What public figures publish and believe, in their own words.
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From one piece Air Travel Doesn't Have to be Terrible 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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What air travellers actually value is door-to-door time, and public policy tends not to measure it.Their words
Reduction in door-to-door travel time is king. Public policy may not keep this in mind.
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The constraint on point-to-point air travel is runway and tarmac capacity, not room in the sky.Their words
There is much more space in the air than on the airport tarmac. Our current hub and spoke system means some hub airports operate near runway capacity already.
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Surprisingly, fuel consumption per passenger mile would be lower in a Celera 500 than in a 737. The larger the fuselage, the harder it is to achieve the same drag reduction.
23 October 2021
20 October 2021
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DynamoDBTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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FaunaTheir words
I typically recommend looking at serverless native databases like DynamoDB or Fauna however they do not work for all preferences or workloads.
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PlanetScaleTheir words
That said, I'd personally pick Planetscale in this situation.
19 October 2021
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On changing their mind
I believe this needs to change because, as a former longtermist who published an entire book four years ago in defence of the general idea, I have come to see this worldview as quite possibly the most dangerous secular belief system in the world today.
From one piece Against longtermism 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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For example, there’s a good case to make that the underlying commitments of longtermism are a major reason why humanity faces so many unprecedented risks to its survival in the first place.
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Effective altruism is deeply utilitarian in practice, whatever its members say about not being utilitarians.Their words
The fact is that the EA movement is deeply utilitarian, at least in practice, and indeed, before it decided upon a name, the movement’s early members, including Ord, seriously considered calling it the ‘effective utilitarian community’.
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In a phrase: people exist for the sake of maximising value, rather than value existing for the sake of benefitting people.
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The initial thing to notice is that longtermism, as proposed by Bostrom and Beckstead, is not equivalent to ‘caring about the long term’ or ‘valuing the wellbeing of future generations’.
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The short answer is that elevating the fulfilment of humanity’s supposed potential above all else could nontrivially increase the probability that actual people – those alive today and in the near future – suffer extreme harms, even death.
9 October 2021
From one piece How New Managers Fail Individual Contributors 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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great engineers really shouldn’t need to manage large teams to get promoted, and companies lose out on a critical skillset when they push all of their good engineers into management.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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But it is critical that you step back on the technical decisions to make room for the team members to own things and grow.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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Passing tasks to a team without the context behind them tells them they are the doers and the manager is the decider.Their words
When you don’t give your team the context for the work and just pass on tasks and work items to them, you make it clear that they are simply “doers” and your job is the job of “decider.”
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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A manager whose own code finishes every project is adding their value rather than multiplying the team’s.Their words
If it’s your code that gets you over the finish line for every project, you aren’t providing multiplicative value for the team, you’re providing the additive value of your work as an engineer.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
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As a manager, your output is not measured by your individual work. Rather, your output is measured by the work of your team and the people that you influence.
How New Managers Fail Individual Contributorselidedbranches.com
6 October 2021
From one piece Opinion: Manipulating viruses and risking pandemics is too dangerous. It's time to stop. 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Like nuclear physics, with its potential for global catastrophe when put to destructive ends, the proliferation of pandemic biology ought to be considered a matter of international security.
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But perhaps the biggest question of all isn’t being asked insistently enough: Why is anyone trying to teach the world how to make viruses that could kill millions of people?
5 October 2021
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19 September 2021
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Martyr MadeTheir words
I started listening to Darryl Cooper's Martyr Made last year as part of a deep dive on cults, but kept going because I found him incredibly insightful.
13 September 2021
From one piece The future of the App Store 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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korrents.com
Credit cards provide stronger fraud protection and easier recourse for unwanted charges than app stores do.Their words
most credit cards themselves provide stronger fraud prevention and easier recourse from unwanted charges than the App Store ever has
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Most people use a Facebook-owned app not because it's a good app, but because it's a means to an important end in their life.
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The realistic alternatives to Apple's App Store would end up worse than the App Store itself.Their words
Apple's App Store is the devil we know. The most viable alternatives that would crop up would be far worse.
12 September 2021
11 September 2021
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Falling fertility is transmitted by the values that mass media spread, not by how rich any individual is.Their words
It seems to be correlated strongly with societal (not individual) wealth, and mediated by norms transmitted via mass media.
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Klara and the Sun: A NovelTheir words
Klara and the Sun is an absolutely remarkable example of how to develop this understanding.
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Never Let Me GoTheir words
I loved his Never Let Me Go, which I thought was beautifully delicate and raw and powerful.
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Other MindsTheir words
There's a book, which isn't in the five I've chosen (though it could well have been), Peter Godfrey Smith's Other Minds, which I think is a beautiful exploration of other minds.
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The Feeling of Life ItselfTheir words
His book, The Feeling of Life Itself, is a very accessible, authoritative and up-to-date manifesto for IIT.
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The Mechanical Mind in HistoryTheir words
There are a couple of other books I'd have loved to have included here. My PhD supervisor, Phil Husbands, and Owen Holland, have a recent book called The Mechanical Mind in History
10 September 2021
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Disarming the NarcissistTheir words
Now a self-help classic, Disarming the Narcissist is a practical, step-by-step communication guide to help you cope with and confront the narcissist in your life.
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Recommendstheir ownrcmnd.app
Schema Therapy Online CommunityTheir words
This online community is a powerful way to stay in touch with other schema therapists around the globe, on a regular basis; to be part of the ever-growing ST community.
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Recommendstheir ownrcmnd.app
Schema Therapy Training Institute video seriesTheir words
This video series is grounded in an understanding, both conceptually and practically, of the essential value of the therapy relationship in schema therapy
7 September 2021
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James Hoffmann's AeroPress videosTheir words
I highly recommend watching all three of his videos, because the tests and discussions he presented are of a very high quality.
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AeroPressTheir words
While I have enjoyed the AeroPress a lot in the past especially when travelling, I have always had one big complaint about it: getting a thick coffee bed to minimize uneven flow when pressing out the water limits the brew ratios that can be used.
6 September 2021
3 September 2021
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The Listening BookTheir words
Everyone should read this book of little essays about listening. It teaches your ears to pay more attention. It calls your attention to sounds you hadn’t noticed. It’s beautifully written, and makes your life better. I read it twice, 24 years ago, and reading it again this week, it was even better than I remembered.
1 September 2021
31 August 2021
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Boeing's decline began when its management moved away from the factory and the engineers stopped running it.Their words
The changes separated its management and board from the day-to-day processes at the heart of its business.
America's Aerospace Industry is Regeneratingaustinvernon.site
30 August 2021
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The World After CapitalTheir words
That means I will read it again and you should too.
19 August 2021
From one piece 3 Steps for Effective Translation to Learn Any Language 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In traditional classroom settings, the development of skills often gets overlooked in favor of facts. Facts in the form of conjugation tables, word lists, grammar explanations, the names of verb tenses, and so on. All of these things are related to language, but it’s important to realize that knowing these things has nothing to do with speaking and using a language productively.
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This is an important detail that often gets overlooked, because language learning is, first and foremost, about acquiring skills. About learning how to read, write, speak, and listen, along with all of the countless subskills that any competent language speaker has in his or her toolbox.
18 August 2021
From one piece The truth about distraction 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Work that matters requires tolerating discomfort and boredom rather than escaping into distraction.Their words
Consider the possibility that mild discomfort – butterflies in the stomach, a sense of difficulty, a moment of boredom – might simply be the price of doing things you care about.
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This is why most anti-distraction hacks – web-blocking apps, noise-canceling headphones, personal rules – never seem to work very well.
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you don’t get dragged away against your will. You surrender willingly.
From one piece Product Discovery Basics: Everything You Need to Know 2 beliefs · producttalk.org
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The product trio—comprised of a product manager, design lead, and tech lead—is responsible for product discovery.
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Product discovery is a decision-making process, and good discovery keeps the customer inside that process.Their words
Product discovery is a decision-making process. Good product discovery includes the customer throughout that process.
16 August 2021
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We are transitioning from a world where everything is made in China, to one where everything is designed and sold by China too.
From one piece There's no such thing as a fresh start 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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the perfectionist's fantasy of reaching her deathbed with a perfect record of accomplishments under her belt isn't just extremely unlikely, but doomed from the start
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Life change never comes from one transforming plan; it comes from small adjustments to the life you already have.Their words
This, in my experience, is the only way personal change ever really happens: by first seeing that it's always a matter of rebuilding the ship mid-ocean, making adjustments to a life you can't ever take back to port or trade for another.
14 August 2021
12 August 2021
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On changing their mind
Five years later, the facts on the ground have finally changed. I no longer believe that this bargain is worth it for most new applications.
