In the previous post I described what I thought a healthy news diet might look like. I wanted to lay out a framework that would allow me to stay informed in ways I care about, but would also keep me from using news as a way to pass time and...
[Note: This post is a reaction to my drastic increase in Twitter consumption this year. All uses of the second person "you" and "your" in this post are in fact me talking to myself.] If you aren’t careful, you’ll spend too much of your life scrolling a feed. Might be...
This is the first technical post on my new blog, where I plan to continue writing about what I learn from self-study of mathematics. I'm currently reading E.T. Jaynes' Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, and Christopher Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. While I understand many LessWrong2.0 readers are...
In the previous post I described what I thought a healthy news diet might look like. I wanted to lay out a framework that would allow me to stay informed in ways I care about, but would also keep me from using news as a way to pass time and indulge in an addiction to the feed. I came up with the following criteria for a healthy news diet:
In this post... (read 1523 more words →)
[Note: This post is a reaction to my drastic increase in Twitter consumption this year. All uses of the second person "you" and "your" in this post are in fact me talking to myself.]
If you aren’t careful, you’ll spend too much of your life scrolling a feed. Might be Twitter, HN, Reddit, NYT, etc. Could be some app that doesn’t exist yet. Doesn’t matter. The result is the same. You don’t get as much done as you want, and your soul slowly drains out into that screen.
The problem is, scrolling through that feed can be useful. It’s not useful very often, but it's useful enough that you don't feel you should completely... (read 1378 more words →)
Posting here to give empirical evidence to this statement
Any progress on the custom todo app?
I am moving to the Bay Area from the east coast, and have been looking for a job out there for some time. I signed an offer letter last week from a company I am excited to start working with.
Yesterday I published an app that will send you to a random slatestarcodex article. You can find it as a subdomain of my blog: http://random-ssc.pulsarcoffee.com.
I am reading The Fall of Hyperion by Dan Simmons, and Programming in Scala by Martin Odersky.
Thanks for the post! I'm currently in the process of looking for a programming job in the Bay Area. I'm less than a year out of school w/ a B.S. in CS, but I went to a school that does co-ops so I have a little over two years experience if you count that. And I have a bunch of public code on github from interesting projects I've hacked on in my own time.
So far I've mostly been cruising angel.co for job openings, and just recently started looking at listings on StackOverflow. I've gotten ~5 initial phone conversations, but nobody has moved on past that.
I will take the advice in this post into consideration, and make a reminder to come back and post some details about my job when I do get hired.
I strongly agree w/ Zvi's post, but also think there is some good pushback in the comments so far. Particularly from Said about his experience at the same school Zvi went to. I know a few people who recently graduated from that school, and what I hear from them suggests it is better in several important ways than even the very good high school I went to.
I'm interested in a discussion about what to do. What are better designs for institutions of primary education? How do we instill an essential curiosity early on?
I think this discussion can go in two directions. The first is just an ideal model of education. Without political... (read more)
I think the first sentence in paragraph four should have the words "is doomed" appended to the end. I did not understand what Paul is offering his specific prize for until I read his post at https://www.lesserwrong.com/posts/SqcPWvvJJwwgZb6aH/prize-for-probable-problems.
This is the first technical post on my new blog, where I plan to continue writing about what I learn from self-study of mathematics. I'm currently reading E.T. Jaynes' Probability Theory: The Logic of Science, and Christopher Bishop's Pattern Recognition and Machine Learning. While I understand many LessWrong2.0 readers are far above my level in maths, maybe there are some who would benefit from and enjoy conversation about the sort of things I'm learning.
Apparently OP is recommending the vim keybindings system, not so much the application. They mention writing this post in Spacemacs.
I am also a convert to this philosophy: vim is the best language for editing, emacs is the best environment for editing.