ShamblingMound

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by ShamblingMound 6mo ago
Secret Agent has a slow, difficult beginning (~hour). Not much happens. And it's not clear why what's happening is happening, particularly for someone unfamiliar with Brazil's political climate in the 1970s. As someone who&#x
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by ShamblingMound 1y ago
Have been looking for an orchestrator for AI workflows including agentic workflows and this seemed to be the most promising (open source, free, can self-host, and supports dynamic workflows). But have not seen anyone talk about it in that c
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by ShamblingMound 1y ago
Had a handful of interactions with Matt. Probably the last was sometime in the mid- to late-2010s. I essentially started my software development career using software that he was largely responsible for (unknown to me at the time): * Ca
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by ShamblingMound 5y ago
For anyone curious about whether recycled plastics in clothing have less environmental impacts than primary raw materials, they do [0]. [0]: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09213...
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by ShamblingMound 5y ago
Thanks, that is a great feature.
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by ShamblingMound 5y ago
If anyone knows of a flexible static site generator that can process Rmarkdown files, I'd be interested to know about it. There is `rmarkdown::site` (see [0]), but I had to mess with the internals to get it to do what I wanted. [0]: h
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by ShamblingMound 5y ago
The author asks: > So why don’t firms merge to get larger? But they do. Most industries/sectors trend toward consolidation. Specific examples that come to mind are radio, agriculture, banking, and tech. I did a quick search and foun
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by ShamblingMound 5y ago
This was (1) research with human subjects (2) where the human subjects were deceived, and (3) there was no informed consent ! If the IRB approved this as exempt and they had an accurate understanding of the experiment, it makes me question