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by _glass 3y ago
It's the science envy. Psychology (despite the replication crisis) firmly established itself as a hard science. Taking the classical distinction of psychology as based on the individual, and sociology on the emerging properties of soci
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by _glass 3y ago
I remember the argument against tablets, I was one of them, I thought because of the weird hand/arm position, this can never be a serious format. It was pushed through several iterations, and now it is accepted.
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by _glass 3y ago
But this is exactly the point of the paper, that you have to question that, but for me the tombs are very precise. "In some cases, however, the inscriptions make explicit reference to human victims, with expressions such as »zrm»ˇs(t),
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by _glass 3y ago
But the thing is, that the ghost of the code lives on. Many times I saw specific database designs, and technical decisions all taken to accommodate a solution that didn't exist for a decade or so.
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by _glass 3y ago
Exactly. My compsci prof was forcing us to learn so much by heart, but then it's internalized and you start to think in those terms. Right now I am writing my PhD thesis in management and in the beginning I didn't have all of thos
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by _glass 3y ago
Unfortunately this is so true. I made this experience after travelling to oppressed countries. Just to add, a lot of time it is a net positive for the people, and more complex than propagated from the outside.
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by _glass 3y ago
I used to pass functions by just creating a class making a noun of a verb, i.e. I passed objects.
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by _glass 3y ago
one of my pet peeves is to pronounce ancient greek just like modern greek, because that just makes sense. the ancient greek reconstructed pronunciation is just so wrong to do. we have a cultural tradition, continuing with the Roman empire u
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by _glass 3y ago
That sounds like an amazing sci-fi plot, and somehow doesn't seem so far off from the future. Only in Germany where I work I am sure this will be blocked by worker's regulations. But how long can they do that, if you have already
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by _glass 3y ago
Especially with all of the meetings switching to virtual spaces with transcripts. This would be so powerful. When you can ask (or create documentation) based on all of those meetings. Then enriched by all of the chat messages, the company&#
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by _glass 3y ago
I am also not an AI researcher, but shouldn't there be some quantification of how efficient the learning is. I imagine a human has much more information than the pure audio, which would then level up the information density, i.e. the 5
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by _glass 4y ago
I think crypto is great for anonymous digital markets. It would be great to disrupt the financial industry, but that's a really big thing. For the markets, I think NFTs is a really good use case. That's a way for artists to have d
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by _glass 4y ago
I have no stakes in VR, as I don't want to spend money to be seasick, but I think VR is the future for a lot of content. Make it less heavy, fix the seasickness problems, render people realistically, and I could talk to my parents in V
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by _glass 4y ago
yes, so true. as an avid Emacs user, still, I love vi for being available everywhere and impressing people on production machines to adjust config files. somehow the muscle memory of my teenage years is still there. a weapon for a more nobl
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by _glass 4y ago
Isn't this the version of refenced on the github repo [0] which speeds up 6x instead of 101x? There's also a "v1.5" version which is 6x faster, and uses "vectorizing" (doing more of the work directly in num
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by _glass 4y ago
I am also approaching my 40s, but really, it is true that when one ages, so many uncommon things failed spectacularly, after that, one assumes everything behaves like that. But I try to keep a fresh mind and kind of brainwash myself to thin
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by _glass 4y ago
I don't have an MBA, but I studied intercultural management as my Masters, and I am writing my PhD right now in management. To be honest it is quite zen like, with the degree you can understand how you can manage engineers by not tryin
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by _glass 4y ago
At least in the social sciences not so abstract. There are certain behaviors that can just be explained as emergent, rather than individual behaviors. That might be crowd, market, group, politics, culture (with art, language, fashion, taboo
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by _glass 4y ago
I hated this when I was younger. But I've learned to do it, too. To please people. I don't really want, but I also don't want to have the discussion, of why I don't want. Now I try to not do this anymore and speak the tr
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by _glass 4y ago
To be honest, I think Graeber is a bad anthropologist, in that he doesn't understand the symbolic actions undertaken by the bullshit jobs. Can all the magic rituals of business be substituted by a machine? There is a meaning behind how
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by _glass 4y ago
This. And just to add, I remember the time when there was a decision between handmade stuff, and the worse quality industrial produced things. You could really feel the difference. An artisan would complain about the quality of the product,
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by _glass 4y ago
Depends also on the historian. In my grad studies history courses, age/sex/race/gender was so 80s, and thought of not at all sufficient to understand history.
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by _glass 4y ago
Maybe like ENS? https://ens.domains/
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by _glass 4y ago
In the social sciences you have Talcott Parsons, and Niklas Luhmann, that see society as a social system. To some extend the author does explain social systems, with taking the system theory from technical systems, which is kind of the orig
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by _glass 4y ago
I hate this, and in my field (social sciences, organization studies, management sciences) several papers/books are blatantly misrepresented. I still struggle to cite a book (or several!) for a single point. To be honest, often it is re
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by _glass 4y ago
Java is still good for several use cases, which were popular at the time, or let's say much more code was needed. Now in the Enterprise world you have much better no- or low-code tools. But in large teams all of these public/priva
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by _glass 4y ago
As commented somewhere else in this thread, Python was clearly more ergonomic than Python, hand had a lot of mindshare exactly for this reason. I remember when Python was new and the not that professional choice, Perl was at that time for t
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by _glass 4y ago
I remember the evolution of Python. When I started with my brand new Ubuntu installation when Ubuntu was also very new, there were two languages, Perl and Python. Because Perl was more popular at the time I check some books in the library,
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by _glass 4y ago
entering everything with my mouse, but the results are great, even though my skills of entering are not so: https://twitter.com/_glass/status/1630856704714743809?s=20
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by _glass 4y ago
You are right and wrong. I paired with a lot of juniors, and especially in the beginning stage of your career it is important to write as fast as your thoughts are. And in the same way, to be able to jump directly to the place where you wan

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