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Ask HN: What projects are you going to work on if no need to work?

13 points hnthrowaway0328 | 4 comments | 19 Nov 24 00:30 UTC | HN request time: 0.001s | source

I think we can all dream. I'll start:

- I will read geological surveys and find fossils.

- I will teach myself Physics and see what happens.

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6510 ◴[19 Nov 24 03:55 UTC] No.42179978[source]▶
I dont get it. projects that don't involve work? projects without need?
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082349872349872 ◴[19 Nov 24 09:02 UTC] No.42181335[source]▶
projects which give an immediate return, and not the mediate return of the salary.

leisure/schole != lack of projects

(my project, like mikewarot's, is to greenfield Informatics as if we hadn't incurred the path-dependent legacy of [pragmatically driven by miniscule machines of the time] decisions made in the 1960s; unlike his I'm making a totally different likely-wrong set of other decisions :-)

EDIT: hnthrowaway0328, finding fossils (in the right strata) is nearly trivial. Challenge: find some Ediacaran fauna!

Challenge 2: if you haven't already, work through the Feynman Lectures: https://www.feynmanlectures.caltech.edu

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gradschoolfail ◴[19 Nov 24 09:22 UTC] No.42181463[source]▶
Hopefully one of you will supersede von Neumann, in one mega Step
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1. 082349872349872 ◴[19 Nov 24 09:39 UTC] No.42181587{3}[source]▶
With a little luck I'll get ~3 decades more than JvN did, so I have a slim hope that schlep with chutzpah* can make up for lack of brilliance over time!

(that'd be ~8 startups/doctorate programs, so the goods are odd even if the odds are not good)

* to get SAK's long jumps in fitness space

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2. gradschoolfail ◴[21 Nov 24 02:38 UTC] No.42200529[source]▶
Citation for SAK? (Im getting hints that the keyphrase is “Big Step (vs Small Step) semantics)

Case study here of phoneboothknifefight elevated to a streetside assassination attempt? Positively Getting holyroman here…

You may be familiar with the following characters :)

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=42135916

CH should be optimally hilly for the Odding in the next 3 decades :)

(More frank/brian herbert refs TK)

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3. 082349872349872 ◴[21 Nov 24 06:29 UTC] No.42201696[source]▶
Should be somewhere in The Origins of Order (as if that narrows anything down!) — keep in mind that I may not even have the original vocab correct, just the basic idea that recombination keeps a population from getting stuck in local minima. (Combined in my head with bacterial taxis: tumble while you're in a food-rich environment, pick a direction if not, and keep straight while gradient is increasing)
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4. 082349872349872 ◴[21 Nov 24 10:26 UTC] No.42202833{3}[source]▶
BTW I'm innocent of Dune except for hearsay*; given the XXI vibe being what it is, maybe I should remedy that.

As with W40K, I guess I have a "gentleman's knowledge" of the Herbertiverse?

And on the optimal hills: at least we haven't been notified to clear out wine and skis and stock up yet — I was impressed by how efficiently my wife laid up 2 weeks' rations in the "cave" when the italian tourists first brought us Covid, and she asked, what, don't americans learn how to stock their shelter in elementary school too?