ELON: FIRST-PRINCIPLES THINKING REQUIRES MORE BRAIN STRAIN BUT GETS YOU FURTHER
“I studied physics, and I certainly strongly recommend physics as a good grounding to understand the nature of reality.
Physics is fundamentally just understanding how does the universe actually work.
That's a good foundation for a variety of engineering disciplines.
The analytical principles, the analytical constructs used in physics apply to basically anything.
Physics developed all these ways of thinking, like first principles thinking, thinking about things in the limit, high and low, testing your hypothesis.
The scientific principle, essentially.
These things are incredibly helpful in all arenas.
Its just that most people tend to think by analogy or by comparison with something that already exists.
And this is a mental shortcut that requires less brain strain, but it's hard to get fundamental insights unless you think about things from a first-principles standpoint.”
Source: Axel Springer Pioneers Talk, December 2020
Let me get this straight: you *want* governments and corporations to more tightly control the flow of information? Because someone said something problematic?
All over the world, people are making the same mistake.
Do you know how to protect yourself from phishing that caused many people to lose their precious NFTs?
Bad actors invent more and more sophisticated ways to take your JPEGs but they usually rely on the same exploit vector.
This thread is a simple guide how to not get phished.
YYYY-MM-DD is the only correct date format.
* It's an ISO standard: https://t.co/n3wKGrNuMH
* It's unambiguous (is 03/05/22 March 5 or May 3? No such problem here!)
* General-purpose sorting sorts dates correctly
* East Asian countries like Japan 🇯🇵🇯🇵🇯🇵 use it ("2022年5月3日")
Past, Present, and Future Forms of Generative Art by @hex6c is a great article for anyone new to the world of gen art
It highlights the journey of generative art and explores the tradeoffs through its evolution. They even propose an interesting mint mechanic at the end 👀