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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
The apples seem misproportioned to the ant? Is that just me?
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Was that Xenophon’s anabasis? I didn’t remember that part but I love the book. Xenophon, like Plato, was a student of Socrates and wrote philosophical dialogues involving him. Unlike Plato, Xenophon became a mercenary soldier who led 10,000
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We built scape in 9 months and ran it for 9 months, if I recall. We were all young and naive — it just felt like we failed to make something that “clicked.” Facebook had very few features (pokes and the wall), but they weren’t competing on
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Back in 2004, some friends and I started a social network at yale called the “socially connected academic peer exchange” or scape. The concept was to help people have more meaningful connections IRL because it was easier to share one’s deep
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Isn’t AI a deflationary force? Like, a unit of intelligence is getting cheaper over time? Also, migration & outsourcing…
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
I have a strobe app on my iPhone that, annoyingly, aliases. Or, is it my brain that is aliasing? Pretty sure the former, based on experience with other strobes.
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PICO-8 is super fun way to explore the joy of constraints. Over the summer, we hosted a vibecoding PICO-8 game jam in Amsterdam. It wasn’t a demoparty but we nevertheless had some amazing demoscene folks show up with c64s and example demos.
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
This guy worked at Danger! Man I loved my Hiptop/Sidekick
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Honest question: what will likely be done with a computer like this?
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Yes, but many of his books are not translated or ocr’d. For instance, La pestilenzia or de mysteriis. And he is one of the most central figures of the renaissance. Less than 20% of neolatin has been digitized, let alone translated. It is fi
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
Well, if you are looking for diversity of perspective— temporal diversity may be valuable. Marsilio Ficino was hired by the Medici to translate Plato and other classical Greek works into Latin. He directly taught DaVinci, Raphael, Michelang
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“Radical Platonism and Radical Empiricism”(youtube.com)
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Let’s keep in mind that we don’t have most of the renaissance through the early modern period (1400-1800) because it was published in neolatin with older typefaces— and only about 10% is even digitized. We probably don’t have most of the Ar
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Democritus (b 460BCE) said, “I would rather discover one cause than gain the kingdom of Persia,” which suggests that finding true causes is rather difficult.
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What are you referring to? Copper?
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Unrelated: why is chat search in Claude so bad?
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Over 1% of US land is devoted to biofuels. If we replaced those corn fields with solar, it would produce 4x the electricity currently consumed in the US.
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So what is the length of the diagonal of a unit square, if not square root of 2? It can’t be rational—how is that rationalized by Wildberger?
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And I’m assuming they can be converted to incredibly small finite numbers just as easily?
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Yes, exactly like that.
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I was thinking of a Google News competitor that rewrites original headlines — so they are in the readers best interest — based on the content of the article. So, no clickbait, minimal confusion and more learning from merely reading the head
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Aren’t we facing major changes in precipitation (due to global warming) and by preventing global warming, having fewer changes? TBH, I don't understand anti geoengineering logic…
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> Its the attention economy, you've demanded people's attention, and then you shove crap that even you didn't spend time reading in their face. That’s the rudeness. But this takes care of itself— we just adjust trust accor
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by dr_dshiv 1y ago
> cause wars due to lack of global consensus Who would attack who? Let’s say we are putting calcium carbonate into the upper arctic atmosphere to stop Greenland melt. Who attacks?
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Look up marine cloud brightening. In 2022, international policy cleaned up shipping fuels. Without the sulfur, however, the “ship tracks” ceased. Without the marine clouds seeded by dirty fuels, the warming impact of shipping increased by
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> The only path forward is technological innovation to reduce or remove carbon emissions. I’d be completely happy with technological innovations that allowed us to restore heat balance (solar radiation management, marine cloud brightenin
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It was volunteered as an example of a legitimate invention in a category that is viewed as wholly illegitimate.
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Cheep! $0.56 per million tokens in — and $1.68 per million tokens out.
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Strong claim there!
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But there wasn’t a difference in categories at the time — yet, at the time, perpetual motion was still treated as impossible.

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