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1. Why Do Keynote Speakers Keep Suggesting That Improving Security Is Possible? - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ajGX7odA87k 2. James Mickens on JavaScript - James Mickens https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D5xh0ZIEUOE 3. Creating containers From Scratch - Liz Rice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8fi7uSYlOdc 4. 2013 Isaac Asimov Memorial Debate: The Existence of Nothing - Panelists: J. Richard Gott, Jim H…
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can someone please convince me that the use of the word "magic" is justified? yes I know sicp is universally exalted in the cs/programming community and even though I haven't read it yet I support the principle of a principled approach to computation (it's math after all in the purest sense) but I can't support the infantilism of words like magic and the wizard on the cover of the book because the two themes are dire…
Maybe it's just me (I haven't actually read the book), but I don't see the guy on the cover as a wizard. He's holding a pair of dividers which I associate much more with a craftsman or study of geometry. I just assumed the clothing was a style I didn't understand.
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It's like he has caught on to a kind of a zen thing. It is almost as if he isn't even there, while presenting about a technological topic at all. That is just the media for him to get an expanded wisdom across. What that message is is hard to identify. But there is a glance of it at the end of inventing on principle. It's a lot more profound than what the talk seems to be at the surface. I really wish he would publis…
Yeah, I was marvelling half the time at the wisdom , it makes other speakers seem merely knowedgeable, clever, brilliant etc. I missed most of it in my summary before. I love the this is a cool way to live your life, according to some principle - this is mine; these are some other amazing people who had their own aspect of it. His creators should be able to see and control what they're doing as they do it principle i…
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Yeah, I was marvelling half the time at the wisdom , it makes other speakers seem merely knowedgeable, clever, brilliant etc. I missed most of it in my summary before. I love the this is a cool way to live your life, according to some principle - this is mine; these are some other amazing people who had their own aspect of it. His creators should be able to see and control what they're doing as they do it principle i…
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The Feynman Lectures (on Physics) are incredible - Feynman had such an amazing mind, one of the greatest the world has known, yet could explain complex things like he was talking to a friend in the living room over drinks. Never patronizing, always amusing & informative: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j3mhkYbznBk&list=PLLzGzdSNup...
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It's like he has caught on to a kind of a zen thing. It is almost as if he isn't even there, while presenting about a technological topic at all. That is just the media for him to get an expanded wisdom across. What that message is is hard to identify. But there is a glance of it at the end of inventing on principle. It's a lot more profound than what the talk seems to be at the surface. I really wish he would publis…
Yeah, I was marvelling half the time at the wisdom , it makes other speakers seem merely knowedgeable, clever, brilliant etc. I missed most of it in my summary before. I love the this is a cool way to live your life, according to some principle - this is mine; these are some other amazing people who had their own aspect of it. His creators should be able to see and control what they're doing as they do it principle i…
Earlier quoted context omitted.
can someone please convince me that the use of the word "magic" is justified? yes I know sicp is universally exalted in the cs/programming community and even though I haven't read it yet I support the principle of a principled approach to computation (it's math after all in the purest sense) but I can't support the infantilism of words like magic and the wizard on the cover of the book because the two themes are dire…
Maybe it's just me (I haven't actually read the book), but I don't see the guy on the cover as a wizard. He's holding a pair of dividers which I associate much more with a craftsman or study of geometry. I just assumed the clothing was a style I didn't understand.