Cole Hudson treating the various starship prototpyes as objects of religious mysticism is both compelling and apt. also whomever edited these is just plain talented: youtube.com/watch?...

Cole Hudson The prevalence of depression among grad students is astounding. There's a quote in Emmanuel Derman's memoir wherein Norman Christ notes that physicists spend half the time enthralled and the other half depressed. Lots to take from this. Reminds me of sigfig's tweet that damn near every famous physicist/mathematician thought that they were compelled by god to do their work. Seems unnecessary. Free the grad students!

Cole Hudson The attempt to get physicists to use constructor theory has the same energy as the push towards geometric algebra in the gaming industry. There's an analog with functional programming here too, does not imply the same dynamics however

Cole Hudson with regards to cummings i'm a naturalist

Cole Hudson Fascinating project: pasayten.org, kind of like if Deep Springs College had a MIT OCW-like program.

Cole Hudson Lovely talk from Maxon on the actuators they developed for Curiosity and Perseverance: youtube.com/watch?...

Cole Hudson I'm somewhat surprised you can't yet collateralize a twitter account. More so that twitter isn't the one on the backend of that transaction. Which would let them set up a market for twitter accounts, so you could speculate on account value. Truly makes twitter seem undercapitalized in the same way, say, Nicaragua is. It would be cool if anyone could take out a loan on their Twitter account, might give lots of people more access to capital than currently can.

Cole Hudson Moody's Analysis of Biden's American Jobs Plan: economy.com/getloc...

Cole Hudson enjoyed this presentation by Palmer Luckey to the Air Force Mobility Command back in october: youtube.com/watch?.... the tech-defense dynamic is often discussed but he provided examples which i don't think ive heard before. good for watching at >2x

Cole Hudson Walter Isaacson taught a course at Tulane and all the lectures on YouTube! 'The Digital Revolution: From Ada to Zuckerberg': youtube.com/playli...

Cole Hudson Was curious about blind, somewhat useful but many of the people on that app are tremendously mean. What's lost by being helpful and kind?

Cole Hudson Something is in the water at UNSW. They seem to be producing an increasing number of talented engineers and all the side-effects that come with that

Cole Hudson Watching 'the dawn wall' while programming tonight, an excellent movie on process, for those that enjoy that sort of thing. edit: it's about climbing el capitan

Cole Hudson Today I learned that, much like pilots have a specific way of saying letters to more clearly distinguish each sound through static (e.g. Tango, Lima etc.), architects have developed their own lettering format to disambiguate between letters. Interesting how fields develop custom communication protocols to deal with noise in their given medium.

Cole Hudson The correlation between a project being a grift and it being run by the child of someone who made their money in the 90s tech boom seems to be nearly 1. I mean, I suppose there isn't much wrong with sinking money into something your kid wants to do, but these projects seem little more than attempts at justifying a life-style and laundering status

Cole Hudson the lesbian masterdoc continues to fascinate both as a cultural artifact on its own and by its outsized impact. strong sense itll be retained and passed along in some form, if not the original