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by gensym 3y ago
The five trillion finger discount.
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by gensym 3y ago
You have more time than you think, especially at the marathon distance. If you were looking for sub-3, then yeah, you’d better hurry, but 40s isn’t at all old for a sub-4 marathon, especially if you’re willing to put in the miles during tra
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by gensym 3y ago
As a DIS shareholder, I'm livid. Losing the rights to use the best election forecasting models in the business a year before a Presidential election is monumental fuckup. This is one screwup that can't be placed at the feet of the
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by gensym 3y ago
Then clearly I'm not talking about them. FWIW, I don't think learning to code is inherently virtuous. I do think putting in the time to be good at something is more virtuous than trying to find the easiest way to latch onto whatev
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by gensym 3y ago
Anything that feels "techy" but doesn't require practice, study, or math is always going to be a magnet for grifters who were doing beer bongs while others were learning to code. (Edit: I'm not trying to imply anything a
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by gensym 3y ago
> Well the Gebru & Mitchell paper[1] was published before In-Context-Learning was discovered (an ICL was very unexpected), so yes, I think they were ignorant of ICL at the time. ??? One of us is confused here (I'm fully willing
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by gensym 3y ago
This is exactly why I switched my sport of choice from cycling to running. In cycling, I kept getting pulled into the gear and tinkering. (It didn't help that I raced cyclocross, so during race season, every Monday was spent cleaning a
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by gensym 3y ago
> BTW, when anyone says "LLMs are stochastic parrots" you know they are ignorant of this You really think Timnit Gebru and Margaret Mitchell, both of whom are cited in the first paper you footnoted, are ignorant of in-context l
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by gensym 4y ago
In the land/labor/capital triad, the only thing that will be post-scarcity due to AI will be labor. Anyone who lacks one of the others will be screwed since the only they have to trade - their labor - will be worthless.
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by gensym 4y ago
- humans have value - life is worth living - doing the right thing matters All are unfalsifiable. I am deeply skeptical of anyone who claims to not believe unfalsifiable things.
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by gensym 4y ago
That would be the case if GoF research was necessary to defend against these viruses, but that’s not the case. AFAIK, GoF research played no part in the development of vaccines and treatments for Covid.
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by gensym 4y ago
In other news: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-023-00283-y How many times would you be comfortable rolling a million-sided die for humanity's extinction?
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by gensym 4y ago
> What would this actually look like to you on a resume? That's a great question, and I wish I had a great answer. I think this is the sort of thing where a cover letter could be useful. Personally, when I'm reviewing resumes
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by gensym 4y ago
I know lots of people who have started their careers over in their 30s. My mom, for instance, went to school to become a respiratory therapist. My dad was in his 30s when he learned to be a tool and die maker. Both of them needed formal tra
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by gensym 4y ago
I had a similar experience in learning to do my first pull-up at age 40. It felt great! Though in addition to the lowering, I also did horizontal rows using my kitchen table to work in the concentric direction.
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by gensym 4y ago
Yeah, we do that now, and it's a great example of something we wouldn't have had to think or plan for but need to make an effort now.
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by gensym 4y ago
Two years ago, my wife and I invited my parents to move into a home with us and our children. I expect to always be glad we did, but it has been challenging in ways we hadn't really anticipated. In particular, it requires a more consci
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by gensym 4y ago
Car-free is the way to go within the city of Chicago and now that I live in Southern California, the car-free lifestyle is what I miss most (other than people). It's hard to get out of town without a car. The commuter rail schedules ar
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by gensym 4y ago
In Chicago there is a multi-month training program, and they are on a probational period for their first year.
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by gensym 4y ago
Saving a house is not the same thing as saving children. People risk or sacrifice themselves to save others with some frequency. Just a week before Ulvade, Dr. John Chang gave his life to tackle the shooter at his church in Orange County. B
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by gensym 4y ago
Well said. In addition to what you've listed, it's also why we give them a monopoly on the use of force. The belief that they will protect is why we don't have vigilantes and mercenaries roaming the streets (for the most part
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by gensym 4y ago
There’s more to (counter) culture than entertainment, but you wouldn’t know it from this article. Even just looking at entertainment, why would you look at the multiplexes or top music charts to find diversity?
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by gensym 4y ago
Yep. I used to be park of a park advisory council in Chicago. At one meeting, police were there to field questions about park safety. One of the attendees mentioned their concern for the times they saw "unsupervised 10-year-olds"
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by gensym 5y ago
It's been over a decade since I've used Windows for anything other than testing that something works on Windows. Most software engineers I know are in a similar position. I suppose if I wanted to work a a really big company, that
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by gensym 5y ago
Is this true now? I hope so. When I started my career 20 years ago, it was common for people to take pride in how little they slept. Sleeping 8 hours/day was treated as a weakness. I don't hear such silliness so much now, but it w
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by gensym 5y ago
Inventables | Software Engineering | Remote (USA) At Inventables, we're trying to ignite a manufacturing revolution by putting the tools for digital fabrication in the hands (and garages) of millions of people. We make desktop CNC mach
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by gensym 5y ago
I tried it at a food court in a Japanese supermarket in the Chicago suburbs (Mitsuwa) Perhaps if you have any Japanese supermarkets near you you could find some. I (who grew up in rural IL) really enjoyed the taste and the smell. The consis
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by gensym 6y ago
Inventables | REMOTE (US) | https://inventables.com Inventables makes 3D carving machines and the software to create and carve designs using them. We've been growing quickly, and we have a great culture of creative people
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by gensym 7y ago
Inventables | Chicago, IL | ONSITE My team is hiring software engineers. We make and sell CNC carving machines for entrepreneurs and small businesses. (Think of the opposite of a 3d printer - instead of using filament to create a physical o
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by gensym 7y ago
Inventables | Chicago, IL | ONSITE My team is hiring software engineers. We make and sell CNC carving machines for entrepreneurs and small businesses. (Think of the opposite of a 3d printer - instead of using filament to create a physical o

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