11 August 2021
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From the River to the SeaTheir words
Sedgewick was more successful in developing his characters, and I also appreciated that he took regular tangents into other related and interesting matters like the Leadville mining boom, the growth of Los Angeles, and the business maneuvers of other railroad barons like Jay Gould and Collis Huntington.
9 August 2021
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CalTopoTheir words
My own platform-of-choice has become CalTopo, and I think it's now the clear winner for those who have similar needs.
5 August 2021
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First Round ReviewTheir words
A treasure trove for consumer and enterprise technology companies.
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Remains of the DayTheir words
He always has an interesting take on products.
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How I Built ThisTheir words
Like my startup books, each of these podcasts gives insight into product and strategy.
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How to Build an Iconic CompanyTheir words
These are three-minute podcasts that talk about startups, leadership, management, and strategy.
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Lenny’s NewsletterTheir words
A weekly Substack product newsletter that pulls together lots of highly relevant resources.
3 August 2021
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Numbers Don’t LieTheir words
I unabashedly recommend this book to anyone who loves learning.
2 August 2021
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How Buildings LearnTheir words
I’ve read this book three times since 1999, and gifted it many times to others. It’s changed the way I look at buildings. I read it again now because I’m building a new house. Its main idea is that all buildings are predictions, and all predictions are wrong, so design to make them easy to change. I think of it metaphorically in life: assuming my predictions about what I want will probably be w…
1 August 2021
From one piece Thinking about “traceability” 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This brings us to the central challenge of all content tracing proposals so far: to make tracing possible, a tracing system needs to turn every WhatsApp user (including the originator) into a cooperative green circle — regardless of whether users actually want to cooperate with police.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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Information revealed about “who sent what” in an E2E system is not the same as metadata.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
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In short: traceability can really screw with the “who sent what” side of content confidentiality.
Thinking about “traceability”blog.cryptographyengineering.com
31 July 2021
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Elgato FacecamTheir words
previously I used a GoPro as a webcam, but since Elgato released this webcam, I switched to it.
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Elgato Wave 3Their words
The main microphone I use for sessions and meetings. I use it in combination with the Elgato Wave Pop and Elgato Wave Shock Mount.
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Logitech MX KeysTheir words
Great keyboard, bought it in the US, as the US International (available in EU) is not the same as US English.
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Rode microphone boom armTheir words
Just a great and flexible microphone boom arm.
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Front MatterTheir words
When I switched to Hugo, I needed to have an extension which allows me to keep my article front matter up to date.
29 July 2021
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20 July 2021
From one piece A case against security nihilism 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather: NSO’s genius is that they’ve done something that attackers were never incentivized to do in this past: democratize access to exploit technology.
A case against security nihilismblog.cryptographyengineering.com
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The problem that companies like Apple need to solve is not preventing exploits forever, but a much simpler one: they need to screw up the economics of NSO-style mass exploitation.
A case against security nihilismblog.cryptographyengineering.com
15 July 2021
From one piece Highly accurate protein structure prediction with AlphaFold (with 33 co-authors) 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Despite these advances, contemporary physical and evolutionary-history-based approaches produce predictions that are far short of experimental accuracy in the majority of cases in which a close homologue has not been solved experimentally and this has limited their utility for many biological applications.
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Here we provide the first computational method that can regularly predict protein structures with atomic accuracy even in cases in which no similar structure is known.
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Despite recent progress10-14, existing methods fall far short of atomic accuracy, especially when no homologous structure is available.
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Accurate computational approaches are needed to address this gap and to enable large-scale structural bioinformatics.
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Pereira MaintainsTheir words
I think it's the most wonderful novel of the last 20 years. I can't think of anything I admire more.
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The Summer BookTheir words
Sophie and her grandmother spend a lot of time pottering about and playing and building little Venetian lagoons for the ants to go into and that sort of thing. It's very funny and very charming. And you think that's all it is—a sweet little book about a child and her grandmother.
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The Jeeves Omnibus - Vol 1Their words
I read it because it was a book, and books were fun. I thought it was terrific. Really wonderfully funny. I've gone on thinking that for the subsequent 60 years or so.
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Oxford historical thesaurusTheir words
Have you seen the Oxford historical thesaurus? Fantastic. It must be one of the last great books produced as a printed object.
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The Chambers DictionaryTheir words
This dictionary is a great thing to have. It's just so fascinating.
11 July 2021
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First FriendsTheir words
If you enjoy history books and/or are a student of the US Presidency, you should grab this book and give it a read.
30 June 2021
From one piece Why It's Hard to Innovate in Construction 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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In many cases, the person specifying a new system won’t capture the upside from actually using it - they’ll be under a sort of reverse moral hazard, where the benefits accrue to the rest of the project team, but the risks will accrue only to them.
Why It's Hard to Innovate in Constructionconstruction-physics.com
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The upside of any given project is usually a single-digit profit margin. But the downside is “whatever your company is worth”
Why It's Hard to Innovate in Constructionconstruction-physics.com
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A new or innovative system that involves changes to the process thus incurs a significant risk penalty that would likely exceed the expected benefits of the innovation.
Why It's Hard to Innovate in Constructionconstruction-physics.com
29 June 2021
From one piece Do you think it is more important to find inspiration or to get to work and write? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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A maker cannot summon the good line, only be at the desk when it arrives, and the outcome is not theirs to influence.Their words
Pen poised, I sit to attention, in my suit, on the edge of my imagination, prepared for the beautiful line to arrive. Sometimes it does, sometimes it does not — either way I am powerless to influence the outcome.
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I also have an affinity with artists who treat their craft as a job and are not dependent on the vagaries of inspiration — because I am one of them. Like most people with a job, we just go to work.
21 June 2021
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14 June 2021
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A Promised LandTheir words
A Promised Land is a refreshingly honest book.
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The OverstoryTheir words
On the contrary, I loved following Powers’ characters as they became more and more passionate about their love for trees.
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Under a White SkyTheir words
Despite these reservations, I still recommend reading Under a White Sky.
12 June 2021
9 June 2021
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Startup CXOTheir words
It is the kind of book you will keep by your desk and pull out from time to time to figure out how to approach an issue or to help one of your senior leaders figure out how to do that.
7 June 2021
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TailscaleTheir words
All the sockets between my computers are over Tailscale, so whenever I grab the laptop and leave the house, the connections to my VMs and NAS remain stable.
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VimTheir words
For writing software I full-screen a terminal and use Vim. Ctrl+Z for a shell.
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VS CodeTheir words
Every now and again I go searching for a replacement IDE. VSCode came closer than anything else in the last two decades to replacing Vim, but somehow I am back here.
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QSFP+ 40gbit hardwareTheir words
The router and Proxmox machines are attached with some QSFP+ 40gbit hardware I got off eBay. It's fun! I highly recommend playing with second-hand network hardware.
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iMac 5kTheir words
The 2014 iMac 5k I dedicate to video conferencing, mostly Hangouts and Zoom.
3 June 2021
1 June 2021
31 May 2021
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Somewear Global HotspotTheir words
Conclusion: If you expect to regularly carry the device but not a smartphone, which is the case with very few people, the inReach is the better option. Otherwise, the Somewear is more attractive: its seamless messaging and cost-savings more than offset the 0.5-ounce weight penalty and its slightly larger size.
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Gaia GPSTheir words
And for your mapping, I highly recommend instead the Gaia GPS or CalTopo apps.
21 May 2021
16 May 2021
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The British Industrial Revolution in Global PerspectiveTheir words
The British Industrial Revolution in Global Perspective is the best book on the country’s adoption of sustained economic growth at the turn of the nineteenth century, full stop.
14 May 2021
11 May 2021
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Publishing a standing list of your own mistakes, and correcting them, is part of doing science honestly.Their words
I make mistakes, and acknowledging and correcting them is an important part of how I grow.
10 May 2021
5 May 2021
4 May 2021
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The New BuildersTheir words
My friend Seth Levine and Elizabeth MacBride have written an important book about the changing face of entrepreneurship in the US.
1 May 2021
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The Copernican RevolutionTheir words
but I also recommend his Copernican Revolution
30 April 2021
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Getting Things DoneTheir words
Classic book with near-cult following. How to manage every last itty bitty tiny thing in your life. Keep your inbox empty. Re-read 16 years later. Still great.
22 April 2021
21 April 2021
14 April 2021
From one piece Mailbag #2 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Many films are the most fun the first time because a part of our brains loses itself in the plot and actually experiences what the characters are experiencing, to an extent.
