Carin Meier

Here's a dump of the "Programming" folder from my RSS reader:

Aphyr's (aka the guy behind the Jepsen distributed system test series): https://aphyr.com/

Fred Herbert, the author of Learn You Some Erlang: http://ferd.ca/

Eevee, who posts a mishmash of stuff about programming in general but these days is mostly focussed on games: https://eev.ee/

Tef/Programming is Terrible, which features strong opinions about programming/programmers: http://programmingisterrible.com

Matt Kline, who posts mainly about low-level stuff and embedded systems: http://bitbashing.io/

Evan Miller, whose blog topics are wide-ranging: http://www.evanmiller.org/

tptacek, who can be seen tirelessly defending common sense in the comments on this very site: https://sockpuppet.org

Sonniesedge, who talks about front-end stuff and the human impact of programming: https://sonniesedge.co.uk/blog/

Carin Meier, who posts most often, but not exclusively, about Clojure: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/

Also Julia Evans, as mentioned in the OP.

Add Carin Meier Living Clojure to your reading list
http://gigasquidsoftware.com/#/books/index

Clojure for the Brave and True is a great way to get your Emacs setup.

If you are going the light table route then start here:
https://github.com/swannodette/lt-cljs-tutorial
or here http://clojurekoans.com/ with videos https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL1p6TgkbKXqyOwq6iSkce_EY5YWFHciHt
Check the validity of the dates above. Both lessons are an easy win to gain syntax knowledge.

Watch this for a brief overview:
Frameworkless Web Development in Clojure by Andreas ‘Kungi’ Klein
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LghX4oDWcY

After you get http://leiningen.org/ installed on your linux vm then start hacking on this:
http://www.luminusweb.net/

Next post your code review and questions up here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/Clojure/comments/3ibjfg/new_clojurists_ask_anything/
and here
http://clojurians.net/

Rinse and Repeat.

Also has a great list of other blogs, most of which are my favorites now too.

https://jvns.ca/blog/2016/04/09/some-of-my-favorite-blogs/

here's a copy+pastable list:
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/
http://danluu.com/
https://aphyr.com/
http://www.elidedbranches.com/
http://composition.al/blog/2015/03/31/what-isnt-a-key-value-store/
https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2016/03/29/0
http://blog.plover.com/aliens/dd/intro.html
http://blog.jessitron.com/2015/06/ultratestable-coding-style.html
http://akaptur.com/blog/2014/08/03/getting-started-with-python-internals/
http://accidentallyquadratic.tumblr.com/post/142387131042/nodejs-left-pad
http://embedded.fm/blog/takingaparttoys
http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2012/09/20/7-john-mccarthy-papers-in-7-weeks-1/
https://mathbabe.org/2016/03/30/apple-vs-fbi-nobody-won/

Machines as simple as thermostats can be said to have beliefs, and having beliefs seems to be a characteristic of most machines capable of problem solving performance. -- John McCarthy

A claim that a machine has consciousness seems like it would be similar to a claim that a machine has beliefs, and the correctness of such a claim probably has more to do with what the criteria are for something having beliefs or consciousness than the complexity of implementation details.

A related essay: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2012/09/20/7-john-mccarthy-papers-in-7-weeks-1/

McCarthy's paper: http://www-formal.stanford.edu/jmc/ascribing/ascribing.html

You are technically correct, it's just that when the vector of booleans gets long enough they start to exhibit certain properties that "normal" binary vectors don't have. Because of this the authors use the term "hyper dimensional vector" to let other professional researchers quickly know what they are talking about. Here's a decent blog post about some of those properties: http://gigasquidsoftware.com/blog/2016/02/06/why-hyperdimensional-socks-never-match/

I kind of agree that "hyper-dimensional" sounds like a dumb buzzword, and maybe it is. But I do think we should have a word for vectors that are big enough that they fall in this regime.

Allow me to offer a counterpoint. Plenty of great developers blog and give talks while getting things done, you may enjoy post by John Carmack, talks by Sandi Metz, talks by Rich Hickey, talks and books by Carin Meller[1], talks and posts by Vaidehi Joshi[2], Kent Beck, or Dave Thomas or Elixir and Ruby fame[3]. Now, I don't know much about .Net, but in the communities in which I'm involved, the best and brightest are constantly writing, and speaking, and building great things.

[1]http://gigasquidsoftware.com/#/index
[2]https://dev.to/vaidehijoshi
[3]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5hDVftaPQwY