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by aaplok 2y ago
Replying to myself as I can't edit anymore, but I think payback can also be about cutting off the person from your life, or otherwise making them irrelevant to you. I don't believe this would qualify as revenge, and I think that t
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by aaplok 2y ago
Proving them wrong. Or undoing the negative situation they created. This can in fact be quite a powerful driver. When I was younger a hurtful comment by a teacher led me to start getting good marks in their subject. This was definitely fuel
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Paul Roberts is due to serve one year and one day in prison. What's the point of the extra day? Is there some kind of special procedure for people who get strictly more than a year?
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by aaplok 2y ago
The claim in the article di that anger is associated with a desire for payback, of which revenge is one manifestation . This is subtle, but I think that in an article like this subtle differences matter. The author also claims that this is
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by aaplok 2y ago
Thanks, this is a good read. I did not know MyST, it is very cool. The vim plugin I was talking about was vim-slime [0], which seems to date from 2007 and does have regions delimited with #%%. Slime comes from Emacs originally, but I could
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by aaplok 2y ago
Interesting. When I tried Zellij I found that the menus were too much in my face, compared to tmux/screen more minimal design. I see how this is a good thing when you start using it but I wonder if it gets tiring in the long run, in a
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by aaplok 2y ago
What differences between Zellij and tmux do you see as game changers?
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by aaplok 2y ago
Spyder also has these, possibly for longer than vscode [0]. I don't know who had this idea first but I remember some vim plugins doing that long ago, so maybe the vim community? [0] https://docs.spyder-ide.org/current&#
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by aaplok 2y ago
> You shouldn't distribute things you can't prove have the same results Why not? Can you expand on this because I don't see why this is not a good thing. Besides if you distribute your code alongside your output, aren&#x27
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by aaplok 2y ago
> they'd much rather have dirt on you to manipulate you with. People in power would not tolerate a police trying to manipulate them. By definition, people in power would have the power to change that. Power is what decides what pol
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by aaplok 2y ago
Well the story is about men who studied at King's college, many of whom would become powerful. If you are rich and powerful the relationship can change from one of suspicion to one of deference. The tldr of the article is basically tha
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by aaplok 2y ago
Isn't the question whether that also makes them legally responsible for their consequences? If they were not legally allowed then it would be possible to sue them even if there were no consequences. There have to be consequences to be
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by aaplok 2y ago
> How many people would know what Lynx is. My guess is very few. And mine is that it's more than you think. Especially when compared to the number of people who know what vi is. Neither of us have figures to prove our points. My ind
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by aaplok 2y ago
> This is a fault of the distros. At some point keeping niche software will cause issues and conflicts. I am not sure I agree with this argument. This gives a vibe of "make place for me, away with the old guard!" What if someon
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by aaplok 2y ago
Plenty of people have the same name, but if you call your child Brad Pitt, it will be interpreted as a reference to the famous guy bearing that name, and nobody will believe it is a coincidence. Lynx doesn't have a large user base (I t
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by aaplok 2y ago
There is also cy [0] which I came across the other day and am yet to try. [0] https://github.com/cfoust/cy
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by aaplok 2y ago
> why doesn't he just give away his money to individual people in less comfortable circumstances? Because he is advocating systemic changes. He may very well also give money away to people in need (it seems he does), but this would
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by aaplok 2y ago
> I wonder how truly "native" my kid's English will be with me as his main source of it. My experience is that it gets hard when they realise that they can get away with only German. Many kids choose to only use the "
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by aaplok 2y ago
Those 200 papers correspond to 4 papers per week, or more than 1 paper every other day for the whole year, weekends and holidays included. Coauthored with thousands of people they'd never published with before. It's a rather incre
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by aaplok 2y ago
At least the first quote is political and essentially casts the "other side" as an enemy rather than merely an opponent. This is not uncommon to use this strategy in political speech, and it is done rather well (and probably delib
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by aaplok 2y ago
I don't watch basketball, so I am speculating, but isn't this a case where defence hasn't yet adapted to the new attacking strategies? Wouldn't you expect that in a few years teams will be better at defending against 3s,
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by aaplok 2y ago
My understanding is that 6G is expected to make use of a good decentralised fibre network, with small radio units at the end points of this network providing the wireless contact point. With interoperability being on the books for 6G, whoev
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by aaplok 2y ago
I am not based in the US, nor in France, so I can't say what the situation is there. I was only pointing out that quote to GP. My experience isn't much, since I am neither doing AI nor cognitive science but I have seen cognitive s
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by aaplok 2y ago
Really well done. It is really a challenge for students to navigate their way around the AI landscape. I am definitely considering sharing that with my students. Have you noticed a difference in how your students approach LLMs after taking
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by aaplok 2y ago
best definition according to whom? There is a lot of work to define intelligence, both in the context of cognitive science and in the context of AI [0]. I haven't spent enough time looking for a good review article, but for example, th
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by aaplok 2y ago
>Author's claim is pretty strong: that human intelligence and what is called GenAI have no common ground at all. I feel that you're being unfair to the author here; the quote you responded to in your GP post alluded to "re
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by aaplok 2y ago
> Decades of research were unable to answer this. From the article: > The field of AI research has a reputation for disregarding the value of other fields [...] It’s likely that, being unaware of much of the research in psychology on
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by aaplok 2y ago
Calling someone ignorant is indeed an ad-hominem, as is calling them Nazi or fascist (or, on the other side of the political spectrum, calling them woke or commie) unless they provably profess those opinions. Given how tense the current pol
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by aaplok 2y ago
> accusing people of being "far right" or "Nazi", and to call them ignorant or stupid because they want other policies does not work and only increases polarisation. This is true but this is not what's happened h
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by aaplok 2y ago
> the only people working any job at all outside of USA that I’ve met were doing that because of their non-US wives not liking it stateside. Did you accidentally a word? Because if you cross any border literally the first people you meet

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