A speaker at Stanford on the topic of early keyboards used for Chinese noted graph structure such as the one you find in Canjie input method was what they used before soundspelling. Today, hypergraphtext autocompletion influences message contruction on flatscreen devices in a kind of mind-machine blend mode on a massive scale.
The American Mandarin Society has courses for Professionals. I guess they make quality judgement on what to keep or throwout in use of the Chinese language in their curated walled garden for snooty State official use.
Knowledge danks fast in the techspace. Do a MOOC series guided by long standing institutes, such as, MIT. Volunteer on a codebase, such as, webrtc, GCC, Wine or SQLite. Earn your stars and make connections. Bootcamps sound like they will queue you up to be the nextgen Mailchimp coder canon fodder. Promises made. Promises broken.
Two thirds underground building structures and aerodynmaic upper third exposed to the sky, those buildings connected by Boring tunnel hyperloops would be tornado proof and save lives at Amazon fullfillment centers.
I don't know enough orbital mechanics to understand the feasibility, but it's fun to consider that putting a shade over some of the hotter cities of the world - Phoenix for example, could have a big effect by reducing the need for air conditioning.
A very cheap and easily implemented idea to help with climate change. That could be done in huge swaths of the world where a lot of people currently live. It probably needs some government help to stir people into action or make them aware of it. A tax break maybe for painting your roof white in a hot country/state?
In northern latitudes it would be nice to be able to change the albedo of the roof to reflect energy in the summer and absorb it in the winter (although the effect in winter will be muted in places where snow accumulates on the roof.) I wonder if there exists anything like that.
There is the "Yellow Ribbon" movement campaigning to give second chances for former prisoners to reintegrate in society. They can add to the demographic diversity under represented in the traditional professions. Tricky former criminals ought to perform well in contests of sharp thinking.
> I would put most corporate programming into the bin of 'craft', much more than 'art'.
A former corporate programmer who was a highly paid corporate programmer at the time when he told me this is that all they do is very fast simple arithmetic. Add and subtract.
Great hackers on the PG spectrum may get struck by inspiration and may outperform the average corporate programmer by 10x or 100x or more and work crazy hours while the creative electricity buzzes.
> A former corporate programmer who was a highly paid corporate programmer at the time when he told me this is that all they do is very fast simple arithmetic. Add and subtract.
It totally depends. Most corporate programming is CRUD (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Create,_read,_update_and_delet...), so not much arithmetic involved. But a lot of 'book keeping', and organising your information. Not rocket science, but more listening to your stakeholders.
> Great hackers on the PG spectrum may get struck by inspiration and may outperform the average corporate programmer by 10x or 100x or more and work crazy hours while the creative electricity buzzes.
See also Carmack etc. But I was talking about the typical programming tasks.
History is fiction in the not-fiction area. 95% is missing taken to the grave in silence and the 5% that is allowed to be there is embellished according to a reinforcing narrative agenda of a kind that sells enough copies to make it worthwhile.
The storyline on the control plane for the Architect and Crypto is fertile field to explore for Civilization player types. Isometric hextile tabletop player map for massive multiplayer gaming with escape hatch for FPS gaming addicts covers all bases. This demo looks GTA skinjob on Hollywood themed franchise, nothing new really. Ideas about reality being a controlled hallucination as theory of mind is an intriguing plot element to expore, too.
Emacs has 25 kinds of Chinese input methods.
A speaker at Stanford on the topic of early keyboards used for Chinese noted graph structure such as the one you find in Canjie input method was what they used before soundspelling. Today, hypergraphtext autocompletion influences message contruction on flatscreen devices in a kind of mind-machine blend mode on a massive scale.