colinsane

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   by colinsane 4y ago

   > The proper way would be to attach probabilities to information, but that would be too much for most readers, and impossible to do for most normal jounalists. some scientific reporting takes the approach of defining certain words to rep
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   by colinsane 4y ago

   out of curiosity — since it sounds like you might have been working on promotional or unsolicited email — did you ever see responses from your emails? i’ve been responding to marketing emails recently — often CC’ing generic accounts like ma
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   by colinsane 4y ago

   the comment which spawned this chain is: > If push came to shove we might just consider making better software? as you say, "a _lot_ of software out there runs in the 'hardware is my driving cost' locale." if somethin
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   by colinsane 4y ago

   > The hot paths in most important high-end computing are mostly quite efficient. it’s hard to determine the lower bound on a lot of these things. in scientific computing (e.g. physics sims) i still run across a lot of runtime branching t
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   by colinsane 4y ago

   > But that's an artifact of the groups of people that self-select onto that platform, not a property of the platform or its incentives itself. the Fediverse is _incredibly_ heterogeneous. pick any two distant corners of it and often