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Ivan Sutherland elaborates on the idea of a “prison” defined by sequential computers that work with sequential character strings making communication expensive and obstructing concurrency. Ross Cooney presents a case study of how Smith Electric Vehicles uses StormMQ in production. StormMQ is a cloud-based provider of secure AMQP services. Dennis Stevens discusses the theory of Agile, providing references for using Agile in the enterprise along with a competency model, and overviewing an enterprise Agile transformation. Ryan Slobojan discusses how to perform issue tracking, code review, commits and builds in an automated manner by integrating Git, Gerrit, Hudson and Mylyn. Dave McCrory explains how Cloud Foundry works, demoing setting up and running an application on it and Micro Cloud Foundry, and using the services available in VMware’s cloud.
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Thinking and deciding are central to our daily lives. The Less Wrong community aims to gain expertise in how human brains think and decide, so that we can do so more successfully. We use insights from cognitive science , social psychology , probability theory , and decision theory to improve our understanding of how the world works and what we can do to achieve our goals . Want to know if your doctor's diagnosis is correct?The Best Textbooks on Every Subject - Less Wrong
For years, my self-education was stupid and wasteful. I learned by consuming blog posts, Wikipedia articles, classic texts, podcast episodes, popular books, video lectures , peer-reviewed papers, Teaching Company courses, and Cliff's Notes. How inefficient! I've since discovered that textbooks are usually the quickest and best way to learn new material. That's what they are designed to be, after all.
Do not flinch , most of LessWrong can be read and understood by people with a previous level of education less than secondary school. (And Khan Academy followed by BetterExplained plus the help of Google and Wikipedia ought to be enough to let anyone read anything directed at the scientifically literate.) Most of these references aren't prerequisite, and only a small fraction are pertinent to any particular post on LessWrong.
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What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? - books introduction | Ask MetaFilter
What single book is the best introduction to your field (or specialization within your field) for laypeople? I'm particularly interested in introductions for non-experts to subjects like biology, physics and astronomy, but I thought that opening up the question as broadly as possible would make it most interesting to me and other readers, especially as a future reference-point. I am thinking of books like " Mathematics for the Million ", which made math accessible to a great deal of people.
Yudkowsky, E. 2006. Artificial Intelligence as a Positive and Negative Factor in Global Risk . Global Catastrophic Risks , Oxford University Press, 2007.
Awesome collection of rationalist posts! I am curious to see how brainscape compares to anki by zacharyaletheia Jun 28