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Terence Tao
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The text discusses the functional form of interest-bearing debt, comparing simple interest and compound interest. It argues that there are more functional forms than linear and exponential, and suggests that there are no material ...
The text discusses the feudal nature of large corporations, comparing it to the feudalism of the past. It highlights the lack of a monopoly on violence within these corporations, leading to personalistic and idiosyncratic relation...
The text describes a recipe for translucent potato starch oobleck, which has a texture similar to tteok. The author explains the recipe and the process of making it, including the ingredients and directions. The recipe is quick an...
The Martingale Project Timing is a method of project timing that involves rigidly setting a next time to look at the project again, always doubling the time if more time is needed, and making the fundamental decision of whether or...
The author describes a unique software estimation method where every task is estimated at infinite time. The method involves setting a minimum time for an issue and making a decision at the end of that time. The author discusses t...
The text discusses the addictive nature of social media and suggests regulating it by increasing latency in server responses to decrease usage. It argues that this is not censorship and can be objectively verified. The author reco...
The text discusses the concept of program abstraction and compares it to gambling, highlighting the benefits and detriments of abstraction. It emphasizes the importance of considering concrete losses and gains when creating abstra...
The text discusses the impact of latency on consumer web revenue and the author's efforts to artificially increase latency to reduce addiction to the internet. The author provides methods to increase latency on laptops, desktops, ...