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by breck 3y ago
Neat! We made a synthetic patient generation prototype a few years ago: https://pau.treenotation.org/synth/ The challenge at the time was generating realistic correlations between the columns. How do you approach this?
902.
by breck 3y ago
When did you start this tool before ChatGPT3/4, or after? Feels like it was started before LLMs, and now this pitch is just trying to incorporate them after the fact, as opposed to rethinking your thing from a deeper level, now that th
903.
by breck 3y ago
> The main problem with copyright isn't it's existence I disagree. The main problem with copyright is its existence. It cannot be logically explained as anything other than microslavery. If we think the world is a better place
904.
by breck 3y ago
Oh I missed that. Thank you so much!
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by breck 3y ago
He mentions a CD-ROM version of Society of Mind ( https://web.media.mit.edu/~minsky/Voyager.html ). I had never heard of it. Does anyone know if the video content from that CD-ROM is available online?
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After 18 Months, Your Investment Probably Isn’t Getting Marked Up(angellist.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
907.
by breck 3y ago
Many but I like to save them for real life. One tamer one is the time I stopped to help a woman whose car broke down on the side of Route 5 near Camp Pendleton. Her phone had died and she was stuck there waiting for help. I didn't have
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Type the World (2020)(breckyunits.com)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
909.
by breck 3y ago
Google Voice. Without Google Voice it would be near impossible (maybe there are some other good VOIP solutions but not sure). You definitely do need a phone # for accounts and auths.
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by breck 3y ago
No. For emergencies have had to rely on nearby human beings, like the 1990's.
911.
by breck 3y ago
My phone broke about a year ago and I never replaced it. That has made my life a lot better. More time to be in the moment with people and think. Highly recommend it. (I have an iPad Pro as you still need something that can run apps, but th
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It’s Time to Build for America(a16z.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
913.
The Magnificent Multi-Agent Mind of Marvin Minsky(breckyunits.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|1 comments
914.
by breck 3y ago
Content is great and I really love the transcript with slides. Simple and perfect.
915.
Mess with DNS(messwithdns.net)
2 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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by breck 3y ago
I like it. My feedback would be a simpler approach, ditching the hash. Why not just encourage people to put their email address in plain text in a DNS record? If they want anonymity, they can fall back to the way verification is done today
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Show HN: Program Links(scroll.pub)
1 points by breck 3y ago|0 comments
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Why the Future Doesn't Need Us (2000)(breckyunits.com)
2 points by breck 3y ago|1 comments
919.
by breck 3y ago
Very reasonable and accurate interpretation. What I'm trying to figure out now is how so many brains could have fallen for the lies and exaggerations. I think I greatly underestimated how much fear dominates most people. My models of d
920.
by breck 3y ago
> "This pandemic has been full of hard-to-comprehend numbers." Alternative explanation "hard-to-comprehend numbers" => "lies". I saved a news clip of the Governor of Hawai'i claiming on prime time ne
921.
by breck 3y ago
> difference in infection rate and severity between vaccinated and unvaccinated populations? I have never seen a trustworthy dataset that showed this. I was the Senior Software Engineer at Our World in Data who built the Covid Data Explo
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by breck 3y ago
Going through a family court case now and your take is spot on. > reasonable support for pro se representation in court I've sat and watched about 100 cases. I've noticed if both parties are pro se, judges are usually reasonabl
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by breck 3y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Straw_man
924.
by breck 3y ago
No I am saying that there was no protection and the follow ups provided none either. Yes, with 99% odds I am saying there was a conspiracy to end the randomized placebo control group early to bury any chance that someone could ever conclus
925.
by breck 3y ago
I should have used a more precise term than "uncapped". The comment I was responding to used the term "once". I was saying that in most recent vaccine history, the term "twice" was used, then "three times&
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by breck 3y ago
> But the vaccine side effects only happen once, at the time of injection, while the vaccine may continue to confer long term benefits. So this ratio is highly dependent on the time period in question. One must be extremely skeptical of
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by breck 3y ago
> Apps that you "live in" all day have pressure to become everything and do everything. Thank you. Somehow I had missed that expansion, but this makes the quote a lot more helpful. Perhaps it should be called "Zawinksi&#x2
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by breck 4y ago
> but human knowledge doesn't contain a reliable method for determining what truth consists of, or what is true. Depends on how many connections a statement has. `1+1=2` has an extremely high number of connections, so it would be ve
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Missionary Church of Kopimism(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by breck 4y ago|0 comments
930.
by breck 4y ago
> I really don't think that block quoting ChatGPT is a good contribution. It's the first time I've done it. I agree with you. But didn't know until I tried!

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