Paragon Adrift

A cursory reflection upon the senses.

Jan
16th

Mon

If you want to do something big in your life, you must remember that shyness is only the mind,” she said. “If you think shy, you act shy. If you think confident you act confident. Therefore never let shyness conquer your mind.

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Such a shame, I want so many more children like this.

Digital Life - Programming prodigy passes away at 16: Hear her philosophy of life

Jan
11th

Wed

(via CV Dazzle: Open-Source Camouflage From Computer Vision by Adam Harvey)

What Scientific Concept Would Improve Everybody's Cognitive Toolkit?

Answers. Lots of them.

Self; The Video #

Jan
10th

Tue

(via How to nap - Boston.com)

Jan
5th

Thu

I suffered through half a semester of differential equations before my pride let me go to R. for help. And sure enough, he took my textbook for a night to review the material (he couldn’t remember it all from third grade), and then he walked me through my difficulties and coached me. I ended up pulling a B at the end of a semester and avoiding that train wreck. The thing is, nothing he taught me involved raw brainpower. The more I learned the more I realized that the bulk of his intelligence and his performance just came from study and practice, and that the had amassed a large artillery of intellectual and mathematical tools that he had learned and trained to call upon. He showed me some of those tools, but what I really ended up learning was how to go about finding, building, and refining my own set of cognitive tools. I admired R., and I looked up to him, and while I doubt I will ever compete with his genius, I recognize that it’s because of a relative lack of my conviction and an excess of his, not some accident of genetics.

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Inri137 comments on I’m not as smart as I thought I was.

Such a great response.

Jan
4th

Wed

The Stop Online Piracy Debate

on Forum, a KQED production. Both sides represented.

Jan
2nd

Mon

Algorithm Measures Human Pecking Order #

Physicists Seek To Lose The Lecture As Teaching Tool

at NPR.

Dec
29th

Thu

Why you should use a BSD style license for your Open Source Project

Fuck the GPL.

Dec
28th

Wed

Practical Garbage Collection, part 1 – Introduction #

Dec
26th

Mon

Time to end the war on drugs

Fuck yeah Richard Branson!

In the period of shareholder capitalism since 1976, executive compensation has exploded while corporate performance has declined. “Maximizing shareholder value” turned out to be the disease of which it purported to be the cure.

— The Dumbest Idea In The World: Maximizing Shareholder Value - Forbes #

Dec
23rd

Fri

The Bad Plus - Flim - Austin 2010 (by headdrums)

The Bad Plus - Physical Cities (by musicfreak21)