etiennefd

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by etiennefd 1y ago
Yes, there are archeological remains of bread made from wild wheat and barley by hunter-gatherers in Jordan. It makes sense when you think about it, domestication would have happened only if the wild plant was useful, and if the plant was u
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by etiennefd 1y ago
Coming... soon...
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by etiennefd 1y ago
Such as?
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by etiennefd 1y ago
But they won't do it if they don't like this sort of approach! Which I think is wrong of them btw. But I don't think I've heard from historians much since this project went public.
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by etiennefd 1y ago
The links were mixed up (fixed now!) but I think the dates were correct; 3,500 BC is the date of the first leather shoe known, in Armenia.
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by etiennefd 1y ago
Whether a node is a terminus (or root without predecessors) is basically ~never meaningful in the tree, it's almost always just missing data. Here it seems pretty clear I omitted a link from Chinese writing to woodblock printing. Fixed
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by etiennefd 1y ago
There is a "jump to nearest" button that appears if nothing is visible, but maybe it's too subtle? A hotkey would be a good idea too. I find that the best way to navigate is the minimap
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by etiennefd 1y ago
Seems valid, I updated the tree to date the screw-cutting lathe to 1800
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by etiennefd 3y ago
I don't have enough expertise to have a strong opinion either way, but I know that Anton Howes thinks coal exploitation led to increased deforestation, not the other way around: > It’s also wrong to say that Britain exploited coal a
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by etiennefd 4y ago
Yeah, what anigbrowl said. I mean there surely will be some form of adult industry to have generative models specifically made for (various kinds of) porn, and those companies might spend some resources creating new data to improve their mo
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by etiennefd 4y ago
Okay yeah I might have to add Tlaloc!
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by etiennefd 4y ago
How about you write it? I'd be curious to read it.
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by etiennefd 4y ago
I've been wondering about that. It seems clear to me that in general, human-made art will survive AI art, in part due to things like status and the need for connection to other people though art... But these things are absolutely not w
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Living on the Periphery of the Empire(classicalfuturist.com)
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Paint with the Colors That Don't Exist(etiennefd.substack.com)
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On the Proper Use of the Moon(etiennefd.substack.com)
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Reality Will Become a Status Symbol(etiennefd.substack.com)
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by etiennefd 6y ago
Location: Montreal, Quebec, Canada Remote: yes Willing to relocate: possibly Technologies: Swift, Objective-C, Python, Java, MySQL, NLP Résumé/CV: https://www.linkedin.com/in/%C3%A9tienne-fortier-dubois