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People should feel free to enjoy art they love regardless of the artist's personal failings or beliefs.Their words
I think in most cases, we should feel fine loving the art we love, regardless of who the artist is, what they did, or what they believed.
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Clearly something other than the current type of healthcare advances will be needed to crack through the natural human lifespan ceiling-it'll take some deeper recoding of the human genome.
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Hardcore HistoryTheir words
Currently hooked on Dan Carlin's Hardcore History . 100 people recommended it to me and I kept putting it off and finally listened to the 6-part WWI series and that was that for me.
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Gravity BlanketTheir words
But Instagram has gotten pretty good at it and now I own a gravity blanket , a moon pod , stretchy jeans , a great hoodie , and like 19 fidget toys and physics toys and other stupid things that make me happy .
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Moon PodTheir words
But Instagram has gotten pretty good at it and now I own a gravity blanket , a moon pod , stretchy jeans , a great hoodie , and like 19 fidget toys and physics toys and other stupid things that make me happy .
13 April 2021
7 April 2021
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From one piece Bjorn’s Corner: The challenges of hydrogen. Part 31. Wrap-up: Where we stand 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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There won’t be enough of it for the 25,000 planes flying each day, the feedstock will compete with food production.
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Now you have a carbon fuel burning aircraft that is more complex and heavier than the plane that it replaces, and if you do your sums carefully, you find that there are no fuel efficiency gains and, therefore, no environmental gains.
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Having done the sums before hitting the keys, I was a skeptic. It just didn’t work, even with optimistic assumptions around the parameters for the aircraft and its batteries.
1 April 2021
30 March 2021
28 March 2021
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Several Short Sentences About WritingTheir words
The 2nd-best and most-radical book about great writing. It tells you to focus entirely on the sentence, an approach that was already my favorite, which is why I bought this book. It recommends you boldly eliminate transitions and conjunctions, split compound sentences, don't save your point for the end, and revise by deleting. This is the first book I've seen printed as one sentence per line —…
27 March 2021
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10 March 2021
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The Beginning of InfinityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
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The Fabric of RealityTheir words
I’m currently stuck in a loop where, at least in science, I’m only going to read The Beginning of Infinity and The Fabric of Reality over and over again until I understand them fully.
9 March 2021
7 March 2021
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FeedlyTheir words
I use Feedly to follow most of the usual economics blogs, as well as dozen or so journals
6 March 2021
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Understanding ComicsTheir words
Understanding Comics by Scott McCloud: I believe I first saw this book being recommended highly by Bret Victor aka worrydream. I think I then encountered a few screenshots of it on the Internet that made me really like it. It's very worth reading even if you don't really care all that much about comics.
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Masters of DoomTheir words
I was really excited when a friend sent me this book, because it gets right into the details of the history and production of these games that meant so much to me.
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The Nasty BitsTheir words
The Nasty Bits, by Anthony Bourdain. I read this book not too long before Anthony Bourdain died. I remember really enjoying his voice, his style, his sense of flair.
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Predatory ThinkingTheir words
Predatory Thinking, by Dave Trott. I found this book in a bookshop at some point and I found it really compelling. It includes a story about neutrinos that I love.
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DuneTheir words
The book is worth reading for its own sake, and it's particularly worth reading (in my opinion) to get a sense of how it has impacted so much of sci-fi and pop culture.
1 March 2021
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Shoe DogTheir words
A must-read for anyone who wants to start a business, has started a business, wishes they started a business or has ever thought about starting a business.
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Why We SleepTheir words
A flawed but really useful book. Some of the data here is exaggerated, it appears.
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GreenlightsTheir words
I was impressed with the depth and insight in this memoir. I hate to say it, but you rarely expect much from celebrity books. This one delivered though.
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EducatedTheir words
Don’t get me wrong, it’s very good and a great story. But much like Hillbilly Elegy a few years ago, I was left wondering, “What’s everyone going on about?”
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BecomingTheir words
Former first lady. Well written. Some really interesting parts. Some not-so-interesting parts. What else is there to say?
23 February 2021
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Freedom from the MarketTheir words
Mike Konczal of the Roosevelt Institute has a wonderful new book: Freedom from the Market
20 February 2021
16 February 2021
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Direct TruthTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
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Vasistha's YogaTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
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Ashtavakra GitaTheir words
It moves around. Keep coming back to I Am That, Direct Truth, Vasistha's Yoga, Jed McKenna, and Ashtavakra Gita.
15 February 2021
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MacBook Air (M1)Their words
This is an amazing laptop. Its battery life is iPad tier. I can run iPad and iPhone apps seamlessly.
13 February 2021
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First, it justifies various psychotherapies - EMDR and coherence therapy seem to come out especially well here - that focus on trying to get the brain to pay unusually precise attention, under unusually safe conditions, to something it usually represses.
12 February 2021
5 February 2021
1 February 2021
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The Moon is a Harsh MistressTheir words
AI was in the air in the mid 1980s, but there were two things especially that made me want to work on it: a novel by Heinlein called The Moon is a Harsh Mistress
From one piece Does energy imbalance (calories in > out) cause obesity? 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Body fat is biologically regulated, so losing weight provokes a starvation response that pushes the weight back on.Their words
This is a phenomenon I call the “starvation response”, and it happens because body fat mass is biologically regulated.
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In people living their normal lives, circulating insulin level, and the insulin response to carbohydrate, don’t reliably predict who will gain weight and who won’t.
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The brain, not insulin or fat tissue, is what ultimately controls the energy balance equation.Their words
However, whichever side of the energy balance equation is giving orders, the brain appears to be the commander-in-chief of the equation as a whole.
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No matter what your model of obesity is, in order to explain the development of an obese body, energy imbalance has to be a link in the model’s causal chain.
30 January 2021
29 January 2021
From one piece How TSMC Might Spend $28 Billion 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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TSMC raises capital spending when it believes a wave of demand is coming, rather than after the demand has arrived.Their words
I think TSMC thinks a fat pitch is coming.
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TSMC's real advantage over its foundry rivals is that it can outspend them, not that it is technically ahead.Their words
Unlike Chartered and SMIC, they have the power of the purse and they leverage it like few other companies can.
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Well, this $20 billion in retrospect was far too little.
24 January 2021
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Audio HijackTheir words
I record all my podcasts using Audio Hijack.
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Ferrite Recording StudioTheir words
On the iPad, I write using 1Writer or Drafts, and edit podcasts using the Apple Pencil and Ferrite Recording Studio, which is the best podcast editing app I've found on any platform.
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Uplift V2Their words
I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
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iPad ProTheir words
When I'm not at my desk I primarily use a 12.9-inch iPad Pro.
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Uplift V2 standing deskTheir words
I recently bought a new desk, the Uplift V2, with a reclaimed wood desktop, and I love it.
23 January 2021
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On changing their mind
When I first heard the stagnation hypothesis, I was skeptical. The arguments weren’t convincing to me.
From one piece Technological stagnation 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Stagnation does not mean no progress; it means progress slower than the late 1800s to mid-1900s peak.Their words
Stagnation just means slower progress. And not even slower than that pre-industrial era, but slower than, roughly, the late 1800s to mid-1900s, when growth rates are said to have peaked.
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It’s that we went from five simultaneous technology revolutions to one.
20 January 2021
From one piece We Are Not Special 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Rather than fix a trad issue with trad engineering, Boeing opted for the software kludge, and then people died.
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We can change software much faster than anybody else can change their systems.
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Software is far more consistent than any other kind of engineering.
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Software is not uniquely unpredictable; other engineering disciplines are hit by the same surprises and overruns.Their words
To assume that software is uniquely unpredictable is a special kind of arrogance.
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Almost nothing programmers believe is unique to software is actually unique to software.Their words
Almost everything we think is unique about software appears in every other field of engineering.
From one piece Fund people, not projects IV: Scientific egalitarianism and lotteries 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The cost of peer review is largely dominated by applying for grants, not peer reviewing.
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The way I see this is that reviewers can identify what's obviously not great and what is obviously great (Perhaps identifying the latter is easier than the former). But there is a "messy middle" where it is unclear what to fund.
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Pre-grant peer review predicts which research will have impact substantially better than chance does.Their words
I have reviewed before the effectiveness of peer review at figuring out "what's good" in the context of grant awards, finding that peer review as currently practiced does substantially better than chance at predicting future impact, especially for the most impactful of the papers; but at the same time is is far from perfect, leaving plenty of variance unexplained.
