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by Fricken 2y ago
I got a kick out of this headline yesterday: "Meta is reportedly scrambling ‘war rooms’ of engineers to figure out how DeepSeek’s AI is beating everyone else at a fraction of the price" https://fortune.com/2025&#x2
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>In their natural habitat, wolf packs operated nothing like the prison-yard dynamics he'd observed in the zoo. Human's aren't in their natural habit most of the time either. "Prison-yard dynamics" is how the publ
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He started on public access television, it was unpaid, he made the whole show for free.
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Maybe the World Wide Web will be will be reduced to a series of blog rings where nerds and oddballs share their peculiar interests and discuss eclectic ideas.
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"...we are increasingly seeing athletes, like the skier Lindsey Vonn, 40, and the climber Chris Sharma, 43, staging midlife comebacks... You can absolutely be fitter at 40 or 50 than you were at 30." Chris Sharma is still a god bu
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by Fricken 2y ago
Cavemen could tell the difference between feast and famine and so can we. It doesn't mean we can control ourselves. I don't believe the crux of the problem is related to the information on the nutrition label, or how accurately we
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by Fricken 2y ago
"Ok Google, how tall was Jimmy Carter" "1.77 metres" "How tall was Jimmy Carter in imperial units?" (Google can't answer) "What is 1.77 metres in imperial units?" "0.001099827 miles" &q
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by Fricken 2y ago
The thing is we're all experts at eating food, we've all been doing it our whole lives. You'd think in that time one would have cultivated an intuition about whether they are eating too much or too little regardless of the nu
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by Fricken 2y ago
As it turns out the US actually lost WW2. Well how about that?
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I ride a bike, and doing so has saved me about $450k in transportation costs over 3 decades. The effort it takes to earn $450k is something to include amongst the unpleasantries and pathologies associated with driving. Now, of course, I&#x2
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Regardless of how his films come together as a whole, Lynch is without a doubt the most prolific producer of haunting and unforgettable imagery that inhabits my mind. A few months ago I rewatched, on Youtube a scene from the Elephant Man, a
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by Fricken 2y ago
I recommend starting at the beginning with Eraserhead. He hasn't made anything I would classify as less than brilliant.
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It doesn't seem like it's going to be available soon. My old Switch is dying. If it kicks the bucket I'm not going to replace it with another old Switch. I will break down and buy a PlayStation if the Switch 2 isn't avai
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FYI the archive link does not show the complete article Here is the full article: https://archive.ph/quPv4
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by Fricken 2y ago
I became progressively more withdrawn throughout my school years and for most of high school I was a ghost. I talked to no one and hid in the library during lunch hours, and for all the kinds of reasons that have already been mentioned here
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by Fricken 2y ago
>White LEDs reduce car crashes by 0.1% and that is measurable, but sleep quality and aesthetics are not measurable. You just have to care about them. And nobody cares. I've always been sensitive to the flicker and broken colour spec
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by Fricken 2y ago
I'm a rock climber. There are many people out there who take wild and unnecessary risks on a regular basis for no accolades whatsoever, out in the middle of nowhere where no one can see them, and they don't tell anybody about it a
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by Fricken 2y ago
SNL seemed like sophisticated adult humour back when I still had a bedtime. I can rewatch old Kids in the Hall and SCTV sketches and laugh my ass off. Most classic SNL sketches from the 80s and 90s however seem juvenile to me now.
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What I can't get from a regular forecast is an indication of when the sun is shining on a particular face.
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The Rohingya genocide was fomented on Facebook. Facebook ignored dire warnings for years from human rights organizations including Amnesty international, Humanrightswatch.org and the UN.
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When I was a kid I thought I was going to be a stuntman, and falling down in various dramatic ways, sometimes off of tall things such as balconies, ladders and garages. In the decades since I've fallen off of bikes hundreds of times, I
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by Fricken 2y ago
Without a doubt it is overwhelmingly downhill riders. Everyone I know who does it has suffered multiple broken bones.
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by Fricken 2y ago
Hey! I rode from Vancouver to Edmonton in August, and from Princeton to Kimberly we were pretty much on the BC epic route. Our ride was 1000 miles, 10 days, 10 miles of elevation gained (I'm Candaian but's nice round numbers when
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by Fricken 2y ago
For the 2024 tour divide race 21% of the entrants were in the 60-69 age bracket. This means I don't need to be in too big a hurry to get all my bucket list bike tours done.
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I guess if I'm totally out of condition then exercising feels very inefficient. Once I'm in condition, though, it's calories in = calories and it isn't complicated, at least for endurance activites. If I pile on more ac
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There's no such thing as a 5km marathon, that's a contradicition in terms. However, if one were running 150 minutes a week on a regular basis then a (42km) marathon would likely not be too intimidating a prospect. Suffice to say,
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If one were getting the doctor recommended amount of exercise running for 30 minutes or some commensurate activity would not be intimidating, and it's far less likely that you would have a weight issue in the first place. Doctors recom
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Cyclists typically have enough energy stored up to ride for about 90 minutes without needing to refuel. For me it's 90 minutes on the button, and it doesn't seem to matter what I've eaten beforehand or how hard I push myself.
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>I mean, what happens to Eliezer Yudkowsky's -- the biggest advocate of stopping all AI research due to AI existential risk -- career if it turns out that AI risk is simply not an existential concern? Either AGI arrives and kills us
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I coined the term "fancy cruise control" on reddit, as a joke, to describe Autopilot. One of the mods of the self-driving car sub thought the term was so funny he made a joke subreddit for it. A few years later Tesla lawyers invok

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