German developer; founder and lead developer of Mastodon, the decentralized open-source social network.

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  GIMP

  Their words

  When I need to touch vector graphics, I use Inkscape. If I need to edit raster images, I use GIMP.

  usesthis.com

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  System76 Lemur

  Their words

  I have a System76 Lemur laptop which I carry around, and an Acer Predator G3-605 desktop.

  usesthis.com

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  Razer Huntsman Elite

  Their words

  Peripheral-wise, I have a mechanical Razer Huntsman Elite keyboard, a Razer Mamba Elite mouse on a Razer Goliathus Chroma mousepad, and Razer Nommo Chroma loudspeakers. The lights cheer me up.

  usesthis.com

Designer and co-founder of Lux, makers of Halide, Spectre and Kino; formerly a designer at Apple.

From one piece A Spectre Retrospective – Part 2: Design 3 beliefs · lux.camera

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  You know a design is great when it disappears: a superb typeface, good signage or a well-designed door handle is never noticed, only the absence of frustration.

  Their words

  When you come across an article set in a superb typeface for reading, some excellent airport signage or a well designed door handle, you don’t think about it or even notice it. If anything you might just notice being happier, or simply not frustrated. That’s how you know a design is great: it disappears.

  A Spectre Retrospective – Part 2: Designlux.camera

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  Given a complicated premise, the best thing a designer can do is stick to a conventional design and let the features surprise and delight.

  Their words

  But given the already complicated premise of long exposure photography, the best possible thing we could do — and as a designer this is hard to admit — was to stick to a fairly conventional design and let the actual features surprise and delight.

  A Spectre Retrospective – Part 2: Designlux.camera

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The most important thing a designer can do to make new technology usable is to simplify, and sometimes fewer features make a better product.

  Their words

  The most important thing you can do as a designer to make great new technology usable is to simplify.

  A Spectre Retrospective – Part 2: Designlux.camera

Working on @ampcode. Writing registerspill.thorstenball.com. Once authored interpreterbook.com and compilerbook.com.

From one piece Learn more programming languages, even if you won't use them 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A programming language functions as a lens that shapes how a problem is perceived when solving it.

  Their words

  Every programming language is a lens through which we can look at the problem we're trying to solve.

  thorstenball.com

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  Each programming language embodies a distinct mental model for thinking about computation and writing programs.

  Their words

  Each language contains a different mental model, a different perspective for thinking about computation and how to write programs.

  thorstenball.com

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  Programming languages shape how programmers think, similar to how spoken languages shape thought.

  Their words

  Languages shape the way we think*, each in their own peculiar way. That's true for programming languages as well.

  thorstenball.com

Essayist; writes Astral Codex Ten, previously Slate Star Codex.

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  Method of Levels: How to Do Psychotherapy Without Getting in the Way

  Their words

  This book isn't just bad, it's dangerous.

  slatestarcodex.com

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  How to Read Lacan

  Their words

  Despite being very readable, this book never really came together.

  slatestarcodex.com

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  The Steerswoman

  Their words

  The Steerswoman is popular in the rationalist community, and now I see why.

  slatestarcodex.com

Software engineer who writes the blog Made of Bugs about performance, debugging and understanding computer systems. Previously worked at Anthropic on interpretability, at Stripe on Sorbet, and at Ksplice.

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  Hidden Figures

  Their words

  The book and movie only tangentially touch on Apollo itself (although it does appear!), but they make the list because they are well worth the read / watch, and they tell an important story of yet another facet of the immense collaboration that was the space program, and the incredible diversity of people and backgrounds and stories and kinds of work that went into making it all work.

  blog.nelhage.com

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  Apollo 8: The Thrilling Story of the First Mission to the Moon

  Their words

  This book tells the story of that decision, and of the work and the people who made that mission happen.

  blog.nelhage.com

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  The Last Man on the Moon

  Their words

  This documentary was a solid telling of the story of that mission, and of the later-in-Apollo scientific goals and geological exploration that was achieved, as well as a wistful look back at the story of the last humans, to date, to set foot on the moon.

  blog.nelhage.com

Writer and researcher on how people organise online; wrote Working in Public, on the maintenance of open-source software, and Antimemetics.

