drchewbacca

Personally I like project based learning. Just try to make something cool, maybe a game, a robot, a hydroponic grow station or whatever and then learn what you need to learn as you go along.

If you gave me a book of inverse kinematics I'd go to sleep in 10 minutes. If I get frustrated that my robot keeps falling over I could read about it for days.

I tried their plant identification game. I think they could really benefit from hiring a game designer.

It would be possible to make something pretty cool out of the database I think.

In mathematics I'd put forward the conjecture that "for every proven theorem you could ask at least 5 more similar questions which are unproven."

For example it is proven there are infinitely many primes. Are there infinitely primes that differ by 2? By n for any n? Are there infinitely many palindromic primes? Are there infinitely many primes of form n^2 + 1? Is there always a prime between n^2 and (n+1)^2?

If this is true then, assuming there are 200k proven theorems, there would be >1m unproven but readily stated theorems which would mean it wouldn't be too hard to find areas no one is looking into.

I think you can set it to only scan when new pull requests are made. So you could commit your libraries etc without asking for review and then turn it on only for code you have written.

I might be wrong though.

Also Elon recently said he has started managing by rhymes. He said

"If the schedule is long it's wrong, if it's tight it's right. The best part is no part, the best process is no process."

All the hacking away of parts and processes pays off with speed.

If you get rejected just edit 10 words on your resume and then resubmit. Do this a 100hz and you'll get in eventually :)

Does anyone know a good comparison of the cost of Nuclear with Solar + Batteries? I feel like just comparing against panels alone isn't really helpful.

I would imagine that if we really cared about climate change the best approach would be maximal effort on all fronts. So build renewables as fast as we can and build nuclear as fast as we can. That would be the quickest way to get carbon emissions to 0.

We could always spend the latter half of the century decommissioning the nuclear again.

Kasparov comments on chess computers in an interview with Thierry Paunin on pages 4-5 of issue 55 of Jeux & Stratégie (published in 1989):

‘Question: ... Two top grandmasters have gone down to chess computers: Portisch against “Leonardo” and Larsen against “Deep Thought”. It is well known that you have strong views on this subject. Will a computer be world champion, one day ...?

Kasparov: Ridiculous! A machine will always remain a machine, that is to say a tool to help the player work and prepare. Never shall I be beaten by a machine! Never will a program be invented which surpasses human intelligence. And when I say intelligence, I also mean intuition and imagination. Can you see a machine writing a novel or poetry? Better still, can you imagine a machine conducting this interview instead of you? With me replying to its questions?’

I invest in Tesla stock and it would be great if a lot of people could also agree that's a good idea :)

One nuance is that if you want to live forever you only need to hit longevity escape velocity where every year there is another discovery which buys you another year of healthy life.

Of course it might lead to living to 800 and being confined to a wheelchair by 80.