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by getpost 4y ago
This has been posted many times before, but I thought of it yesterday when I saw this essay by Chomsky in the New York Times, "The False Promise of ChatGPT." https://www.nytimes.com/2023/03/08/opinio
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by getpost 4y ago
I have no idea what Taleb actually means, but to the extent it isn't dramatic rhetoric, I imagine his claim is based on the idea that humans can never be completely right, due to the limits of our perception and memory. The best we can
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by getpost 4y ago
Tangentially, Taleb tweeted a nice quote yesterday, "You don't do well by trying to be right; it is impossible for humans. You do well by figuring out when you're wrong faster than others do." https://twitter.
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by getpost 4y ago
I had one trip, westbound, as a small child in 1963 or '64. Don't know what class, but I did get seasick. How do you get seasick on a ship that size?
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by getpost 4y ago
For me there's no increase in spam delivered to my inbox. But, for years, emails from regular correspondents are marked as spam. I have to make rules to ensure I get non-spam emails. Gmail doesn't seem to learn from interactive ch
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by getpost 4y ago
1983 TV ad for Lisa with Kevin Costner, "I'll be home for breakfast." https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJRx79sl1yk
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by getpost 4y ago
>attachment theory was developed to explain why children of drug addicts are so messed up Citation? As far as I know, the roots of Attachment Theory are in the World War II work of John Bowlby, investigating the effects of children separ
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by getpost 4y ago
The idea that toxoplasmosis is a contributing factor to mental illness is decades old. This paper is merely an incremental restatement of that hypothesis. The abstract says, "Instead of just alleviating symptoms with drugs, the parasit
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by getpost 4y ago
This seems consistent with Chris Palmer's hypothesis, that mental disorders are metabolic disorders of the brain, discussed in his new book Brain Energy[0]. He's done lots of podcast interviews[1], if you don't want to read t
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by getpost 4y ago
McMurdo is 2385 miles from Christchurch NZ, where support flights originate[0]. Flying from the south coast of NZ at Invercargill saves 208 miles[1]. It's 3222 miles to the South Pole[2]. [0] http://www.gcmap.com/mapui?
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by getpost 4y ago
I agree the most likely reason is that voice calls have become much more rare. But, a novelty-wearing-off effect may also be in play. When multiple fonts first became available, lots of people used lots of fonts-- the ransom note effect. To
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by getpost 4y ago
Or the library! The GIF spec was published in a magazine IIRC. I wrote a GIF viewer that supported CGA, EGA, VGA, ... displays.
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by getpost 4y ago
The GE XA100 is intriguing, not that it would be available for a corporate jet. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/General_Electric_XA100 https://www.geaviation.com/press-release/military-engines/g
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by getpost 4y ago
Pyblosxom itself is no longer in active development. Most recent tweet in 2018. https://twitter.com/PyBlosxom
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by getpost 4y ago
By coincidence, I listened to this 2012 biographical interview only a few days ago. This is a good summary of his life's work. He was unbelievably lucid at age 94, and more recently. https://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes&#x2
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by getpost 4y ago
I've always wondered whether turning it off merely hides it from the end-user.
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by getpost 4y ago
Also, I couldn't find a way to preview a song to see whether it's one I want to buy. Searching for the song works, but when I press the play arrow to preview it, I'm prompted to join Apple Music. Canceling that prompt just re
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by getpost 4y ago
I agree, except the last sentence about "leftist activists" can be omitted. I'm grateful for experiments like Copilot and replit's[0] "generate and explain." Maybe there are issues with software licenses and &q
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by getpost 4y ago
Symantec Q&A was released in 1985. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q%26A_%28Symantec%29 For various definitions of query, the work goes back to the 1950s https://developer.ibm.com/articles/a-begi
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by getpost 4y ago
I'm doing a trial of Sugar Shift[0][1], inspired by William Davis[2]. There may be a small improvement in my mood, but not enough to say with certainty. I'm not doing any tests to monitor for the other possible benefits of the sup
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by getpost 4y ago
It's been possible to increase growth hormone by injection for a couple decades now, and I thought there was a cancer problem[0]. Also, there's the drive for homeostasis. In my own experiments with dietary supplements, I get a sho
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by getpost 4y ago
Production sites like YouTube, Instagram, Netflix, Reddit, ...? https://www.botreetechnologies.com/blog/top-15-websites-buil...
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by getpost 4y ago
$29/mo seems high for the vast majority of podcasts, which are labors of love run on shoestring budgets. Of course, it's peanuts for the high traffic sites. Did you consider a Dropbox-like pricing model, e.g., free for low-traffic
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by getpost 4y ago
Site QC: I clicked on the Twitter link in the footer. It references podbabble1, an account that doesn't exist. https://twitter.com/podbabble exists though.
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by getpost 4y ago
iphones (and ipads) do last 5 years or more, both hardware and software support; it's a key differentiator from the android ecosystem. A more easily replaced battery would be nice.
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by getpost 4y ago
The Getty Museum contracted this out to https://media.monks.com/
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by getpost 5y ago
Before APL, There was Notes on the Synthesis of Form in 1964. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notes_on_the_Synthesis_of_Form
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by getpost 5y ago
Metacognition or “mentalization”[0,1] is a promising approach to mental health, on the theory that mental health difficulties reflect a metacognitive deficit. [0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mentalization [1] https:
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by getpost 5y ago
“Unexpected friend” was one of my favorites in C++. It seemed fortuitous; it’s good to have friends, right? (Usually the actual error was a missing semicolon.)
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I found it very relaxing, which I attribute mainly to absorption of magnesium. I usually had a “good” meditation session, but never any experience of non-ordinary consciousness. I stopped going for sessions after contracting a serious case

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