Which religions with doctrines of non-violence have the best success record with not having horrible atrocities carried out in their names against outgroups

Ben Reinhardt The meta corollary is that R&D pays if you have a monopoly. IIRC Bell Labs paid for itself by reducing the amount of lead AT&T had to use.

Slack (in the systems sense) seems to both lead to amazing things and flies in the face of efficiency, justification, and rationality.

Over time, we've killed slack in more and more domains in the name of efficiency.

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every time i find myself humming some Bach (today it’s the prelude from cello suite no. 2 in d minor), i think to myself, what an honor to be carrying this precious information in my memory

Evolution has foresight in retrospect

That’s bad enough. But the House also voted for the amendment many of us have been calling “Patriot Act 2.0.” This will force ordinary American businesses that provide wifi to their customers to give the NSA access to their wifi equipment to conduct 702 surveillance. 6/14

But the difference is, you cannot push the boundaries past the wall.

The key to navigating the decision tree is to move back and forth frequently between two types of work: getting stuff done (Level 1) and evaluating it critically (Level 2). These cannot be done at the same time. 27/53

5) Fix one parameter; let the others float. In generating a new idea, one of the most common failure modes is to fix too many parameters. (Here, parameters = e.g., the system you will study or the methods you will use) 20/53

2) Exercise intuition pumps and avoid common traps. There is no single way to generate new ideas, but certain prompts can help jumpstart the ideation process… 9/53

1) Spend more time on problem choice. In science and (non-software) engineering, a typical project for a grad student might involve 1-2 weeks of planning and 2-5 years of execution. That is way out of balance, especially considering that… 4/53

How to pick a problem. Today in Cell. 1/53
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Grokking the new rate of change in the era of AI

Qualcomm banked its entire business on Moore's Law, far before the market had properly internalized the implications of compute doubling every 24 months. The core signal processing algorithm the company was founded around was not…

I am going to upgrade my teeth.

Gordon 'One of the most basic presuppositions of communication is that the partners can mutually surprise each other. Only in the way can information be produced in the respective other.'
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It's hard to get someone to understand something when their Twitter persona depends on them not understanding it

Achievement Unlocked! Signals advance to Stage 1 in TC39.

Big thanks to Jatin Ramanathan, Daniel Ehrenberg, and Yehuda Katz for presenting today.

Lots more work to do during Stage 1, but we're now officially under consideration.

Gordon It only got as far as steampunk