DanielBMarkham

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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
In my opinion, might be worthy of a meta rule: If the only result of a post is to discuss the value or general opinion of a particular public person, it is, by definition, not a post we would like in our conversation.
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
I find that hilarious because I actually feel the opposite way. We have ignored the impact of what we do far, far too long. Forums like this facilitate this false dichotomy. Society IS tech. To believe otherwise is stupid. But I have found
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by DanielBMarkham 2y ago
Long time HN-er I'm flagging this. It's not because I give a hoot about sama but because this kind of crap is posted only to lead to endless discussion. Get to work. Focus. Whatever the hell Sam is can wait for another day.
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Nawcad Brings Hyper-Realistic Flight Test and Training Simulators(news.usni.org)
1 points by DanielBMarkham 2y ago|0 comments
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NASA Veteran's Propellantless Propulsion Drive That Physics Says Shouldn't Work(thedebrief.org)
38 points by DanielBMarkham 2y ago|45 comments
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Humans do this every now and then. We seem to suffer through it somehow. Most of history consists of a large-scale epistemological battle. We used to think the Roman Emperor (or equivalent) was the sole source of truth and understanding. Th
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I remain fascinated by UFOs/UAPs. I have been this way since I was a child, although I went from "I want to believe" to "This is an example of people being stupid" and finally my current position. UAPs are intermitt
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I wrote one which I do not promote, but I dropped by the forum and you asked. https://leanpub.com/info-ops/c/LeanpubWeeklySale2024Jan19 Note: Book 2 is more code-centric, with active strategies to minimize solutio
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Because it shields you from implementation details, making your work orders-of-magnitude simpler as time wears on. Think of how you already interact with pure functions: bash piping, SQL statements, OS math libraries, etc. If you're ex
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I don't want to write an essay for an answer. I wish the author the best of luck in realizing their error. I used to feel the same way. I wrote and blogged about it, then did a bunch of research. I feel that this journey of ideas I too
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A Christmas Story(danielbmarkham.com)
1 points by DanielBMarkham 3y ago|0 comments
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Man owns the most advanced private Air Force(thedrive.com)
3 points by DanielBMarkham 3y ago|0 comments
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I read this recently. I can't vouch for the source and I haven't researched it. https://time.com/6301288/the-ai-jokes-that-give-me-nightmare...
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I loved this when he posted it. Taking this a step further, and being facetious, I'm thinking of starting my own network! It's all me, all the time. Sometimes I'll be a nature show, sometimes I'll be in a spy movie, some
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
This essay is a mess. I won't flag it, but I doubt with such poor definitions it'll make much of a useful conversation on HN. I counted four topics in the first few paragraphs that the author defined in a poor, self-serving way. A
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
When "The Wire" came out, "The Sopranos", "Breaking Bad", "Better Call Saul", I thought "woo hoo! We are in the golden age of television!" Then I read about the billions(!) being dropped int
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I am moving from the tech world into long form fiction, so I find the intersection of fiction and comments from folks on HN interesting. Definitions matter. To me, art is emotional impact over time. Good art can impact you emotionally from
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
It's already easy to buy this thing. Show your papers.
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I've been using a phrase for several years, "profound ignorance". I might use "humble abductions." Thanks. We always end up back with cluster/cohort analysis, then definitions. I think a big part of the problem
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
You're not wrong, but I think you may have headed out the wrong way from your conclusion. Reproducibility trumps causal models. If you call the psychic hotline and get the same results time-after-time, then keep using the psychic hotli
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
This is an odd argument. The net is currently broken in many ways. One of the many ways is fake negative reviews. They easily destroy small businesses. As I understand your argument, because the net has solid endpoints we can identify and i
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Key phrase: "a year" If anybody is suggesting permanent bans of IPs, it's not me, at least not at a public level. I may very well choose privately to do that. To clarify, I, personally chooses a blacklist policy. Not some oth
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
It's interesting to me that most of the push-back so far has been for the business model of the internet, ie people need link traversal and content publishing in order to make money from advertising (implied, but not stated). Therefore
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Why don't we just require major providers to provide a realtime list of IPs that are attacking so that we can drop them in a block list with an expiration date of a month or so. If your computer is infected, I don't want to talk t
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I agree, but keep in mind that the goal of AI (whatever that is) all along is not explanatory power, it's verisimilitude. This is due to necessity, since we don't understand it already, the only way to judge it is to see if it kin
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I generally agree. As I learn more, I realize how much we teach kids younger in their lives is oversimplified, bowlderized BS, no matter the topic. I think that's unavoidable. You have to learn some comic book version of, say, physics
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
I love history but I'm just a layman. I get quite angry when people get reductionist about history, usually because of story or narrative (pre-templated story patterns re-applied over and over again) The beauty of history is that the s
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
This is ridiculous for a lot of reasons. I'll try to just point out the top one or two in the interest of brevity. 1. Predicting the long-term future is a bizarre and fruitless game. One might even say idiotic. If you're a prepper
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Chemists Strike Back (LK-99)(twitter.com)
2 points by DanielBMarkham 3y ago|0 comments
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by DanielBMarkham 3y ago
Related essay: Negatives Stack, Positives Don't https://danielbmarkham.com/negatives-stack-positives-dont-a-...

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