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by eternalban 3y ago
It's somewhat a difficult read given that it's a transcription of a weekend seminar, with Q/As included. It does not appear he was reading from prepared notes but rather impromptu expressing his thoughts. Very topical in co
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by eternalban 3y ago
The numbers assigned to the hexagrams are not part of the actual I-Ching. You're free to consider the 'receptive' as 0 and the 'creative' as 63 if you wish. The sequence is also explicitly known as an 'arrangem
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Thought as a System (David Bohm, 1990) [pdf](ia601808.us.archive.org)
28 points by eternalban 3y ago|5 comments
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by eternalban 3y ago
GPT is a wonder as technology goes; the hype is justified. I was discussing Sam's business model.
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by eternalban 3y ago
I thought the Daoists invented binary. I-Ching is a binary system of size 2^6.
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by eternalban 3y ago
Sam and friends must be giggling all the way to the bank: they have a service that 'probably' gives the correct result and paying customers are happy to retry until it gets it right.
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by eternalban 3y ago
> The scope of this data dragnet is staggering. https://www.stasi-unterlagen-archiv.de/en/
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by eternalban 3y ago
You should direct your questions to the spirit of departed Chinese emperors. 'Did it work, o son of heaven?' https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiger_penis Btw, per wikipedia, the discerning Chinese older gents no
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by eternalban 3y ago
"with a knack* for cultivating the rich and powerful." Do tell. Can we have an "explainer" cause this was some "knack" and it would be good to know how this works so we can guard against it. For example, some c
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by eternalban 3y ago
Great to see Ian Clarke remains undaunted and laser focused on his mission. Best of wishes, Ian. Your team's work is important and very much appreciated .
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by eternalban 3y ago
Looks like I misread GP (thought ref was to the investment period). Why do some smart people go into obscure fields. Who knows, there are so many variables. One of my absolute favorite cs geeks is John Backus. Do you know how he got into co
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by eternalban 3y ago
The 90s were not tech hostile. That's a very strange take and yes I was there as well. And no, NYTimes was and is not representative of Western "Intelligentsia" (God help us), much less the subset that was and remains quite k
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by eternalban 3y ago
OP links to this: "Currently, electronic data management requires special skills, including knowledge of programming languages like MySQL. Data specialists are often costly, and the process of querying databases to retrieve data sets
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by eternalban 3y ago
Curious as to choice of 'demands' vs 'dependency' and 'supplies' vs 'provider'. The latter of these are fairly commonly understood and used. As an aside, "complex, interdependent state" is p
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by eternalban 3y ago
Apple has the financial and technical depth to create their own private GPT. Business opportunity here is for anyone who can figure out how to do privacy preserving LLMs (without the need to trust the service provider) effectively (in terms
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by eternalban 3y ago
What else? OpenAI has been sitting on a firehose of intimate personal and professional data stream.
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by eternalban 3y ago
It was news to me. I thought 'hacker news' sprang from PG's brow as they say but apparently he just appropriated it and changed the original 'startup news' to 'hacker news'. Today, hackernews.com redirects
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by eternalban 3y ago
Thanks for the link.
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Hackernews.com (1998)(web.archive.org)
5 points by eternalban 3y ago|3 comments
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by eternalban 3y ago
Very interesting. Re "KNYFE" language mentioned - there is already something (AI/ML related) called Knyfe on github. Maybe u/maebert can chime in? https://github.com/maebert/knyfe
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by eternalban 3y ago
> entrenched interests https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/5d08189949b8cd... > create https://www.highsnobiety.com/static-assets/thumbor/3K6e1WnYR... Kruger is a class ac
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by eternalban 3y ago
> A shitty office in yet a clone of all the other office parks https://www.macworld.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/01/Jons-and... I'm pretty sure (strike that, am certain) the secret sauce is not th
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by eternalban 3y ago
Actual source: https://apnews.com/article/loneliness-lonely-alone-surgeon-g... Actual author: https://www.google.com/search?q=TED+ANTHONY - This is a strange article. It reads like propaganda designed
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by eternalban 3y ago
There is more there (which is implicit to that specific piece): http://incompleteideas.net/IncIdeas/DefinitionOfIntelligence... "John McCarthy long ago gave one of the best definitions: "Intelligence is the
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by eternalban 3y ago
Wonderful, I think I remember that! A great little hack right there.
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by eternalban 3y ago
> A lot of conquered people just get erased from history as if the people conquered in the name if Islam just one day became their conquerors. Why? How can we understand and learn from such strangely defined history? This is history as w
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by eternalban 3y ago
"Ondřej [Certik] is the original author of SymPy, SymEngine and LFortran". https://www.sympy.org/en/index.html https://symengine.org/ https://lfortran.org/ << "Mod
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by eternalban 3y ago
TIL. Here is the relevant summary from the spec: https://www.w3.org/TR/P3P/#goals_and_capabs (for amusement, google P3P and see what comes up first.)
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by eternalban 3y ago
heads up: OP has Vaunt.dev in their profile and that property is owned by Kochava Inc. whose website the trustworthy uBlock Origin insists is a nasty place to visit and one should not do so.
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by eternalban 3y ago
TIL Tim Cook has had a "vision": "The device Cook will present, say people familiar with a development process that spread over seven years, has deviated far from his initial vision. Initially imagined* as a pair of unobtrus

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