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I can sympathize with this. I love discovering some generalization that subsumes all the complexity. But what if we follow this to its extreme? Suppose we find the one perfect symbol that precipitates all other concepts? What then does
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I think your reply gets at the answer to my own question that I tend to lean towards. And that is that craving further concepts is an inherent problem that follows from being a thinking being. What you say seems like part of the answer, w
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Sort of off topic, but sometimes pondering these low-level physics questions forces me into a philosophical state of mind. It seems like asking questions about basic particles is representative of a mode of thinking that drills down ever f
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Seems justified, no? Feels like you have to search pretty hard for dispassionate, factual accounts of important events. Although I think there are biases encoded in these poll results. For example, people are now more annoyed than ever when
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Meanwhile, the rest of the world will go on teaching it and their students' academic performance will continue to trounce the US's. I am 100% confident that I would not have gone into engineering if algebra had not been part of my
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I don't think this is reliable. I've only met a handful of people in my own life who are able to actually report their state of mind without mixing in judgements about why they feel a certain way. In other words, people who can re
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I think one reason people like farming games (and games in general really) is that they're fair. You perform a set of actions and get a reward. Sure, some games feel sort of unfair if they're poorly designed. But I think all video
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That's the channel creator's complaint though. He thought his video was below the stated profanity threshold. But YouTube age restricted it anyway. He found other examples of videos that weren't age restricted but had twice a
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Yep, I'm aware of DataFusion and I'd expect nothing less than top notch performance from it. Interesting comparison.
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Great, thanks again! Yeah, a lot of the things steampipe is doing are right up my alley. Fun to learn about! Watching your talk now and enjoying it.
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Awesome, thanks so much for that! I guess then it sounds like, even if bandwidth were not an issue for a datasource, there would still be the physical limitations of the machine on which steampipe would do any later processing (such as joi
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Hey Nathan. Can you comment on some of the known performance pitfalls of steampipe? I'm not super familiar with the Postgres foreign data wrappers API. I assume steampipe inherits many of its technical limitations from this API. Hav
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I'm always completely fascinated by the change in language style between now and then. They're speaking the same English; it's not like a different dialect or anything. But the manner in which words are strung together is c
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I'm sure there are specific programs that would benefit from a treatment from these rules. However, there's one thing pretty fundamental to this article that I have a hard time agreeing with. And that is the notion that there are
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Yep, I know there's no content.
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That's exactly what I meant :).
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This post is like a litmus test for people who reply to the title instead of the content.
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Wsj knows their audience. They're the folks who want to frame everything in terms of all the weird and entitled things that 20-somethings do. They're sure to get their clicks with that title.
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Yeah, awesome way to sum it up. I think I'm suffering from the nearsightedness of someone who now lives many decades after the 1970s.
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I've read GEB over many years rather in the way someone would read the Bible. I pick it up from time to time and enjoy chewing on one or two chapters of material. But I've yet to figure out if the book actually has a specific the
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This was written in 2010. There was a sea change that took place around the time that Trump was elected after which it became far more fraught to discuss political topics. But the way it is now is not how it's always been. Things
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I'm no Musk or SpaceX fanboi but this article seems to be making a mountain out of a mole hill. Not sure what the real story is here.
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What's the theoretical advantage of the German stellarator over a tokemak? Seems like a complex design but I assume there must be a reason for the complexity.
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> or the idea of generative models for art in general? I'm not sure how you could read my comment and possibly come to this conclusion.
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Going to have to be the naysayer here. First, I'll say the simple fact that Stable Diffusion produces anything coherent is incredible. I'm blown away by the tech. However, my honest opinion of the results showcased in this article
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Yeah, me too. Zero problems. I've also successfully dialed 911 with it. Though it was in Seattle so I got put on hold for 5 minutes ^_^. I guess the linked thread says the issue is in Australia.
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It's interesting that, in a certain phase of the learning process, words in natural language already work this way. Before a language learner has enough knowledge to understand word etymology, they have to just form an association bet
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Really neat. I see he has an article on something called Angband . I remember playing something like that called Moria . I looked it up and it sounds like Angband is basically like a fork of Moria .
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Sure, but this model is a general image synthesizer that is trained on a massive amount of data that is openly available on the internet. Given that, I would assume that it would have seen many images of 74xx series chips and also musical
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Pretty cool. Although it's interesting that it can't seem to render an image from a precise description that should have something like an objectively correct answer. I tried prompts like "Middle C engraved on a staff with

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