From one piece Making money with licenses 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  Information once freely shared cannot be taken back, so charging for access to code is a pre-digital answer to a digital problem.

  Their words

  Information, once freely shared, is a Pandora’s box that cannot be closed again. It is very hard for me to imagine a world where we transition back to paying for access to information; these are pre-digital solutions to modern problems.

  Making money with licensesnadia.xyz

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Free riding is not open source’s problem: the users who only download the code impose no cost on anyone.

  open source

  Their words

  Most users don’t actually impose costs back to maintainers: they download the code and never interact with the project.

  Making money with licensesnadia.xyz

• Our readingkorrents.com

  New licences are the wrong lever for paying maintainers: copyleft’s history shows terms companies ignore, and relicensing attempts get beaten back by their own communities.

  Their words

  As for my personal feelings on the matter, however, I’m skeptical that new licenses are the right approach on a systemic level, both in terms of feasibility, as well as where I think the world is going.

  Making money with licensesnadia.xyz

Former NASA flight director and space shuttle programme manager; writes about how the shuttle was actually flown and what went wrong.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Wanting badly to launch is itself a hazard: the pressure to fly is what turns small anomalies into accidents.

  Their words

  Temptation is very high to wave away issues, ignore anomalies, squeeze the rules, or brush aside inconsistencies just to GET ON WITH IT.

  Launch Feverwaynehale.wordpress.com

Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

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  The Soul of a New Machine

  Their words

  Since reading it over two decades ago, I have recommended The Soul of a Machine at essentially every opportunity, believing that it is a part of computing's literary foundation – that it should be considered our Odyssey.

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

Art critic, broadcaster and author; wrote on art for The Independent and The Sunday Telegraph and presents BBC art documentaries. Author of Caravaggio: A Life Sacred and Profane.

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  Turner: Imagination and Reality

  Their words

  This catalogue was published on the occasion of the first ever exhibition of a long-dead painter at the Museum of Modern Art. It's only about thirty pages, but it is utterly brilliant.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Painting of Modern Life: Paris in the Art of Manet and His Followers

  Their words

  This is an extremely fascinating account of nineteenth-century French art in the age of Baudelaire, Manet, and moving forward into the Impressionists.

  fivebooks.com

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  Literary Landscape: Turner and Constable

  Their words

  This is a micro-study of how one might interpret the paintings of Turner and Constable and what they're really trying to do. It's one of the very few works I've ever read about Turner or Constable that addresses the real issues of their work.

  fivebooks.com

Game designer; wrote A Theory of Fun for Game Design and worked on Ultima Online and Star Wars Galaxies.

From one piece What drives retention 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  A profit motive inside a game holds players there long past the point where they are still enjoying it.

  Their words

  The profit motive is incredibly powerful and will keep players engaging in your experience well past the point of actual enjoyment.

  What drives retentionraphkoster.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A service business in games rests entirely on retention: a genre that cannot hold people across sessions cannot be sold as a service.

  Their words

  There is no ongoing service without retention.

  What drives retentionraphkoster.com

Investment researcher and engineer who runs Lyn Alden Investment Strategy, writing on macroeconomics, currency systems and equity analysis.

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  The Most Important Thing

  Their words

  In addition, he has turned some of those memos into books, and I think The Most Important Thing is the best one. Warren Buffett asked him to write it.

  lynalden.com

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  Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises

  Their words

  His book Principles for Navigating Big Debt Crises is an important read for investors that want to protect themselves from or benefit from recessions and other financial crises.

  lynalden.com

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  The Lessons of History

  Their words

  It’s not an investing book, but The Lessons of History is one of the most important books for long-term investors to read, in my opinion.

  lynalden.com

Mathematician and Senior Lecturer in the Mathematics department at Columbia University. Author of the book Not Even Wrong and of the long-running physics blog of the same name.

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  Quantum Space: Loop Quantum Gravity and the Search for the Structure of Space, Time, and the Universe

  Their words

  Jim Baggott has a very good new book out, entitled Quantum Space

  math.columbia.edu

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  Fly Fishing Treasures

  Their words

  Finally, the new book you really should buy a copy of is my brother Steve's Fly Fishing Treasures

  math.columbia.edu

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  Lectures of Sidney Coleman on Quantum Field Theory

  Their words

  David Kaiser has contributed an introduction to the book (available here , or, if this doesn't work, try here ) which does an excellent job of putting the material in historical and intellectual context

  math.columbia.edu

Musician and writer; answers readers' questions weekly at The Red Hand Files, and fronts Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds.

