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by gdubs 4y ago
My dad passed unexpectedly last week. He was a painter and he loved Picasso — and this was one of his favorite quotes. My dad had a firm commitment to never learning how to use a computer. I've never heard anyone else reference this qu
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by gdubs 4y ago
A little while back I built a personal project that ingested the book "A Pattern Language" as embeddings using the OpenAI API – and a front-end in SwiftUI that allows me to 'converse' with the book. [1] Version 0 was bui
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by gdubs 4y ago
Permaculture and agroforestry touch on this a lot. In permaculture designs usually photosynthesis per acre is maximized by planting guilds of crops that work well together – in this case, larger trees with shade-loving shrubs beneath them,
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I like the David Burns "Feeling Good" approach, which is to commit to just one simple task — like, "I'm gonna open up my IDE. I can commit to that." Then maybe one more, "I'm gonna document that method I w
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by gdubs 4y ago
I feel you — but there's another possible reason, which would be to (optionally) separate out the AI generated content from future model training.
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Models like MidJourney and StableDiffusion can generate very close renditions of some very well known paintings – and if it has enough of a conceptual understanding of even a less known painting, it can do a pretty impressive rendition of t
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by gdubs 4y ago
I happened to be looking today and the Bosch 800 sounds a bit like that (except 40 amps). Big Wolf-style knobs, nice clean design. I had my panel upgraded this summer anticipating a replacement for our current gas range/stove and this
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by gdubs 4y ago
"My voice is my passport."
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These tools are really useful as scaffolding for ideas. If you go into them knowing that they're not always going to be 100% accurate, that the models can 'hallucinate', there's still a ton of value in having a scaffold
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by gdubs 4y ago
I remember the early days of having a PC when something like a Sound Blaster card was such a massive upgrade. I want to say it was Civilization that I played after getting a proper sound card and it was such an exciting and entirely differe
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by gdubs 4y ago
NeXT was such a cool ecosystem. It's not very known out of tech circles, but is there at some interesting technological crossroads. The first web browser. DOOM. And of course, the decision to base MacOS and then ultimately iOS on the O
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First TV Image of Mars: Interplanetary color by numbers (2016)(directedplay.com)
186 points by gdubs 4y ago|36 comments
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by gdubs 4y ago
Honestly the hardest thing to do as a parent comes down to setting a good example. If we want our kids to do more than scroll mindlessly for hours and hours, it's incredibly impactful for us to model that behavior. (I'm nowhere ne
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by gdubs 4y ago
Throughout history there are moments where humans realize they're not special in a way they previously thought they were — universe doesn't revolve around us, other animals possess skills we thought were unique to us, etc. I think
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by gdubs 4y ago
Got the hardcover for my kids - it's a great book. Also reminds me of what I grew up with; the How It Works encyclopedia set my grandpa gave me one year. Less whimsical, but was like having the internet before the internet — spent enti
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by gdubs 4y ago
Fertilizer has come up in our conversations around transitioning our farm to regenerative practices. The 40 acres of hay field have been conventionally farmed for a long time, and the soil is now pretty eroded. Most of the traditional farme
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by gdubs 4y ago
I just want to be clear I'm not framing today's tools as "bad" or unable to spark imagination — my own kids are getting started with Scratch and it's great! But I also feel like there's some magic in the past t
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by gdubs 4y ago
Steve Woz said something in his book that always stuck with me: the younger generation is missing out on what it was like to grow up during a time where it was possible to grasp the entire machine in your mind. People always chime in to say
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by gdubs 4y ago
Maria Montessori's "The Child in the Family" is a bit old at this point, but I really love it. Her whole philosophy is that children are actually ready and capable to do more around the house than we have come to think. You&#
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The tech of Terminator 2, an oral history(beforesandafters.com)
4 points by gdubs 4y ago|1 comments
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by gdubs 4y ago
Look at GAN art from a few years ago, compared to MidJourney v4.
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by gdubs 4y ago
The first ever recordings had people shouting to get anything to register. They sounded like tin. Fast forward to today. Looking back at image generation just a year or two ago and people would have said similar things. Not hard to imagine
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by gdubs 4y ago
I'm on a farm, so while there's fiber in many of the towns, if you go ten minutes drive outside of them it's not really an option. Maybe they'll get there eventually.
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Willamette Valley here — it's been nothing less than a game changer. I checked the speed tests for the first week but until the brief outage yesterday I haven't thought about it. The internet just works, and we're able to str
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Dimming the Sun to Cool Planet Is a Desperate Idea, yet We’re Inching Toward It(newyorker.com)
2 points by gdubs 4y ago|0 comments
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We moved to a farm in wine country in the PNW years back, and I had this 'ah ha' moment. It was the summer before the pandemic, and we had friends visiting. We sat down to eat a meal we made with all of this local food. I took a s
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by gdubs 4y ago
I mean, those $12B annual debt service payments didn't exist before. Seems clear that Twitter was struggling in many ways, but things seemed to be accelerating post acquisition.
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When we began looking at farms, the advice we got over and over again was to live with it through a few seasons before making any changes. See how the water flows in the winter months, see what dries out in the summer. Learn what the wildli
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by gdubs 4y ago
Be Civil. Really shouldn't have to be said. Lots of gross comments here today, and I don't have the time to go check every last username but I only hope it's not long-timers here who are being so snarky and callous at people
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by gdubs 4y ago
Sounds like you're going through a hard time — but know that many here have been there. Burnout can be hard to spot in time, but once you step over the event horizon, it gets a lot harder to pull yourself out. My non-medical-profession

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