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by cwb 4y ago
Mindset by Carol Dweck ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/40745.Mindset ) So Good They Can't Ignore You by Cal Newport ( https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/13525945-so-good-they-ca.
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by cwb 10y ago
When we ran it, the workload was mostly during weekdays in different timezones (so distributed over more than 8 hours). This was on a single c4.2xlarge AWS server, which was bigger than we needed. To be clear, I wasn't trying to make a
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A founder's perspective on 4 years with Haskell(baatz.io)
6 points by cwb 10y ago|0 comments
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We Can’t Find Any Alien Neighbors and Virtual Reality Might Be to Blame(singularityhub.com)
3 points by cwb 11y ago|0 comments
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by cwb 11y ago
You might not find them convincing, but the reasons I believe that is the case are: - Human hardware is fairly fixed (unless we go the cyborg route) whereas robot hardware (at least the computation part) evolves roughy exponentially and I d
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by cwb 11y ago
Perhaps, I might be missing something. The way I understand it is that "the Luddite fallacy is not a fallacy" is an assertion (OED: "a confident and forceful statement of fact or belief"). The reason, I claim, is that hu
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by cwb 11y ago
Sorry I couldn't make it more clear. Was there anything particular that you didn't understand? Agree on the basic income (in general, I'm not sure about the details). Jobs so far have been a convenient and pragmatic (not nece
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by cwb 11y ago
No, not for it having significant economic and social implications, that's more a corollary of employment rate decreasing -- I'll change that sentence. The argument for the Luddite fallacy not being a fallacy was that humans have
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by cwb 11y ago
You're right, the micro-level version isn't a fallacy (either..), though I think that's less contentious, or? Many countries already have some experience with this. For example, agriculture has gone from having 70-80% of the
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by cwb 11y ago
Indeed, that is the question. The post tries to show that "cut your hair and get a job" will disappear as an answer to "how do I get to partake in this wealth creation" for a large number of people and we'll thus pr
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Not a Luddite fallacy (2011)(baatz.io)
40 points by cwb 11y ago|70 comments
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by cwb 11y ago
I asked myself the same question. What is the best choice depends on both stated goals, assumptions, and predictions, which means others might differ in their assessment of the right tool for the job. In this case, why was Haskell not the b
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3 mistakes that spoil discussions(baatz.io)
1 points by cwb 11y ago|0 comments
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How people pay: money, time, and discomfort(baatz.io)
3 points by cwb 12y ago|0 comments
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Haskell Design Patterns: .Extended Modules(jaspervdj.be)
3 points by cwb 12y ago|0 comments
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De Beers eyes IT applications of synthetic diamonds(technologyreview.com)
1 points by cwb 15y ago|0 comments
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by cwb 15y ago
The author makes the implicit and false assumption that humans will always be able to compete with machines in something that other people are willing to pay for. That has been, and probably still is, the case. I see no reason to think that
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by cwb 15y ago
Technology is improving at a higher rate than humans -- our wetware/body have fundamental limits than hardware/software. Hence, at some point -- sooner or later -- we start to run out of jobs that we are willing to pay humans to do instead
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The Monad Reader - Issue 18(themonadreader.wordpress.com)
3 points by cwb 15y ago|0 comments
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by cwb 15y ago
He does say "passage" to refer to a small part of a composition, not the whole thing. Your thinking is spot on though -- the length of the segment needs to be considered.
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by cwb 15y ago
The teacher would need to try and make the students understand that it is all right -- scrap that, necessary -- to fail when you learn. Learning to perform surgery is not the same thing as performing it. Out of curiosity, how do you think
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How to do deliberate practice(thetalentcode.com)
87 points by cwb 15y ago|34 comments
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Mongrel2 v1.6 Released(sheddingbikes.com)
47 points by cwb 15y ago|19 comments
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Comic explaining Non-Euclidean geometry [pdf](savoir-sans-frontieres.com)
2 points by cwb 15y ago|0 comments
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Are the new elevators bad design? (Norman)(jnd.org)
5 points by cwb 16y ago|1 comments
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Advice to newbie on learning Lisp/Clojure(learningclojure.com)
70 points by cwb 16y ago|27 comments
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On Apple disrupting the magazine business(counternotions.com)
3 points by cwb 16y ago|0 comments
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Societal Security(schneier.com)
19 points by cwb 16y ago|1 comments
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A Warning to LCDs - Watch Your Back, AMOLEDs are Coming(singularityhub.com)
2 points by cwb 16y ago|0 comments
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by cwb 16y ago
Indeed. Video lectures can be helpful -- in particular for mechanics and manipulation -- but no reason to be overly excited (there was great hope for educational use of TV in its early days, unless I'm mistaken). A good book is usually more

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