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It’s a stretch but I’d say a lot of modern analytical philosophy could be considered “technical” in the sense that the convention is to articulate ideas and arguments as clearly and precisely as possible.

My recommendations would be Hilary Putnam, Nelson Goodman, and W.V.O Quine.

A paper I’m currently reading, which was seminal in phenomenology, is “ The Phenomenology of Cognition: Or What Is It Like to Think That P?”[1] by David Pitt. Really nice example of a well-formed thesis.

[1] https://philpapers.org/rec/PITWII

I could be wrong, but I don’t think Bill Bryson’s work is “technical writing” as commonly understood. Still worth reading, however, I’m sure.

If this advice is helpful to someone, then they (probably) have much bigger problems.

Dan Huberman, professor of neurobiology at Stanford, has some good info on sleep in his podcast and website, in case anyone just wants to learn a little more about sleep.

https://hubermanlab.com/toolkit-for-sleep/

https://hubermanlab.com/master-your-sleep-and-be-more-alert-...

This title sounds like something written by a robot.

dx == developer experience?

I was also going to suggest this, although there are a few things about the UI that I don't love - e.g., it takes 5 'tab' keystrokes to get from a note title to the note body.

On that note (no pun intended), I do wish it was possible to query tag intersections, so to speak. E.g., show notes tagged with both 'todo' & 'coding'.

Yes! I'm working through the Design of Computer Programs on Udacity, which he teaches, and it's so enlightening to hear how he thinks through the conceptual framework of a program and see the code he comes up with to implement it. It's also nice to see that his code isn't always super elegant and that he's willing to write something readable and straightforward if it works well.

I’ve worked in kitchens, and this characterization favors my experience much more closely than does the author’s. In a kitchen, mistakes are costly; imagine that you have one chance to compile your code, and if it doesn’t compile, then you lose that code. In fact, I’d go almost as far to say that cooking (in a professional kitchen, where mise en place really matters) and software development are about as different as any two disciplines you can imagine - cats and dogs. The element of time, the cost & consequences of mistakes, the discipline of routine, and the nature of problem solving couldn’t be more dissimilar in these two practices. In fact, they seem different in almost every way, and I’m struggling to find a reasonable common methodology or strategic principle.

Maybe we could instead say, "web color is still not perfect". Nature is a wild animal and even getting computers to simulate natural color at all is a feat. Want to see real color? Get out of the fucking building.

Forgive my ignorance (and there's a lot of it), but navigating a graph and setting permissions doesn't seem like a terribly difficult problem, especially for Google - the king of graphs, in a word. I would think maybe the issue has to do with how permissions of a file/folder apply to different users, but then isn't that just exactly the raison d'etre of permission systems?

This isn't an area I'm qualified to have a technical opinion on but if you'd care to elaborate I'd be interested to learn more.

Very cool! Gets me thinking about Rubik's Cube in different topological spaces.

> We are a way for the universe to know itself.

What else is there for the universe to know?

I don't think my response will be much appreciated here, but you'll get a great deal more insight into your question by taking 5g psilocybe mushrooms or 600mcg of LSD [1] than from any comment in this thread.

[1] These are fairly high doses. Take appropriate medical and psychological precautions before participating in such ceremonies.

This seems problematic. "Given the right context" a lot of words could be synonyms. It seems like it's implicit in the meaning of "synonymous" that two words share the same meaning if they're interchangeable (in their respective languages) in all contexts.

Just because a word doesn't have a 1-to-1 correlation with a word in another language doesn't mean it's not translatable; in fact, this website shows that they are translatable. Even more, it's not analytically true that any word in one language shares a perfect mapping with a word in another language. This is evident when you translate a word into another language and back into the native language and find yourself with a different (albeit perhaps related) word.

W.V.O. Quine made some remarkable points about translation [1], although not all philosophers (cf. John Searle) agree that the scenarios he suggested are as problematic as he contended.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Indeterminacy_of_translation

I don’t follow the logic of “It's not certain that [a project] will start making money, but it's certain that one of my next small projects will, again.”

If the success of any one project is uncertain, then summing (so to speak) projects doesn’t make any future project certain. On some intuitive level it does seem like the likelihood of each successive project doing well does go up (as you develop skills and learn about markets, etc.), but no single project is “due” for success because N prior projects failed.

This seems obvious to me, but I didn’t see anyone else specifically comment on it so I figured I would.

He was a Thiel Fellow.

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Additionally the serial killer (character) in "Hannibal" who integrates fungi in his murders is named Stamets.

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I would also add that puzzles are a fun way to improve your thinking, IMO. My favorite source is https://www.ocf.berkeley.edu/~wwu/riddles/intro.shtml.

