Mimmy

one of the saddest too

I would agree the axioms are chosen, but what’s the connection between choosing something and inventing it?

Choosing to study molecular biology doesn’t mean cells are a human invention.

I went to an in-person Q&A featuring a Fields medalist. The audience was a collection of undergraduate and high school math students, with a few professors in attendance.

One of the young students asked exactly this question to which everyone in the audience collectively groaned. The Fields medalist gave a short answer, something along the lines of "I don't know a single mathematician that thinks it's invented."

He was being polite, but you could tell he didn't think there was anything else interesting to say.

Thanks for mentioning this. He states explicitly he hates America for giving individuals personal freedom and not abiding by Sharia Law.

This is a really bad article. There is a nugget of truth, but it's never properly articulated because the author himself doesn't actually understand the distinction.

If you've already decided you want to build a unicorn and are willing to make take that <1% chance of success, YC will help you. If you want a lifestyle business, you could probably skip YC (though you probably wouldn't get accepted even if you applied with that idea anyways).

For clarity it should be:

MOTIVATION = EXPECTANCY x VALUE / (IMPULSIVENESS x DELAY)

i see it at #15

this type of discourse is very common in physics, where the theoretical physicists propose a testable hypothesis and then the experimentalists verify or disprove it.

This might be a dumb question, but would you use the deployed version of the admin interface for writing your blog? And what if you weren't online but wanted to work on a new essay or make edits to an existing post?

for people disagreeing with this comment, mind elaborating?

thanks, didn't notice the year until your comment. wonder what his thoughts are on it now.

Should we as a species be more concerned about a mass extinction event like this? The longer we survive, the more likely it'll happen. Isn't it just a matter of time?

any idea what book this chapter is from?

That might be your opinion, and it might even be true, but it’s not really the point of the article. Personality traits aren’t mentioned at all.

A better summary would be “Project-based learning does teach you things, but often ineffectively because you’re also made to focus on other concepts besides the one you were initially setting out to learn. Thus the best approach to learning needs to be targeted and customized with the help of a personal coach (and here’s my course).”

I'd like to plug two podcasts by professional storyteller and contemporary bard Jeff Wright, who does a modern retelling of the two stories. [1][2]

As another commenter mentioned, both the Iliad and the Odyssey were passed down via oral tradition. If you want to be "pure", the best way of consuming the stories are to hear them.

Additionally, the stories were always meant to be told, retold, remixed, etc. It is very much in the spirit of the original stories for new bards to add their own spin to it. Don't be turned off by the fact that Jeff doesn't read verbatim a translation of the original texts. He adds a lot of extra context you wouldn't otherwise get from just reading the books (context that every other listener in Ancient Greece would have already had that we don't).

[1] Iliad / Trojan War: https://open.spotify.com/show/7w7RMunEMoAapudklkkVgE [2] Odyssey: https://open.spotify.com/show/5vyJGStvyCNkel5Mqxb4OA

Are you sure?

Since 2016, FanDuel and DraftKings alone have donated more than $2.6 million to state politicians and political parties, according to data maintained by OpenSecrets, a campaign finance watchdog. The companies have spent another $114 million to try to influence state ballot measures to legalize sports betting.

Industry lobbyists, for example, dazzled lawmakers with projections about the billions of dollars that states could expect to collect in taxes from sports betting — projections that, at least so far, have often turned out to be wildly inflated, according to a Times analysis of state tax data.

“It is time for your state to add iGaming,” Jason Robins, the chief executive of DraftKings, told lawmakers at a recent conference that his company sponsored. “Not in the future, but now.”

“We needed a national strategy,” Mr. Kudon said in an interview, recalling his thought process at the time. “We need to go out there and pass 10, 15 bills and get ahead of this.”

Mr. Kudon and his clients assembled an all-star team of lawyers and former government officials, including Martha Coakley, who had been the attorney general of Massachusetts.

By the end of 2017, 19 states had passed bills legalizing fantasy sports. Almost all were written with help from Mr. Kudon’s team.

Comments from the justices — including Chief Justice John G. Roberts, who in private practice had represented the American Gaming Association — suggested they were likely to overturn the federal ban.

And before you move the goal-posts, I'll note that this is just part of what is openly available. We recently found out about Clarence Thomas illegally accepting gifts from wealthy individuals. To assume that these lawsuits win or lose in a purely ethical, academic way without outside influence seems contrary to the evidence.

[1] https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/20/business/sports-betting-l...

