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This quote from the Talmud is up there: “We do not see things as they are. We see things as we are.”
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"crypto mogul"? Could we be less generous please? This was just massive theft at a disgusting level with zero oversight.
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Thanks for doing that! I put it into Excel and made a table out of it and could look at it in a much more meaningful way.
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The New Yorker wrote a nice article on LLMs and how they work, "What Kind of Mind Does ChatGPT Have?"
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (November 2023)
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It's like my childhood TV is coming to reality... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uyv9zxtgCCc
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Glacial changes. Slow but absolutely massive. And I think we'll see it overtake the dollar in the not-so-distant future.
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That sounds way too close to, "Boys will be boys." Culture in companies is set top-down. Setting what's tolerated at a top level is a huge step towards compliance below. Shrugging shoulders isn't a good enough response
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On one (1%) hand you have loud, prominently-displayed efforts to push back on this; on the other (99%) hand you have the deep morass of horrible behaviors which don't seem to budge. This, in an industry which women played an enormous r
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I wouldn't see it that way. When the telephone came out, there was a burst of, "Well, that's it for people visiting each other in person!" I didn't read this as him saying, "We won't learn new languages,&
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https://archive.ph/J4rvD
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Among all landlords, facing an absolute collapse in commercial real estate.
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Loved VB. I met Alan Cooper ages ago. Are you still in touch? And why didn't Bill ever include the VB runtime with Windows?
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The four gospels: Mathew, Mark, Luke and John
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Guns, Germs, and Steel
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Your problems have solutions. It sounds like these mistakes were repeated and clear. It seems that you could intellectually see it, but you chose differently for other reasons. It may be an emotional barrier. Do people consider you stub
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You've said nothing about intelligence. You've exclusively listed psychological impediments. Beating yourself up isn't helpful but your anger is good -- it means you're willing to change. Your username means you need t
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Yeah, it's quite funny. We know they argued violently and that Gauguin was armed with a sword. We know that Gauguin rushed out of town that night leaving his sword behind. We know that the argument was directly in front of a brothel
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I'll try to do it justice in a comment but the book is here: "Van Gogh's Ear: Paul Gauguin and the Pact of Silence," by Hans Kaufmann and Rita Wildegans A lot of circumstantial evidence but it's pretty telling. Pa
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> On 23 December 1888, Vincent cut off his left ear in a state of total confusion. The evidence we have now strongly points to that Gauguin cut it off during an argument.
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yes! This was my request as well. And maybe a "learn" mode where you can see the original timing or the timing of a famous interpretation, like ghosts in video games. Love it! Thanks so much for doing this.
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Make your title Show HN : Calendar/Scheduling App and there are monthly "What are you working on" posts, so make sure to add it to those
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https://archive.ph/Tb1SQ
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Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (Sept 2023)
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> Able to fall a multiple of its jump height My understanding is that it's higher than their terminal velocity, which makes any height fairly low risk. They can be expected to survive falling out of an airplane, for example.
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You don't learn classical methods and anatomy to be precise; you learn it to be correctly imprecise. Picasso couldn't have achieved in abstraction if he hadn't been classically trained. And that's easy to verify: take a
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Sure. Some of the movements in the last two hundred years were shocking. But is this the case of us pushing boundaries of art or the collapse of all criticism? That's the question. Let's take your example of the Armory Show. It
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Taped. This isn't arguing out of ignorance. I feel well-versed enough in contemporary art to both make my accusation and stand behind it.
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The interesting thing is that music composers don't do this. They know music theory. They don't hit a bassoon with a tennis racquet and say, "Your definition of music may vary."
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Do people really believe there are no curators of, say, the Uffizi and the Louvre? Do people think that we don't generally agree on levels of accomplishment and mastery -- that when you go to the Prado, it's not just a random sel

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