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by apothegm 1y ago
At that age I’ve had great success with simple sports toys (wiffle ball set, or toddler sized soccer ball and net). Those little two-wheeler bikes that start without pedals and can have pedals attached once she masters the walking version.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Then you’re buying very low end laptops. For anyone who wants performance — be it for gaming or compiling or video production or 3D rendering or LLMs - $500 is a very low budget. (Also, I must be old because I can remember a time when even
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by apothegm 1y ago
And incidentally for decreasing the acceleration of climate change caused by food animals, which are a surprisingly large source of greenhouse gas emissions.
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by apothegm 1y ago
What could possibly go wrong?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Massage. Anything else where literal human touch is part of the value. Plumbing. Embalming and funeral direction. Childrearing, especially of toddlers. Therapy for complex psychological conditions/ones with complications. Anything else
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by apothegm 1y ago
MacOS users aren’t really accustomed to ad-sponsored applications. Which is probably bidirectionally related to the lack of an obvious platform for this. I suspect ad-sponsored is liable to get you bad reviews and you’d do better financiall
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by apothegm 1y ago
Looks interesting! How many hours of study do you think this would take?
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by apothegm 1y ago
Resolution; extreme dynamic range in a single exposure; sensitivity with short exposures in low light; focal range and speed of refocusing; white point adjustments (happening to a large degree in the retina as receptors become temporarily d
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by apothegm 1y ago
Yup, and casualties includes injuries that take people out of action, not just deaths. A badly sprained ankle is a casualty. So total casualties will be significantly higher than that 110K.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Agreed so much that we should be working to eliminate the gender associations with specific toys and pursuits. That said, maybe this is a workaround to parents with gendered toy expectations? Or to encouraging STEM interests in girls who ha
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by apothegm 1y ago
So then what was the structure the astronomers expected the museum staff to find?
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by apothegm 1y ago
This article is written as if either all physicists are English speakers or Newton’s work was never translated directly to another language from Latin, only through the English translation. Otherwise there are and have been presumably tens
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by apothegm 1y ago
Yes. We should have more protected bike lanes so that cyclists feel safe and aren’t incentivized to use sidewalks and pedestrian paths. Also, being hit by an e-bike is liable to cause much less serious injury than being hit by an SUV or eve
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by apothegm 1y ago
The article said that previous theories suggested that the gene spread gradually and that for a long time it was increasingly widespread, but not nearly ubiquitous at the time in question. It’s entirely possible that the groups in conflict
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by apothegm 1y ago
They sampled a whole 14 skeletons from two sub-populations and based on that concluded the gene had not yet appeared in the region at all? Please tell me this is just bad reporting.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Oh, wow, there’s a term for this? I, too, lack episodic memory for anything that wasn’t extremely emotional —- but have extremely strong semantic memory. As well as memory of specific occasions or patterns being linked to a spatial sense (w
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by apothegm 1y ago
They probably have been running at negative margin, or at the very least started that way. But between hardware and software developments, their cost structures are undoubtedly improving over time —- otherwise we wouldn’t be seeing pricing
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by apothegm 1y ago
Kinda love that as a future standard “hello world” for nanotech.
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by apothegm 1y ago
It’s not to prevent them starting startups. It’s to prevent them being hired by other FAANGs.
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by apothegm 1y ago
How do you measure “anxiety” in an LLM?
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by apothegm 1y ago
LLMs don’t reason or count. They predict and output next tokens. “Reasoning” models mostly just have another layer of validating actual output against predictions. Newer models, if provided with programming tools (as they are in the ChatGPT
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by apothegm 1y ago
One potential risk is that only the users who are above average in LTV might choose that option.
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by apothegm 1y ago
A good dating app would be paradoxical. For a dating app to be appealing, it needs a big enough network. But if it’s effective it’s constantly shedding users and shrinking its network. Even absent economic incentives to monetize users indef
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by apothegm 1y ago
Marketing message !== company’s economic incentive.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Ah, getting AI to do that part of the work… hasn’t worked for me. The only thing that it’s been helpful for in that regard is as a rubber duck, which isn’t much. But honestly, the built-in refactoring tools in an IDE are more consistent. H
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by apothegm 1y ago
AI has limited context windows and little ability to reason about what complex code does. If you can refactor it to small modules with simple interfaces and properly document the interfaces and what the modules do, AI can work with your cod
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by apothegm 1y ago
The file provider API is useless unless you want local-like access to files not synced locally. If you’re content with old-school selective sync, just disable file provider API and keep using it the old way.
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by apothegm 1y ago
It used to be called a “long term stay hotel”. They seem to be decreasingly common in the Airbnb era.
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by apothegm 1y ago
Uh, no. OpenAI and Anthropic and Google and co really, really, really DNGAF whether or not you understand the code their LLMs write for you. LLMs are not capable of reasoning or following code flow. They’re predictors of next tokens. They’r
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by apothegm 1y ago
This says it’s forked from another project. In what ways does it differ from the original?

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