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That’s what $200 billion in fake news buys you these days.

What direction do you think “linked” implies?

I find no bias in this language. To me, this reads as suggesting mere correlation.

“Rational altruistic movements” puts a hole in your armor here.

...keeps pulling you down the rabbit hole. So at the end of the video you know that you don't know stuff you either think you knew or didn't know existed. And then you start looking up Wikipedia and just getting lost in the music.

Education as entertainment means that the goal is to get the consumer to feel good about himself, to feel like he learned something. You're getting paid (in money or kudos or whatever) to engage the consumer's narcissism, not his curiosity.

This is a profound observation. I’m not sure it only applies in entertainment.

I’ve heard it put other ways, but your version, if applied to education as a whole, might be a pretty big deal. There’s no shortage of evidence, either; from Ivy League campuses to niche interest subcultures.

Maybe “narcissism” isn’t the best word, but some sort of similar tension related to confidence seems to be associated with successful educational environments. We commonly attribute it to a one-way causal relationship, but you’re articulating the opposite. Likewise, we are used to acknowledging that ‘not giving up’, or ‘belief in one’s self’ is a necessity, but again you’re making a separate claim.

You’re saying, in so many words, the confidence in and of itself defines the will as well as the curiosity. And I can’t argue with it. I want to, but I’m not sure I can.

I don’t think I agree, but ultimately only feel comfortable speaking for myself.

I’m fairly new to programming so would be interested in hearing if someone else does this too...

On a walk this afternoon (for some reason), I realized I had a visual shape in my head for most design patterns. Some of them look a lot like a knot-tying diagram, for example. I’m not sure I had realized that before.

I also realized the shape representations are about as close to implementation as I would prefer to store design patterns in my mind. Beyond that, they might be limiting or, at worst, strenuous to use as guidelines. They’re surely more useful (to me) than UML or even code.

But the best part is I can tell they’ve been there all along. I wasn’t trying to make them up. I was just mapping out a project while on a walk. I was pretty relaxed at the time and maybe that’s why this came up.

For what they are, I was a little disappointed how long it took to parse the Elements of Reuseable OO Software book when I was just learning to code. And then when I had used the patterns and knew them, I found it a bit sad they were communicated through such rigid forms.

Art actually contends with the same sort of conceptual divisions. There’s the medium which is rigid and cumbersome, the form which is more pure, critical in the abstract but medium-agnostic, and the application, being the interface or the thing out in the world.

So I do agree the ability to transpose these concepts between form and implementation is what matters, but it’s the back and forth that matters, not where one begins.

You make some fine points. I may appear gullible in this exchange, but so be it. I cannot disagree with you here. Consider me won over.

Technically, it looks like the minimum age requirement is 4.

From his website, which is linked to in another comment:

Is This Legal?

Yes! According to the Vermont Constitution and the Vermont Attorney General, you only have to have lived in Vermont for 4 years or more on the day before the election. Ethan has lived here for 14 years.

“...and is taking his place with the state's more age-appropriate candidates on the Tuesday primary ballot”

Blatant ageism!

uncommon != inappropriate

I’m only slightly kidding. I am thoroughly impressed with his comments thus far and would like to hear more of what he has to say.

On one hand, I remember thinking I knew a lot more than a I did when I was 14. On the other hand, he is not me!

Yeah don’t get me wrong. They pretty much all are. But, a few key ones aren’t, depending on the host app, and aftermarket plugins have a lot of multi threading support.

Ah, not surprised. I have the Intel 8-core.

The best upgrade I’ve made for my video editing workstation has been going to 4x GPUs for DaVinci Resolve.

Thanks. That’s the answer I was looking for. I guess there would be no way to verify privately.

Overall, well put, and those points are tough to discount.

With electronic voting, the counting is done by machines and the mechanism is obfuscated and unverifiable.

Could a blockchain not address that with public/private keys? Why is this ridiculous?

Does video editing or After Effects work could as home use yet? Video editing, in terms of cutting and splicing clips, is not going to benefit much from this chip, but a lot of effects rendering will benefit, and basic video editing uses a lot of effects these days.

That’s all I’ve got.

I think you’re right. I should have specified formats and pipeline components. There are business reasons to not open source these things, but it couldn’t hurt to ask.

OpenVDB was a crucial step. It’s hard to live without it these days.

That’s refreshing. Unfortunately, I have. At least in the past few decades, brutalism has been conflated with being unkind, authoritarian, or Stalinist. But maybe this wave has passed and I’m out of the loop. I also didn’t think brutalist architecture was appreciated in circles like this, so I clearly am out of the loop to some extent.

Another voice in support of rejection.

Which “Brutalism” is BIMBYISM referencing? I don’t use Facebook so maybe someone here can answer this. Is it:

- The architectural style?

- The social housing traditions that birthed the architectural style?

- The contemporary literalist misappropriation of the term to reference dystopian urban infrastructure which punishes the needy? (like spikes under bridges)

I’m hoping it’s the first and will be pleasantly surprised if it’s the second. But not getting my hopes up.

Very cool.

Were there any projects outside of the VFX Platform (vfxplatform.com) you could point out?

As mentioned in this article, it seems that the VFX studios, even the small ones, are very siloed and protective. Of the studios with Github accounts, the software they release is usually stuff they don’t use any longer.

