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For me working out is incredibly important for normalizing hormones and stabilizing my mood. I imagine it is the same for others.

As an aside; I wonder if you have / had hypothyroidism?

San Francisco is awful. Recently a homeless person mindlessly threw their bucket of shit onto the hood of my Uber. This was in SoMa so not even Tenderloin where you might expect something like that.

I assumed they were the wrong suspects as soon as I found out they were hard core hobbyists. Pulling a stunt like this would be social death and would kill the hobby for them. No-one would want to hang out or work with them again.

I prefer the adage; as simple as possible but no simpler.

Some ideas are not easily communicated because the shared language does not provide the right constructs for it. I.e. incommensurable.

In assuming that I’m not the first nor the smartest person to approach a problem, it’s likely that someone else smarter found something useful and wrote it down in terms that I do not understand. So I built a cross domain search engine and used it to find the solutions I was after in other domains of expertise. I was then able to combine several the found solution components into a whole working solution. I used to work in search, so that was something I already knew how to do.

I’m sure we could stop inventing new things and coast for a long time by simply digging up old ideas instead of wastefully reinventing them in new domains. But people like new things... so we’re back to the people problem.

It’s a counter intuitive practical fix to a theoretical solution that is currently considered not to work. Because it’s considered not to work in theory many academics won’t belive it works in practice even after I demonstrate it working.

Once it became a money printer I stopped telling people about it. My plan is to save a bunch of money and build an institution around it to push for influence that way.

I see Bret Victor more as a historian where he finds old ideas and re-introduces them to people who haven’t seen them before. Presumably in the hope that enough about the world has changed that this time the ideas will catch on.

I work with 40 year old ideas that are so advanced that people think it’s futuristic alien tech when they see it. Unfortunately the ideas will never be popular because of problems with culture and fundamental limitations of the median human comprehension.

So I see the achievement here as not one of technology but of creating a culturally isolated and elitist institution.

It's never too late to do the right thing.

I did the first semester of that course. It was ML 101 repeated several times. It lacked any rigor. I hope to god no-one who finishes that course has an important job working on self driving cars. Moveing fast and breaking things shouldn’t apply to driving.

Yup, that is what I was getting at. In many ways I lamented my late access to computers but it was probably better for me in the long run.

I remember when Wikipedia came online. I worried that future generations would be so smart that I would be quickly surpassed. Now I’m worried I won’t be.

America is being torn apart and loneliness is a side effect.

The culture wars. The gender wars. The importing of people from third world cultures. The inbalanced economy. The stagnant wages. The drug epidemic.

The US is in a long slow decline into a low trust society. I can now buy my way into nice places and largely myself from the effects. But I grew up poor and old my friends and the rest of my family are not so lucky. I’ve seen what happens to the poor and middle class in America and I only see it getting worse for the foreseeable future.