I really like the design of this HTTP library's API and will probably try it out in personal projects in the future: https://gitlab.com/honeyryderchuck/httpx#httpx-a-ruby-http-library-for-tomorrow-and-beyond … (You get parallel requests "for free" without having to muck up your code a lot or implement promises/event loops/etc.) h/t HN
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c) One's humility on estimates of future The degree of success expertise has versus craziness in any one instance is formidably huge and the track record of success expertise has against all craziness is extremely low. Weight estimates (your own and others') accordingly.
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d) Praise awarded to critics The value created by, and therefore the correct amount of social esteem awarded to, successfully calling the results of an experiment after the experiment has been concluded is, to a first approximation, zero.
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Related to c) - it's hard to be surprisingly right without being very wrong about some things. If someone has one idea that's odd but promising, don't dismiss it if they have another idea that seems ludicrous. Newton did calculus, alchemy, and science.
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Having a sharp pattern recognition ability means that you’ll see things people don’t, but you’re also more likely to see pattens where there’s none (not unlike seeing shapes in clouds). That’s why interesting thinkers tend to have a few quirks
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