Attempting to make sense of the world and be useful in the process
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25 Oct 2023
According to this article, an average drywall hanger can install 60 sheets of drywall in a day. At 60 lbs. a sheet, that's 3,600 lbs. a day. I find this interesting, a man can do about a ton and a half of work in a day. familyhandyman.com/list/a-gu…
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6 Sep 2023
Tried a reframe from the new book by @ScottAdamsSays today: while waiting in line, view it as an opportunity to practice proper poster and breathing. Felt good. Worth the price of the book for that alone.
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5 Jun 2023
Example of @ScottAdamsSays's principle of the "bad" first draft: this picture is the preface to the Gutenberg Bible. The font is almost unreadable. Yet here we are centuries later and printed text is all the rage. If the bad first version is popular, you know you have a winner
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4 Jun 2023
youtube.com/watch?v=KbnGlcQi… Stirling engines are so cool but also seem like an engineer trap (endless optimization problem). Will they ever be ubiquitous?
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18 May 2023
"If advertising is informative and entertaining, then it approaches content" - Elon Musk, 2023 CNBC Interview.
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18 May 2023
Same thing goes for education; look at old B&W Army training videos to see how well they can inform and entertain
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16 Nov 2022
>I think it more likely that they are actually kind of crappy computational elements.
@ID_AA_Carmack if this turns out to be true do you think it has implications for our understanding of consciousness/free will?
10 Nov 2022
could ever possibly know. It is at least plausible that human level AGI might initially run in a box instead of an entire data center. Some still hope for quantum magic in the neurons; I think it more likely that they are actually kind of crappy computational elements.