From one piece Considering human imagination the last piece of wilderness, do you think AI will ever be able to write a good song? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  What moves a listener is not the song alone but a human being straining against their own limits, which is why a machine can write a good song and never a great one.

  Their words

  What we are actually listening to is human limitation and the audacity to transcend it. Artificial Intelligence, for all its unlimited potential, simply doesn’t have this capacity.

  theredhandfiles.com

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  A sense of awe depends on the limits of the person who made the thing, so unlimited potential has nothing left to transcend.

  Their words

  A sense of awe is almost exclusively predicated on our limitations as human beings. It is entirely to do with our audacity as humans to reach beyond our potential.

  theredhandfiles.com

Writer and consultant on formal methods and software correctness; author of Practical TLA+ and Logic for Programmers.

From one piece Why Don't People Use Formal Methods? 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

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  There is a permanent trade-off in verification: an expressive language is hard to prove things about, and a language that is easy to prove things about is hard to write in.

  Their words

  Formal verifiers have a dilemma: the more expressive the language, the harder it is to prove anything in it. But the less expressive the language, the harder it is to write anything in it.

  Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?hillelwayne.com

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  Full formal verification is a waste of money for most software: near-perfect is reachable with ordinary techniques at a fraction of the cost.

  Their words

  You do not need full code verification to write good software or even to write near-perfect software.

  Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?hillelwayne.com

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  Most distributed-systems outages would have been prevented by slightly more comprehensive ordinary testing, not by better tools.

  Their words

  In fact, the vast majority of distributed systems outages could have been prevented by slightly-more-comprehensive testing.

  Why Don't People Use Formal Methods?hillelwayne.com

CEO of SafeGraph, host of the World of DaaS podcast, and author of the Summation newsletter; previously founded LiveRamp.

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  The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power

  Their words

  The Prize: The Epic Quest for Oil, Money, and Power by Daniel Yergin

  summation.net

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  Stumbling on Happiness

  Their words

  Stumbling on Happiness by Daniel Gilbert

  summation.net

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  The True Believer

  Their words

  The True Believer by Eric Hoffer

  summation.net

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

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  WeeChat

  Their words

  My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.

  usesthis.com

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  mutt

  Their words

  My text editor is vim. My IRC client is WeeChat and my email client is mutt.

  usesthis.com

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  Fish

  Their words

  My shell is fish, but I'm only using that until mrsh is ready.

  usesthis.com

Software engineer and founder of Block Party; previously an engineer at Pinterest and Quora, and a co-founder of the non-profit Project Include and the tech diversity data project Where are the Numbers?

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  IA Writer

  Their words

  For longer-form writing, I switch somewhat randomly between iA Writer, Byword, and Medium (in the browser).

  usesthis.com

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  nvALT

  Their words

  For random notes or snippets, I use nvALT on my computer synced to Simplenote on my phone via Dropbox.

  usesthis.com

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  Todoist

  Their words

  I track personal todo's in Todoist.

  usesthis.com

Computer science professor at Georgetown University and author of Deep Work, Digital Minimalism and Slow Productivity; writes about focus, technology and work at calnewport.com and hosts the Deep Questions podcast.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The problem the smartphone was invented to solve is now better solved by other devices, so its place in daily life rests on habit rather than necessity.

  Their words

  The original smartphones solved a real problem: how do I check in on work when away from my office computer? This problem is now better solved by more recent innovations.

  Are Smartphones Necessary Anymore?calnewport.com

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  Atomic Habits

  Their words

  I was doubtful, but everyone kept telling me it’s awesome, so I reluctantly read it. Holy crap! It’s GREAT! Feels like the definitive masterpiece on the subject of how to make good habits and break bad ones. Very focused on helping you take action. Very relatable and inspiring.

  sive.rs

Public transit planning consultant; wrote Human Transit and argues that a network's shape follows from what a city decides it wants.

From one piece Elon Musk's Tunnel: It Doesn't Scale, so it Doesn't Matter 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  The real cost of transport demonstration projects is that they confuse decision-makers about whether mass transit still needs building.

