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I took one of his twitter polls where he asked a mathematical question. And the little Nasim shouting 'imbecile' worked in perfect symbiosis with the little Kahneman to engage Syst…

There have been only a few things I have done with frequency in my life. Playing musical instruments in one of them. I have never been deliberate in practice. I have never sat down…

It's definitely a tricky issue. While we do need natural resources to support a transition to renewables, the mining industry is comically slow to move on anything. Fortran might s…

Morrowind: Dense, lot's of lore and immersion. More open, and less guided. I think at this time the cult of linear narrative was in it's infancy. And so you could kind of do more o…

Brainstorming itself might be over-generalised or not fit for the individual in all cases. But Osborne was really focusing on methodical approaches to creativity. Which is somethin…

I've always had a soft spot for Venus. The floating city idea is not my favourite, perhaps for research there could be applications. A monumental breakthrough in carbon sequestrati…

We ran a summer camp program for college students for several years. It started with 40 college students and each year we started adding more people. What was interesting was that …

On a good note, getting access to really high quality Earth observation data is really good for geophysics and geoscience research.

Assume I'm working on two projects. Project A is a b2c piece of software that I designed to solve some itch. Assume also that I've managed to strike a deal to raise some money (500…

Not sure how immediately effective this is. But interest seems to prove there is a hugely underserved community of people with ADHD who could probably benefit from software tools t…

For the technical subjects, I haven't managed find a program more comprehensive as brilliant.org. It covers a great deal of the technical subjects to perhaps most of the undergradu…

I'm particularly excited that the author mentioned manufacturing in space. I can imagine a future where purchasing power is greater in space than in some countries on Earth. Which …

Seems to back up. Most services working outside of incognito

I fell in love with this straight away. I'd love to be able to add my whole library tho.

I'm curious, what would y'all think are the things that could be made possible if humanity figured out a scalable way to do asteroid mining.

Please feel free to add in any topics that interest you and you're competent in. You could be as specific or as general as you like. There are some examples on the google doc. But …

What would you consider the best tools for quickly building out hardware prototypes? 3D printers, Lathes? What would it be?

Looking to do some research on the common traits, attitudes, struggles, techniques etc that very young people had throughout history. Could be historic, scientific, personal etc. A…