100%! We read to our kids a TON from the day they were born -- no tricks or gimmicks, we just read to them. A lot. And they've always seen us reading actual books. YMMV, but our kids learned to read early and well and they both still enjoy reading. A lot.

> Weird title. Silicon Valley was literally founded by military spending and as far as I know it never really stopped.

Came here to say this! Malcolm Harris wrote a book about this history (https://bookshop.org/p/books/palo-alto-a-history-of-californ...), recently discussed on an interesting episode of Tech Won't Save Us (https://techwontsave.us/episode/155_the_untold_history_of_si...).

100% accurate!

> So it's no surprise that the first digits of 1/89 contain the Fibonacci series as it's just 10/89 shifted by one decimal place.

>If someone is not aware of generating functions it's essentially impossible to understand why this generates Fibonacci.

??

Maybe "it's no surprise" is a poor choice of idiom in this context in hindsight.

So no questions about the quality or provenance of the data? Really?

I don't really have any reason to be skeptical.

well played!

I don't doubt or dispute any of your points, but it would have been far nicer to wait and air them at a different time and in a different venue -- step back for now and give people a chance to grieve and pay their respects to someone who just died unexpectedly.

> Make a new venv for everything and don’t pollute the global environment and it should be fine.

This just proves the point that Python sucks at managing dependencies, which exacerbates -- perhaps even encourages -- the reproducibility issues being discussed.

How's that? Similar approaches are used elsewhere. Python just makes the creation of the virtualenv more explicit. npm doesn't pollute the global environment either, by default.

Listen to <https://corecursive.com/023-little-typer-and-pie-language/> for a good explanation -- and a good recursion joke at the beginning!

Amen!! This is the best way to learn anything technical -- put things into practice to understand the theory. It's also important to keep revisiting the theory to understand results, rather than parroting some catchphrase to "explain" results.