  Their words

  While delivering almost nothing useful, they are confusing elite opinion about whether we still need to build mass transit, which we do.

  humantransit.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A transport idea that does not scale does not matter, and it is for the rich: inefficiency is inequality.

  Their words

  If it doesn’t scale, it’s for the rich. Or to put it another way: Inefficiency is inequality.

  humantransit.org

Physician and author on addiction, stress and childhood development. Wrote In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts and The Myth of Normal, and developed the Compassionate Inquiry approach taught to therapists.

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  Compassionate Inquiry Online Training

  Their words

  Compassionate Inquiry is an in depth teaching and distillation of the approach I have developed to working with human beings beset by personal issues, health problems that need gently guided exploration, mental health challenges, addictions, relationship difficulties and, above all, an unhealthy relationship to their own selves.

  drgabormate.com

American author of speculative fiction, including The Paper Menagerie and the Dandelion Dynasty series, and translator of Chinese science fiction. Also a programmer and lawyer.

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  Ulysses

  Their words

  For short stories and nonfiction, I use Ulysses. I find the distraction-free interface conducive for focus.

  usesthis.com

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  Vim

  Their words

  For general text editing, nothing quite beats vim.

  usesthis.com

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  12-inch MacBook

  Their words

  My main machine is a 2016 12-inch MacBook. It's super light and has a small footprint, good for working on an airplane or a train (I travel a lot).

  usesthis.com

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Educated

  Their words

  Educated is an amazing story, and I get why it’s spent so much time on the top of the New York Times bestseller list.

  gatesnotes.com

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  21 Lessons for the 21st Century

  Their words

  In his fascinating new book 21 Lessons for the 21st Century, the historian Yuval Noah Harari creates a useful framework for confronting these fears.

  gatesnotes.com

Programmer and designer who writes at tonsky.me; author of Fira Code, DataScript and AnyBar.

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  Microsoft Sculpt keyboard

  Their words

  My keyboard is a Microsoft Sculpt which is surprisingly ergonomic and very good for my hands. Looks nice too. I only wish it was mechanical.

  usesthis.com

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  Bose QuietComfort 35

  Their words

  My go-to headphones are wireless Bose QuietComfort 35’s, which are fantastic for when you need to concentrate or you’re just tired of noise from a plane or train.

  usesthis.com

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  Nintendo Switch

  Their words

  For entertainment I’m super happy with the Nintendo Switch, which has a multitude of great games

  usesthis.com

Former options market maker who writes Moontower, a newsletter on trading, volatility, decision-making and how to think about risk outside markets too.

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  Odd Lots

  Their words

  Regular Rotation Investing Focused Interviews The Meb Faber Show Master in Business with Barry Ritholz Capital Allocators with Ted Seides Bloomberg’s Odd Lots with Tracy Alloway and Joe Weisenthal

  moontowermeta.com

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  Conversations with Tyler

  Their words

  Economics or Business Interviews Conversations with Tyler with Tyler Cowen EconTalk with Russ Roberts General Interviews North Star Podcast with Dave Perell The Tim Ferriss Show

  moontowermeta.com

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  EconTalk

  Their words

  Economics or Business Interviews Conversations with Tyler with Tyler Cowen EconTalk with Russ Roberts General Interviews North Star Podcast with Dave Perell The Tim Ferriss Show

  moontowermeta.com

Software engineer and educator; creator of Testing Library and of the EpicWeb.dev and EpicReact.dev courses.

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Good things happen when you do not test implementation details: tests written with the React and Vue testing libraries look almost identical.

  JavaScript

  Their words

  Did you know, the tests you write with react-testing-library look almost identical to the tests you write with vue-testing-library. Magic things happen when you don't test implementation details. :)

  @kentcdodds on Xx.com

Financial journalist; chief financial correspondent at Axios and host of the Slate Money podcast, previously a blogger at Reuters and author of The Phoenix Economy.

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  Instapaper

  Their words

  For reading it's Instapaper, the Kindle app, and the native iBooks app.

  usesthis.com

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  Google Docs

  Their words

  Now, almost everything happens in Google Docs, except for when I write straight into the Axios or Substack CMS. (Both of which are lovely, WYSIWYG, very simple and easy to use.)

  usesthis.com

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  sea serpent bracelet

  Their words

  My sea serpent bracelet from Jill Platner. I put it on and take it off dozens of times a day, and slide it back and forth between my hands. It has the perfect weight and feel

  usesthis.com

One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

From one piece BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than a left-to-right model or a shallow concatenation of unidirectional models.

