pdamoc

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by pdamoc 2mo ago
I cant' believe it's almost 10 years since he died. My favorite quote of his is "Who needs a bucket list when you have love?” I wish more people would take his ideas seriously, especially his "Collective Code Constructio
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by pdamoc 6mo ago
Also sad that now all three are gone.
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by pdamoc 3y ago
Elm started as a FRP language and ended up giving up FRP[1] for ease of use. If ease of use is targeted, signals might not be the best approach. I distinctly remember things becoming easier when they went away. [1] https://elm-la
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by pdamoc 4y ago
Pleasure is not the right goal. Homeostasis, balance, equanimity, peace are much better. Learn to appreciate beauty. Learn to create beauty. Learn how to get better at both.
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by pdamoc 4y ago
Learn Argentine Tango. If you live in a big enough city, most likely there will be a tango community. Classes 2 times a week, one practica and one milonga and puff most of your week is covered.
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by pdamoc 5y ago
I think that it is more important to remember that Montessori tried to bring education in the 20th century using the science that was available to her 100+ years ago. Most schools today are still stuck into the factory model of 200 years ag
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by pdamoc 5y ago
My favorite approach remains the Dome of Visions - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Bn2o-xyS6M
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by pdamoc 5y ago
You might want to read first "How to Read a Book" and then proceed to the recommended list [1]. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Read_a_Book#Reading_lis...
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by pdamoc 5y ago
Long ago I found an approach to 3D modeling [1] that used a morphable model that was then morphed into the desired shape. Would something like this be possible for voice? A voice model obtained from a gigantic set of samples, that can be ma
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by pdamoc 5y ago
> "No wireless. Less space than a nomad. Lame." - CmdrTaco Apple is very good at maximizing "consumer satisfaction". This means giving consumer the best deal for their money considering as many of the consumer needs a
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by pdamoc 5y ago
I personally think the self-help movement peaked with "Lead the Field" by Earl Nightingale. The only things better than that program can be found in science backed endeavors from something like Psychological Self-Help[1] to the en
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by pdamoc 5y ago
Good enough for vertical markets and admin/back-office apps.
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by pdamoc 5y ago
Go to Buenos Aires. Programming is draining on the brain and you need a way to disconnect from your project in order to rest your mind. Tango will provide you with the much needed balance. This way, you can code during the day, socialize&#x
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by pdamoc 5y ago
Even good software runs in a context. The last commit I did was just to add a comment about a specific ordering in an argument to a function call that had to be that way to compensate for a bug in the library from where the function was imp
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by pdamoc 5y ago
Hate is such a strong word and most likely not the best description here. We all have beliefs about reality and these beliefs generate a lot of emotions. We also interact with our beliefs as if they are the reality and seldom question them.
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by pdamoc 5y ago
Gerald Sussman of SICP fame was asked why they stop teaching SICP and he said that the way programming was being done changed mid 90s. It moved from programming from first principles to programming against an API. This is still the reality
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by pdamoc 5y ago
> Why are people seemingly so drawn to identifying themselves as anything at all? This is biologically preconditioned. We have brain wiring for identifying "Us" and "Them". BigThink put up a compilation video [1] on t
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by pdamoc 5y ago
> I’ve never fully understood why the events emit a value of some message type In Elm, the Model can be updated faster than the DOM. In other words, the view is rendered at the speed of requestAnimationFrame but the model can change in b
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by pdamoc 5y ago
> “Correlation doesn’t imply causation, but it does waggle its eyebrows suggestively and gesture furtively while mouthing ‘look over there.’” - Randall Munroe The way I see this is that it might be one of those tests that, if they come b
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by pdamoc 5y ago
There is an interesting book coming out later this year: "The Bias That Divides Us: The Science and Politics of Myside Thinking" by Keith E. Stanovich (applied psychology professor famous for his work on rationality) Here is an ar
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by pdamoc 5y ago
Alan Kay said at one point: > I have always done my work in the context of a group that is set up to maximize a wide spread of talents and abilities. Just as “science” is “a better scientist than a scientist”, such a group is “a better p
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by pdamoc 6y ago
Hotmail offered 2Mb space and Yahoo proudly claimed "twice the space of other providers" with their 4Mb offer. I had a GMX.de account that was providing 25 Mb and felt like a king. Then April 1, 2004 came and nothing was the same
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by pdamoc 6y ago
Tim Ferriss is responsible for a large amount of studies on the effect of psilocybin on depression. I think he invested something like $2M in research.
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by pdamoc 6y ago
Switching to using stack and cluster has simplified my layouts tremendously.
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by pdamoc 6y ago
I think that there really is a need for the general public to know what science IS. How it came about, how it works. Unfortunately, for that to happen at the level it needs, there needs to be a change in how Education works everywhere. We a
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by pdamoc 6y ago
The University of Medicine where I got my Bachelor of Science in Biomedical Engineering is now teaching a course in Homeopathy. So, yeah.... there is also a need for "scientists" to know how science works.
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by pdamoc 6y ago
The challenge of scientific thinking is becoming aware of the ways in which your mind might lead you to wrong conclusions. This is the Toyota way and what Chris Argyris calls productive reasoning. It is becoming aware of your cognitive bias
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by pdamoc 6y ago
In my mind, there are two distinct aspects to an UI. The skeleton and the surface. The skeleton deals with the layout of the various elements while the surface deals with colors, font families and sizes. A design system should reduce decisi
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by pdamoc 6y ago
> I now understand it as a gateway to Jung ideas, which I find helpful during my current period of professional questionning. Jung's ideas are quite attractive, I'll give you that. We all love a good story, especially if feels
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by pdamoc 6y ago
> I'm an introvert who can easily converse with strangers The 10 Aspects scale [1] has an easy answer to this. You might be the kind of introvert that is high in Enthusiasm and low in Assertiveness. I've got a lot of people bei

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