Isamu

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by Isamu 11mo ago
The book is Goliath's Curse by Luke Kemp. I am hopeful for this one, most generalizations about collapse are not very good, they rely on avoiding the details of history and instead make sweeping generalizations. Collapse is one of thos
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by Isamu 11mo ago
A big issue for people detained, even if they are citizens, is that it can take some time to be released, and when released you may not get your belongings back. That includes passport, phone, keys, cash, jewelry. The advice I am hearing is
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by Isamu 11mo ago
So this is nice, you seem to be covering the acrylic brands you see in a craft store. I’ve had to pick nearest colors in the past, and end up buying several each time. This should help, thanks! Are there artists brands in there too?
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by Isamu 11mo ago
Larry Wall: 3 great virtues of a programmer are Laziness, Impatience and Hubris. Which is both a joke (turning virtue on its head) and kinda true, in that laziness makes you automate things, impatience spurs you to make things faster, and h
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by Isamu 11mo ago
He studied the greek classics with a mentor before he became Emperor. His Meditations reflect his study. He didn’t want to become Emperor because he viewed it as a life of strict duty and tasks that he didn’t want to do, like going on milit
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by Isamu 11mo ago
Are there any good sources of writing about AI? I am beginning to think it was all in the past.
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by Isamu 1y ago
If you get an opportunity to see them in person, it’s worth it because the fine details are that much more impressive up close. Every photo I’ve seen is not as good. Also the illustration is tinier than you would think.
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by Isamu 1y ago
To be fair, I think most people regard “not advanced math” to exclude trig, and maybe algebra too. Fear and loathing of math is a thing.
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by Isamu 1y ago
Another analogy to help us understand that LLMs are a useful part of what people do but are wildly misconstrued as the whole story
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by Isamu 1y ago
>But with great power comes great…heat! I confess to being a nerd that appreciates this “joke”
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by Isamu 1y ago
What “experts” can you directly cite? Or is the reality that you recall opinion makers saying “experts” are making clearly unsupported claims?
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by Isamu 1y ago
I’m trying to engage with the author here and maybe I’ll read the book that this refers to, but I think the author has this backwards. It’s that when you little to no choice we say you aren’t free. It doesn’t follow that having more choices
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by Isamu 1y ago
There’s a lot of male/female behavior I observe that varies with culture, I have doubts that if you are seeing behavior patterns that it’s an innate thing strictly related to gender. Particularly group behavior, you will see female gro
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by Isamu 1y ago
The observation that other CA can be equivalent is a weak critique at best, this CA may be a nice compact way of describing types of CA that have interesting properties. It is not terribly interesting that it may be subsumed by some other C
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by Isamu 1y ago
Since I found this interesting I had to look this up in wikipedia: >The call to the bar[1] is a legal term of art in most common law jurisdictions where persons must be qualified to be allowed to argue in court on behalf of another party
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by Isamu 1y ago
I agree there can be better accountability but China is not a shining example of anti-corruption, there it is used to destroy your political enemies and to increase your political power. Here the issue is probably that the political parties
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by Isamu 1y ago
The odds are manipulated to give the gambling company the advantage. Big winners are identified and dropped. It is designed to drain money from gamblers. Stocks are not that, in general. A particular fraudulent investment could be that. Cry
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by Isamu 1y ago
Right, quality was poor and the transmitter and receiver were part of the problem. They experimented with different methods, but part of the problem was that without amplification they needed a transmitter that worked at the full voltage ne
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by Isamu 1y ago
Comments mention multiplexing and that’s not wrong but the real reason for the vast number of wires is amplifiers, or rather the lack of practical ones at the time. You had to transmit at high enough power to overcome losses and still be ab
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by Isamu 1y ago
>the whole idea that 'everything is a file' is so powerful that we ended up not believing it and the resulting hacks are all so ugly in comparison I agree. People find it hard to wrap their heads around simple and uniform inter
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by Isamu 1y ago
>they somehow jump to the conclusion that AI will never be able to do these tasks at human level I don’t see that, I mostly see AI criticism that it’s not up to the hype, today. I think most people know it will approach human ability, we
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by Isamu 1y ago
So they didn’t find the people running it or funding it?
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by Isamu 1y ago
Well that’s true especially with generative art, mashups are generally without regard to taste or aesthetics. On the other hand deliberately tasteless art is a thing, it’s a bit in the eye of the beholder. It’s true that many musicians cate
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by Isamu 1y ago
>Surely Apple also knows this No, this is not as simple as Meta calling internal APIs that can be detected. This is Meta developing tricky ways of identifying users from patterns of usage without regard to opt-in. If users consent, the
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by Isamu 1y ago
Always a fun and interesting thing to try. Also go ahead and try hard things like your own cryptography. The advice “don’t roll your own crypto” just means don’t DEPLOY something that is not battle tested, because it is very easy to make BI
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by Isamu 1y ago
The main supporting point made here is about bad CarPlay integration in an expensive car? That’s a whole systems problem, it could be your phone struggling or your car system struggling, or the communications with both. Bear in mind that Ap
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by Isamu 1y ago
They rely on reporting from employers, and employers don’t report that data quickly enough, so there’s an amount of estimation. Over time they get better numbers relating to previous quarters and they revise their numbers. Also employers ca
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by Isamu 1y ago
I’m also fond of civilization. I like your point that enabling parents to work helps drive the economy to everyone’s benefit.
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by Isamu 1y ago
You mean we are not that good at cutting stone with ancient techniques, or perhaps more accurately nobody wants to expend the manual labor when there are more efficient methods. Stone carving is still a trade you can get into but you use ma
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by Isamu 1y ago
Well Amazon is mostly guided by pragmatism rather then than hype, so there they are, waiting for the dust to settle to see what directly helps their bottom line.

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