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Fusion’s comparatively slow pace of development can be blamed on the fact that the conditions needed to achieve fusion are monumentally difficult to create. For most technology, the phenomena at work are comparatively simple to manipulate, to the point where many important inventions were created by lone, self-funded individuals
Will We Ever Get Fusion Power? - by Brian Potter
She became adroit at dealing with difficult questions.
ADROIT | English meaning - Cambridge Dictionary
How to Improvise Without Overthinking (feat. Mateus Asato)
How to Improvise Without Overthinking (feat. Mateus Asato) - YouTube
It was all tradeoffs anyway. One thing you didn’t do allowed for something else to happen. But you can’t deny that there is a pattern in these tradeoffs: you frequently chose another dose of the predictable and comfortable over developing a relationship with another person.
Where the Wealth Was All Along
This small amount of uneasiness you avoided, you realize now, cost you many friendships as deep and rich as the best ones you did manage to have.
Where the Wealth Was All Along
In fact, many times a wonderful connection with another person was just one simple action away from you, but you pulled back.
Where the Wealth Was All Along
Of all the missed possibilities, the missed human connections stand out above the other kinds—the missed career and travel opportunities, cultural experiences, even the creative achievements—because by the end of your life the only thing that seemed relevant was the people you loved, or ended up loving. When you died all the value in your world resided there, in the simple and all-important fact that you really knew other people and other people really knew you.
Where the Wealth Was All Along
But there is no point. But there is never going to be a point.
in praise of uselessness - by Ava - bookbear express
There’s something powerful about allowing yourself to fully, obsessively love something that makes no sense. And it’s so contrary to how we’re told to live our lives. Identify and capture value! Go into the field where the best jobs are! Marry someone who is reliable! I’m not saying that’s bad advice—it’s good advice from many a perspective—but I also feel like I’ve stumbled into everything meaningful in my life when I was just like, hey, I’ll just give this a shot and it definitely won’t work.
in praise of uselessness - by Ava - bookbear express
Many people see it as a moral failing to chase after what you like, if what you like seems useless—why be passionate why you could provide utility? But what’s utility without joy?
in praise of uselessness - by Ava - bookbear express
I could not be more like that. I was not more like that. And that was okay. My uselessness, in its own way, became useful.
in praise of uselessness - by Ava - bookbear express
Macrotasks run after the code is finished and after the microtask queue is empty.
Microtasks and event loop
The limit is then what the research director can imagine and nothing more — this presumes the person doing the selecting has the best overall taste as to what is worthwhile.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
As with anything mediating, the act of relying on the taste of society as a proxy for our own effectively serves as a band-pass filter, dampening the range of what our exploratory taste might consider.
Taste is a guide for what is worthwhile
Shortly after, the human era will be ended.
The Coming Technological Singularity
Humans hate trading off between sacred values, they'll hem and haw about it, make a big dramatic show out of the whole process - "grieving". But a large chunk of "grieving" is performative - not all of it, but a lot. Cultivate an identity of ruthlessness and coldheartedness, and you can instead perform a role which just makes the hard choices without the drama.
Deliberate Grieving — LessWrong
There's this scene in Mother of Learning where the incredibly powerful thousand-year-old lich king realizes he's in some sort of simulation, and that the protagonists are therefore presumably trying to extract information from him. Within seconds of realizing this, without any hesitation or hemming or hawing, he blows up his own soul in an attempt to destroy both himself and the protagonists (at least within the simulation). It's cold calculation: he concludes that he can't win the game, the best available move is to destroy the game and himself with it, and he just does that without hesitatio…
Deliberate Grieving — LessWrong
My own experience is that I might have grieved many different aspects of a person no longer being in my life. But months later I might find another aspect missing that I still hadn't processed.
Deliberate Grieving — LessWrong
It's not worth the time to hash out every single decision.
Deliberate Grieving — LessWrong
For example, why do many people go through long training programs “to make money” without spending a few hours doing salary comparisons ahead of time? Why do many who type for hours a day remain two-finger typists, without bothering with a typing tutor program? Why do people spend their Saturdays “enjoying themselves” without bothering to track which of their habitual leisure activities are *actually* enjoyable? Why do even unusually numerate people fear illness, car accidents, and bogeymen, and take safety measures, but not bother to look up statistics on the relative risks? Why do most of us…
Humans are not automatically strategic — LessWrong
A very effective mitigation is HTB (Heal-the-BREACH)[8] that adds random-sized padding to compressed data, providing some in the size of the output contents. This randomness delays BREACH from guessing the correct characters in the secret token by a factor of 500 (10-byte max) to 500,000 (100-byte max). HTB protects all websites and pages in the server with minimal CPU usage and minimal bandwidth increase.
BREACH - Wikipedia
Painting is stronger than me; it makes me do what it wants me to do.
