Every time a bit gets deleted in a physical system, we have to expell it, or the system’s entropy increases. Top programmers also have to poop a lot. Food is a source of negentropy.
@plinz
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Top Coders Share Insights on Learning and Development
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“Over 9000: what top level coders teach us about food for thought”
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Twitter’s Programmer Meal Spending: 300 USD Per Meal
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Twitter used to spend 300 USD/meal for each programmer. In the days before deadlines, some programmers were known to eat a full meal every 1-2 hours
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Meritocracy Collapse: When Systems Incentivize Rule-Breaking
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You cannot expect that people play by the rules of a meritocracy if they will lose by the roles of that meritocracy, even if their defection make the whole system worse
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DEI policies accused of discrimination in science academia
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DEI has been used to discriminate scientists and students on the basis of race or sex
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Ideological Uniformity in Science: Benefits and Drawbacks
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Could you point me to high quality scientific research on the benefits and drawbacks of requiring that scientists hold the same ideological opinions
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Ethnic studies education and merit-based workforce competition analysis
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Ethnic studies plays the role of secular theology, and it promises access to status, power, business class flights and clergy jobs for people who are not going to be competitive at math. Resistance to the “no child left ahead” schooling has to acknowledge that at some level
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DEI ideology threatens academic integrity and scientific values
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I don’t think that the state has the power to eradicate DEI at universities, because criticism of our civilization is a constitutional right. But the takeover of academia and schools by identarian ideology represents the fall of the values that make science and democracy possible
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Free AI Infrastructure Revolution Democratizes Computing Access
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You don’t realize what tremendous amount of free or 20$/month infrastructure the computer revolution poured into our lives? Almost everything I have to read and watch for my work is free. I pay mostly for convenience. I can even run decent AI models at home.