Sometimes we spend considerable time tracking down a bug, and eventually find a fix, only to meet the same problem a couple of months later, by which time we have forgotten the solution, and have to repeat the process. Here are some suggestions for how to remember (or not forget)…

About superbugs and the looming antibiotic crisis. It also provides some ideas about how to incentivise important research when the profit motive can not. Full the Waking Up podcast #166 : https://samharris.org/podcasts/166-plague-years/ We relaxed for too long, and we are now behind the curve with antibiotics. By 2050, infections might…

Stream: https://www.facebook.com/greenisthenewblackcom/videos/3344262525793782/ Hosted by Paula Miquelis Intro These sessions will be coming out every Wednesday 12pm London time, 7pm SG/HK time. Continuing the discussion about environmentalism. But there will also be sessions about wellness, an alternating weeks. New “Take Action” page on the website: https://greenisthenewblack.com/take-action/ Each week celebrate two or three…

This was one of my favourite podcasts in the series, but I haven’t processed these notes at all, so they are very rough. Apologies! You may prefer to listen to the podcast itself, which can be found here: https://wakingup.libsyn.com/168-mind-space-motion or here: https://samharris.org/podcasts/168-mind-space-motion/ Embodied cognition Spatial reasoning Thesis: Spatial cognition is…

Podcast: https://samharris.org/podcasts/complexity-stupidity/ The middle of this podcast was pretty interesting, starting about 38 minutes in. See the second section below. But going chronologically… Definitions David introduces himself and the Santa Fe Institute where he does his research. He then gives us his working definitions of intelligence and stupidity. He defines intelligence…

In this interview, Sam Harris spoke with Robin Hanson about the ways in which humans hide their true motives from other people and even from themselves. Here are my notes. The basic idea Our conscious mind is not making as many decisions as we think. It’s actually our subconscious which makes the choices…

These are my notes from Sam Harris talking to Tristan Harris in this 1 hour 40 minute podcast episode: Waking Up #71 — What Is Technology Doing To Us? This is heavily paraphrased and re-arranged, with some unique input of my own. …

In 2016, DHH from Basecamp gave a talk entitled “Rewrite!”. You can find the video and the transcript here. But since they are both a bit long, I am going to share my notes with you as a shorter alternative. Executive summary: When the technical debt or legacy features start…

We have an API server running in Node.js, and we want to know the IP address and location of each user when they authenticate. That’s pretty easy to do in express or connect: const geoip = require('geoip-lite'); // ... const clientIpAddress = req.connection.remoteAddress; const geoLocation = clientIpAddress && geoip.lookup(clientIpAddress) …