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"100%" only qualifies "testable".

2000 times more than a ZX81.

hedapodia is the key insight

Operational theory of mathematics: you define (invent) some rules, of starting points and ways to change them. Like the rules of a game.

In a sense, all possible outcomes already exist (only to be discovered).

> pruning

Do IT workers really need legs?

I thought working memory (WM) was mostly number of items recalled, and for most people it's 5-7. The actual test they used would benefit from exposure to video games (poverty would affect access):

> a screen that displayed one, two, or three dots for 2 s and instructed to remember where the dot(s) were located (Figure S2b). The screen then went blank (for 0.1 or 3 s), after which it changed color indicating that participants should touch the screen precisely where the dot(s) had appeared.

Not a serious criticism, more about the nature of WM and how to measure it.

Modularity by purchase. Information hiding by ownership. Interfaces by corporation.

Brooks' software system products (9x the work) is usually done this way in practice. In most usage cases, I would also include open source projects.

It's so hard to get interfaces right and it's helpful to have many users. But I considered your point, of it helping to enforce boundaries.

Sounds daunting... yet I used to do this in effect, by writing first draft by hand, reading and editing there, and then typing up.

Writing by hand, you can also draw arrows for relationships, little diagrams, mini-drafts etc.

It is easy to degrade by editing too. There's a flow that comes with the thought; there's an interchange with the reader that comes with conversation.

It is comforting to think we can be geniuses with time and effort. But the genius that visits you does not labour.

Not criticizing the content, but the expression in this recent example of overediting: http://paulgraham.com/useful.html Note a paragraph comes to life towards the end, that I would guess is transcribed conversation.

I posted that link. My comment was about relative importance.

Not sure how important this is, often not needed if there are tracks etc. It would help, but wouldn't a better sense of smell help more?

BTW Steak tartare is a dish of raw meat: https://wikipedia.org/wiki/Steak_tartare

There's also sushi and sashimi.

Attenborough https://youtube.com/watch?v=826HMLoiE_o The relentless zombies are us.

We're physically adapted: sweat pores, bipedal, achilles tendon. Perhaps neccessary, but high calorie ROI seems insufficient for the evolution of intelligence.

Includes first draft of first chapter.

Learning git is race-to-reflog, so you can undo your learning mistakes.

IIRC the virus was isolated last year, so wouldn't at least some antibodies have been identified by now? Or, it's just very common to have to start over?

Is it unusually difficult for this coronavirus? eg I've heard it's unusually large.

True, constraints promote creativity, the form of a sonnet or the rules of a fictional world or 8 bit graphics.

But in this particular case, they used the new strengths of the device that enabled things not possible before (removing constraints), yet thought their idea might be too much for it (hence the prototype), and their later idea was too much for it (needed a bigger screen). So their ideas didn't benefit from the constraints.

An upcoming test of your hypothesis is the PS5 100x SSD. Will it promote or stifle creativity?

The sense of the "magical" is the newness. Miracles, when commonplace, become commonplace. (Though I am still in awe at billion/sec pocket electro-computers... OTOH no one else is, it's just a cheap phone).

  limitations with the data
  method was eventually... proved correct

Does sound like they're blaming the data; though his "method" could well refer to his general method, not to every exact detail.

Philip Roe is himself a famous pioneer in CFD, so I lean towards trusting his version more... he said the forecast was of extraordinary 100mph winds, pretty specific. The bad data would have to be wildly bad to yield that! OTOH it inevitably happens with instability.

However, I really don't know. Maybe it's become a folktale, to illustrate instability, since it's a big deal in CFD!

I believe the problem was his numerical method was unstable, and blew up.

Somewhere in this talk by Philip Roe https://youtube.com/watch?v=uaH91P665PI

Not to AlphaGo, whew, we're not there yet.

Firefox: reader view then bookmark saves the content.

Is the world ready for lower-level languages? e.g. cache-aware. (assembly isn't)

In a way, GPU shader languages "fit" parallel GPU architecture (though not cache-aware).

Maybe... limited loop code-length to fit in cache; No pointer chasing (though you can workaround anything in a TM).

Some java subsets for very limited hardware might be instances.

I had italics in vim (TERM was xterm-256color), but not in tmux (TERM was screen).

Added this to ~/.tmux.conf and it works:

  set -g default-terminal "xterm-256color"

BTW it matters to me when using vim as a markdown viewer (esp for github readme.md).

But Boyer-Moore is so pretty!

  abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz

If the 26th char isn't z, jump along 26 chars! (More complex, and more cache misses, if z is repeated in the search string).

funfact: Boole titled his on book on his algebra "The Laws of Thought". AI & computation were old friends long before electro-computers.

A grocer is a dictatorship.

I make sense of inexplicable government slowness as: avoiding panic (worse than a pandemic), yet OTOH most people needing tangible evidence before they'll take it seriously.

Usability of diffs, to do actual useful tasks, is an excellent research topic. But a very difficult area.

To add my subjective expt: I just compared myers vs histogram on my latest commit.

- myers presented a function I'd 90% gutted as the the same function, edited (the rest was moved in the file, so no LCS algo could find it), like word-diff often does. I thought this was clever.

- histogram presented it as one function deleted, and a completely new function added. This was cleaner.

But I'm not even sure which is more usable. Might even vary with the specific task, e.g. function evolution vs function readability. Difficult area!

I think it's essential to have a strong grasp of high school mathematics, not just high marks, but actually understand it. Gaps here are very serious. What do you think?

Wouldn't random colours average to greys to the HVS, pretty quickly, anyway?

Surely that is one of the ways evolution works?