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by ElFitz 3y ago
That's also very US-centric. In many countries it's more a title associated to education and specific degrees from specific schools than a license to practice some professional organisation could revoke. While, from my limited kno
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A Dutch Village Where Everyone Has Dementia (2014)(theatlantic.com)
98 points by ElFitz 3y ago|79 comments
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by ElFitz 3y ago
It has already been posted here before [1], but given how little nursing homes seem to have changed, I find it still relevant, and perhaps of interest to others who like me hadn’t read about it until today. [1]: https://news.ycom
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> and Amazon gets a bigger check at the end of the month. Or no check at all since it scales to zero and the free tier is ridiculously high for infrequent / low usage.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
One could have hoped that after more than 7 years we would have moved on from this debate. But we obviously haven’t. Which, despite not sharing your opinion, probably indicates the name was poorly chosen. Since it still has be defended. Or
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Because false advertising, especially advertising fake medical devices, false drugs, and made up treatments, is illegal in the countries I was in. Putting up a billboard with any of this crap would get someone in prison. And justly so.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Because I’ve spent the last 18 months implementing marketing integrations and continuously playing around with settings just to be able to read some documentation got old after a week. But perhaps that’s why Google lets this harmful crap fe
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Something I find astounding are all these pseudo-medical ads in Google Adsense and YouTube. How can they even let them through?
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by ElFitz 3y ago
It is a link to a specific comment on a GitHub issue [0] titled "Excessive memory usage when loading models with relations" where multiple users chime in and report facing the same issue. Someone honestly trying to refute my comme
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by ElFitz 3y ago
My favorite ORM is TypeORM. A client insisted we use that, mostly because they were already using it. Somehow, a few left joins led to ridiculous (talking tens of gigabytes of ram when the whole database itself was at most a hundred megabyt
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by ElFitz 3y ago
It’s great at simple tedious stuff. It’s useful for average things and concepts we might be unfamiliar with. It’s of limited use, if not utterly useless, for most things a senior would have a hard time wrapping their head around. And where
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Do you have any plans to support something like json resume, or fresh, both import and export? It’s my main quibble with various resume tools; ending up with something I won’t be able to reuse when I have to update it, and thus will need to
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Hard to say. Depending on the context, read / write model, and how inference costs go, inferring on edit to classify and tag the content could prove more expensive than having users do it client-side on read.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I’d add that the mentioned acquaintances apparently aren’t calling for a 6th republic. Just believe that the country is "ripe for it" because of repeated abuses of the, exceptionally large for a western democracy, presidential pow
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by ElFitz 3y ago
A significant majority (67%) of the currently active low ranking French police force (not counting the retirees) vote, or at least declare they intend to, for one the parties that has historically been as right wing as one can be. Taking th
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by ElFitz 3y ago
That, and providing legitimacy to the existing power structures, no matter how much of a say people actually have. And delegitimising all others forms of feedback and expression.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Yes, I did! Sorry about that. I thought it wise to only mention those whose colonial history I knew about, and avoid exposing my whole point to criticism by over-extending myself.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
France, the UK, Spain, Belgium, the Netherlands and Italy have each spent a couple centuries having fun destabilising the whole world for their own gain. The US was a bit late to the game, but appears to have caught up quite well. And while
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Sure! Sorry I forgot. Can't edit anymore. https://nautil.us/how-information-got-re_invented-236738/
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> and remember to take all of the amazing possibilities being suggested and conclusions reached herein with a grain of salt Case in point; mice still haven't reached immortality, nor taken over the world. Despite the numerous publis
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by ElFitz 3y ago
> If you're on a motorcycle you have to treat everyone and everything as out to get you, because they are. To me it’s more of a "You are the only one with a vested interest in you making it home alive and in one piece".
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I as wondering about the exact same thing. Sad to learn it’s just not an option anymore.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
… Yes? Considering some people’s use cases, the same could be said of a MacBook Pro or an iMac. I mean, have you seen their introduction video? [1] It’s basically watching movies on a huge screen and chatting with heads embedded in floating
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Claude Shannon is an incredible beast of a mind. A few years back I was wondering about how different methods of communicating information (eg dna, the human ear, speech, radio,…) could be compared. At the same time, nautilus published an a
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Today one doesn’t even need to even intend to do something to be accused of such things [1]. > Following the pattern of the so-called Tarnac affair, their arrest was accompanied by timely leaks in the media, and even political manipulati
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Not at all! Having basically no knowledge in that area, aside from a vague understanding of the purpose and uses of information theory, it is more than welcome! For those interested also unfamiliar with it: - https://eprint.iacr.
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by ElFitz 3y ago
Absolutely, that is part of what I have come to understand while diving into the topic. That I first needed to answer quite a few other questions for that one to even make sense. Thank you for the examples; they are much clearer and straigh
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by ElFitz 3y ago
I wouldn’t have thought of that. I was more interested in learning about the possible theory behind such a limit, to see if we had a way to actually know how far such optimisations can go. Basically, for any given file, what would be the
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Shannon’s Source Coding Theorem (2020)(mbernste.github.io)
127 points by ElFitz 3y ago|38 comments
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I was curious as to wether or not there is a way to determine the actual amount of information in a given file (say, an image), and thus a theoretical limit to lossless compression, which is apparently called "Kolmogorov Complexity&quo

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