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by ilamont 2y ago
Many of my cultural heroes were ignored by academia Ignored, or the jobs just weren't there? A department head once told me that she couldn't hire any new tenure-track faculty. Turnover at the school is so rare, and when a posit
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S&P Global is paying Accenture to train all 35k staff in 'generative AI'(newsroom.accenture.com)
16 points by ilamont 2y ago|17 comments
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SAG-AFTRA/Animation Guild's contract disputes are canaries in the AI coal mine(theankler.com)
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by ilamont 2y ago
Kind of curious about Tommy Tutone's programming career. It would be cool if he had an HN account! What's interesting to me is the nostalgia boom for artists who either kept going or reunited, and the crowds now are far larger tha
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by ilamont 2y ago
There was a movie subplot that featured something like this as part of the main character's midlife crisis. Something with Kevin Spacey. American Beauty? People who retire from professional jobs often do pick up part time work that wou
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by ilamont 2y ago
In the comments section of that article, the writer (Stefanos Chen) listed a few additional reasons for corporate landlords to maintain the status quo: The tax benefits for landlords who keep a space vacant may be overstated. While it&#x27
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Axios lays off 50 amid ad market slowdown, AI fears(axios.com)
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by ilamont 2y ago
My father is a GI researcher, and gave a talk on Warren and other innovators and innovations in the field (which includes endoscopy, the direct result of an innovation in computer networking, Narinder Singh Kapany's paper on fiber opti
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Security of your brokerage rests in the hands of your cell phone service rep(bogleheads.org)
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AI data centers are trashing the Texas energy grid(pivot-to-ai.com)
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None of these people exist, but you can buy their books on Amazon anyway(conspirator0.substack.com)
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by ilamont 2y ago
The software engineering paradigms used within the company create brittle rube goldberg machines of events flowing everywhere in the company. Thank you for saying this. I have interacted with various seller-facing Web software platforms (
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DraftKings abruptly shutters Reignmakers NFT project due to "legal developments"(web3isgoinggreat.com)
1 points by ilamont 2y ago|0 comments
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Adopted US man gains Irish citizenship based on DNA test(irishtimes.com)
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B-1B crash result of pilot error and 'culture of noncompliance'(taskandpurpose.com)
19 points by ilamont 2y ago|3 comments
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The Million Veteran Program is closing hard-to-fill gaps in DNA research(taskandpurpose.com)
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by ilamont 2y ago
The HBO series Rome handled it well. People of noble birth used RP, plebeians had middle-class accents and soldiers tended to have working-class accents from the southeast. Foreign slaves had a mix of foreign accents. IIRC Game of Throne
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AMD delays its Ryzen 9000 launch due to unspecified quality issue(tomshardware.com)
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Northern Data had a plan: pivot to "AI" and IPO for billions(amycastor.com)
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by ilamont 2y ago
Coming on the heels of the 2023 Hugo Awards disaster (certain authors excluded for fear of offending China, see https://file770.com/the-2023-hugo-awards-a-report-on-censors... ) it's hard to believe the supposed post-Ch
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Hugo Awards Disqualification Statement(locusmag.com)
17 points by ilamont 2y ago|4 comments
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Swan Bitcoin Drops IPO Plan, Cuts Staff and Will Shut Managed Mining Unit(coindesk.com)
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by ilamont 2y ago
> The St Lawrence Seaway also took traffic away from the Erie. It also took traffic from the rail lines between Northern New York and points south, many of which are now disused. It also impacted rail in Canada, for instance the spur to
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by ilamont 2y ago
These days, people north of the Finger Lakes, Mohawk Valley and the southern part of the Adirondacks often call those northern counties "Northern New York" or "North Country."
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by ilamont 2y ago
I've been a publisher on KDP for more than 10 years. Automated lockouts and unresolvable technical issues are the norm for Amazon's seller and publisher tech. * Features are rolled out quickly. They are often in a half-baked state
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by ilamont 2y ago
I have the same feeling about Citizen watches, in particular the Eco-Drive models. Very well engineered, and most of them look great. https://www.citizenwatch.com/us/en/collection/mens/
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by ilamont 2y ago
> I’m a software engineer at major US research university developing AI-powered software to improve critical reading and writing skills in higher ed. Oftentimes, the root cause of the critical reading problem is the quality of the writin
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by ilamont 2y ago
Legend has it that at one point an irate German entrepreneur spit on Mike at an event, leading us all to have a profound distrust of humanity. This wasn't a legend. Arrington talked or wrote about it, I can't remember where. May
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Sequoia Capital offers to buy Stripe shares from investors(axios.com)
6 points by ilamont 2y ago|2 comments
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by ilamont 2y ago
There most definitely is a reason to edit titles: to reduce clickbait or shorten titles. The system even automatically removes certain clickbait elements, for instance "How" is stripped out of submitted titles.

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