13 January 2021
11 January 2021
From one piece Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients) 3 beliefs · oaktreecapital.com
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Not only are the traditional staples of classic value investing (readily discernable quantitative measures of cheapness in the here-and-now) no longer likely to produce a sustainable edge on their own, but the world has gotten more complex, with many more dynamics that can drive a decoupling of near-term metrics from valuation, both to the positive and negative.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
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The value-versus-growth distinction does not serve investors well in a fast-changing world.Their words
My extensive discussions with Andrew led me to conclude that the focus on value versus growth doesn’t serve investors well in the fast-changing world in which we live.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
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Rather than being defined as one side of this artificial dichotomy, value investing should instead consist of buying whatever represents a better value proposition, taking all factors into account.
Something of Value (memo to Oaktree clients)oaktreecapital.com
9 January 2021
From one piece TSMC, Briefly Explained 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Only TSMC, Intel and Samsung can still manufacture at the leading edge, and that is a duopoly rather than a monopoly.Their words
This leaves just TSMC, Intel, and Samsung Foundry as the last competitors in the industry capable of doing work at the leading edge.
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Rising cost, not lost skill, is what drove all but three firms out of leading-edge chip manufacturing.Their words
But over time things got more and more expensive and people started dropping out.
8 January 2021
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This is a fortunate conclusion, because it means that it's possible to use bibliometrics to select a candidate set of sufficiently good scientists, and then use human reviewers to select among them.
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Salt, Fat, Acid, Heat: Mastering the Elements of Good CookingTheir words
This was my holiday gift this year to a few friends who I know love to cook.
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Open: An AutobiographyTheir words
It is rare that a sports book captures my attention, rarer still when a sports autobiography does. But “Open” delivers a compelling life story superbly told by an athlete. Desire, motivation, and competitive drive him to the the highest levels of professional tennis, but he loses his interest, and was so often unhappy, confused and unfulfilled by his achievements. As an autobiography, it is bluntly honest, sometimes painful, but most of all a fascinating compelling read.
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Coach: Lessons on the Game of LifeTheir words
His tales of Coach Fitz, what leadership truly is, and how the world has changed makes for a wonderful read. Oh, and its Michael Lewis.
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Plays With CarsTheir words
He was game, and as part of my prep, I read this amusing short collection of his writings. They were fun and funny and informative — everything you could want in a collection about cars.
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Hamilton: The RevolutionTheir words
It reveals a depth to the show that makes it even stronger than previously believed.
7 January 2021
1 January 2021
30 December 2020
22 December 2020
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Markdown MonsterTheir words
While I love VSCode, Markdown Monster does one thing incredibly well. Markdown.
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FiddlerTheir words
Fiddler - The easy, clean, and powerful debugging proxy for checking out HTTP between here and there. It even supports sniffing SSL traffic.
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Ditto Clipboard ManagerTheir words
WindowsKey+V is amazing and close but Ditto keeps pushing clipboard management forward on Windows.
21 December 2020
8 December 2020
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The Spy and the TraitorTheir words
The book is every bit as exciting as my favorite spy novels.
4 December 2020
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KapTheir words
Other software I use to build stuff includes Netlify for hosting, GitHub for version control and collaboration, SVGO and TinyPNG for optimization, Kap for screen recording, GoatCounter for analytics, and Chrome and Firefox dev tools.
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TalkyTheir words
For communication, I use Slack for work and community text chat, Talky for video calls, DropBox Paper for writing, Trello for task management, and regular old texts and phone calls for chatting with family.
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TrelloTheir words
For communication, I use Slack for work and community text chat, Talky for video calls, DropBox Paper for writing, Trello for task management, and regular old texts and phone calls for chatting with family.
2 December 2020
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25 November 2020
From one piece Number of miles as a self-driving car progress and safety metric (Metrics Episode 1) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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But nobody will ever get to the billions of representative miles necessary to say anything compelling about expected safety until after they actually deploy their fleet.
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Even if you have the best possible safety drivers, every test mile adds some risk. Hopefully that risk is no worse than human driver vehicle risks, but that’s a different discussion.
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Miles driven measures how well funded a self-driving company is, not how safe it is or how far ahead.Their words
But having a ton of miles doesn’t mean you’re ahead, it just means you’re well-funded and you’re out there operating.
23 November 2020
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AntifragileTheir words
The book that’s had one of the greatest influences on my thinking. If you enjoy the content on this site, you’ll love Antifragile.
22 November 2020
20 November 2020
From one piece A few ways to make money in FOSS 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The fast route — venture capital funded — is going to impose constraints on your business that will ultimately make it difficult to remain true to your open-source mission.
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And yes, you are building a business. You need to start thinking of your project as a business and of yourself as a business owner.
15 November 2020
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ZSA MoonlanderTheir words
I like the Moonlander. It gets out of my way and lets me focus on writing and code.
28 October 2020
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Not Caring What Other People Think is a SuperPowerTheir words
I follow Ed Latimore on twitter. He writes a lot of interest things there, so I was curious to pick up his book to see what he'd say in a longer form. This book is like getting beers and talking life with Ed for about 5-6 hours. Lots of truisms and life lessons that should resonate in the world we live in today. It's no Earth-shattering, but it is a great way to get more good ideas in your head.
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BossypantsTheir words
Not only is Tina Fey a very funny writer, it's fascinating to have the opportunity to climb inside the head of a successful female leader. Reading the internal drama within Tina's head as she thought about whether she wanted a second child while considering how it would affect the 100+ employees that worked for her on 30 Rock was priceless. As a manager, it gives me an understanding and level of empathy I wouldn't have had otherwise.
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Sapiens: A Brief History of HumankindTheir words
A lot of people have raved about this book in Silicon Valley, so I wanted to see what it was all about. It's a great interpretation of the history of man. Unfortunately, it has about 10% of the citations it deserves for the subject matter. I found it a really interesting set of ideas for how to think about how we evolved. I felt there was some inaccuracies, but appreciate having the perspective of an expert.
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Tipping PointTheir words
If you've ever read Malcolm Gladwell's books, you know the formula: 5-10 specific anecdotes and a rule he emphasis throughout. Save yourself some time and read a blog post or review of the book. 4. "Startup Lessons Learned" by Eric Ries (10.12.10)
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The Lean StartupTheir words
If you actually want to learn how to actually BE a lean startup or how to actually do it, this book will not help you. If you want to learn the high level concepts only then this is a great book. The other books I have above I encourage you to read before this one if you want to truly learn and implement lean practices. 7. On the Shortness of Life by Seneca (3.13.18)
25 October 2020
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Silky PocketboyTheir words
I like the Pocketboy and it's staying in my bike bag for the long haul. Recommended for people who need a small high-performance folding saw to cut through whatever is in your way.
6 October 2020
4 October 2020
2 October 2020
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Nomad Goods Card Wallet PlusTheir words
Nomad Goods Card Wallet Plus - A slim leather wallet for cards and folded cash.
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Benchmade Mini GriptilianTheir words
Benchmade Mini Griptilian - There's always a use for a reliable knife. A bonus in going with Benchmade: they will sharpen and clean your knife for free for life; just mail it in.
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Stowa Flieger Classic 40Their words
Stowa Flieger Classic 40 - When I'm not wearing my Apple Watch, this classic Pilot watch is on my wrist. Sapphire crystal, blued steel hands, and a date window at the 6 o'clock position. Perfect.
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Breville Bambino Plus Espresso MachineTheir words
Breville Bambino Plus Espresso Machine and Baratza Encore ESP Pro Coffee Grinder - Developers need coffee, and I like mine HOT. The integrated milk steamer is a must-have, and since this machine takes freshly ground beans, the grinder allows me to tweak the grind size for perfect single dose espresso shots.
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Google KeepTheir words
Google Keep - I use this primarily as a shared shopping list and "wish list," and for saving web links and lists I want to add to/come back to later.
30 September 2020
29 September 2020
From one piece making computers better 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The tech industry's economic and intellectual energy is directed away from human flourishing rather than toward itTheir words
The economic and intellectual horsepower in Silicon Valley and the wider tech world seems to be pointed away from these goals.
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The Information Age could be a species-level shift comparable to the Industrial RevolutionTheir words
I find it plausible that the Information Age will be a species-level shift on par with the Industrial Revolution.
25 September 2020
22 September 2020
13 September 2020
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BearTheir words
For those, I use the free version of Bear
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MacDownTheir words
For a free Markdown editor (on Mac), I can't recommend MacDown highly enough. It has a simple interface with an editor and preview pane and it just works.
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KindleTheir words
To read books, I use the Kindle.
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Adobe Acrobat ReaderTheir words
To read papers, I use Adobe Acrobat Reader and sync them in the cloud. This lets me read, highlight, and sync my papers across devices (work laptop, personal laptop, iPad). Instapaper does the same for online articles.
