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Yeah the process always struck me as just as much a barrier to exit as a barrier to entry (maybe even more so).

And the obligatory Alan Perlis epigrams (usually one makes it on a list like this!): http://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html .

Awesome!

Mainly just improvise on the guitar (and primarily warm acoustic vibes during this pandemic): * https://soundcloud.com/devin-riley-763462550/sunday-brunch * https://soundcloud.com/…

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Nice! Really like "When You\'re In Town".

If we are talking blitz though there is an argument to be made for the trickiness of the knight's geometry. Forks abound and no time to calculate.

John von Neumann and the Origins of Modern Computing (Aspray) is a great historical account and details many of his other contributions (e.g. game theory, automata, but especially …

+1 on Mathematics, Form and Function

Would recommend reading everything in Collected Fictions.

That is basically the mission statement of Software Carpentry ( https://software-carpentry.org/ ). They have a _ton_ of great material for those in scientific computing wanting to …

Possibly because the U.S. provides the "best high school education in the world.. It's just a shame you have to go to college to get it." -- Alan Kay, some anecdote I forget how to…

Yeah - this is a very good point. At a certain point, the scale of economic activity has to bump up against the finite scale of ecological dynamics upon which it is dependent. As l…

In his lecture series on Bach, Robert Greenberg discusses temperament quite a bit and I found it fascinating. He relays all these descriptions that Bach had of different keys that …

This is a beautiful comment - thanks for sharing. FWIW I have not watched House, but that episode is referencing an actual technique developed by V.S. Ramachandran ( https://en.wik…

The NYT had a great piece a few years back of a similar bent but w.r.t. oranges: https://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/28/science/a-race-to-save-th... . Definitely influenced how I think…

Publishing raw data itself is definitely a good start but there also needs to be a push towards a standardized way of sharing data along with it's lineage (dependent sources, exper…

Exactly. It's a meaningless and even misleading analogy. If forced to draw a comparison, you could maybe talk about the energy dissipation of a single neuron and compare that to, s…

Keith Johnstone has a nice passage in his book Impro where he likens adults to atrophied children (which applies to hobbies of a more artistic bent): "If he believed he was a trans…

This was circulating around HN a few days ago: https://github.com/facebookincubator/xar