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by gdubs 7y ago
Thanks, both — I had seen this shared in the past but finally clicked through. Pretty neat site, beyond even just the solar-powered website factor.
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by gdubs 7y ago
In-season, local fruit, is a million times better anyway. We’ve traded taste for shelf-appearance and the ability for fruit to travel from New Zealand to California. If people really want strawberries in January (and as a parent of young pi
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by gdubs 7y ago
When the 40 hour workweek was first proposed, doomsayers said it would be the end of the American economy. The opposite happened, and as injuries and illness decreased, productivity increased. [1] Something to keep in mind, as it’s counteri
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The Art of Richard Feynman(brainpickings.org)
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by gdubs 7y ago
Attenborough’s recent film “Our Planet” had an episode dedicated to Palm Oil monocultures and the displaced and dying orangutan. Heartbreaking. Good series if you haven’t seen it.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Sad news; total legend. folklore.org has a lot of stories featuring Larry — short stories on an era of computing that has faded around the edges. RIP.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Real Clear Politics Average currently has Bloomberg nearly tied for second place. Extrapolate what you wish from that, but something is working.
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by gdubs 7y ago
The endless configuration pain you mention pretty perfectly describes anytime I try to dip into a modern framework and find myself spending hours and hours updating ruby or python or some random node module until all the dependencies finall
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For Example (2013)(bost.ocks.org)
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by gdubs 7y ago
Which would be fine if we still lived in small tribes of hunter-gatherers, but we don’t.
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by gdubs 7y ago
You might appreciate this panel discussion featuring Carl Sagan and Henry Kissinger: https://physicsworld.com/a/the-day-after-35-years-later-carl... I’ve always been struck by the caliber of this broadcast and the audi
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by gdubs 7y ago
Barrier to entry has completely changed. A dark room wasn’t something most people had access to. Photoshop required money, time, and skill. We’re entering an era of radically different scale where anyone will be able to manipulate imagery.
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by gdubs 7y ago
To add to this, even if someone knows a video is fake, if it’s realistic enough then the image will persist. But perhaps the most damaging aspect of all this is the erosion of truth, in people’s general feeling that nothing can be trust
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by gdubs 7y ago
I hear this fit and finish critique of Tesla often. But the whole package of a Tesla is clearly compelling to people, who are willing to pay a luxury price for it. High end Volvo’s are a good example of old-school quality — gorgeous interio
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by gdubs 7y ago
I’ve been exploring this space and find myself thinking of Andy Warhol. I would definitely consider him an artist. A great one even. But his work was quite different from Picasso. Warhol had a factory. His silkscreens were often done by ass
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by gdubs 7y ago
Site appears to be down at the moment. Some shameless self-promotion since there appears to be some interest in this, I recently trained a StyleGAN model on Fauvist artists: http://gregorywieber.com/art/a-walk-through-l
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I Still Remember Regions(folklore.org)
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by gdubs 7y ago
Honest question: how do we address the housing crisis in the Bay Area without turning it into Los Angeles?
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by gdubs 7y ago
Such a beautiful game. I recently checked out the book “SNES Omnibus” from the library and it provided for some nice nostalgia: https://venturebeat.com/2018/08/01/the-retrobeat-the-snes-om...
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by gdubs 7y ago
At risk of sounding rude, “we’ll get to the ethics” later doesn’t sound reassuring.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Learning the basics has its place. People have to start somewhere. A tutorial for more complex, real world problems is a totally different thing. Both are interesting in their own ways.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Milk was one of the last animal products besides eggs in my diet — mainly in ice cream, and lattes. Not a fan of almond milk with espresso drinks. Too rancid or bitter to my taste. Oat milk did the trick with the coffees. It froths well, an
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by gdubs 7y ago
Really good read, thanks. Tl;dr, Taleb et al think extraordinary measures to reduce transportation flow can be very effective and that policy makers shouldn’t shy away from employing them when facing a viral outbreak of unknown tenacity.
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by gdubs 7y ago
I’m totally out of my element here but I’d wager that because the flu is much more pervasive we’re able to extract more reliable statistics, even if it’s from a relatively small sample set.
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by gdubs 7y ago
Really sorry to hear your stuck. This virus is a stress test for many aspects of our globalized society. There’s a risk in both overreacting, and under-reacting. Both carry costs. It’s also a test of how we can all align interests in an age
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by gdubs 7y ago
The thing I remember about DEC Alpha was that they were used as renderfarm processors by special effects artists working in Lightwave on Amiga (for shows like Babylon 5, etc). I used to drool over ads for DEC Alpha “screamernet” machines ho
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by gdubs 7y ago
This looks like a great read — thanks! Regardless, the book mentioned above is still thought-provoking, and an interesting history of quantum mechanics.
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by gdubs 7y ago
I’m not sure I follow. Aren’t entangled particles in superposition until they’re measured? That would mean we have no way of saying they behaved the same way, until we measure them — at which point the “spin” of the particles will be random
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by gdubs 7y ago
Lee Smolin’s book, “Einstein’s Unfinished Revolution” is largely about particle/wave duality and an alternate theory that never caught on: the Pilot Wave theory. It’s a Realist alternative to the Anti-Realist school of Heisenberg, etc.
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How Myst almost couldn’t run on CD-ROM [video](m.youtube.com)
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