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Not Wrong

LearningToWalk — Tue, 23 Dec 2025 11:08:09 +0000

Article URL: https://slow-thoughts.com/not-exactly-wrong/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46364341

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LearningToWalk — Fri, 07 Mar 2025 10:37:41 +0000

I enjoyed Sabine Hossenfelder’s book Existential Physics: A Scientist’s Guide to Life’s Biggest Questions. It’s quite clear however that the author is out to pick fights, and I wouldn’t be surprised if she deliberately exaggerates her positions for effect.

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LearningToWalk — Thu, 24 Oct 2024 13:39:34 +0000

great post, on a somewhat related note: https://slow-thoughts.com/aspects-of-fashion/

Startup vs. Upstart

LearningToWalk — Fri, 18 Oct 2024 12:31:28 +0000

Article URL: https://slow-thoughts.com/the-record/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41878800

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LearningToWalk — Thu, 26 Sep 2024 11:07:46 +0000

While Seinfeld is only figuratively about nothing, Gefter’s subject is quite literal. Her book revolves around the attempt to grasp the bizarre state that existed prior to the Big Bang—though even the word ‘prior’ is misleading, as time itself hadn’t yet come into existence.

Half Baked: Why Podcasts Need to End

LearningToWalk — Tue, 10 Sep 2024 06:38:42 +0000

Article URL: https://slow-thoughts.com/the-record/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41497831

Points: 2

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LearningToWalk — Sun, 08 Sep 2024 12:30:02 +0000

You can work your way into an existing team and be adopted as a full-status co-founder—if you’re prepared to pay with sweat, and lots of it. Or you can buy your way into a startup by putting hard cash on the table. Either option is a viable way to contribute value.

Trying to sell your “network and experience” without putting your money where your mouth is, though, won’t do. You can’t have your cake and eat it too.

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LearningToWalk — Wed, 04 Sep 2024 05:07:33 +0000

He is Poland’s most popular science fiction author. His work has been adapted for both film and a Netflix original series. He is the recipient of the European Union Prize for Literature and an inductee of the European Science Fiction Society’s Hall of Fame.

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LearningToWalk — Mon, 19 Aug 2024 06:31:04 +0000

It’s true that Elon Musk was generally held in high regard for being one of the greatest entrepreneurs of our times, but that was before he went weirdly political. Because if there’s one thing that can probably be said about ‘us’, it’s that ‘we’ don’t like to be boxed in politically.

Keeping a commonplace book as a way of reflecting on your practice

LearningToWalk — Fri, 16 Aug 2024 12:17:24 +0000

Article URL: https://slow-thoughts.com/commonplacing/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41265653

Points: 2

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Love, Math and Witchcraft

LearningToWalk — Fri, 05 Jul 2024 16:05:11 +0000

Article URL: https://slow-thoughts.com/love-math-witchcraft/

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40883905

Points: 2

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LearningToWalk — Mon, 20 May 2024 06:50:09 +0000

I’m thinking of the generation of sad Swedish novelists and how they seem to have gotten things backward. Perhaps, at the end of the day, they’re not very representative of how “Swedes feel”, just like there might be a pinch of self-delusion in how Norwegians think of their nation as the epitome of happiness.

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LearningToWalk — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 04:30:45 +0000

Just five days ago, two papers were published in the same issue of Nature. Both point to a coming paradigm shift where photons – and phonons – eventually take over the role of electrons in both data storage and computing.

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LearningToWalk — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 03:52:27 +0000

this is a big deal

Phononic switching of magnetization by the ultrafast Barnett effect

LearningToWalk — Mon, 15 Apr 2024 03:52:26 +0000

Article URL: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-024-07200-x

Comments URL: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=40036921

Points: 2

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LearningToWalk — Wed, 10 Apr 2024 07:21:06 +0000

if we’re honest, there’s been times where we’ve too wanted to take on someone else’s skills, wit or winning personality by means of osmosis.

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LearningToWalk — Wed, 03 Apr 2024 06:54:25 +0000

What we’re left with in a post-canonical world, is lists. Lists reflect their creator’s point of view in ways that make for great conversation starters.

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LearningToWalk — Thu, 28 Mar 2024 05:03:55 +0000

It would be smart if we could incentivise up-and-coming players to compete on ideas and execution, rather than on who’s got the bigger machine.

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LearningToWalk — Tue, 26 Mar 2024 12:32:23 +0000

There’s a lot to like about Hello Tomorrow. What attracts me the most has to do with its tonality.

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LearningToWalk — Tue, 19 Mar 2024 08:31:31 +0000

We can capture the big picture with broad brush strokes, but only by sacrificing the details, or we can abandon clarity and gain knowledge of exactly where things stand right ‘now’, but perhaps we can’t have both.