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This is the most elucidating comment I’ve read in regards to real-world examples of crypto projects. Thank you.

Do you by any chance have a blog, or could you recommend some top resources to learn from?

I think it's the server here:

wss://www.walloftext.art/ws.php

Doesn't seem to be accepting connections when I try.

Can you add action buttons? The directional buttons were easy enough to infer, but not sure what other types of input are possible. (I’m on mobile)

Was waiting for this comment, as all the top ones were mostly dismissive of the findings. As someone with ADHD, this is exactly how it feels to me. Increasing the playback speed is like going into a mode where the content of what the speaker is saying becomes the only thing my brain cares about, as opposed to the secondary characteristics like their pauses between words, accent, speaking style, etc.

A mix of hold your breath and pray, and google until you find some github issue or stack overflow post that addresses incompatibilities of version x.x.x with OS version y.y.y on architecture z, then download some custom wheel that a person uploaded to their personal PyPi instance.

It's one of the most stressful and least-fun parts of being a developer for me.

I keep reading about NixOS lately, but I haven't done a deep dive into it. Does this seem like something that could be useful for this?

Also, does anyone have any resources for pragmatically working through such things or guidelines to help maintain one's sanity?

I wonder if Likes / Views is a good proxy for dislikes?

Crime and Punishment is probably my favorite novel of all time. Never before/since have I been so completely immersed in the mind of character.

There were times while reading the rationalizations/thought processes of the main character that I started to feel physically nauseous and had to take a break.

If you are at all interested in psychology, sociology, history, and/or philosophy, give it (or the audiobook) a go.

Along with curiosity—which I agree is probably one of the most underrated adult traits in terms of the ability to learn new things—is cultivating the imagination.

Thinking up wild and vivid scenarios in your mind and playing around with ideas and experimenting with concepts is how I've gotten through most of the traditionally difficult subjects I've encountered so far.

This is incredible. I just got goosebumps as I stumbled upon https://solitaryroad.com after searching for "linear algebra homomorphism". It reminds me of the magical feelings of the early Internet. Keep up the great work!

Sounds a lot like virtual integration.

"...you basically stitch together a business with partners that are treated as if they’re inside the company."

https://hbr.org/1998/03/the-power-of-virtual-integration-an-....

Obligatory nod to a course that changed my life:

https://www.coursera.org/learn/learning-how-to-learn

Similar experience here. I did a BA in 'Information Technology'. It wasn't until after I graduated that I taught myself to program through Stanford lectures on YT. The MSE in CS was incredibly beneficial for me.

Like others, this worries me. Does anyone know of a platform or service that backs up quality educational content (think Coursera, edX, YouTube lectures, etc.) forever, so that its open-access is not at the whim of a for-profit corporation?

It requires bipartisanship in the Senate. Why is this the only thing Dems and Republicans can agree on? It's hard for me to not see it as a power play on both sides.

I might be naive, but Michael Levin[1] is the type of scientist I imagine when I think of the revolutionary scientists of the past. It's quite refreshing to see such bold initiatives being undertaken.

I'm curious to see who others see in a similar light, and what they're working on.

[1] https://wyss.harvard.edu/team/associate-faculty/michael-levi...

Thanks for this, very informative. So LTV is forecasted "lifetime value". So, if I'm 30, they'll estimate ~50 years of revenue going forward from me and use this as LTV?

I lived in Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City for a couple of months (before the pandemic). Vietnam is probably my favorite country I have ever visited. I hope to come back soon.

When I was in HCMC, I visited the The War Remnants Museum. It is on the same level as Auschwitz in my mind. It made me physically ill.

I was so unbelievably ashamed for my country and it's awful leaders during that time. The more I've learned about the war in the time since, the more I've started to understand that we are heavily indoctrinated in the US to believe a ton of bullshit growing up, particularly in relation to our foreign policy blunders.

I'm sorry for the suffering inflicted upon your country and people.

I think this is just the nature of the "buffet of information" we currently enjoy. As in a restaurant, if you keep eating, no matter how good the food might be, you'll get sick of it eventually.

