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by jimmar 2y ago
CompuServe was my first experience connecting to the online world. I remember the "free parts" and the "per minute charge" parts. Young me thought that if I stayed in the "per minute charge" areas less than 60
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by jimmar 2y ago
My images are being cutoff oddly. The top of 1/3 of my image doesn't display in the "default" setting. The full images shows in "iPad Pro H." The top 1/8th is cut off in the "Widows Web." The Wi
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by jimmar 2y ago
Nobody would train a huge model unless they wanted to use it. So I can understand concerns about training, even if the process of training alone does not produce content inspired by the training materials. People with copyright concerns rig
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by jimmar 2y ago
"Error establishing a database connection." https://web.archive.org/web/20240826091915/salesforcedevops.... Here's a link to the Rand report: https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_
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by jimmar 2y ago
Why not make these same arguments for cars, food, or anything else that we buy? Just have the government negotiate maximum prices that manufacturers can charge. Maybe AI will help make cars cheaper in the future.
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by jimmar 2y ago
Linux seems to be stealing more market share from OSX than Windows: https://gs.statcounter.com/os-market-share/desktop/worldwide .
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by jimmar 2y ago
In the spirit of constructive feedback, spend the time and effort to record your product demonstrations in a more professional environment. Or generate a fake background at a minimum.
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by jimmar 2y ago
Is there a JavaScript library that does animation using timelines, key frames, etc? It seems like p5js and several other animation libraries focus on things like partial simulations or other animations driven by mathematical formulas rather
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by jimmar 2y ago
This will end up biased by the largest employers. Kind of like crime maps--they make it seems like there's an extraordinary amount of crime concentrated in urban areas, but that is due (in part) because that's where a lot of peopl
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by jimmar 2y ago
Interesting demo. I'd argue that a good tutor will ask more questions than answer. The tutor has to gauge the learner's understanding and adapt instruction. Properly formulating a question can be tricky if you're confused.
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by jimmar 2y ago
Not all null results are created equal. To get your null results published, the null result must shed light on some phenomena. And of course, the study must be sound. E.g., everybody takes for granted that X causes Y, but in a well-designed
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by jimmar 2y ago
It's a complex issue, for sure, and I admit to not being well informed. I did a quick search, and Biden's administration allowed Cubans to open accounts with U.S. banks, but the Cuban government does not like giving up control. Cu
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by jimmar 2y ago
The UN, UK, and EU have no sanctions imposed on Cuba [1]. Why has no other country prevented Cuba from "starving to death?" Honest question. Is the United States so powerful that our trade is the only thing keeping countries alive
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by jimmar 2y ago
I've coded in a bunch of languages over my career, but somehow managed not to use bash. But a few weeks ago I found myself needing to create a somewhat involved script using Bash. Using GitHub Copilot, I was able to generate a script t
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by jimmar 2y ago
VR needs the killer app outside of gaming. It's currently too cumbersome to be seriously productive in VR compared to using traditional monitors connected to computers. Consumers aren't dumb. When a product adds real value, they&#
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by jimmar 2y ago
If I can give any advice in this area in a late mid-stage career, find a way to have productive conversations with your supervisor/manager. After about a decade of working in IT, I felt burnt out and left to pursue a PhD. Pursuing a Ph
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by jimmar 2y ago
I work in academia and look forward to embracing AI tools. Students motivated to learn will do great with it. Others will need AI to really push them to learn, and it's not clear to me how that will work. Many students just want to kno
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by jimmar 2y ago
I worked in a department that facilitated group discussions with a custom platform based on group decision-making research. One of the killer features of our platform was anonymity. Truth could arise in group discussions when people were fr
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by jimmar 2y ago
The article mentions that the paper is under review, but I'm guessing the effect size is small and that individual differences between graders is very substantial. The article states: > The researchers collected available historical
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by jimmar 2y ago
Order effects are real. I'm a prof. I notice that the longer I grade, the less motivated I am to take off points and then justify why I took off those points. It's easier just to give points and move on. (And if anybody wants to c
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by jimmar 2y ago
A brain surgeon saved my sister's life. In the days after her recovery, my dad ran into her surgeon eating in the hospital cafeteria at 11pm. My dad asked him when his shift ended and the surgeon just looked at him and said, "I li
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by jimmar 3y ago
This was the "good" example: > One of the main problems in gauge theory is understanding the geometry of the space of solutions of the Yang–Mills equations on a Riemannian manifold. Perhaps I'm the wrong type of human, but
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by jimmar 3y ago
Very cool! It's a great balance of power and simplicity.
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by jimmar 3y ago
Really smart move by Heinz--if only for the marketing and brand awareness alone. I doubt the environment outcomes will be significant, but the Heinz brand name has shown up in my feeds quite a bit in the past 24 hours because of this change
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by jimmar 3y ago
In my opinion, she buried the most important part under point 3 - "Slides should support your talk." Too many beginners see the slides as the presentation, and they are there to direct peoples' attention through the slides. P
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by jimmar 3y ago
It wasn't a rhetorical question. I could imagine an entity like the Gates Foundation proving seed funding to bootstrap a non-profit pharmaceutical company. That company could fund R&D through sales of its newly developed medicines.
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by jimmar 3y ago
It seems like we want for-profit pharmaceutical corporations to act like non-profit institutions. Any idea why non-profit institutions haven't risen in the world of pharmaceuticals?
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by jimmar 3y ago
"Spending billions on stockholders" is an odd way to frame giving profits to the owners (the shareholders). Does a small business owner spend money on herself when she makes a profit and moves money from the company account to her
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by jimmar 3y ago
You can't get the MBA experience reading books alone. People expect MBAs to be able to communicate effectively, present themselves confidently, and to be able to manage projects. Every MBA program I know requires students to complete p
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by jimmar 3y ago
I'm always glad to see people experimenting with different approaches to building and deploying apps. That said, the general idea of this Serverfree approach doesn't appeal to me. On any given day, I'll use 4 different device

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