charlieflowers

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by charlieflowers 4y ago
GPT-360
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> People want more REALITY in their life, not less. Agree with most of what you said. But my take is, people would LOVE virtual reality if it were done well enough. We just don't seem to have the technical capability to pull it off
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
I wasn’t trying to be disparaging. Just informing the poster, sharing a bit of proofreading feedback in the hope they found it helpful.
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
If I'm optimizing for my brain, my strengths, and my programming style, bottom up is better. With a particular focus on nailing down the hardest or murkiest part, then the next hardest/murkiest, and so on. This phase can be ugly c
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
That is hard to parse. Eventually I realized you are saying: Didn't a person we refer to as "Wait but Why" post something along these lines recently?
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
I thought that same thing. Besides, it wasn't liking a particular _language_ they took as a bad sign, it was _functional programming_. If you like functional programming, and you encounter a candidate who also likes it, and you conside
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
> I can commit to 10 minutes of mindfulness each morning .... That 10 minute commitment became a snowball of positive change. Which particular flavor / approach to mindfulness training did you apply that led to this outcome?
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
> I've seen ADHD person explain this as having every reason to do the task, know that they need to get started now, and yet, just can't get around to do it. I've certainly felt that in some scenarios in my life. It's
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
> For me the secret is like the famous Article says: "Attention is all you need". I distract my attention on how much "boring", or "painful" or "humiliating" some work that I believe is important i
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
True, I think the political elite made a big mistake, revealing the clowns behind the curtain. The younger generation, even with their default disgruntlement with the system, still might've taken another decade to figure out just how m
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I mean, yeah, true. But only in the exact same way that Meta, Google, and a bunch of other American companies do too.
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
Lawmakers don't care about that. You're giving them way too much credit. Since the public is not in an uproar about this destructiveness, there are no votes or advantages to be gained by advocating against it. That's for altr
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
It is mind boggling, and at the same time not surprising at all, that China is enforcing a humane policy to protect its children when we are not willing to do the same.
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Agree, but then Meta and others are lobbying (throwing money at those politicians), which buys concern from the lawmakers.
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And even then, unfortunately, this was after the analogous "fuzz test" had already failed horrifically. (Not making a dark joke ... I'm pointing out that even the Nobel laureate wasn't allocated and focused in time to pr
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
The real concerns, in order of importance, are: 1. This is a way of getting memes to the masses that we (the US political establishment) can't fully control. 2. Meta and others are getting their asses kicked revenue-wise by Tik Tok. Li
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
It's not that the number of kinds of glue is large. It's that the one kind of glue (function composition) is particularly powerful.
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
Hope it wasn't keeping its payroll money in SVB.
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To me, THAT is the most powerful intuitive description.
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
I'm trying to sign up now. The "Next" button after entering mailing address is disabled. Anyone else having that issue? Wonder if maybe they are no longer taking sign ups?
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
> but he knew how people behave and act, and so he was able to dictate the entire engagement This sounds super interesting, but it's so generic I can't get anything concrete from it. Could you elaborate a bit on how he dictated
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
This is a classic and one of the most insightful talks/paradigms I've encountered. One of the few that stands the test of many years.
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
> But the whole point ... is ... in _search_ (not content generation) True. And also, keep in mind ... it doesn't truly have to be _better_ than Google search. You just need to start and maintain a _social trend_ so that the mainstr
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
Yep. After all, where on Earth does all the tuition money actually go? The buildings are nice and there are way too many overpaid administrators, but even still that can't possibly account for all the $$$ flowing in.
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
FYI, Stephen Covey (not Richard)
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That has been written about quite a bit. Can't remember any of the terms placed on it, but I've seen many Hacker News entries about maximizing that phenomenon.
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Why not Typescript?
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So what is then?
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Can you recommend a brand? They are expensive and there are the usual low quality, planned obscelesence game playing techniques to sort through.
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by charlieflowers 4y ago
> It's good to see that schools in the US are taking it more seriously than they used to. It's nothing but lip service. Bullying is largely the result of several quite obvious system design flaws. 30 kids to one adult is going

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