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by jjslocum3 6mo ago
I'm still more comfortable keeping my code in America.
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
The real metric should be how good looking they are. That transcends household income, race, and gender. /sarc
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
Yes! In programming speak, you're talking about levels of abstraction.
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
Are people still talking about OKRs? Dang that's so '00s
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
Plenty of nitpicking here, for me this piece was a fun and clever thought-ride.
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
If a tree is distressed in the forest and there are no insects there to hear it, does it make a sound?
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
I knew a musician who once clicked on a "ring for customer service" bell at the service counter of a laundromat, and then told the arriving attendant "Your bell is a quarter-tone flat."
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
For me the real nugget is the first comment: "Programmers have a pavlovian engineering response. Pose them a problem and they'll start trying to solve it."
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
What exactly does this mean?
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
Doesnt work for the map around my home. While the buildings in my neighborhood generate shadows on the map, none of the trees do.
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by jjslocum3 2y ago
<antennas so big that we cannot even simulate their behavior.> I really would love another sentence or two on this. I can't immediately think why that would be, e.g. don't Maxwell's equations apply at very large scales?
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All the Endangered Languages, by Country(visualcapitalist.com)
1 points by jjslocum3 3y ago|0 comments
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
Musk says "Blindsight is the next @Neuralink product after Telepathy." Let's see, I think after that, the next product should be Magic Missle. Or maybe Sanctuary?
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
<Its incredible to me that educated adults are taking long-distance manned space travel seriously> Comical and Strangelovian perhaps, but also the only hope for humankind. How many years until the expanding sun's corona envelops
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
Does Onedoc retain any visibility into, or in any way use or reserve the right to use any content created using its API in any way? Obviously, calling an API means sending document contents to Onedoc.
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
I imagine this would be of great benefit to plagiarists.
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I Wrote What? Google's AI-Powered Libel Machine(racket.news)
4 points by jjslocum3 3y ago|2 comments
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
Using Gemini, a former Rolling Stone editor discovers his involvement in past scandals.
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
This seems like a pretty important finding, entymology's version of cracking Fermat's Last Theorem. I wonder if there's a Nobel category for entymology.
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Columbia School of Social Work: Glossary of Terms [pdf](socialwork.columbia.edu)
1 points by jjslocum3 3y ago|0 comments
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
I understand this is a Python-centric source, but without having done my homework I'd have thought Python wouldn't be a particularly great language for dealing with these low level concerns. Wouldn't it be much easier in C? I
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Record-Breaking Snow Extent in Northern Hemisphere(severe-weather.eu)
3 points by jjslocum3 3y ago|1 comments
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
This description of SBF does evoke a Netflix "I was in a cult" documentary. A larger-than-life leader, with huge vision. I wonder how much of his success was due to his charisma and the ability to steamroll (and sidetrack) people
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
So perhaps a competent biostatistician could get away with it?
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
> ...it would help if journals routinely asked authors to share their IPD Why couldn't a bad actor just fake the raw data? Isn't that what Climategate was all about?
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by jjslocum3 3y ago
The rise of robust middle classes in Asia have also put a squeeze on the world's chocolate supply in the last decade or two. These days in the US, it's hard to even discern the cocoa in most "chocolate" bars.
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I rode with an ice road trucker to the Arctic Circle(freightwaves.com)
243 points by jjslocum3 3y ago|160 comments
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World population could peak at 8.5B people by the 2050s, study predicts(studyfinds.org)
2 points by jjslocum3 4y ago|0 comments
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
America has a water crisis?
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by jjslocum3 4y ago
> And an example of it getting something complex terrifically wrong This is the part I'm stuck on. The process still needs a real analyst to verify whether GPT got it right or not. There goes the ROI, right?

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