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Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
well, it's finally here: The Path of Love, my book on loving kindness practice and the brahmavihārās ❤️
it's available in PDF, ePub, and MOBI for $0+ on Gumroad, + is licensed under a CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 license, so you can read, distribute, remix it freely
tasshin.com/metta-book
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
OK, tried out a new unit in my intro to philosophy class, and it is my new favorite unit: "Are Grades Bullshit?"
I have never seen intro students more intensely engaged, more edge-of-their-seat, and more mind-blown.
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Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
Make-your-own black marker poetry at Providence Public Library. (Author unknown.)
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
just figured out that the way I conceptualize goals and time is entwined in a very dysfunctional way with a bunch of hacks I've used to compensate for adhd
it actually makes me even less inclined to ever use punishments or rewards that are unrelated to the action, w/ my kids
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
Naturally coloured eggs showing the variations produced by different chicken breeds.
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
I still haven't fully processed that software is capable of driving a car entirely by itself in downtown San Francisco. Insane.
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
1) Monday night was a night I’ll never forget. I’m still speechless. I got to take the first ride, by anyone, ever, in a *driverless* robotaxi on the streets of San Francisco.
This was officially ride #1 for @Cruise. Full story and vids below.
youtube.com/watch?v=dmvZBiWY…
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
it’s quite funny when you think about it, how people misrepresent each other, and then get mad at the misrepresentations
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
4 WAYS OOP INHERITANCE IS LIKE GOTO
1. It's mostly "considered harmful". It should be your last resort.
2. It does many different things. Goto was used to emulate control flow, loops, subroutines, exceptions, resource cleanup... we replaced it with *specific* constructs.
Mike Plotz (59/100 morning walks) retweeted
Today is the day! Crafting Interpreters is available for purchase in print, Kindle, ebook, and PDF! Behold: craftinginterpreters.com/
It took a lot longer than I expected, but it's all done now. So long that I wrote a blog post about it: journal.stuffwithstuff.com/2…
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