dorkmind

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by dorkmind 5y ago
It's just ordinary newspaper-style writing in a shock jock style. (Insert stock joke about Milgram experiment.) I think it goes back to Bolshevism and especially the "talk hard" ethos of Pump Up the Volume. Hip-hop and rap ar
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by dorkmind 5y ago
> If you look at the level of public interest, then I think it becomes important to actually look into these things This argument actually works on hormonal teens...as for everyone else, I think this is called ad populum or something, at
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by dorkmind 5y ago
> How much did Stalin sleep? https://www.quora.com/How-much-did-Stalin-sleep If you aren't already delegating everything already, and evaluating their work, and delegating the evaluation of that work...are your peop
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by dorkmind 5y ago
> We’ve all been hearing the hype lately about low-code and no-code platforms. This is the first sentence of one of these "articles". It's a classic buzzword, just another brand of enterprise software marketing gimmicks. A
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by dorkmind 5y ago
When will OpenAI make GPT-3 available for academic study? Or are there no plans to do so yet?
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by dorkmind 5y ago
This is also said of mathematics, but rather when the student is successful in learning a theorem.
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by dorkmind 5y ago
I would argue that outright heresy is the way to go; rebellion only gets you so far.
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by dorkmind 5y ago
This is what happens when philosophy, sophistry, and ethics decide to go on vacation to the Bahamas together while their husbands work at major investment banks.
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by dorkmind 5y ago
The release of the source code is actually more of a symbolic signal that the competitive value of the source code has reached a certain level. And that is within n orders of magnitude of the level where there is enough energy and money to
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by dorkmind 5y ago
I like LSD too; I wish the government would legalize it. related: https://www.mondo2000.com/2018/06/18/the-inspiration-for-hyp... Bill Atkinson waited until 2016 to talk about LSD as it related to his work; S
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by dorkmind 5y ago
What is the Tao-drug connection? I feel like this is a case of Orientalism where Western drug culture is getting in the way of popular perception of Taoism, especially Chuang Tzu. Why aren't intellectual snobs trading in-jokes about Ta
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by dorkmind 5y ago
You would think there would be more interest in psychological research. Or am I wrong, and it would be a copyright violation to download the source code and assets, compile, and ask volunteers to play the game? I have a hard time believing
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by dorkmind 5y ago
Does listening to white noise increase the fractal dimension the same way as drugs?
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by dorkmind 5y ago
I noticed that the book bindery closed in Berkeley a bit ago. It's a shame, since I had a conversation with the guy who ran it years ago, and the options he had were really dazzling. I think with a little life it could be turned into a
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by dorkmind 5y ago
Wow. This is going to have a big effect. We can't call Russians felons anymore!
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by dorkmind 5y ago
> why did python decide to break backwards-compatibility I think this is actually because of Mr. van Rossum's employment at Google. Taking money from one customer exclusively just killed Python's future. It would kill any ordin
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by dorkmind 5y ago
I've actually wondered if a True Hipster (tm) ever thought of starting a company to develop software for vintage Apple hardware emulated by one of the many open source choices available. The thinking here is that such software afford
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by dorkmind 5y ago
> Zuckerberg https://www.nytimes.com/live/2020/11/17/technology/twitter-f... This is the guy who screwed up so bad that Congress started going after silicon valley. Our lawmakers have to clean up
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by dorkmind 5y ago
Sounds like an untestable non-falsifiable theory. Similar to nuclear deterrence in that regard; it reminds me of the doctrine that one should cultivate a persona that appears more irrational than you really are when nuclear weapons are invo
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by dorkmind 5y ago
> This is a toy language implemented by a single person—use for quiet enjoyment only. Quiet enjoyment training! Soundless hedonism! Or would that be unsound hedonism? Am I breaking the rules of propositional logic or first-order? Can I m
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by dorkmind 5y ago
Why not declare AT&T, Comcast, et al. to be public utilities, by an Act of Congress?
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by dorkmind 5y ago
I saw this the other day: https://twitter.com/TechEmails/status/1403062097156657156 I'm hearing a preacher put a capstone on the Protestant Reformation with hints of Islamic Alchemy. I don't quite unders
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by dorkmind 5y ago
1. NYT asks for money up front via that link. I've learned that for some journals, if you use a search engine to query for keywords in the title ("jpeg file sells for 69 million" in this case, without the double quotation mar
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by dorkmind 5y ago
I was pleasantly surprised to learn that the wiki page for CUDA has a list of open problems in CS research: Accelerated rendering of 3D graphics Accelerated interconversion of video file formats Accelerated encryption, decrypt
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by dorkmind 5y ago
It's hard to overestimate how the greed-based ethics compromises of silicon valley are a direct result of the intention to create silicon valley and the genetic material that went into it. This all comes at a price: paranoia surroundin
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by dorkmind 5y ago
> fewer young men are in the work force Hmm.. I should change my name to "Fewer Young Men" and get a job!!
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by dorkmind 5y ago
Magicians and facts don't mix.
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The Development of the C Language [pdf](bell-labs.com)
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by dorkmind 5y ago
It's hard to overestimate how greed-based ethics compromises dominate the genetic material of silicon valley. This all comes at a price: paranoia surrounding math research, which everyone assumes is the control function for any electro
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by dorkmind 5y ago
10 years too late...better late than never!!

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