19 November 2017
From one piece Selling Bad Therapy to Trauma Victims 2 beliefs · psychologytoday.com
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It takes more than 20 sessions, or about six months of weekly therapy, before 50 percent of patients show meaningful improvement. It takes more than 40 sessions for 75 percent of patients to show meaningful improvement.
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The American Psychological Association (APA) just issued guidelines for treating trauma. Patients and therapists would be wise to ignore them.
18 November 2017
From one piece The illusion of “degrowth” in a poor and unequal world 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The way to cut emissions is to tax the most emission-intensive goods, not to stop growth.Their words
It would make more sense, if we want to think seriously about how to reduce emissions, not to engage in the illusions of degrowth in a very poor and unequal world but to think how the most emission-intensive goods and services could be taxed in order to reduce their consumption.
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The world would have to move from an inequality level that is higher than that of South Africa to complete equality that has never existed in any recorded society.
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Degrowth shared out equally would cut the incomes of everyone above the world average by about two-thirds.Their words
How much of a reduction would this imply for the global top 27% (those with incomes above the global mean)? Their incomes would have to be cut by almost two-thirds.
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Freezing world output at today's level would condemn a quarter of humanity to permanent abject poverty.Their words
Then, unless we change the distribution of income, we are condemning to permanent abject poverty some 15 percent of world population that currently earn less than $1.90 per day and some quarter of humankind who earn less than $2.50 per day.
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The climate policy everyone has quietly assumed is that poorer countries stay poor, and that is the wrong answer.Their words
From these exchanges I got the impression that they were unaware of just how unequal and poor (yes, poor) the world is today and what would be the trade-offs if we really were to decide to fix the volume of goods and services produced and consumed in the world at the current level.
16 November 2017
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Inadequate EquilibriaTheir words
I do have two criticisms of the book, both relatively minor compared to what I loved about it.
15 November 2017
13 November 2017
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Legal Systems Very Different From OursTheir words
David Friedman, successfully combines the author's three special interests into a whirlwind tour of exotic law.
24 October 2017
From one piece Why superintelligence is a threat that should be taken seriously 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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One of the most commonly emphasized points in the AI safety literature is that one must never anthropomorphize AI—that is, don’t project human mental properties onto artificially intelligent systems.
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A superintelligence whose goal system is even slightly misaligned with ours could, being far more powerful than any human or human institution, bring about human extinction for the very same reason that construction workers routinely slaughter large populations of ants.
20 October 2017
5 October 2017
From one piece Uncle Bob and Silver Bullets 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But unit tests don't give you much confidence in your code.
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Rather, the best way to reduce the volume and severity of mistakes is to adjust the system itself.
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Their words
Uncle Bob gives terrible advice. Following it will make your code worse.
27 September 2017
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Sum: Forty Tales from the AfterlivesTheir words
Awesomely creative think-piece. 40 very short fictional stories about what happens when you die. The framework is inspiring for anyone: coming up with 40 different answers to any one question. But they’re also just brilliant ideas and powerful little fables. I just read it a 2nd time and love it even more now.
18 September 2017
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Mastering the Core Teachings of the BuddhaTheir words
The result is a sort of perfect antidote to the vague hippie-ism you get from a lot of spirituality.
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The Cherry OrchardTheir words
So, as a kind of period piece that captures Russia in the late 19th, early 20th century, it's the most poignant text I've ever read.
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De Administrando ImperioTheir words
It's the introductory text for anybody studying the Byzantine Empire and yet no one has ever heard of it.
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The AlexiadTheir words
There are several jewels of medieval Greek literature but Anna Komnene's is probably the brightest. She was the daughter of one of the emperors—she was porphyrogenita—and it is the first narrative history written by a woman in any European language. It's a text that is incredibly florid, very beautiful, and extremely interesting.
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Ibn Fadlan and the Land of Darkness: Arab Travellers in the Far NorthTheir words
It's a text that's filled with humour, of a man describing a world that is unknown. And I suppose that's a theme for me, looking at different parts of the world that have important significance and value and yet get overlooked because we're always staring at our own reflection in the mirror.
9 September 2017
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Seven SurrendersTheir words
As with movies, it's very rare for a book sequel to be so much better than the original. Seven Surrenders is rated 0.34 points higher on Goodreads than Lightning, which is the gap between an average book and "best of" lists.
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The Mark and the VoidTheir words
The Mark and the Void is my favorite of the three novels but this review will be the shortest because it would superfluous. This review by Slate magazine is excellent, covers all the bases, and it's what has gotten me to read the book to begin with. I'll just focus on the magic.
6 September 2017
From one piece How do managers* get stuck? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The test of whether someone is ready to manage managers is whether their peer managers would want to work for them.Their words
Ultimately, if you want to manage managers, a manager should want to work for you.
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If your team is completely overwhelmed with work, well, it’s partially your fault. You are the manager, and you are the person who is responsible for pushing back on the work commitments for the team.
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Few senior ICs get promoted beyond a point on the strength of their ideas and code alone.
