I am for some reason drawn to the idea that consciousness is an illusion similar to a flock of starlings, a meta level of neuronal emergence combined with the biological imperative, just like everything else is a meta level of everything else.
A busy UI is the designer telling you “I don’t know how/when to surface the relevant information for your context so I’m going to throw everything at you”
Announcing Discovery Loop!
I am very excited to announce that, along with my longtime friends and collaborators @Sanjay_Ghemawat, @OriolVinyalsML and @quocleix, we are founding Discovery Loop (@DiscoLoopAI), a Public Benefit Corporation whose mission is to automate machine learning, science, and engineering to accelerate discoveries and progress. The four of us have worked together for 14 to 30 years, and have helped build some of the world’s most used products, infrastructure and AI models, and we’re excited to turn our attention to this ambitious endeavor.
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I’m a software engineer and product designer with deep experience in databases, sync engines, frontend systems, performance, and UI/UX.
Open to full-time or contract work, remotely or in Berlin.
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@zoink Us trying to explain our consciousness is like fish trying to explain water or trying to explain the 5th dimension. It’s readily apparent from outside observation, but we’re so immersed in the experience, it’s impossible to explain it.
Shower thought:
Proclivity toward dogma stems from our natural aversion toward reinventing conceptual wheels.
Call it lazy if you want, but I get why developers are so prone to it, since we all love a good abstraction that lets us focus on what matters.
Part of the problem is there are people in Washington, D.C. in positions of power to whom the border is just a nuisance, and I think some of them believe that illegal immigration is a moral good. It is not. It undermines legal immigration. - JFK