Ben Sima

  • David Mamet

    David Mamet: Why I Am No Longer a ‘Brain-Dead Liberal’

  • There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever

    There Never Was a Real Tulip Fever

  • Just own the damn robots.

    Just own the damn robots.

  • Lindy

    Heuristic: don’t take book recommendations from someone who’s favorite book was published in their lifetime. (Lindy effect)

  • Liberty & network effects

    It is easy to forget that at the end of the day accessibility improvements benefits everybody, not just those with disability. @boagworld This is generally true because of network effects. More liberties for social minorities result in more liberties for all.

  • Recursion

    A recursive definition: an example. @CutTheKnotMath

  • Museums are retirement homes for culture

    Museums are retirement homes for culture.

  • Space

    Only a failing space company says the sky’s the limit.

  • Ship it

    The best software developers I know are the least sure of the code they have touched. The worst judge others for not having their arrogance. @SusanPotter Still others know that shipping working code on time is better than an intellectual exercise in moral judgement.

  • Machine learning theory is lagging behind

    We’re in a very empirical era in machine learning…but theory is lagging behind. – Michael Jordan @davidandrzej Because computer scientists don’t study psychoanalysis or philosophy. A good place to start is Hubert Dreyfus. Next try Spinoza, Lacan, Foucault, Deleuze and Berkeley. What you’ll learn is that the intelligent world is explainable by interpretation, in the […]