15 August 2017
31 July 2017
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Raise a Genius!Their words
I was hoping that this book would explain Lazslo Polgar's secrets for raising gifted children. It does so only in very broad strokes.
27 July 2017
26 July 2017
From one piece Passwords Evolved: Authentication Guidance for the Modern Era 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In some cases, this has led to once-held "truths" about how we create and manage accounts to be totally flipped on their head, yet we still see modern organisations applying the patterns of yesterday to the threats of today.
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Mandatory periodic password changes make passwords worse, because people just increment the number on the end.Their words
If you're working in an environment that mandates regular password changes, you're very likely doing the same thing because it's an easy human control to deal with a technology requirement that's seen as an impediment.
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Blocking paste on a password field makes passwords weaker, because people fall back to ones they can type.Their words
When a website blocks the pasting of passwords in an attempt to improve security, they force some users to weaken their passwords to the point where they're dumbed down to easily typed versions.
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A password manager does not have to be perfect; it only has to be better than what people do without one.Their words
password managers don't have to be perfect, they just have to be better than not having one.
1 July 2017
27 June 2017
22 June 2017
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Office 365Their words
When I have to use Excel, Word or PowerPoint I have an Office 365 subscription.
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Nvidia GTX 1070Their words
I also use a PC with an AMD Ryzen 1800X, 64GB DDR4 3000Mhz RAM, 512GB SSD, 2TB SSHD, and Nvidia GTX 1070 (8GB) running Windows 10.
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AMD Ryzen 1800XTheir words
I also use a PC with an AMD Ryzen 1800X, 64GB DDR4 3000Mhz RAM, 512GB SSD, 2TB SSHD, and Nvidia GTX 1070 (8GB) running Windows 10.
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UnityTheir words
I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
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REAPERTheir words
I use a ton of software. Here's a list: Xcode, Pages, Numbers, Keynote, Sublime Text, Corona SDK, Unity, Final Cut Pro, Versions, Perforce, VMWare Fusion, Messages, REAPER, Transmit, Coda, Dropbox, Skype, Dashlane, Slack, Terminal, Assembla, Airmail, Spark Mail, Google Docs, Pixelmator, Pixen, TexturePacker, Particle Designer, Tiled, iTunes + Music + Match, Screenium, Steam, Twitter, Facebook.
16 June 2017
12 June 2017
From one piece The Power of Growing Incrementally 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We admire people for taking bold action with public money who in an earlier age would have been called hustlers.Their words
So whether it is Robert Moses then or Elon Musk today, people who would have – in a time past – been called charlatans or hustlers, now become deeply admired for their willingness to take bold action (with public money or supported by tax subsidies).
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Pre-Depression development was incremental on a continuum of improvement while post-War development is built at a large scale to a finished state.
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It is incrementally rising land values, combined with the ability to redevelop to something more intense, that naturally prompts the redevelopment of property in decline.
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Cities have only ever built wealth incrementally, by many small improvements over a long time, not by big projects.Their words
Yet, incremental investment is how cities have always built wealth.
From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.Their words
As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.
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To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
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Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.Their words
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.Their words
As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.
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Their words
To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
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Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.Their words
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.Their words
As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.
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Their words
To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
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Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.Their words
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.Their words
As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.
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Their words
To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
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Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.Their words
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.Their words
As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.
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Their words
To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
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korrents.com
Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.Their words
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.Their words
As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.
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Their words
To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
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korrents.com
Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.Their words
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.Their words
As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.
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Their words
To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
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korrents.com
Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.Their words
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
From one piece Attention is all you need 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Self-attention can yield more interpretable models.Their words
As side benefit, self-attention could yield more interpretable models.
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Their words
To the best of our knowledge, however, the Transformer is the first transduction model relying entirely on self-attention to compute representations of its input and output without using sequence-aligned RNNs or convolution.
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Sequence transduction can use a simple architecture based solely on attention, without recurrence or convolutions.Their words
We propose a new simple network architecture, the Transformer, based solely on attention mechanisms, dispensing with recurrence and convolutions entirely.
30 May 2017
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A Man For All MarketsTheir words
It’s a terrific book
15 May 2017
11 May 2017
From one piece The Engineer/Manager Pendulum 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Management is highly interruptive, and great engineering — where you’re learning things — requires blocking out interruptions. You can’t do these two opposite things at once.
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You can only really improve at one of these things at a time: engineering or management.
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Fuck the whole idea that only managers get career progression.
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The best frontline eng managers in the world are the ones that are never more than 2-3 years removed from hands-on work, full time down in the trenches. The best individual contributors are the ones who have done time in management.
6 May 2017
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The Devil’s Financial DictionaryTheir words
Janson Zweig has written a wonderful book entitled The Devil’s Financial Dictionary in the style of Bierce that is both entertaining and educational.
25 April 2017
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MealSquaresTheir words
So, if you're looking for an easy way to quit the junk food and try a low-variety diet that's unlikely to injure your hypothalamus, I recommend MealSquares as worth a look.
23 April 2017
21 April 2017
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Too Like the LightningTheir words
This preamble is very pertinent to Lightning. The best facets of the novel are really good, and the worst parts are really bad.