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InstapaperTheir words
To read papers, I use Adobe Acrobat Reader and sync them in the cloud. This lets me read, highlight, and sync my papers across devices (work laptop, personal laptop, iPad). Instapaper does the same for online articles.
12 September 2020
From one piece Progress: Fluke or trend? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Progress isn’t natural; we make it happen through choice and effort, and we only do so when we believe it is possible and desirable.
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Progress is not driven mainly by material resources, so running out of them is not what would stop it.Their words
I don’t think progress is primarily driven by material resources.
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Two centuries of progress were a trend with real causes rather than a fluke, and can continue far into the future.Their words
A foundational conviction of this project is that progress is a trend with definite, substantive causes, and that it can continue far, far into the future.
11 September 2020
9 September 2020
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On changing their mind
When I first developed my Bidirectional Translation method, I applied it to each and every language I decided to learn.
From one piece The Only True Way to Learn a Language 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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For your health and sanity, do not force yourself to learn a language using a method you hate, no matter how good other people say it is. Trying to do so will only lead to disappointment, and ultimately burnout.
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While there is no absolute best and fastest way to learn a language, there definitely is a best and fastest way FOR YOU, personally, to learn a language. A method that is tailored to your likes and dislikes, your learning style, and your schedule.
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There is no best or fastest way to learn a language; the question has no general answer.Their words
after 30 years of learning languages and 10 years of coaching people to do the same, I am 100% positive when I tell you that there is no absolute best and fastest way to learn a language.
8 September 2020
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Others are the golden threads of this world, holding it together at the seams with no more than a dozen people knowing about it. Remove one of these and it all comes crashing down.
How can you not be romantic about programming?thorstenball.com
3 September 2020
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Salt, Fat, Acid, HeatTheir words
Such an incredible book on becoming a better chef, with little tricks and methods I use almost every day now. Plus the recipes in the back are delicious!
1 September 2020
From one piece No, typing can be the bottleneck 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If you're not comfortable typing a lot and you'd rather not write something down then typing is the bottleneck and you need to fix it. Typing is not something you should need to think about.
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The effort typing requires, not raw typing speed, is what determines whether it becomes a real obstacle to writing.Their words
It doesn't matter if you can type 90 words per minutes or 130, but if it takes you effort to type something and, if given the choice, you'd rather not do it, then we have a problem.
30 August 2020
From one piece Full circle 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Planned images are limited by one's means and imagination. Serendipitous ones are unlimited by chance and one's subconscious.
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Creative work should feel liberating and produce order and beauty from incoherent parts.Their words
Anything creative (except perhaps accounting) should come with a sense of liberation and the satisfaction of having made order and beauty out of incoherent parts.
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the very best position to be in as a photographer is an amateur: a person who engages in the activity for the love of it, without the constraints of shooting to a client's expectation
25 August 2020
From one piece But does it help you ship? 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Building automation that doesn't address the actual bottleneck to shipping adds noise rather than helping ship.Their words
If what's holding you back from shipping is, say, getting more customer input, or a brittle release process, or flaky monitoring, or missing tests, then all the bot does is to add noise. It doesn't help you ship.
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Another thing that needs to be fixed when it ultimately breaks down, another bit of automation that works 99% of the time, but starts making funny noises when you slip into the 1%
24 August 2020
21 August 2020
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I suppose in a nutshell it is also why the book is almost always better than the movie...
19 August 2020
From one piece Why Civilizations Collapse 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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We act as if we are already living in a scientifically-planned society, immune to collapse on a time scale that any of us have to worry about.
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That knowledge never should have been lost in the first place, but in a dysfunctional society, such loss of knowledge becomes the rule.
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Despite being an excellent epistemic opportunity, civilizational collapse seldom inspires introspection among thinkers living through it. Mayan or Roman thinkers don’t seem to have reflected on their ongoing collapse.
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Though we usually think of collapse as a slow process, it can in fact happen very quickly, as was the case with the Late Bronze Age collapse.
15 August 2020
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Skin in the GameTheir words
Taleb is always filled with surprising ideas and confrontational bragging. Ignore the hot air and gather the gems. Great thoughts around putting your ass on the line with consequences — not just thinking things in theory but doing things in reality — in the real world.
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I believe creativity is really two parts: curiosity and the ability to not just ask "what if?", but also use some foresight to imagine the potential outcome.
12 August 2020
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MonoLisaTheir words
I’m a code nerd and a font nerd, so I don’t take this choice lightly, but this is my favorite dev font. I love its combination of legibility and subtle personality, and plus, the code ligatures are great.
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FirefoxTheir words
Firefox is a great browser with some awesome tools, plus strong privacy. I use Edge when I need to test on Chromium; I don’t even install Chrome on my personal machines.
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MoErgo Glove80Their words
For my money, the Glove80 is the world’s best ergonomic keyboard.
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NotionTheir words
my current favorite notes app. Can grow and get as complex as you need it to be, but for simple notes, the markdown and code highlight support is fantastic.
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Fira CodeTheir words
If you’re not willing to spend the money, though—and I definitely understand if that’s the case— Fira Code is my runner-up.
8 August 2020
3 August 2020
1 August 2020
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uBlock OriginTheir words
I block distracting parts of websites with uBlock Origin’s amazing “element blocker,” which lets you select and remove any part of the page. As a fan of minimalism in web design, I really enjoy being able to adversarially enforce it on any rogue webpage.
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WitchTheir words
Witch can display separate app windows separately, only display windows from the current workspace, and supports text search on window titles so that you can search directly for the window you want without having to skip over.
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Kindle4RSSTheir words
I do most of my Internet reading on my Kindle via Kindle4RSS.
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SlackTheir words
A special dishonorable mention goes to Slack, which can easily suck away a quarter of your time without you noticing. If you use Slack and you haven’t disabled the “unread messages” badge, stop reading this post and do it now.
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nativefierTheir words
For the rest (e.g., oddly, most Google web apps), I use a command-line tool called nativefier to turn them into desktop apps.
30 July 2020
From one piece ERP 226: How To Understand And Deal With a Narcissist, an Interview With Wendy Behary [Transcript] 3 beliefs · drjessicahiggins.com
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And no one should feel burdened to become the therapist of the narcissist in their life. It's not your responsibility as a partner, as a child of a narcissist, or even a friend.
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PsychotherapySchema therapyNarcissism
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the approach that I use is called Schema Therapy, and Schema Therapy is designed to work with very complex personality types, personality disorders, and even those that are happening along a spectrum
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In 30+ years of working with narcissistic men mostly - yes, it is possible for people to change. And even narcissists can change. Now, I don't really believe anyone changes completely, but it is possible to get meaningful change.
27 July 2020
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Startup CommunitiesTheir words
has updated his excellent book on startup ecosystems
24 July 2020
From one piece Collections: Bread, How Did They Make It? Part I: Farmers! 4 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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This isn’t because they are ‘lazy’ – the ‘lazy peasant’ (or poor worker generally) is a standard hypocrisy of the literature of the leisured aristocratic class towards poor farmers, today and in the past – but because they have priorities which are simply not served by labor maximization.
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There is a ton of food in this countryside (nearly everyone is producing it) but hardly any surplus.
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These small subsistence farmers generally seek to minimize risk, rather than maximize profits. After all, improving yields by 5% doesn’t mean much if everyone starves to death in the third year because of a tail-risk that wasn’t mitigated.
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Because these folks – these farmers – make up the majority of the population of basically all agrarian societies in the pre-modern period. And when I say ‘the majority’ I mean the vast majority, on the order of 80-90% in many cases
15 July 2020
12 July 2020
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Victorinox Hunter Pro AloxTheir words
The problem is the knife is way too heavy. Maybe if they ditched the liners, thinned the blade, and re-worked the steel backstrap you would have something that could cross-over between outdoor use and Urban EDC without pulling your pants off. As it stands the Pro Hunter strikes me as an oddity in my collection. Large and heavy, which makes it less practical. I hope it won't stop Victorinox from attempting to innovate, but it doesn't entirely feel like a step forward for the brand.
9 July 2020
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pop history will not get you tenure, which leads to neglect in the academy and consequently the big pop-history books are often not written by the best historians in their fields.
2 July 2020
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ItempoolTheir words
Also, and I'll admit I'm biased because it was built by friends, the act of actually writing math questions on Itempool is a delight
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DesmosTheir words
It's an online graphing calculator that makes it very simple to whip up surprisingly complicated graphs. I found it abundantly useful for live presentations over a stream, and what's nice is that you can share the links of what you build so that students can play with them.
