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by eszed 2y ago
I agree with all of that. I acquired a reputation at my (very small - maybe it only works there?) college for showing up for classes for which I wasn't (on paper) qualified, and sweet-talking professors into letting me attend (sometime
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by eszed 2y ago
That's an excellent analogy. I'd push it further to say that there are YouTube channels (like QB School , to stick to football) that can take you to level 2.
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by eszed 2y ago
This right here is what a university is for, and why it's useful to cram a bunch of people with widely-varied specialities into a shared physical location. It's about exploration of knowledge through cross-polination of ideas. Soc
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by eszed 2y ago
Ha! Thanks. Irony's so easy to miss on the internet - and this topic especially seems to attract "non-sensible" responses on this board, so my antennae are a bit too finely tuned. Time to go touch grass. :-)
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by eszed 2y ago
"Sensible" in what sense, or on what scale? You probably shouldn't ask an artist about a useful formula for concrete, or to troubleshoot your jacquard loom, or which js framework to use: that's what engineers are for. Bu
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by eszed 2y ago
I think you and share all of the same premises about art, and I'd love to get a drink and have a conversation... But: Please don't use Rothko as a negative example! Have you seen any Rothko pieces in person? They are by no means s
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by eszed 2y ago
That's a really good point about the different run-scoring environments between the AL and NL in that time-period. I guess we'd need a contextualized RS+ / RBI+ statistic that I'm not smart enough to generate, but maybe
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by eszed 2y ago
My skepticism is not (necessarily) based on the potential capabilities of future AI, it's about the distribution of the returns from improved productivity. That's a political - not a technological - problem, and the last half cent
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by eszed 2y ago
When I was teaching university I made it a point to put all class materials on two-hour reserve at the library, and promised my classes that if those were oversubscribed that I would deposit more copies. (I also made oblique references to a
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by eszed 2y ago
Everything linguae says is correct. The additional bit of the system to understand is that the actual teaching (of undergraduate courses) is done by "Adjuncts", who are holders of advanced degrees, but on contract (ie, not salarie
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by eszed 2y ago
I dunno, man. You're really under-estimating those steals. Look at it this way: Biggio got himself into scoring position by hitting extra-base hits; Henderson got himself into scoring position by stealing bases. Who got himself into
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by eszed 2y ago
" Reach excellence" is the key phrase there. Excellence takes time and work, and most everyone who gets there is mediocre for a while first. I guess if AIs become excellent at everything , and the gains are shared, and the human
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by eszed 2y ago
I was fortunate enough to see her in that on stage. She and Nick Farrell were on top form. It's a highlight. I shed real tears when I saw that she had passed. The other week, with James Earl Jones, as well. We're losing a generati
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by eszed 2y ago
Fair enough, but they could exclude the theory if the timber dates newer than expected.
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by eszed 2y ago
They've got (what they - and the French archeologists - think is) the bowsprit. Can't dendrochronology or carbon dating resolve the age of the timber?
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by eszed 2y ago
There are lots and lots of different ways of "being human" - an infinity of ways, really, but most fall into broadly recognizeable patterns. The Humanities, properly understood, are the study of "being human" - which inv
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by eszed 2y ago
Upvoted for "nontent" alone: it'll be my go-to term from now on, and I hope it catches on. Is it of your own coinage? When the AI sifts through the digital wreckage of the brief human empire, they may give you the credit.
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by eszed 2y ago
> a highly targeted and extremely high quality magazine can succeed in the present day. Of course the definition of success won't mean selling millions of copies on newsstands everywhere. It will mean having a loyal subscriber base
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by eszed 2y ago
Yeah, it sounds like nothing they did was really new (though maybe packaged and marketed in fresh ways), but did manage to line up with the zeitgeist - perhaps including the Pandemic - in ways other companies didn't. It's all in t
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by eszed 2y ago
I hope that “How Side Effects Can Improve Treatment Efficacy: A Randomized Trial" cites Stephen Maturin (~1770-??), a member of the Royal Society and sometime physician in service with the British Navy, who habitually mixed asafoetida
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by eszed 2y ago
Just guessing, but OF's social interaction (or "interaction", if you will) with creators was more appealing whilst we were all starved for human connection.
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by eszed 2y ago
> actively working to not be fed the slop By using AI-powered search to summarize everything the AIs generated! I now understand the AI gold-rush. Dear God, what a dystopian future we're creating. "Information super-highway&quo
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by eszed 2y ago
Everything you say about risk-management is correct, but none of it scales down to non-profit organizations without employees. Pensions aren't involved, commodity trading is irrelevant, and insurance for four or low five-figures of &
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by eszed 2y ago
I don't think that's quite the way to look at it. Insurance is for disasters . Unexpected costs should be covered by a reserve fund - so, in effect, you self-insure for that kind of thing. Neither of us know anything about the
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by eszed 2y ago
I was like the GP, thought I'd missed my "window" with that book - I tried reading as a late teen, but found Holden so unpleasant a character (he reminded me of kids I'd known, who'd been awful people) - so I never
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by eszed 2y ago
Key point: if you try it yourself, it will be in clear-text for you (you already know your password, so there's no issue), but everyone else will only see "***".
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by eszed 2y ago
It's easier (both psychologically and financially) for users to budget for $x per period - with an explicit or implied promise that it won't ever be more than that - and it's easier for the org to plan for y users at $x, than
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by eszed 2y ago
No. Singularity risk has them cowed.
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by eszed 2y ago
It's $1000. I would not expect that to effect even the most-impoverished family's life choices.
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by eszed 2y ago
Please notice that you are responding to a position the GP did not take. He said > people can choose whether they work or stay home raising a family, and nobody _has_ to work to make ends meet. Parents who leave paid employment to raise

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