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by ChefboyOG 5y ago
...what? Is there some media conspiracy pushing unnecessary organ transplants on people that I'm unaware of? I don't think anyone gets a liver transplant because of an article in Goop. I imagine that in most cases, they do it beca
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by ChefboyOG 5y ago
It's weird, nowadays I think the only times I use SO as a reference are when I'm hitting something that is very product-specific (i.e. a weird error message in Typescript that doesn't quite make sense). In those situations, t
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by ChefboyOG 5y ago
I'm interested in the differences between opposites and inverses here. Trauma denotes a destructive change in some equilibrium, and healing inverts that. What is opposite of that disruption though? Is it growth?
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by ChefboyOG 5y ago
None that I've noticed. There was a small issue with wifi dropping intermittently, but a small tweak fixed that as well. I regularly lock the screen for long periods without issue. Really, I'm not a Linux power user who is happy t
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by ChefboyOG 5y ago
I'm using it on a Surface Pro 3 that runs Pop OS and have nothing but positives to report. Additionally, it's by far the best tablet experience I've had not just on Linux, but period.
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by ChefboyOG 5y ago
Because when you visit a new site, you don't know ahead of time if it is useful or not. That's just how "new" works.
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by ChefboyOG 5y ago
For filtering opinions in areas I"m unfamiliar, I don't have a best approach—though I'd love to hear one. One thing I've done which has been helpful is to try my best to be conscious of my relative level of expertise, an
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
I found outlier.org to be fantastic.
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
The full title went over the length limits by a fair bit.
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
Who could forget the spiritual predecessor to the oregon trail, the via appia?
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
It's not an accusational claim. It's a joke about a popular game. This is not an insane discourse on the nature of evidence, it's simply a reference you weren't familiar with.
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Ex-Google CEO urges US to ignore calls to ban autonomous weapons(thenextweb.com)
50 points by ChefboyOG 6y ago|56 comments
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Oddly, the last technical interview process I went through was the best and in some ways, the most old fashioned. There were three "rounds": 1. Phone screen with actual lead developer. There were some quiz-y questions here, which
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
This is the essence of what Google implements. Links between sites are a form of user curation, user behavior (clicks, read throughs, bounce rate, etc.) are like inferred votes. The problem is, everything is gameable. Marketers abuse reddit
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
...what? The history of mob-dynamic, targeted harassments on the internet is, generously, uniformly distributed across gender. See: 4chan/the web in general, prior to very recent history. Even if we scope it down specifically to fandom
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
Blocking non-Google users would be nonsensical. News sites currently have tons of non-revenue adding users. The problem they're trying to solve isn't "How do we block these people?"—it's how do we monetize them. Thi
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An inmate’s love for math leads to new discoveries(theconversation.com)
3 points by ChefboyOG 6y ago|0 comments
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Lex is a pretty unconventional interviewer, but I actually think he's pretty fantastic at what he does. In particular, he is one of the best at thinking like a beginner and asking clarifying questions as his guests talk. He interviews
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
This. It's a cycle of bundled complexity to unbundled "simplicity" and back. I'm not so sure it's even entirely unique to software.
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
Predictive text and image classification are not the extent of ML's limits, even going by what is currently in production. Recommendation engines, ETA prediction, translation, drug discovery, medicinal chemistry, fraud detection—these
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A Desktop Quantum Computer for Just $5k(discovermagazine.com)
4 points by ChefboyOG 6y ago|0 comments
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
In theory, I think this is a plausible positive scenario. In practice, however, I've never seen it play out like this (huge anecdata here). I've worked remote most of my career, and in my experience, the politics and work theateri
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
I mean, corporations do regularly offshore as much work as they possibly can and build new plants/offices in low cost locations. Obviously, they need employees, but it's not as if companies don't already do everything they ca
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
I believe they're referring to buying lab equipment on eBay. https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-018-05655-3
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
I always wonder about bias in these statistics around age. It makes intuitive sense to me that a cancer diagnosed in a young patient, who is below the common screening age, is probably being diagnosed because it is presenting serious sympto
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
I think it's important to have some conception of a personal "risk tolerance" when it comes to screenings. Personally, I've had false alarms and dealt with that stress, and I still find that screenings are worthwhile. Ha
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
I'm as skeptical of corporations as the next person, but I'm not sure Microsoft is comparable to a literal authoritarian regime.
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The segment who opposed the Civil Rights Act, including the senators who filibustered it for nearly 60 days to force a compromised version and the business owners who openly defied it for years in protest, seems like a good place to start.
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by ChefboyOG 6y ago
To be clear, non-trivial WYSIWYG already works. Wix and Shopify are both publicly traded companies, while Automattic and Squarespace are both planning 2021 IPOs. Wix shares have gone from roughly ~$17 in 2013 to ~$257 today, while Shopify h
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Cortex 0.26: Machine learning inference at scale(github.com)
1 points by ChefboyOG 6y ago|0 comments

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