17 April 2017
13 April 2017
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The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost ProfitsTheir words
The Good Jobs Strategy: How the Smartest Companies Invest in Employees to Lower Costs and Boost Profits, by Zeynep Ton
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Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People LoveTheir words
Joy, Inc.: How We Built a Workplace People Love, by Richard Sheridan, CEO Menlo Innovations
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Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of BigTheir words
Small Giants: Companies That Choose to Be Great Instead of Big, by Bo Burlingham
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Delivering Happiness: A Path to ProfitsTheir words
Delivering Happiness: A Path to Profits, by Tony Hsieh, Zappos
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An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental OrganizationTheir words
An Everyone Culture: Becoming a Deliberately Developmental Organization, by Robert Kegan and Lisa Laskow Lahey
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IrssiTheir words
I use irssi for IRC, Mutt/Geary for mail, Chromium for browsing, and Pidgin for IM.
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darktableTheir words
I edit photos in darktable and The GIMP, and do my vector work in Inkscape.
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InkscapeTheir words
I edit photos in darktable and The GIMP, and do my vector work in Inkscape.
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fish shellTheir words
Morganastra sold me on the Fish shell a few years ago and I've never looked back.
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D7000Their words
when traveling I prefer my D7000 with a 28-300mm Nikkor. It's lighter, offers better resolution, and that lens is incredibly versatile.
5 April 2017
From one piece BEYOND DRUGS: The Universal Experience of Addiction 4 beliefs · drgabormate.com
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Treating an addiction without treating the pain underneath it is treating an effect rather than a cause.Their words
to treat the addiction, which is a symptom, without treating the pain that underlies it is to deal in effects rather than in causes, and therefore dooms many to ongoing cycles of suffering
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But trauma is not restricted to horrific experiences. It refers to any set of events that, over time, impose more pain on the child than his or her sensitive organism can process and discharge.
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Childhood trauma is the template for every addiction, including the socially rewarded ones.Their words
Childhood trauma is the template for addiction-any addiction. All addictions are attempts to escape the deep pain of the hurt child, attempts temporarily soothing but ultimately futile.
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It is time to realize, then, addiction is neither a choice nor an inherited disease, but a psychological and physiological response to painful life experiences.
1 April 2017
27 March 2017
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Anomaly! Collider Physics and the Quest for New Phenomena at FermilabTheir words
If you're considering to become a particle physicist, I strongly recommend you read this book to find out if you fit the bill.
16 March 2017
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Seeing Like a StateTheir words
Seeing Like A State is the book G.K. Chesterton would have written if he had gone into economic history instead of literature. Since he didn't, James Scott had to write it a century later. The wait was worth it.
1 March 2017
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Facing Addiction in America: The Surgeon General’s Report on Alcohol, Drugs, and HealthTheir words
Facing Addiction in America is also the first governmental attempt to ground policy not in prejudice but in research, not in conjecture but in science. It collates an impressive body of evidence to illuminate the pathological processes and impacts of substance addiction in the human brain and body, and suggests evidence-based practices for treatment and prevention.
From one piece Acemoglu & Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets" (NBER working paper 23285) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Using this approach, we estimate large and robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones.
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In a model where robots compete with human labour task by task, robots can reduce both employment and wages.Their words
Using a model in which robots compete against human labor in the production of different tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages
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As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern about the future of jobs and wages.
From one piece Acemoglu & Restrepo, "Robots and Jobs: Evidence from US Labor Markets" (NBER working paper 23285) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Using this approach, we estimate large and robust negative effects of robots on employment and wages across commuting zones.
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In a model where robots compete with human labour task by task, robots can reduce both employment and wages.Their words
Using a model in which robots compete against human labor in the production of different tasks, we show that robots may reduce employment and wages
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Their words
As robots and other computer-assisted technologies take over tasks previously performed by labor, there is increasing concern about the future of jobs and wages.
28 February 2017
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Google DocsTheir words
For writing, commenting and collaborating on internal technical documents, I use Google Docs.
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LaTeXTheir words
For technical papers, I and my coauthors usually use LaTeX. For giving presentations, I almost exclusively use Google Slides.
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Google SlidesTheir words
For giving presentations, I almost exclusively use Google Slides.
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GMailTheir words
For handling email, I use GMail with lots of filters to automatically file and label message (I get about 1400 email messages per day, so I have to be quite efficient to deal with it all in a reasonable amount of time).
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C++Their words
Most of the code I write is in C++, although I've written fair amounts of code in Java, Python, Perl, Self, Cecil, x86 assembly, and Pascal over the years.
25 February 2017
From one piece Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letter 2 beliefs · berkshirehathaway.com
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The bottom line: When trillions of dollars are managed by Wall Streeters charging high fees, it will usually be the managers who reap outsized profits, not the clients. Both large and small investors should stick with low-cost index funds.
Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com
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Investors do better over time in a low-cost index fund than in a group of hedge funds, on average.Their words
Investors, on average and over time, will do better with a low-cost index fund than with a group of funds of funds.
