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by jbullock35 3mo ago
This recent article has a few relevant notes about the uses (or lack thereof) of humanoid robots: https://www.csmonitor.com/Business/2026/0612/ai-humanoid-rob... .
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by jbullock35 8mo ago
> Don't call me "disgraceful". Why? Because THAT is an ad hominem attack. You're right about that. I'm sorry. No further comment from me in this thread.
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by jbullock35 8mo ago
> I don't know if this is your intent or not, but by engaging in this kind of framing you're essentially saying that all violence[1] is excusable by default. We're supposed to live in a society where the opposite is true,
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by jbullock35 8mo ago
Thanks. The link is to a Bellingcat analysis. They did great work on the Renee Good shooting, but in this case, they're describing stills from videos, and I can't see what they're seeing in the photos. The photos are just too
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by jbullock35 8mo ago
Thanks. I watched the videos. It's a horrific event. But I can't see that either of the videos shows a gun being removed from a protester. At the end of [2], someone does seem to walk away from the scene holding a gun, just a frac
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by jbullock35 8mo ago
I've watched four videos but haven't seen any footage (clear or otherwise) of gun removal. Can you post a link to clear footage of the removal? One video [1] shows someone walking away from the scene with a gun a fraction of a sec
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by jbullock35 9mo ago
From the article: > A new preprint reports that in nearly one third of studies on social media appearing in major interdisciplinary journals, the authors have ties to industry that should be disclosed but aren’t. Some received funding fr
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by jbullock35 9mo ago
Oh, certainly, corporations run ten-year-old software. But for the record, IE 11 turns 13 this year [1]. Which makes it somewhat more surprising to me. [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Explorer_11
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by jbullock35 9mo ago
Who is still stuck on IE 11---and why?
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by jbullock35 9mo ago
I think that you're just off on timing. The previous poster didn't mention the even worse news for Tesla: its sales declined for the second straight year, and it's no longer the leading manufacturer of electric cars. (BYD is.
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by jbullock35 10mo ago
The previous Kindle Scribe had a slow refresh rate, and it showed every time you tried to turn a page. All I want so far as refresh rates are concerned is seamless page-turning – page-turning that doesn’t make me wait. Will this version of
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by jbullock35 10mo ago
I keep waiting for the Kindle to allow notetaking by dictation. It works well on an iPad; it’s so much quicker and smoother than handwriting notes.
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by jbullock35 10mo ago
When I was a student in the United States in the 1990s, I took many tests in which handwriting speed limited me. It was purely a physical problem. When I was permitted to type, there was no issue. To be clear, I'm speaking of tests in
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by jbullock35 10mo ago
> Being able to read/write with some haste is not unrelated to job/academic performance. Yes, I agree. But my point is about handwriting, rather than writing in general. Handwriting speed is something that we are effectively te
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by jbullock35 10mo ago
> In general, being good at academics require you to think carefully not quickly. Yes, but to go even further: timed tests often test, in part, your ability to handwrite quickly rather than slowly. There is great variation in handwriting
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by jbullock35 1y ago
There is a larger issue that other commenters are missing: > The city has paid the first two years of that extension but would still owe $145,500 for the final three years if the contract is upheld. The city intends to terminate the cont
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by jbullock35 1y ago
Yes, that's what I had in mind. 1996 was still early—but perhaps the delay allowed PHP to get more of a foothold than it would otherwise have had, especially at such an early stage in the web's development.
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by jbullock35 1y ago
Leaving aside issues of language design and the emergence of other languages, it's interesting to think about other reasons why Perl lost popularity. Some of you know this history better than I do, but I think that it's now unknow
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by jbullock35 1y ago
When you use it as a comma, it’s bad.
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by jbullock35 2y ago
I succeeded in understanding the Kalman filter only when I found a text that took a similar approach. It was this invaluable article, which presents the Kalman filter from a Bayesian perspective: Meinhold, Richard J., and Nozer D. Singpurwa
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by jbullock35 2y ago
Prospective users are understandably concerned that perma.cc will go out of business. No institution can guarantee that it will exist in perpetuity. But perma.cc has at least published a contingency plan: https://perma.cc/co
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by jbullock35 2y ago
I can't tell whether your post is a joke. Yes, Tessier-Lavigne was forced to resign. But Stanford let him stay on as a professor. That was terrible: they should have kicked him out of the university.
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by jbullock35 2y ago
I found this article invaluable for understanding the Kalman filter from a Bayesian perspective: Meinhold, Richard J., and Nozer D. Singpurwalla. 1983. "Understanding the Kalman Filter." American Statistician 37 (May): 123–27.
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by jbullock35 2y ago
I worked there a few years ago. It was almost always easy to reserve a room if you wanted more quiet or more privacy.
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by jbullock35 2y ago
The Power Broker is a superb choice for OP. This comment should be closer to the top of the thread.
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by jbullock35 2y ago
There's at least one huge respect in which tech is different, at least in the USA: worker compensation. In the book, Tracy Kidder writes repeatedly about how Data General (the company at the heart of the book) is proud of its austerity
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by jbullock35 2y ago
That was Aaron Sorkin’s story in The Social Network, but it seems to have been a fiction. Steven Levy’s history of the company is much more detailed (and Levy is trying to be faithful to the historical record, unlike Sorkin) – and it argues
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by jbullock35 2y ago
It's a very public place in the United States. It's not clear that people should expect or be entitled to much privacy in these public places. We also know that, regardless of the degree of privacy to which people should be entitl
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by jbullock35 2y ago
We’ve needed this – easy, direct eye contact – for quite a long time. I keep waiting for someone to develop it. I think that Apple has a relevant patent, but I don’t know how much content is in the patent, and I’ve never heard that Apple ha
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by jbullock35 2y ago
> Having been in relatively low-pressure parts of academia (polisci, behavioural economics, behavioural genetics), I can't say I've ever seen clear fraud LaCour? Gino? The Ariely study mentioned in the article?

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