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  1. Oct 2023
    1. Cambrian explosion
      • for: Cambrian explosion, 2D to 3D organisms

      • insight

        • During the Cambrian explosion, there was a major evolutionary transition from bottom dwellers that lived on the flat bottom of the ocean to organisms evolved to explore the entire 3D water column. Some of the evolutionary adaptations that made this possible were
          • eyes that supported vision and perception of distance
          • representation of space and time
  2. Dec 2021
    1. Commonplaces were no longer repositories of redundancy, but devices for storing knowledge expansion.

      With the invention of the index card and atomic, easily moveable information that can be permuted and re-ordered, the idea of commonplacing doesn't simply highlight and repeat the older wise sayings (sententiae), but allows them to become repositories of new and expanding information. We don't just excerpt anymore, but mix the older thoughts with newer thoughts. This evolution creates a Cambrian explosion of ideas that helps to fuel the information overload from the 16th century onward.

  3. Mar 2021
  4. Sep 2020
    1. In the old event-driven world, it wasn’t like that. As well as worrying about creating the views corresponding to those states, you had to consider the transitions between states — from a to b, a to c, a to d and so on — but also from b back to a, from b to c… until you end up with a combinatorial explosion of code paths. Now imagine we added a seventh state, or an eighth… and if your app only has 8 possible states then I envy you.

  5. Nov 2019
    1. it’s extremely common to find a bug that only happens if some certain combination of options are enabled
  6. Oct 2017
    1. In 1873, the Italian geologist and priest Antonio Stoppani suggested that our technologies, infrastructures, and patterns of land use had created fundamental changes in Earth’s systems, propelling us into what he called an ‘anthropozoic era’

      Note : Read over Article again by Will Steffen, Paull J Crutzen & John R McNeill. [] (https://www.pik-potsdam.de/news/public-events/archiv/alter-net/former-ss/2007/05-09.2007/steffen/literature/ambi-36-08-06_614_621.pdf)

      Explore development of Anthropocence. How do we track progression of Anthropocene? CO2 Emissions??