CS is such a good lens for thinking about the universe. I think we're really onto something with the idea of binary computation. It's too simple of a trick for the universe not to use it too, or at least that's my current suspicion - that everything is really binary when you get down to it.
Zero seems to be the natural state of much of nature, so it's only natural that CS would pick zero for that natural state.
I always thought it a was really primitive system that only worked because computers were so fast. But after reading your writing for a year, you may be onto something. Working so long with programmers you get a lot of bit references thrown around in common language. Flipping bits, pay attention to the high order bit …
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.
So what are your thoughts on year round school schedules like my girls had in TN? 9 weeks in school then 3 weeks off. Then half days every Wednesday? Works out to be the same exact time in school.
It's probably better overall. I think there's huge benefit in knowledge sprints, just to be clear: I love focusing on something intensely before dropping it like a hot piece of dookie first thing in the morning. But the year-round idea helps to encourage something way more important than just "do summer breaks interrupt learning too much" type questions imply. I think the year-round thing encourages lifetime learning.
I don't know about you, but I've learned WAY more in the last 30 years of life than the first 20 or so. That's everything for kids and for the future of the planet that they'll ultimately steward for us all.
We school year round. I have a ... heavily gifted deal happening so ... yeah....
There is a longer break over the winter because it is too hot to be outside for most of the summer here. Even on our winter "break", we do educational activities. The kids don't call it school. Nor do I. BECAUSE IT IS A RACOUS GOOD TIME! We only change the grade label, once a year, every September. Just for the sake of record keeping to the state.
When I started reading this article, it was 15:24. And now, I'm not even sure what year I'm in.
You broke my brain, man, is what I'm saying.
I need like a coffee caveat (for people in the US reading my stuff early) and a nightcap warning for our Eurasian friends.
It's too late now, if the words “late” and “now” even have meaning anymore.
https://youtu.be/HZMMvLw8V_I
H.G. Wells said you can travel through time in a machine.
America thinks time is money.
The Chambers Brothers said it has come today.
The Outsiders said it wouldn't let them.
James Brown said there was one.
Solomon Burke said it was a thief.
I say it's all this and more.
I need to get more consistent with my "time" tag:
https://goatfury.substack.com/t/time
One thing that has always annoyed me is the timeline of Jesus' crucifixion and resurrection.
According the Bible, He died on a Friday afternoon and was raised from the dead sometime Saturday night (before sunrise on Sunday morning).
That's one and one-half days. Yet the Scriptures consistently say that He was dead for three days.
Uh... no. It was only a day and a half.
How about the age of the Earth? That sparked the whole day-age interpretation I remember from when I was a kid.
In computer science you start counting with zero :o
Depends on what you're counting, right?
Yes but the natural state is 0; some languages use 1 based indexing because, well … humans
CS is such a good lens for thinking about the universe. I think we're really onto something with the idea of binary computation. It's too simple of a trick for the universe not to use it too, or at least that's my current suspicion - that everything is really binary when you get down to it.
Zero seems to be the natural state of much of nature, so it's only natural that CS would pick zero for that natural state.
I always thought it a was really primitive system that only worked because computers were so fast. But after reading your writing for a year, you may be onto something. Working so long with programmers you get a lot of bit references thrown around in common language. Flipping bits, pay attention to the high order bit …
There are 10 types of people in the world: those who understand binary and those who don’t.
I predict that the response to your joke about binary will be... binary.
Hex is fun too; the first network I managed was named DEADBEEF
So what are your thoughts on year round school schedules like my girls had in TN? 9 weeks in school then 3 weeks off. Then half days every Wednesday? Works out to be the same exact time in school.
It's probably better overall. I think there's huge benefit in knowledge sprints, just to be clear: I love focusing on something intensely before dropping it like a hot piece of dookie first thing in the morning. But the year-round idea helps to encourage something way more important than just "do summer breaks interrupt learning too much" type questions imply. I think the year-round thing encourages lifetime learning.
I don't know about you, but I've learned WAY more in the last 30 years of life than the first 20 or so. That's everything for kids and for the future of the planet that they'll ultimately steward for us all.
We school year round. I have a ... heavily gifted deal happening so ... yeah....
There is a longer break over the winter because it is too hot to be outside for most of the summer here. Even on our winter "break", we do educational activities. The kids don't call it school. Nor do I. BECAUSE IT IS A RACOUS GOOD TIME! We only change the grade label, once a year, every September. Just for the sake of record keeping to the state.