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== Old To-Do ==
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[[User:Aardvark|Aardvark]] 15:55, 1 November 2020 (UTC)
<!-- == Notes 2020-04-22 ==
* Feynman https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rogers_Commission_Report
== Notes 2020-04-20 ==
* https://webusers.imj-prg.fr/~leila.schneps/grothendieckcircle/Letters/GS.pdf
* A desire, expressed by Eric, to share speeches, quotes, essays and other short-form writings.
* A potential sharing subsection regarding parenting and insights on child cognition.
Quotations:
...the man whose business is writing experiences a kind of flash --for this intellectual life, anything but passive, is really made of fragments; it is in a way composed of elements very brief, yet felt to be very rich in possibilities, which do not illuminate the whole mind, which indicate to the mind, rather, that there are forms completely new which it is sure to be able to possess after a certain amount of work. Sometimes I have observed this moment when a sensation arrives at the mind; it is as a gleam of light, not so much illuminating as dazzling. This arrival calls attention, points, rather than illuminates, and in the end, is itself an enigma which carries with it the assurance that it can be postponed. You say, 'I see, and then tomorrow I shall see more.' There is an activity, a special sensitization; soon you will go into the dark-room and the picture will be seen to emerge. --Paul Valery
I know that most men, including those at ease with problems of the greatest complexity, can seldom accept even the simplest and most obvious truth if it be such as would oblige them to admit the falsity of conclusions which they have delighted in explaining to colleagues, which they have proudly taught to others, and which they have woven, thread by thread, into the fabric of their lives.
- Tolstoy
A person first gets a new idea and he wonders very much whether this idea will be right or wrong. He is very anxious about it, and any feature in the new idea which differs from the old established ideas is a source of anxiety to him. Whereas someone else who hears about this work and takes it up doesn’t have the same anxiety, an anxiety to preserve the correctness of the basic idea at all costs, and without having this anxiety he is not so disturbed by the contradiction and is able to face up to it and see what it really means. I expect that was just Heisenberg’s problem. He was afraid that this lack of commutation might cause the whole theory to collapse; he was probably terribly worried about that. That rather stops him from really facing up to it.
-- Dirac
A mathematician who is not also a poet will never be a complete mathematician. - Karl Weierstrass -->
== Old Meeting Notes ==
The page [[Meeting Notes]] was yours, but it doesn't seem to fit the wiki's current use. I've copied its content here and deleted the page.
=== 2020-02-03 ===
'''quick quick notes... with lots of errors, etc, but here you go:'''
    he really liked the hyperlinked wall and seeing actual work getting done (great job boqu!)
    we don't have to accept received wisdom rewrite the tome
    digital contributions in reddit. Remember it's important to leave your goddamn name on it so we can shout you out
    jesse producer
    science is "stagnating" more than tech
    lack of heterodox thinking
    decline of polymath interdomain thinking contributes to science slowdown, which effects tech slowdown
    breakthrough science is caught in pockets that don't get funding
    almost at a breakthrough but can't get funding
    pwang99
    vc money isnt' dumb but not that smart
    VCs often follow others
    you can't pattern match for outrageous genius
    we don't know what real genius looks like anymore (not just hollwood cliches)
    maybe vcs aren't even optimizing for not losing money (possible ponzi issues)
    daedalus
    mathemeticians find it hard to communicate...
    eric
    math books devoid of intuition. merely formal
    a huge difference between what we think we're saying and what we want to say
    monopoly on violence = government (it's hard to recognize the object from the description)
    rigor vs intuition (something worth tackling)
    ethan hammond
    naseem taleb black swans
    discovering revolutionary ideas in sex research
    eric
    some people are uncomfortable being on "popular" programs (naseem mentioned on twitter that he agreed)
    episode 19 was watched heavily, numerous tweets about it
    long telemeres specific to lab rodents, jax lab
    DISC, how real is it? what is its scope?

Latest revision as of 17:19, 1 November 2020

Getting started

Hello

KevB-ing (talk)--
I offered some responses to:
https://theportal.wiki/wiki/Talk:Main_Page#Things_we_need_to_fix
--21:56, 4 March 2020 (UTC)

Stolen from IDW LA Discord

I like these. Putting these here for now, so I can figure out what I can do with them later.

If you believe someone is engaging in bad faith you have three responsibilities:

  • 1. Maintain a charitable attitude. (Ask questions in earnest about why they believe what they believe)
  • 2. Continue to engage in good faith. (Don’t stoop to their level)
  • 3. Attempt to steer the conversation in a productive direction. (eg. Steelman: ask for clarification and see if you can restate their argument in a way they would accept)
  • If you fail in those responsibilities, you should:
  • 4. Accept that you could not steer the conversation in a productive direction, leave the conversation for at least 1 hour.

Testing Images

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Old To-Do

The page To Do was yours, but it doesn't seem to fit the wiki's current use. I've copied its content to here and commented it out, and deleted the page.

Aardvark 15:55, 1 November 2020 (UTC)


Old Meeting Notes

The page Meeting Notes was yours, but it doesn't seem to fit the wiki's current use. I've copied its content here and deleted the page.

2020-02-03

quick quick notes... with lots of errors, etc, but here you go: 

   he really liked the hyperlinked wall and seeing actual work getting done (great job boqu!)
   we don't have to accept received wisdom rewrite the tome
   digital contributions in reddit. Remember it's important to leave your goddamn name on it so we can shout you out

   jesse producer
   science is "stagnating" more than tech
   lack of heterodox thinking
   decline of polymath interdomain thinking contributes to science slowdown, which effects tech slowdown
   breakthrough science is caught in pockets that don't get funding
   almost at a breakthrough but can't get funding

   pwang99
   vc money isnt' dumb but not that smart
   VCs often follow others
   you can't pattern match for outrageous genius
   we don't know what real genius looks like anymore (not just hollwood cliches)
   maybe vcs aren't even optimizing for not losing money (possible ponzi issues)

   daedalus
   mathemeticians find it hard to communicate...

   eric
   math books devoid of intuition. merely formal
   a huge difference between what we think we're saying and what we want to say
   monopoly on violence = government (it's hard to recognize the object from the description)
   rigor vs intuition (something worth tackling)

   ethan hammond
   naseem taleb black swans
   discovering revolutionary ideas in sex research

   eric
   some people are uncomfortable being on "popular" programs (naseem mentioned on twitter that he agreed)
   episode 19 was watched heavily, numerous tweets about it
   long telemeres specific to lab rodents, jax lab
   DISC, how real is it? what is its scope?
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