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by apienx 4y ago
Isamov has this great "Relativity of wrong" piece that counters post-modernism. It's often the case that one of us is closer to the truth, even if both of us are wrong. https://www.sas.upenn.edu/~dbalmer/
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by apienx 4y ago
Thanks for sharing. I've fed davinci3 your prompt with temperature 0.1 and 0.9 and both were lying pieces of junk. The only difference was that the lowest temperature made up refs that were more "plausible"/"realist
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by apienx 4y ago
So this is how holophonors came about...
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by apienx 4y ago
When I think about my master password while typing it, I sometimes get it wrong. When I don't think about it, it's always right. Judging from the bibliography of the wiki page, there doesn't seem to be much (recent) research
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by apienx 4y ago
"The frightening thing in not dying. The frightening thing is not living." -- T-Bone Burnett (from the song "Primitives")
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by apienx 4y ago
"it should have enough reserve power to gracefully slow you down if the machine is in trouble." You're 100% right. It's an avoidable problem. But they choose not to for bragging-rights and top speeds and engineering reso
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by apienx 4y ago
"I don't understand why now?" Bureaucratic inefficiencies. "Is there a bug with onewheels that are causing this injury/death?" There was an issue that the community referred to as "ghosting" whereby t
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by apienx 4y ago
"Passive aggressive" is another very often misused term IMHO.
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by apienx 4y ago
Well done! Got a similar PoC that uses Tasker to record sound on my phone, Whisper to convert it to text, and neatly organizes everything into Obsidian.md. The continuous recording kills the battery life on my phone so it's only usable
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by apienx 4y ago
"If many people in this space are advocating for decentralized exchanges, how come everyone uses centralized ones?" Convenience.
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by apienx 4y ago
The similarities with the summer of 2018 market conditions are uncanny. Higher lows followed by a drop in June. Higher lows, then drop in November. Business as usual really. The speculators may want to consider the impact of the slowing rat
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by apienx 4y ago
There's probably some effect from the "commitment device" aspect (implicit as it may be).
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by apienx 4y ago
Absolutely! Freedom of expression in Sweden doesn't come close to the protection that first amendment to the US constitution provides. It's just that Sweden was first at introducing FOI-friendly tryckfrihetsförordningen.
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by apienx 4y ago
Freedom of expression is a big deal in Sweden. Tryckfrihetsförordningen (the other constitutional part besides Yttrandefrihetsgrundlagen) dates back to 1766. It's the oldest law ensuring freedom of the press and freedom of expression.
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by apienx 4y ago
Related: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Half-life_of_knowledge Psychology is the worst offender. Human behavior is quite hard to model. ;-)
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by apienx 4y ago
"Docker shouldn't exist. It exists only because everything else is so terribly complicated that they added another layer of complexity to make it work. It's like they thought: if deployment is bad, we should make development
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by apienx 4y ago
Flawed premise IMHO. Images have inherently more entropy than text (all else being equal). More dimensions to "play around with" is what made Photoshop useful and popular. The "thought-processing" angle is cool though.
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by apienx 4y ago
ELI5 Bayesian theory. https://youtu.be/HZGCoVF3YvM
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by apienx 4y ago
Facts are, by definition, supposed to be indisputable. Values are generally fuzzy and harder to demonstrate.
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by apienx 4y ago
"Privacy means people know what they’re signing up for, in plain language, and repeatedly." - Steve "Newspeak" Jobs Apple doesn't care about what cyberlibertarians think about their business practices. Baking in ads
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by apienx 4y ago
Damning conclusions in TFP. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2009.09035.pdf "In addition, law enforcement has long demanded backdoor access to private user devices and user data [61]. We do not believe that users of PGPP, in
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by apienx 4y ago
Flawed premise IMHO. Printing is a tool which evolved to keep pace with the sophistication of the societies using/developing it. The Southern Song dynasty came close to an industrial age, but was held back by a belief system (confucian
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by apienx 4y ago
Being data-driven for the sake is being data-driven is indeed becoming an issue. The resources spent measuring and analysing data are overwhelmingly larger than they should in most cases. Cohorts of "data scientists" and "man
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by apienx 4y ago
Great job! Probably the best toolkit for DIY data extraction at the moment. Shines most "against" super-sophisticated sites. Well done, guys!
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by apienx 4y ago
"Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets." -- Eric S. Raymond Open Science (in the publishing sense) used to be fringe just a decade ago. It's very much mainstream now. Open Data will be a much tough
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by apienx 4y ago
This is a typical overcorrection (the Fed is run by humans after all). US debt is over $23x10^12, so such rates are unsustainable even in the short term (12-24 months). Algorithmic Monetary Policy > Dictated Monetary Policy(TM) IMHO.
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by apienx 4y ago
The 2000 Nobel prize in chemistry was awarded for the discovery of organic/polymer semiconductors. The field's come a long way and there has been lots of innovation happening since. Prototypes of polymer-based ICs is nothing new (
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by apienx 4y ago
It looks like Celsius is illiquid (not insolvent). Yes, they still offer 16.8% yield on SNX (a high-inflation one) if you earn in CEL token but demand for SNX yield on Celsius is so low that I don't see a problem with any of that. They
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by apienx 4y ago
Coincidentally, the WEF's individual carbon footprint tracker initiative was recently announced. https://youtu.be/_j1d_2yTRRA
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by apienx 4y ago
"Alchemists turned into chemists when they stopped keeping secrets." -- Eric S. Raymond

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