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Plato's Republic as an iMessage Thread(pmohun.github.io)
1 points by pmohun 10mo ago|1 comments
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by pmohun 10mo ago
I've always found The Republic the most approachable of the major works of philosophy. Even so, I struggle with the prose. It made me think: is there a better way to read the classics? The result: a iMessage interface that presents The
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by pmohun 2y ago
Strange but true: p5 was a major component in the recent popularization of generative art — a branch of computer art that relies on computer generated visuals based on random seeds. p5 was a core dependency for Art Blocks, a popular Ethereu
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Ask HN: Why has the comment section become so pessimistic?
26 points by pmohun 4y ago|22 comments
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by pmohun 4y ago
http://www.paulgraham.com/wealth.html
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by pmohun 4y ago
It was his willingness to spend inordinate amounts of times working out answers to problems himself, instead of trusting the work of others. He explains in his autobiographies that this gave him a “different set of tools” than other people,
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Discover stable diffusion prompts with Lexica(lexica.art)
5 points by pmohun 4y ago|0 comments
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by pmohun 4y ago
Related: https://twitter.com/patrickc/status/1559737765566173185
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by pmohun 4y ago
It will be interesting to see the next version of robots.txt that begins to appear in public repos to prevent this type of data scraping.
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by pmohun 4y ago
https://www.ycombinator.com/faq
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by pmohun 4y ago
It’s a good question. The reason that GDP growth is so important is because it raises the standard of living for those who aren’t yet born. If you accept the premise that lives in the future matter just as much as those today, then the vast
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Ask HN: If you had 24 hours in the year 2050, what questions would you ask?
13 points by pmohun 4y ago|56 comments
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by pmohun 5y ago
this was a lot of fun. thanks for sharing!
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by pmohun 5y ago
You just accidentally rediscovered Zeno’s paradox
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Snail Mail – The slowest way to send a letter for free(shortwavesnailmail.com)
7 points by pmohun 5y ago|0 comments
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Tempo will sunset on October 29, 2021(yourtempo.co)
2 points by pmohun 5y ago|1 comments
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by pmohun 5y ago
Excited to see Fernando Pessoa on HN. He's easily my favorite poet. The Book of Disquiet is under appreciated and I've recommended it to many friends.
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by pmohun 5y ago
I agree! The best websites are those maintained by individuals without a profit motive. Here's a short list that I've started collecting: - Kevin Kelly: kk.org - Patrick Collison: patrickcollison.com - Patrick McKenzie: kalzumeus.
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Atomic Energy for Military Purposes (The Smyth Report)(atomicarchive.com)
3 points by pmohun 5y ago|0 comments
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by pmohun 5y ago
if you haven't read Immanuel Velikovsky, you should. start with "Worlds in Collision". he talks about this exact phenomenon. disclaimer: his work is widely cited as pseudoscience. it's a good read if you're looking
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Ask HN: What are the best exercises for gathering input from a large group?
2 points by pmohun 6y ago|1 comments
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by pmohun 6y ago
This essay from David Perell touches on a similar concept: https://perell.com/note/lateral-thinking-with-withered-ideas... > It led to the 20th century’s most successful game console: the Game Boy. One day, a gaming
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by pmohun 6y ago
This specific visualization is limited to 37% of the hash power on the network. It's possible that it is a representative sample, but I don't think we can assume that.
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by pmohun 6y ago
I would go a step further, and say that prompt design will become an important sector of programming. Modern language models (eg GPT-3 et al) offer the capability to take a natural language input, match it against the context of the sentenc
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by pmohun 6y ago
I thought about this pretty much constantly for a year. I wrote down everything I came up with here: https://sundayscaries.substack.com/p/nurturing-curiosity tl;dr: combine ideas from different domains, talk with frien
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by pmohun 6y ago
Whenever I read a comment that says "email is dead" I feel it is my responsibility to point out that ~it doesn't have to be this way~ The email standard(s) are great. Powerful, decentralized, and damn near universal. It'
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SpaceX – Making Life Multiplanetary (2016) [pdf](spacex.com)
3 points by pmohun 6y ago|0 comments
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Why teenagers want to be influencers(sundayscaries.substack.com)
4 points by pmohun 6y ago|0 comments
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by pmohun 6y ago
I recently went through the process of transitioning out of my role as a Product Manager at a Fortune 30 company. It struck me just how large of a variance exists in success of the transition process across employees. I wrote this post to h
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Practical Advice for Changing Jobs(sundayscaries.substack.com)
1 points by pmohun 6y ago|1 comments

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