Painter at Work | Picasso museum Barcelona | Official website
dehumanization to the point of death
Uma Thurman, Quentin Tarantino and the costs of auteur worship - The Washington Post
A second is you just drive your burn rate down to zero—you become a monk
The Almanack of Naval Ravikant (Detailed Book Summary) | Sloww
I was… a low-risk decent-return asset.
a post-valentine’s day edition (6am half drunk)
The excessive focus on self is a powerful ‘anti-natal’ technology.
Note by Ruth Gaskovski on Substack: "“…men and women can lose the taste for family life, for one another, and for posterity” - my daughter is attending her first year at university and regularly reports on the ubiquitous aversion to marriage among students, how many female students refer to men in general as ‘disgu…"
We need first-class minds, able to grasp and tackle complex, interconnected problems, and come up with creative ideas and workable solutions. But we also need a first-class team, cohesive and mission oriented, focussed single-mindedly on getting the job done. But there is one more vital ingredient of success. For the Public Service to be able to do its job, it needs to work hand-in-glove with the political leadership. The Ministers have to get the politics right, understand the key issues and identify our priorities, exercise their political mandate, set the direction, and chart the country’s …
In full: PM Lee's speech on key takeaways from COVID-19 crisis, Singaporeans' trust in Government - CNA
Big players are not nice
Thierry Henry urges Bukayo Saka to develop a mean streak to lead Arsenal to Premier League glory | Daily Mail Online
The incentive may help encourage nodes to stay honest. If a greedy attacker is able to assemble more CPU power than all the honest nodes, he would have to choose between using it to defraud people by stealing back his payments, or using it to generate new coins. He ought to find it more profitable to play by the rules, such rules that favour him with more new coins than everyone else combined, than to undermine the system and the validity of his own wealth
Bitcoin White Paper
22Fall HKU MSc(Computer Science) Admission Test & Interview 笔试面试经验
22Fall HKU MSc(Computer Science) Admission Test & Interview Written Test Interview Experience-Zhihu
But, you see, I had it so intense in my head, and the reason for that was largely because it was part of me. Everything in there had to be so important to me. This computer was me. And everything had to be as perfect as could be made. And I had a lot going against me because I didn’t have a computer to compile my code, my software.
Wozniak on Apple – Sutter’s Mill
Owing to his pacifist tendencies, Albert Einstein did not play a role in the Manhattan Project. Nevertheless, he deeply regretted signing the letter to President Roosevelt that arguably sparked the creation of the atomic bomb.
Richard Feynman and the Manhattan Project – Young Scientists Journal
Figuring out whether a problem is strong-link or weak-link is important because the way you solve them is totally different
Science is a strong-link problem - by Adam Mastroianni
Reaching 95%-ile isn't very impressive because it's not that hard to do. I think this is one of my most ridiculable ideas. It doesn't help that, when stated nakedly, that sounds elitist. But I think it's just the opposite: most people can become (relatively) good at most things.
95%-ile isn't that good
The message I intended to convey was, nobody thinks of Madame Curie as a woman, as feminine, with beautiful hair, bare breasts, and all that. They only think of the radium part.
Feynman, Harassment, and the Culture of Science
“Who hasn’t ever wondered: am I a monster or is this what it means to be a person?”
The Paris Review - This Book Is a Question - The Paris Review
He passed away in Ghana while I was in Canada, and I wasn't able to be there with him in his final days. It was one of my biggest regrets, and it still weighs heavy on my heart.
Losing My Father
“If we were monolingual in our mother tongues, we would not make a living. Becoming monolingual in English would have been a setback,” he wrote in his memoirs. “We would have lost our cultural identity, that quiet confidence about ourselves and our place in the world.”
Lee Kuan Yew's Legacy For Singapore: A Language Policy For A Globalized World
“We knew that if we were just like our neighbors, we would die,” Mr Lee told the New York Times in 2007.
Lee Kuan Yew's Legacy For Singapore: A Language Policy For A Globalized World
He has had a tougher life than Hu Jintao. His father was rusticated, and so was he. He took it in stride, and worked his way up. It has not been smooth sailing for him. His life experiences must have hardened him. He is reserved—not in the sense that he will not talk to you, but in the sense that he will not betray his likes and dislikes. There is always a pleasant smile on his face, whether or not you have said something that annoyed him. He has iron in his soul, more than Hu Jintao, who ascended the ranks without experiencing the trials and tribulations that Xi endured. I would put him in Ne…
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs
“Lee’s powerful intellect is captured in a new book, Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master’s Insights on China, the United States, and the World. It’s a collection of interviews with him by Harvard University professor Graham Allison, Council on Foreign Relations senior fellow Robert Blackwill and Harvard’s Belfer Center researcher Ali Wyne, while also drawing on other selected and cited writings by and about Lee.
Lee Kuan Yew: The Grand Master's Insights on China, the United States, and the World | Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs