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fully support the idea of an emerging technobiont, but i keep asking myself what advantage humans will confer to petro-electric life forms? the only way forward is for us to geneti…

One of these capsized off the beach at Capitola and now serves as a de facto bird sanctuary. https://www.mercurynews.com/2019/05/29/ss-palo-alto-reaches-... Before it capsized and …

Most CEOs don't understand the actual things their front-line workers do. and many of them have allowed themselves to be surrounded by yes-men. the richer and more powerful they ar…

This strategy has worked well for both Shakespeare and Co. in Paris and Shakespeare and Sons in Berlin. Books + Bakery + Coffee. Both of course are set in living pedestrian cities.…

If the poster cannot do the work of writing, they should not expect others to do the work of reading. People read based on trust and respond to invest in relationships. LLM verbiag…

I feel like the headline relies on a misnomer. Sivers is talking about culture. Most culture occupies a geography, even if it’s a changing one; the culture shrinks, expands or drif…

The interesting thing about “Algvandringen” is that you can hear “Elk wandering” in it, showing the evolutionary similarities of two Germanic languages.

As Alex's story illustrates, really caring about something and acting on that can be a great way to find community.

“You can’t cheat an honest man.” While that isn’t always true, honesty is a great defense against being enlisted in scams that promise easy money.

This smells like LLM.

I worked for a while selling fractional nurses into for-profit nursing/retirement homes at the end of Covid, got to interview some industry experts, who told me that these for-prof…

This is so yawn. Do young professionals starting out have to impress their bosses? Yes. Do bosses have to impress them? Usually not. Who cares? Power dynamics exist, it’s easy to p…

See Dr Wendy Suzuki’s work: https://www.wendysuzuki.com/exercise-research

Becoming Led Zeppelin is a great documentary which chronicles the band’s rise. It has some great quotes from Plant about the milieu that fathers around a famous band, supplying dru…

The easiest way to do something is the first time.

The author is right to critique Cerquiglini. The French legacy is largely lexical. The syntax and the old, short words of English are Germanic. Its several influences drove the rel…

This is true. But it’s also hard to hold against many of them. Because they are often isolated, slow or immobile, and in cognitive decline. I saw this happen to my grandmother in a…

i don't know why this was down-voted... i'm genuinely interested in the answers. feel free to dm me.

What kind of math do you do, and what would “generating proofs” look like do you think?

Yes, Alan Kay is very ill.

Out of curiosity, does anyone know the mathematicians actively leaning into AI + Lean?

It sounds like we agree on the larger strategic point. The PRC seems to be doing a good job building out its energy infra, fwiw. And it shares a massive land border with an ally an…

I found this to be a remarkably uninsightful work. He somehow negates the inherent drama of war with the milquetoast prose and myopia of an academic. Much of what he says is in fac…

I really like this, and I think one way to make it even more clear would be to use other variable letters to represent breads and milks, because their x’s and y’s somehow morph int…