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Wacom tabletTheir words
During my time at Khan Academy, I found using a Wacom tablet worked quite nicely
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Focusrite Scarlett SoloTheir words
USB Audio Interface to take the feed from the mic to the computer (Focusrite Scarlett Solo)
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Rode Lavalier Lapel MicrophoneTheir words
A lav mic (More specifically a Rode Lavalier Lapel Omni-Directional Condenser Microphone)
24 June 2020
20 June 2020
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Every scientific field eventually exhausts itself: progress within a paradigm follows an S-curve and then runs out.Their words
A given field or paradigm will yield a sigmoid-like pattern and eventually it will be exhausted.
19 June 2020
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An Opinionated Guide to ML ResearchTheir words
This from John Schulman is worth reading: http://joschu.net/blog/opinionated-guide-ml-research.html
16 June 2020
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Shure MV7 Podcast MicTheir words
Shure MV7 Podcast Mic
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Elgato Stream Deck+Their words
Elgato Wave Mic Arm Elgato Stream Deck+
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Sony ZV-1 Vlogging CameraTheir words
Sony ZV-1 Vlogging Camera
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AudioEngine A2 Desktop SpeakersTheir words
AudioEngine A2 Desktop Speakers
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Kindle Paperwhite (2018)Their words
Kindle Paperwhite (2018)
15 June 2020
From one piece Committing $250k this Year to Racial Justice Efforts 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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These are just three of the names on the list of thousands of Black men and women who lost their lives to the systemic racism that is woven into the fabric of this country.
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Ending systemic racism in the United States requires a large-scale anti-racist movement.Their words
It will take a monumental anti-racist movement to change the underlying conditions that allow racism in the United States to flourish.
11 June 2020
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Molecular Biology of the CellTheir words
undergoing some of these experiments was incredibly fun and a great excuse to study a number of textbooks on biochemistry (I liked "Molecular Biology of the Cell"), biology (I liked Campbell's Biology), human nutrition (I liked "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism"), etc.
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Campbell's BiologyTheir words
undergoing some of these experiments was incredibly fun and a great excuse to study a number of textbooks on biochemistry (I liked "Molecular Biology of the Cell"), biology (I liked Campbell's Biology), human nutrition (I liked "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism"), etc.
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Advanced Nutrition and Human MetabolismTheir words
undergoing some of these experiments was incredibly fun and a great excuse to study a number of textbooks on biochemistry (I liked "Molecular Biology of the Cell"), biology (I liked Campbell's Biology), human nutrition (I liked "Advanced Nutrition and Human Metabolism"), etc.
5 June 2020
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How Innovation WorksTheir words
I read How Innovation Works by Matt Ridley in a few hours. It is a delicious book.
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suckless toolsTheir words
Suckless offers an alternative to this continuous cycle of bloat and meaningless redesign. Suckless tools aim to keep things simple, minimal, usable and hackable by default.
4 June 2020
From one piece Black Death, COVID, and Why We Keep Telling the Myth of a Renaissance Golden Age and Bad Middle Ages 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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while the myth of the golden Renaissance does terrible damage to how we understand the Middle Ages, it does just as much damage to how we understand the Renaissance.
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Plague receded from Europe through fourteen generations of natural selection, not through any advance in medicine.Their words
when plague finally diminished in Europe, not because of any advance in medicine, but because fourteen generations of exposure gave natural selection time to work
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The plague did not pass through in 1348 and leave: it stayed endemic in Europe for nearly four centuries afterwards.Their words
in school they talk as if the plague swept through in 1348 then went away, but the bubonic plague did not go away, it remained endemic, like influenza or chickenpox today, a fact of life.
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In Italy, average life expectancies in the solidly Medieval 1200s were 35-40, while by the year 1500 (definitely Renaissance) life expectancy in Italian city states had dropped to 18.
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As a Renaissance historian, I feel it’s my job to shoulder the other half of the load by talking about what the Renaissance was like, confirming that our Medievalists are right, it wasn’t a better time to live than the Middle Ages
2 June 2020
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13thTheir words
I'm not going to spoil any more of it for you; if you haven't already seen it, you need to watch 13th – and you need to watch it now.
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SelmaTheir words
I had taken my kids to see DuVernay's superlative Selma years prior, and I had heard about 13th (and I had recalled my wife saying she wanted to watch it), but it was – like many things – "in the queue."
28 May 2020
From one piece Language models are few-shot learners (with 30 co-authors) 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Ultimately, however, one-shot, or even sometimes zero-shot, seem like the fairest comparisons to human performance, and are important targets for future work.
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Here we show that scaling up language models greatly improves task-agnostic, few-shot performance, sometimes even reaching competitiveness with prior state-of-the-art fine-tuning approaches.
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By contrast, humans can generally perform a new language task from only a few examples or from simple instructions - something which current NLP systems still largely struggle to do.
27 May 2020
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A Bridge Too FarTheir words
A Bridge Too Far will remain the unchallenged classic on the subject. It was my favorite book until the age of twelve (at least).
23 May 2020
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Benchmade Mini BugoutTheir words
It's everything you need and nothing you don't. It's a great ultra light EDC piece and I can easily recommend it.
18 May 2020
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ZOLEO Satellite CommunicatorTheir words
Here's a new one that's worth consideration: the ZOLEO Satellite Communicator ($200, 5.3 oz), which debuted in January. It's well priced, constructed, and engineered; and it offers a significantly improved messaging experience for both the owner and their contacts.
14 May 2020
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And beyond that, by the time solar scale has doubled 4 more times, to the equivalent of 16% of today’s electricity demand (and somewhat less of future demand), we should see solar at 3 cents per kwh in the sunniest areas, and 4.5 cents per kwh in moderately sunny areas.
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Both of those forecasts were wrong. Solar has plunged in price faster than anyone – including me – predicted.
From one piece Solar's Future is Insanely Cheap (2020) 5 beliefs · rameznaam.com
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Demand for electricity will rise to absorb far more solar than is currently considered feasible.Their words
Add these up, and it’s plausible that solar’s contribution to the energy system could double or triple the amount currently considered feasible for solar to provide.
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Solar's future price should be predicted from how much has been built, not from how much time has passed.Their words
We can use the last decade to predict the future prices of solar power. Not by looking at the cost of solar as a function of time, but by looking at the cost of solar as a function of cumulative scale of the solar industry.
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Average solar electricity prices in sunny parts of the world will fall to one or two cents per kwh by 2030 or 2035.Their words
This incredible pace of solar cost decline, with average prices in sunny parts of the world down to a penny or two by 2030 or 2035, is just remarkable.
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In short solar prices have dropped faster and lower than almost anyone has expected.
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The data paint an incredible picture: One that shows the price of solar electricity from utility-scale systems dropping by anywhere from 30-40% with each doubling of cumulative solar deployment.
12 May 2020
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From one piece Why Are Clinical Trials So Complicated? 3 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Even under all the constraints and controls that I've been describing here, 90% of our drugs fail in the clinic: can you imagine the failure rate if we tried to go faster and noisier?
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You cannot wing it when you're giving a drug to human beings.
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The procedures that have grown up around drug development are a sort of Chesterton's Fence: we shouldn't pull them down without considering the reasons why they were put up.
26 April 2020
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Gifox 2Their words
For PRs and showing things to friends or coworkers, I use Gifox 2. I paid for the pro version and use it on both my personal and work machine.
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StretchlyTheir words
Stretchly is a handy app for reminding me to take breaks.
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RocketTheir words
I like emojis a lot. I bought Rocket and am a huge fan.
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Keeping You AwakeTheir words
Keeping You Awake is a fantastic app for preventing your mac from going to sleep.
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RectangleTheir words
For window management, I use Spectacle (personal) or Rectangle (work).
21 April 2020
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GuittardTheir words
My favorite baking chocolate is Guittard, but it's not widely-enough available near me that I buy it exclusively.
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ValrhonaTheir words
My favorite cocoa powder (Valrhona) is one of the most expensive and I can only encourage you not to try it because I've found it impossible to use others since.
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Better than BouillonTheir words
I am a great fan of Better than Bouillon concentrates, which have much better flavor than most boxed stocks, keep for ages, and are wonderfully space-efficient.
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Perfect ScoopTheir words
I get 95% of my ice cream recipes from David Lebovitz's Perfect Scoop.
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Red BoatTheir words
Fish sauce (Megachef and Red Boat are my go-tos)
20 April 2020
From one piece Cultivating a Deep Life 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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The deep life is the one in which attention goes deliberately to what matters and is not spent on what does not.Their words
I’ve been writing off and on recently about the notion of the deep life, in which you focus with energetic intention on things that really matter, and avoid wasting too much attention on things that don’t.