Berkshire Hathaway 2016 Chairman's Letterberkshirehathaway.com
17 February 2017
14 February 2017
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BlenderTheir words
I've played around in p5 a a bit, and lately I've been rendering some 3D blobs in Blender.
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DropboxTheir words
I use Dropbox to (attempt to) sync things among my several computers.
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KeynoteTheir words
I often give talks that have a lot of GIFs and videos, so Keynote's been useful.
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CintiqTheir words
Wherever my studio happens to be at the moment, I keep a 22" Cintiq monitor to cut things out on.
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Bose noise-canceling headphonesTheir words
I also rely on a pair of Bose noise canceling headphones my dad gave me six or seven years ago that have been slowly falling apart.
8 February 2017
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Building powerful developer tools such as compilers, interpreters, and query languages requires knowledge of parsing.Their words
What I know and what I'm sure about is that without knowledge of parsing you won't be able to build tools like these.
13 January 2017
From one piece There is no WhatsApp 'backdoor' 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There are many things to criticize Facebook for; running a product that deployed end-to-end encryption by default for over a billion people is not one of them.
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The fact that WhatsApp handles key changes is not a “backdoor,” it is how cryptography works.
12 January 2017
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the work of Dr. Sarah BallantyneTheir words
If you suffer one of those diseases, in addition to talking to your doctor, I recommend the work of Dr. Sarah Ballantyne. She has a PhD in medical biophysics, and managed to cure four of her own severe autoimmune diseases with the autoimmune protocol.
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How to Exercise PrimallyTheir words
And I love these two articles from Mark Sisson, a former triathlete and marathon runner: How to Exercise Primally The 10 Rules of Successful Exercise
10 January 2017
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It's a predicament that nearly every American city, with very few exceptions, finds itself in.
9 January 2017
8 January 2017
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Rationality: From AI to ZombiesTheir words
luckily I was aided by a few books that I recommend to anyone who wants to come to terms with this
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The Beginning of InfinityTheir words
This book layed out the basis for a hopeful and optimistic Physicalist worldview.
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Society of MindTheir words
which plausibly breaks down the mind into modules and presents it as if it’s a big piece of software
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Reasons and PersonsTheir words
It includes all sorts of thought experiments that all but destroys the concept of self. I couldn’t finish the book because it was too hard and jargony.
4 January 2017
From one piece On Progress and Historical Change 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Presentism is sometimes conscious, but often unconscious, so mindful historians will pause whenever we see something that feels revolutionary, or progressive, or proto-modern, or too comfortable, to check for other readings, and make triple sure we have real evidence.
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In such a history whole eras can be dismissed as unworthy of study for failing to forward progress (The Middle Ages did great stuff, guys!) while other eras can be disproportionately celebrated for advancing it (The Renaissance did a lot of dumb stuff too!).
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history is a lesson in complexity not predictability
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Bacon’s scientific project produced almost nothing useful for two hundred years after it began.Their words
It really took two hundred years for Bacon’s academy to develop anything useful.
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Then in the early seventeenth century, Francis Bacon invented progress.
22 December 2016
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ConvertKitTheir words
ConvertKit - my newsletter is where I build relationships, and earn trust. This is where I'll share what I'm learning, and ultimately ask people to buy.
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PodiaTheir words
Podia - Podia is an all-in-one selling platform for solopreneurs. It's where I sell my digital products: downloads, courses, and books.
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ScreenFlowTheir words
ScreenFlow - I believe the future of my business is in video + video courses. I'm in ScreenFlow almost every day. Sometimes I use it to "hijack audio" during interviews. Sometimes I use it to edit video. It's getting a lot of use.
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ReedsyTheir words
Reedsy - after trying iBooks Author and Pressbooks to write my books, I've finally settled on Reedsy for writing, layout, and publishing of ebooks.
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TransistorTheir words
Transistor - my podcasts have been one of the biggest ways I've built authority and reputation. Transistor is dead simple, and has great analytics. Plus, it's cheaper than what I was paying Amazon S3 to host them!
19 December 2016
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Why Quark Rhymes with Pork: And Other Scientific DiversionsTheir words
Why Quark Rhymes With Pork is a book I'd never have bought. But having read it, I think you should read it too.
18 December 2016
10 December 2016
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Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.Their words
Write tests. Not too many. Mostly integration.
6 December 2016
5 December 2016
25 November 2016
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Writing Solid CodeTheir words
This book had a big impact on me as young software developer. It was the first time I saw in print the principle "bugs that go away by themselves come back by themselves". It's something that I've often repeated to myself, and my team, if nothing else but to prepare us mentally for when that hard bug does come back. The chapter advising developers to "proactively step through your code during development, don't wait for the bug report" improved my productivity enormously, and I followed the practice for many years.