My experience agrees with this. I am a different, significantly less comfortable person to be around when strangers are asking me so many questions about myself. I think it’s just about the worst way to get to know me.

When I get hired this way, I always feel a little bit of guilt because I know they actually hired somebody else.

What can be done? I’m not sure, but I can say one thing: my level of discomfort is multiplied by the number of strangers in the room. Does this ever get considered with interviews?

I am far more comfortable coding in front of 1 or 2 people who each give me a little bit of background about their coding experience; just so I know. If they are experienced engineers, it’s probably not going to change what I say aloud, but it just makes me more comfortable. I guess more overlap of technologies in our background does help. It’s nice to not feel pressure of worrying if my solutions reflect general programming conventions enough to be language agnostic. I have never really used Java, for example.

Oh yeah, don’t get me wrong. It’s cool as hell! I’m totally gonna use it for a GUI menu-building script interface I’m making right now :).

I have just never done it before, and I think this is the first time I have seen the concept, so the first thing that popped in my mind we’re all the things that can go wrong. But, also all the things that can go right.

Looking at your application process, I cannot help but notice how poorly Einstein himself would have performed in such an arena.

But, maybe I’m missing something.

You mention an aim to support high-achieving outcasts, but the application process appears to be, as another comment mentioned, a popularity contest. What is the thinking behind that?

My reaction to this, as someone who doesn’t use many of these on a regular basis (probably guilty of overusing __new__ though) is actually that I can imagine these causing some real problems. The operator ones seem particularly tempting and dangerous at the same time.

Wonderful. I’ve never seen this resource before.

A related article I got a lot out of was ‘Understanding Python Metaclasses’, an in-depth breakdown of Python class instantiation. Here’s the link to that:

https://blog.ionelmc.ro/2015/02/09/understanding-python-meta...

I think you meant to say “can, in fact, pay our bills.”

I am so glad you mention this!

I always heard that as well. Cinematographers love this phrase, but I totally agree. That saying leaves the concept less than dependent on personal experience. I still don’t understand why, but the purest of expressions seem to come as side effects of the engagement process; not as rewards for accomplishments. So, one must engage and be honest as they can with the act itself, which isn’t to say one must suffer, but just aim to be in touch with their own experience with the medium. I will admit I personally suffer, but it’s not helpful.

Fair. I want to add that when I talk about “getting bored” of them, I personally do this in a childish and unrefined way on a regular basis. So I don’t want to sound like I necessarily mean progressing beyond them. A childish rebel instinct can result in boredom all the same. Paired with curiosity, it’s granted me with an accumulation of experiences in exploraing the visual world. The rules are wonderful but breaking them is what gives me resilience as an artist. It’s why I can fall from great heights, lose access to a medium, and overcome jealousy. I can always recall my own fluidly evolving set of rules. Don’t get me wrong; praise is really important, but the confidence in child’s play has over time fostered a relationship with my eyes that I only know to call love; certainly the closest thing to freedom I’ve ever known. I wish I were exaggerating because I sound like an absolute dork.

At the end of the day, I am actually a rigid rule follower in my output. Most of the rule-breaking takes place in my imagination. I find myself giggling to myself on film sets regularly, for example. Or at bus stops for that matter. This is what gets me out of bed in the morning.

You can get a good idea of this with virtual desktop software running on Vive. After trying it myself, I was reminded that I actually love retina displays and feel like an even higher resolution would be nice. Also FOV is major. Until I can get massive FOV and retina+ resolution, I will always choose a regular desktop display.

Well put. Everything you said and a little bit of elaboration on art...

One of the best parts of photography is the speed at which you can have a conversation with your own visual system, refining it in the process.

Understanding art can be thought of as getting bored and finding something new, which is no longer boring, and repeat. Eventually you find yourself bored by almost everything, but with an intense passion for succinct relatable expression. This is often mistaken for pretension, and many do skip the process altogether; most unfortunately, even people calling themselves artists do so.

My point is all these composition rules are great; it’s invaluable stuff. But, you will get bored of them, and that is the beautiful part.

Chronological is just one ordering. Why are you so attached to it?

This is a very deep question you’re asking, and I don’t know the answer. But, this boat only goes in one direction so let’s make the best of it.

But seriously, sure other sorting methods are useful. I would like to have many options, but I can’t think of a better default for this use case. Can you?

...as demonstrated by their engagement, prefer the algorithmic model.

You just don’t understand my point. Maybe read it again. I dunno. But ...

As demonstrated by their engagement, people prefer doing whatever their boss tells them to do.

As demonstrated by their engagement, people don’t actually like sex very much at all.

I bailed at the advent of forced non-chronological timelines. I would have been less insulted if Facebook hired someone to spit in my face.

Easily the scummiest design decision I have ever whitnessed.

Actively manipulating the structural representation of time in a communication platform is begging for chaos. Yes, of course I know the time stamps are still presented. That is not my point. Communication is sensitive; very sensitive. Adding barriers in reverse like that signals to me these companies do not have a clue. The issues with this sort of thing will not be measurable or even observable.

Our lives and society are impacted in mass proportions by events we as individuals will never perceive, or have the capacity to. And this is precisely what thinking is for; we theorize, organize, and make sense of things. This is the basis for all of our potential, and that potential is all we have.

But this is not rocket science. It’s a sorted list. that everyone uses. And now it’s unsorted. for And what?