UIUC_06

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by UIUC_06 2y ago
Oh no, it's the HN police again. Everyone duck and cover!
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
It's so important to stay grounded.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Kahneman was a giant among men. Anyone rattling on about "the replication crisis" probably isn't fit to carry his folders.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Oak Park in the 19th century was not quite as urban as it is now.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
You say The Law as if it's something magical, come down from Mt. Sinai. Instead of the political decision of a bunch of unelected Brussels would-be "elites" which would never pass a general referendum. If they ever had such t
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
> the law
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
This became a meme because it's true. World: We're having a global party! China: We'll bring the hardware! U.S.: We'll bring the software! EU: We'll bring the lawyers!
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Recent story: I had Duolingo, for some reason I've forgotten. They sent me a "we are about to renew" message. So I went there and cancelled my account, and they even sent me a "sorry to see you go" message. They def
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
According to Snopes, the mass of the water held back by the dam (39 trillion kilograms, or 42 billion tons) is sufficient to change the rotation of the earth: https://www.snopes.com/fact-check/china-three-gorges-dam&#x2
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
NYC is a little bigger sample than Plainfield, NJ: https://ccnmtl.columbia.edu/projects/caseconsortium/casestud...
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Not original quote: If the government ran the Sahara, within five years there'd be a shortage of sand.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
27 years ago, there was a movie that perfectly shows that mindset: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0114323/?ref_=fn_al_tt_5 If it wasn't covid, it'd be something else with people like your friend.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
> unfounded attacks and accusations it's "founded" because you are all over this topic, and it's legitimate to ask why.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
So are you getting paid by SO or something? Are you one of these moderators everyone hates? Why are you so all over this? SO has built up a toxic reputation over many years. And yet somehow, according to you it's false? Why don'
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Or you could try responding to the fact that a 60-40 election result doesn't happen because of a few advertisements.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Since you've used this repeatedly: it's spelled "vise" not "vice"
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Proof that someone can't think well: when all they can say is "racist" and "dogwhistle."
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Funny to see the lengths some people will go to spin the news their way. It's just a flesh wound! I've had much worse. "questionably skewed interpretations of city statistics" -- LOL. Who you gonna believe, me or your ly
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
There's the idea, and then there's its execution. You're saying someone else's successful (and partial) execution of an idea somehow validates the original failed execution.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Didn't Stalin say (roughly), "One death is a tragedy. A million deaths is a statistic" ?
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
> You're lying and you're not even very good at it educate us: how can he become better at lying?
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Pick almost any music hero or sports champion and there's your lesson about too much money too early. There is no lack of those stories already.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
oh, I beg your pardon. You did say "very few of them have been in the trenches with ML (not just using, but designing and building the actual architectures, working on theory, or writing cogent philosophy about it) long enough to have
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Gene Wilder meme: Tell me all about how your opinions are better than everyone else's!
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
Big question: will AI last longer than spiral croissants? I vote Yes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BAbPaWosphk Yesterday morning, I saw a line of 15 people waiting to get into a bakeshop that apparently has them. LLMs ta
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
No need to define it or prove it. Just assume it.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
James Clapper needs to be cuffed and perp-walked in front of the TV cameras, for so many things besides this.
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by UIUC_06 3y ago
indeed, the Mac building (on Bandley) famously had a "pirate flag" flying over it.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
I figured "dark patterns" must mean "a lot of people I don't like are publishing there." But no. A trivial complaint that's easily handled in any of a dozen ways. This isn't the late 90's anymore.
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by UIUC_06 4y ago
> the one city that's supposed to be theirs LOL. Since when? SF existed in the 1850's. There was no such thing as a tech bro then.

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