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Sun Mar 01 06:30:59 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> she is doing category theory and physics research.
Sun Mar 01 06:30:43 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> this girl was given 100k by Pete Thiel to think.
Sun Mar 01 06:30:30 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> ^ here is a blog I've not gotten around to reading yet
Sun Mar 01 06:30:24 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> http://rin.io/
Sun Mar 01 06:28:50 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> is that science?
Sun Mar 01 06:28:42 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> (conceptually basic, atoms and the like, or basic in the sense of a starting point that is eventually abandoned, e.g., alchemy)
Sun Mar 01 06:27:51 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> (is this 'basic science'? What is basic science?)
Sun Mar 01 06:27:22 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> the effective use of computing machines iirc
Sun Mar 01 06:26:48 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> ^ I don't see that this is true.
Sun Mar 01 06:26:35 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> "it's admittedly the case that 'basic science' seems to be advanced mostly through 'dumb luck'"
Sun Mar 01 06:26:26 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> and sometimes it happens through e.g., MIT, Stanford, library of Alexandria, Manhattan Project
Sun Mar 01 06:15:11 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> we know sorta-kinda how it is going to function, but I expect to be pleasantly surprised
Sun Mar 01 06:14:45 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> can you predict exactly what a WoT enabled world will look like?
Sun Mar 01 06:14:26 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> but that doesn't make it random
Sun Mar 01 06:14:20 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> of course not
Sun Mar 01 06:13:16 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> nor because of "cranks"
Sun Mar 01 06:13:09 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> my point is that science does not advance "at random"
Sun Mar 01 06:12:55 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> decimation: afaik, no one predicted leonardo, but there were three generations of masters preceding him. He learned from their works
Sun Mar 01 06:11:48 UTC 2015 <decimation> gabriel_laddel: who was the 'herri seldon' who foresaw the development of leonardo?
Sun Mar 01 06:11:42 UTC 2015 <gabriel_laddel> and countless derps before that