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Excellent interview with Bob on this book that's worth a listen: https://corecursive.com/032-bob-nystrom-on-building-an-inter...

I genuinely can't tell if you are being serious or not. Are you not familiar with Britain's and Ireland's "relationship"?

Looks like the author has it under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License and so the work is to be used it its entirety only. So I guess if you do make a modification you can't distribute it.

I could see this being used in a fun little puzzle game or something. Different tapes or finding the right starting point on the tape to end in the correct place, etc

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> Also, I can't justify why, but my gut feeling is that the database should be an order of magnitude faster than Python, provided the implementation were to be improved.

Would be curious how that could end up being the case. Perhaps if NumPy wasn't used at all? That would mean no vectorization or optimized storage.

Would be interesting to see how it scaled with length and dimensionality

I'm super excited for this, but also scared. These little puzzles are such a dopamine hit that I can't really be productive until I have that day solved. As the month progresses and the problems get harder, more and more of my time is consumed. Wondering if I should try to wake up early to start before work or just block the website on my work computers.

Reminds me of Cory Doctorow's last story in Radicalized: "Masque of the Red Death". summary from Wikipedia: A wealthy financier builds and manages a doomsday vault, designed to withstand societal collapse.

Interesting story, as are the others in that collection.

Everything Linus produces just blows me a way. Especially loved his C64 organ [0] and also maybe the only "cool" NFT I've ever seen [1] (basically the source code for the demo is encoded in the token so it's on the blockchain forever instead of just being some link to an image hosted on some server that could disappear at any point.)

[0] https://www.linusakesson.net/sixtyforgan/index.php [1] https://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/nft.php

Econ PhDs are funded

Even if this does work, I'd imagine there is a pretty high selection bias. Therapy is work. Journalling is work. Changing is work and really takes commitment. Taking a pill isn't so much work.

The article cites 800k patients in England but I'd imagine the number of successful treatments would be much much lower

Unauthorized cheese, anyone?

I mean isn't C ubiquitous enough that it is essentially language agnostic? Or is your suggestion that is should be purely pseudocode?

For myself, the one positive outcome has been more empathy for others. I do count that as a super power (that comes at a crippling cost)

Oh you didn't read the article?

Doing it only in Chrome? Having easy buttons for certain snippets? The author didn't make this to be a vim replacement. I don't think this would be a daily or main editor, but seems easy to use in a pinch

Nothing really. He addresses this in his post. But also the purpose isn't to sell the song (it's already creative commons). Purely just a commemorative token (and the only one he plans to make. It's not about ownership of the song though.

But the reason why this is such a great example for me is because the token actually contains something substantial. This song is now permanently a part of the blockchain, as opposed to just some link to an image host that might not exist in a decade.

Linus Akesson (big in the C64 demoscene) created the only good example of an NFT I've come across [1]. In the token he puts the source code to his "A Mind Is Born Demo" which compiles to the very demo you watch when you view the token [2].

[1] http://www.linusakesson.net/scene/a-mind-is-born/nft.php [2] https://opensea.io/assets/0xa7702e0769c5d408ebf2b056d7c3cc0a...

Yeah I mean I unironically like doing this at times. Texture contrast is great!

Right, it's not something unique to corporations. It's a consequence of concentrated power

Not a shocker that corruption ruins things. I guess then the question is how you can design a broadly distributed system that removes the incentives for corruption and minimizes its impact. My guess is that such a system won't be found in capitalism

Work. Meetings. Normal corporate hell

Really cool idea. Saved it to my home screen. Only thing is that is that the questions feel like roadblocks. For instance, last night I got 6 hours of sleep and it says I should come back after I nap. But I can't nap right now.

I guess I could just say I did and see what the other questions have to offer. I wonder what another decision path would look like where you can select "I need this but can't do it right now".

Actually nice to have in the background. Reminds me of a (sometimes poorly) translated book of Russian fairy tales my dad gave to me as a kid

Yeah you weren't kidding. "Heavy", to say the least

Another cool gradient descent visualization tool: https://distill.pub/2017/momentum/

Surprised that Livraria Lello in Porto, Portugal wasn't mentioned. Absolutely stunning to visit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Livraria_Lello

> Oh, the temptation to swan into the office wearing sweatpants and slippers. Don’t do it! The costumes of the corporate world – the heels, the pressed trousers – may seem antiquated and absurd. They all feel so 2020.

But why? The author just mentions that the monk's robes were surely worse. And that might be, but so what?

Yes! Well not the book, but the 1995 made-for-TV animated movie. Every so often it pops up in my memory. I remember feeling distressed at Mr. Toad but could never explain it.

Absolutely love TIC-80. Definitely worth paying for the pro version even though you could just compile it from source if you want.

Not related to dementia, but "Poverty and Witch Killing" [0] does a great job of using extreme weather (rainfall or drought) to estimate the effect of income shocks on violence in Tanzania. Roughly: negative income shocks translated into older women being accused of witchcraft and killed (one less mouth to feed).

[0](http://emiguel.econ.berkeley.edu/assets/assets/miguel_resear...)

I don't think the author was implying active hostility on the part of the EE programmers.

> It's the banality of bigotry which gets to me. Usual. Normal. Standard. They’re just dull ways for dull people with limited imaginations to dehumanise other people. The people who designed this form probably didn’t think of themselves as racist. They just designed, built, or perpetuated a system which was exclusionary.

Laziness, carelessness, incompetence lead to poorly designed systems, including systems which exclude groups of people.