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20 visuals from @jackbutcher that will change how you think about crypto + web3
1) NFTs explained
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A surprising and undervalued aspect of mastery comes from narrow-scope "microskills". In software, these would be things like
- Python list comprehensions
- Grep flags
- Debugging specific error messages
- Using a window manager
We can, and should, do targeted training.
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As a mathematician and SFF fan, I'm excited to see superset, union, intersection, and subset.
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Word of the day is ‘spuddle’ (17th century): to work ineffectively; to be extremely busy whilst achieving absolutely nothing.
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There is a war going on.
On one side are trees. And on the other... semilattices.
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It is time for a thread on traditional urbanism, or town planning 13th century style. I will dispel some myths of modern dis-urbanism.
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The latest edition is about the shape of books.
Highlights below.
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This comment from Tukey (1986, doi.org/10.2307/2683137) should be read out in the first 10 minutes of every statistics class, and at 20-minute intervals thereafter.
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The Cistercian monks invented a numbering system in the 13th century which meant that any number from 1 to 9999 could be written using a single symbol
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The Internet and mobile phones have taken over our lives. But it comes with increasing security concerns. Website data breaches, phishing attacks, and other online scams are commonplace. Here's a thread for regular people on how to increase your security online.
#StaySafeOnline
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1/ "A City is not a Tree"
This is an interesting idea in urban design.
- It was written in 1964 by mathematician/architect Christopher Alexander (CA).
- He realized natural, organic cities are more beautiful and more efficient; they are structured as complex systems.
ALT A diagram showing two illustrations: The first is a semi-lattice structure. Here, elements within a system interact with each other with no defined hierarchy. The second is a tree structure. It doesn’t mean a plant, it means a way of structuring things in a branching way. Diagrams are taken from the original essay: "A City is Not a Tree"
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No two (or more people) who are in different stages of understanding of a situation, can have a constructive conversation. Flattening everyone to a single plane is 99.999% of the problem with social media tools that exist today and the noise it causes.
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Tobi Lutke (@tobi) is the CEO of Shopify
He's one of my favorite CLEAR thinkers
I spent some time in lockdown going through his interviews
Here are 6 mental models I got from it
THREAD...
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This week's paper is the shortest paper ever published in Physical Review: 27 words.
In 1951, F. Lenz noted that the value of the ratio of Proton and Electron Masses could be expressed to all significant figures of the time by 6π⁵.
Paper: fermatslibrary.com/s/the-rat…
