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by ecshafer 2mo ago
There was a webcomic abtruse goose that made fun of that book by humorously showing what you would have to do to get it done in 21 days. https://gabrielcoarna.com/2010/11/05/how-to-teach-yourself-c...
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
So $1-10k in Chinese model time, thus why we must ban them.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Azure is the second largest cloud, and run majority linux. So probably.
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At least Geist looks nice. Corporate Memphis has always been ugly, beyond ugly even, its an insult to aesthetics itself, an insult to all of life.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Henry Nowak would as well.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
How many people has the US sent to jail due to saying naughty things on Twitter vs the UK? If were going to speak of authoritarianism. Just due to ensuring free speech and right to bear arms the US is possibly the least authoritarian develo
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Ancient China had a monotheistic religion where they worshiped Shang Di, a monotheistic God without idols, who could not be drawn, and they made yearly sacrifices to at a single Temple. There are schools that say Hinduism is monotheistic, w
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Global Warming does have a knowledge gap of sorts. Yes there is a viable solution to Global Warming, drastically cut back carbon and methane emissions. Where the knowledge gap is: drastically cut back on carbon and methane emissions, whil
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Terrance Tao's chatgpt conversation is really interesting for a variety of reasons: 1. The counter example wasn't just a brute force selection, the polynomial is structured in a very specific way that ends up getting the result. 2
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Isn't it?
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
To be more specific, I dont think owning a sfh to rent out should be good. But building an apartment complex should be a good investment. Unrestrict building, and tax underutilized land.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Housing can not be a viable asset class, or it will continue to rise in prices. Step 1 is Land Value Taxes. Step 2 is remove/greatly reduce zoning, allow construction and streamline the process. If you allow density, building up, and
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Defense and Military you can want to work there for such nebulous ideas such as serving your nation, protecting your loved ones, security, etc. This would require you to actually believe in said abstract concepts like nationalism, community
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
Bill Gates is responsible for the proliferation of the term "content". We can add this to the list of his other crimes.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
> the only important feature of the project management system was that you couldn't assign the same priority to two feature That is a good idea for a project management system. Force ranking of priorities.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
I am a shill for saying AI is useful, but people use it too much? I am not morally opposed to shilling, but I think that isn't a very effective shill.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
AI is useful. But the amount of people that are simply offloading all of their thinking to AI and blindly accepting the answer is absurd. Kaggle is most likely using ai to assess the submissions and are not using any common sense by blindly
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
The mayor of NYC froze rent... rent controls are the opposite of building more affordable housing, since it disincentivizes building and renting units.
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by ecshafer 2mo ago
many of the data centers are being built with natural gas generators on site, and they are using excess gas from the oil drilling.
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
Deindustrialization in the west is imo largely due to this. Pollution was bad . Trying to clean things up was good . But you can't increase the cost 10x, and then allow a company to set up shop across the border and ship things in do
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
The same graph also shows a corresponding -3.5 STDEV below the mean temperature as well. It actually seems rather balanced. This year is hot, but we see similar abnormal jumps in other directions.
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
I've pitched this idea before. But instead of something like the Paris Climate Accords which were an agreement for people to self-regulate and reduce emissions. What is needed is an agreement that is a sort of cartel. Nations a,b,c ag
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
I am torn by these announcements. On the one hand there is the infinite potential on what we can disover, when AI prompts are solving outstanding problems. On the other, something is lost in an aesthetic sense when it wasnt a man working
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
The founding myth was not talked about at all in new york state high school. They were clear it was about western expansion, and taxes, and led by the local american aristocracy. Every single period emphasized labor, women, and minority tre
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
jfc are you kidding? They teach how bad America is in public schools. A People's History of the United States has sold millions of copies. This must be satire since if anything the discourse is much more about how America is fundamenta
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
Tax subsidies for jobs is a bad practice in general. Land should be taxed, if a Data Center is the most profitable use of a land, then thats what should be built. Water usage is overblown, its brought up because one shitty policy paper 1000
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
Minsky, in the 60s, thought that object detection / classification with a camera was worthy of a summer research project for undergrads. Maybe there is a classical algorithmic way to do so (I personally don't believe there is). Bu
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by ecshafer 3mo ago
The politicization of AI has been a huge damper. NYS put a 1 year moratorium on datacenters with some municipalities doing so as well. My town did a 1 year ban, despite us being a retarded location for a data center (more expensive land tha
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This is a good point that shows the weakness in a lot of these comparing military budgets. Imagine an example where one country spends $1000 per soldier and another spends $100k per soldier. IF they both field 100 soldiers. One budget is 10
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Early computer scientists were so optimistic. They beleives with a few kh of ram and a mhz of cpu they could do anything. Ai, consciousness, ml, language, text to speech. Now we spend gigs of ram on web forms. So gibson saying yeay 3MB of r

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