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by busyant 4y ago
i recommend active voice over passive. i also tell students to strive for clarity. "don't write like you have a pole up your ass."
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by busyant 4y ago
You made me think about this a little more, but I still don't quite agree. I thought of two novels that I enjoyed: First, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime. I have no recollection of who the author is, but if I learned t
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by busyant 4y ago
> Indeed. The fallacy here is assuming that if a computer can create works that humans cannot distinguish from those created by other humans, then that computer is creating art. But art is inseparable from the artist. I hope you and th
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arguably quite the failure of his opponent.
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by busyant 4y ago
Thank you. I wasn't catching that.
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> Also mechanical advantage seems to be a major tradeoff. There is a reason biology tugs on ropes and lets reaction surfaces slide around instead. I'm not sure I understand. Do you think that there's a biological benefit to rop
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by busyant 4y ago
> talking makes you less likely to be a predator For a second I thought I was dead. But, when I heard all the noise, I knew they were cops. Only cops talk that way. If they'd been wiseguys, I wouldn't have heard a thing. I woul
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by busyant 4y ago
> And yet the crisis hasn’t happened. Why is that? I used to think this, too (and this is coming from someone who worked at an antibiotic drug-discovery startup in the early 2000s). I think it's not that there will be a comprehensiv
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by busyant 4y ago
I got this book about 30 years ago, which I thoroughly enjoyed. ( https://www.amazon.com/Impossible-Mencken-Marion-Elizabeth-R... ) As mentioned in a sibling comment, his articles on the Scopes "Monkey Trial" were g
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by busyant 4y ago
> What was the outcome? My understanding is that it was messy. The parents/kid got some money. Maybe $1 - 1.5 million?? But my memory is hazy on that. Obviously, their parents' lawyer took some percentage of that. I'm pret
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> she may not have understood what an actual expert was. There is a legal "standard" around the admissibility of expert testimony ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daubert_standard ). The person who got me to
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> I actually used to work for them as a lawyer, indirectly. I was a small-time expert witness (on the plaintiff's side) against them in a very small lawsuit. It was the first and last time I served in that capacity. A child was born
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by busyant 4y ago
I was a kid in the 1970s and my recollection is that I thought the two (Matchbox and HotWheels) were one-in-the-same. They probably were kept apart in the store where I bought them, but I never noticed. And my brothers and I never made th
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by busyant 4y ago
i think you're correct about option c, primarily because we could never force everyone to adopt the other 2 options. option c makes me nervous, but right now I can't see an ai correctly dealing with the ambiguity of the data sets
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This is poetry. And it has the added benefit of being true.
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> I really think that Flickr has unrealised potential. One thing is that Flickr's geographic search/exploration feels like it was Frankenstein-bolted onto the base site. The geographic search would be interesting and fun if it
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by busyant 4y ago
> Way better than insta I use Flickr a lot . But about twice per year, I think, "I should give Instagram a try again." Each time I try, it just comes across as loud and garish. And even if it weren't loud and garish, you
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by busyant 4y ago
I'm sure this has been considered, but I haven't ready anything about the "geo-political" effects of virtually unlimited energy from fusion. I imagine that power dynamics would change drastically, but I have no clue, rea
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by busyant 4y ago
> Ads not only cost me my time and attention, but also consume resources (network bandwith, CPU time, screen real estate) that I might not want to be consumed. Story time. In the 1970s, my grandfather wrote a letter to our local newspape
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by busyant 4y ago
I think you're reading a lot of what you want into that "Twitter 2.0" email. I mean, we're all reading into that email to some degree, but it struck me as all stick and no carrot. > ... we will need to be extremely ha
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by busyant 4y ago
> I really like the idea of small, specialised robots for different tasks in my experience, this is the best approach. I worked at a few biotechs that did a lot of lab automation. the robots that could do everything were hardly ever used
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by busyant 4y ago
> 20 km per day I'm not sure my body could handle that (my hips would need a day to recover from a 20 km walk). I'm in my mid 50s, so I'd like to believe my age is part of that. I do about 7 km / day, which still take
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by busyant 4y ago
Wildcat banking sounds exactly like crypto. thank you for the link.
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I think they even dispensed $5s at the time, but my memory is a bit hazy about that. At the time, my girlfriend (now wife) used to tell me I wasted so much $$ on ATM fees by only withdrawing $10 at a shot. I told her I was not good at budge
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by busyant 4y ago
> I got a message notifying me that my application status had changed, but I did not get in. Then a day or two later, I got another one, to which I _did_ get in. Back in the days before email was common, I applied for a postdoc position
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I have to fess up, too. Back in the early 1990s, I withdrew $10 from an ATM. But the machine gave me two $10s (they were stuck to each other). I then went back for a second transaction (secretly hoping there were multiple "stuck $10s&q
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Good lord, that story is insane. Some choice excerpts: > ... Japanese nationals in their 50s ... who had attempted to enter Switzerland with a suitcase ... containing what ... appeared to be U.S. Treasury Bonds worth $134.5 billion. Enou
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> bearer bonds The financial instrument of choice for movie heist villains from the 1970s to early 2000s.
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> I'm currently giving Capture One a shot This is what I use, too. I did a lot of side-by-side comparisons between C1 & DT on my raw files and I could not get DT to make anything that looked like C1's automatic adjustments.
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by busyant 4y ago
Thank you. That's actually one of the videos that I watched a few months back. It helped a little bit, but not enough for my tastes. It just seemed like there was a LOT of extra tweaking I needed to do for each image. My suspicion is t

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