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Piecing together the epic of Gilgamesh with NLP(nytimes.com)
58 points by gumby 2y ago|23 comments
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by gumby 2y ago
> Below replacement rate in most developed countries. So what -- are those people somehow special?
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The usual complaint is that the pyramid scheme stops working (not enough people working to pay the pensions of the old people). This is simplistic: the real problem is that there aren't enough doctors/garbos/crop-harvesters
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I clicked hoping it would be fasteners -- so glad for the link!
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WSJ of course. The title is even ambiguous: the same title would work for a story about how BofA breaks its internal rules to prevent dangerous workloads
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Good point! Though perhaps you shouldn't be manipulating anything and instead concentrating on navigation while the car isn't moving straight? Hmm, perhaps those controls should be disabled when the wheel is (say) 15% from straig
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Yeah, "some people" -- my partner for one. But efficacy is low, even with all her practice. And there aren't many such people -- look at what's happening to Amazon's alexa unit. I do mainly use voice to control my
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by gumby 2y ago
FWIW it's a fertility "crisis", not the . Globally, the fertility rate exceed the replacement rate -- there are plenty of people being born. Your points are good regardless of the fertility rate.
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> To sum it all up, I think the 'killer app' here is the one that's so simple it seems kind of self-referential - having a display on your face instead of in the world. The problem is that, at the end of the day, that&#x27
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Example of bad UX: controls where your hands already are is great (curse you, idiotic touchscreens) but gear controls for an automatic transmission aren’t used while in motion, so put them elsewhere. Forgivable, as it’s a concept car, so ju
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Yeah, but after six rounds, common must be wiped out.
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> Maybe he's more a writer's writer. He definitely is. He was also a really nice person (I only knew him for a few years, before his stroke)
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Man, Series F funding...is anyone going to make any money if the company succeeds?
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by gumby 2y ago
The wikipedia entry on rotoscoping explains the process more compactly and succinctly. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rotoscoping
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That picture of their first computer, a sparcstation, brought back memories. Our first computer at Cygnus was a sparcstation that was actually a “prototype” (probably PVT since it had all the housing etc) for the first sparcstation. I thin
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That's pretty great to know, thanks.
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One of Intel’s strengths in roughly the 90s and 00s was the tight coupling between its strong fab technology and its strong design team. This this was the model for Motorola, IBM, TI and everybody else. But by now both sides are suffering,
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As a teen I was quite taken by Fuller. Even back then I was smart enough to wonder why his ideas weren't incorporated in all the things around me (except the geodesic dome climbing structure in the schoolyard), and eventually put 2+2
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The "paradox of the x86" is simply the classic Innovator's Dilemma. In fact the history of the last 20 years against ARM could be a case study right out of the book. Worse for Intel, AMD flubbed it time and time again, but n
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I just read the grep man page.
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I can't just sit around while others are working. I don't think it would be any different in zero G.
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What is the crew up to on the station? Have they been assigned work to do since they are up there already and are rated astronauts, or are they just hanging around idle as supernumeraries? I would hate to be in the latter camp and I imagin
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> Why source being available makes difference? Because the library is a spec, they don't have to be compatible at a binary level. This is obvious on a hardware architecture level (a 16-bit processor vs a 64-bit processor) but it&#x
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I remember from visiting my grandparents in the 1960s there was one cold store in the town. I believe that my grandfather (a doctor) kept some things there, like insulin. I never heard of anyone having a fridge of their own, which is the
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> on a financial macro perspective, there's currently about 1.1 trillion dollars stored in bitcoin, which is a few days of global gdp You need to compare like to like. $2T of cryptocurrencies is about 2% of all the world’s stock ex
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> If Adam Smith saw NFTs he would shoot himself. The author has clearly never read Adam Smith.
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Perhaps also a good way to explore why so many kids are bored in school.
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The blog post is more sympathetic, but I probably should have just said that. With most scams I can’t believe most people involved didn’t know.
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The Taiwan of the countercultural Bay Area.
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Yes, cryptocurrencies not cryptography. Bad of me to use that contraction for anything but the latter. Have they really made a significant difference? A bit of searching around resulting in a few articles with anecdotes, and if someone&#x

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