WaltPurvis

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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
I'm sympathetic to the concerns motivating this essay, but the charts related to test scores are ridiculous. The y-axis is so compressed it makes it look like performance has dramatically plummeted over the least 20-25 years, but the a
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
This drives me crazy, too, but it seems like the misspelled version is now more common than the correct one. I imagine the dictionaries will eventually cave to common usage and say both versions are correct, and I'll remain bitter ab
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
> Altman was touring globally to raise $7T (yes, trillion), just a few months ago. A few points about that: It wasn't just a few months ago, it was more than a year ago; he wasn't raising funds for OpenAI, it was for a separat
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Not Just the U.S. – The Whole World Has Soured on Climate Politics(nytimes.com)
2 points by WaltPurvis 1y ago|1 comments
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
http://archive.today/blU6r Authors are Eliezer Yudkowsky and Nate Soares. The article is adapted from their forthcoming book, If Anyone Builds It, Everyone Dies.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
http://archive.today/Gcn8k
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Should We Colonize Titan Rather Than Mars? [video](youtube.com)
2 points by WaltPurvis 1y ago|0 comments
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
This is an article about cake and cookie mixes. Nobody has to buy cake and cookie mixes; the article actually covers a woman who has stopped. And even for other kinds of packaged food, if people can't count on the brand names they&#x27
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
http://archive.today/SqPCL
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Mac Minis.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
This article is seven years old; seems like (2018) should be in the title.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
It is fair for you to think I assumed the poster was a software developer, but in fact I looked him up before I made my comment and that is how he makes a living. (Unless something has changed recently.) I am genuinely curious how people (h
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
>I can't use an LCD screen for more than 30 minutes without getting a headache You're a software developer. How do you function? Do you spend pretty much your entire waking life with a headache?
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
The article is not talking about people who own large tracts of farmland; it's talking about monopolies controlling the supply of seeds, chemicals, and fertilizers. At any rate, if Bill Gates owns 242,000 acres of farmland, that means
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
http://archive.today/ELsbZ (Note: The word "local" in the headline means "in Australia")
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
>Business spending on AI is more than all consumer spending combined as a share of GDP. Your phrasing there is misleading. The article says, "In the first half of this year, business spending on AI added more to GDP growth than all
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
http://archive.today/anbRZ
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Yes, but that fact does nothing to make the statement in question more sensible, so I don't know why you bothered to point it out, or to emphasize the "HPC6 [is] in Italy which is definitely in Europe" aspect. (Although I don
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Your Top 500 link says something completely different: "The 65th edition of the TOP500 showed that the El Capitan system retains the No. 1 position. With El Capitan, Frontier, and Aurora, there are now 3 Exascale systems leading the TO
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
I believe Tesla bulls are banking on robots, robo-taxis, and other products. Surely nobody believes Tesla's consumer car business is poised to grow. (Given the history of under-delivering, etc., I wouldn't bet on Tesla dominating
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
I don't know of any front-end, but you can download the data in CSV or Excel format, and load it into a spreadsheet to search, sort, etc. https://www.census.gov/topics/population/genealogy/data/2010.
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
>I would think it's probably actually a very common name. It's not very common at all. The 2010 US Census reported 218 people with the surname of Zuckerberg. I assume no more than a handful of them also have the first name Ma
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Interesting. Do you just take one, shortly before your talk, or do you take it consistently, or what? I know a couple people who take propranolol every day to manage an elevated heart rate, but what kind of protocol do you follow?
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Originally bought it for an elderly parent in assisted living; wasn't as useful as we'd hoped; repurposed it as a kitchen-timer/music-box, for which it works adequately as long as the Internet connection is up. I would not re
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
> Only thing it can do is set a timer, turn off a light And it can't even do that without an Internet connection. As someone who experiences annoyingly frequent outages, it never ceases to boggle my mind that I have a $200 compute
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
To be fair, the study authors explicitly say that their forecast only holds, “In the absence of any major breakthroughs that significantly extend human life," and, "The findings of this study are not intended to be interpreted as
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
Your recollection of Irma's intensity is not particularly accurate. It was never anywhere near 180 mph "just before landfall" unless you were in the Leeward Islands on September 6. Irma crossed the Florida Keys on September 1
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The $1T Opportunity to Build the Next Amazon(sequoiacap.com)
2 points by WaltPurvis 1y ago|2 comments
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
> put all email from new senders in another folder I'm not getting any AI slop spam (or at least none that's made it past Gmail's spam filters), but I really like this idea of segregating email from new senders. That would
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by WaltPurvis 1y ago
> There's literally zero chance that companies in general are abolished (in favor of what, exactly?) You have extremely overstated the author's position. He doesn't say anything about abolishing companies in general, and f

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