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by Balgair 5mo ago
> I have known people who have adopted the children of strangers after reporting their family for abuse. “When I was a boy and I would see scary things in the news, my mother would say to me, "Look for the helpers. You will always f
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I mean, do we want the economy to be stable? Not in a 'oh the rich don't so they control the media and so we don't' sorta way. But like in a 'lets educate people on the pluses and minuses, debate a while, and then
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I mean, you can just point your LLM at the wall of text and ask it to dream up with the prompt that made that. Or ask it to summarize into a TLDR.
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> Much like how all life trends towards crab Carcinisation ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carcinisation ) The same seems to be true for trees too (arborescence).
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To add to the discussion in the comments: There is also the practice of not using anesthesia on infants when undergoing medical surgery. Anesthesia is hard to do even on adults, harder on children, and very difficult on infants. Not acciden
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Hey Lukas, Thanks for this. We really need this kind of crazy and levity and whimsy more on the internet. Speaking of sponsoring, what is the best way to get into contact with them? I'm not really in the market, but I know of some chur
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by Balgair 5mo ago
I was watching someone doing a really deep dive into speculative biology [0], and they finally got to the sentience/sapience/intelligence/sophont episode [1]. I'm not an expert in this area, but there was a discussion ab
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> “Do you know how hard you need to abuse a mammal to make them not have children?” I've worked with mammals from gerbils to dogs fro research. And, yeah, it is really hard to get a mammal to not to want to reproduce (you can go s
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Honest answer? Tahrir Square, 2011 ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tahrir_Square )
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What did you think a fecal transplant was?
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Aside: The singularity framing is really tough here, right? It comes from black hole physics. Essentially, at the event horizon, the way we know how to do physics stops working, and we rightly conclude that we can't currently say anyth
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undergrad or grad students?
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https://acoup.blog/2021/10/01/collections-so-you-want-to-go-... This is a timeless entry. It's aimed at humanities, but every STEMy person I have shown it to agrees with it. TLDR: Only get a PhD under 2
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When I first moved to LA, I remember thinking that it was so strange for all these people to have these really high end cars with like 700 HP in them, all to sit in traffic all day long. Like, why bother? Then I sat in LA traffic all day lo
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Hey , just want to say thanks for doing such a hard job. I know I couldn't do that kind of work day in and day out. So thank you for doing the real hard work and making it all a better place for all of us.
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by Balgair 5mo ago
I mean I get that the student broke the rules, at least per this anecdote. And what was done is dishonorable and the student deserves what is coming to the student. But, I think it gets to a deeper issue with education. Like, the cynic in m
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Tomas Rick's Waging a Good War: A Military History of the Civil Rights Movement 1954-68 should be required reading at this point https://www.amazon.com/Waging-Good-War-Military-1954-1968/dp... Ricks kinda beats
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Alzheimer's drugs offer little benefit, major review finds(theconversation.com)
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MapTap – How good is your Geography?(maptap.gg)
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Weiland is of the mode that how a character changes over a story is the plot. She generally separates out the internal state of the protagonist from their external state. She has 3 arc types: positive, flat, and negative. Positive arcs are
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Great stuff! I think. First, it's hard to read, it needs a white background with black text and larger font. Second, I know this is aimed at English speaking south Asian/Indian readers, so it's like stepping into a strange ne
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If you really want a trip try out K.M. Weiland's Archetypes work: https://www.amazon.com/Writing-Archetypal-Character-Arcs-Jou... She has it all online for free here too, with a good comments section: https:/&#x2
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Wow this is amazing! I'm totally at a loss as to any of the content itself, or the method, or the results. And I've never really heard of any of the films either. But I'm just looking at it and I can 'smell' that th
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by Balgair 5mo ago
Advice: With vibe coding, it's never been easier to inject a ton of noise into this. Think things like TrackMeNot but just in a little notepad or excel or IDE file that you fill up with believable noise all day long. For reference:
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O'Rourke was a conservative satirist (back when that could even be a thing), was semi-famous for his long term appearances on NPR's Wait Wait Don't Tell Me , and was an advocate for gonzo journalism. I take his quote to mean
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Each child is biologically required to have a mother. Fatherhood is a well-regarded theory, but motherhood is a fact. P. J. O'Rourke
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https://www.amazon.com/Careless-People-Cautionary-Power-Idea... I mean, the book is just over a year old here people. It's not like this is new or out of date stuff.
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https://thenounproject.com/ In case you were being serious ;)
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From the little that I have read, being 'a man' seems to be a human universal. In that, all males are in the status game competition wether they like it or not. Exiting the status game is of course optional, but seems to come with
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> I wouldn’t point entirely at the PhDs, though. There were some real issues that were called out (inability to communicate, over reliance on anger as an emotional outlet, etc), but the identity could have stayed largely intact. To be cl

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