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"Oh, I'm so nervous! What if I ... ? What if they ... ? Oh, what ever shall I do?" "I keep telling you, man, you're making things way too complicated. Just think about what outcome you want, predict...
View ArticleOptimal Last Words Before the Intelligence Explosion
"I've heard of dei ex machinis, but this is ridiculous!"
View ArticleTrue Inclusiveness
"Even after racism, sexism, and speciesism have been eradicated, the work of social justice won't be done. We still live in a viciously existence-biased Society, which cruelly disregards the interests...
View ArticleReasons and Persons for Which the Bell Tolls
So, did John Donne actually take a reductionist view of personal identity, or was that "No man is an island [...] therefore never send to know for whom the bell tolls" business just ordinary empathy...
View ArticleEngineering Selection
This whole business of being alive used to seem so much simpler and less morally ambiguous before I realized that the strong do what they can and the weak suffer what they must, that it has always been...
View ArticleAll Vows
"Avinu Malkeinu, we have sinned against you! Avinu Malkeinu, forgive us, bless us, grant us atonement!" "Why do you bother? You're not a child. You've studied the history of our world. You should know...
View ArticleApp Academy Diary, Week One
Monday 16 September 2013— For the next couple months, I'm going to be engrossed in an intensive web development course offered by App Academy; it's pretty great! Part of the routine is to write...
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App Academy Diary, Week Two
Monday 23 September 2013— I rewrote most of the tic-tac-toe game yesterday; information-theoretically speaking, the board state is only 9 lg 3 ≈ 14.26 bits, but for better or for worse, I resisted the...
View ArticleApp Academy Diary, Week Three
Monday 30 September 2013— Today's assessment was implementing Crazy Eights in accordance with the given RSpec tests. In the afternoon, I worked with Dan Quan on exercises from the SQL Zoo, which varied...
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