Juan Carlos Aguilar’s Post

In the beginning I was thinking, he has a point but let’s not kid ourselves. We are very easy to be deceived, just look for optical illusions, audio illusions, etc. Even videos, they are just pictures going fast enough to trick our brain.

Don’t let negative people kill your dreams “The three children represent The Warning as they appeared in the Ellen Show, wearing the same shirts when they covered Ozzy Osbourne for Ellen. ‘Haunted’ since they were kids, by doubters, critics, and haters. They survived and fought back by rocking hard. Now grown ups, they exorcise the inner demons that have plagued them by rocking even harder, trapping it with the trappings of the childhood they’ve left behind, and bury the ‘entity’ six feet deep.” - A comment from YT

It “funny” how your mind can trick you into making you believe that things are too difficult for you to understand. I’m a self-thought coder, assembly language looked very intimidating to me. But, it’s actually easy to understand. The hard part is that it’s tedious and very easy to make mistakes. Those errors can take you a while to figure out the issue. Most often than not, the issue is something really simple and stupid. You would think that assembly is the lower level for programming, but nope. You need an assembler to convert the assembly text to machine code. My mind was again thinking that it’s something too difficult and I was looking at it as a black box. I was wrong, it’s actually very easy to understand the conversion process. The difficult part is to read and understand the documentation for the different computer hardware that you want to support. Assuming that you have documentation, and the documentation is correct. Of course, you shouldn’t bet on that. It’s also a tedious work to map the values in the documentation into the code that you are writing, you will be hoping that you don’t introduce any typos, copy-paste mistakes, or any other silly errors. I’m oversimplification a lot here, it gets a lot more complicated when performance is taken into consideration. But for learning, do small things, make them work right away, even if they are ugly and slow.

So many trues and great advice for new developers. Do difficult things, don’t get comfortable.

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I learned a lot! I had no idea how the regulations affected the architecture for apartment buildings.

Totally, but it doesn’t mean to be cruel and that we do need to be more inclusive.

This is why you have to remember that an AI is still a tool. You still need to improve your craft, keep doing difficult things. Don’t let AIs to get you complacent and comfortable.

“What are the biggest mysteries in science? When we ask this question we tend to talk about big picture topics like dark matter, consciousness, aliens, and parallel universes. We don’t talk as much about something that is more commonplace yet equally astonishing: how does the human body construct itself out of a single cell, like when a single fertilized egg cell develops into an embryo and ultimately into a fully-fledged adult? We don’t tend to ask this question because we’re used to it—babies are born, acorns turn into trees, and eggs hatch into chickens every day. But there is indeed something perplexing about it. Think about what your cells have to do in the process of constructing your body: they have to coordinate their positions to follow a detailed architecture of bones, skin, muscles, and organs; they have to construct and wire together the hundred billion neurons of your brain; each cell has to decide what kind of cell to specialize into, and how much to duplicate to ensure all the proportions of your body parts are correct. How do so many individual units cooperate to self-assemble into a large, functional whole?” https://lnkd.in/gRNmXwmp

Adobe, Microsoft and others terms of service to support their AI efforts are scary. I hadn’t thought about this: https://lnkd.in/gEeCw_mY