WillDaSilva

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by WillDaSilva 3y ago
Notably, it appears the authors of this study are the owners of https://www.earthing.com , which sells products to help ground people. This is called out in the study. Given this massive conflict of interest, I can't put muc
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Google Search Generative Experience (SGE)(labs.google)
2 points by WillDaSilva 3y ago|0 comments
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by WillDaSilva 3y ago
Netflix is a major force behind the development and uptake of web DRM, which I'd consider pretty evil.
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by WillDaSilva 3y ago
Even if we accept that the personal vehicle provides a better experience for an individual in a vacuum compared to ideal public transit, we're left with the critical problem that if a significant number of people choose to use personal
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Cadence – Fault-Tolerant Stateful Code Platform by Uber(cadenceworkflow.io)
3 points by WillDaSilva 3y ago|0 comments
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Builder's Remedy(en.wikipedia.org)
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by WillDaSilva 3y ago
kdb doesn't support effecient vector similarity searches, or efficient storage of high-dimensional vectors. It isn't really in the same class as the vector databases discussed in this post. It's more suited for time series da
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by WillDaSilva 3y ago
Why not have the managers of the underperforming employees be straightforward with them? Tell them that, as far as the manager/company is concerned, they're underperforming (no need to single out the WFH aspect here if you don&#x2
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Lipinski's Rule of Five(en.wikipedia.org)
2 points by WillDaSilva 3y ago|0 comments
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by WillDaSilva 3y ago
I'm slightly surprised by the direction they seem to be taking here. It seems like they're going to try to use this as a source of funding for PyPI, rather than focus on its potential to bring namespaces to PyPI. I also wasn'
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Disruption Killed Innovation(ez.substack.com)
3 points by WillDaSilva 4y ago|0 comments
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
> [...] it's still a Chinese Room. So are you, and so am I. That's not to say that ChatGPT is sentient or has a significant amount of personhood, but we shouldn't wholly dismiss its significance in this regard, particularl
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
Road damage is proportional to the vehicle weight to the fourth power. We all pay for larger vehicles.
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
> If you don't like to tip, there are plenty of restaurants where tipping isn't expected; specifically those where you carry the food yourself from the counter to your table. Generally such restaurants serve significantly diffe
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
What evidence do you have to support this claim?
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How Elo Ratings Work(lichess.org)
3 points by WillDaSilva 4y ago|0 comments
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GitHub Copilot CLI(githubnext.com)
3 points by WillDaSilva 4y ago|0 comments
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
If your business model isn't compatible with the freedom of your customers, you should generally find a new business model, rather than working to reduce that freedom. See also: modern intellectual "property" laws & enfor
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Substituting economics for politics is a failure(pluralistic.net)
2 points by WillDaSilva 4y ago|0 comments
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Cory Doctorow: IP(locusmag.com)
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
Yup. I'll add that it's not just unemployment that hurts us (under our current economic systems), but also underemployment, as we see with the "gig economy". Some people will overly focus on the unemployment stats, and n
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
That seems less "anti-AI" and more anti our current economic systems, the inequality they produce, and their increasing incompatibility with the present and future. The "incompatibility" being between our values and the
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
To add to this, it's poisonous because it makes increasing "engagement" a primary goal for these platforms.
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
Likely followed by git commit --amend
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
Why is it that this study considers being focused on the present moment a form of temporal distortion?
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Quiet Quitting Is Hustle Culture's Reckoning(ez.substack.com)
1 points by WillDaSilva 4y ago|0 comments
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Brain function are altered up to one month after high dose of psilocybin (2020)(nature.com)
1 points by WillDaSilva 4y ago|0 comments
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Circuit uses graphene to capture electric current from Brownian motion(phys.org)
2 points by WillDaSilva 4y ago|1 comments
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There Is No “New Normal”(ez.substack.com)
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by WillDaSilva 4y ago
There's a significant difference between "so you want people to sit at home all day and collect free money", and "so you want the people who sit at home all day to collect free money". The former is a clear misrepre

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