jknoepfler

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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
It is falsifiable, in the sense that we have ample evidence of the many forms of life that have existed on earth... including fossil evidence, genetic evidence, preserved tissue samples and a long litany of other pieces of data broadly cons
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
The history of mathematics is tightly coupled to spirituality... some more famous examples off the top of my head are Cantor, Euclid, and Euler, but there are probably hundreds of examples of folks who explicitly tied their faith to their r
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
Put yourself in the role of a consumer for a second. As a consumer, I don't give a shit. I use my driver's license to apply to jobs, my passport to fly, and a password (with 2FA depending on how much I / my employer cares) fo
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
I do not want my identity to be device-bound. I want it to be me-bound.
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
If someone has written that in a paper or article they've ingested, as they no doubt have, then sure.
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
> "superficially superior code" Can you unpack that a bit? It produces measurably, meaningfully inferior code everywhere I see it in use. > "leadership encourages this because from what they can tell, there is no downsi
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
The capital required to train Qwen at scale is enormous. The capital required to patch a linux distro is near zero. Any scale model coming out of China should be viewed as advancing a geopolitical agenda. The same skepticism should be appli
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
Refusal to consider evidence to the contrary is certainly symptomatic of something, and it isn't a well-reasoned argument. "Us" sounds like the corporate leadership I work with that have actively pushed teams to incur mountai
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
That right there is the mentality that is going to drive me into a hole. Engineers are already grumpy enough dealing with asinine human bullshit that doesn't translate into reality. Seeing blatant slop judged by blatant slop (and it is
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
I mean sure... but I vote for education tax levies whenever they come up and choose to live somewhere where they pass. I wouldn't call my emotions about it negative.
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by jknoepfler 2mo ago
Having learned math in an accelerated program that banned calculators, my experience has been that they do substantially diminish mathematical learning. They are useful for things like building an intuition about the behavior of functions..
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Of all the things a 250 year-old federal government serving hundreds of millions of people across the entire spectrum of services should be run like, "a start-up" is pretty close to the bottom of the list. I'm impressed we ma
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Are we restricting this to businesses, or is the genocide of the Uyghurs fair game?
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Note that every single person telling you to not learn to code currently knows how to code, often at an expert level, and is therefore capable of reasoning about code. I learned to build such useless things as operating systems, databases a
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Yes, but have you considered the performance of a few lucky outliers? Catch 'em fast before they regress to the mean!
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Ick. Stop.
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Ease off the adderall bud. There's a lot of sloppy thinking in that post, starting with the pseudo-scientific framing in terms of evolutionary psychology... which is ironic given then ScIeNcE-bro tone... couched against an artificial a
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Almost as though they were indefensible bullshit to begin with. I wonder who extorted whom and for how much. Like gee, that was fast. If this had any bearing on reality, one would imagine the vetting process would take actual time and that
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
I mean, I'd assume this deck was trying to sell something. But the relevant comparison is to stonk-bros on HN LARPing as hedge fund managers, not Vanguard. Which, to be fair, Vanguard has earned a good deal of trust from me on the pass
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Checking back on this thread and wow. The absolutely rabid energy with which Republicans will fabricate information to evade personal moral responsibility for making the COVID death toll worse is incredible. We have a completely medically i
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Maybe they'll buy a failing AI company and update their grift portfolio.
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
It's fractured as a consequence of its own actions, which all of its constituent members bear direct responsibility for. Epstein cover up? Iran? COVID denialism? Complete disregard for rule of law? Accepting massive, direct bribes? Try
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Ever since I've been conscious (the 80s), it's been the party of fear, violence and greed. They've consistently nominated actual clowns for positions of power. B-movie actor Ronald Reagan... Dan Quayle... Sarah Palin... the c
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
I know I RTFA, and I know I'm not interested in discussing things with people who don't. Maybe others feel differently, because more people is better or something. Information pollution is a serious, persistent, growing problem an
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
It's nearly word-for-word the content of the tweet. Right at the top. It isn't misleading unless you literally don't even bother to open the linked content. Just ban users who comment without reading, I think that would go fu
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Are you seriously suggesting that the reason it is cheaper to shift factory labor from the United States to Mexico or Vietnam is because Mexican/Vietnamese factories don't need to hire diversity consultants? I have to have misunde
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Yeah. There is no such thing, especially and in particular with publicly traded companies. The only meaningful way to change behavior is regulation. Beyond that, "social contracts" benefit the powerful and have a tendency to turn
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
I don't think it's rational to rely on relationship with a business, especially and in particular a publicly traded business. Change starts with regulation. That's how every other advanced economy handles it. It's really
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
Ha, well you've restored a fraction of my optimism about humanity.
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by jknoepfler 3mo ago
I sincerely hope this comment is satire.

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