jamesrcole

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by jamesrcole 2y ago
seeing it as non -conformity
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by jamesrcole 2y ago
I think this is a glimpse of the future. I can imagine ever-greater amounts of information overload, and AI used everywhere to filter it to manageable levels.
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by jamesrcole 2y ago
> papers that lay the foundations for a whole field are usually very approachable. i'm not sure why this is Kuhn talks about this in his works[1]. If I recall correctly, his argument is that when someone is creating a new field (new
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by jamesrcole 2y ago
I don't know whether this'd be possible for you and your situation, but have you considered trying to start one? Try to find other people who might be interested, and get some of the basic equipment a makerspace would have... and
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by jamesrcole 3y ago
Or if they're looking for written content, the Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy is a great resource. It has articles on lots of philosophical topics, and they're fairly accessible https://plato.stanford.edu/
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by jamesrcole 3y ago
> This is less a device to look at code why though?
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by jamesrcole 3y ago
you, or someone in a situation like yours, might at times find it valuable to have like a giant whiteboard in front of you, that you can walk around in front of, and on which you could spatially arrange a bunch of details
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by jamesrcole 4y ago
I read the Wikipedia article... it's scary and sadly a number of people died or were injured... but then I think about something like the Covid pandemic and, compared to that, the number of deaths from radioactive sources like this bas
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by jamesrcole 4y ago
They made a factual claim. It is either correct or incorrect. Are you saying it is incorrect?
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by jamesrcole 4y ago
Seems a similar issue to: how can you trust someone you buy a physical product from online? Do they have a reputation? If a third party mediates the sale (eg eBay) do they have policies in place to handle such issues?
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by jamesrcole 4y ago
I think it’s worse than that. It makes people have to police their own thought about what they’re going to say, to avoid stumbling over one of the linguistic trip wires. I think that’s antithetical to creative thought.
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by jamesrcole 4y ago
People striving to do what they want is generally a good thing, I think. A lot of innovation and benefit to society results from that.
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by jamesrcole 4y ago
just a minor thing to note here: there's the foundations of mathematics... questions like, what are numbers and other mathematical structures? How is it that math, any math at all, can potentially accurately describe parts of reality?
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
that's not what I heard on Twitter, from various people who work in hospitals, nor in various news reports.
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
The capacity issue is staffing, and that can’t just be spun up. Basically because it takes time to train people
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
> 1) exponential growth has consistently ceased before the hospitals overflowed too bad I believe quite a few hospitals around the world overflowed pretty badly.
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
> I've read some where the common cold was probably a pandemic virus originally, and it mutated to a common cold we have today, and we mutually evolved to deal with the common cold. Something like that... A factor that comes into
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
I think their absolutist statement was more to do with responding in kind to the comment they were replying to, which said “The overall number of activists or the growth thereof has absolutely nothing to do with that.”
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
nope. What has that got to do with my comment? Someone was implying that it was impossible, I was saying that claim was implausible. People estimate those kinds of numbers all the time for statistical purposes.
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
> Why would you expect the murder rate to be constant? they didn't expect it to be, they said if it remains constant. You seem to be the one making the assumption -- that it wouldn't remain constant -- otherwise why would
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
the idea that there's no possible way to reasonably estimate the number of environmental activists seems very unlikely to me.
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
i disagree with the implication that murder somehow shouldn't be looked at in statistical terms. I am not saying it should only be looked at in statistical terms, but it is one important way of looking at it.
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
> "Doing what you love" is a total new-age garbage scam, only possible because we (most of us on HN) collectively live in the wealthiest, most powerful empire the world has ever seen You seem to be implying that living in a w
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
I'm not sure how that's relevant to my comment. I'm not saying any particular thing will happen. I was just disagreeing with the person who said "The only thing that prevents ... from executing arbitrary code on your sys
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
Yes, it's always "one malicious update away", but what I'm saying is different to that. You're talking about "installing" a change, and talking about more about their capability to change what happens with
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
but once a system is in place, it becomes easier to do things that are a variation on what that system already does. As opposed to doing it from scratch. Also, I think the outcry would be larger if they did it from scratch compared to if th
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
Someone had to make the conscious choice to make it do that, then add the code for it — I’d love to know what their rationale was. I find it difficult to imagine how they thought it’d make things better, and how they could have missed the d
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
If something seems that way to you, and you want to say to others that it seems that way, you could explain why. It’s not like it was developed by random nobodies, and it’s not like the default assumption should be that some work is the res
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
why? You don’t explain.
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by jamesrcole 5y ago
> Bring on the regulation and the public outrage! Just let it be directed at Tile for not doing this sooner. Public outrage seems to be based on a very low-res view of reality drawn from viral sound-bites, so I doubt that's how any

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