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by eternalban 3y ago
> The US incarcerates more people than China, despite China having more than four times as many people This is an apple & orange measure. Starting from first principles, that is how people behave in society, we can at least temper su
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by eternalban 3y ago
Next, toll for people? Feeling ambivalent about this trend.
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by eternalban 3y ago
> Reading Jung I had the impression that the only meaningful interpretation of dreams has to be made by the dreamer I don't believe that is the case. Jung himself made a delicious mis-interpretation of his dream -- it's in his
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by eternalban 3y ago
There is already a federated platform not controlled by SV. Dear Ben, I am writing to you asking your advice regarding Bluesky's EULA and its 'interesting' IP clauses, and also the fact that establishment press is now pushing
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by eternalban 3y ago
"Is artificial intelligence a new union-busting tool? For the leadership at the National Eating Disorders Association, it would seem the answer is yes. Two weeks after the Helpline Associates at the NEDA won our vote to unionize and j
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by eternalban 3y ago
Discussed earlier: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11065933 Someone mentioned "the saddest moment" in there in response to the back and forth comment: https://www.usenix.org/system/files&
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by eternalban 3y ago
That's not how I read his comment. Somewhat puzzled as to how you arrived at your reading. Humanities are the disciplines that focus on the question of what it is to be human. Sciences are the disciplines that focus on understanding ph
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by eternalban 3y ago
I have a feeling this is somehow going to end up becoming a hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy.
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by eternalban 3y ago
They were referring to this distinction: "Organic form itself is found, mathematically speaking, to be a function of time.... We might call the form of an organism an event in space-time, and not merely a configuration in space."
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by eternalban 3y ago
I remember reading about L-Systems in Santa Fe Institutes publications in '90s. Just found this book below when searching for that - this looks comprehensive at a glance: The Algorithmic Beauty of Plants , Prusinkiewicz & Lindenma
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by eternalban 3y ago
We're discussing the use of the word 'Open'. Which was first applied to systems. Then "source", which actually did in fact argue that openness of source was more important that system open-ness. As to system open-ne
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by eternalban 3y ago
touche . Exactly so, just like how every political system going forward will be "democratic". /g
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by eternalban 3y ago
'Open Systems' predate 'Open Source' by a decade. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Open_system_(computing) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Open_Group
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by eternalban 3y ago
Not mentioned in OP: Ezra/ezmobius (RIP) whipped out a client in Ruby and posted it in that same thread.
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by eternalban 3y ago
This is something I planned (2015) on sharing at some point but then years flew by and here we are .. :} It is a cacheline sized 'container' (CLC) of machine-word length records, with one record used to store the record order and
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by eternalban 3y ago
When skirt lengths change and we observe no measurable change in human anatomy, that's fashion and to follow fashion is "hip". When the computing platform changes and you have to start paying attention to L-level caches and c
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by eternalban 3y ago
From the 1824 edition of the book that sold "20 million copies" (!) in the 19th century: "That some inferior animal be able to mimic human articulation, will not seem wonderful, when we reflect, that even by machines certain
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by eternalban 3y ago
Fun to look at activations and then search for the source on the net. "Suddenly, DM-sliding seems positively whimsical" https://openaipublic.blob.core.windows.net/neuron-explainer/... https://www
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by eternalban 3y ago
https://www.datascienceassn.org/sites/default/files/CAUSAL%2...
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by eternalban 3y ago
Monarchy is a system, and like all systems it has all sorts of parts, including the lonesome fellow wearing the crown. "Our king has no power" yet there is all that machinery of state and you think it is just for 'sentiment
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by eternalban 3y ago
This is looking forward to the day when bats and machines will peacefully coexist bathed in red light.
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by eternalban 3y ago
That's a strange summation of the article. The matter of AI hallucination, where she correctly pointed out the generous granting of a mind to LLMs implied in the use of the word "hallucination", was obviously a rhetorical dev
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by eternalban 3y ago
TIL: "[T]he US Federal Trade Commission (FTC) forced* Cambridge Analytica, as well as Everalbum, the owner of a photo app, to destroy entire algorithms found to have been trained on illegitimately appropriated data and scraped photos.
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by eternalban 3y ago
Very informative, thank you. You make a strong case for it. Interesting how in QL the query plan is kinda spelled out in the select. I also appreciate the motivation of 'seeing the algorithm'; makes sense. Why SQL-ish approach? &g
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by eternalban 3y ago
> Corporations exist for the purpose of returning money to shareholders, not for the purpose of permanently employing unneeded workers. 'Let them eat cake'. There is a pov that societal interdependence is a fact, and that means
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by eternalban 3y ago
Thanks for the link. I skimmed the docs and couldn't find a motivation section. Can you expand on how you find it less restrictive and more intuitive. My first impression is that this is a paradigm mismatch and an 'API' masq
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by eternalban 3y ago
tbh am possibly too risk averse to have taken lsd on other medication myself, much less a-d. Depression sucks. Glad and hope you are doing better these days.
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by eternalban 3y ago
> I completely understand what they mean by a big ball of microservice spaghetti Sure, I understand that too, but that's not what was said. Here it is again: > by spaghetti I'm more referring to the architecture of your appl
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by eternalban 3y ago
hey, it was and is all super friendly. and I am not saying it is unsafe. (have no idea, never partook. naturally exhibited behavior that apparently the "initiated" will interpret as micro-cruising. just this very day was attentive
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by eternalban 3y ago
(quite impressed by the sheer number of comments you have made in this thread, btw) > For example it can be way simpler to use a in-memory cache than a network attached cache and by doing so you save yourself a dependency, a potential ne

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