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by edbaskerville 1y ago
I wish I could listen to classical music while using my brain. I can't. I end up listening to the music. I've been listening to Scarlatti keyboard sonatas recently. They're great. He was born the same year as Bach.
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
The Bayesian results will depend on the prior. They use a uniform distribution over # tanks produced, in the limit of the distribution's maximum -> infinity. Is that reasonable? Something more constrained might be better, maybe a ga
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
jinx
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
My pleasure! I also get annoyed. :) But I appreciate how it helps keep me up to date on how the kids are progamming their computers. (Too complicatedly, I think.) So I comment almost exclusively on music and 90s Mac nostalgia.
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
The linkage between hand position and visual location on the staff is so hard to relearn for someone that only plays one instrument that the music is written so that notes to be played on the B string (the C tuned down) and the F# string (t
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Oh, it's...very new! Thanks for the recommendation. Another recommendation: the recordings by the multigenre saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu. It's insane. I won't give anything away, but in particular set aside some time to liste
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Me too! Developed this habit as a kid on a Mac IIcx in 1992. Hard to break.
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Yeah, advanced geothermal is very interesting. They're taking fracking techniques and using them to get to hot rocks, which opens up geothermal to a much, much wider set of locations. Interested parties say it could provide everything
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Human beings can, in fact, learn to echolocate, and they seem to experience it as vision, supported by their own descriptions and by fMRIs showing the visual cortex lighting up. I'm not going to try to draw any inferences about conscio
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
It wasn't called National Socialism for nothing.
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Haven't tried it yet. I hear it's having some impact!
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
I thought I was a pedantic non-idiomatic weirdo for doing this. But it really felt like the right way---and also that the language should make this pattern much easier.
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
I wish I could have met him before he died. I'm yet another child of HyperCard. It opened my mind to what computers could be for, and even though the last two decades have been full primarily of disappointment, I still hold onto that o
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by edbaskerville 1y ago
Regardless of the representation, some people are replacing news consumption generally with answers from ChatGPT.
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by edbaskerville 2y ago
I can't find a reference, but I have a vague memory that in original Mac OS X, 1-pixel-width lines drawn at integer locations would be blurred by antialiasing because they were "between" pixels, but lines drawn at e.g. x = 35
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by edbaskerville 2y ago
Hey, thanks for writing the original Swarm! Also thought of that immediately when I saw the headline. I enjoyed using it around 2002, got introduced via Rick Riolo at the the University of Michigan Center for the Study of Complex Systems. I
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by edbaskerville 2y ago
First note makes a better story. :) And not totally implausible--she could have inferred the tempo from the preparatory gesture leading into the first note.
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
Prompt experts, please figure out how to get GOODY-2 to answer a question!
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
The Chevy Volt was a great transitional vehicle, and I often wonder why they didn't build more cars like it. It had an all-electric drivetrain with a gas generator, which gave it slightly worse gas mileage than a true hybrid but had 50
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
This interview with Fervo CEO Tim Latimer on the Volts podcast was really fascinating: https://www.volts.wtf/p/enhanced-geothermal-power-is-finally As a layperson I was certainly impressed by the notion that enhanced g
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
That doesn't preclude this cultivar being African in origin. Could have made it to Africa in the 1500s, undergone selective breeding there, and returned to North American via the slave trade later. (See also: North American potatoes co
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
I'm 41, haven't had a normal full-time job in my adult life (unless you count 5 years of grad school), and I will go seriously looking for work in a couple months! I have no evidence for the following outlook, but I'm dependi
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
ResEdit was the convenient app for that. Apple type/creator was a superior metadata system for sure, but the UI was opaque for non-technical users. Paired with the modern "open with..." settings, it would still be better than
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
Non-expert, but soap disables not just COVID-19 but also most other viruses and bacteria. Also, water alone does a lot to wash them away. Found this study of no-washing vs. water-washing vs. soap+water-washing with a quick search: https:&#
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
Test of a large-scale weapon in a relatively uninhabited region.
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
(Of course this sort of thing could never happen in computer programming, where Logic and Rationality prevail completely.)
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
I came here to link to Pullum. Most of the specific rules were nonsense: among vs. between, passive voice dogmatism, etc. Unfortunately, these things have become shibboleths that indicate membership in a particular class of people. If you u
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
I'm going to study this project in great detail—it's something I'm very interested in contributing to, or at least building with. I've been hoping for something along these lines since around 2014 and have failed to make
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
I screwed around with trying to compute Bayes factors for models of distributions over set partitions, having been led astray by Bayesian phylogenetic inference methods. It was a waste of time--in practice the epistemology was terrible beca
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by edbaskerville 3y ago
Location: San Francisco, CA Remote: agnostic Willing to relocate: not at the moment Technologies: - Python/R/Stan/SQLite for scientific work - Rust, incl. some async - Cocoa/Objective-C, dated, dabble

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