fungiblecog

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by fungiblecog 5y ago
scheme is not "untyped"
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
This is all very interesting but it’s not really about perspective. Perspective is fixed based on the relative positions of the objects. What changes is how we perceive perspective when we squash a representation of a wide angle of view - i
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Just no
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Probably an age thing. Back in the day - before the internet - there wasn’t much choice of what to watch. I saw a lot of walking races on TV in my youth (in the UK) but haven’t seen one in the last 10-15 years.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Not just for scientists either. Almost every problem I experience at work has at it’s root someone who is too scared to say they don’t understand something.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
My observation is that many people do the most important tasks first - but do them badly. Doing something well generally requires motivation so it's often better to wait until you're motivated if you care about quality.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
I think the only benefit of teaching kids to program a computer (i hate the term code as a synonym) is that it teaches problem solving - assuming it's being taught well of course
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Younger people benefit less from booster shots than older people There fixed it for you
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
how "they" broke the supply chain. fixed it for you. i'm royally fed up of these "how we..." articles when clearly "we" means some other assholes - usually already rich people trying to get richer.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
someone will get stalked and murdered by someone using one of these devices before they're withdrawn. a completely foreseeable result of bringing such a stupid device to market.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
couldn't agree more
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
In my (long) experience it isn't a spectrum though. I think there's this pernicious lie that anybody could learn anything "if they just work hard enough" and it's not really true. There's a certain base level o
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
i don't find that any of my apple products "just work". they all have annoying "features" that sound great as a sales pitch but are crap in real life use
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Not sure why this is even an issue. The original matrix is a beautiful self contained and tightly directed movie. the sequels are a complete mess. it's obvious they were only made to cash in on the success of the original.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Relax. Parenting is hard enough without making up arbitrary milestones for your child to reach.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
there isn't one. but by the time people realise that a few unscrupulous people will have made a ton of - fiat - money out of the gullible masses.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Diversity is a stupid thing to target, but people have quite obviously failed to tackle discrimination by just not being prejudiced arseholes so this is where we are
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
Make lobbying illegal
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
tags are great when you know what you're looking for but are terrible for browsing a new dataset. this is especially true when you're the newbie eg on a project and you didn't have any input into the tag structure.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
You should only be worried if you just copy and paste boilerplate between files. If you're actually able to solve problems and design things there's nothing to be worried about
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
The problem is that in the case of memetic evolution the "fitness" of an idea to propagate is inversely correlated to its survival value to humans. So lots of terrible ideas have become - and continue to become - mainstream. If we
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
i always start my questions with something like "maybe i'm being a bit thick but..." which works well because it signposts up front that you're not trying to be awkward or obstructive. Most of the time it turns out that
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
"Accused of lying to Congress". The "possibly" is redundant. The quality of journalistic English is terrible these days.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
+1
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
I’m guessing this just reflects the declining usefulness of a PhD in the modern world. I received one in 2001 and never used it because the prospects for an academic were terrible and they don’t seem to have improved since.
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
All I can say is "No shit, Sherlock". I'm constantly bombarded by ads for stuff I've already decided to buy (or more usually that I already bought last week). This stuff has zero value. The point of advertising has alway
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
I'm convinced the only way you can really convey (non trivial) information is if the people receiving the information actually ask questions. When I'm talking to business people they usually say they get it - but I know they haven
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
As a person looking in from the outside, I observe that there are many worse things going on in American society than Facebook that could cause rising despair and suicide. I’m not saying it’s blameless but the overall picture there is not o
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
You have to have goals, but the problem I face is that (government) organisations have been told to focus of "outcomes" so they spend a vast amount of time talking about trivialities (we know what the goals are and we don't n
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by fungiblecog 5y ago
> But the ads you see online are going to suck. Even with all the profiling the ads still suck. It amazes me how little insight all this profiling actually gives advertisers. Sure they advertise stuff to me that I'm already searchin

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