ACow_Adonis

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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
I'm a very cynical man who has also had the honour of working for the national statistics organisation, so take what i say with a grain of salt. While there are lots of "real and theoretical gains" to be made in gambling, a f
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
So what you're saying is that extroversion is curable with a bit of a change of social behaviours and environment, and with a bit of practice, discipline and repetition we can turn them into mathematicians, farmers, hunters, philosophe
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
It's not that I've decided based on no evidence, it's that I've never met someone in the flesh able to do it where observations are consistent with claims. Ignoring five minute Reddit or hacker News messages where people
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
I'm another "speed reader" skeptic. After significant repeated investigations I came to a stunning conclusion: I'm among some of the fastest actual human readers. My general reading speed 300 to 600 wpm depending on con
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
Literally the article: "The extent of the decline seems to be driven by the lowest performing students losing more ground, a worrying trend that predates the pandemic." "The TIMSS results echoed the 2022 findings of the Natio
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
Apparently my brain is broken because I can generate almost nothing but pink errors, though it seems to be a bit non deterministic: Taoism Tibet Tibetan Buddhism Wrathful deities Existential angst Dantes inferno Major religions Australian i
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
I did work experience at tidbinbilla radio telescope facility in...1999 or 2000. It had an on-site cafeteria, which aside from being "out in the middle of no where", we all wondered "why?". Why didn't everyone just
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
The Australian English thing to do is to drop the apostrophe, use an optional creative contraction to make the phrase even shorter, and thereby turn the entire thing into a noun :) I.e. Maccas vs McDonald's Of course, the official webs
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
It's the old bimodal distribution effect and trying to draw a linear correlation between them, or that meme with the two sides of the bell curve. At some level, swearing is an indicator of emotional immaturity and a preponderance of su
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
I just introduced my kid to Minecraft and it's fascinating how quickly they take to it, but to my (internal silent) horror, they've added so much that changes the survival experience from the early days that it's not really t
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
Sounds like programmers are obsolete because software will become redundant once we've solved everything in hardware :D
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
After posting a blog entry specifically targeting and naming someone, their business, posting it on the internet and starting a Mastodon thread. I'm all for generally leaving people alone, and being civil, but context please. You don&#
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by ACow_Adonis 2y ago
Perhaps we live in different worlds, but there's a world of distanced between unhinged and roughly 3 emails to someone who wrote a peice targeted specifically at your business. If anything the replies in that Mastadon thread make the a
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
I can accept that he invented it in the same sense that I invented recursion. I called it the "ouroboros" function and was really quite pleased with myself for thinking of the pattern. Now, the fact that I called it by an ancient
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
If you just strap your phone to an actual microscope (see my other post), you're basically just limited to the magnification that the microscopes achieve. And very good performing microscopes are very affordable by hacker news standar
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
Yes, I've got the camera bodies, the macro lens, some historical experience stitching the pictures together to form panoramas, and I've just gotten into microscopy and am pretty sure I've got the microscope base he's usi
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
Lol, I actually experienced something similar in Australia recently trying to sell second hand goods. Of course I asked for payment in cash, which the buyers duelly provided. But it occurred to me as I observed the new $50 notes in my hand,
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
Or even their professions of belief to actually be something approaching truthful. But there are many incentives, both on a self-deceptive psychology level, and on a societal-wide level, for wanting to be seen as a virtuous and forthright p
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
The same way other nations do?
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
if you've been on the internet forums for 20 years, you'll discover that real life user's spelling mistakes are borderline unconvincing :/ so in that way the llm has a very low bar...
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
An ipad or otherwise, whatever your policy, doesn't negate parenting. Crying or screaming to get your way because they don't recieve something isn't acceptable behaviour, so you shouldn't reinforce negative conditioning.
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
with comments back past 2018 i think it's safe to say its a typo xD
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
come join us at Beyond All Reason :) https://www.beyondallreason.info/ or if you're an AI maker come join us also and make a better bit for us to play against :)
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
but... subscriptions ARE a dark pattern?
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
Possible tangent enabler, but as an Australian i've felt the same + have the same perplexion. I've bought I think three things from amazon just to try it out. My lesson is that the entire site has a toxic interface and my credit
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
surely this depends on the actual mail provider you use. i appreciate its impossible to prove a negative (everyone could be doing something they have no evidence or documentation of doing), but given my mail provider both says that you have
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
quite slow and considered actually. i doubt i could pump them out rapid fire, but maybe i should try. i don't have anything memorised and just go off of feel of runs of numbers. i have considered trying to memorise some algorithm, but
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
I find the venn diagram of spammers and "legitimate" companies increasingly overlaps and it's impossible to cleanly differentiate the two. my university spams me. i bought a torch from olight. they spam me. i get food delive
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
there's a line in the movie the incredibles where robert (the hero) is meeting with the designer (edna) of super suits to design him a new suit even though such activities are technically illegal. The dialogue goes something like this:
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by ACow_Adonis 3y ago
yes, I've done some of these before. Ive gotten up above 200 key presses at ~50% before getting bored. my secret was decidedly less sexy than free will though. i just had XX years of working as a statistician and having a better intui

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