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by gensym 3y ago
I enjoy rock climbing even though I'll never be as good as a monkey or a mountain goat.
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by gensym 3y ago
The Mountain Goats: Training Montage https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UxU1tKph7WQ
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by gensym 3y ago
I'm not in the field, but I highly recommend Tom Vanderbilt's Traffic. Not a textbook, but an excellent one (and I've had people in the field speak highly of it to me).
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by gensym 3y ago
LOL. I read REAMDE on Kindle, so I didn't know its length. I thought it was a rollicking good time, and I recommended it to my wife for her book club. I assumed it was about 300 pages long. Turns out it's over 1000.
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by gensym 3y ago
Are you in the US? I recommend this article: https://www.additudemag.com/workplace-legal-protection/ If your ADHD is preventing you from working effectively, you have the legal right to reasonable accommodations (going
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by gensym 3y ago
I've been on the other side where as the hiring manager, I've had recruiting contact prior candidates. Sometimes there legitimately are more high-quality candidates than open roles at a given time.
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by gensym 3y ago
The reason to prefer cash is that there are far fewer things to hold up or tank the deal. When the deal is dependent on a loan, it also becomes dependent on all the conditions for that loan (and the timeline to get it approved).
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by gensym 3y ago
> REST APIs "You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means". https://ics.uci.edu/~fielding/pubs/dissertation/top.htm
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by gensym 3y ago
Nice work - this is really cool!
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by gensym 3y ago
I remember Bruce Schneier calling them "Movie plot threats". ex: https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2005/10/exploding_bab...
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by gensym 3y ago
Or even the ones they cause, for the most part. It's notoriously difficult to get clean data about non-fatal crashes.
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by gensym 3y ago
I think they're even more hypocritical in talking about "inclusivity" because allowing PEDs is the same thing as requiring them since no one who abstains will stand a chance against those who use them. There's no way to
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by gensym 3y ago
It may be unethical, but it happens all the time. My father got cancer in 2020 and died earlier this year. During that time, I was continuously shocked at the delays in tests and treatments that he experienced because specialists wouldn&#x2
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by gensym 3y ago
> Not everything is society is about class warfare or about elites betraying non-elites. No, but this is. Sam Altman has publicly stated that he has "guns, gold, potassium iodide, antibiotics, batteries, water, gas masks from the Is
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by gensym 3y ago
It's literally eugenics.
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by gensym 3y ago
> It seems like 99.9% of humans being useless mouths to feed is not a concern for x-risk folks so long as the 0.1% are still around. This is one of those observations, that once you make it, you see stamped _all over_ the x-risker writi
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by gensym 3y ago
I endorse this as well. I worked through the course back when it was on Coursera, and thoroughly enjoyed it. I've also found what I learned applicable many times since - most recently when experimenting with some computer vision algori
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by gensym 3y ago
> Funny enough $7.25/h at 40 hours is more than $15/h at 30 hours. What?
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by gensym 3y ago
Yeah, I remember it well because it put out a nasty wildfire that forced a lot of our neighbors to evacuate. As one person out it, “When you’re praying for a once-in-generation hurricane to come save your home, that’s a stressful week”
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by gensym 3y ago
Nope. Believe it or not, some of us put our phones away when we drive. Mine is either in my hip pocket or center console. I couldn’t read a text while driving even if I wanted to. Driving is one of two things I regularly do in which a momen
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by gensym 3y ago
I gained weight every RAGBRAI I did. Pie, beer, pork chops, walking tacos. Seems like I was eating or drinking beer every waking minute I wasn't on the bike. Worth it, though.
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by gensym 3y ago
> going to vacation on hawaii Most of the dudes I know plenty of dudes who partake in psilocybin also really like going to Hawaii. Maybe they didn't get stuff good enough to break that particular thought-circuit? What do you think?
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by gensym 3y ago
LOL. I feel like a geezer whenever I talk to people about what enterprise software was before RoR came along. XML. So much XML. Do you think that you should write XML in order to query data from a DB with a perfectly serviceable query langu
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by gensym 3y ago
> But since on reflection I'm pretty sure Rails' use of ActiveRecord popularized ORMs in web application development As someone mired in enterprise web application development in the early oughts, I can tell you this is kind of
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by gensym 3y ago
Why do you think embodiment isn't intelligence? I'm genuinely curious (i.e., this isn't a rhetorical question) because that seems to be a common assumption among folks who talk about intelligence, and I honestly don't un
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by gensym 3y ago
The claim was that AI currently surpasses human-performance on most tasks it's given, not that it can do an ok job on toy-level versions of those tasks. To look at one of your examples: > GPT-4 can write performance reviews given th
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by gensym 3y ago
> We have already have a General Intelligence that outperforms most humans on most tasks it is assigned. To the extent that is true, it's because we're assigning it tasks that it is especially well-suited to do: - writing f
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by gensym 3y ago
> Unaligned intelligence is dangerous. You don't need a Sci-fi book to realize this, just a history one. > Our history is replete with examples of the slightly more technologically advanced group decimating their competition. Are
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by gensym 3y ago
As someone from the midwest, I can confirm that midwesterners tend to be pretty smug about climate change. ("It'll make our winters milder!" is a common sentiment.). They probably shouldn't be, though: https:/&#x2F
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by gensym 3y ago
I miss him every time I think of him, which is often. What a treasure. I saw him in person several times, between UIUC (where he held a film festival every year), and Chicago but never talked to him. I regret never telling him how much his

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