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by Balgair 1y ago
I mean, in my little part of the world if you go up to any sub 24 year old male and say: " What's the line?" you'll get the betting numbers for the 'largest' local team playing that day. It's a bit differe
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'll make a bet here: By the 2040 US presidential election, anti-gambling legislation will be a bigger party platform issue than abortion is for one of the two major US political parties. We are ruining a generation of men with this, j
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by Balgair 1y ago
Neuro person here. Yes, many neurons fire at discrete intervals set by their morphology. In fact, this DFT/FFT/Infinite-FT/whatever-FT is all the hell over neuroscience. Many neurons don't really 'communicate'
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Falsehoods Programmers Believe About Names (2010)(kalzumeus.com)
3 points by Balgair 1y ago|1 comments
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by Balgair 1y ago
At my org it more that these AI tools finally allow the employees to get through things at all. The deadlines are getting met for the first time, maybe ever. We can at last get to the projects that will make the company money instead of cha
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by Balgair 1y ago
If this can reliably deal with the REF, VALUE, and NA problems, it'll be worth it for that alone. Oh and deal with dates before 1900. Excel is a gift from God if you stay in its lane. If you ever so slightly deviate, not even the Devil
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by Balgair 1y ago
Mine has always been: I have 2 files. One is a .pdf . The other is a .doc . One file has a list of prices and colors in 2 columns. The other file has a list of colors and media in 2 columns. There are incomplete lists here and many to one m
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by Balgair 1y ago
It's so rare though! Mars has a lot, but Earth has like only a handful of places. Use the artificial stuff instead, much cheaper!
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'd always heard the Iron Laws of Beauraracy as: (0) The only thing that matters is the budget. (1) Beauraracies only grow, never shrink. You can only control the growth rate.
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by Balgair 1y ago
But the reverse it true too. You can't be sure you got every one of the other species. Especially with the transmission times at light speed. In the books, they use these dimension collapsing bombs to eradicate everything, but, um, tho
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by Balgair 1y ago
I never did buy the dark forest argument. I mean, even in the books, there were smidgeons of humanity left over. And then all the dimension collapsing strangeness. You just can never be sure. I dunno, it just reeks of the culture of suspici
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My Issues with AI in the Creative Process – James Gurney (Dinotopia)(jamesgurney.substack.com)
3 points by Balgair 1y ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 1y ago
> Something else is going on. The brain 'stores' data without using power. Under classical synapse structure, it modifies the butons to modulate the charges and neurotransmitters passing and being received. This is memristance.
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by Balgair 1y ago
Flip the script! Why have installations or stores at all? Just have a self driving and self making burrito trucks. You order one up, and on the way to you, it's being made in the back. Little hatch on the side, shoots out onto your d
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by Balgair 1y ago
So yeah, Oracle
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by Balgair 1y ago
I mean that's a pretty good control. Granted not a lot of the deceased are going to get these autopsys though. Still, a good control group
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by Balgair 1y ago
NCAA women's sports too. These young women don't have the money to hire security and are especially vulnerable as a result
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by Balgair 1y ago
I know you're not asking for it, but as someone that has a really hard time with anxiety and sleep: quit caffeine and exercise more. The quitting caffeine is tough. It's 3 days of really bad headaches that no pain killer will touc
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by Balgair 1y ago
Bret Devereaux is going through the 'peasant experience' right now here: https://acoup.blog/2025/07/11/collections-life-work-death-an... It's not done yet, and I am eagerly awaiting the end res
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by Balgair 1y ago
Where are you looking? Startups? The larger firms aren't really looking for those degrees with bio, at least in the SW side. If they are, I would ignore that requirement and apply anyways. Most of these firms have bad HR departments th
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by Balgair 1y ago
I can only speak for a few companies that I know of here, but not really, no. Programmers are really needed. Now, you're going to be working on firmware and with chips (C, BASIC, python, etc), so it's not the stuff that may be in
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by Balgair 1y ago
> I've also seen less and less passion for the career as the years go by (ie. less computer nerds). Ahh yes, the 'pre-med'ification of CS.
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by Balgair 1y ago
Come to Biotech! We desperately need programmers with any sort of skills. The pay is not as good, but the companies are more stable (generally) and the benefits are fine. Mostly remote work for programming. You'll have to deal with bio
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by Balgair 1y ago
The cost of the next number in a GPT (3>4>5) seems to be in 2 ways: 1) $$$ 2) data The second (data) also isn't cheap. As it seems we've already gotten through all the 'cheap' data out there. So much so that synthe
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by Balgair 1y ago
Was I not clear here? My parentheses would include people that don't gamble with the 'at least' there, I thought.
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by Balgair 1y ago
The hot new interview question for 2025-2035 will not be: - How many golf ball fit in a school bus? Or the like that dominated Google hiring for nearly a decade. No the hot new interview question will be: - Do you have an account with any
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by Balgair 1y ago
I'm stupid, so my question will be too. I'm trying to write a really large book. I have a lot of material that I'm using RAG to help manage. I put into my prompts the top RAG cosine scores with some summaries of characters an
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by Balgair 1y ago
Video. It's for video. We don't have the compute to do video on demand right now like we do images or text or audio. Combining all the modalities together, smoothly, at speed, and for cheap, is going to take a hell of a lot of thi
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by Balgair 1y ago
Parenthood is simultaneously saying about your own parents: -How the hell did they do it? And - What the hell were they thinking? I'll echo the frustrations you're having. I have the exact same ones with my own folks
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by Balgair 1y ago
Amazing! Great work. Random question for you in the biz: where can I get a muon detector setup? I just can't find them anywhere and would love to gain access to the extraterrestrial and solar weather particle environment.

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