Isamu

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by Isamu 3mo ago
This is the correct thread. It has to be some words that don’t seem too fake and seem to plausibly suggest forward progress. There has to be some plausible support for decisions, that someone can point to, in order to make a decision. Takin
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by Isamu 3mo ago
A pity that water isn’t being sold as an expensive supplement. Or is it?
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by Isamu 3mo ago
Privacy is a natural fit for Apple in that they make money on discrete devices, but services have grown tremendously. That’s where the erosion of privacy happens. So once there’s a profit motive for violating your privacy, the justification
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by Isamu 3mo ago
The page does give a pointer to Wikidata, I for one would love to see your example included.
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by Isamu 3mo ago
Absolutely. I think “open” can be used as a cudgel to force an agenda that is ultimately about the benefit to some small group. Nobody should feel obligated to support something that is open, they should be wondering if it’s a benefit to so
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by Isamu 3mo ago
Thanks for the discussion. >This argument boils down to X is good, therefore more of X is good. No, I only argued that it was a moral good, the kind of good. I actually may disagree with others about whether you should pursue a good just
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by Isamu 3mo ago
I’ll take a swing at it. Open Source is a form of sharing with the wider community. Closed Source is not sharing. Moral good is based on doing good outside of your own benefit (the opposite of selfishness.) Ergo it’s a kind of moral good. A
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by Isamu 3mo ago
She’s not known for the concision of her videos, true. The Feynman one is interesting to me because I also read the books about his exploits and enjoyed them. As a reader I think you should be aware of the strong human tendency to THINK you
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by Isamu 3mo ago
I guess I object to defining “creator” as specifically “online content creator”. Maybe there was some golden age in the past, but I think that was always aspirational and there was always a nearly power-law distribution of success. Making a
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by Isamu 3mo ago
Needs to be 3,300 bags of something I care about. Otherwise you are talking about nonsense or voodoo.
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by Isamu 3mo ago
Well if AI can accelerate the slopware -> abandonware lifecycle then maybe net gain? We can move on more quickly after setting fire to a zillion tokens.
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by Isamu 3mo ago
>Broadcom will produce advanced radio frequency components — including FBAR filters Thin-film bulk acoustic resonator https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thin-film_bulk_acoustic_resona... >Trends to utilize RF spectrum
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by Isamu 3mo ago
I tried tofu dogs for the first time on the grill, they were pretty good.
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by Isamu 3mo ago
I did read the article, all the way to the end. I liked the article the more that I read. And I didn’t imply Mr Bourdain was unpleasant or anything else. My point is that you cannot conclude much accurately about a person based on their wor
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by Isamu 3mo ago
Maybe controversial, but I think it’s always a mistake to idolize people instead of strictly something that they did. That’s enough, you enjoy their work, you don’t really need to turn it into an obsession about the person. You can just let
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by Isamu 3mo ago
I was looking for an explanation of how you deal with the fact that quad rotors are under-actuated, and therefore you lack the complete control authority to do any arbitrary motion in space. So path planning has to take this into account, b
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by Isamu 3mo ago
When I see “boffin” in a title I think “The Register” so kudos I guess.
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by Isamu 4mo ago
I absolutely believe this, it attracts developers that can see the idealistic potential. It is worthwhile to do your part for an ideal future. The fact that you your vision is undermined by a determined group of profiteers doesn’t diminish
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by Isamu 4mo ago
>it'll take more than one swing That’s the crux of this story. There is an expectation that, if you can chop something down in several swings, then one really big swing will do it, right? No. They don’t make machetes and swords like
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by Isamu 4mo ago
>An alarming number of people seem to build their intuition about the world from fictional sources, without even realizing it. A friend of mine had a machete that they destroyed when they took a mighty swing at a tiny tree. You could put
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by Isamu 4mo ago
I think this is part of an anti-climate change agenda, which is about protecting fossil fuel investments. Not sure that it is broadly anti-science, except maybe in the sense of being against public funding broadly.
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by Isamu 4mo ago
China has multiple reusable rocket programs, the reuse will become key to driving down costs.
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by Isamu 4mo ago
Actually knitting pasta sounds pretty worthwhile.
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by Isamu 4mo ago
Best comment I’ve seen today.
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by Isamu 4mo ago
Wake me when they bother to define consciousness in a non trivial way.
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by Isamu 4mo ago
>If a machine has to learn to understand humans to complete text, then that is what it has to do. A language model completes text based on the overlapping patterns of the training data. There absolutely was thinking involved… in the trai
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by Isamu 4mo ago
Wow, such a great text only page with news reporting, I thought these were extinct!
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by Isamu 4mo ago
AI investment and spending is frequently cited as one of the few bright spots in the economy, I wonder if the continued over-optimism is mostly about keeping the bubble inflated. If you are a tech CEO, would it be a disservice to your share
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by Isamu 4mo ago
Not quite lines of code. The person who takes a business problem and proposes an expansive solution that requires a big team that they lead to victory, that person climbs the ranks. The person that takes the same business problem and carefu
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by Isamu 5mo ago
And there was a definite shift from sharing toward evangelism. For example C was shared, C++ was evangelized. The difference is the effort put into convincing people to adopt your stuff. Java for instance was mega evangelized, Sun thought i

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