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Totally anecdotal but Prodigy of mobb deep had sickle cell and he said many times eating healthier, working out, etc. had a positive impact.

The philosophical thinking around regenerative medicine is interesting.

On one side there's the union of opposites where without death there can be no life, without pain no pleasure, etc.

Then there's the scientist approach which just wants to reverse engineer life and increasing life span/quality.

I sympathize with both sides. I think someone like Kurzweil is doing too much and blinded by hope and that his idea of the future halfway sounds like hell but at the same time I think a lot could be gained by say doubling life expectancy and there's no need for any metaphysics.

I am reminded of this lecture by Hamming entitled you and your research where he basically says you will fail at research because you're lazy and/or will lose time reading useless stuff.

https://youtu.be/a1zDuOPkMSw

My day job is on a modular monolith that uses mvn. I'm no expert but I've set up some IT's, setup build pipeline from jenkins, configure some plugins on various steps of the lifecycle, etc. and I guess it's ok, xml takes a lot of space though and it gets ridiculous on big code bases.

I've been working on an android app and use gradle with the kotlin dsl. I haven't really done any programming with the build steps but this is pretty sexy and doesn't need three open/close tags every plugin.

  dependencies {
    implementation(fileTree(mapOf("dir" to "libs", "include" to listOf("*.jar"))))
    implementation("com.google.android.material:material:1.2.0")

Gradle used to use groovy dsl, but with kotlin the syntax is more consistent and auto complete is actually useful.

Apple doesn't want you to easily extend the life of older models; they want you to buy the new one.

Maybe you could put them up on bandcamp? A lot of ambient/soundscape composers use environmental sounds.

That's gold, cerved! Gold!

Sounds like your job could use devops with some deployment stack.

I know the basics of chef/ansible etc but I much prefer traditional dev.

I thought it was going to be tilings in the plane but the example is some set properties which produces a venn diagram.

The notation feels c like.

Maybe it could be interesting for knots and complicated algebraic geometry?

This reminds me of TDD arguments.

If I'm working within a system I like to code the minimum golden path, add a tests that passes, then add more checks or a new test and go back to the code, etc. Usually the constraints of the system point the way to an obvious skeletal implementation and you can learn as you go along.

On a greenfield project it is especially valuable to have discussions beforehand if people have done something similar before but talking about code at a high level tends to become nebulous rather quickly.

Smoking weakens your heart and lungs (and probably doesn't help high blood pressure) so what makes you say that?

It would be interesting to get an account of the usage of the term programming through the development of linear optimization/programming and its usage during WW2, the simplex algorithm, etc, until the creation of fortran not a decade later.

I wonder how dynamic programming fits into all this and when people started to investigate classic problems ala knapsack.

I love roguelikes too but I tend to burn out in less than a week on games. I can't play rpgs for 60 hours like I used to do.

The older I get the easier it is to predict the end result of an activity and the easier it is to not start things that won't produce long term fulfilment.

This will be great for ambient music producers on bandcamp.

I don't think you can dismiss a platonic view of mathematics as simple cultish adoration and wrong.

There's many problems with the platonic world of ideals and a long history of arguments and counter arguments, but definitely nothing is settled and most working mathematicians have an intuitive feeling of platonism and that there is a 'right' solution to be found out there.