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by glial 1y ago
One thing that helped me was the realization that, at least as used in the context of information theory, entropy is a property of an individual (typically the person receiving a message) and NOT purely of the system or message itself. >
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by glial 1y ago
Cue the goalpost moving.
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by glial 2y ago
I use Kagi (paid) to search for websites/articles/PDFs and ChatGPT (4o) otherwise. I started using Kagi in an attempt to de-googlify, but it turns out that it's just downright good and now I prefer it.
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by glial 2y ago
This is both the most rational and most depressing take I have seen yet.
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by glial 2y ago
I appreciate your analysis, but another way to consider this discussion is that asserting the existence of "rights" is an unsupported conversational maneuver that frames the debate. The grandparent is defining a concept into exist
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by glial 2y ago
Can someone help me understand...I thought executive orders only had power to manage the executive branch of the US Government. They aren't edicts. Even US companies don't have to follow them, right?
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by glial 2y ago
I hear what you're saying. On the other hand, "deliberate practice" is a term of art.
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by glial 2y ago
Sounds like tax evasion.
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by glial 2y ago
Taking your question at face value, I would much prefer information be "pulled" rather than "pushed". In other words, I don't want to be informed - I want to search when I decide to search, get reviews when I decide
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by glial 2y ago
> How has that "unlimited" money supply worked out ever since? Judging that it's been 100 years since the last depression, pretty well.
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by glial 2y ago
It's true that seeing that number next to $400 next to 16GB is agony, but a 32GB 1TB 15" M4 Air for $2k is a hell of a deal. I have the upgraded M1 Air and after using it for a few years, (1) I still have no reason to upgrade and
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by glial 2y ago
Link?
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by glial 2y ago
The article says it supports wireless charging.
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by glial 2y ago
There is a certain group of people for whom words aren't about communicating truth.
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by glial 2y ago
> industry setting unrealistic requirements for education This sounds like a market dynamic to me. If it were difficult to find qualified candidates, requirements would be lowered. Just leaving this here... https://en.wikipedi
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by glial 2y ago
Also - at least in my experience - doing a PhD makes a person more aware of the boundaries of knowledge, and therefore generally pretty skeptical, and capable of being usefully critical, about developments in their field.
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by glial 2y ago
I tried blocking all social media and news sites and instead subscribing to the print version of The Week. Honestly, it was great. But eventually the siren song of internet-fueled dopamine eventually lured me back...
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by glial 2y ago
> no thesis represents more than 1 year's worth of work. The reason it takes most Ph.D.s 5-10 years (8 in my case) to graduate is that you have to fail, and fail, and fail again for 4-9 years before you find your thesis project. Thi
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by glial 2y ago
Here's an essay reflecting on the value of having a shared experience of the world, cultural or otherwise: https://theconvivialsociety.substack.com/p/common-worlds-com...
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by glial 2y ago
I really loved your essay! It reminds me of the discuss in Genesis of Call Me Ishmael. Thanks for sharing...and I'd love to know if you post the other 2.
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by glial 2y ago
Farms in the US do the exact same thing with Mexicans for berry farming.
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by glial 2y ago
You must have been watching different videos of the event than I did, because I saw people breaking windows and forcing themselves against police, who were blocking doors. Evidence of planning is available from court proceedings: > Begin
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by glial 2y ago
> FDR is the reason Well, and also every administration and Congress after him for not changing it back.
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by glial 2y ago
For your third question -- there are already lots of products on the market in certain stores (Costco, Whole Foods, co-ops) that have third party testing or claims about purity.
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by glial 2y ago
Yes, I remember learning about this issue with psychiatric medications and being similarly dismayed. There is a sub-field called Computational Psychiatry [1] trying to do better. And interestingly, a person could argue that randomized cont
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by glial 2y ago
Yes, probably -- https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frequency_illusion
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by glial 2y ago
Funny, I always assumed it was a Beatles joke.
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by glial 2y ago
If anyone here is working on similar problems, I just wanted to flag this recent announcement of a new $9M funding pool: https://renaissancephilanthropy.org/news-and-insights/renais... > Proposals should be aligned
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by glial 2y ago
The point I was snidely trying to make is that certain languages make certain representations and tasks easier than others. Ease, convenience, and representation length are probably more useful metrics than "possible" in the conte
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by glial 2y ago
Ah yes, this is famously why we only have one programming language.

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