Agreed, what a way to sour a decent message with an awful example.

Government, acting in the best interest of their citizens, were trying to curb an addictive substance. CEO of generic tobacco / drug / oil / gambling company, realizing that this would hurt their profits, decided that the best way forward was to effectively bribe those in power to put their company's profits over the well-being of society.

If this is true, I'd like to thank the author for inadvertently pointing out the real source of the sports gambling problem: people like Jason Robins.

We don't have a sports gambling problem, we have a greedy CEO bribing lawmakers problem.

Agreed, the headline is a bit misleading. It can fly, roll on 4 wheels, or roll on 2 wheels.

The latter is interesting, but doesn't constitute "walking", especially when the point of walking (as a preferred method of locomotion) is to be able to step over obstacles or onto platforms like stairs, which rolling on two wheels obviously can't accomplish.

One I use often but haven't seen here yet is `i(` or `i{` or `it`. Basically an adverb for "inside parentheses", "inside braces", or "inside html tags".

I most commonly use it in combination with `c` to rewrite whatever was inside. For example `ci(` will automatically delete everything inside either the current parentheses or the next closest pair of parentheses and put me in insert mode.

I generally like his essays, but is there anything substantive here?

He doesn't define smart. He doesn't define what it means to get stuff done. He doesn't convince me that there are a lot of dumb people getting stuff done. If there are, he doesn't convince me that they are much of a problem (hypothetical good teachers that teach ignorance isn't an argument, it's not even an anecdote). And even if they are a problem, he doesn't offer a solution.

If anyone was able to takeaway anything useful from this article, please share.

Having had a few years of intensive, classical-trained piano lessons at a young age, the notion of "deliberate practice" has also just meant "practice" to me: break down what you're learning into its separate parts, figure out which part you're weakest at, try to further isolate that specific thing into its own exercise, then do it slowly, gradually increase the pace, gradually re-incorporate the aspects you removed, play that part with the preceding music, play that part with the postceding music, play it without the sheet music, etc. Each step should feel uncomfortable at first, and once you get comfortable with it you move on to the next step until you can play it perfectly without any thought.

Kahneman has already touched on this, but obviously not all skills are predisposed to this type of practice. IIRC, this method of learning is useful for skills with shorter feedback loops (e.g. music, dance, gymnastics, some aspects of sports, etc.) and neutral to practically useless for skills with longer feedback loops or that can't be clearly broken down into its constituent parts (e.g. investing, science, entrepreneurship & innovation, etc.)

I wish all skills could be learned this way—it's the method of learning I'm most comfortable with. But of course, life is not always so easy.

By that logic, the following industries would not exist: automotive, furniture, computer, kitchen appliances, other home appliances, television, bicycle...

The article itself and mikeyouse's comment explain the situation most clearly. Standard PE financial (over)-engineering was the primary cause of their problems.

Slowing sales obviously don't help, but changes in the macro-environment can typically be weathered if the companies' financials are appropriately managed.

Might as well ask this here, but any thoughts on how ReScript / ReasonML compare to Elm, PureScript, or ClojureScript? If someone were looking for a fp language that compiled to JS, how would they think about the pros and cons of the available options?

Last discussion I could find was from 2018 [1].

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17910069

That's certainly an observation (and one I agree with), but it's a stretch to call it "sharp".

Everyone and everyone's mother has already made the claim that VR is dystopian. Snow Crash was written in 1992. For literally decades before it's been even implemented, VR has been the quintessential symbol for the irony of technology both bringing us together while keeping us apart.

And to be clear, I'm not even criticizing the product. I think the Vision Pro could be very cool. I'm criticizing the idea that this blog said anything insightful.

To provide an alternative perspective, your comment convinced me to read the article and I didn't think it was substantive at all.

Can you give an example of an "sharp" "observation" he made?

Rust was a political movement first? Can you elaborate?

Why do parents need to "check-in" on their kids during school hours? The fact that some parent are calling students in the middle of class is particularly egregious.

If you want to start from "first principles", I thought this book [1] was good for getting right to the meat of accounting.

It seems like there's a new edition that came out. [2]

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Statements-Step-Step-Unders...

[2] https://www.amazon.com/Financial-Statements-Step-Step-Unders...

Do you mind elaborating on the good things HTML gives you out-of-the-box that SPAs throw away?

maybe a dumb question but isn't lodash already implemented entirely in vanilla js? wouldn't the equivalent be just looking at the lodash source code?