merridew22

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by merridew22 1mo ago
honestly, as someone in retail, it describes 90 percent of leadership
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Asteroid Mining Simulator 2026(play.unity.com)
1 points by merridew22 4mo ago|1 comments
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by merridew22 4mo ago
I made this game with Google Gemini, learning C# from the ground up. I'm still a little shaky, but am trying to accelerate my learning through some resources to trainings at my job. Let me know what you think!
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Indian Mathematics: Redressing the balance(mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk)
2 points by merridew22 1y ago|1 comments
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by merridew22 1y ago
This essay explains the leaps and bounds made by Indian mathematicians in topics like infinite series expansions well before the Western world caught hold of them, and references the desire to make Madhava more of a household name when it c
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by merridew22 6y ago
WSJ won’t let me read the article
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by merridew22 6y ago
>It is a really stupid idea This comment assumes that in the past, governments around the world always made decisions to placate the U.S., as if whether the U.S. approval or disapproval is required for nation-building. While this may hav
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by merridew22 6y ago
Thank you for this recommendation! I’ve just come to the close of Heart of the Enterprise—I’m not a manager but I’ve sure been managed, and I think Beer comes closest to describing what a good manager is than anything else I’ve read about i
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by merridew22 6y ago
Huh. I’ve read Brain of the Firm, and Heart of the Enterprise, as well as Weiner’s Introduction to Cybernetics, and I found that the material is challenging but rewarding, not “sheer gorp.” Contrary to the summary that this blog offers, cyb
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by merridew22 6y ago
Thank you for this!
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by merridew22 6y ago
From what I understand, the economic revolution / experiment in Chile was abruptly ended due to political forces, not market forces. Basically, any socialist (sympathizing) government during the under a US magnifying glass. Oil money
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by merridew22 6y ago
Phew! Thank goodness someone finally mentioned this. The next step is to ask to speak to a manager and I bet this conversation would have gone a lot better.
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by merridew22 6y ago
I would highly recommend reading Brain of the Firm by Stafford Beer. It’s the most fantastic layman’s introduction to cybernetics, written from the perspective of the economist behind the “Cyber” in the Chilean CyberSyn project (1970-3). I