iamcurious

Newton was a smart guy and he devoted a lot of time to his occult research. I bet that a lot of that occult research inspired the physics. The fact that his occult research remains, occult from the public, well that is natural aint it?

I have never felt closer yet farther away from y'all. Thank you, I need to cry, and revaluate my social habits.

If you depend on that brand and following for your livelihood and they arbitrarily ban you, what rights do you have?

I really liked the list, probably cause my resume kinda fits and as a true generalist, my resume rarely fits anything.

It is true that working for free is bonkers. Priority number 1 is always rent, at minimum cover that so that business is priority 1.

> Eugene Wigner once wrote an article titled “The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Mathematics in the Natural Sciences.” I don’t know what he wrote in the article, but it is certainly a fact that, up to now, especially in the domain of fundamental physics, we have had striking success with our use of mathematics

It is odd that he mentions it only to say that he doesn’t know it.

I didn’t find the article main point particularly strong, but all the references and overall mentions were interesting.

They are taking steps in that direction with Windows subsystem for Linux

On the surface: The world would be premises and stories would be proofs.

Linear Logic for Non-Linear Storytelling by Anne-Gwenn Bosser and Marc Cavazza and Ronan Champagnat has an example.

Then generating proofs means generating valid stories. Linear logic is tough though, it is a logic that admits contradiction so straightaway most logicians are clueless in how to handle it.

I liked the bit about the hobbit, even if it was a bit out of the blue.

those interested in the link between math and literature might be interested in the link between narratives and linear logic.

I appreciate measuring productive when profit is the objective. Still, there exists code that does resonate and evoke emotional response. Quines, code golf, adding a paradigms to a lisp in a few lines of code, categorical haskell or the Doom wtf algorithm.

Beauty is something to strive for, it is just not the purpose of business programming. Unless you are Dijkstra.

Well, the comic did say it would take 5 years.

Should YouTubers hop on board of this? Or is the safest bet to assume Google will cancel it?

I'm glad I read this comment. I had conversations with people who used "skin in the game" and "intellectual yet idiot" constantly, but I always had other books on my to-read list. The added context sheds some light.

>Even amongst doctors I know, most woes are pinned down to the NHS's modern addiction to statistics to judge everything.

Yes, statistics are never a substitute for knowledge, no matter how much SVs insists that it is.

Yup, it seems a side effect of data driven approach is that Windows no longer cares about its own reputation.