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Every community has a set of rules you need to abide by, it's really not that complicated.

You're probably right actually.

I heard from Alan that HARC is quite open and anybody can just drop by!

It's definitely an interesting thought. To some degree, it's maybe impossible to avoid the filtering down / reductionism of a big vision, even if you wait until things are polished. I t…

Yeah this is spot on. The point of this kind of research is to discover how to frame the problem (we don't really know what it is yet) and create new contexts for thinking about computing. Under …

You're right and my comment made it seem like everyone has some grudge or something. I think in general the PARC community was weary that the takeaways would be centered around how computers, GUI…

Bret's talks outline the general philosophy, motivation, and framework for the lab's work: - Seeing Spaces: https://vimeo.com/97903574 - Humane Representation of Thought: h…

They're rightfully waiting until they think things are ready to show. Danger of showing early is a recent memory in computing history (see Jobs / PARC visit)

Yeah wasn't able to find a recording either :(

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I don't think he ever intended to stay at OpenAI long to be honest. He was a founding scientist of the nonprofit, so think he went there to do his time before he found an interesting opportunity …

OpenAI is pretty independent and has grown quite considerably. Karpathy was a founding research scientist but it seems like the nonprofit will march on just fine

I've switched to Brave almost exclusively because of this (which has it's own downsides for sure)

Some great initial ideas here, but the focus still seems to be on notation for pencil and paper. This is the medium of the past and it's worth thinking about how mathematical ideas should be repr…

I'd look at research efforts that have been focusing on revising the heart & original spirit of computing. YC's HARC especially - harc.ycr.org Bret's talk about their group's v…

I strongly recommend reading the following book - https://www.amazon.com/Good-They-Cant-Ignore-You/dp/14555091... It's a fantastic book by a now tenured CS professor th…

It's going to be entirely different I feel. Instead of manipulating graphics on a flat screen, focus will probably be on manipulating physical objects on a table / in a room. Watch his 2 tal…

The way people have implemented visual programming has turned out to be a bit of an oxymoron. Visual and symbolic are entirely different channels of representation & understanding (for the most pa…

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This is a somewhat relevant read - https://medium.com/@jamesallworth/the-slow-decay-of-americas... Basically discussed shift from discussion in politics about democracy to econom…

Also try out Figma. Switched to it a few months ago and it's been mostly awesome (some meh stuff like shoddy offline support)

I'm guessing Greg means handling a problem / process end to end. Not saying "I'll just do the initial phone screens when recruiting candidates" but just doing the whole thing …

Many have gotten research engineer jobs (vs. research scientist). Check out the profiles of research engineers at places like Apple, Facebook, and OpenAI. Knowing deep learning is an advantage in thes…

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It's pretty well documented that people at SpaceX work 80+ hours a week consistently: https://www.quora.com/How-many-hours-a-week-does-a-typical-S... http://spacenews.…