gcanyon

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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Simply saying "be concise" isn't enough. I often have Claude write first drafts for me (which, for the record, I review completely and rewrite as needed before publishing) and even when told to be concise, there are times whe
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
I guess the latchkey experience in the '70s wasn't as universal as I thought :-) 1. ...in the show! -- I Love Lucy 2. ...at the tone leave your name and number and I'll get back to you. -- Rockford Files opening. 3
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Since I didn't watch Nick at Night I have no idea which of these were on it.
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
> 1970s latchkey kid I am now administering the secret '70s latchkey quiz: - Ricky, I want to be... - This is Jim Rockford... - Ladies, please don't... - Bingo, Bango, Bongo, and... - Missed it by... - We ca
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Shoutout for Jaynes! I used to call it my "buck twenty-five" book because if anyone ever tried to get pretentious with me I'd steer the conversation to an opening to bring up "The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
This is exactly what I came to post. It's like Trump was designed in a lab to destroy the US :-(
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
But in this case at least, the third-party developer has produced exactly the wonderful result they're looking for. The screen shot at the end showing the difference between Apple's map and theirs is so stark and compelling. If I
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
I'd be super-curious to see how many estimates you have to take to bring down the std dev to a reasonable level. (And of course if the mean isn't too far off) If it's 2-5 samples then an app could salvage this.
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
You bastard.
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
funny thing is that I would have said cyan was blue going into this, but the outcome had me classifying the boundary at "more blue than 93% of the population" -- meaning that I classed cyan as green when asked, without even remote
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Well, it was the heat of the moment...
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Once upon a time humans had to memorize log tables. Once upon a time humans had to manually advance the spark ignition as their car's engine revved faster. Once upon a time humans had to know the architecture of a CPU to code for it. H
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Except Medicare disproves this as a universal case. Government can run efficiently.
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
There are two separate issues here: 1. will this work (will the UK stop smoking) 2. is this something the UK government should be doing Setting aside 1 and looking at 2, it seems silly to me to point out that other things (alcohol) that cau
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Drinking affects others much more than smoking does, it's just that it doesn't affect random strangers. In a study of the harms of various substances, alcohol came out on top by a mile for the damage it does to the family and othe
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
As I said, N=1 so the post was meaningless before I said another word :-) For your benefit: my max is somewhere around 175, maybe 180, which is high for my age. I'm also unusual in that even my max heart rate doesn't lead to lac
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Thanks, and yes, exactly this. As I acknowledged in my comment, maybe phones can be made waterproof, dustproof, and dropproof while also being user serviceable. If there is a tradeoff, I'll take waterproof over user-battery-replaceable
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Yikes, I don't live in the EU, but I absolutely don't want this. Maybe I'm mistaken and they could have achieved the same with removable batteries, but my phone is completely waterproof, dustproof, and has survived more tha
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
N=1, but I started rowing (indoor, on an erg) an hour a day -- not hard, generally 120-140 bpm -- every day starting February 28, after rowing inconsistently for a year or more before that. My resting (not sleep) pulse has dropped by 10% ov
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
> For example, Hakeem Jeffries saying Congress should've authorized the Iran War. Did he say, "Congress should have authorized the Iran War," or did he say "Congress should have to authorize the Iran War." Those
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
eww
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
A lot of people here are saying this will never replace human creativity. It's difficult to know ahead of time which things AI (or more broadly, technology) will succeed at and which it will (for now) fail at. So it's good that pe
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Wait, really? I’m not doubting you, I just didn’t go far enough into the application process to validate one way or the other.
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
It's strange to think how modern concepts are only modern because no one thought of them back then. This feels (to me) like the germ theory being transferred back to the ancient greeks.
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
This honestly seems like a flawed approach. Kids don't show up in the first grade, or the sixth, 9th, or really 12th, as the initiators of their educational journey. An AI-based education system should have embedded in it "I am he
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
For sure, but that's my point; "taking a few pair of animals and relocate them to a safer area" is not what this paper is discussing. A better parallel would be "take digital photos of the endangered animal and circulate
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
But the thing is that the Fermi paradox isn't illuminated by scenarios that are technically possible but extremely unlikely. I get that all it takes is some subset of people who want to do it to make it happen, or as you say, some alie
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
No humans go, no information returns. Sending an acorn-sized probe to another galaxy to make more acorn-sized probes: what even is the point of that? To make very slow grey goo a reality? If actual humans find a way to go to Andromeda (ot
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Has NASA (or anyone) said anything about how the heat shield performed?
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by gcanyon 6mo ago
Ford did real damage that day.

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