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by getpost 3y ago
Storing data on a VHS tape was a thing in the early 1980s. I worked on an AlphaMicro "minicomputer" with this feature. https://manualzz.com/doc/o/9paan/amos-system-commands-refere...
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by getpost 3y ago
Nice! Two episodes on Ryoan-ji https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ldVz7XQFky0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9vphfpgGL7A
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by getpost 3y ago
In my startup experience (in the 1980s) as a recent CS graduate, there were 2 disheartening situations: 1) An intern was paid 25% more than me. The disparity was even greater, since he was paid on a hourly basis, and I was salaried, working
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by getpost 3y ago
Yes! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KH-11_KENNEN
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by getpost 3y ago
I first read about this in the 2007 book, Extraordinary Knowing: Science, Skepticism, and the Inexplicable Powers of the Human Mind by Elizabeth Mayer. I don't remember what she says about Swann, but the book made a big impression on m
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by getpost 3y ago
I did not know this, or forgot, thank you for saying! There's applause and laughter after the short version of the quote, so it struck a nerve, and not without reason. There are comments on Smalltalk at various places in the talk, but
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by getpost 3y ago
I'll see you Bjarne Stroustrup, and raise you Alan Kay, "Actually I made up the term "object-oriented", and I can tell you I did not have C++ in mind." https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Alan_Kay
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by getpost 3y ago
> the researchers say that children may be "evolutionarily primed" to expect exceptionally high levels of physical contact and care, What strikes me here is the phrase, "exceptionally high levels." I imagine children
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by getpost 3y ago
I see lots of complaints about street names not rendering, and that has been a problem for me as well. The tweet author has a separate thread about how India doesn't routinely have street names, and how that lead to a design change for
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by getpost 3y ago
I asked for a list of Federal Chancellors of the Federal Republic of Germany and GPT4 included Scheel ("acting"), which makes Schröder the 8th. I often troubleshoot GPT4 replies by asking it for more context. "Is" vs &qu
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by getpost 3y ago
https://realpython.com/python-with-statement/
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by getpost 3y ago
In case you're not already aware, GPT4 et al write usable Python and can execute some Python code themselves for trying things out. I find it much more pleasant to ask GPT4's advice and have it write sample code than it is to use
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by getpost 3y ago
Right, humans are involved in fine-tuning, at least for the time being. GPT4 says, ..."core content creation and verification are human-driven tasks."
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by getpost 3y ago
I've been wondering about how to do incremental updates without incurring the cost of a full recalculation of the training data. I suppose I assumed that LLM providers would (if not now, eventually) incorporate a fine-tuning step to up
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by getpost 3y ago
>So, Bard can now access and analyze your Drive, Docs and Gmail! I asked Bard if I could use it to access gmail, and it said, "As a language model, I am not able to access your Gmail directly." I then asked Bard for a list of e
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by getpost 3y ago
Robert Sapolsky has a new book on free will, Determined[0], and he's doing lots of podcasts[1] about it. I started with Origins[2]. [0] https://www.amazon.com/Determined-Science-Life-without-Free/... [1] https:&#
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Ads Quality: From A – Z in 16 chapters (rev 1/2008) [pdf](justice.gov)
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by getpost 3y ago
USA v Google exhibit via https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1718830641016414657
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by getpost 3y ago
I enjoyed this 2-Aug-2023 podcast interview covering some of this stuff: https://josephnoelwalker.com/147-katalin-kariko/
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by getpost 3y ago
tl;dr: The "Small Bets Newsletter" says YC isn't suitable for small bets. YC isn't designed for small bets! That's not their thing. It would be interesting to see stats on non-huge exits though, some kind of distrib
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by getpost 3y ago
I have a Pro account. Not having to install software locally, and being able to do shared online development is very appealing and helpful. To put it another way, Replit saves me from having to spend time learning and monitoring "admin
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by getpost 3y ago
Made me look it up: https://www.merriam-webster.com/grammar/what-happens-to-name...
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by getpost 3y ago
Oh? I've had trouble with Overcast. It often exits when I launch it, usually this happens after I haven't used the app for a few days. The app works when I launch it a second time. When it works, it takes a long time, e.g., a full
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by getpost 3y ago
This morning I asked it if it could query YouTube and I got short description of the YouTube API. I don't know whether the API details have been public. I then used it to search for videos, > There are several YouTube videos with a
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by getpost 3y ago
@kareem_carr: One revelation was more fascinating to me than all of the gossip combined. It's what the book calls The Algorithm. Elon's simple 5 step recipe for success. Read on to learn all about the algorithm and what it implies
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Musk's Algorithm(twitter.com)
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by getpost 3y ago
I also built a kayak (in the 70s)! I forget the details, but I think the plans were obtained by a friend of mine, and we each built our own boats. There was a wooden frame with a canvas skin. We used airplane dope to make the skin waterproo
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by getpost 3y ago
This comment gives me an excuse to post (again) about one of my favorite books, Sacred and Herbal Healing Beers: The Secrets of Ancient Fermentation by Stephen Harrod Buhner (1998). Chapter 7 is about Psychotropic and Highly Inebriating
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by getpost 3y ago
Ann Wroe is the editor of the obituary section. I read her book on Pontius Pilate, inspired by Ryan Holiday's recommendation, and I enjoyed it. "This book was so overwhelmingly good that I could only read a couple pages at a time.
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by getpost 3y ago
It's been too long since I've read it for me to reply with confidence. There seem to be PDFs available online. https://web.archive.org/pdf/search/vitamin%20c%20and%20the%2... My own experience with vitam

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