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Life change never comes from one transforming plan; it comes from small adjustments to the life you already have.Their words
One observation that rings true from my experience is that you should resist the urge to try to build a master plan that, once implemented, will transform everything for the better in one dramatic moment.
5 April 2020
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9 February 2020
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The 5 Love LanguagesTheir words
The lesson is that connecting with others starts with recognizing that people are so different, especially in how they communicate. But there’s a much broader lesson embedded in this book if you read between the lines.
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The RoadTheir words
This is a sad, depressing love story of a father to his son. It’s pure sacrifice. The narrator’s melancholy mindset and recognition of impossible odds never derails his duty to his boy. It’s the pinnacle of grace.
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The FountainheadTheir words
Naysayers will have a lot to object about Rand. But Roark embodied integrity. Integrity is more complicated than Rand presents. I don’t think the hardest questions are in here. But Roark is a good guide for many decisions life will throw at you even if he is an incomplete (or possibly just unfinished) hero.
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The PostmortalTheir words
Imagine a pill that can give us all immortality. If you read this book that idea will fill you with dread.
7 February 2020
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Perennial SellerTheir words
Fairly shallow marketing and writing advice, I’d recommend reading something else.
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The 12 Week YearTheir words
It’s okay, didn’t feel like there was anything groundbreaking here in the planning, productivity, or business space though.
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Brain RulesTheir words
A Brief History of Time - Stephen Hawking
4 February 2020
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As generative drug analoging grows in importance, it's going to be crucial for people to make the entire training set available in detail when such work is published.
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A well-made design system created for the right reasons is reparative. One created for the wrong reasons becomes a weapon for displacement. Tools are always beholden to values.
1 February 2020
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Gerber FastballTheir words
At first glance the Fastball struck me as a humble offering, but it quickly grew on me. Mostly after I started to carry and use it. I wasn't immediately impressed when I pulled the Fastball from it's box, and as a collectible I'd probably pass. But as a user piece I can easily recommend it.
31 January 2020
30 January 2020
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ZoomTheir words
Zoom is something I use multiple times a day for video and audio communication. It's been the best video calling service I've used to date and works well for a remote working.
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CamtasiaTheir words
For recording my screen and videos for my YouTube channel, I use Camtasia.
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AKG C1000STheir words
I've always had an AKG C1000S microphone for recording. I'm not a microphone expert but it does the job for me.
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Focusrite Sapphire 2i2Their words
To ensure I have great audio quality, and to enable low-latency audio for music production, I use a Focusrite Sapphire 2i2 audio interface. It's light and USB powered and does the job.
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Senheiser HD25Their words
I've DJ'ed since 1988 and I can't stand bad audio. Since my days in nightclubs spinning vinyl, I've sworn by Senheiser headphones. My current (and previous) pair are the Senheiser HD25.
28 January 2020
23 January 2020
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LocalTheir words
Local for local WordPress development. VS Code for writing code.
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TablePlusTheir words
TablePlus for dealing with databases. Tower for Git.
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TowerTheir words
Tower for Git. iTerm for command line work.
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FigmaTheir words
Figma for design. Mailplane to have a tabbed in-dock closable Gmail app.
7 January 2020
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1 January 2020
From one piece 2019 letter 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Putting research and manufacturing in the same place shortens the loop in which industrial knowledge circulates.Their words
These hubs allow for tight connections between R&D and manufacturing, shortening the circulation of knowledge in a production loop.
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First, even if most of the workforce learns little, a few thousand line engineers become the world’s greatest experts in electronics assembly.
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Today, Chinese workers produce most of the world’s goods, which means that they engage more than anyone else in the technological learning process.
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Process knowledge — the experience of actually making things — matters more than tools or blueprints.Their words
I believe that the hard-to-measure process knowledge is more important than the more easily observable tools and IP.
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Technological capability has to be practised to be kept: a country that stops making something forgets how.Their words
We should think of technology as a living product, which has to be practiced for knowledge even to be maintained at its current level.
25 December 2019
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The Tales of Edgar Allen PoeTheir words
I read this as a child, and liked it for the same reason that other young people like reading Poe.
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LabyrinthsTheir words
I was most influenced by the essays in the book, and I ended up being attracted to the same sort of writers as Borges, mostly Anglo-American writers of 1820-1920.
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Tales of Land and SeaTheir words
It contains his best novellas, which I regard as his very best work.
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The Rings of SaturnTheir words
Its quasi-documentary style was increasingly in fashion at the time.
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My StruggleTheir words
It was the first book I ever read that had the feel of life as I experience it.
24 December 2019
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Panasonic EarbudsTheir words
I usually don't fall-in-love with physical products, but the exceptions are my iPhone XS, my Panasonic Earbuds and my Buffway wallet.
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Buffway walletTheir words
I usually don't fall-in-love with physical products, but the exceptions are my iPhone XS, my Panasonic Earbuds and my Buffway wallet.
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PocketTheir words
I use Pocket to save articles/links and the Kindle app on my phone to read all my books.
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BandicamTheir words
To record my silly Twitter videos I use Bandicam and GifCam.
12 December 2019
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Logitech MX2 MasterTheir words
Mouse is a Logitech MX2 Master
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AVerMedia 4K capture cardTheir words
I run a Sony RX100 III with the HDMI out plugged into an AVerMedia 4K capture card - I find it more stable than the Elgato CamLink or knockoff camlink that I used previously.
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Logitech HD Pro c920Their words
My webcam is a Logitech HD Pro c920
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DBX286sTheir words
I use a DBX286s to do all my audio compression and processing as I record and pipe it into my computer with the Volt1 USB audio interface.
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Better Touch ToolTheir words
I use Better Touch Tool for window management, custom keyboard shortcuts (via the Hyper key) and a few other things. Best mac software ever!
10 December 2019
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Google ColabTheir words
spending an increasing amount of my free time working with tools like Google Colab, Runway ML, TensorFlow, and Hugging Face to play around with machine-generated text, audio, imagery, and video.
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IntelliMouseTheir words
a classic wired Microsoft optical IntelliMouse - in my opinion, the best mouse ever made and the only one that's ever felt comfortable in my hand.
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Microsoft IntelliMouseTheir words
a classic wired Microsoft optical IntelliMouse - in my opinion, the best mouse ever made and the only one that’s ever felt comfortable in my hand.
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MacBook Pro (mid-2014, 15-inch)Their words
I use a mid-2014 15" MacBook Pro, one of the last great laptops Apple made - a functional keyboard, no Touch Bar, MagSafe, plenty of ports.
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WordPress Gutenberg editorTheir words
I write directly in WordPress’s new Gutenberg editor, which is now on par with Medium as a best-of-class writing environment for the web.
4 December 2019
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This Mortal BoyTheir words
It's an amazing novel, this. It's compelling. It's a novelization of a real event: the second last hanging in New Zealand.
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The Lost ManTheir words
I think The Lost Man is her best yet. It's not just a great crime novel, I think it's a great novel.
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American by DayTheir words
American by Day is engagingly written. Miller isn't afraid to write characters who are opinionated. They don't hold their tongue about what they believe in, they let rip. People are angry, people are passionate. I love the unorthodoxy of it, I suppose.
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Norwegian by NightTheir words
And read Norwegian by Night anyway, because it's a great read. I remember first reading that and thinking, 'Oh, this guy can really write.' Read
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A Dark MatterTheir words
It's a really great read. I read this in two days when my life was very busy, and I really shouldn't have been taking time off to sit in the corner and read, but I just kept wanting to return to it because I was marvellously entertained and engaged by it.
21 November 2019
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OneDriveTheir words
I keep my projects on OneDrive. I use GitHub Desktop to push my public code.
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GitHub DesktopTheir words
I keep my projects on OneDrive. I use GitHub Desktop to push my public code.
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PrinceTheir words
I use Prince to make PDFs of my books.
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Asus NovaGoTheir words
I also have an Asus NovaGo that I use when travelling, and for testing my ARM projects, such as the DEC64 library.
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Adobe CS4Their words
I occasionally use these Adobe CS4 programs: Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Acrobat, Illustrator, and Flash. I don't use any of them enough to justify a subscription to their latest cloud offerings.
19 November 2019
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Technological progress did not slow down from 1970 to the present, compared with its pre-1970 speedTheir words, before
I argued that technological progress had not slowed from 1970 to the present (compared to its pre-1970 speed).
Their words now
Despite its confidence and snark, my 2014 post was wrong.