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The C Programming LanguageTheir words
What can one say about this book, that hasn't been said already? Perhaps this: that of all the books written about programming, this has the highest information density of them all. And yet it's so pleasant to read. There is something about the tone of this book — the way the authors speak to you. They explain everything, and yet never seem patronizing or condescending. The joy they feel for their craft — it really does seem like this book comes from a time when programming was a craft — is unmistakable. Many of today's programmers — web developers, iOS developers, front-end engineers — may have no need to ever read this book. But for those who have not done so, and really want to improve as programmers, work through this book. It's a rite of passage.
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The Unix Programming EnvironmentTheir words
The Unix Programming Environment is a book you can't read too soon. It's something I wish I'd come across years before I actually did. An authoritative and comprehensive manual for using Unix as a programmer, it clearly explains concepts such as inodes, hard and soft links, system calls, and the power of joining programs together via stdin and stdout. By the time I came across this book I already knew these concepts, but had never studied them before in one place, and in such a coherent manner.
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PeoplewareTheir words
But once you start to do so, it's a great book and probably the best one there is on programming management.
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Becoming a Technical LeaderTheir words
Becoming a Technical Leader is both an interesting and subtle book. At times it feels like a self-help book, at other times a Machiavellian explanation of how programming teams really wok. But in the end it's sincere and mature, and wants to help. Weinberg's introspective style will appeal to many programmers, and it appealed to me. This book is useful because it talks about many of the practical issues of becoming a technical leader or manager within a team of developers — and from many unexpected viewpoints.
30 October 2016
1 October 2016
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Probability and Computing: Randomized Algorithms and Probabilistic AnalysisTheir words
I've probably gotten more mileage out of this than out of any other algorithms book.
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Computation: Finite and Infinite MachinesTheir words
The explanations are delightful and I've watched some of the videos more than once just to watch Bernhardt explain things.
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Snipers, Shills, and Sharks: eBay and Human BehaviorTheir words
Seems designed as an entertaining introduction to auction theory for the layperson.
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Multiagent Systems: Algorithmic, Game-Theoretic, and Logical FoundationsTheir words
The title is the worst thing about this book. Otherwise, it's a nice introduction to algorithmic game theory.
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Renegades of the EmpireTheir words
This book explains how Microsoft's aggressive culture got to be the way it is today.
From one piece Applying Behavioral Sciences in the Service of Four Major Economic Problems 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Behavioral science can play an even more important role in the policymaking process in coming years if practitioners instead begin with some of the large-scale questions that economic policymakers face and then develop insights that, often as a complement to more traditional policy tools, can help solve them.
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But to date, the integration of behavioral science into public policy has proceeded from developing a set of tools to then searching for problems these tools can help solve.
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The Success EquationTheir words
Asking me to select my favorite book written by Michael Mauboussin is like asking me to pick my favorite child. I love them all the same. But if I had to choose one book it would probably be The Success Equation.
7 September 2016
30 August 2016
1 August 2016
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The Seventh SenseTheir words
I am enjoying it and think you all will too.
27 July 2016
From one piece Disconnect 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Consuming what everyone else consumes gives you no advantage; focus is the rare and valuable thing now.Their words
You get no competitive edge from consuming the same stuff everyone else is consuming.
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The feeds businesses design to be addictive are obstacles to anyone whose aim is to make something.Their words
Every business wants to get you addicted to their infinite updates, pings, chats, messages, and news. But if what you want out of life is to create, then those are your obstacles.
21 July 2016
From one piece Basics: Technology Never Changes Geometry 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But the only way to grow enough corridors quickly, so that you cover much of the city with frequent service that can succeed in ridership terms, is to take frequent fixed-route bus service seriously.
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It runs on the assumption that whatever we sell to the wealthy today we can sell to the masses tomorrow. But some things stop working when everybody buys them.
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In dense cities, where big transit vehicles (including buses) are carrying significant ridership, any “small vehicles replacing big vehicles” solution increases the total number of vehicles on the road at any time.
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Technology never changes geometry: a transport problem has to be solved spatially before it is solved at all.Their words
When we are talking about space, we are talking about geometry, not engineering, and technology never changes geometry.
3 July 2016
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perfTheir words
I like to use perf top no matter what language my programs are written in, just to see if I can understand anything from it.
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dstatTheir words
There’s also iostat and netstat and atop and a bunch of other tools, but dstat is my favorite.
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straceTheir words
strace is pretty broadly useful, but keep in mind it can really slow down your programs.
9 June 2016
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VimTheir words
I don't use IDEs. I write programs with vim and use both gcc and clang as my main compilers.
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muttTheir words
I use mutt for email. Remotely, I run a ssh connection to my machine and run mutt there.
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UbuntuTheir words
I run Ubuntu on both machines, sticking with the LTS versions.
31 May 2016
30 May 2016
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Why String Theory?Their words
Altogether, Why String Theory? gives the reader a mostly fair and balanced account of string theory
10 May 2016
From one piece Reflections: The ecosystem is moving 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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So while it’s nice that I’m able to host my own email, that’s also the reason why my email isn’t end-to-end encrypted, and probably never will be.
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A federated protocol freezes in time, so a messenger that has to keep up with the ecosystem cannot be federated.Their words
Nothing about any of the protocols we’ve developed requires centralization; it’s entirely possible to build a federated Signal Protocol-based messenger, but I no longer believe that it is possible to build a competitive federated messenger at all.
