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One Thing I Don’t Plan to Do Before I Die Is Make a Bucket List(nytimes.com)
4 points by dougb5 5y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 5y ago
Today's Ezra Klein podcast has an excellent interview with James Suzman who gives a historical perspective on why we work hard: https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/29/opinion/ezra-klein-podcas...
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Why Do We Work So Damn Much?(nytimes.com)
3 points by dougb5 5y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 5y ago
Tangent, but to my American ear, the British English sense of "presenter" -- someone who reads the news -- seems to acknowledge the theatrical aspect of the role. More so than our "anchorperson" which seems to come from
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by dougb5 5y ago
The generated abstracts may be gibberish but I wonder how often they contain little bits of brilliance, or make novel connections between ideas expressed in the training set. If we got a panel of domain experts to evaluate the snippets on
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by dougb5 5y ago
Epidemiologists use the term "variants of concern", so maybe "concerning" would have been a better word. https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/vari...
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by dougb5 6y ago
The Apple IIgs had a port of Hypercard, but as I recall it was too slow and buggy, and it got very little traction. I was an avid user of a similar tool called HyperStudio. I looked it up just now and to my surprise it's still alive
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by dougb5 6y ago
Cynical about frameworks but huge fan of this one. I find myself using Streamlit not just to communicate data analyses with other people, but also to explore the data myself, and even for projects I never intend to publish. Being able to
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by dougb5 6y ago
It would be good to know the median compensation for the lifeguards instead of just some outliers. Focusing on the highest paid earners gives readers a false sense of the distribution. Imagine a similar article that listed the top incomes
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by dougb5 6y ago
It can be simultaneously true that Google's gotten better at displaying results pages that fully satisfy the user without the need for a click, and worse at other kinds of queries. The latter case -- searches which I have to rephras
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by dougb5 6y ago
It's infuriating when Google prefers the documents that ignore some of my keywords even when there are plainly pages that include them all. I get the sense that there's an over-weighting of broad semantic match, to the detriment
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by dougb5 6y ago
> [Sundar Pichai] has emphasized that Google is an “AI-first” company Maybe I need to lighten up here, but I find this "AI-first" branding to be really off-putting. What I fear it means is "We're going to add the wor
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by dougb5 6y ago
Not so long ago the author warned that non-profits are a "magnet for sociopaths" because "their defining feature is to make no profit" and there's "no intrinsic accountability". ( https://twitt
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Online school reviews reflect school demographics more than effectiveness(news.mit.edu)
10 points by dougb5 6y ago|3 comments
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by dougb5 6y ago
SEEKING FREELANCER: Remote Datamuse ( https://www.datamuse.com ) is seeking an independent contractor to work on one of several short-term (40 to 80 hour) front-end engineering projects related to our assistive writing apps. Expe
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by dougb5 6y ago
Yeah, for one thing, the scale of Dropbox may make this a uniquely worthwhile investment for them. Many apps have similar kinds of speculative caching features that could be optimized with predictive modeling, but the same cost-benefit ana
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Spreadsheet of big-tech PAC donations to legislators who opposed certification(twitter.com)
3 points by dougb5 6y ago|0 comments
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I’m stepping down as CEO due to my mental health–and I want to talk about it(qz.com)
9 points by dougb5 6y ago|1 comments
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Fast forward to today. A program to load /usr/share/dict/words into a hash table is 3-5 lines of Perl or Python, depending on how terse you mind being. [...] That's progress. I was curious -- This Python script c
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by dougb5 6y ago
Folks who were around during the first dot-com boom might remember Zaplets, which tried to do this 20 years ago. https://www.forbes.com/forbes/2000/0612/6514218a.html "Combine the Web, instant messaging
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Hear what people are saying on talk radio throughout the US(radio.cortico.ai)
1 points by dougb5 6y ago|0 comments
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by dougb5 6y ago
OneLook crawls and indexes the headwords from ~1000 online dictionaries and glossaries. When you do a wildcard search, it searches all of these lists at once. Clicking on one of the results will show you the sources. The sites range fro
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by dougb5 6y ago
I haven't noticed that, although I do get feedback from the puzzle hunt community from time to time!
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by dougb5 6y ago
Me too! I've carved out some time this summer to look into some approaches to the problem based on the BERT architecture. A few years ago I tried some (pre-BERT) deep-learning based approaches, but nothing panned out. The "dumb
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by dougb5 6y ago
I'm the developer of OneLook and happy to answer any questions about it! It's been running continuously since 1996 and I've been (very slowly) adding features to it over the past couple of decades.
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by dougb5 7y ago
I would tell them exactly what you've told us and not try to mitigate it. And emphasize that you feel rejuvenated. Having taken this break, you may be in a better spot now than many people who have been (formally) employed continuous
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by dougb5 7y ago
Before you disable it, the site warns you that "This will also prevent you from logging into apps and websites with Facebook because your activity will be disconnected from your account." This annoys me, because Facebook login is
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by dougb5 7y ago
While much business travel may be inessential, family visits for Lunar New Year are surely essential for many people, so this is a tough time for such an experiment. I was surprised to learn that there are normally 3 billion passenger-jour
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A meticulous analysis led to a diagnosis of diabetes insipidus(washingtonpost.com)
29 points by dougb5 7y ago|9 comments
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Top ads in fact came first, in 2000, and were there through the launch of AdWords. History: https://searchengineland.com/google-adwords-turns-15-a-look-...

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