You don't have to read them all. At some point (after much learning and preparation of course) we all have to decide to be our own guide; to trust our own intuition and primary research to know what's best for us.

Each of us have incredibly unique backgrounds, experiences, goals, and values. Until we start to take action on the things that we really want to achieve, articles like these will eventually come to sound like the same tired platitudes. Check out Emerson's essay Self-Reliance if this resonates with you. (And yes I recognize the irony :) of my comment.)

Hi, I'm Nick

About me:

Mid-level, full-Stack software engineer finishing up my MSE in Computer Science at Penn Engineering this week.

I'm passionate about learning. Currently working part-time for the Army Research Lab/GRASP Lab at Penn.

I've taught a class on game development and another on web development at Penn. Interested in many different

areas of technology and like being able to work on lots of different parts of a project (i.e. 'wearing many hats').

Seeking roles:

-mid level game dev/VR/AR engineer

-mid/senior level full-stack engineer,

-mid level ML engineer or,

-senior front-end engineer

Location: Los Angeles

Remote: Yes

Willing to relocate: Yes

Tech: Functional JS, Python, Node, React, Clojure, SQL, AWS, Unity/Unreal VR, ML (NLP, CV w/PyTorch and spaCy)

https://nickfausti.com/nick-fausti-cv.pdf

email: nfausti@seas.upenn.edu

Personal interests:

photography: https://instagram.com/nickfausti

traveling: spent a year living around the world with 30 strangers via RemoteYear.com, working on building a travel startup now with a couple of fellow students from Penn music, art, history, nature, philosophy

How to Read a Book by Mortimer Adler is a great resource.

Would you say the same level of benefit could be had by simply just turning your phone off and placing it in another room while working?

I've done this with pretty great results. Actually, I will do it again right now.

Good to know. Any you would highly recommend?

There really is no comparison. Udemy is youtube tutorials that you pay for, while coursera are modified versions of actual college/graduate courses from the best universities in the world, and they're free.

Just took Intro to Mathematical Thinking from Stanford on coursera, it was fantastic.

> The challenge is moving from Turing's admittedly simplified model to pinpointing the precise mechanisms serving in the activator and inhibitor roles. This is especially challenging in biology, where scientists are keen to shed more light on the question of how a complex embryo can emerge from tissue that is completely homogenous.

Maybe I'm just too deep into my Theory of Computation class right now, but this sounds a lot like a closure (or lack thereof) property in the set of "homogenous tissue", no?

Thank you! This is why I read the comments on HN. I was thinking while reading that I'd like to find some good resources to explore complexity theory in more depth, this looks great.

Side note: 14 people created something of value and distribute it for free, and still many of the comments here are just complaints about auto-scroll, websites, and JS. Pretty sad to see.

Does anyone have a link to a good technical comparison between e-ink and lcd?

Like it. I just started working on something similar. Shoot me an email if you'd like to collaborate.

Right? Surprised to see such a comment on HN. There is always room for improvement/innovation in any space. Even more so in a rapidly emerging new domain like remote work/living logistics.

As a remote worker for the last three years, I can't tell if this is real or sarcasm?

Not even close to being a "solved space". Especially not by just a single website.

Preferred Location: LA, NY, Europe, Asia

Remote: Preferred

Relocate?: Yes

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nick-fausti/

Web: https://nickfausti.com

Résumé: https://nickfausti.com/nick-fausti-cv.pdf

email: nfausti@seas.upenn.edu

GitHub: https://github.com/ncfausti

Technologies: Python, React, TypeScript, Go, Java, Clojure

Postgres, AWS, Docker, Linux, OpenCV, NLTK, PyTorch, Pandas

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10 years of full-stack experience and a passion for learning and building new things.

MSE in Computer Science from Penn Engineering. Research experience in deep learning applied to NLP and computer vision.

Reliable remote worker. I've spent years living around the world (including https://remoteyear.com) while working remotely.

Seeking: Senior/Lead Engineer full-stack, frontend, applied ML, or co-founder.