if you start a company, for ex., you'll inevitably have to delegate critical work functions to collaborators; would you rather operate entirely on trust, or offset your risks with the ability to validate their outputs?
some would call this soulless, but it's merely due diligence
this applies to every single skill should one desire to be maximally competent, even in a single bounded domain; there is but one Skill, of which all others are but projections
learning just enough of everything to identify good work makes your BS meter antifragile
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RT @normonics
Everyone should learn a bit of modeling and simulation so that they can become appropriately skeptical of it
https://twitter.com/normonics/status/1471110980054704132
practicality aside, SFCs are fun toys to play with, simple algorithms to drop in anywhere you need a way to define a total ordering on an otherwise-unordered space
they're also quite pretty & a great doodling technique; I've filled many a notebook like so
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RT @pee_zombie
while originally botanical in nature, these L-systems can be repurposed for general generative purposes, as the rules are quite flexible
this one here is a simple …
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1425876243002675200
this sort of VG-SFC is capable of representing the logic by which a living organism focuses its exploitation on resource-rich subsets of the niche, the FD pegged to the resource density
interesting applications of this tool could be for urban planning or procedural generation
there are many different kinds of SFCs, but typically speaking they have a constant FD throughout, which is often inadequate for modeling real-world systems, which are variably self-similar
to this end we need a type of SFC w/ variable FD, or granularity
a space-filling curve (SFC) is a mathematical object defining a specific way of visiting ~every point in a space; typically fractals w/ a tunable variable called the fractal dimension (FD, or roughness/granularity) which determines the resolution w/ which the space is traversed
this is esp. apparent when the exploited resource is in 2D space; the patterns of outward fractal expansion, density varying w/ resource desirability
the topology of the emergent network can be predicted from a combination of terrain, resource distribution, starting position
all activities of living organisms can be partitioned into exploring or exploiting niches, as explored in the QT
particularly interesting is the structure of the exploit phase, where life acts as a space-filling curve with variable fractal dimension
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RT @pee_zombie
so many problems we face boil down to timing explore/exploit decisions; too late, and you've optimized-for-optionality your way into scarcity. too early, and you've pick…
https://twitter.com/pee_zombie/status/1441837490927595523
declarative vs imperative love languages
ie communicating what you want vs how to do it
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RT @halkyardo
Interpreted vs. compiled love languages
https://twitter.com/halkyardo/status/1470844991471820800
invoking the name of Tiananmen as a costly signal of geopolitical alignment
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RT @alth0u
rokos basilisk but its your social media presence and the CCP in the year 2035
https://twitter.com/alth0u/status/1449976855147151361
Towards fungal computer
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RT @snikolov
Towards fungal computer https://twitter.com/__femb0t/status/1468195956797624322
https://twitter.com/snikolov/status/1468573833993105413
if you're one of them just know I don't pay enough attention to you to realize
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RT @ZalkhuuZaluu
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RT @qorprate
i was terrified, because i saw that he had said something true, and yet i knew i could not repeat it
https://twitter.com/qorprate/status/1468803911133839360
explicit symbolic reasoning voids your warranty
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RT @Virtual1nstinct
reality: here is a brain
me: ok what does it do
reality: it's a prediction engine, your soul is going to ride on top of it
me: oh sick thanks what should i do with it?
reality: anything you want!! but for the tutorial we've equipped you with some pretty standard goals, like love
https://twitter.com/Virtual1nstinct/status/1468556760093020160