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by jebarker 3mo ago
Indeed. To get "aesthetic" play you would have to mimic real human play for an interesting reason: the space of possible Go configurations and games is so mind-bogglingly vast that all of human history has only ever seen a infinit
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by jebarker 3mo ago
This is the wrong way to think about mathematical (or any other kind of) creativity in my opinion. In the extremely high-dimensional space of "ideas" (whatever that means) there are almost certainly profound ideas that are the int
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by jebarker 3mo ago
There are off the shelf supplements that are widely used for this, e.g. BeetElite which contains nitric oxide derived from beet juice. I can testify that they do offer a real performance benefit - in my case I've found them beneficial
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by jebarker 3mo ago
Oh! I actually thought I tried to be really careful to get that right and somehow still didn't see I'd transposed the j and c. Definitely no harm intended!
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by jebarker 3mo ago
This is a really enjoyable read. Majiec is a great writer and speaker. A breath of fresh air compared much of modern blog/essay content.
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by jebarker 3mo ago
I’ve found Coros to be great too. I’ve used my Vertix to track GPS for 48 hours continuously during a race. It’s been beaten up against rocks, soaking wet and filthy for extended periods and still works 100%. Just yesterday it saved me fro
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by jebarker 3mo ago
Ego is also at play here. In inherently competitive fields like academic science using LLMs to get results more quickly is an alluring siren.
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by jebarker 3mo ago
What makes this a hobby project? He’s a university professor so developing teaching material is part of his job.
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by jebarker 3mo ago
I know many, many people that have continued to increase their expenses as their income grows but would also like to FIRE in theory. There’s a whole movement called FatFIRE that is basically full of these people
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by jebarker 3mo ago
I don’t doubt it’s possible, but suggesting that the game isn’t simulating FIRE because it includes lifestyle inflation seems wrong.
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by jebarker 3mo ago
Are you suggesting that everyone with FIRE aspirations avoids lifestyle creep?
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by jebarker 3mo ago
Exactly, it’s about the choice of word but I don’t think it’s meaningless semantics.
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by jebarker 3mo ago
No, we don’t agree it’s “deserved” in any cases. I agree in the self defense case it’s justifiable based on near certainty about the outcome if you don’t respond with lethal force. That has nothing to do with “deserved”, which is always sub
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by jebarker 3mo ago
I don’t find this a convincing argument. This works as an argument for permitting lethal force to end a life-threatening attack. But once someone is already detained there’s no way that killing them meaningfully increases public protection
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by jebarker 3mo ago
How do you define “deserve” in any kind of objective way?
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by jebarker 3mo ago
As far as I’m aware there is no native Pandora app, just TuneIn for internet radio. Do for Pandora you’d have to stream from a phone via Bluetooth.
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by jebarker 3mo ago
As an R1S owner I feel like the elephant in the room is that the Rivian developed infotainment software is just not very good. For example, the Spotify app has weird scrolling issues and the interface for offline downloads is clunky and unr
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by jebarker 4mo ago
This works with dairy-free milk too. My daughter has a dairy allergy and figuring out we could turn pea milk into pea buttermilk with a tbsp of white vinegar upped her pancake experience significantly.
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by jebarker 4mo ago
This is so true. A few years ago I was volunteering at a running race that’s very hard to get into and many people have as a life dream. I found it kind of amusing how many people were having pity parties in the latter stages of the race de
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by jebarker 4mo ago
Thanks for the great answer and practical steps involved in the transition.
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by jebarker 4mo ago
How did you transition from tech to teaching?
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by jebarker 4mo ago
What does it even mean to say you want to build something but you don’t know what it is?
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by jebarker 4mo ago
I think it depends what they’re hoping to get out of it.
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by jebarker 5mo ago
Imagine being able to afford a Ferrari and then buying the one that looks like a fancy Prius
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by jebarker 5mo ago
It’s kind of surprising that diamonds still have appeal as jewelry at all given the rise of lab-grown. I always assumed that people liked them because they were rare and expensive.
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by jebarker 5mo ago
AlphaFold has a shared technical ancestry with LLMs and many people believe that was a truly significant advancement of science that may lead to benefits for humanity and the planet. I don't think this was a one-off fluke, strongly gen
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by jebarker 5mo ago
By having a job. If that job is the same as your intellectual/artistic pursuit then you have to balance the needs of satisfying your employer and what keeps your motivation going over the long term. All I’m saying is that worrying too
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by jebarker 5mo ago
“Comparison is the thief of joy.” Do the math because you enjoy doing the math and if you do it long enough you may well do something of value to someone else. Same goes for most intellectual and artistic pursuits I think. I’ve learned for
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by jebarker 5mo ago
I’ve been gradually reading prior Pulitzer winners for fiction and I have to say I haven’t hit a bad one yet. Maybe I’ll try and read this years before it’s several decades old.
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by jebarker 5mo ago
> the actual engineering I was with you until the last three words. Craftsmanship in writing code is also “actual engineering”, it’s just not the engineering that people will pay a human to do now.

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