Deep commentary. Appreciated. Accepted and Agreed.

There is a lot of -ve feedback on Lex. I dont want to dwell on it, instead, provide another end of the spectrum. Stephen wolfram. The wolf man. completely insane. So much arrogance, hubris and self promotion makes me stop watching instantly.

i relate to this. Stephen Wolfram is an abomenation trying to find absolution in the presence of kids, students and failed professors.

abomenation is a strong word. i'd use the phrase he is apt to use. "an unfortunate case".

The take away here is, he did get compensated. What proportions were cash salary, irrelevant.

You have to admit Back in 1980s this was not only awesome but a must have gadget. Hard to visualise how awesome this before internet era. Completely futuristic. +10000

Just like in 1999 the Casio PRT-1GPJ, the first GPS watch. Quite useless and totally awesome. I had a friend who almost could not sleep until he finally owned this watch. Then he put it into a drawer and never looked at it again.

Totally awesome, but only mostly useless. The week I got mine, I used it to find my car in a large parking lot.

Then I put it in a box and never looked at it again.

Nothing works. Seems someone hacked the system

> Due to yesterday’s fire in the Emerald Hills area, the main Stanford campus lost the power supplied by PG&E’s main transmission line to the campus. PG&E is providing a limited supply of power through a secondary line, but it falls far short of the normal needs of the campus. This limited supply is being used to maintain cooling for the hospital and other critical infrastructure on campus

Physical pentesting, performed by one M. Nature.

PG&E should have paid the forests in bitcoin to not ignite.

There is no Thiel Capital mentioning no longer. Just Dad. What happened?

Fails to cite other important papers and results.

I only casually follow this stuff, do you have some links or other related info? I would be interested in reading more about this but don't really have any existing knowledge of the field

No, what I'm saying is the music has slowed down; if the music had would have stopped already, we'd be already living in the streets of San Francisco without a roof above our heads. FTX and Alameda are dumping crap into the market; the biggest excrements are about to appear

>> "there are three ways to make a living in this business... Be first, be smarter, or cheat. Well I don’t cheat, and even though I like to think we have got some pretty smart people in this building of the two remaining options, it sure is a hell of alot easier to just be first."

SBF & Co. are about to be first.

Very hard? You miswrote. You meant impossible.

Doubt u get what beetle said. It is far more work to rewrite an essay with a different thesis.

Obviously. But we're talking about modifying the existing text, not rewriting it. How often do you have a chance to redo a whole project with completely different implementation and/or completely changed requirements? In my experience, most of the programming work is about adding new chapters to the existing text, and editing the existing text in some areas to make it easier to reason about. In other words, it's either extending the existing functionality, or refactoring it. It's not about rewriting the whole thing.

I would be happy to know, how experienced are you with actually writing creative works, working with a text, working on editing it, and so on? Again, I'm not 100% sure if literate programming would be exactly the same, but if it is similar to creative writing, then - I stand by this point - personal style of writing is not a problem. For two reasons:

- it's trivial to adjust your writing to an existing style when doing light editing and small extensions

- it doesn't matter if different stories in an anthology are written in different styles (actually, you buy anthologies because of different styles), so big extensions and rewrites in a different style are also ok