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What Is Math? 6 years ago

It’s one of something. When one of something and one of another thing are observed it’s expressed as 1 and 1 so two rivers become one they represent a quantity of observation.

Then as 1 and 1 totaling two rivers they come together then exist as 1.

Representation is relative on an arbitrary border of quantity. The rules leak for any rule that exists.

One father and one mother have a kid. One and one make another one totaling three.

• and • make •.

Usually a person will substitute 1 for the observation of a “thing” so • will be father, and another • mother +1+1=+1

One unit and another one unit makes a third unit. Yet one unit plus another unit is two units.

Project Oberon 6 years ago

I have no idea why those chose Ethereum as a backing cryptographic protocol. It stains the project in my opinion.

I don't see it disrupting IP/DNS with cryptographic identities. I'd argue that Kademlia DHT does that in a more significant way.

Not really sure what Urbit does uniquely in that regard really.

I do crave some one-time use generated address that maps to a DHT/Kademlia cluster to provide deterministic privacy against p2p networks that doesn't depend on BGP autonomous centralized entities.

Know of anything like that out of curiosity? Ha.

I think a lot of complexity is introduced in our world today as the economics require complexity for certain demographics to survive. Complexity generates profits.

It also erodes the peak innovation potential of the entire species by increasing the distance to experiment and be curious while also creating greater need of dependence to survive.

I think a lot of your examples can be fixed.

Nuclear Power Plants are simple actually - they need to be simple. Complexity kills them, and human's are the weakest link. Process is introduced to ail complexity. Complex ideas introduce more complex processes to include more humans which ends up creating less efficiency. Many examples of that. A big reason why startups can compete with corporations is that startups have less complexity but then introduce more as they age usually through poor problem-solving and get slower. Companies like Apple have punched above the average weight to survive those chasms of complexity and still move quickly unburdened but obviously they have their own class of warts.

More thoughts here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24479238

Agree with you but also I think we can do better is basically what I'm saying. I don't see the world today as "this is just how it is and that's that" - there's no physical rules why we have a society the way it is today - it's mostly imaginative rules. I want to change the game, the current board is lame.

I can comment on this on my own:

1. Java - did not want to adopt the entire ecosystem. This is very much wanted a banana and got the whole jungle with a gorilla type of story.

2. Python - dynamic. Don't want that. Go's minimal typing is perfect. It's easy to deploy (binaries). It's fast. It can scale well. It's opinionated (love this).

Python and Java both encourage and allow developers to flex creative solutions that are hard to maintain long-term. Sure, seniority helps with that, and being part of a good team; however using Go, you just run into that less due to the conciseness of the language and strong idioms.

Curious how people are using SpaCy in production with constant improvement of the model and how that workflow happens from user input & review.

He looks fine to me. I don't think he's stressed, if anything I'd say it's like how he shared his view on AI. Before he was stressed and concerned, and now he feels like if it happens it happens. You put in your work, do what you can, and own who you are.

I found it highly inspiring and really admire the candor without a fake personality.

Why do we have to "act" in society even as CEO's? Be human, and do your best.

To those using Elixir, how are you deploying it? Would love your insight especially if you're on GCP (app engine, super curious).

Thanks!

The overall argument against it is that all the information is already reflected in the ticketing system and if anything had to be resolved you can do it 1:1 rather than wasting everyone’s time.