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google glasses / vr & double down on what can do at any one given time?
God that's so toxic lol. But it's what capitalism wants!
does extend the life span of outlook.
How to get new ideas
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got to get out of oen's comfort zone/familar & figure out how the wierd/strange/unknown fits/matches up with what one is comfortable/familiar with. best done on one's own terms vs. letting life exclusively dictate when the wierd/strange/unknown happens. edit:' does result in lot more blue screen issues.
It’s not about whose terms you’re living on, it’s about listening. Most people around us are dealing with mundane things that need fixing, just listening to people’s grievances is a great way to ideate. There are individuals who you just end up meeting through life that have great niche problems that require nothing else other than living and listening to attain them. Going out and “pursuing” ideas often leads to som…
but the invariant of checking out/exploring just for the sake of being somewhere but 'here' does present one with way more opportunities to listen/hear.
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#164The "gaps that seem obvious"-notion describes exactly how I feel about pull request tooling these days. The status quo for PR review has very obvious-seeming improvements that have not been pursued (ex: de-emphasizing moved code vs. deleted code, making AI predict what comment will be left before dev starts typing, auto-reviewing trivial changes).
If I'm correct that PR review is currently much less efficient than it will be soon, it won't be because I'm smart or this is a new idea. It would just be because our company has spent last five years building code review tools, right place right time. Eventually there was enough infrastructure accumulated (and ambient events unfolding, ie OpenAI) that it became a small step to pass the edge of what PR review meant circa 2022.
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#165Well, actually the ChatGPT essays-fed answer (https://twitter.com/stef/status/1617222536344764416/photo/1) is pretty close to what Paul Graham himself said, although he would not admit it. Real Paul talked about anomalies, and that's eerily close to "accidents and mistakes" in my opinion. :)
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What kinds of things do you think has to change with game engines? Sharding would have to happen to handle geographic distance between people, wouldn't it? I’m curious to hear your thoughts.
You can still do things like client-side prediction with streaming, but imagine if you controlled all of the clients and could always trust them. You could have the actual simulation running in a big bunker in Ohio somewhere on entirely synchronous terms ( The game concept itself can be engineered around vertical scale constraints. For instance, imagine flight routes in WoW. If the cost to take a flight was modulated…
Interesting. Can’t think of any faults in your logic!
Are you actively working on this?
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#1671) have capital 2) bet capital on people with ideas 3) exploit their labor 4) declare yourself their muse
wonder if that's what einstein was thinking when came up with e = m (c squared). 1) aka two see m is to b without [need for financial] backing. 2) sed e/two/to/ | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' sed e/m/money/ | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' sed e/b/be/ | tr '[a-z]' '[A-Z]' 3) crap -- type face doesnt do this justice --- gotta go re-invent tex for ycombinator 4) ha ha ACME; errr.. sed e/ol/al/ sed g/ol$/lol/ sed g/al$/ai/ sed g/capit/car(cd…
so, must vi 4/attention
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#168I love this. Short and concise, this combines two of my most favorite mindshares. 1. "Hackers and Painters" – I stumbled across in late 2004 at the Technical University of Vienna's (excellent) bookstore. Reading it changed my life. 2. "Ideas are the Enemy of Observations (2012)" – Just Three months ago yamrzou shared this gem of a text. For me, it has become the most meaningful post ever shared on HN. "How to get new…
I read the essay and found it reasonably entertaining, but not exactly in a good way. What exactly is the writer trying to accomplish? I didn't get it, but maybe it's about having an "unbiased" look at the world, probably/maybe in the context of inferring causality, not just for lolz.
The essay writer's main problem is that they are attempting to infer causality from observation or to find an explanation of the data that justifies or supports their worldview. After all, "why?", "how curious", "I wonder how that happens" are powerful questions and statement that have led to countless inventions, investigations, novels, and pleasurable, although at times frustrating, time.
I would recommend something more scientific: observe the world (data/observations), develop a hypothesis that is hard in Platt's sense (meaning it should be discriminating) and test the hypothesis on new data and observations, where new means not used to develop the hypothesis to be tested. And they will see that they should not only collect observations that describe the world, but develop and test hypotheses that can test the mechanisms that lead to those observed facts.
Sometimes this is possible, sometimes it is not. But it is always entertaining.
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#169Neuroscientist here. Closer I got to the physiology of mental health - sleep, stress, exercise, and nutrition - realized it was another fractal for personal and population health. Problem remains navigating regulatory or reimbursement hurdles from wellness into professional care.
100%. Start projects, bet small, grow
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#170My problem isn't a lack of ideas. It's having the bandwidth to do them all. What I really need is the ability to clone myself.
I try to find forests of related idea, so that working a bit on one, will contribute vaguely to another. I'm discovering logarithms