Comparative anatomy is largely the story of the struggle to increase surface in proportion to volume.

The larger point is that we’ve constructed our $2.5 trillion health care system around the belief that we can find the underlying causes of illness, the invisible triggers of pain and disease. That’s why we herald the arrival of new biomarkers and get so excited by the latest imaging technologies. If only we knew more and could see further, the causes of our problems would reveal themselves. But what if they don’t?

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Great collection of basic vim navigation tips

Crew a live tank

Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a sophisticated compiler, distributed parallel execution, numerical accuracy, and an extensive mathematical function library.

The terminal is just a text editor, except lines are immediately executed.

Kumaré is an enlightened guru from the East who builds a following of disciples in the West. But Kumaré is not real. He is an American filmmaker named Vikram Gandhi, who has transformed himself into Kumaré as the centerpiece of a social experiment designed to explore and test one of the world's most sacred taboos. Concealing his true identity from all he meets, Kumaré forges profound, spiritual connections with real people from all walks of life. At the same time, in the absurdity of living as an entirely different person, Vikram the filmmaker is forced to confront difficult questions about his own identity.

David's goal was to make Scala a top tier language like Python. His post was about his frustration with the pace of this goal. "This Spring, I gave up that fantasy. I realized that Scala was never going to become as popular as Python."

What do you do if you are a software designer and you want to make use of the X attitude? Buy the biggest, fastest machine you can find. Load it to the gills with memory, give it a few gigabytes of highly cached disk space, and connect the fastest graphics coprocessor you can find. Sure it costs $50,000 now, but in three years it will be a small-footprint entry-level machine.

Now use this monster for a month. Write some good code, and watch it scream. Let your mind wander. What kind of software would you design for a machine like this? What are the possibilities that open up? Which nagging limitations fall by the wayside? Now you have the right attitude! Program toward the future, not for the past. The hardware vendors will love you.

Also explains why people procrastinate

Wigner's classic essay on the role of math in the natural sciences