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Oleg Kiselyov's personal website has been continually updated for 30 years: https://okmij.org/ftp/ChangeLog.html
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I liked this piece by Keith Rabois on focus. Had a good mathematical explanation of it (doing a ton of little things worse less than doing 1 big thing). Seems plausible. https://breckyunits.com/insist-on-focus.html
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Link: https://breckyunits.com/science.html
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New essay: What Science May Be
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The best under-reported stories in tech are the yeoman behind libgen, anna's archive, pirate bay, etc.
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What is the truest sentence you know?
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Nanoideas ======== The smallest improvements, compounded, have the biggest impact. In biology, if it wasn't for a tiny dividing nucleic-cell pairing with a tiny dividing proto-mitochondria bacterium 2 billion years ago, we would not be here. In computing, it's been the nanoscopic improvements to the transistor which have caused the biggest changes to the world in the past 50 years. Let's call these things *nanoideas*. * It follows from this that if you believe a big impact is needed you need to look not for big ideas but nanoideas-the smallest ideas that compound. * To find better nanoideas as yourself questions like: - Is there a version of this idea that's even smaller? - Does this idea compound? How? - How fast will this idea compound? List all of your ideas and go into detail on their size and how they compound.
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* Biological viruses are nanoideas. Physics is full of nanoideas. Moral values are nanoideas. * There is nothing wrong with having big ideas. But sometimes the best way to materialize them is by way of nanoideas. ⁂
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I've been relatively quiet the past 6 weeks working on Scroll 2. Scroll 2 has a radically simpler design (figured out a few small compounding improvements), that should make it much easier to explain, use, and allow it to be used for huge million - billion+ line projects. It's a pain to replace a parser engine but I think it will be well worth it. My vision, which I think now more than ever is possible, has been to "build a language for scientists of all ages". I've meant that in both the sense of "a language so easy kids can use it" to "a language so compelling Planck and Einstein and Feynman would have used it". Scroll 1 does not meet that goal, but Scroll 2 will. On the surface looks the same, but under the hood has some really interesting designs related to topological sorting, causality, and logic that I think will be highly useful and relevant for science and all that want to built trustworthy information. It could even be a path to LLMs without hallucination. A resurgence for Symbolic AI.
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I find it hard to have a strong opinion on nuclear without putting in time mastering subjects that would get me put on some secret list.
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you have to run a hub
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The smallest improvement, that compounds, has the biggest impact.
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Why is it "turn on the heat" but not "turn on the cold"?
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All of my "creations" are drivel. And so are yours. People that demands their "creations" need special "IP" right over stuff like the below _shock me_. How obtuse can you be? All our contributions are grains of sand on a mountain. I'm not saying don't create, on the contrary create more. But publish public domain. The sight of © or "licenses" on ideas should cause you nausea.
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Keep going
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Full text from Internet Archive: https://archive.org/details/universeinthelig032967mbp
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"We have no right to assume that any physical laws exist, or if they have existed up to now, that they will continue to exist in a similar manner in the future." Max Planck, 1931
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