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by SamBam 3y ago
Didn't Tom Waits successfully sue Frito Lay when the company found an artist that could closely replicate his style and signature voice, who sang a song for a commercial that sounded very Tom Waits-y?
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by SamBam 3y ago
That doesn't test if it's null or undefined, that just tests if it's not falsy. x = 0; !x → true y = ""; !y → true z = null; !z → true
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by SamBam 3y ago
I feel like the OG version of this was people making their own 3D Sellers of Catan boards. My wife and I even started making one about 20 years ago, and the pieces are still in a box somewhere... (Maybe people were making custom components
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by SamBam 3y ago
Yes, it was a fun game but that was my only minor criticism. I did that all the time. I came to make the same suggestion: the domino's at the bottom should only select that domino, not toggle between the two.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Put like that, it's a bit like the Chumra in Judaism [1]. The fence, or moat, around the law that extends even further than the law itself, to prevent you from accidentally commiting a sin. 1. https://en.m.wikipedia.org&#x
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by SamBam 3y ago
It would be nice to get some accurate measurements for how carbon-intensive LLMs and image models are. I've started to cut way back on just randomly noodling with image prompts once I read that each image generated might produce the sa
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by SamBam 3y ago
Ok, but still by that definition every apartment building is built by a developer. So all the beautiful buildings in Paris or Rome or wherever. So they are hardly a modern American phenomenon.
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by SamBam 3y ago
That page cites ITU [1], and the ITU page doesn't cite their sources at all. It may be their own numbers, but I don't see any link to a real study or methodology. They also don't define connectivity, but the section is titled
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by SamBam 3y ago
Is there a citation there that's less than a decade old? In the Digital Divide section in the first link, there was one citation from 2015, but most citations were 2007-2011... Really not relevant to the discussion. Also, the meaning o
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by SamBam 3y ago
It's not shockingly inaccurate. It's not quite literally true -- of course there are some people who are not connected -- but it's very close to being true. Even in places of extreme poverty, in extremely underprivileged or r
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by SamBam 3y ago
So if I point this at my existing Obsidian library, what happens? Does this add to existing files, or add new files, to store the output of things generated by the AI? Doe the chunking of the files only happen within the vector database? Wh
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by SamBam 3y ago
Which would actually be the easier experiment to run. No messy electrodes.
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by SamBam 3y ago
While I probably would be happy to be in Daniel Dennett's class and engage seriously with his unfinished manuscript, I actually had a philosophy (of mind, as well) professor like this in my own university, and it was a lot less fun. Pr
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by SamBam 3y ago
Exactly. Having kids is inversely correlated with income. It's exactly the opposite argument about affordability. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
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by SamBam 3y ago
Given that birth rates even in the US are inversely correlated with income, this causative statement is nonsensical. https://www.statista.com/statistics/241530/birth-rate-by-fam...
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by SamBam 3y ago
It's a perfectly good word, I didn't know it was unknown.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I love Ted Chiang, and enjoyed Exhalation , but personally I would recommend Stories of Your Life and Others as the first book of short stories. I found it had a higher percentage of home runs.
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by SamBam 3y ago
I mean, you can ask the meteorologists about the process of naming, but those hurricanes actually existed, on the dates suggested, so I'm not sure what's "fishy" about it. Hurricane Tammy, Cat 2, October 18, 2023: https
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by SamBam 3y ago
Sure, but I don't think it's even at VEI 4 yet. This site seems to be saying that VEI 4 is the max it could reach, if I'm understanding it right: https://gdacs.org/report.aspx?eventid=1000080&episodeid=7
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by SamBam 3y ago
I think the question may have been more about method of updating. I know the USGS websites have great API support, and I imagine the NASA solar flare reporting does as well, so I expect most of this is automatic. The ones going to Wikipedia
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by SamBam 3y ago
Not sure if you're referring to the 2010 eruption of Eyjafjallajökull that shut down air travel, but that was a VEI 4 eruption, and there have been more recent VEI 4 eruptions (the most recent, according to this, was the Fukutoku-Oka-n
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by SamBam 3y ago
Do any armchair lawyers (I know, I get what I pay for) want to chime in on the legality of creating user-definable 3-5 second gifs of YouTube videos, which link back to the video in question, for an online video curation library thing?
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by SamBam 3y ago
Interesting. It sounds like the cutoff for schools getting the bonus points is too low, it ought to be fewer schools.
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by SamBam 3y ago
> It became mathematically impossible to be admitted to Latin if you weren't coming from a low income school. I don't believe this is true, but if you have citations I'd be happy to hear them. For instance, their accountab
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by SamBam 3y ago
Dartmouth wants to both achieve SES diversity and gets kids who are likely to succeed. If selecting the top of each class in the state gives them the diversity but doesn't give them the success rates, it's a less effective strat
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by SamBam 3y ago
People gaming the system? Are affluent kids moving into housing projects in order to get admitted into Dartmouth? The fact is if they're in a public school in an underserved area, they are most likely going to a disadvantaged public sc
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by SamBam 3y ago
I read the book for a book club, and decided to listen to the album as well, even though Eno said he took the title of the album from the book without ever having read the book. The album was a lot more accessible than the book.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Only the very first circle is needed to derive the rest of the shape. So that's a point and a radius, or two points.
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by SamBam 3y ago
Surely you only need two, as you could use two diagonal legs. Let's see if the name "two-legged table" takes off.
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by SamBam 3y ago
That's what this is, it's driven by an LLM.

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