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By contrast, WhatsApp was able to introduce end-to-end encryption to over a billion users with a single software update.
6 May 2016
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The MartianTheir words
Book for sure. The movie was solid and enjoyable, but kind of just another pretty good movie. The book was special.
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Being John MalkovichTheir words
Movie that I loved and took fully seriously and then saw again with people who were laughing the whole time and realized it was actually a comedy: Being John Malkovich.
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S'well thermosTheir words
I’ve also recently gotten into the small S’well thermos, which I use when I don’t have my bag because unlike my normal one, it fits in my jeans pocket.
2 May 2016
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The Business BlockchainTheir words
the book makes a complex subject, blockchain technology, accessible for the non-technical
28 March 2016
From one piece Still think you don't need HTTPS? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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When you serve your pages over HTTP, anyone along the transport layer can do basically anything they want to your pages. More and more often it's becoming increasingly common for somebody in the chain of custody to do something to your pages that you don't want them to do.
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Every website needs HTTPS, including a static site with no login and nothing sensitive on it.Their words
Supporting HTTPS on your site has so much more to offer than just protecting passwords and user's sensitive data.
4 March 2016
From one piece Data Is a Toxic Asset 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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And because the cost of saving all this data is so cheap, there’s no reason not to save as much as possible, and save it all forever.
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Stored personal data is a toxic asset: it is a liability that keeps growing for as long as it is kept.Their words
What all these data breaches are teaching us is that data is a toxic asset and saving it is dangerous.
4 February 2016
1 February 2016
From one piece Security vs. Surveillance 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If a sufficiently skilled, funded, and motivated attacker wants in to your computer, they’re in.
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The encryption argument is not security against privacy, it is more security against less security.Their words
We’re not being asked to choose between security and privacy. We’re being asked to choose between less security and more security.
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As technologists, we can’t build an access system that only works for people of a certain citizenship, or with a particular morality, or only in the presence of a specified legal document.
28 January 2016
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SafariTheir words
I mainly use Safari as my browser since it has the best Keychain integration.
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EchofonTheir words
For Twitter I use Echofon. It has a very small interface, and I like that.
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Noko LeatherworksTheir words
I use wrist rests from Noko Leatherworks. I don't know if they make a huge difference to my setup, but I like them.
20 January 2016
From one piece The Wrong Abstraction 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Parameters and conditional branches accumulating inside shared code are the diagnostic that the abstraction is wrong.Their words
If you find yourself passing parameters and adding conditional paths through shared code, the abstraction is incorrect.
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Once an abstraction is proved wrong the best strategy is to re-introduce duplication and let it show you what's right.
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Existing code exerts a powerful influence. Its very presence argues that it is both correct and necessary.
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duplication is far cheaper than the wrong abstraction
13 January 2016
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Philosophize This!Their words
My favorite books so far: A History of Western Philosophy by Bertrand Russel, The Guide to the Good Life by William Braxton, and the Philosophize This! podcast.
29 December 2015
From one piece Normalization of deviance 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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It's well studied in a number of other contexts including healthcare, aviation, mechanical engineering, aerospace engineering, and civil engineering, but we don't see it discussed in the context of software.
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The data are clear that humans are really bad at taking the time to do things that are well understood to incontrovertibly reduce the risk of rare but catastrophic events.
12 December 2015
From one piece Files are hard 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These studies also hammer home the point that conventional testing isn't sufficient.
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Almost every software project I've seen has a lot of low hanging testing fruit.
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as an application developer, writing to files safely is hard enough that it should be done via some kind of library and/or database, not by directly making syscalls
10 December 2015
From one piece He, Zhang, Ren & Sun, "Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The depth of a representation, not any particular architecture trick, is what most visual recognition tasks turn on.Their words
The depth of representations is of central importance for many visual recognition tasks.
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Residual networks are easier to optimize than plain ones and keep gaining accuracy as depth increases.Their words
We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth.
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We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions.
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Depth is not free: past a point, deeper neural networks are harder to train rather than simply better.Their words
Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train.
From one piece He, Zhang, Ren & Sun, "Deep Residual Learning for Image Recognition" (arXiv) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The depth of a representation, not any particular architecture trick, is what most visual recognition tasks turn on.Their words
The depth of representations is of central importance for many visual recognition tasks.
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Residual networks are easier to optimize than plain ones and keep gaining accuracy as depth increases.Their words
We provide comprehensive empirical evidence showing that these residual networks are easier to optimize, and can gain accuracy from considerably increased depth.
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Their words
We explicitly reformulate the layers as learning residual functions with reference to the layer inputs, instead of learning unreferenced functions.
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Depth is not free: past a point, deeper neural networks are harder to train rather than simply better.Their words
Deeper neural networks are more difficult to train.
9 December 2015
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I put less weight on explicit cost-effectiveness analysis. Conceptually, my goal is to maximize the impact of my charitable contribution, but I put less weight on the explicit cost-effectiveness models we create than others.
