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I love this: a DSL that makes clocks out of birds and math. Really, this is a glorious little project. The thing I bounced off isn't the high-concept art, or the abstract math. It’…

Verizon competes with T-Mobile and AT&T. Comcast competes with a different arm of AT&T, Google Fiber, various older satellite internet services and now Starlink. Outside the US, br…

McDonald's. Disney. Walmart. Kroger. Comcast. Verizon. And many more who sell crops, chemicals, power, machine parts, cars, concrete... Many companies have billions of customers an…

Unix famously comes with a lot of documentation, but it's still famously hard to learn. Why? As a teacher and cognitive scientist, the reason is interesting: Unix documentation, st…

No, it really isn't a good idea to base your theories of psychiatric medicine on a satirical half-hour cartoon show about swearing construction-paper children. It is true that ther…

The estimates I've seen suggest maybe just Mercury. Which is good, because Mercury is mostly metal, whereas e.g. Mars is mostly rock and thus not useful for this kind of work

You're misinformed here. The biggest per-student spender on education in the developed world is the US: > In 2019, the United States spent $15,500 per full-time-equivalent (FTE) st…

If you want to learn about symbolic AI, there are a lot of more recent sources than PAIP (you could try the first half of AI: A Modern Approach by Russel and Norvig), and this has …

So I'm a long-time Emacs user who tried Vim for a year a while back. What do you like about Neovim?

It isn't. VS Code's goal is to get the low-effort 30% of devs who want something that will just work right out of the box, while providing enough functionality/customization to att…

Examples please?

Michio Kaku is a smart guy, but I wouldn't call him a "Top Physicist"

> Economics isn’t science, it’s politics hiding behind math. That's the kind of thing people say when math tells them what they want is not feasible. Surely the math must be wrong!…

I am not going to say that this is wrong, because I haven't read the study. But it was produced by the Berkeley economics department, which could well be the most left-leaning in t…

Did you even read what I wrote?

You’re being pedantic. I’m with you that “imbalance” sounds a little new-agey and imprecise, but I’ve talked to a lot of scientific and medical people about BiPD and I haven’t met …

> Even so, treatment breakthroughs have lagged and the drug often prescribed for the condition, lithium, was first used nearly 75 years ago. This is false. I don’t know what this a…

Dude, bipolar disorder can be just about cured in some people by dosing them with ground-up rocks. Lithium is a chemical element. If it isn’t inducing some kind of chemical change,…

Or just remember that, on the timescale of the universe, 50 years is almost as brief as five minutes. Soon you'll be dead, and everyone you love, everyone you know. And everyone wh…

This is an awesome idea! The problem is that it only covers half of what you need to know in linear algebra. What about the Spectral Theorem? What about positive definite matrices?…

Agreed that the reviews are not in-depth. But sometimes inclusion on the list is enough. I saw enough books on the list that I recognized and benefited from to convince me that the…

If you want to learn a little bit about lisp, you might try some of Paul Graham's writing on the subject. http://www.paulgraham.com/lisp.html One thing you'll learn there is that i…

You have a lot to work with: English. Computer and internet access. You seem smart. Your income gives you time to work and will let you travel to make connections. You're still you…