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Structuring unstructured data is a correct use of AI(mechanicalsurvival.com)
1 points by d_j_b 1y ago|0 comments
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The Way to Platformland(mechanicalsurvival.com)
1 points by d_j_b 2y ago|0 comments
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Continuous Evaluation(mechanicalsurvival.com)
1 points by d_j_b 3y ago|0 comments
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Rocks.nvim(github.com)
2 points by d_j_b 3y ago|0 comments
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What shall we forget next? (2023)(mechanicalsurvival.com)
1 points by d_j_b 3y ago|0 comments
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by d_j_b 3y ago
I agree with the central point, that web analytics lacks rigor. But I don't think it's wholly true that the problem is that our own motivations cause our analysis to lack objectivity. I think the other reason the author gives is t
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Classifying undergrad degrees with GPT-4 as our intern(mechanicalsurvival.com)
1 points by d_j_b 3y ago|0 comments
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What if the candidate were the interviewer?(mechanicalsurvival.com)
1 points by d_j_b 3y ago|0 comments
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How we use Slack to respond to service incidents(dfedigital.blog.gov.uk)
3 points by d_j_b 5y ago|0 comments
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by d_j_b 7y ago
There was so much to enjoy in Embassytown : the Hosts, the Metaphors, the Festival of Lies, biorigging, Immer, the super-cerebral ending. Anyone come across anything equally juicy recently?
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by d_j_b 7y ago
I've been doing this too, with mine! A recent discovery is that if you keep all the Y pieces pointing in the same compass direction you seem to end up with a track which is always 100% traversable in either forward or reverse.
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by d_j_b 9y ago
That is a short story called "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"
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Clojure: a beginner's notes(austeretechnology.wordpress.com)
2 points by d_j_b 9y ago|0 comments
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by d_j_b 9y ago
Silly Vice: it's "Perec", not "Pereca".
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by d_j_b 9y ago
The Browser! https://thebrowser.com . I frequently see its recommendations percolating through to the front page of HN. 5 hand-picked articles a day drawn from every corner of the internet, covering philosophy, literature, techno
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by d_j_b 10y ago
> In many private industries, even highly regulated ones like finance, the people who first successfully transitioned the industries to computer based systems are now dying of old age. The NHS hasn't even started. They started a ye
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by d_j_b 10y ago
Fair point. I'd accept the trade-off if it meant I could use quote-unquote Linux instead of macOS.
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by d_j_b 10y ago
Because the power management never quite works as it should
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by d_j_b 10y ago
When Windows Subsystem for Linux can run nginx, rails etc reliably, will seriously consider leaving behind MacBook Pro for something like this
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by d_j_b 10y ago
Some right-wingers in the UK (e.g. the ones advocating withdrawing from the EU) would like to see it abolished (and the BBC diminished)
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by d_j_b 10y ago
"For me, declaring code is not code," Page said. This sentence sounds pretty odd to me. What does Larry Page mean?
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by d_j_b 10y ago
"its whole syntax is the literal representation of one of it's core datatypes, the linked list" "Your average Lisp process is code running on a Lisp VM, and the VM allows you to modify the running code" Thank you. A
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by d_j_b 10y ago
Mick is the author's name. I think it's a joke?
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by d_j_b 12y ago
Google's model rests on the assumption that all the ads on the site will be Google ads, and as such this scheme comes with a fairly heavy incentive for content providers to carry Google ads only. Declaration of interest: we're try
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Amazon sellers hit by nightmare before Christmas as glitch cuts prices to 1p(theguardian.com)
13 points by d_j_b 12y ago|2 comments
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by d_j_b 12y ago
ah, thanks! will try to remember that. seems to go some way to answering the original article's point, too.
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by d_j_b 12y ago
iOS gets this really wrong. More than once I've accidentally swiped it to 'off' in an effort to hit the snooze button, then slumbered on for an hour. And then there's the fact that to disable the alarm during a snooze pe
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Does science link carbs and obesity?(aeon.co)
1 points by d_j_b 12y ago|0 comments
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by d_j_b 12y ago
that is a fascinating article, thank you. i like the idea of 'push karma'.
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by d_j_b 13y ago
This is great stuff - thank you very much. >all those wonderful Python libs As a non-mathematician I have no understanding of how wonderful they really are, which is why this sort of thing is so valuable.

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