esalman

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by esalman 9mo ago
My wife is a PhD in recycled asphalt materials and pioneered the use of such materials in New Mexico. Under her PhD supervisor she directly worked with the NM department of transportation as a consultant. She did all that as an internationa
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by esalman 9mo ago
Because academia and University research is broken at best and leftist breeding ground at worst /s
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by esalman 9mo ago
Current administration have plenty of time, 3 years to be exact, to turn USA into another Iran.
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by esalman 9mo ago
Haha that's a good one. Maybe just do a "@grok is that true?".
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by esalman 9mo ago
Some people also need to get in the habit of researching a claim by themselves.
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by esalman 9mo ago
If it does not mean anything, why do day traders concentrate on sub $10 stocks and long term investors ignore them?
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by esalman 9mo ago
40% is not earth-shattering when it closed at $6.73 yesterday.
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by esalman 9mo ago
Tesla was winning because US government gave it half a billion dollars when it was struggling financially.
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by esalman 9mo ago
> Claude kind of has your best interests at heart How we've all been blue-pilled. Sigh..
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by esalman 9mo ago
Logic does not matter to alt-right.
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by esalman 9mo ago
Easy, he committed fraud by blowing up the renovation budget.
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by esalman 9mo ago
And that happened even after they arrested him and tried to put him in jail. What's happening now might be shocking but not unexpected at all.
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by esalman 9mo ago
He's done planning, it's in execution stage now. Speaking from my experience of living unelected/farcically elected governments for ~20 years.
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by esalman 9mo ago
If "cesspool" was a social media it would look like 2026 twitter.
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by esalman 9mo ago
Saudi Arabia, Iran, and Afghanistan in recent history have executed men explicitly for morality law violations such as adultery, sodomy, and apostasy.
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by esalman 9mo ago
Willing to bet that X premium signups have shot up because of this feature. Currently this is the most convenient tool to generate porn of anything and everything.
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by esalman 9mo ago
My work laptop used to be Thinkpad P1 before they enfored Dell hardware. The current win11 laptop needs to be replaced for stability issues, and I begrudgingly going to ask for a MacBook.
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by esalman 9mo ago
I can't help but feel that 10% "smart" users have failed the rest of the 90% users.
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by esalman 10mo ago
I'm really interested to see what happens during the world cup. Won't be surprised if somehow it may end up even bigger of a scandal than Qatar'22. Even if we set immigration and politics aside, heat it going to be an even bi
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by esalman 10mo ago
I bought a not too expensive TCL qm6k with game master mode. Whenever it detects Xbox series S input, it turns on the mode by default. On menu it stays at 1440p but when I start a game, it switches to 4k 120hz- and the input lag becomes hor
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by esalman 10mo ago
It is not a bipartisan winning issue. Wife worked in a construction firm in South Texas. Firm owners were a half-hispanic family. It was a decent sized firm, millions of dollars turnover and recipients of millions more in PPP loans, special
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by esalman 10mo ago
Nope. My PhD lab never laid off any research scientists in almost 30 years, until 47 and DOGE came along.
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by esalman 10mo ago
> If both request significant compute allocations, and I see one is planning on MATLAB, and the other on PyTorch Lightning, I know for sure I would want to give the MATLAB users far less funding, or even none at all I want to say the lea
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by esalman 10mo ago
Fair. My point though is that in scientific research, accuracy of the results come first. It does not mean anything that research was performed efficiently if the results are incorrect.
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by esalman 10mo ago
To find the goalpost look at the parent comment of the one you first saw.
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by esalman 10mo ago
Universities are not wasteful. University graduates earn more and face fewer unemployment than high school graduates. More universities correlates with higher GDP per capita.
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by esalman 10mo ago
I dislike Matlab's licensing and spaghetti style coding practices like anyone else, but there's another reason python or other modern replacements are scorned at. There are some algorithm/theorem implementations that will pro
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by esalman 10mo ago
I worked at three large universities where folks ran Matlab processes on HPC all the time.
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by esalman 10mo ago
Top 1% have more income (income inequality is a thing). Taking away 40% income would hit the bottom 99% much harder than it would affect the life of top 1%. 50% of renters spend >30% on housing, 25% spend >50%. 40% figure is also base
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by esalman 11mo ago
All of them? A bunch of my son's daycare teachers had their own kids, even infants, attending the same daycare.

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