Trevor McKendrick - What Napolean would look like today

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Trevor

Why you should never use pixelation to hide text (article)

“We write a lot of reports at Bishop Fox…. this frequently results in needing to redact certain text. We have a long-standing policy that when you redact text, the only way to do it securely is to use black bars.”

One way to get ahead (article)

The author makes the point that basically no one has ever read 2 specific, big books that are regularly cited/mentioned/talked about, and then closes with:

“Usually they vastly overestimate how common it is to have gone through the basic intellectual background in a field. If you've actually read the book (actually checked the proof, actually implemented the algorithm), you're probably way ahead of the field. Much expertise is simply doing this over and over.”

Why Robin Hanson is an atheist (article)

“But my change had little to do with disagreeing with church doctrines or with difficulties explaining evil. And I never resented nor confronted my parents for teaching me something with which I later came to disagree. This wasn’t about my relation to them either.”

The path of his story is different from mine and leaving Mormonism, but ultimately the ending is the same: religions make testable truth claims, and we came to the conclusion that their claims didn’t live up to the evidence.

Hidreley Diao uses AI to capture what historical figures would look like if they were modern people (twitter)

I really liked this.

Includes George Washington, Napolean, Caesar, Van Gosh, and others.

And see this follow up thread but with Disney characters.

On “Conversations with Tyler podcast (article)

Good entry way to a podcast that would be hard to get into if you don’t have any context.

My review of The Founders (article)

Tldr: if you know nothing about the history of PayPal and want a solid look at an early dot com success, this is a great place to start.

The book goes on sale tomorrow.

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Trevor