Their words now
I remain ambivalent about putting so much weight on cost-effectiveness estimates because they are subject to numerous debatable assumptions, but I’ve changed my mind based on work we did over the past few months.
26 November 2015
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Pro Tools LETheir words
For music production, I tried Pro Tools LE, but it wasn't for me.
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Windows 7Their words
I use Windows 7 at both work and home, with Classic Shell to emulate some features that were removed in Vista.
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EudoraTheir words
I use Eudora for email.
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MetapadTheir words
For editing text in Windows outside of VC6, I use Metapad; when I'm on a Mac or Linux, I use vim.
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OBS StudioTheir words
I livestream using OBS Studio, capture game footage with Fraps, and edit video with Sony Vegas Pro (for which I have to boot to 64-bit Windows).
14 November 2015
22 October 2015
From one piece Write Stupid Code 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Simple, straightforward solutions can also be elegant, though not every elegant solution is straightforward.Their words
Not every elegant solution is straightforward, but "stupid" ones are, per definition, and can also be elegant.
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Meta-programming is usually unnecessary complexity that obscures what code is meant to do.Their words
But there are a lot more cases in which meta-programming is unnecessary and additional baggage on top of the solution, which gets in the way of understanding what the code is supposed to do.
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A lot of complex, "look at this clever trick", overly-abstracted, unreadable code works and makes the tests pass.
22 September 2015
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oh-my-zshTheir words
I use oh-my-zsh, with a deadly cute prompt and an obnoxious set of aliases.
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TweetbotTheir words
I internet in Chrome, email in Inbox, slideaphone in Keynote, work-chat in Slack, friend-chat on Hangouts/Adium, tweet about squirrels in Tweetbot, and verb all the things in real life.
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SlackTheir words
I internet in Chrome, email in Inbox, slideaphone in Keynote, work-chat in Slack, friend-chat on Hangouts/Adium, tweet about squirrels in Tweetbot, and verb all the things in real life.
3 September 2015
From one piece Neural Networks, Types, and Functional Programming 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The known connection between geometry, logic, topology, and functional programming suggests that the connections between representations and types may be of fundamental significance.
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I think it is very likely that, reflecting back in 30 years, we will see deep learning very differently.
31 August 2015
From one piece Calculus on Computational Graphs: Backpropagation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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An idea can look obvious in hindsight only because the insight that makes it obvious was itself the hard discovery.Their words
It also wasn't obvious that derivatives were the right way to train them. Those are only obvious once you realize you can quickly calculate derivatives. There was a circular dependency.
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That's the benefit of hindsight. Once you've framed the question, the hardest work is already done.
27 August 2015
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In theory, RNNs are absolutely capable of handling such "long-term dependencies." A human could carefully pick parameters for them to solve toy problems of this form. Sadly, in practice, RNNs don't seem to be able to learn them.
13 July 2015
From one piece Pure UI 4 beliefs · rauchg.com
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Lorem Ipsum has had a good run. Let’s replace it with data.
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And if I’m allowed to extrapolate, a clear path is now laid out towards a future where the steps to go from sketch to design to implementation are greatly more accessible to everyone with an idea.
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The main issue, however, is that underestimating the size of the state space is actually very easy. In other words, it’s difficult to come up with the complete list of questions that your UI needs to answer.
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The fundamental idea I want to discuss is the definition of an application’s UI as a pure function of application state.
9 July 2015
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VLC media playerTheir words
VLC media player for playing sound and flat video.
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MouseRugTheir words
My mousepad is a MouseRug. It is essential to my mental health that my mouse live on this tiny Persian rug with fringe and everything.
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Kinesis contoured keyboardTheir words
For keyboards, most of my typing is done on the MacBook keyboard using just my inner fingers, sometimes a Kinesis contoured keyboard (the weird scoopy one) if my outer fingers aren't being the problem at the moment, and sometimes other keyboards.
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Adobe PremiereTheir words
For video editing, mostly Adobe Premiere, unless it's a very simple job and also I'm working on the MacBook, in which case I'll use Final Cut Pro just because the export time is a little faster.
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Breville Barista ExpressTheir words
Other office essentials: Giant googly eyes. Breville Barista Express.
30 June 2015
From one piece Games affecting people 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Denying that games can affect the people who play them is a way of calling games a lesser medium.Their words
Saying games can’t affect people is to denigrate them.
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know in your bones that game design is a powerful way of imprinting behaviors on people, and that it is entirely possible to imprint behaviors you didn’t want.
29 June 2015
From one piece Game design vs UX design 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Where UX tries to provide a likely false but useful mental model of the interior workings to the user, game design tries to guide the player towards a fairly accurate mental model.
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Good interface design uses clarity to hide complexity; good game design uses clarity to teach it.Their words
UX is about clarity that hides complexity, and game design is about clarity that teaches complexity.
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Short form: UX design is about removing problems from the user. Game design is about giving problems to the user.
3 June 2015
From one piece MonolithFirst 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But even experienced architects working in familiar domains have great difficulty getting boundaries right at the beginning.
