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by gxqoz 6y ago
It's also harder to spell. Some people are going to put an extra d or b in there. Maybe get a vowel wrong.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I've mentioned this in another thread, but a GPT-3 that could reliably generate quizbowl questions like the ones on https://www.quizbowlpackets.com would be great in this domain. My experience with it indicates it's no
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I've been converted to using exclamation points after phrases like "thanks" in emails. The book Because Internet convinced me that the rules of email politeness have changed. I don't love it, but whatever. Language chang
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Turns out the most famous article about this was based on a hoax: https://newrepublic.com/article/160595/new-yorker-japan-rent... "If Japan’s family rental phenomenon is “well documented,” as The New Yorker c
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Quizbowl questions have a particular structure that makes them generally not work with these other approaches. For instance, it needs to generate paragraph-long questions with the clues that go from the most to least difficult. This is hard
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I did some experiments last summer trying to get GPT-3 to author quizbowl questions, a type of trivia question. As expected, GPT-3's loose relationship with the truth made these results not acceptable. But a system that really could ge
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Coincidentally, today I read an interesting article on the Gatwick drone scare that contained this anecdote: "In April 1954, a strange phenomenon swept across the town of Bellingham, Seattle, and other communities in Washington state.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
A few good ones: Decoder Ring: Jane Fonda Workout tapes. Hang up and Listen: The Last Last Dance. An exploration of Michael Jordan's time on the Wizards. 99% Invisible: In the Unlikely Event. About the design of airplane safety cards a
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by gxqoz 6y ago
You're Wrong About is probably my favorite podcast discovery of the last year. I generally dislike shows with the format of "the host reads a few articles and pretends to be an expert on it." But they do an above-average job
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I'm only a couple of chapters in, but there's an interesting new book on wood throughout history: https://www.simonandschuster.com/books/The-Age-of-Wood/Rolan... Among the arguments is that wood was far
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Wasn't In Rainbows famously released as a surprise and thus had no real hype built up to it?
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Yeah I can't think of anything I've missed by following Release Radar each Friday. It would be nice if it was clearer on Release Radar whether the new release was a single or an album. You can infer this from the single having a s
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Yeah a co-worker with a Surface Book (not sure the exact model) has by-far the best video quality I've seen on work calls. In general, I actually find built-in laptop cams to look much better than the typical external webcam. They&#x27
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Is there a world where Intel basically admits defeat and tries to become a major ARM player? If not Intel, some other company? It feels a bit weird that many different companies are designing their own bespoke chips. I can see how the bigge
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by gxqoz 6y ago
It's pretty easy to turn off any ML-generated Pocket recommendations. I wasn't even aware they were doing this given how long I've had it turned off. I'm only interested in articles I've curated myself.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I just hope any Firefox-only developments at Mozilla won't strand Pocket, one of my favorite apps (and which I pay for).
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Mainly through the Pocket mobile app. Sometimes I do a more custom solution.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
If you consider listening to an audiobook to be reading a book (I do), you can likely fit in a lot more listening time without changing too much. I've replaced most music listening with audiobook / podcast / text-to-speech ar
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Even if you do black box -> separate screenshot? Is that because the OCR is encoded in white pixels you didn't redact?
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I think I read somewhere that it will soon be more cost effective to build in cellular chips into "smart" devices like this to circumvent people who don't connect them to the internet.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Opera's aggressive pushing of this crap finally made me switch off it for good. Hopefully I never see this again after turning it off in Firefox.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Oh and the worst part is they use a logo for the strip Candorville that has a big ugly QR code in the middle of it.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Huh, I see that all the time in Wizard of Id and never realized the somewhat incongruous first panels were due to this.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I started subscribing to the Seattle Times Sunday paper a few years ago. Comics section is a nice bonus, although I generally don't like their selection. For instance, the top comic is For Better or For Worse. Setting aside the fact th
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Casio's Waveceptor has a countdown timer and syncs to atomic time. I've used them for probably the last 20 years.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
That book is by Mark Kurlansky who also discusses the Basques (and Iceland) in great detail in his entertaining book Cod: https://www.amazon.com/Cod-Biography-Fish-Changed-World/dp/0...
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Agreed, this was a great book. One element it traces is the evolution of neon sign design in Vegas. Many casinos were essentially designed around their signs, which often dwarfed the buildings.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
A related phenomenon was x-ray salons, "the most scientific way to remove hair." Hundreds of these cropped up in the early 20th century, originally growing out of their use in the medical profession. Most targeted working class, i
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by gxqoz 6y ago
I think a less terse disclaimer like "Dictated, apologies for mistakes" could help.
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by gxqoz 6y ago
Do you find yourself going back and revising what you've dictated? When I type, I'm frequently pausing, going to other parts of the document, and deleting things I've already written. All of these actions I find more annoying

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