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by gcanyon 4mo ago
"I'm a slow learner, it's true, but... I learn."
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Of course it is, that's this administration's goal.
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Coding LLMs are distilling developers. It's like the old experiment where you have someone write down the steps to make pancakes and they don't tell you to crack the eggs before adding them to the batter: it takes a particular min
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
I think they're chasing the wrong dream. Most of the use cases they're proposing won't suffer much from being attached to a battery/processing puck, and in some cases being attached to a laptop. e.g. I'm not watchin
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Is there a way to root the kobo and put a modern renderer in place?
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
As is often the case, the title is hyperbolic. The discovery applies to 20% of tumors, and "one of cancer's significant defenses" or "a key weakness of cancer" would be more accurate. That said, I'll happily ta
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
They say government is bad, and then set about making that statement true :-/
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
Typical ham-handed action by this administration. The words "it's complicated" have never crossed their mind. This restriction ignores reality and will slow Anthropic's development of advanced models, which is maybe the
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
> interesting You have a funny way of spelling "sad" my friend.
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by gcanyon 4mo ago
As an American, I'm going to be really sad when we miss this transition. Maybe there's still time?
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
Did the Klutz book of Knots first popularize this knot? The method they gave is different, but I think it's the same. It's been forty-some years...
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
> deciding if they'd appreciate me telling them This is me daily.
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
It's incredibly difficult at this point to "skate where the puck is going" as Gretzky is said to have done. No one knows what knowledge work will look like in five years. People used to memorize log and trig tables, and no
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
“a typical GPA for a lower division course will fall in the range 2.8 – 3.3.” Reminds me of a year where a teacher of mine (high school) gave everyone in class an A. He got called on it, and fought back. He literally called out the weakest
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
To say that artificial intelligence isn't conscious (I don't have a subscription and did not click the bypass links) ignores the simple fact that if it acts like it is conscious, in ways that align with meaningful ways to influe
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
I invite you to consider the Seinfeld finale, where Elaine uses a cell phone to call a friend to ask about her ill father. The call has technical issues, and Jerry lectures Elaine about mistreating her friend that way, when she should have
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
Job loss can only be measured in relation to time. If it's gradual enough, it's not job "loss" it's job transition. My point isn't so much about how many jobs will be replaced by AI, but how quickly. In my mind
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
Everyone saying AI is an excuse: <whatever> is always an excuse. Companies build up marginal people over time: people who aren’t overtly fire-worthy, but who aren’t core contributors either. The pressure builds up, like the conditio
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
That is fun! As an aside, it took me four times clicking into that before I realized there was an expandable-but-collapsed product detail section that included the rotation information I was looking for. Make your web sites obvious, peopl
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
1. They desperately want to end all immigration. 2. They are too stupid to enact reasonable policies to achieve that end. 3. Therefore they resort to the blunt force tool of cruelty. Either that or they're racist sadists
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
HA! I thought this headline meant that neutron scattering was the underlying cause of gluten-free pasta falling apart, rather than the tool used to understand the issue.
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
Yikes Hope? Wishful thinking?
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
If it was their actual goal to destroy the US leadership role in research worldwide, they couldn't do more than they are.
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
> a clarification of longstanding policy, not a new directive I call BS.
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Commencement Speeches(apps.npr.org)
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
I'm writing a novella about a trip to Gliese 581 and I'd love to do a similar visualization -- any advice?
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
Korolev built the N1 in a cave, with a box of scraps. In the '60s.
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
Sergei Korolev's ghost is looking at those 33 raptor engines and crying.
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
Is this a laptop designed to be powerful enough to run local models? I suspect not. Is this a laptop with a built-in integration with Google's cloud models? I suspect so. And if so, it's the integration that's special, not &q
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by gcanyon 5mo ago
Is anything today a lifetime career? I’ve had at least five or six job descriptions over my time, and at least a few of them pretty much don’t exist anymore, or are changed beyond recognition.

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