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https://www.scientificamerican.com/podcast/episode/cleo-the-mysterious-math-menace1/
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1/n Here's an extensive overview & thread and a few thoughts on Robotics projects and whether they should use Rust or C/C++ or Python
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One of the most valuable things to amidst the chaos and interruptions to your obligations and interruptions: "OK, let's do it"
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When you are just starting out -- there are a lot more people who say "no" when they should be saying "yes" to your ideas. Essentially you are underestimated (and sometimes rightly so, because see naive hubris) What I've seen is that as you become more successful, and increasingly over time, you get more people who just constantly start saying "yes" when they really should be saying "no" to your ideas (because, again its not like you've become less naive). This starts become dangerous, and puts you increasingly in a emperors wearing no clothes situation I really think it becomes harder to have friends who tell you the truth consistently and how it is as one gains more success, or at least externally recognized. Just my two cents
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I’ve been burned by my own hubris more times than I can count But the source of my hubris (hubris?) is a sort of naive willingness / confidence (ok I don’t agree with this choice of words: hubris, maybe looking at it more like a child like wonder) - and it shouldn’t be put down, if anything it should be encouraged and cultivated further - you should look foolish and just generally do things whether you look foolish or not I think when you are an actual child you’re often given some leeway for your shortcomings - ah look July is a child how fun it is that he is making these mistakes. As you get older people become a bit more tight, and less open to failure. That’s a shame, that can be remedied easily imo
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Not caring what others think of what you do is different from being insensitive to others It’s like the difference between eating what you want to eat regardless of norms or whatever versus forcing everyone to eat blue cheese because you’re super into blue cheese (i am but is everyone?)
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- Gaius Gracchus - Nero and the infamous fire - lookin at you Septimus Severus - crisis of the 3rd century had 20 emperors - Constantine - Justinian - So, essentially everyone
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Reminds me of F-32 vs F-35 and the JSF (joint strike fighter procurement program) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6L21um5frs
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Currently taking a deep breath brb
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Having taste requires taking a deep breath
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Coordination of disparate elements requires a level of autonomy, to make decisions that are best for their cohort. Centralized command doesn’t quite work all the time, synchronized command doesn’t work all the time. There’s a clarity around the mission that is generally required though I think? Or else it doesn’t work?
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Lots of places I’ve spent time in the past are no longer places I recognize fully, just not the same places from my memory. They just aren’t and it’s bittersweet
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It do be like that
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Long term ROI > Short term ROI Yeah - it’s so incredibly easy to say. It is so hard to prioritize and take a long term, there are so many pitfalls, so many distractions. It’s like Odysseus in The Odyssey, so many sirens, so many things along the way, temptations, resistance both external and internal to yourself
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What I tell my problems sometimes: “Hey we’re not arriving at any sort of breakthrough here, so why don’t we circle back at 8 in the morning and see if anything has happened”
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TIL what “Immanetize the eschaton” means https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immanentize_the_eschaton
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https://x.com/adamgluck/status/1788969230538612757?s=46 Hurdles to robotics adoption in the US
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