baandang

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by baandang 4y ago
IMO you have to forgive the young and their ignorance. If you are too young to have known and talked to someone from the World War 2 generation, you can't know that literally every man in the United States would be cancelled from that
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by baandang 4y ago
I am a huge Gell-Mann fan as well as Feynman and it is a shame we don't have video of those two in conversation. Gell-Mann has said that Feynman didn't think there was enough evidence for washing your hands after taking a piss. Th
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by baandang 4y ago
The irony is that the pejorative phrase "Trickle down economics" was pure propaganda. Incredibly effective propaganda considering you are repeating it back like a stochastic parrot decades later.
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by baandang 4y ago
I am not skeptical of human caused global warming in the least but I am hugely skeptical of our ability to coordinate and solve a problem even a 1/10th as complex. I would never express this to a pollster though as I don't want to
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by baandang 4y ago
We really just need generative prompts and AI to decimate the field of dataviz. 99.999% of anything ever done in D3 is 100% useless visualization. The whole field of dataviz is largely much ado about nothing. I just can't imagine in th
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by baandang 4y ago
You can't have it both ways. You can't have a completely open data representation and an abstraction at a higher level than d3. What you are calling too low level is basically dealing with the fact the data can be anything. What w
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by baandang 4y ago
The biggest difference IMO is that there is no default data representation that 99.99% of people use in javascript like pandas/dataframes/numpy/zoo in python/R. I would even say javascript has better visualization librar
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by baandang 4y ago
Not really. The magic is in Badalamenti's harmony. Julee Cruise - Floating into the Night is one of my all time favorite albums. The Art of Being a Girl is just nothing without Badalamenti. You can hear this even more so with the Bada
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by baandang 4y ago
I would say 90%. I would contend the main problem is we really don't believe in education as a society. Most people don't even believe that becoming more educated makes you "smarter". "Smart" is this CPU clock
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by baandang 4y ago
I am sure bot content is far more common than we think since we seem to have a bias that we are always talking to someone on the other end of the message. I think though we are really underestimating how much we will prefer the chat bot at
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by baandang 4y ago
How many people under 35 know that Greenspan held an "emergency" Fed meeting in 1994 to RAISE rates 25 bps? This idea the Fed exists to print money and keep rates low is just not reality. This is over extending the recent past as
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by baandang 4y ago
We are not slashing rates, that is not going to happen. Those times are over. We can not slash rates without inflation becoming a larger issue. We had a nice run but this is back to the historic norm that inflation is always lurking in the
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by baandang 4y ago
At that point the whole concept of a message board with humans exchanging information is probably over. I am ultimately motivated to read this site to read smart things and something interesting. It is quite inefficient though. This comment