  Their words

  Intuitively, it is reasonable to believe that a deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than either a left-to-right model or the shallow concatenation of a left-to-right and a right-to-left model.

  arxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

  Their words

  We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

  arxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Unidirectional restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks and harmful for token-level tasks that need bidirectional context.

  Their words

  Such restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks, and could be very harmful when applying fine-tuning based approaches to token-level tasks such as question answering, where it is crucial to incorporate context from both directions.

  arxiv.org

One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

From one piece BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than a left-to-right model or a shallow concatenation of unidirectional models.

  Their words

  Intuitively, it is reasonable to believe that a deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than either a left-to-right model or the shallow concatenation of a left-to-right and a right-to-left model.

  arxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

  Their words

  We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

  arxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Unidirectional restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks and harmful for token-level tasks that need bidirectional context.

  Their words

  Such restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks, and could be very harmful when applying fine-tuning based approaches to token-level tasks such as question answering, where it is crucial to incorporate context from both directions.

  arxiv.org

One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

From one piece BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than a left-to-right model or a shallow concatenation of unidirectional models.

  Their words

  Intuitively, it is reasonable to believe that a deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than either a left-to-right model or the shallow concatenation of a left-to-right and a right-to-left model.

  arxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

  Their words

  We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

  arxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Unidirectional restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks and harmful for token-level tasks that need bidirectional context.

  Their words

  Such restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks, and could be very harmful when applying fine-tuning based approaches to token-level tasks such as question answering, where it is crucial to incorporate context from both directions.

  arxiv.org

One of the four authors of the 2018 paper "BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding", at Google AI Language, the affiliation printed on the paper.

From one piece BERT: Pre-training of Deep Bidirectional Transformers for Language Understanding 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than a left-to-right model or a shallow concatenation of unidirectional models.

  Their words

  Intuitively, it is reasonable to believe that a deep bidirectional model is strictly more powerful than either a left-to-right model or the shallow concatenation of a left-to-right and a right-to-left model.

  arxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

  Their words

  We show that pre-trained representations reduce the need for many heavily-engineered task-specific architectures.

  arxiv.org

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Unidirectional restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks and harmful for token-level tasks that need bidirectional context.

  Their words

  Such restrictions are sub-optimal for sentence-level tasks, and could be very harmful when applying fine-tuning based approaches to token-level tasks such as question answering, where it is crucial to incorporate context from both directions.

  arxiv.org

Co-founder and CTO of Oxide Computer Company. Created DTrace at Sun Microsystems and was CTO of Joyent; blogs about systems software, open source and engineering culture.

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  New Rustacean

  Their words

  Check out the New Rustacean podcast by Chris Krycho. I have really enjoyed Chris's podcasts, and have been working my way through them when commuting or doing household chores.

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

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  rustlings

  Their words

  Check out rustlings. I learned about this a little too late for me; I wish I had known about it earlier!

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

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  Rust koans

  Their words

  I did work through the Rust koans, which I enjoyed and would recommend for the first few hours with Rust.

  bcantrill.dtrace.org

Creator and long-time maintainer of the Linux kernel, and the author of Git. Runs the kernel in public on a mailing list, which is why both his position on how to talk to contributors and his abandonment of it are on the record in his own words.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  Being blunt to the point of abuse on the kernel mailing list is who I am and the right way to run the project.

  Their words, before

  I simply don't believe in being polite or politically correct.

  Their words now

  My flippant attacks in emails have been both unprofessional and uncalled for.

Obesity researcher; wrote The Hungry Brain, on why the brain overeats, and reviews nutrition evidence.

From one piece Quickly assessing the credibility of public experts 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  Nutrition is one of the domains where beliefs track group identity rather than evidence, so an expert's claims there deserve more suspicion than in physics.

  Their words

  The likelihood that someone is providing high-quality information in these domains is lower than in less controversial areas like physics or neuroscience.

  stephanguyenet.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  People who explain everything with one big idea are bad at modelling the world, and the media selects for them because they sound confident.

