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by Fricken 2y ago
Interesting , his ashes were scattered at Grey Creek Pass, the highest point on the trans-canada trail, between Nelson and Kimberly in the lower mainland of BC. I completed a 10-day tour from Vancouver to Edmonton 2 weeks ago, and we got ab
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by Fricken 2y ago
https://archive.ph/JJOzf#selection-659.0-659.58
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18,000 Miles Later, an American Woman Has Cycled the World(nytimes.com)
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At the 2 major chain Canadian grocery stores I regularly visit (Save-On and Superstore) prices can vary wildly every time I'm at the store. With Chocolate bars, coffee and butter the price fluctuations are especially violent. I'm
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You can ask Chat GPT to rewrite things in the voice of a particular author, or with other style directions. There are no guarantees it will follow your directions well, but you certainly aren't stuck with Chat GPT's default writin
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Many top-tier knowledge workers are also teachers, who review their fundamentals every time they teach them, and whose ideas are regulary vetted students in class discussions.
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by Fricken 2y ago
I feel like I'm being too obvious but maybe try using it for something it's good at.
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How come this spoon won't hold my soup? Don't tell me I'm holding it wrong!
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The first goal of any institution is to maintain the power it has. The second goal is to expand those powers. This is as true for your nearest pickleball club as it is for the CCP.
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You're under no obligation to climb the pre-set routes. You can make up problems using whatever holds are on the wall.
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by Fricken 2y ago
That reminds me of an episode of '2 Minute Papers' I saw 7 years ago, covering research to that effect: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iOWamCtnwTc
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by Fricken 2y ago
With low intensity endurance training (cycling in zone 2) I find my appetite adjusts accordingly, and remains high for a period even if I'm not doing the exercise, and that's when I gain the weight. Resistance training (bouldering
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by Fricken 2y ago
Motor vehicles are gross and dirty, that's why I ride a bicycle.
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Apple had 10 years to conjure up a killer app for the vision pro. They've got nothing.
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I have yet to see a generative example of a coherent linear narrative sequence with persistent characters/settings using static images. I would like to see a comic book or a storyboard that passes the smell test.
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Apple, Google, Facebook, Amazon, Spotify -it's all built for accessing at other people's creations, and for exploiting them.
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Change is inevitable in the AI space, and the changes come in fits and starts. In a decade OpenAI too may become a hapless fiefdom lorded over by the previous generation's AI talent.
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The risk taking personality type has always been with us, and the thing is, they'll take risks whether it's necessary or not. I think we can all agree they're pretty good to have around when the shit hits the fan.
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Exercise is excellent for staving off depression. One indicator that you may be depressed is you no longer have any motivation to do things like exercise. So while one can suggest it as a treatment, not many legit depressives are actually g
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Presumably "Art" is still too icky a term to be using.
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I hope you're not trying to cite those things as examples of stuff we've built out responsibly.
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If we cared about AI safety we simply would not develop it in the first place.
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I remember the 80s when Saturday morning cartoons were a long series of toy commercials interspersed with shorter toy commercials. I got to be the target demographic. It was the best!
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The sheer absurdity of the 4 hour runtime impels me to watch the whole thing when I get a chance.
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Brutalism has been very popular in civic architecture due to it's appearance of megalithic permanence but humans find it so ugly that a great deal of brutalist architecture has, ironically, been torn down.
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It is a tounge-in-cheek term derived by english speakers who were well aware of the double entendre. Sometimes even architects have a sense of humour.
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What you see will be custom tailored to what you believe, and your loyalty will be won. Do what the AI says and your life will be better. It already knows you better than you know yourself. Maybe you're one of those holdouts who put of
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by Fricken 2y ago
The internet is getting too full so unfortunately there was only room for one image in the article.
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by Fricken 2y ago
Last fall I bought a bicycle from the Kona bicycle company. I found out a week ago that Kona hed been bought by private equity in 2022 at peak pandemic bike shortage and is now being sold off for parts. It seems everywhere I turn these days
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by Fricken 2y ago
I mostly cycle. When I run it is usually on trails, and during winter. It is much easier on the knees than running on pavement.

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