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Mar 9, 2022

Fixing Ford and Washington

Do all of these, in the right order/way/buy-in: — Install car-friendly roundabouts targeting ~20 mph throughput throughout the city. Please see about roundabouts Block off Washington over the bridge and through downtown, completely. (people can drive along those fancy highways we have, rt 6 and 58) That’s it! Golden before: Golden after: The green line would be made easy…

Golden

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Golden

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Aug 22, 2021

Parking in Golden

Parking in Golden is broken. This deeply broken parking situation causes vehicle and pedestrian traffic in Golden to break, in the same way that if a machine on a manufacturing line breaks, adjacent components need to stop, or it will also malfunction. The topic of parking (at least in the…

Parking

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Parking

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Feb 18, 2021

Driven by Compression Progress

Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and academic literature, as applied to somewhat practical-ish domains. These pages serve as a brief overview of a paper, and I’ll be able to link to this paper down the road when I what to…

Shannon

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Shannon

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Feb 18, 2021

Driven by Compression Progress

Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and academic literature, as applied to somewhat practical-ish domains. These pages serve as a brief overview of a paper, and I’ll be able to link to this paper down the road when I what to…

Shannon

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Shannon

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Feb 18, 2021

Driven by Compression Progress: A Simple Principle Explains Essential Aspects of Subjective Beauty, Novelty, Surprise, Interestingness, Attention, Curiosity, Creativity, Art, Science, Music, Jokes

Paper on arxiv.org, PDF available for free therein Here’s the paper abstract, lightly reformatted for readability: I argue that data becomes temporarily interesting by itself to some self-improving, but computationally limited, subjective observer once he learns to predict or compress the data in a better way, thus making it subjectively…

Shannon

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Driven by Compression Progress
Driven by Compression Progress
Shannon

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Feb 18, 2021

Driven by Compression Progress

Note from author: This is part of an experimental series, more-or-less based on “white papers” and academic literature, as applied to somewhat practical-ish domains. These pages serve as a brief overview of a paper, and I’ll be able to link to this paper down the road when I what to…

Shannon

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Shannon

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Aug 21, 2020

Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or ‘Deep Work’

Dan Moore is always welcoming to guest authors, and kindly accepted something I wrote: Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (Letters to a New Developer). It ended up on Hacker News with 100 comments. I wrote this back in December 2019, forgot to post here until now. …

Programming

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Programming

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Aug 20, 2020

Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or ‘Deep Work’ (Crosspost from `letterstoanewdeveloper.com`)

Dan Moore is always welcoming to guest authors; he accepted something I wrote: Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (Letters to a New Developer). It ended up on Hacker News with 100 comments. I wrote this back in December 2019, forgot to post here until now. Dan…

Programming

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Programming

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Aug 20, 2020

Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or ‘Deep Work’ (Crosspost from `letterstoanewdeveloper.com`)

Dan Moore is always welcoming to guest authors; he accepted something I wrote: Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (Letters to a New Developer). It ended up on Hacker News with 100 comments. I wrote this back in December 2019, forgot to post here until now. Dan…

Programming

4 min read

Programming

4 min read


Aug 20, 2020

Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or ‘Deep Work’ (Crosspost from `letterstoanewdeveloper.com`)

Dan Moore is always welcoming to guest authors; he accepted something I wrote: Cultivate the Skill of Undivided Attention, or “Deep Work” (Letters to a New Developer). It ended up on Hacker News with 100 comments. I wrote this back in December 2019, forgot to post here until now. Dan…

Programming

4 min read

Programming

4 min read

Josh Thompson

Josh Thompson

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Software, rock climbing, books. I love to learn. https://josh.works

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