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M. Scott Veach

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Machine learning

Escoteria. Programming sdk/api. Devblogs. Creative coding. Css programming. Design. Programming tutorials. Tcds. Ringworld research. Larry Niven's Ringworld. Productivity. Art reference. CINEMA 4D. Low-poly art. Art tutorials. Artist sketch sites. Data science/mining. Color pallete tools. Toon boom tutorials. Pixel art tutorials. Indie gaming blogs. Game dev tools. Design a Game - the game design experience.

What's Old at the Complexity & Artificial Life Research Concept. Video game titles. Game dev tutorials. Survivorship Bias. The Misconception: You should focus on the successful if you wish to become successful.

Survivorship Bias

The Truth: When failure becomes invisible, the difference between failure and success may also become invisible. In New York City, in an apartment a few streets away from the center of Harlem, above trees reaching out over sidewalks and dogs pulling at leashes and conversations cut short to avoid parking tickets, a group of professional thinkers once gathered and completed equations that would both snuff and spare several hundred thousand human lives. People walking by the apartment at the time had no idea that four stories above them some of the most important work in applied mathematics was tilting the scales of a global conflict as secret agents of the United States armed forces, arithmetical soldiers, engaged in statistical combat. How to draw faces without reference. National Novel Writing Month.

Dear NaNoWriMo Author, By now you’re probably ready to give up.

National Novel Writing Month

You’re past that first fine furious rapture when every character and idea is new and entertaining. You’re not yet at the momentous downhill slide to the end, when words and images tumble out of your head sometimes faster than you can get them down on paper. You’re in the middle, a little past the half-way point. The glamour has faded, the magic has gone, your back hurts from all the typing, your family, friends and random email acquaintances have gone from being encouraging or at least accepting to now complaining that they never see you any more—and that even when they do you’re preoccupied and no fun.