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hgsgm
3y ago
Coincidentally, lowest pay in a decade, on an experience-adjusted basis.
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3y ago
Clickbait title > Gilbert Strang, a world-renowned mathematics professor, has been at MIT — as a student and teacher — for 66 years.
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hgsgm
3y ago
How does that work?
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hgsgm
3y ago
Tuna is chicken of the sea. Chicken is tuna of the land.
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hgsgm
3y ago
The indicated hypothesis would be "random conversion to consistent deviant" is the heritabile trait, not "deviance" itself.
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hgsgm
3y ago
Think of picking a point on a circle. If you pick a wrong point, all you can infer is that "not that point" is correct, not "opposite point" is correct. There are many, many ways to be wrong.
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hgsgm
3y ago
Jitsi users: how many different conversation partners / fraction of your partners, use Jitsi with you?
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3y ago
The article says nothing about any affair except that unnamed people said that Epstein unsuccessfully applied pressure based on a threat to expose an affair. No evidence about dates or location of affair are presented. Extreme hearsay.
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hgsgm
3y ago
Nothing is 100%, but there is an semi/implicit financial arrangement in most marriages.
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3y ago
I don't care what kind of problem it is. That doesn't change the threat model.
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hgsgm
3y ago
I'm surprised that a court-proven antitrust violator Microsoft would speak so openly about abusing it's dominant position in a different business to finance dumping a different product at low price to destroy a competitor.
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hgsgm
3y ago
Spoken from experience. ChuckMcM is a former Google employee (IIRC) who launched an alternative search engine Blekko, that was shut down in 2015. But $50B/year profit doesn't look like a dying company auctioning off its parts.
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3y ago
It's not a conspiracy theory to report what OpenAI says is the purpose of RLHF.
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hgsgm
3y ago
The skeuomorphic visual design, largely abandoned now, was to teach people that the apps served the same function and emotional connection as what they replaced, not really to teach touch gestures.
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hgsgm
3y ago
How does "As a user, i would like to..." help?
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hgsgm
3y ago
Do any of those non-persona real people you know use Burmese on their computer? Are any of them blind?
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hgsgm
3y ago
Yeah it wasn't all bad if you weren't in the 50% if the population that Stalin murdered.
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hgsgm
3y ago
It's always been weird that the US border is legally 100miles thick around the USA, for customs and immigration, but the Internet cables don't have borders.
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hgsgm
3y ago
They are removing junk to maintain their reputation as a collection of quality content.
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hgsgm
3y ago
"can". Not evidence that it "does".
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3y ago
Then they demolish the tents.
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hgsgm
3y ago
The theory is that the government should enforce competition, so savings go to the consumers. Or tax the monopolists to fund the democratic government.
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3y ago
What happened to http://icfpcontest.org ? Last updated for 2020 contest :-( Oh, I found https://icfpcontest2023.github.io/#/ https://icfpcontest2022.github.io/#/ https://icf
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3y ago
If I'm typing in a doc then Ctrl-? and type the name/keyword for the feature I want is much easier then navigating through the zoo. The zoo is fine when I don't know what I'm looking for and I can browse the pictures f
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3y ago
And so because a Windows person was carless 40 years ago, we still have poor pattern today.
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hgsgm
3y ago
If you're worried about autopilot, The button should move around so that auto pilot clicks have no effect, not change meaning. Or, require text input to confirm an action.
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hgsgm
3y ago
If your logs are being spammed with the same message, while nothing else logworthy is happening, how many timestamps do you need in one hour?
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3y ago
> New York experiences a “subsidence rate” (the technical term for sinking) of about one to two millimeters per year on average, though Lower Manhattan, as well as particular areas of Brooklyn and Queens, show a propensity for greater su
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hgsgm
3y ago
What do you think is special about it? It plugs into an outlet, like every other kettle, and the government keeps paying for manufacturing defects.
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hgsgm
3y ago
They don't work well.
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