  Their words

  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.

  stephanguyenet.com

• Our readingkorrents.com

  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.

  stephanguyenet.com

Free software developer; maintainer of sway, wlroots, aerc and scdoc, and founder of the SourceHut (sr.ht) software forge.

From one piece The Commons Clause will destroy open source 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there

• Our readingkorrents.com

  A few hundred dollars a month is nothing to a company and transformative to a project, so engineers should be the ones asking their employers to pay it.

  open source

  Their words

  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.

  The Commons Clause will destroy open sourcedrewdevault.com

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  A contributor licence agreement exists so the company can relicense volunteers’ work, and should neither be signed nor asked for.

  Their words

  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.

  The Commons Clause will destroy open sourcedrewdevault.com

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  The Commons Clause does not solve open source’s funding problem; it is a framework for turning open source software into proprietary software.

  open source

  Their words

  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.

  The Commons Clause will destroy open sourcedrewdevault.com

Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

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  Shoe Dog

  Their words

  The best book I have read about being an entrepreneur is Shoe Dog by Nike founder Phil Knight. If you are interested in business and have not read this book, what exactly are you reading?

  25iq.com

Co-founder of AngelList. Writes and podcasts at nav.al in short, aphoristic pieces on startups, wealth and judgement rather than long essays.

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  The Path to Love

  Their 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.

  x.com

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  Faraday, Maxwell, and the Electromagnetic Field

  Their 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.

  x.com

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  The Gay Science

  Their 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.

  x.com

Co-founder of Microsoft and of the Gates Foundation. Writes Gates Notes on global health, energy and climate, and on whatever they have been reading.

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  Capitalism without Capital

  Their 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.

  gatesnotes.com

Statistician and Chief Scientist at Posit (RStudio). Author of the ggplot2, dplyr and tidyverse R packages and of books on R programming and data science.

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  The Algorithm Design Manual

  Their 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.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master

  Their 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.

  fivebooks.com

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  The Art of Readable Code

  Their words

  What I liked about this book is that it gives you a series of techniques to make that smell go away.

  fivebooks.com

Sociologist and founder of Bismarck Analysis; writes on live players, institutional decay and why societies lose knowledge.

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.

  The Succession Problemsamoburja.com

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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.

  The Succession Problemsamoburja.com

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  Institutions die at succession, and it is two problems rather than one: handing over power, and handing over the skill to steer.

  Their words

  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).

  samoburja.com

Obesity researcher; wrote The Hungry Brain, on why the brain overeats, and reviews nutrition evidence.

• Our reading nowkorrents.com

  The executives of the Nutrition Science Initiative paid themselves their own enormous salaries out of a nonprofit's donations.

  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.

Writer of the 25iq blog, where he distils "a dozen things I've learned" from investors, founders and thinkers. Author of Charlie Munger: The Complete Investor and A Dozen Lessons for Entrepreneurs.

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  The Messy Middle

  Their 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.

  25iq.com

Founded CD Baby in 1998 and sold it in 2008, giving the proceeds to a charitable trust for music education. Since then a writer and speaker: five books and 550+ articles, published first at sive.rs, which they hand-code and keep free of advertising.

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  The Courage to Be Disliked

  Their 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…

  sive.rs

Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

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  Innovation should happen inside the existing teams rather than in a fresh team spun up for it, because a separate innovation team creates a two-tier class system.

  On changing their mind

  I’ve historically done this myself, but I’ve moved towards innovating within existing teams.

Engineering leader and writer; wrote An Elegant Puzzle, Staff Engineer and The Engineering Executive's Primer, and blogs at Irrational Exuberance.

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.

  Sizing engineering teams.lethain.com

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  A group of fewer than four people is not a team: it behaves like a set of individuals, and a single departure knocks it back into maintenance.

  Their words

  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.

  Sizing engineering teams.lethain.com

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  An engineering manager should support six to eight engineers: fewer and they drift into being a tech lead, more and they can only be a coach.

  Their words

  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.

  Sizing engineering teams.lethain.com

Security researcher; founded Have I Been Pwned, and writes and speaks about data breaches.

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  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.

  Here's Why Your Static Website Needs HTTPStroyhunt.com