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by jimmytucson 1y ago
Don’t look at the concrete tiles in the foreground. Focus on the background. The world moves. Awesome and terrible. I keep scrubbing back and forth and seeing new things.
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by jimmytucson 1y ago
Ad free (for now): https://www.reddit.com/answers/D0BEF0B5-803A-4FD1-BCF4-DC358...
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
Reminds me of the scene in Blood Meridian where they find a dog in an abandoned Apache camp and Brown says, “you won’t man that thing,” and Captain Glanton says, “I can man anything that eats.”
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Seven habits of effective text editing(moolenaar.net)
3 points by jimmytucson 2y ago|0 comments
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
Worked for Dun & Bradstreet for a bit in high school. Weird job, looking back. Sitting in a cubicle, a terminal would "randomly" pull up information about a small business in a kinda CRUD-like interface that a 14-year-old co
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Ancient-DNA study identifies originators of Indo-European language family(hms.harvard.edu)
211 points by jimmytucson 2y ago|174 comments
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
Do feed and ranking algorithms have "sub-rational" influence over people's thoughts and opinions? If feeds are mind control, shouldn't courts and lawmakers just ban mind control? I'm glad we're taking it out o
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
It wasn't just the stimulus checks, it was also the increase in income from job hopping, seeing my 401k and brokerage accounts explode, etc. I'm not saying it was rational or that stimulus checks weren't a good idea, I'm
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
Oh, I definitely did invest some of it (if you can call playing with cash in a brokerage account investing), and seeing some of the returns I got made me feel even richer. I should stress that I am not a totally rational or irrational actor
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
Because Google's search results are so good, it's possible (and maybe even common nowadays) to use Google's rank(someQuery, someDocument) as a relevance label to train your own ranker on, but what Google alleged here is even
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
Anecdotal but my spending habits changed a lot during lockdown and it's been an uphill battle to get them back to normal. There was a period there where we were flush with valuable cash that you wanted to just spend, just for the dopam
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
ChatGPT and gpt-4o are different things. ChatGPT is an application built around a LLM like gpt-4o. It does some retrieval and has custom prompts, etc. They’re not going charging you by token because some of those tokens are search results a
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Reddit introduces AI-powered 'Reddit Answers' search feature(engadget.com)
1 points by jimmytucson 2y ago|0 comments
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
I was lucky enough to be in undergrad with Dr. Rodman. One of the kindest and most intellectually honest people I’ve ever met. Passionate about ideas but at the same time, emotionally uninvested in bad ones. He was a history major before he
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
Wait, can we just use HTTP and DNS? I’ll register a domain name and put my HTML or CGI application on a “box” and we’ll all party like it’s 1999. What am I missing?
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
Here’s an out-there take, but one I’ve held loosely for a long time and haven’t shed yet: dicts are not appropriate for what people mostly use them for, which is named access to member attributes. dict is an implementation of a hash table.
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
The article title perhaps mischaracterizes the significance of these findings. The paper finds that Hooded crows—who are not specialized tool users—demonstrate some of the same abilities that have already been observed experimentally in N
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
What's the difference between CriticGPT and ChatGPT with a prompt that says "You are a software engineer, your job is to review this code and point out bugs, here is what the code is supposed to do: {the original prompt}, here is
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
My takeaway was the exact opposite: in the 1930s, things really were as bad as they seemed, and the U.S. was justified in taking extreme measures to avoid it happening again.
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
…and: Original Pirate Material - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39881324 - Apr 2024 (26 comments)
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Outdoor time is good for kids' eyesight(text.npr.org)
41 points by jimmytucson 2y ago|29 comments
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by jimmytucson 2y ago
This is so cool! Does anyone know how the data is encoded in the signal? Is it just data for the game that's transmitted (and the logic resides on the ZX Spectrum) or is logic also transmitted?
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Largest and Heaviest Animals(en.wikipedia.org)
1 points by jimmytucson 2y ago|0 comments
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
Jury is still out on an astronomical explanation for the apparent 26M year periodicity[0] of mass extinction events. Lisa Randall has an entertaining theory[1] that it’s due to the sun passing through dark matter in its orbit around the gal
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
How do you reach a commercial audience without being anchored to a big tower?
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
$29 plus $24 shipping, so $53 for one flower.
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
And here's the archive[0] of the top post[1] from the following day[2], "Why we made this site" [0] https://web.archive.org/web/20070222125635/http://ycombinato... [1] https://n
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
In the data world I've worked with tons of folks whose responsibilities include getting questions from execs, knowing their way around the data warehouse enough to write SQL to answer those questions, and delivering the answers back (s
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
Nit: looks like this is actually from 2016[0]. The only other keyboard on this list I've heard of is Dvorak. Has anyone ever used Colemak or Workman? And if so, do you just use your regular QWERTY keyboard with software that maps th
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by jimmytucson 3y ago
It’s my understanding that fungi eat dead organic matter. So what did these fungi eat and was it included in the “Mars-like” environment?

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