bchjam

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by bchjam 5y ago
"An engine, not a camera" is a great book about this effect in financial markets. https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/engine-not-camera
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by bchjam 8y ago
If someone knowingly uses bad data, aren't the claims supported by it false?
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by bchjam 8y ago
> No experiment could ever possibly hurt scientific knowledge what about one with a falsified result? fwiw I think convexity and understanding are relatively orthogonal, but how could one employ the former without the latter? However the
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by bchjam 8y ago
Productivity is a poor metric for actually improving your quality of life, solving hard problems, or doing much of anything other than running in circles at speed.
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by bchjam 8y ago
The history of reserve currencies suggests a ~100 year arc of dominance, and the US is at the end of that line. https://azizonomics.com/2012/01/04/a-history-of-reserve-curr...
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by bchjam 8y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brouwer%E2%80%93Hilbert_contro... Brouwer's career suffered as a consequence of his disagreements with Hilbert. EDIT (with links to the political aspect): Letters written more about t
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by bchjam 8y ago
I've come to think of machine learning as an engineering approach for building more scalable statistical systems. Computational neuroscience seems like it does more math modeling for understanding of brain function, but still might use
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by bchjam 8y ago
How does this cater to the disabled more than any other remote job site? If it does, there should be a little blurb about it
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by bchjam 8y ago
reminds me of a recent article about how Messi walks more than other players https://fivethirtyeight.com/features/messi-walks-better-than...
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by bchjam 8y ago
Figma's Rust in production post was pretty good https://blog.figma.com/rust-in-production-at-figma-e10a0ec31...
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by bchjam 8y ago
Meaning is a process of its own creation, not a measuring stick. Often when people speak of meaning as though it were quantitative, they usually are referring to how much they help other people. Meaning is also interactive, it rarely happen
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by bchjam 9y ago
Alex Warth of HARC has a new Dynamicland-inspired repo called roomdb https://github.com/alexwarth/roomdb
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by bchjam 9y ago
Perhaps a more interesting question would be how your interests & goals change after a month of downtime?
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by bchjam 9y ago
https://distill.pub/journal/
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by bchjam 9y ago
There's a great GDC talk about level design for this game by its creator https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ed2zmmcEryw
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by bchjam 9y ago
iterate more, starting simple has its merits meditate
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by bchjam 9y ago
working from home entails a personal responsibility for effectively scheduling your time. having a separate space from "normal" household activities can really help staying focused and avoiding overwork / burnout. over time,
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by bchjam 9y ago
I went on a local trail run in LA this week and was surprised by how many thick patches of wildflower there were. Swarmed with bees, snakes crossing the trail under my foot. Best spring in some time
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Deep and Hierarchical Implicit Models(dustintran.com)
2 points by bchjam 10y ago|0 comments
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by bchjam 10y ago
You might enjoy reading Papert's "Gears of my childhood" for a better perspective on his attitude towards learning as a process of discovery http://www.papert.org/articles/GearsOfMyChildhood.html
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by bchjam 10y ago
not exactly the same thing, but http://www.gitxiv.com/ is pretty cool for pairing papers with source
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by bchjam 10y ago
I don't think constructivism and embodied cognition are too far afield, they both have an emphasis on environmental interaction. That sort of intertwingedness goes along with the general thrust of Dreyfus' argument (+ here's
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by bchjam 10y ago
London is in Europe but Berlin in Germany? seems pretty ironic given recent news
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by bchjam 10y ago
"smart" is often interpreted as a measure of skills with symbol systems, rather than any general capacity to cultivate understanding. it wasn't that long ago that this sort of reactionary logic was used to justify enslaving l
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by bchjam 10y ago
Heisenbugs, what will become of you? in all seriousness though, I heard someone talk about their qc research a year or so ago and it was fascinating but I imagine debugging such systems could be quite the challenge
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Measuring the Bright Side of Being Blue: Analytical Rumination in Depression(journals.plos.org)
2 points by bchjam 10y ago|0 comments
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by bchjam 10y ago
as a kid in the late 80s, the news convinced my grandma that DnD was training me to be a satanist w/ suicidal pacts around the characters and all
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by bchjam 11y ago
nice! Logic & Design also has a wonderful chapter on rhythm in visual design http://www.amazon.com/Logic-Design-Revised-Science-Mathemati...
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by bchjam 11y ago
suggesting that single letter logos are maybe a bad idea
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by bchjam 11y ago
Speed reading techniques often try to break written word streams down into visual chunks and let the wetware do the rest. Unsurprisingly, results vary widely. Ironically though, this sounds a bit like a very high level description of segmen

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