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by biofox 1y ago
What the heck happened to Photoshop and Illustrator (and the whole Adobe suite)? They monochromed all of their icons and removed most of their text and tooltips. As a casual user, I used to be able to use their tools fairly proficiently, bu
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by biofox 2y ago
For illegal good behaviour, see Aaron Swartz
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by biofox 2y ago
It has been a dream of mine to visit one of the research stations in Antarctica since I was a child. Unfortunately, my professional career has not yet provided me the opportunity :(
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by biofox 2y ago
There is a lot to digest here, but the presentation of the activation networks is fascinating (not to mention the stunning visualisations). I would love to have access to these kinds of visualisations and audit trail when using an LLM.
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by biofox 2y ago
"How to read a book" sounds like a ridiculous premise for a book, but I can't recommend it highly enough. It's one of the best introductions to academic skills I've ever read. I assimilated much of Adler's advi
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by biofox 2y ago
An important reason to continue buying printed books and supporting print media. Most web content I've consumed in my lifetime is already lost, many floppy disks and burned CD-ROMs I held onto are now unreadable, and in 200 years, the
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by biofox 2y ago
There are two books which do a fantastic job of this: Mathematics: From the Birth of Numbers, by Jan Gullberg and Mathematics: A Cultural Approach, by Morris Klein
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by biofox 2y ago
Not knowing much economics, I'm struggling to parse this sentence. ELI5 please?
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by biofox 2y ago
For anyone wondering what this comment is talking about: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RXJKdh1KZ0w
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by biofox 2y ago
Chronic pain probably plays a part too. I know I get grumpy and miserable when I'm unwell or in pain.
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by biofox 2y ago
Critical infrastructure projects require proper due diligence.
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by biofox 2y ago
Glad I'm not the only one who thought of that. On opening it, my mind went immediately to the 3D virtual tours in Encarta.
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by biofox 2y ago
What happened to these? They were on every website, then without me even noticing, they just disappeared.
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History of PuTTY's Development(chiark.greenend.org.uk)
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by biofox 2y ago
Some things can only be achieved by large and inefficient organisations though. E.g. no for-profit enterprise would have been able to get to the moon in the 60s.
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by biofox 2y ago
Any large organisation operates the same way. Once a business reaches a certain size, you can't implicitly trust every individual with critical functions. Statistically, someone will eventually break something in a catastrophic way. To
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by biofox 2y ago
I miss practical physical interfaces. Touchscreens are a big step back in terms of usability.
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by biofox 2y ago
I had a similar experience when deeply intoxicated, I saw a shadow that reminded me of the texture of the wallpaper in the first home I grew up in -- it unlocked a cascade of memories from my early childhood (I must have been 2) that I neve
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by biofox 2y ago
Here's a new one for you: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marine_viruses "Viruses are the most abundant biological entity in marine environments. On average there are about ten million of them in one milliliter
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by biofox 2y ago
There's an old saying in Tennessee -- I know it's in Texas, probably in Tennessee -- that says, fool me once... shame on... shame on you. Fool me... you can't get fooled again!
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by biofox 2y ago
One of the mechanisms that provides for strong institutions is filtering who is accepted and promoted within it. The systems and concepts, like the Nolan Principles, are nothing more than words -- but if the majority agree to them, then the
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by biofox 2y ago
Isn't that all of modern AI?
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by biofox 2y ago
You're not dumb. I think it's just poorly written and full of errors.
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by biofox 2y ago
I had no idea this was part of a triptych! A quick google search tells me there is also "Unix Feuds" and "Unix Views". Any idea where I can find them? EDIT: For those interested, this is what they look like together. Un
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Could Machines Become Intelligent? – BBC (1970) [video](youtube.com)
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by biofox 2y ago
For a nice reminder of how science communication used to be, there's always the BBC archive: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7Bb6yTPZrnA
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by biofox 2y ago
There's a pervasive idea amongst science communicators that you have to use common childlike words to make science accessible -- there's a fear that technical words are elitist and exclusionary. The end result is that every scienc
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by biofox 2y ago
Unfortunately, some people view accessibility as an ideology.
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by biofox 2y ago
I just want to add my voice to say that my life completely disintegrated a few years ago. I lost almost everything, including my partner of over a decade, and reached a point where I didn't even have the motivation to wash or feed myse
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by biofox 2y ago
Couldn't agree more. If the most interesting part of your project is your technology stack, you're probably not working on something interesting. It's like those hobbyists who invest all of their time and money into buying hi

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