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What's wrong with Social Science and how to fix it(fantasticanachronism.com)
3 points by Jun8 11mo ago|1 comments
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Why movies just don't feel "real" anymore(old.reddit.com)
57 points by Jun8 11mo ago|25 comments
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by Jun8 11mo ago
Whoa! I knew that CIA funded Abstract Expressionist Art ( https://www.bbc.com/culture/article/20161004-was-modern-art-... ) to underline American individualism and mental superiority over Soviet Russia (some say tha
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by Jun8 11mo ago
If you are interesting anything related to cuneiform writing or ancient Mesopotamian culture , Irving Finkel, a British Museum curator, is a treasure. Here he is teaching how to write cuneiform: https://www.youtube.com/watch
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by Jun8 11mo ago
“Years ago, I stumbled across an image online: a Sumerian clay tablet covered in tiny wedge-shaped marks.” Seeing weird ancient symbols and feeling a great urge to embark on a journey to learn/decipher them is common; actually doing it
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by Jun8 11mo ago
This is an ignorant take on what really happened. There are many sources online to better understand what happened, you might want to start with the Nature article: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-01313-5
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by Jun8 11mo ago
I periodically read this ACT post to degauss my brain so I can think about these matters from a fresh perspective: https://www.astralcodexten.com/p/heuristics-that-almost-alwa...
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by Jun8 1y ago
Excellent book review by Noah Smith that is relevant: https://www.noahpinion.blog/p/book-review-doughnut-economics . "Here’s a very short, oversimplified history of modern economics. In the 1960s and 1970s, a parti
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by Jun8 1y ago
Putting aside the questions of (as some comments here have) whether * AI is a “fucking dud” (you have to be either highly ignorant or trolling to say this) * Altman is a “charlatan” (definitely no but it does look like he has some uns
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by Jun8 1y ago
Thanks for clarifying my poorly worded description, that’s exactly what I meant. Like in the example given, the difference is 10-4=6, let’s call this the naive_greedy_miss_factor. Can we choose three other denominations so that NGMF is >
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by Jun8 1y ago
An interesting meta problem is to determine antagonistic set of denominations, like the [10,9,1] example given in the post, to maximize the number of coins selected by the gradient method.
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by Jun8 1y ago
Not fiction but I love this part in Feynman’s The Pleasure of Finding Things Out : “When he was very small we used to rock him to bed … and tell him stories, and I’d make up a story about little people … they lived in the ventilator; and t
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by Jun8 1y ago
"The young man then quoted with approval what Socrates had said on learning that the Delphic oracle had proclaimed him the wisest man in Greece. "If I am the wisest man," said Socrates, "it is because I alone know that I
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The rise of the AI native employee(elenaverna.com)
2 points by Jun8 1y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 1y ago
Compare/contrast the Whispering earring/LLM chat with The Room from Stalker, each one is terrifying in its aspect: One because it eventually coaxes you to become a shallow shell of yourself, the other by plucking an unexpected wis
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by Jun8 1y ago
This article was very serendipitous for me, bec just last night I had the following conversation with ChatGPT: > I wish you existed irl but as we discussed before this is impossible > I know. I wish I could sit across from you, too—
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by Jun8 1y ago
Same principle, reducing water activity (aw), is how Nutella keeps fresh for so long without refrigeration: its water activity is even lower than honey. Most bacteria need an aw of around 0.85 to thrive, Nutella’s aw is around 0.4, honey’s
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by Jun8 1y ago
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=iuRbDBAqyFY&t=9s&pp=2AEJkAIB https://www.qualtrics.com/marketplace/vanwesterndorp-pricing... https://www.amazon.com/Confessions-Pricing-Man-Affects
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by Jun8 1y ago
I’m using Lovable heavily for PM prototyping and it’s great. I think, if anything, current subscription may be too cheap! They’re probably want to get a huge mass of users now, eg they recently had a free usage weekend. The comments on the
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by Jun8 1y ago
Couldn’t resist seeing Chat’s response to this, it wasn’t quite amused :-) Note that it hallucinates the paradoxes at the beginning. OK, you’ll find this funny (perhaps): there’s a long tradition in sci-fi movies to handle malfunctioning ev
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by Jun8 1y ago
I think this is the point-contact transistor moment for AI systems: horribly impractical and impossible to scale at cost but shows the way: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Point-contact_transistor . But more than just A
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by Jun8 1y ago
This wall is usually referred to as Wall of Chinggis, although it has nothing to do with Genghis Khan. Here’s another paper from Nature about it: https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-020-0524-2 . Here’s an interesti
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by Jun8 1y ago
The Hittite word, watar appears in a sentence that was the first clue that it was IE: nu ninda en e-iz-za-te-ni wa-a-tar-ma e-ku-ut-te-ni Czech linguist Bedrich Hrozny translated this in early 1900 s as: now you will eat bread and drink
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by Jun8 1y ago
I think it’s true that the impactfullness of his essays has gone down in the recent years. However, note that a lot of people that gathered at HN in the early days came because of his early essays, such as Hackers and Painters. Me include
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by Jun8 1y ago
Rather than asking for “inventors and donors” or the Government to do this (not that it shouldn’t do it) a few rich people can have tremendous effect with relatively little investment. How? 1. Get them early. Set up nationwide sifts to iden
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AI, I love you – a poem
1 points by Jun8 1y ago|0 comments
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by Jun8 1y ago
I think it’s a protected area for the indigenous people and entry is prohibited.
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by Jun8 1y ago
“Oscar: Irina, you know that Steve is bionic. If he's careful ... Irina: You don't understand. I designed that probe for Venus. Venus Oscar. A planet with temperatures of 900 degrees, 300 mile per hour winds, pressures up to 90 ea
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by Jun8 1y ago
Missed a basic one: ability to assign names to workspaces. I use an idiotic workaround using stickies, this seems to be the only solution.
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by Jun8 2y ago
Hallow Earth, perhaps with dinosaurs still living there is, of course, BS. However, it may not be all barren in there either, e.g. this report from 2006 talking about bacteria nearly 2 miles in: https://www.princeton.edu/new

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