Balgair

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by Balgair 2y ago
> The exact same kind of fail-upwards, born on third thinking they hit a triple, grindset grifter, loser mid-level management nepobabies. Could not have put it better myself. Welcome back.
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by Balgair 2y ago
The way I saw the Columbia protests was that Donny's trial was downtown, and because it was not televised, producers told their crews to stop filming the doors to the courthouse. So, looking for any story at all, they took the subway u
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by Balgair 2y ago
I think he's on to something, but then I come back to Hanlon's Razor: Never assume conspiracy when stupidity will do. Sure, they might be trying to do this. But I'd give that a ~3% chance. There is no 'there' there.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Um, by picking and choosing what goods need protection in the long term? Like, we can't make more fish. Avocados take a few years to grow new trees. Steel mills don't just appear in Ohio. The worst part is that, even if you believ
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by Balgair 2y ago
David Epstien talks about this in Range . Essentially, we have 'kind' and 'unkind' learning environments. To be successful in a Kind environment, you drill-and-kill. The feedback is near instant and the ranking is clear
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, yeah. IQ is a bad measure (if self-consistent). Training trumps all, like with every task. The more we do something, the better we'er going to be at it. The thing that is going to be interesting is now that we have essentially
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yeah, the impetus comes from the Ashley Madison hacks. Like, you had thousands of men paying real money to chat with (terrible) bots. To me, that was the passing of the Turing Test. But I know of nearly no person that could possibly fall fo
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by Balgair 2y ago
One (bad) pet theory I have is that LLMs/AIs are going to uncover something very uncomfortable to us: The difference in intelligence between people is a lot bigger than we thought. In that someone with an IQ of 95 and and IQ of 105 [
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by Balgair 2y ago
Anecdotally: it was a big effect. Rigorously: no way to tell now, the time has passed. Likely: you're right. But what little staff is there from pre-covid says that they have helped a lot too. Reality: here's $500/wk and my k
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by Balgair 2y ago
I guess it's a quibble over the meaning of 'stronger', but that seems overly pedantic. Let's get data. A good overview of the allergy situation is here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hygiene_hypothes
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by Balgair 2y ago
Anecdote: Our daycare was a plague ship right after covid 'ended'. None of the kids had any immunities, and they made up for it in a hurry. Man, what a terrible year. As a result, the daycare got a grant to get N-95 air filters in
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by Balgair 2y ago
Not as much as their immune systems haven't been around very long and seen as many diseases.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Lines that stood out to me and reactions to them (oh god, I'm doing a react video, I hate those): > They’re like me clicking through a mandatory online HR training - I mean, this whole essay then gets reflected the exact same upon t
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by Balgair 2y ago
If anything, I'm a bit surprised that Jeff Goldberg burned this source. If anything, I'd suspect that he'd keep the channel open as long as he could. Or, he's got other channels that work better. All the same, I mean, wo
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by Balgair 2y ago
What does this have to do with this story?
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, at this point, do I just flag everything on the front page too? Is that the only recourse I have as a user in good faith? What other method do I have to show my displeasure with this subset of the community?
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by Balgair 2y ago
Not to dogpile too much here, but I think 1992's Unforgiven directed by and staring Clint Eastwood does the best here when it comes to my feeling about this comment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vTjBR0jicAo Bill M
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by Balgair 2y ago
It's a bit glib, but too good to not share. We're experiencing the Katy Parry doctrine: 'Cause you're hot, then you're cold You're yes, then you're no You're in, then you're out You're up, t
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by Balgair 2y ago
Not to derail here, but yeah, TSLA needed to get out of meme stock territory for a long time now. Its been hurting the underlying business. Now, the big question is if the meme is gone, or just turned sour. Either way, I'm not seeing p
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by Balgair 2y ago
2 years of a 'dip' is, ummm, not just a dip, right?
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by Balgair 2y ago
"Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity." -Hanlon's razor https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hanlon's_razor
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yeah, so I'm a 'hacker' (MIT definition here). I've only taken a single class in javascript with Sun based workstations about 20 years ago now (god, I'm old). I hated it. All my work now is in python and SQL now and
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by Balgair 2y ago
Hey, I've been hearing about this issue that programmers have on HN a lot. But I'm in the more 'bad programmer/hacker' camp and think that LLMs are amazing and really helpful. I know that one can post a link to the
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, I would not then be surprised if the students are picking up on that. Like, if most of the profs are grudgingly teaching, then the students are going to think that being taught is something to begrudge, right?
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, why would anyone want to take a class from a person who doesn't want to teach it? Not trying to say that the students are excused here. But neither is the professor. They have to put in the effort too. Learning is a 2-way s
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by Balgair 2y ago
Yes, pretty much. Difficulty of the next achievement/step vs. the ability to know what that next step is > - Clarity low, difficulty low: ?? I'd say navigation here. Like, finding that new restaurant or traveling overland witho
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by Balgair 2y ago
Diffraction grating man ... they're just something else. But for real, that demo at the end is just ... Pwhaaa! Wow! what a great demo, maybe one of the bet I've ever seen. I actually went and got out some polarized sunglasses to
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by Balgair 2y ago
> it is simple, but not easy Mom always taught me the polite way of saying this is that something is then 'straightforward'. The matrix here is: Steps are clear, but difficult to take > 'straightforward' Steps are
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by Balgair 2y ago
The only ideas I have are to look at, like, 2 examples: The Victorians and Ulaanbaatar. The Victorians had a bit of a higher birthrate as compared to their continental cousins. This is due to Queen Victoria's penchant for her husband a
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by Balgair 2y ago
Hey, how small do you think a fusion generator can get? Like, ships, sure. But how about car sized? Phone sized?

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