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One of the big foundational insights that chapter 2 of SICP gave to me was the separation between data, and it's representation. It is important as a programming concept but also a…

Let me supplement physical toys (which are most important for sure) with some additional ideas for building future programmers. Children ages 3-7 are really just beginning to learn…

I think AI politicians or complex algorithms just risk being a more complicated form of legalese that even less people can understand (legalese in code/math form). With law in code…

Speaking as a Workflowy user to your concerns, it's the best of all worlds for me: - nightly export to dropbox as plaintext and a backup as a type of json format with more metadata…

Of course a well rounded education comes from many sources and factors, both internal and external. But in general I feel that: STEM training = literacy for the jobs we have now Li…

Of the handful of people I know that have bought Tesla's, they are very much not of the hacking mindset. I'm not saying this is forever true, but I think the type of person that ca…

For every starry-eyed and future creating technologist, who really does see the best-case scenario for what current and near-future technologies can accomplish, they need to always…

"I wonder how much the economy would break down, and have to change, if email suddenly went away?" Or suddenly went proprietary.

In which case you can make a Darwinian distinction between a "clumsy" curiosity and a "cautious" one, with the cautious types eventually winning out.

Technically, this might be syntax, but as someone who is learning Racket (and programming) in the beginning stages, it's so much less syntax to remember then even python (underscor…

Might be a way to get unofficial feedback from the community as the news spreads and make final tweaks before they release it.

And lets not forget the musical domain: Stradivarius [1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stradivarius

Thanks for the leads. Very informative. Contracts make sense, and will probably be the first experiments with this. That seems to be what blockchain tech is tapping into first. I w…

I grant you the absurdity of enforcing all laws with machines/computers/robots. I don't think I was as clear as intended. But I do feel that there are plenty of processes and certa…

I'm curious if there is research, startups, open-source projects, etc., pertaining to this topic which has intrigued me for a while. Law and code are very similar conceptually it s…

I heard this interview with the CEO. So Dstillery says they have anonymous but unique identifiers for each phone. They probably then track where people shop at, where they live, wh…