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by Balgair 1y ago
Also true of vinyl records and pottery out of the UK and EU. The people I buy from are just not doing it. Some stuff I've already paid for and now I'm having to pay the difference. Technically, it's not tariffs on the records
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by Balgair 1y ago
You make a great point here. The quality of the grader may be higher with an AI than a stressed out grad student. It's long been known that a longer essay answer is more likely to get a higher grade. And yeah, having been a student and
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, I get this every time I talk about weight loss/exercise. For reference, I've swum miles at once, run a marathon, played team sports, combat sports, pick up basketball, roughhousing with kiddos, etc. I've not done litera
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by Balgair 1y ago
Keep the chin up! It took me ~4 years before I finally got my act together. I had found an exercise routine I tolerated well enough (Deck of Pain), but it wasn't until I did a (frankly horrible) calorie focused diet that I started we
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by Balgair 1y ago
Anecdata: I hated exercise. Still do. People talk about a glow or a good feeling after exercise. My SO does too. I never felt it. Until I dieted down to being 'at weight' not overweight. Only then did it feel good to exercise, and
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by Balgair 1y ago
There's this thing about lovecraftian ur gods. You have to have these people that can speak these horrible languages, study for years unimpeded for likely no goal, can finance expeditions to the bottom of the ocean and fail again and a
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by Balgair 1y ago
Oh no, they would very much be positive. You'd know that insulin would have saved every one of their lives. Even a very small does of insulin is just that good. But these studies aren't like that. They aren't that good. UBI i
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yeah, I've heard this critique too and I'm not sure how to address it. Like, the whole point of a 'study' is to test things out. That's temporary by design. But yes, it's a giant confound too. I guess what the
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by Balgair 1y ago
> Land is finite. As population grows, supply and demand dictate it will rise in value if you hold. Nitpick: There is a lot of land. We're not going to run out of it anytime soon. What we are consuming is 'good' land. Th
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by Balgair 1y ago
> a night out at the bar is expensive now I mean, I understand the economics of it. Rent, wages, pricing, supply and demand, etc. But, like, how messed up are things that hooch is too expensive. Like, it literally grows on trees (if yo
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by Balgair 1y ago
Wow! As a fiction writer/noodler this is amazing. I can put not just a whole book in as before, not just a whole series, but the entire corpus of author s in. I mean, from the pov of biography writers, this is awesome too. Just dump i
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by Balgair 1y ago
Hey, thanks for the inspiration de look here. I'm strangely bullish on Nigeria. The population stats and the work y'all are doing is just amazing to me. The EkoAltantic project is so big but under the radar that I love it. I keep
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by Balgair 1y ago
Aside: This is during the 'bicycle craze' of the 1890s. The safety bicycle was gaining in popularity at that time. A 'safety' bicycle is what you and I think of as a bicycle with two wheels that are the same size and a c
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Best Case Scenario Fo AI(twitter.com)
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by Balgair 1y ago
Found myself just choosing the longer answer absent any real difference in the information presented. Now I know why they tell you to just keep writing more when it comes to SAT writing sections.
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by Balgair 1y ago
Yes it feels very 'male' centric in a way. Like with clothing, the various stitches that you need to make textiles, each individual stitch method is it's own technology. Like, every knot that gets invented, that's a tech
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by Balgair 1y ago
I want to see the vectors. I know I'm very much not a typical user in this regard, but I want the raw vectors. I want to take some inputs and then find their subtractions or dot products or whatever. I want to apply these new vectors t
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by Balgair 1y ago
https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/your-review-alpha-school Here's a review of AlphaSchool and it's methods. Honestly, the review is a good one and very well written. It's worth your time if you have inkli
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by Balgair 1y ago
There is this interesting arms race here with drones and unit size, yes? If you can get any large group together, then a drone will come for it. So, there is a balance between the size of a group and the cost of the drone that the enemy is
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by Balgair 1y ago
The way that I have seen 10x engineers in my career is as kind like this: Junior: 100 total lines of code a day Senior: 10,000 total lines of code a day Guru: -100 total lines of code a day
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by Balgair 1y ago
Wait, how does this thing work? Can't you just vibe-code your way through it? Genuinely curious on your thoughts on this idea here.
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It was not, but thank you for the recommendation!
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I mean, for me it was definitely a sign that the company wasn't a fit. If they tried automating away one fo the most critical aspects of the company (hiring) then what else was being left out?
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by Balgair 1y ago
I mean, yeah, I agree with you here. Coding tests and even the masses of resume retyping are in the exact same boat, and I think we all hate it because of that. The asymmetry is denigrating.
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by Balgair 1y ago
> Using AI to conduct "interviews" is detestable behavior that devalues humanity overall and possess no dignity. I mean, strictly speaking, the AI interviewer is a net positive, as on the whole, it reduces the time humans take
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by Balgair 1y ago
> You want to have an AI interview me? No. It can interview my AI agent if you want, but not me. Great points overall here. But I just want to pause a second and and react to the above portion : Wow. I really am living in the future.
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by Balgair 1y ago
I did one of these once. Once . I felt so bad afterwards that I swore them off forever. It's not like the 'interview' was terrible or anything. I knew it was AI from the start. It was just that when I got done with it, I rea
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by Balgair 1y ago
Sure. I'll preface that my knowledge of the situation is 'bad'. In that, I think I'm likely not qualified to give informed opinions on it. Okay, that out of the way... > Ideally? Palestinian accepting the existence of
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by Balgair 1y ago
Two issues going on here in this subthread: 1) Paying people more won't help corruption 2) You get what you pay for So, both can be right and wrong at the same time. I think that we need to pay them a lot more. Running and serving in c
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by Balgair 1y ago
Thanks for the perspective here. I may have disagreements with you, but I appreciate the view

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