Balgair

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by Balgair 9mo ago
sorry!
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by Balgair 9mo ago
Finished "For Whom the Bell Tolls" by Hemmingway Wow, so powerful. So real. I can see why it won the accolades at the time and why it stays. The ending. You could see it a mile away, but it was so hurtful still. Would love to see
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by Balgair 9mo ago
This is his Syntopicon for modern works, and automated. It's amazing, I've been wanting to do this for a while but haven't had the time. I really think we all should sync up and talk more. I want to make this bigger.
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by Balgair 9mo ago
Wow! Amazing! Have you read the Syntopicon by Mortimer J Adler? It's right up your alley on this one. It's essentially this, but in 1965, by hand, with Isaac Asimov and William F Buckley Jr, among others. Where did you get the boo
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by Balgair 9mo ago
Is she in daycare? Does she hang out with daycare kiddos? How social are the grandparents, are they up to date on the vaccines? Covid has an estimated R of ~1.1 this winter. Meaning that the current vaccination rates of the population in th
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by Balgair 9mo ago
No really. What translation is this? What part of the religion (Maccabees, Mormons)? Is there Ge'ez portions (46 book in OT!)? How about the dead sea scrolls? I think, if it takes off with some of the probing from here, then adding in
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RFK Jr.'S Tuskegee Experiment(pauloffit.substack.com)
7 points by Balgair 9mo ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 9mo ago
I know a lot of people with access to Claude Code and the like will say that 'No, it sure seems to reason to me!' Great. But most (?) of the business out there aren't paying for the big boy models. I know of a F100 that got s
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by Balgair 9mo ago
I'd add in a 4th category: Slavery. Though no longer pertinent explicitly, the original sin of America is a potent literary force. We still feel it's sting in our African American literature nearly axiomatically. Almost by definit
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by Balgair 9mo ago
To some degree, you can't be 'ready' to have kids. They are a nuke that explodes in your life. You're totally different after having a kid. You're always 'on stage', listening, watching, being there for yo
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by Balgair 9mo ago
With having kids, there is no 'right' time. Life is too unpredictable and hard and chaotic to get all your ducks in a row for that long. But there are very much worse times. Clearly. However, the adage with marriage applies with k
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by Balgair 10mo ago
Not OP, but similar issue. I have an in law that has severe autism issues that had a career and children. They never advanced in jobs, couldn't hold friendships, got neglected at work and kinda abused, got bad assignments. They were a
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by Balgair 10mo ago
It's a storage thing. You can make it so that the parts fit together better in pieces, then you assemble the pieces in theatre during deployment, so you have more drones in combat per mothership. It's not like taking crude, cracki
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by Balgair 10mo ago
https://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/bbc-all-watched-over-by...
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by Balgair 10mo ago
I almost can't believe that the redactors were this simpleminded, but honestly, I actually expected this out one too. Schrodinger's deep state here. Too dumb to care about laws and too dumb to care about themselves too.
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by Balgair 10mo ago
There are many backup clocks/clusters that NIST uses as redundancies all around Boulder too, no need to even go up to Fort Collins. As in, NIST has fiber to a few at CU and a few commercial companies, last I checked. They're used
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by Balgair 10mo ago
Hey, I know you got a lot of flack for the article. So, I just wanted to thank you for having the courage to publish it anyways and go through all of that for all of us. I go back to the study frequently when looking at MRI studies, and it
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by Balgair 10mo ago
As an author, this sounds amazing, if I can also get a look at the things people ask. Especially if I can get some sort of stats on the questions. Like, if there were a lot of questions about when a character did something, then I know I
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by Balgair 10mo ago
Aside: When someone says: "Source?", is that kinda the same thing? Like, I'm just going to google the thing the person is asking for, same as they can. Should asking for sources be banned too? Personally, I think not. HN is b
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We're measuring AI benchmarks wrong. here's the right way(twitter.com)
1 points by Balgair 10mo ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 10mo ago
Glad to hear the change of heart here and the guts it took to write it up. I know that's not an easy thing to do, and it likely burned some bridges. The point about it being gambling, and therefore, taking advantage of idiots, yeah tha
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by Balgair 10mo ago
That stuck with me too. The modal human experience was a farmer, far and away. Not the mean, not the median, but the mode. We have the numbers to easily back it up.
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by Balgair 10mo ago
Actually you make a good point here. Women have better reaction times then men, so female drone operators, all else being equal, may be better at the job.
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by Balgair 10mo ago
All value is derived from labor. Marx agrees on this, Adam Smith agrees on this, John Locke agrees on this, heck even Keynes agrees on this; all (sensible) economists agree on this. If you do not have labor somewhere in the process, you
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Real quick, the $1000 530A account, if you put in just $1/day, $30/mo, on top of that account, then you get out ~$12,000 at the end of 30 years (assuming 5% interest rate). Which, yeah, that's enough to start a very small bus
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Yes, but if you then put in just $5.00 / mo , it jumps to ~$2,300 , a 3.8x increase. If you put in $30.00 / mo , a dollar a day, then it goes all the way up to $10,700 , a 18x increase (42x over the $250) Look, we can play with nu
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by Balgair 11mo ago
"Surely a quick, violent, successful war of aggression is just what the ruler needs to shore up his legitimacy," said just about every failed monarch in history shortly before invading Serbia. https://bsky.app/prof
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by Balgair 11mo ago
I've been reading Kate and Bret for decades (!) now. Amazing site and filled with great male content. But, umm, anyone know of any other good male-centric sites out there? All I got is Esquire.com, and it's clearly not the same ki
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by Balgair 11mo ago
Again, AI is not getting rid of degrees or learning or education. It's getting rid of cheap methods. Scantrons and bluebooks were always a way that made it cheap for institutions to produce results. Now those methods kinda seem silly
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by Balgair 11mo ago
We know they're just optimizing for time spent on the site/app, as a proxy for the number of ads they show you and then get paid for. But the thing that was supprising to me, as someone that remembers the world before the internet

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