wittedhaddock

Love this article. Thank you for sharing. Read it and felt seen and less isolated as I reflect on some of my own similar mistakes. My colleagues loved it too!

Looks very cool! Thanks for sharing Ben. Wish I had this when we were building caffei.net

Evan - tried emailing you but both your inboxes at Intoli are full. Interested in your residential proxies!

Totally insane. Think about the bandwidth it might be able to support...

No way! Nice! Keep me posted on them please :)

Yes! Please see my edit in a response (guess I took too long 'fore HN prevented me from editing op)

Yeah thank you -- I have a squirrel box fan pulling 1800 CFM out of the room, but this is a legit risk for sure

Edit: sorry, I mean 7 miles in one INCH^3 of soil!!

Agreed! I spend a couple hours a week packing bags basically and have found it as a way to relax.

I read Growing Gourmet and Medicinal Mushrooms by Stamets and subject myself to public shaming on /r/mushroomgrowers, got spawn from North Spore (though there are other several good ones I can recommend if you email me, would probably not recommend going straight to inoculate/spores as you need a more sterile env), bought a fog machine from a mini golf course, racks from home depot, using wood pellets (which come pasteurized as a side effect of pelletization, compared to pasteurizing yourself which is a huge PITA unless you can do it with lime in bulk imho), and a raspberry pi controller to monitor humidity to turn on/off fog machine

My roommate moved out, and we couldn't fill the room in the coronavirus world, so we started a mushroom farm making a couple hundred pound of oysters per week and haven't looked back:

https://heartymushroom.com/

Stamets taught me that one cubic meter of soil has 7 miles of mycelium! I think we have a lot to learn from the digestive tract of nature :)

Love it. Thank you for sharing. Reminds me of some Asimov: https://www.technologyreview.com/s/531911/isaac-asimov-asks-...

There must be "ease, relaxation, and a general sense of permissiveness." which sounds like an environment that would be conducive to basic questions.

He goes on to say "isolation is required" (for having creative ideas) and maybe that's because it is a way for him to avoid the adult-being-and-always-sounding-smart-forcing-function... even as costly as being alone from a team may be!

Feels like some tall shoulders probably agree with you:)

I implemented this in Swift w/o using the Foundation library a few years back if anyone wants it: https://github.com/wittedhaddock/bytepress

What do you mean by advantage?

They received it on Thursday and wore Wombat costumes to match... right after someone else received one for the amount of saliva produced by small children per day

I appreciate you friend

I would like to consider this and get back to you

RIP Professor Best teacher I've ever had, he let me audit all his classes and took me/my ideas seriously at all times. And would grade my papers even though I was never an official student, or his his words "a paying customer." First Minsky now Patrick. RIP and perhaps they are both back in touch. ;(

That pesky 5% can be really pesky though. Though if they naturally resort to POTS, like I would suspect, I have seen that compensate for potential shortcomings.

In the same way that a speech recognizer with 99% accuracy sounds amazing, and is a great technical achievement, is all the while still really hard to use if it misses 1 out of 100 phonemes...

You don't have to imagine! We're $15 a month for unlimited talking and texting, and each gigabyte is $5. Or in other words, we beat Google Fi by $5. Support is our marketing budget, and it works rather well :)

I work for a phone company, Community Phone, whose majority customers are seniors. We periodically check in with our customers over text message (helping make sure they achieve their goals, like using Uber, or whatever... which is our business: to enable an improvement in overall quality of life via phones, rather than phones in themselves). As a result, many of our customers FB message/call/email/text us as a sanity check any time they receive solicitation online. It's a service we happily provide, but it does require them to reach out to us, as opposed to us knowing when to intervene. Other than that, I will be monitoring this thread very closely for more general and automated solutions. Thanks very much for asking this question.

thank you very much for this !!

Got it, so it's the recipient who matters. If whatsapp let you send it out as a plain old SMS from a number you can select, and receive their SMS as a whatsapp message, would it solve your problem?

What do you mean "for free" ?

Why do you want multiple numbers? Doesn't something like Whatsapp or FaceTime help prevent you from needing them?

You're 100% correct, the algo only handles square matrices! Typo. So, disclaimer, where m === n :) thanks!

So grateful something mentioned this man. Strang is just amazing. When I first moved to Cambridge, his corresponding book was a relatively expensive prospect, and I was rather serious about 18.06, so ascertaining its book was very important to me. He was gracious enough to gift me a copy that I still have and cherish to this day. Some real moments of thrilling discovery happened for me, it was exhilarating, though trite as they may be! Like in implementing a program for general inversion of any MxN matrix, one would typically perform the Gaussian elimination (going down) and then the Jordan (going back up) and finally divide by the scalars in the pivot columns. But, as it turns out, it's a much simpler program if you do Gauss elimination, literally rotate all matrices by 180 degrees, do Gauss elimination again, then rotate everything back, and then address the non-unit pivot columns. src: https://github.com/wittedhaddock/AlgebraicCircumscriptions/b...

if anyone here thinks this stuff is super cool and wants to figure out how to solve internet for the public, by making it as cheap and as fast as possible, while private, please shoot me a note at james@communityphone.org (it's my life)

Please check out the Genesis Group at MIT's CSAIL. Or Patrick Winston's Strong Story Hypothesis. Or Bob Berwick. Many at MIT are still working through the 80's winter, without the confirmation bias of Minsky and Papert's Perceptrons with all the computation power and none of the theory (now called neural nets). Or any of the papers here: https://courses.csail.mit.edu/6.803/schedule.html

Or the work of Paul Werbos, the inventor of backpropagation, was heavily influenced by -- though itself perhaps outside the cannon of -- strictly symbolic approaches

The wheels of *politics turn slowly.

Isn't that called something like a "Carterphone Rule" ?

Ads strike me as a laughable local maximum on our ability to monetize spare brain cycles of the human mind. Critical thinking cycles, arguably the most precious resource, is subverted for single digit clickthrough rates. Ad tech makes me cry, and after reading science fiction, depressed. Let's please please gtfo out of this paradigm and figure out how to bootstrap these things between our ears for creation, than consumption, of something.

And to go a bit deeper for a moment, it seems likely to me that what we now call critical thinking is the same thing as what Chomsky and Berwick mean when they use the word "language": an ability to hierarchically represent the world using symbols. Our "external representation" or ability to communicate ideas to one another, according to them is a byproduct of that effect. This was from their recent book, Why Only Us, and go on to point to the specific gene, FOXP2, that they believe caused this ability for the mind, and then assert that this emergence caused us to leave Africa (Out of Africa Theory). And if that's even remotely true, then the human mind is inherently more able and creative than we will ever know. Or said another way, the cross product of Dunning & Kruger with Berwick & Chomsky suggests an almost infinite unawareness of our own potential. - How do we know that the 10% drop off in traffic isn't "just" due to the increase of latency by the nature of adding additional the additional ad package that dispatches and draws on the main thread, slowing everything down (Linden, 2006)?

http://glinden.blogspot.com/2006/12/slides-from-my-talk-at-s...