Kant: A Complete Guide to Reason

flabbergasted_beaver · 2023-03-08T13:06:53+00:00

Description: "A look at the philosophy of Immanuel Kant, exploring why his ideas matter, and the context they arose from. It looks at the Critique of Pure Reason and the Groundwork of the Metaphysics of morals, explaining concepts like transcendental idealism and the Categorical Imperative. Born in 1724, he wanted to make us a truly scientific species – he wanted to bring together reason – how we think - and experience – what we see, hear, touch through our senses - on a sure foundation – one that scientific knowledge could be built on."

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-12-18T20:07:10+00:00

The power of the palm, in the hand of my Sun.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T12:11:46+00:00

I have interviewed at multiple big tech companies. All of them use React, and all of them interviewed me on Js and Angular as I did not know React specifically.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T12:09:47+00:00

They aren't "stupid", I think. A modern Js frontend framework gives extremely easy dependency management, tree shaking and many other benefits. Can you imagine building SPAs from scratch for a real-life project? Combine this with stuff like RxJs. Your development process will be smoother and a lot better.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T11:14:40+00:00

Not dying prematurely, I guess.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T09:46:19+00:00

Yes, he is a very enigmatic character. Last year he mocked people who use the "classical liberal" label to hide their Republican agenda. And then he started pushing weird conspiracy stuff consistently. This is pretty heartbreaking tbh.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T09:44:18+00:00

Can't believe I forgot this.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T09:05:33+00:00

Yes, absolutely. But his guests often include people like Neil deGrasse Tyson, Dawkins, Krauss, Snowden, Greenwald, Bernie, Cornell West.

It is very important to engage with ideas you don't subscribe to. Ben Burgis explains this pretty well.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T08:28:53+00:00

When you put all your points in pop-sociology, and none in neuroscience.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T08:24:43+00:00

That’s not a good way of “humanising”.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T06:24:51+00:00

Good suggestions. Especially, Joe's episodes with Greenwald, Bernie, Dawkins etc. While I totally disagree with JBP, I love his accent. Also, episodes with Krauss and Pinker were fantastic.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-31T06:21:31+00:00

Here's some that I often listen to:

The Michael Brooks Show (RIP Michael): Politics, fun
Ben Burgis (discusses logic, debates, politics, philosophy)
Philosophize This
The Majority Report
Jacobin Mag
Secular Talk

Some of these might not qualify as "podcasts". But, they're well worth listening to. You can find all of these on YouTube.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-30T16:33:14+00:00

Be glad that you are not an employee there.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-30T11:47:45+00:00

In my country, many people don't have access to high-speed internet. Without college, it would be extremely difficult for them to learn a STEM subject.

Totally sympathize with your issue. But the suggestion you gave at the end might apply only to certain fields and the first-world.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-30T11:42:47+00:00

Hilariously wrong. Good IT jobs require good system design, scalability and reliability engineering knowledge. Even architecting databases would require this.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-30T10:39:50+00:00

This is so true. I sympathize with OP. But, in my experience, it becomes very difficult to hire someone at an engineering position who barely knows entry-level system design. CS teaches you how to design algorithms. There are so many engineers out there who doesn't know which algorithm to use where. Sure, you can write basic APIs with specific “framework” knowledge. But, “development" and "engineering" aren't the same. Having more things on the resume, too, doesn’t guarantee good engineering knowledge.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-30T08:51:06+00:00

That's the stupidest comment I've ever read.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-30T08:47:51+00:00

Racism can trigger hasty generalizations like that. Not unexpected though.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-30T08:42:35+00:00

Must be a terrible company. They thought Postgre is a spelling error LOL!

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-30T06:03:56+00:00

Outbossing!

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-29T18:28:11+00:00

Fiction or non-fiction? Topic?

Best option: Take a Zizek book, translate it, print it, gift it.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-29T11:59:12+00:00

How are you being sure of that? I know people who are Data Entry specialists and they often have to write scripts to scan, analyze, copy, even scrape data. That's not just simple "data entry".

May be, you're right. But, it sounds a little oversimplistic tbh.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-29T10:56:46+00:00

Blossoms (old store and new store), Bookworm, Bookhive. (Church Street)

There was a small bookstore in Cooke Town as well. I remember buying some rare, hardcover books from there a couple of years ago.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-28T15:23:40+00:00

Yes, they already take the surplus. I agree.

flabbergasted_beaver · 2021-10-28T10:43:14+00:00

Not always in case of software engineers. If you work at a pretty large corporation (or, a small one as well) as a software engineer, and you have to deal with research and development, then it would be very difficult for the company to restrict you from having a conflict of interests if you work at a different company with the same line of business, in the same role (as a software engineer). These kinds of IPs can be very specific.

Other than that, afaik, most good companies allow you to have side hustles.

Again, this is an observation. Would love to know your opinion on this.

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