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Build a new application as a monolith first, even when you are confident it will eventually need microservices.Their words
This leads to a powerful argument for a monolith-first strategy, where you should build a new application as a monolith initially, even if you think it's likely that it will benefit from a microservices architecture later on.
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Almost all the successful microservice stories have started with a monolith that got too big and was broken up
14 April 2015
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HTTPS EverywhereTheir words
Firefox is my browser, with a whole bunch of security plug-ins like AdBlock Plus, BetterPrivacy, and HTTPS Everywhere.
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OutlookTheir words
I use Outlook to maintain my calendar and address book. I hate that program, too, but I can't find anything else that lets me sync locally to my iPhone without going through the cloud.
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Sony VaioTheir words
My computer is a Sony Vaio, which seems to give me the best power/weight ratio. It's a Pro 13, but that's not important.
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Uniball MicroTheir words
My goto pen is a Uniball Micro, in both black and blue.
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Beyond CompareTheir words
For backup, I use Beyond Compare and a variety of external drives.
12 March 2015
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GnuCashTheir words
I use GnuCash to keep track of my checking account and credit card usage.
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croutonTheir words
I however recently started to experiment with crouton, which allows me install a chrooted Ubuntu (or other variants of Linux) on a Chromebook and I can use GnuCash there. So far, this set-up seems to be working well enough for me, so I may be able to lose the Vizio someday.
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CalibreTheir words
I use Calibre to manage my e-books, installing them to and removing them from my Nook e-Readers.
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gnusTheir words
In one of whose windows I run emacs, in which I use gnus newsreader, and there I spend most of my day, exchanging emails with the project participants.
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AsciiDocTheir words
Since the project I work on is a command-line tool that is primarily implemented in C, I use the usual CLI development tools, e.g. make, gcc, gdb, etc. The documentation is in AsciiDoc.
11 March 2015
10 March 2015
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Balancing a system elegantly is not the same as giving people what they actually came for, which is emotion.Their words
The problem with level 2, though is that it works on abstract, mechanical-level analysis of systems, which doesn’t relate directly to what players actually want from their games: emotions.
1 March 2015
25 February 2015
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SuperintelligenceTheir words
(Incidentally, Nick Bostrom's excellent book "Superintelligence" is the best thing I've seen on this topic. It is well worth a read.)
24 February 2015
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GPG is a failed experiment and will not be the thing that brings end-to-end encryption to ordinary people.On changing their mind
In the 1990s, I was excited about the future, and I dreamed of a world where everyone would install GPG. Now I’m still excited about the future, but I dream of a world where I can uninstall it.
18 February 2015
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Every material has a grain, including the web, and designs that work against it end up weaker.Their words
I believe every material has a grain, including the web. But this assumption flies in the face of our expectations for technology. Too often, the internet is cast as a wide-open, infinitely malleable material.
1 February 2015
From one piece What Color is Your Function? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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No matter what, you'll have to think about color constantly.
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It is better. I will take async-await over bare callbacks or futures any day of the week. But we're lying to ourselves if we think all of our troubles are gone.
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Concurrency in Go is a facet of how you choose to model your program, and not a color seared into each function in the standard library.
29 January 2015
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Visual StudioTheir words
At EA, I spent years in Visual Studio writing C# and I still think that may have been the most productive development experience I've ever had.
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LightroomTheir words
I also use Lightroom for processing photos, but still do one last pass on them in Photoshop since I'm attached to adjusting RGB levels individually.
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Google Play Music All AccessTheir words
These days, music makes its way to me through Google Play Music All Access a wonderful service with quite possibly the world's worst brand name.
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Pilot Precise V5Their words
The illustrations in my book are hand-drawn on an old graph paper notebook I found in a closet using a Pilot Precise V5 pen.
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IntelliJTheir words
For C and C++, I also use Xcode. For Dart, I use IntelliJ.
20 January 2015
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GruntTheir words
For making my stuff I use Grunt as my task manager, and specifically I use grunt-init to scaffold my projects.
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Nexus 5Their words
I also keep a running Google Doc of every project idea that comes to mind – as such, my Nexus 5 is invaluable for jotting down notes on the fly.
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Chrome OSTheir words
Chrome OS, especially on a powerful machine like the Pixel, is great for web browsing and web applications, but is not so hot for anything else.
1 January 2015
22 December 2014
From one piece Kingma & Ba, "Adam: A Method for Stochastic Optimization" (arXiv) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The same optimizer should handle objectives that move under it and gradients that are noisy or sparse.Their words
The method is also appropriate for non-stationary objectives and problems with very noisy and/or sparse gradients.
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The method is straightforward to implement, is computationally efficient, has little memory requirements, is invariant to diagonal rescaling of the gradients, and is well suited for problems that are large in terms of data and/or parameters.
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Stochastic optimization can be done well using only adaptive estimates of the gradient's lower-order moments.Their words
We introduce Adam, an algorithm for first-order gradient-based optimization of stochastic objective functions, based on adaptive estimates of lower-order moments.
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