ImaCake

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by ImaCake 2y ago
That's an amazing piece of work. Even in a quick skim I picked up a lot of new ideas which speaks to how well the author can explain tricky concepts!
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by ImaCake 2y ago
In Australia at least, this is partly because those who actually work are forced to live further out. Those who are retired, don't need to work, or have senior remote roles have a stranglehold on the inner suburbs. We have a donut of o
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by ImaCake 2y ago
I went from a 15min to a 25-30min car commute. But it took me 5 minutes to get my car out of the basement garage so really it's not so bad. I also miss living close to stuff. But there is a different kind of convenience to owning a hou
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by ImaCake 2y ago
Then its a shame the editorialised title implies contagion.
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by ImaCake 2y ago
You can absolutely ruin your health mountain biking. Breaking your neck is a thing that is more probable if you do mountain biking.
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by ImaCake 2y ago
Yes, and people who have a certain mental architecture tend to associate with others who have similar brains. ADHDers tend to have friends with ADHD at least partly because they are more forgiving of some of the challenges of having ADHD. T
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by ImaCake 2y ago
I wish I could appraise someone’s skill at something without that being considered as a general endorsement but I guess not. I don’t think Sam Altman is probably that great at most of what he would like ppl to think he is great at. But he m
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by ImaCake 2y ago
Yeah, this is about the most positive and amiable way to solve the real problem of Sam Altman not having enough time to lead YC. It is a testament to Sam's own marketing skills that even banal stuff is driving mad speculation.
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by ImaCake 2y ago
I follow a few environmental researchers, climate scientists, and several large mining companies relevant to my role. I find Linkedin to be a pretty good way to get information I wouldn't otherwise seek out that is relevant to my indus
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by ImaCake 2y ago
You can do this with the copilot chat feature in MS Edge. I just tried to ask it to use only wikipedia and it gave me four references, two of which were wiki. So at least you can get it to spit out references with a bias
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by ImaCake 2y ago
Having the data available for download and a paywalled API is pretty standard practice for a lot of this kind of data. Copernicus weather/satellite data is often setup like this. There's a free download option, a free (limited) AP
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by ImaCake 2y ago
Exactly. I am a "Data Scientist" for whatever that label is worth. But what I actually do is domain specific to outdoor air quality. These tools help automate the boring stuff - if chatGPT made programming obsolete for me tomorrow
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by ImaCake 2y ago
Child mortality rates were over 40% in 1800, so yeah, even a child had to be lucky to get cancer in the past.
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by ImaCake 2y ago
I thought Corporatism was the kind of socialised capitalism practiced in South Korea? In that mode large corporations act as the welfare state for employees while the corporation keeps redundancies to a minimum. Private Equity is kinda the
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by ImaCake 2y ago
The H5N1 tests are PCR (with an extra “reversed” step for RNA) and are, in fact, pretty reliable. The same was true for COVID. The bad covid tests were the early antibody tests which had a ridiculously high false positive rate that made the
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by ImaCake 2y ago
The technical reason for this is just that the algorithm fails to distinguish between these two groups. Probably its just a hard problem to solve from a sample of what people listen to. I suspect a significant fraction of people that like b
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by ImaCake 2y ago
It's great to see someone with schizophrenia writing about the disorder. It's (relatively) easy to find patient voices for most psychiatric disorders, but very difficult with schizophrenia due to the severity of the condition. I&#
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I hadn’t considered this side effect of engine breaking in electrics. But yeah, the cumulative impact is probably appreciable!
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This is a shallow and ignorant opinion. Carbon footprint compared to what? Public transport, or more likely, an ICE car? 2 minutes critical thought is enough to consider this question as null.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I find there are corners of facebook where you can find good discussion of some topics. Birdwatching is fairly easy, lots of interesting discussion even on big groups. Public transport is contentious but local city groups often have posts f
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Indeed, if someone is succeeding despite the barriers of their ad-hoc, idiosyncratic, ESL then it might signal that they are really good at something. Note that the something could be appearing very successful in-spite of broken english.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Airlines are also an interface for intelligence agencies and presumably a whole bunch of subtle geopolitical stuff. Great way to move your agents around, and you can run operations from the airline's local office.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
This would work in San Jose because it’s a hot Mediterranean climate. Such climates have very predictable hot dry summers and cool wet winters. In Perth, similar climate, we often go month’s without rain in summer but will have several cons
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Having fast code is essentially the same principle applied to programming. If I am developing, testing, or debugging stuff that can be slow it is worth the effort to make the run time as short as possible. I will truncate test data or use t
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Wholeheartedly agree with this reply. Attacking grammar is only very, very rarely the right move. It’s most useful as a distraction akin to an ad hominem attack. Everyone knows what is meant by the author even if they don’t know the diction
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Because programmers take shortcuts. Its easier to type x - 365 than to import Calendar and then date(x) - timedelta(1 year).
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by ImaCake 3y ago
They do this all the time in sub-tropical locations. Cooler moist air from the ocean brings clouds which dissapate over the hot dry land. Mostly you don’t see it because clouds change at just the right pace for us not to notice them changin
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by ImaCake 3y ago
I noticed this in Australia during the recent eclipse. It was only partial and fairly subtle in my location but the birds went into evening chorus and increased activity before resuming normal behaviour once the eclipse ended.
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Confusing name considering Microsoft's DAX scripting language for PowerBI. https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/dax/dax-overview
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by ImaCake 3y ago
Anyone else find this an incredibly difficult article to make any sense of? I've read a lot of epidemiological research and I haven't really come across "primiparas" before, why not just call it "first births"?

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