busyant

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Theories and research on the limit to the complexity of societal inventions?
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by busyant 2y ago
> What part do you think is going to become obsolete? Thank you for the question. I guess what I'm saying is: Will LLMs (or whatever comes after them) be _so_ good and _so_ pervasive that we will simply be able to say, "Hey Cha
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by busyant 2y ago
> blessed with “the golden hands” in that I could almost always get protocols working. Very funny. My friends and I never used the phrase "golden hands" but we used to say something similar: "so-and-so has 'great hand
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by busyant 2y ago
As someone who has a 18 yo son who wants to study math, this has me (and him) ... worried ... about becoming obsolete? But I'm wondering what other people think of this analogy. I used to be a bench scientist (molecular genetics). Th
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by busyant 2y ago
No. I mean ... instead of: * permanently staying on standard time * permanently staying on dst * shifting between the two every spring/fall we permanently stay at a time that's 30 minutes between standard and DST
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by busyant 2y ago
Why not split the difference? As I like to say in some meetings when we come to a compromise ... "Is everyone equally unhappy now?"
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by busyant 2y ago
> If you're in the left lane and getting passed on the right that means you should have moved to the right... Not always. I'm often in the passing lane (passing a semi, for example) and someone else zooms up behind me and expec
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by busyant 2y ago
> Plants on the contrary tolerate much more damage. To the point that we develop new species by bombarding seeds with ionized radiation. Years ago, I worked with this microbe ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deinococcu
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by busyant 2y ago
> The only solution is to require face-to-face proctored exams and not allow students to use technology of any kind while taking the test. I completely agree, but the entire higher ed system is moving to on-line instruction. Basically,
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by busyant 2y ago
It's funny (ironic?), but when I read "an amateur {insert occupation} has" I mentally replace "an amateur" with "a talented and passionate" For me, amateur just doesn't mean the insult that it meant w
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by busyant 2y ago
> you should make yourself unavailable for contact, when you suspect someone is trying to blackmail you. Maybe I'm missing something, but how often does blackmail happen that it rises to the level of needing strategic advice like &q
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by busyant 2y ago
Another (non-divorce) story. * My wife and I own several rental properties. * The properties are in an LLC that we formed. * I went to local housing court to file papers for an eviction (non-payment of rent). * I hand the paperwork to the c
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by busyant 2y ago
> don't really tell you very much ??? I think this statement is either meaningless or incorrect. At the very least your conclusion is context dependent. That being said, I ran gels back in the stone ages when you didn't just bu
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by busyant 2y ago
Well, one thing is clear. Math grad students everywhere now have a benchmark to determine if Terry Tao considers them to be mediocre or incompetent.
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by busyant 2y ago
> - The variation between IQ tests done by the same individual is significantly higher than almost any reasonable cross-group variation (men vs. woman, country A vs. country B, doctors vs. craftsmen, ...) I don't know about your oth
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by busyant 2y ago
> Fermi, made Lee teach him stuff, not the other way around! In grad school, one of my profs said something to the effect of, "We expect you to aggressively eradicate any ignorance you have on the whatever papers we assign to you b
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by busyant 2y ago
Beautifully written.
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by busyant 2y ago
This was recommended to me via Movielens (movie recommendation site) many years ago as something I would rate 5 stars (out of 5). Movielens nailed it on that one.
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by busyant 2y ago
To OP: The fact that there is an "argument" over who is spreading misinformation as part of responses to your very question should tell you this is a difficult problem to deal with. There are many shades of gray to misinformation.
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by busyant 2y ago
Pretty cool. My parents grew up in small villages that are adjacent to one of these ancient roads (via Tiburtina: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Via_Tiburtina ) and the road basically still exists as a modern road. I rem
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by busyant 2y ago
> https://youtu.be/8h6TYV3Tz00?si=hT51w3JvdGsJTPmW There was a time in my life when I was aware of just about every bit of Waits arcana available to the public. Then I got older and lost my way. Thank you for that link.
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by busyant 3y ago
> from Latin penna (“feather”) Also in Italian. Although I believe penna can also mean the more modern "pen." Penne pasta is basically plural of this.
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by busyant 3y ago
> Between 1973 and 2013, the number of people in poverty in the US increased by ~60%. You edited your comment. I believe it originally contained the text above. I'm assuming the edit was due to the fact that the statistic was based
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by busyant 3y ago
> Honestly, this is one of the things I've actually enjoyed about maturing. Agreed. I also gave short shrift to the sounds that birds make. There is synergy between their appearance and the sounds they make. I don't know wher
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by busyant 3y ago
> By cultivating a bird-friendly environment, we not only nurture local populations but also cultivate a deeper awareness of our interconnectedness with the natural world. When I was young, I had a friend tell me she was going birding, a
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by busyant 3y ago
> aside from the considerable ethical concerns with the unauthorized scraping of everybody’s creative work, If you want to make this argument, I'm "on board." === > and the dismal treatment of the people who annotate th
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by busyant 3y ago
Didn't feel it at all in central CT. My brother in northern NJ said he was briefly evacuated from his building.
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by busyant 3y ago
> By this point I had a $70k bill. Things had been running for about a week. Jesus. This is terrifying.
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by busyant 3y ago
> Microsoft's Broken I wish I could make a clever break-fast pun here.
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by busyant 3y ago
> It's as if something can finally fill their bandwidth, keep up with their thoughts, and answer those questions in real-time. No wonder they get angry when it's time to put away the iPad - they're engaged at a high level.

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