Joel Blum
@binaryminery
Meandering Wanderer. Code. Tech Trends. Culture analysis. Some stats. Generally interested in rationality and decision theory. When I'm here, I'm HERE. NOW.
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When I listen to Sagan, there is a palpable sensation of deep intellectual curiosity, honesty and humility. Of similar magnitude is Feynman, (eg. when he talks about a flower in the beginning of The Pleasure of Finding Things Out). He bursts with energy. topdocumentaryfilms.com/pleasure-findi…
I think the main lesson of deep learning is that you can achieve a surprising amount using only a small set of very basic techniques. This will continue to hold true as we move to new concepts: deceptively simple ideas will turn out to cover a lot more ground than we expect
thinking about camomile tea: oh yeah i love it, the calming drink actually drinking camomile tea: the hot hay water has not relaxed me
It's remarkable that an entire generation of software entrepreneurs has been convinced they need outside funding in an era when you can work from anywhere, all you need is a laptop, and cloud server infrastructure is essentially free until you're famous.
This is so important. I had the exact same experience in a startup accelerator. All these wealthy smart people telling me that there was no way to succeed without taking capital. They are VERY good at convincing people of that. Easy to analyse now, very hard at the time.
Talented people get stuck in local maxima. Change from a local maxima looks risky but staying is the real risk.
Taking a break, coming back to with a fresh mind to decide unnecessary browser tabs, putting them all to the right and clicking "Close Tabs To The Right" Feels like a HUGE mental refresh.
11% of Americans don’t use the internet. Who are they? pewresearch.org/fact-tank/2018…
How @VitalikButerin uses his extra 140 characters lately...
Excellent work, etherchain! etherchain.org/correlations (Anyone replying to this claiming to be giving away ETH is a scammer, as usual)
Alexa does switch on by itself and say random shit. Also doubting that it sometimes streams someone else's Echo. Seriously.
Instead of calling it "writer's block", just call it "burnout". The former sounds helpless and something you need to "deal with" and the latter means you need a break and you'll be fine.
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