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I have the feeling that the answers below are going away from what the OP was trying to find out.

It's not about going vegan, starting a garden or using condoms. If a person is already exhausted personal efforts (to the extent one can with a given life condition), where can we help by directly investing.

Because I'm a working professional with solid income, maybe I don't have time/space to do the time-consuming activities proposed, but I do have excess funds that I can direct to the higher cause.

So - where should we invest our money, and not our time? Because we possible have the first, and not the later :(

Assuming you're ironic - do you really think Radiohead needs elaborate ruse to release their junk tapes? I had the feeling they're doing fine in their own trippy world. (RH fan, btw)

Downvotes be damned, but after listening to the actual Eyeo talk, I'm surprised how much fluff (Jenny's work) can be added to a good statement (Gilles Deleuze's statement). Art is supposed to be a consideration on human sentiment/action/whatever, but this is just next level of not actually producing anything and calling it "art" - not because of its value, but because it won't fit into any other meaningful category... and then you do a keynote with it.

My logic is in reverse - I look at the list of books to judge whether the person is someone I want to know more about (also irl).

So, the short explanations of why the books are interesting is your introduction to yourself, your overlap (books I already read) is the evaluation material, and the rest of the blog/notes is the thing that it's really being discussed.

Anyone else has the feeling that Shane Parrish is just a classier version of Tim Ferriss? Can't shake the "let me sell you tricks" approach.

HAM radio locator grid does pretty much the same thing, with I would say roughly the same precision.

example: http://k7fry.com/grid/?qth=JN17EB67UN

I only knew of the 6-character location code, which is typically used when identifying yourself, but it seems there's the expanded version of up to 10 characters.

What I don't understand is the usage scenario. Plus codes are not human-friendly like street addresses, so I'm assuming they're meant for machine processing. But there you have all these other systems like HAM location codes or MGRS, that I don't see added value.

Finished my masters and working my first software eng job at a mid-sized company. Had loads of money (relative to my needs back then), bought my first car, I decided that it was too boring and wanted to challenge myself. Enrolled in a PhD program the following year.

Advice to myself - better work out a balance between all the different sides of life.

It's a "she".

But I agree. The article reads as "these guys seem desperate, let me kick them one more time, it's for their own good". It's one thing to be driven by facts, calling out bad things when you see them, this reads like an opinion piece saying "they still haven't learned". And "they" is wildly generalized.

It seem that "entrepreneur" is becoming synonymous to "arrogant, sexist asshole", and if think that, you're actually creating another problem, not solving the existing one.

So - no effort is better than some effort? That's pretty dark, and if we're given a control of at least 20% of the holes, I would say - use that control.

I can relate to that. I would go as far as hate, but definitely disappointed. As an PhD in CS I've seen my share of pressure and I agree completely that it's just not a way to do meaningful research as much as it's mass production of small incremental steps. It's debatable whether big breakthroughs Van happen this way

I don't think it's for actual gaming. Think more in the direction of simple way to expand any web-app with QR-code interactions.

It just looks like an elaborate way to market FusionTables. But it's a popular move for everybody these days, and even a couple of MOOC's have been used to spread the word about some professors pet-project/platform.

But putting that aside, I don't see why they didn't support any of the other free/open platforms (like R). (I'm expecting "but it's too complicated to that user-segment" argument)

R, Pandas (python) and alike will do a good job IMHO. I've been working with Matlab before (not really statistics, but more general), and now R is really delightful with visualizations and quick analysis.

If you're looking for a rich programming language with basic analysis function I would recommend Pandas. Not as diverse as R, but works pretty good. (Just watch out for that steep learning curve in the beginning).

So, chilitags runs on JS now? Nice.

I still view JS as a UI-oriented language, and I really don't know why would you want to implement processor-heavy algorithms in a browser environment, which need a lot of data and don't use the networking.

I would still stick to python. Or java. Or anything else which has a clear syntax and can run at a useful speed (I'm not mentioning C++ because of the coding overhead and dirty tricks which makes it a bit unfriendly for learning an algorithm)

Tell you what - I'll get back to the topic & blog in 1 year time. I'll chat you up on HN and we'll redo the discussion. I'm willing to admit my mistake, but if they jakub ends this project in a-la-tim-ferris "book about selling books", I'll call my hunch correct - that he just played the community for self benefit.

If the project is left-for-dead, I'll consider my second statement about drawing attention too soon correct.

On the other hand, if the project is showing progress and does a fair writing - I'll gladly apologize to jakubgarfield and to you.

Sounds fair?

But that's bad, right? It's like you're making the "Landing on the moon" documentary in the 1920. People don't want to hear about 40 years of mistakes, they want to hear about the end conclusions and you won't have any to give. That's why success-story books sell, but you don't see a lot of "will-try-to-do" books.

I always feel stupid after clicking on a link like this and finding somebody's self-advertisement. It's like one of those "Click here for the best instruction on how to loose weight", but for developers.

Don't take this the wrong way - nobody means any disrespect your work, but I'm skeptical (to say the least) about this being a sustainable tempo of work.

So, if you are pulling it off, can you give a comment on how long have you been working like this, and whether there's an simple trade-off in terms of restfulness, social life, etc... You know, can you live like this, and for how long.

Riding the wave of general paranoia like a boss. But, a bit too late?

They're not really directly comparable. Python is an general purpose programming language, R is a statistical processing tool.

You could compare R to Matlab, or R to python library with similar scope (numpy or pandas).

It seems like an interesting experiment, but I disagree with the conclusions of "I was getting better, I was happy". This is not sustainable and by all psychological/physical measurements this should be very bad for the person.

Can we kill the Cult of the Workaholic already?

The topic is fun (if not terribly useful), but the rest of the blog is full of brain-teasers. I'm really enjoying the read.

If we put aside the ego-bashing and dick-measuring, the good side of hyping-out a technology would be to find it's limitations.

So, the articles will slowly turn from "why X is great" to "I don't want to move to X because...", but the meta-message is that you get a survey of tool usage.

Always look on a bright side of hype, tu-dum, tu-dum-tu-dum-tu-dum.

Misinterpreted knowledge could be more harmful then ignorance (as any hypochondriac would know), but that's not the case here - I'm really looking forward to trying to build something like this.

It's nice to see DIY moving from blinking lights to really useful and serious areas.

It's fun but terribly difficult to read and understand. I hope he provides the "traditional" version as well for the people who just want the information and not the whole shabang.

I'm at a similar guitar-level as you, but I'm delighted by the site. The hardest thing about ascii-tabs for me is to understand the timing. This fills that missing link.

The site is beautiful, and I'll use it, and even try to add a couple of tabs. This needs to live on people! :)

If I understood, the first 3 points can be considered as outliers. Typically, you do want to ignore them, do to them being mistakes in measurements or special cases. In any case, handling of the special cases does not do well for generalization of the algorithms. So I would be against those points.

4th points is true, except that it's more of a zen advice then actual useful information.

5th is a comercial.

Not a very good read, and I generally found that no machine learning knowledge gets explained in 5 short paragraphs with no technical terms (except "sigma", which I guess is standard deviation).

My mistake.

Just to kick-off the conversation. The initial lecture model can be interesting for subjects where you typically listen to a "story" (history, biology, geography).

Do you think it works for applied subjects, or for the ones where it's more experiment oriented?

Would it do any good to move away from the "select an answer" testing into more interactive and complex exercise tools?