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by blueyes 5y ago
Montanan here: This is true. One of the regenerative crop types are pulses (lentils, chick peas), and MT produces a lot. https://www.ndsu.edu/pubweb/pulse-info/resources-pdf/Growing... The state often appears
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by blueyes 5y ago
Our team has used Ray for more than two years across several versions. It makes a lot of things easy that were not, and is especially adapted for our purposes, which include training and deploying a lot of reinforcement learning policies. T
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by blueyes 5y ago
Couple interesting ideas and terms here: * "vetocracy" - the rule of those who say no. Andreessen says it contributed to IBM's obsolescence. Happening now to the USA. * Related to: Why don't we solve carbon emissions wit
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by blueyes 5y ago
One twist on this: exposure to online platforms exacerbates psychological issues for some portion of the population. That's the flywheel of rage.
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by blueyes 5y ago
There are a bunch of things they can do: * raise wages * change job conditions * build better filters for who they hire Right now, you can apply for a job at Amazon through a Web form and get a response back in 15 min. An algorithm, some pa
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by blueyes 5y ago
Marketing tagline: Own your clone.
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by blueyes 5y ago
This article has it backwards. Elon doesn’t start a company and then promote it with a world-saving narrative. He is trying to figure out how to preserve our species, and fearlessly building companies that will do that. The narrative is a d
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by blueyes 5y ago
Ben Thompson has some intelligent comments on this, and what he got wrong, here: https://stratechery.com/2021/market-making-and-time-horizons...
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by blueyes 5y ago
Creating the ecosystem of both software and adjacent hardware for wafers this size is the real challenge for a company like Cerebras (which is doing amazing work). At first, they thought they just needed to make a chip 56x the size of its p
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by blueyes 5y ago
I recently returned from a mid-sized town in the Mountain West, and I can confirm that the headline is true. It's a particular kind of boom. A lot of out-of-state money and migrants have poured in to buy houses in places with fewer COV
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by blueyes 6y ago
Most people misunderstand how news organizations work. Reuters was a "gold standard" because they enforce a division between the business side that makes money, sells ads, and cooks up a business strategy, from the journalists who
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by blueyes 6y ago
Do you believe that news media should sell data about you and your behavior to advertisers? Or do you believe that the news should simply be free?
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by blueyes 6y ago
The AP is a newswire that sells its feed to newspapers. The best way to support it is by subscribing to a newspaper.
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by blueyes 6y ago
Rust is good, too, because it alludes to external factors that affect the code and decrease its usefulness through no fault of its own. There is no stainless code... Re: inertia, a lot of old code has no speed at all, which is kind of the p
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by blueyes 6y ago
I feel like the headline implies a false causation. Dave wasn't unemployable because his startup failed. (In fact, he was never unemployable at all.) But he does seem to have found that there are many kinds of work in tech that he does
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by blueyes 6y ago
A better term than "debt" might be "inertia", technical inertia. Every line adds inertia to a code base, because it adds complexity. Some of that inertia is necessary, and some is accidental. As context changes, or someo
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by blueyes 6y ago
Hi patcon - thanks for the comment. I can see why you would read my comment as anti-narrative. (It looks anti-narrative to me in retrospect!) For the record, I'm not anti-narrative. I love narratives. I think great narratives are made
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by blueyes 6y ago
A lot of the comments in this thread confirm that a) the Internet and social media are problems that distract us, and b) there are ways to fight the addictive behaviors they encourage. They can be made succinctly. (I agree with both points,
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by blueyes 6y ago
The author makes a lot of claims, but doesn't back them up. After reading this article, I can only conclude that she wanted me to fear new AI applications, but I am not convinced that I should. It's typical media-scare-mongering i
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by blueyes 6y ago
I read that sentence. The article is not the only source of truth in brain function, and its author may be too certain about the brain. In any case, there will always be dissimilarities between biological neurons and computations on silicon
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by blueyes 6y ago
I'm glad people are talking about this, and the similarity between predictive coding and the action of biological neurons is interesting. But we shouldn't fetishize predictive coding. There's a wider discussion going on, and
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by blueyes 6y ago
Tom is really smart, and he has written a book about this topic. I respect him. But he's fighting a losing battle. As he points out, expertise is a relationship between experts and audience. It depends on social and technological struc
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by blueyes 6y ago
Open source is to software makers what Groupon is to restaurants: a way to get people in the door, but many of those people are not, and will never become, the customers you seek. Every open source business sells something else, often a sol
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Pfizer vaccine appears effective against asymptomatic cases(usatoday.com)
4 points by blueyes 6y ago|0 comments
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Bettelheim argues that the violence depicted in fairy tales is valuable, and it stands quite in contrast to the children’s books sold today. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Uses_of_Enchantment
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by blueyes 6y ago
PG is making some assumptions about who will read and benefit from this essay, and secondarily, who will read and benefit from the writings of his readers. The assumptions aren't wrong, they're just not explicit. Because he is not
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On Being Blacklisted(aaronkunin.medium.com)
134 points by blueyes 6y ago|183 comments
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by blueyes 6y ago
Fussell's book was a huge eye-opener for me. The mythological assumption in my family was that we were middle-class: small business operators in a poor, rural state. As such, we had very little visibility into higher classes and their
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by blueyes 6y ago
Why let the facts get in the way of a good story? Nellie Bowles good stories...
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by blueyes 6y ago
Yes, it is a display of the power of the giver. Many givers do not interpret their own actions in that way, and yet... Native Potlatch culture in the American northwest is a good example of gifts that signal power.

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