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811.
by dash2 2y ago
The resulting global conflicts will be painful for everyone, including the US itself.
812.
by dash2 2y ago
Damian Conway… a name to conjure with. What are the advantages of the Podlite design?
813.
by dash2 3y ago
Searching for alternative numbers to explain an anomaly, e.g. that consumer sentiment hasn't improved even though inflation is down, is what scientists do, although it is certainly not immune to partisan bias. Have you got a critique o
814.
by dash2 3y ago
My experience in East Germany was that even waiters spoke pretty decent English and would switch to it at any opportunity. Not quite Holland, but not far off. I had a friend who had lived there 10 years and still didn't speak German.
815.
by dash2 3y ago
Mitteleuropa is an old concept, much older than the Iron Curtain. For example, the old boundaries of the Austro-Hungarian empire catch quite a lot of it. I've been told that places like Slovenia are pretty different from places like Se
816.
by dash2 3y ago
So the US is usually thought of as more right wing than Europe, so is bureaucracy worse in the US than Europe?
817.
by dash2 3y ago
This is clearly false. "He did it in the parking lot" is nothing like enough evidence to convict anyone. It isn't remotely enough even on the balance of probabilities. I have seen zero evidence for the conspiracy theory, and
818.
by dash2 3y ago
This is a wonderful example of how misinterpretations spread into the public domain. The article carefully avoids causal language, appropriately in a study with no genetic control. But on HN it’s become “affect”. Sigh.
819.
by dash2 3y ago
Can someone tell me what an Aztec codex is? I assumed Aztec writing was not on paper but on stone... these seem to be from the colonial period, so are they hybrid cultural forms or what?
820.
by dash2 3y ago
Yeah, and allegedly the super-efficient government controlled system has built on the order of 4 bn houses for 1.5 bn Chinese. This might be the largest and most costly housing bubble in history, and I believe it happened partly because Chi
821.
by dash2 3y ago
Could you give some statistics that back up the claim that social programs have a higher impact on crime than Shotspotter?
822.
by dash2 3y ago
But automated text analysis needs OCR. There's https://chroniclingamerica.loc.gov but I'm not sure how good its OCR has been.
823.
by dash2 3y ago
That's not gonna work at million-scale, though.
824.
by dash2 3y ago
"simple"?
825.
by dash2 3y ago
Just to add an example: https://wrap.warwick.ac.uk/119646/13/WRAP-historical-analysi...
826.
by dash2 3y ago
It's such a shame that recent historical newspapers are closed source in this way. We could learn so much from quantitative analysis of culture if there were downloadable data or at least an API.
827.
by dash2 3y ago
As I understand it, people don't actually know what happened.
828.
by dash2 3y ago
This guy is the man to ask ^^^^^^
829.
by dash2 3y ago
I like this idea a lot. * Can I export data to e.g. google maps, if I want to? * Can I annotate places I've been? * Is info automatically shared between my devices? In short, what can the app do? The blurb says "keeping GPS open c
830.
2x2 Games Will Change Your Life(wyclif.substack.com)
7 points by dash2 3y ago|1 comments
831.
by dash2 3y ago
Flicked through and found this bit: "But there is a more thorough humbug than any of these enterprises or systems. The greatest humbug of all is the man who believes — or pretends to believe — that everything and everybody are humbugs.
832.
by dash2 3y ago
Since 1995, Private Eye magazine has regularly run a picture of Andrew Neil wearing a baseball cap and vest, in the company of a younger woman, which he was supposed to find embarrassing. A long-running letters page joke is finding spurious
833.
by dash2 3y ago
Note that the France24 story on Gaza is about an unrelated technology, there's no claim that OpenAI was involved.
834.
by dash2 3y ago
A truly altruistic general intelligence would be deeply concerned for the future of humanity in the face of a devastating existential threat. Tragically I, a mere Neanderthal with a primitive lizard brain, can only settle back and reach for
835.
by dash2 3y ago
Netscape could have been as big as Google. Instead, Microsoft ate their lunch. Now, even Firefox too has become niche. Off-topic: anyone else remember the Mozilla browser before Firefox? Remember XUL? That was with KDE and Gnome 1.x, when t
836.
by dash2 3y ago
Cartel behaviour. But ok, that is more compelling for the general point.
837.
by dash2 3y ago
"A competent Siri." This, but it is really exciting because for the first time, you can just tell your computer what to do. Not just a given set of tasks, but e.g. "go to my gym and book a slot with my personal trainer";
838.
by dash2 3y ago
Not having (yet) produced as good a product is not evidence of a monopoly!
839.
by dash2 3y ago
It said it needed read and write access to my email. I don't think it should even need read access. I probably wouldn't mind giving you my email separately as a signup.
840.
by dash2 3y ago
I have some small sympathy with Google here. * Google wants Gemini to not only create pictures of white people, even though it was probably trained on a dataset where white people were heavily overrepresented, at least compared to the world

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