davesque

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by davesque 4y ago
The feel like the meaning of the term "web3" is not so specific. It refers more generally to the idea of building decentralized services that run over blockchains whether they resemble web apps or not. I think the sentiment is tha
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by davesque 5y ago
Very relatable quotes from that piece. Here are some others that follow the quote from the title: It feels as if I made it myself, as if it were my creation. I identify with the director. I identify with the actors. Well
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by davesque 5y ago
Interesting, I had no idea. I stand corrected on that detail. But yeah, my comment was about the sense of hype I remember about certain technologies as they rose to popularity. I remember there was almost this funny sense that XML would sol
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by davesque 5y ago
I remember this being somewhat associated with the rise of Java and the adoption of XML as a serialization format for the Java platform. There was an accompanying trend in which XML became the hammer with which to strike all the illusory na
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by davesque 5y ago
I'm assuming that was a typo?
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by davesque 5y ago
My more general take is that "elite" culture has diverged more and more from popular culture as the middle class has shrunk. I think it's very much connected to the trend of economic stratification.
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by davesque 5y ago
Just looked into this and yeah, the original post to which the comment was responding was a programmer humor post. However, it looked as if the comment in question may have been an actual, legit attempt to explain the phenomenon. I don&#x
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by davesque 5y ago
I imagine the actual reality is that they care but also want to get paid. And everything else you said.
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by davesque 5y ago
As much as PhD students are often "funded" by their university, they're only really surviving at best. I'd like to do a PhD more than almost anything. However, at 41 and well into a career with each job paying higher t
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by davesque 5y ago
I think I had a similar reaction to my mother's death, although hers was drawn out over a period of years; a lost battle with breast cancer. I think I only miss her more with each year. It's been 7 years. Part of the trouble I thi
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by davesque 5y ago
I've always thought that, while AGI is possible in principle, it may not be possible in practice while also being meaningfully different from existing biological life forms. When I see how we train neural networks or iterate through p
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by davesque 5y ago
Wow, I didn't realize I was advocating for excess deaths. Thanks for clarifying that for the folks at home. Maybe my point is more anecdotal than I realize. After all, I've never had a colleague from MIT who exhibiting any meaning
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by davesque 5y ago
> Of course the real tragedy is that we fixate so much on college This is what gets me. The whole concept of college, and especially selective, high profile colleges such as Harvard, MIT, etc., seems antiquated and almost entirely man
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by davesque 5y ago
I don't disagree that it is an accurate (and somewhat inflammatory) description of how figures on the right discuss cancel culture. What I'm saying is that it is an ineffective means of changing anyone's mind that they mus
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by davesque 5y ago
At the risk of outing myself as a skeptic of certain orthodoxies, I also found the Times op-ed in question to have a rather un-serious tone. However, I think there were different things I latched onto than the author of this critique. I d
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by davesque 5y ago
Always makes me think of the Dead Alewives parody: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9Kgx2b1sIRs
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by davesque 5y ago
I'm imagining that the creator of this project really went the distance in sticking to their initial vision of what was possible. I think sometimes visionary projects fail because the creators eventually compromise on the vision when
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by davesque 5y ago
Here's their informative, definitely-not-clickbait-fear-mongering list of bullet points later down in the article: "* They are bright yellow, black, blue, and red and can grow up to 3 inches. * They likely traveled across the gl
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by davesque 5y ago
This only seems true for the people who share TMI on social media. Still seems like a pretty specific subset of the population.
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by davesque 5y ago
Almost impossible and also rather impractical. What each game should care about are the high level details of its game state. Things like "In what map am I located and at what coordinates?" The game engine for each game basically
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by davesque 5y ago
In a perfect world, I would agree. However, people are people and they often feel ashamed or embarrassed about not living up to expectations, whether those expectations are reasonable or not. Forcing someone to process those emotions public
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by davesque 5y ago
I remember working at an organization that essentially made the results of performance reviews open across the team. The rational was that it would help people make sense out of salary figures (which were also open). It did not improve team
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by davesque 5y ago
I think the issue is not with the challenge but with the format. It's fine if a course is challenging. But if you're stuck in a 500 person class where no one gives a shit about you or knows your name, and you just came from a typi
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by davesque 5y ago
I just want to say that I appreciate you dropping the author card just for the sake of making a joke.
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by davesque 5y ago
[This was a bunch of needless snark so I voluntarily removed it] Update: Actually, I think you're right. I misrepresented my opinion as weakly held as though I was asking for a more authoritative source on the matter. So your respons
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by davesque 5y ago
I don't want to act all offended and everything, but I honestly don't understand why a list of rewards is a counterpoint to my personal opinion. I'm aware that everyone loved the movie. I don't care and I'm not just
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by davesque 5y ago
I don't know if it was just me or the theater I was in but I felt like some of the effects in Dune were second rate. Was a bit disappointed, especially during desert scenes. I wish I could think of a counterexample of good CGI from mod
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by davesque 5y ago
I think they may have provided fewer citations because it felt like a less controversial claim. I think the choice of words was just a bit awkward. To me, it seems like they were asserting that deep learning requires lots of computational r
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by davesque 5y ago
I'm a layman when it comes to all this. But isn't it true that, when investors think about projected earnings, they are often implicitly thinking in terms of projected value? So when we say that "Growth" company will m
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by davesque 5y ago
I don't think this finding challenges any of those assumptions. I think the explanation was that the relativistic jet for smaller blackholes located at galaxy centers is moving slow enough that the compressive effects of the jet are n

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