Academic urban legends

An essay on the prevalance of rumors and urban legends in academic writing. Categories [[Academic Articles]] Author Ole Bjørn Rekdal Sour...

Andy Matuschak

Avoid defaulting to the ignorance prior

In a situation where I'm assessing an uncertain thing, I'm often tempted to default to the uniform ignorance prior - assigning an equal probability to all potential outcomes. This is almost...

DARPA

Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency. As of 2019 it had 220 employees and a budget of $3.427 billion. [[The 2019 executive budget allocated 118.1 billion for Federal R&D ::rmn]]

Decision Support Systems

Automated or semi-automated systems for assisting users in making or executing decisions. Overlaps with [[Tools for Thought]]

DeepGreen

Humans are leaky virtual machines

I posit the way we understand other people is by simulating versions of them on our hardware. It's like how a computer can run many copies of other software as virtual machines If I'm in a...

Lifting off the digital plateau with military decision support systems

Categories #Paper Source https://archive.vn/wip/efNwb An overview of the history, design, and eventual failure of DARPA's futuristic command and control sy...

Mindsets are the context for thoughts

I have been journaling consistently for two years now. One of the benefits of this log of thoughts is seeing the trends and patterns in my thinking. In particular I've begun to notice that cert...

Never make an unending commitment with no potential outs

I try to be a genre-savvy type of guy, and I avoid making errors that would cause me to sigh at shitty writing if I saw a protagonist doing it in a book. So things like summoning something which I ...

Pattern languages

Categories #Concepts Sources Joshua Kerievsky, Maggie Apppleton Related to [[Digital Garden]] [[strategies]] Pattern Languages convey exp...

Pixel art

Satisfaction and progress in open Ended work

Categories #Article Author [[Andy Matuschak]] Source Satisfaction and Progress in Open-Ended Work Notes Execution mode and open-ended wor...

The best general advice on earth

Categories #Article Source   Notes Excerpts from an 1890's book on psychology. Emphasizes the importance of making your nervous system - your automat...

The bitter lesson

Author:: Rich Sutton Source:: https://archive.vn/sD0RM The biggest lesson from [[AI]] research is that general methods that leverage computation are the most effective by a large margin. This i...

The fda's perpetual process machine

Categories #Article Author Paul Romer Source The FDA's Perpetual Process Machine Related to [[FDA]] [[Bad Institutions]] ...

The kek wars

Author John Michael Greer Sources (1)(2)(3)(4) Very interesting! Probably bullshit, but thought provoking with some important kernels of truth. I wonder what t...

Timeful texts

An inspiring vision of redesigning books for deeper engagement. Categories #Article Author [[Andy Matuschak]] Source Timeful Texts ...

Tools for Thought

Use the first person instead of the second person

Use the first person instead of the second Recently, while Circling, a friend expressed a conviction that it would be better for me to own my thoughts and feelings by using language that expresses...

User interface: a personal view

Author [[Alan Kay]] Source http://worrydream.com/refs/Kay%20-%20User%20Interface,%20a%20Personal%20View.pdf I read McLuhan's Understanding Media and und...

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