Psyladine

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by Psyladine 4y ago
>I and most people on this site probably prefer the compact list of text titles, since the information is easier to parse. When the topics are as diverse & nuanced as hn feed, sure. When searching for lawnmower or car, 300 text listi
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Any tool is a weapon proportional to its power & utility. Beyond that, there's nothing nefarious inherent in weaponry, the DARPA initiatives that birthed the internet were based in defense, against nuclear annihilation. Seems like
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by Psyladine 4y ago
In the sense that there isn't any difference in spending your annual salary on lottery tickets instead of food. Before you balk, I point you at the handful of winners who raked in billions, a ROI most of these "food eaters" c
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by Psyladine 4y ago
re: (e), they can't. I don't mean they cannot physically operate the sequence of events (even a properly incentivized chimpanzee could do that), but that they lack the programmatic sense of problem solving that is assumed (quite a
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by Psyladine 4y ago
It sounds like Gavin went beyond that, cutting into Sony's forbidden library space; it helps that he was a lisp head and didn't respect the existing C prefabs. I don't remember if it was the blog or the extended video but he
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Realizing how pointless all of this is, for one.
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by Psyladine 4y ago
The last sentence is Tolkien admitting he aborted the project. He wrote The Hobbit as something of a children's tale in a bout of inspiration, and the LoTR when his publisher was weirded out by the alien nature of the silmarillion, ask
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Then you'd read Verhoeven's intent correctly. Heinlein was an unabashed fascist and nationalist, and Verhoeven gave him his future fantasy exactly as he intended it (military glorification, unification, responsibility to the state
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by Psyladine 4y ago
The same way oil-scarce regions don't compete against oil-rich ones. Geography is destiny, and nations specialize in industry for a reason, beyond the universals (food, education, justice and social welfare).
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by Psyladine 4y ago
>I kinda miss those days, and I kinda don't. I guess it was good to have experienced them. There's a certain reflective quality and even satisfaction from using a chainsaw after coming up using a tree saw by hand. It feels prog
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by Psyladine 4y ago
My unqualified crackpot theory is the stranger danger panic plus trend towards children later in life compounded in more "kids indoors" time, which translates into media consumption. The generations inheriting that arrived just in
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by Psyladine 4y ago
While not a proper historian I find Dan Carlin's observations very interesting, especially him comparing how, historically speaking, the middle class of their period had a lifestyle quite envious to our own, more akin to how we imagine
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by Psyladine 4y ago
If you don't want to know how the sausage is made, mate...you may think different if you will end up laid up with non-functioning lungs and only this niche medical apparatus available.
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by Psyladine 4y ago
I've been trying to break into biotech for years...short answer is they want biologists, not programmers, and don't appreciate skillsets that aren't already secondary to PHD industry-relevant experience.
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by Psyladine 4y ago
>Using a two-wave, multisource survey design and collecting primary data from 118 business units of a headhunting company in China >>The data that support the findings of this study are available on request from the corresponding a
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by Psyladine 4y ago
It's not going anywhere. Programming is becoming larger, and the problems it can reasonably (as well as unreasonably) solve are increasing in scope as business managers try to leverage a more socially-acceptable field. Additionally hyb
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by Psyladine 4y ago
Cutting edge language processing algorithms trained by professionals in a herding manner for years ought to produce something that solves what is basically a parlor trick of language. It might even be a cheat-around on encoded rules but I d
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by Psyladine 4y ago
>since the machine can parse the text faster than you You had me up until there; the machine doesn't know jack about text. It knows arrays and sequences of numbers according to the rules we've defined them by, for it. Yuo cna r
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by Psyladine 5y ago
What makes you say that? Their attitudes towards concepts like cheating, deception and outcome over process behind the social wall of politeness and diligence might surprise you.
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by Psyladine 5y ago
Bikeshed effect writ large, I'm afraid. It's not our fault, our brains are wired to find quick & dirty; simple not small is beautiful. But people also contemptuous of what they understand, and accept at face value what they do
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by Psyladine 5y ago
While Ned Ludd's ghost might upvote this, I am as unconvinced of this as apparently everyone in this thread has always been of bitcoin. For starters, any increase of output with a decrease of input labor is by definition an increase of
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by Psyladine 5y ago
>The headlining novel of the biopunk subgenre, Bacigalupi's "The Windup Girl", is set in a future Bangkok. Bacigalupi falls for japanophilia with the Japanese fetishization of geisha (the windup-girl of the title). His emp
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by Psyladine 5y ago
Japanophiles in the 80s were excessive. Scifi from the era has these undertones (Running Man, in 1986, has a bunch of execs being served sushi in post-apocalyptic california, by a geisha). Rising Sun in 1990 personified this fear that Japan
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by Psyladine 5y ago
Go farther. Would the results have ever been validated if the source of truth was not a universal format easily interpretable by millions?
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by Psyladine 5y ago
It's not saying regardless, it's says controlled for. A subtle distinction, but the former is a raw comparator and latter is an adjustment, which implies even with a bias that still doesn't account for substantive change. I w
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by Psyladine 5y ago
>but the idea of standardised testing being equivalent across all factors just strikes me as being fundamentally untrue. What's your take on MIT's stance? our ability to accurately predict student academic success at MIT 02 Ou
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by Psyladine 5y ago
How something is said is at least as important as the intention. Isn't that tone policing core to the hn ethos? Dressing up thoughts in symbols may seem like a marketability approach, or maybe an attack vector in the best traditions of
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by Psyladine 5y ago
I'm a believer that the largest part of what led Yeltsin to fundamentally change what it was, and thus cause the dissolution of the USSR, was his impromptu grocery store visit in the US.
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by Psyladine 5y ago
Beautiful, isn't it. Humanity truly are not the creative geniuses we mythologize ourselves as, but instead nature's supreme recombinators. Visions of the future are more like rorschach tests, revealing anxieties of the present.
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by Psyladine 5y ago
I recall the experience of a blind adult getting surgery that allowed for vision, and describing the process of learning visual information gave some idea of what infants experience; first it is all brightness, or darkness, then very vague

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