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by jhbadger 2y ago
I like using local LLMs via SillyTavern for roleplaying, which is fun, but is not going to be a source of revenue for anyone.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yes, there was at least one physical Wikipedia device (the Wikireader, released in 2009 and discontinued in 2014), but these days a more practical solution is to put an offline Wikipedia app like Kiwix on an old phone. https://en
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by jhbadger 2y ago
You can't embed graphs in a script, and plotting is an important part of systematic research. Also, it is easier to have an obvious sequential set of experiments over months in a notebook rather than a bunch of scripts. It's the s
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I think people may be misusing notebooks. They aren't there to develop software but serve as virtual versions of scientific notebooks (hence the name). They are there to conduct experiments (changing parameters and the like in your cod
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>I think most of us big sci-fi fans agree that "soft" vs "hard" sci-fi is a false dichotomy. Who knows what is and what will be possible? It isn't about whether a technology is possible. "Soft SF" is SF
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by jhbadger 2y ago
True, the idea wasn't new. But Campbell made it part of classic SF rather than fantasy or "new age" mysticism as it was earlier.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I'm an American although not a big fan of Starbucks (I like to brew my coffee at home), but I definitely prefer dark roasted coffee and buy my beans that way.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Yes. While movies often talk about people "with two PhDs" (and yes, there are a few people who do that for some strange reason), a PhD prepares you to change fields dramatically without any additional formal training. Much of mole
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by jhbadger 2y ago
And the ultimate university degree, the PhD, is all about learning how to learn. It's unlikely that you will continue to work on the project you did your dissertation on where you spent 3 to 6 years becoming an expert on in grad school
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I was annoyed by the C64's that were shown as having "C:>" prompts as if they were MS-DOS machines. I think I get where that was coming from -- people who were too young to remember the period were designing the sets and v
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Also works for drug design! Add a methyl group here or there, and presto, a new drug that probably has the same target and yet is new intellectual property!
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by jhbadger 2y ago
On the other hand, there are plenty of success stories of foreign chains entering Canada. Target's rival Walmart has been reasonably successful in Canada, having over 400 stores. Target made a lot of mistakes entering the Canadian mark
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I found it interesting that in the comparison of the largest grocery stores in the three countries (US, UK, and Canada), UK's Tesco beat out not only Canada's Loblaw, but US' Walmart as well. I know food isn't the only f
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I'd say the 1920s (so 100 years ago) is the earliest time someone from today could go back to and still be able to live more or less the life they have today. In the 1920s, at least in urbanized areas in the developed world, you had ac
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by jhbadger 2y ago
> Millitary general getting popular after winning a war is nothing if not realistic Exactly. It even works in democracies; Dwight Eisenhower became US president from 1953 to 1961 largely because of his success as Supreme Commander of the
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by jhbadger 2y ago
It's more complicated than that. Yes, Lord Kelvin believed in a young Earth (although one that was still millions if not billions years old, not one that was merely thousands of years old like some religious literalists), but it isn&#x
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by jhbadger 2y ago
I was expecting this would be another version of This X does not exist (where X is a cat, person, molecule, etc.) where generative AI has been trained on messages and gives a plausible message that has never been given before.
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Most of the time she was wrong, but not always. For example, she correctly determined that the "UFO photo" in E.B.E (S01E17) was a fake while Mulder was completely uncritical of it. And she was often right when the cases involved
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by jhbadger 2y ago
C# ".exe" files aren't at all the same thing as either DOS or native Windows .exe files. They are .NET code, similar to Java bytecode. You need a .NET environment such as dot-net (which is available on Macs) to run them. Give
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Oh, absolutely. I've never been married, but after my SO died, it was over a decade before I started dating again because I absolutely hate that part of starting a relationship.
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Yes, they made the schools reverse the trade. While it was done in a spirit of fun, it was technically a theft of utensils from both schools.
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Yeah, I have that one a lot. When I was an undergraduate in the 1980s (at least) it was common to enroll in more courses than you were really intending to take, go to them all in the first week or two, and then make a decision of which cour
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by jhbadger 2y ago
right? I mean even the traditional marriage vows (which given the possibility of divorce aren't really to be taken literally) include the phrase "until death do us part", implying that you are free to find somebody else once
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Reminds of of the replacement of "threeks" at the UW-Madison campus in the 1980s. At the time, it was common for satirical parties to win student elections and do odd things like cover the campus with plastic flamingos. One of the
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by jhbadger 2y ago
>This is reflected by a thousand years or so for most of the West with significant parts the calendar where there was abstinence from meat which for many now people would consider impossible. At most we would be periodic vegetarians, omn
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by jhbadger 2y ago
But did he use the Amiga later for any of his actual art? Yes, he signed on as a "brand ambassador" but was that a sincere endorsement or was it more like celebrities endorsing a toothpaste?
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I love these sorts of of things. I was fortunate enough to have this fact mentioned in my stats book in undergrad, and later when I was in Dublin and touring the Guinness brewery, they had a small exhibit on Gosset (although Gossett was act
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by jhbadger 2y ago
The solar panels (and the famous sweater Carter wore when turning down the White House thermostat in winter) wasn't done out of climate anxiety though. This was done because of the oil crisis (at the time the US was more dependent than
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by jhbadger 2y ago
Not a fan of Reaganomics, and people like Midgley are hard to defend, but I think you have the wrong idea of Hottel. Hottel basically invented solar energy as we know it in the 1930s -- he wasn't some guy trying to subvert it. There&
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The solar panels that Carter installed were nearly useless, given poor 1970s technology. It was performative, showing that he was interested in doing something to handle the oil crisis, even if it was futile. And Regan's removal of t

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