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by Balgair 2y ago
Great read! I wish there were an update from 2013 to the post-covid landscape too, but sadly the anonymous professor died of cancer sometime in early 2020. Fuck Cancer. I was absolutely shocked to hear that his institution was even offering
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by Balgair 2y ago
Sci-Fi Author: In my book I invented the Torment Nexus as a cautionary tale Tech Company: At long last, we have created the Torment Nexus from classic sci-fi novel Don't Create The Torment Nexus https://x.com/AlexBlechm
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by Balgair 2y ago
Not OP, but I had a few warts. Tried cryotherapy for them, but they came back, just slightly to the side of where the original wart was. The thing that managed to have them gone? Less stress. Things were pretty stressful in my life when I g
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by Balgair 2y ago
The source that OP may be talking about is an OkCupid blog post that got scrubbed when they were bought out by Match. It was about rating the attractiveness of the opposite sex in heterosexual people, I think in Chicago in like 2008 among l
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by Balgair 2y ago
I remember when I first started working for a BigCorp. We were trying to decide on the timeline for some project, I can't remember what. But it was about 6 months long for about 20 people. So about 21,000 hours total. I remember thinki
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, Plato may have a word (or a few thousand) about that idea.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Oh man, AI is going to frickin rule for education now. Based on what that answer is saying, an AI something along the lines of GPT4o - with the ability to lockout YouTube and TikTok and the like - is just going to sky rocket kids learning
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by Balgair 2y ago
More people generally is better. I do some fantasy world-building in the little free time I have. The setting is diesel-punk/atom-punk, so 1950s era. A little bit of disco-punk mixed in too. Essentially, modern post-war USA. So, when I
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by Balgair 2y ago
Unless I am mistaken, Derek Thompson, the author of the short article, does not once mention Cardinal Newman's The Idea of a University [0]. Really, that's a shame as it's one of the foundations of how we view universities a
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by Balgair 2y ago
Ahh, but the new young master is able to explain their work and processes to the satisfaction of the old masters. In the 'Science' of our modern times it's a requirement to show your work (yes, yes, I know about the replicati
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by Balgair 2y ago
I mean, this will directly hurt Reddit's credibility and as such they will move to change things as the stock price will ... Okay, sorry there, I couldn't even finish that. Laughing too hard. Reddit. Credibility. I know, I know, t
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by Balgair 2y ago
Hmm, DC is a bit strange about that then. I see them all the time in the more walkable areas of CA, CO, PA, NC, FL, TX, HI, TN. Maybe a state level law thing then.
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by Balgair 2y ago
Wait, what US cities are you in that do not have public fountains in parks and whatnot? I'm struggling to think of any parks or high pedestrian areas around me that don't have a public fountain, nor in any of the cities I've
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by Balgair 2y ago
I've been googling for a while on these, it's the first I've heard of it. Do you have a link at all? Not trying to troll here, I really am genuinely interested.
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by Balgair 3y ago
I hate to be the downer here, but we said the exact same thing with the F4. And then the F4 got hosed over Vietnam. So we went back to having a gun onboard. Things are appreciably different this time, yes. But how different, and how that wi
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by Balgair 3y ago
It was always going to be a terrible tragedy with Ukraine. Vlad committed something much worse than a crime, he committed a mistake (to paraphrase Talleyrand). NATO+ countries aren't fighting him, they are using Ukraine as a proxy, whi
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by Balgair 3y ago
Woah, where?! I can't seem to find anything on memristors being on chip or really being in solid state anything. I would love to get my hands on them!
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by Balgair 3y ago
" In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you." -Mortimer J Adler I think this quote applies too.
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I'll admit, I never really thought that social media primarily revolving around dancing teens would ever be a front in the Second Punic War... err, sorry, second cold war.
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The main issue is that we're lacking one of the four fundamental circuit components: the memristor [0]. If we had a simple, throw it in a box for five years, stable memristor, we'd have everything we'd need for brain modeling
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by Balgair 3y ago
Even if we are plateauing in GPT number (4,5, 12, whatever), there is still a lot of meat left on those bones. For instance: Chemists using the AI backwards. Take some phrase like 'vanadium increases the Young's modulus versus s
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by Balgair 3y ago
Hey, neuroscientist here. It's going to be a few hundred years before we get to that point, if we ever get there. Bio is just really complicated, there may never be anything like a 'easy to use system.' We're still on
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by Balgair 3y ago
For those outside of CA: Prop 13's text says the following: * require that properties be taxed at no more than 1 percent of their full cash value shown on the 1975-1976 assessment rolls and limit annual increases of assessed (taxable)
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by Balgair 3y ago
For others that have had this issue too: Cut your toe nails in a straight line. I used to cut them in a curved line, a 'C' kind of shape. Don't do that. Cut them in a '|' kind of shape. Yes, you'll have a big o
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by Balgair 3y ago
To add to this: Prop 13. The CA housing market is just totally distorted by Prop 13. It is by design meant to screw new home buyers. And has been doing this for 46 years, with absolutely no end in sight. I guess my point is that CA folks
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by Balgair 3y ago
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure Helped me not take life so seriously. And that being super smart isn't the end-all-be-all. You can have a totally excellent time just being kind to others. In fact, kindness is probably the mos
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by Balgair 3y ago
I've had a lot of concussions as well. Actually, I'm pretty sure I don't even know. We only really deemed them concussions if you blacked out. And I did that a lot. I've lost weeks of memory and my life to them. I have n
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Willow's Box [video](youtube.com)
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by Balgair 3y ago
Lol, nice! When they allowed longer text inputs, and for faster rapping, I can really see this kinda thing taking off with L1s and med students. Like the Animaniacs song about the state capitols. Or like a Homeric epic that is meant for rem
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by Balgair 3y ago
The Atlantic has always been a rag. So much so it was lampooned in the montage sequence in 1984's Ghostbusters . Even back then, 40 years ago, people knew what a nosy-Nancy sponge it was. So much so that Aykroyd, Ramis, and Moranis

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