18 November 2019
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Their words
Air pollution is a very big deal. Its adverse effects on numerous health outcomes and general mortality are widely documented. However, our understanding of its cognitive costs is more recent and those costs are almost certainly still significantly under-emphasized. For example, cognitive effects are not mentioned in most EPA materials.
15 November 2019
From one piece Matthew Walker's "Why We Sleep" Is Riddled with Scientific and Factual Errors 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Getting the science wrong in a bestselling health book does real harm to the people who follow it.Their words
Walker’s book has likely wasted thousands of hours of life and worsened the health of people who read it and took its recommendations at face value
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I found that the book consistently overstates the problem of lack of sleep, sometimes egregiously so. It misrepresents basic sleep research and contradicts its own sources.
12 November 2019
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Eye movement directed reprocessing (alternative when the book was written, now basically establishment) where you move your eyes back and forth while talking about your trauma, and this seems to somehow help you process it better.
5 November 2019
From one piece On the Measure of Intelligence 5 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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If intelligence lies in the process of acquiring skills, then there is no task X such that skill at X demonstrates intelligence, unless X is actually a meta-task involving skill-acquisition across a broad range of tasks.
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Both the special-purpose-programs view and the blank-slate view of human intelligence are likely incorrect.Their words
Today, it is increasingly apparent that both of these views of the nature of human intelligence - either a collection of special-purpose programs or a general-purpose Tabula Rasa - are likely incorrect
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We argue that ARC can be used to measure a human-like form of general fluid intelligence and that it enables fair general intelligence comparisons between AI systems and humans.
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We argue that solely measuring skill at any given task falls short of measuring intelligence, because skill is heavily modulated by prior knowledge and experience: unlimited priors or unlimited training data allow experimenters to "buy" arbitrary levels of skills for a system, in a way that masks the system's own generalization power.
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To make deliberate progress towards more intelligent and more human-like artificial systems, we need to be following an appropriate feedback signal: we need to be able to define and evaluate intelligence in a way that enables comparisons between two systems, as well as comparisons with humans.
22 October 2019
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Dinner: Changing the GameTheir words
Favorite Newish Cookbook With Recipes I Actually Make: Dinner, Changing the Game
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Leuchtturm1917 Medium Week PlannerTheir words
The Planner I Use Obsessively: Leuchtturm1917 Medium *Week* (Not Weekly) Planner
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Orijen dog foodTheir words
The Fancy Dogfood I Can Afford Because I Don’t Have Children And Makes The Dogs’ Fur So Lustrous: Orijen
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Social Print StudioTheir words
The Service I Use to Turn My Instagrams Into Overpriced Little Magnets That I Really Love: Social Print Studio
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WirecutterTheir words
The Place to Go For Real Recommendations: Wirecutter
15 October 2019
From one piece Digital pollution 2 beliefs, in the piece's order there
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Generators emit thousands of lines where ten would do, and that waste is why people think their phone is slow.Their words
These programs that generate a website, app, or file for you spit out thousands of lines of unnecessary junk when really only 10 lines are needed.
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I prefer coding everything by hand, because I don't like the huge piles of garbage that the automated generators create.
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ScrivenerTheir words
For my book, I've used Scrivener to store all my research notes. I don't actually write in Scrivener; but it's been really useful to help me organize this big writing project.
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Pilot Gel Ink Retractive Roller BallTheir words
I used to have a special fountain pen, but printer cartridges and fountain pen cartridges are annoying and expensive, and so these days I stick with the ol' Pilot Gel Ink Retractive Roller Ball pen. Blue ink. It's got to be blue ink.
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MacBook AirTheir words
I use a MacBook Air that's four or five years old. (My god, I hope it never breaks because the new MacBooks suck.)
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HP OfficeJetTheir words
I prefer to edit my writing on paper than on a screen, so I do print out longer essays and chapters and make changes by hand. I have an HP OfficeJet printer.
10 October 2019
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ctrldTheir words
Currently I'm using one called ctrld which is a derivative of Dina and my previous favourite family, Proggy.
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ThinkPadsTheir words
I still have a couple ThinkPads kicking around – a 32GB W530 and an older X61 – they still work, they're nigh-indestructible.
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QNAP NASTheir words
I do have a QNAP NAS for local file service, movies and music, but I foolishly bought one with too little RAM so to keep it from paging I have it reboot itself every 24 hours.
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42 inch LG monitorTheir words
I bought a comedically huge 42 inch LG monitor recently, because they got too cheap to refuse.
7 October 2019
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The AI Does Not Hate You: Superintelligence, Rationality, and the Race to Save the WorldTheir words
Briefly, I think the book is a triumph.
4 October 2019
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OpenBoxTheir words
I dislike big desktop environments, so instead I use OpenBox - bare-bones, without any task bar, start menu, etc.
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mpvTheir words
I use mpv for most media consumption. Its minimalistic keyboard interface is perfectly suited for my needs.
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DebianTheir words
I strongly prefer Debian, but Ubuntu is also acceptable.
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ODROID-C2Their words
I also rely significantly on a home server built from an ODROID-C2. In the past this role had been filled by older Raspberry Pi models, but the ODROID is well-suited as a server.
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Latitude 7490Their words
I use various Dell computers, including right now as I currently type this on a Latitude 7490.
29 September 2019
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The Art of Statistics: Learning from DataTheir words
The Art of Statistics is a really accessible and comprehensive introduction to statistics. It's not only about the tools of statistics, but it also goes through lots of interesting and relevant areas where statistics can help us make important decisions.
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Do Dice Play God?: The Mathematics of UncertaintyTheir words
The thing I'd say about Do Dice Play God? is that it is very rewarding, but you do have to invest in it.
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Humble Pi: A Comedy of Maths ErrorsTheir words
Matt is a stand-up comedian and he's a very funny guy. He makes mathematics interesting by making it funny. In this book, he pokes fun at people who've made silly mathematical mistakes, but at the same time he also looks at some issues that are quite serious: bridges collapsing and killing people, for example. He can do the somber, serious stuff as well. It's a great book. As far as I know, it's the first math book that's ever been a number one bestseller.
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Infinite Powers: The Story of CalculusTheir words
I learned so much from this book, mostly about the history not just of calculus but of our subject, mathematics, in general.
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The Creativity Code: Art and Innovation in the Age of AITheir words
It's increasingly coming to the fore and Marcus deals with it in a really interesting way. He takes us through lots of different areas where AI is being used to mimic creativity, which some people would argue is the essence of being human. It's interesting to see how close to being human AI is getting.
10 September 2019
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27 August 2019
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FastmailTheir words
On the web, I use Fastmail and DDG, as the 2 websites I use the most.
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DDGTheir words
On the web, I use Fastmail and DDG, as the 2 websites I use the most.
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LibreOfficeTheir words
I use vim, Dolphin and LibreOffice daily.
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VLCTheir words
And I use VLC :)
22 August 2019
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I suggested that psychedelics might work by strengthening the brain's top-down priors.
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A more recent paper by Carhart-Harris and Friston provides compelling evidence that psychedelics probably work by _weakening_ the brain's top-down priors, meaning I got this one maximally wrong.
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Google Pixel 3Their words
My phone is a maxed-out Google Pixel 3, which I use for phone things: Email, reading, web browsing, messaging, music, and taking pictures
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Google Meet speakermicTheir words
so we use Google Meet speakermics, which allow for full-duplex conversations, which makes conversation far more organic. That device turned Google Meet from something exhausting to something really good.
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Huawei MateBook X ProTheir words
It is a shameless, down-to-the-packaging ripoff of the before-they-screwed-up-the-keyboard-era MacBook Pro, and thus just a lovely machine.
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iPad Pro (12.9-inch)Their words
I also use a maxed-out 12.9" iPad Pro for meetings and note-taking, with the Apple Pencil and Smart Keyboard.
21 August 2019
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But if I get something significantly wrong, I'll try to put it here as an acknowledgement and an aid for anyone trying to assess my credibility later.
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What is a korrent?
A korrent is a belief a person has stated in their own words: one sentence stating the claim, backed by a quote and a source, kept at korrents.com.
Under a name here, the quoted block is what they actually said. The korrent beneath it is the claim those words support, in korrents' wording — tap it to see the record, its source, and who else holds it.
Nobody here wrote their own korrents. They are compiled from public statements, and a person can change their mind, which is recorded too.
About the English under a post
Some people here publish in a language other than English. Where they do, this site shows a machine translation beneath the post, in this typeface — the site's own, not theirs.
The post itself is never changed, moved or hidden: what is set in the serif above is exactly what the person published, and it is what to quote them on. A translation can be wrong in ways that matter, especially about tone.
Only the post's own words are translated. A quoted post, a linked article and a belief on korrents.com are left in their original language.