+1. Deliberate practice—working at the edge of your ability, where you fail at least as much as you succeed—is nearly the gold standard for continual improvement at any practice.

I would amend that do this daily and you'll see progress after months if not weeks.

I don't think any book has had an immediately noticeable effect, but looking back to books I read years ago I can to some degree tell which ones are still resonating.

The Demon Haunted World (Carl Sagan) — although I was already a skeptical thinker, this book opened me up to how critical thinking can enhance your spiritual side as well as your intellectual side.

Godel, Escher, Bach (Douglas Hofstadter) — this book added color to a lot my intuitions about the deeper connections of patterns we see throughout reality.

Truth & Power (Michel Foucault) — I'm not a fan of most so-called continental philosophy, but Foucault's ideas about cultural structures has always stuck with me.

The Allegory of the Cave (Plato; section in The Republic) — classic; some might say the basic idea underpinning all philosophical and scientific inquiry.

Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus (Ludwig Wittgenstein) — I'll admit I never quite understood this book from reading it, but it definitely changed how I thought about philosophy, consciousness and spirituality.

Charles Sanders Peirce essays — it's been a long time, so I don't remember the specific texts, but he did fascinating work in semiotics. One essay in particular was critical in how I think about communication and consciousness.

Fact, Fiction, Forecast (Nelson Goodman) — Goodman is brilliant and is great at relaying philosophical problems as puzzles. He's a great writer and turns the problem of induction on its head in this one.

Foucault's Pendulum (Umberto Eco) — I don't read a lot of fiction, but this book is amazing. There's a lot of history, so you may need to keep an encyclopedia nearby, but this one will really get you thinking about how the autonomy of memes. Probably quite relevant at the moment.

Any number of books and essays by great analytic philosophers: Saul Kripke, W.V.O. Quine, Bertrand Russell, Karl Popper, Carl Hempel, John Campbell, David Chalmers, Thomas Nagel, Hilary Putnam, Jerry Fodor, Dan Dennett, David Lewis, etc.

Why is his face blurred in the photos on the website but not in the video?

"Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos - Steven Strogatz, Cornell University" is available[0] on youtube as a series of 25 lectures. (From 2014.)

From the description:

"This course of 25 lectures, filmed at Cornell University in Spring 2014, is intended for newcomers to nonlinear dynamics and chaos. It closely follows Prof. Strogatz's book, "Nonlinear Dynamics and Chaos: With Applications to Physics, Biology, Chemistry, and Engineering."

The mathematical treatment is friendly and informal, but still careful. Analytical methods, concrete examples, and geometric intuition are stressed. The theory is developed systematically, starting with first-order differential equations and their bifurcations, followed by phase plane analysis, limit cycles and their bifurcations, and culminating with the Lorenz equations, chaos, iterated maps, period doubling, renormalization, fractals, and strange attractors.

A unique feature of the course is its emphasis on applications. These include airplane wing vibrations, biological rhythms, insect outbreaks, chemical oscillators, chaotic waterwheels, and even a technique for using chaos to send secret messages. In each case, the scientific background is explained at an elementary level and closely integrated with the mathematical theory. The theoretical work is enlivened by frequent use of computer graphics, simulations, and videotaped demonstrations of nonlinear phenomena.

The essential prerequisite is single-variable calculus, including curve sketching, Taylor series, and separable differential equations. In a few places, multivariable calculus (partial derivatives, Jacobian matrix, divergence theorem) and linear algebra (eigenvalues and eigenvectors) are used. Fourier analysis is not assumed, and is developed where needed. Introductory physics is used throughout. Other scientific prerequisites would depend on the applications considered, but in all cases, a first course should be adequate preparation."

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbN57C5Zdl6j_qJA-pARJ...

Almost certainly sponsored by Wusthof, but interesting breakdown nonetheless.

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Yerba mate[0] has 2 stimulants aside from caffeine: theophylline and theobromine. Perhaps they interact in such a way as to stabilize the effect of the caffeine.

[0] http://nativayerbamate.com/health.html (Nativa sells yerba mate so possible bias)

The Santa Fe Institute[0] has some courses, tutorials, and publications[1] mainly, it seems, around complexity science. Complexity science isn't the same as systems theory/science, but most (all?) systems are complex so systems thinking usually necessitates some grasp of complexity. It's probably a good place to start.

They also have short courses on information theory, differential equations, and such.

[0] https://www.santafe.edu/ [1] https://www.santafe.edu/research/results/books

The one bit of positivity I get out of this is, well at least white rhino poaching is over.

(Unless they're revived by cloning, as one person mentioned, in which case either they remain in captivity or poaching continues.)