Super interesting. My notes as a colorblind man (might be misunderstanding some stuff though):
(Being a little sloppy with sex stuff here. Not all women have two x’s, women can be colorblind too, etc.)
• Two of our usually-three cones are specified on the X chromosome
• When one of a woman’s X’s specifies an anomalous cone she ends up with a 4th, anomalous type of cone.
• This happens ~14% of the time for women.
• That’s about the same percent as color blindness in men.
• That’s not a coincidence. Because color blindness comes from one of these women’s sons getting that anomalous 4th come instead of a typical 3rd cone. This anomalous cone tends to overlap more with one of the other cones in its range of perceived frequencies, which is what causes color blindness.
• But only a small percentage (not sure what percent yet?) of these women with 4 different cones actually seem to be able to perceive more colors
• that’s because the 4th, anomalous cone might basically fully overlap with one of the typical ones in its perceived frequency range, so it doesn’t really give the brain any additional info
• one question I have: so it seems like not all these anomalous cones are the same. Is there a fixed number of types? Or is it more of a spectrum? Further, are /all/ cones on a variable spectrum? Or is almost everyone’s blue cone exactly the same?
• this was interesting: colorblind men actually have a set of colors they can distinguish that people with normal color vision can’t (the article explains why)
• in this study they found colorblind men (but by looking at unusual things they /could/ see, not things they couldn’t? Not sure) and then tested their mothers to see if they could see extra colors.
• Most of them couldn’t. One of them could. The study was only like 9 people? Safe to say /all/ of these women had 4 types of cones, even though only one of them had a sufficiently non-overlapping fourth one to get some benefit?
• As a colorblind man, I’ve never noticed an ability to distinguish colors others can’t. Only the opposite.
• it’s intellectually neat to know that’s possible, even if it doesn’t tend to “come up” in everyday life.
• It souuuunnndssss like the amount of extra color vision that these tetrachromats get is only the same as the extra color vision /I/ get—that same “theoretically there, but doesn’t seem to come up in everyday life” thing. That’s a little disappointing—I though tetrachromacy was more kooky.
> Or is almost everyone’s blue cone exactly the same?
I get a stronger blue channel from one eye than the other. So I'm quite sure that there is variability, it's a matter of degree. Also, research into language and culture shows that the brain is heavily influenced by colour as well. Some cultures have difficulty seeing differing shades of blue or green that westerners think are trivial.
My favorite sex-affecting genetic incident is Androgen insensitivity syndrome [1]. People with Y chromosome who have complete androgen insensitivity syndrome [2] have fully female external bodily features; their reproductive systems are ill-developed, and they are infertile.
> Most individuals with CAIS are raised as females. They are born phenotypically female and usually have a heterosexual female gender identity; However, at least two case studies have reported male gender identity in individuals with CAIS. [2]
If you enjoy devouring this guys writing, buy his book, “And Then I Thought I Was A Fish” (I think it’s the “novel” he references the game being based on?). I really really liked it. Link at the bottom of the original post.
The other book is just a collection of blog posts. It’s /okay/. But I really really liked ATITIWAF. The kind of book that makes you want to try your hand at writing.
Never read the book, but I'm a fan of his blog! I keep an excerpt of one of his posts pinned on my notes app:
"The only reason coders' computers work better than non-coders' computers is coders know computers are schizophrenic little children with auto-immune diseases and we don't beat them when they're bad."
Wow, that was a ride. I could think of worse things to do in a Friday night than read that for the past three hours. Thanks for linking. I'm now much more interested in reading the book and the rest of his blog.
That book is so crazy good! I started reading and read it all the way through in one setting and then passed it off to all of my friends. Remarkable writing and I also felt it to be quite wise.
This is the first time I've heard this characterization of Interview Cake as making the Google-style whiteboard coding interview accessible to small(er) companies.
It /might/ be /somewhat/ true. But I'm skeptical.
Anecdotally, when I started Interview Cake 6 years ago it was already true that most small companies my friends and I interviewed with were using these sorts of data structures and algorithms questions. The handful of exceptions were mostly companies that were outside the "scene" (usually because they weren't in SF or NY).
Messaging feedback: try leading with the imagery in your video (i didn't play the video until reading the whole page and still not understanding what the product was):
- shot of instagram profile page, with highlighted link to website
- shot of what that website looks like
"oh, that's what this is for." and maybe even more specifically: why do you need one of these? so you can sell shit.
In hindsight, I see how "Insta website" was trying to convey this, but it wasn't clear to me that "Insta" was referring specifically to Instagram /directly/--I thought it was just millenial-hip short of "instant."
And "turn your link in bio into" I at first parsed as "turn your linkedin bio into." Then I was like "oh I guess that's not a typo" but I still wasn't sure which bio it was referring to and it seemed like odd phrasing.
Then I hit "Pick a card. Cards are..." and was like "ugh, yep, this is very much a hip app thing i'm not going to understand." instead of leading with a vocab word and then defining it, just skip the vocab word and use its definition. "Pick a page template. Visitors can swipe between your pages just like an instagram story."
(obviously, i'm an old soul and don't really understand instagram. maybe "card" is already more familiar than "page" for instagram folks?)
This is neat. But I'd have thought the lower-hanging fruit anti-spam wise for Apple would've been to add a "mark as spam" button next to push notifications so users can start reporting all the apps that abuse push notifications to send them advertisements.
You seem like a self-starter. So consider taking a year off, moving to a cool city, and just getting a job in an industry that interests you. Try to move up the ladder. Try a bunch of stuff. If you're getting some traction, just stick with it--you might be way better off than your friends in 4 years (real work experience and no debt). If not, you can try applying to college again in a year or two.
My dream is to make film and video game scores.
Oh and I did this goofy lil thing the other day: https://youtu.be/ie9JHxFAsCo