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by jmount 3y ago
American hemisphere corn, tomatoes, potatoes, and peppers were clearly selectively bread very far away from their wild cultivars a very long time ago.
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People also ask: “Why did the US sink the Lusitania?”(google.com)
2 points by jmount 3y ago|0 comments
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The Sell ∀ ∃ as ∃ ∀ Scam(win-vector.com)
207 points by jmount 3y ago|141 comments
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by jmount 3y ago
Nice, this got me to thinking on variations on the topic: https://win-vector.com/2023/04/22/the-sell-as-scam/
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by jmount 3y ago
Always hated that abbreviation. I feel the disrespect to the reader in being unwilling to write out a word (instead of an acronym) really makes one wonder about actual commitment to communication. I mean why translate if one can just use gi
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A Pandas/Polars Rosetta Stone(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 4y ago|0 comments
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Doing Better Than the Average(win-vector.com)
2 points by jmount 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 4y ago
Seems like it all gets wiped by one git force-push.
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by jmount 4y ago
That would be Reddit collections of horrible acts by male Florida residents. The term derives from some formal bad writing conventions in news organizations.
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How much data do you need?(win-vector.com)
3 points by jmount 4y ago|0 comments
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by jmount 4y ago
I think the comment above is: "show me cracking a similar drive with nothing on it" as a capabilities test.
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by jmount 4y ago
Yeah, knowing there is no poly-time quantum algo would be as big as showing P!=NP. If it is "no known" algo, it is well known not to use the stronger wording. Outside of oracle results an "at least this hard result" is a
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by jmount 4y ago
My guess is, it sounds like a lot of unpleasant empirical tinkering exercises.
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by jmount 4y ago
This very much focused some recurring thought I had on how useless a Turing style test is, especially if the tester really doesn't care. Great comment. Thank you.
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by jmount 4y ago
Maybe it won't matter in that nothing positive is actually ever done with results anyway. Searching for stuff to back up a pre-existing belief, manufactured results just as good as found.
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by jmount 4y ago
It can't be emphasized enough, this isn't a procedure failing when used- this is a canned recording of it failing. This means the group either didn't check the results, or did check them and saw no way forward other than gett
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by jmount 4y ago
Or just saphire (Al2O3).
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by jmount 4y ago
I remember (perhaps incorrectly) using Thunderbird and then reading it was no longer supported and to move away.
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by jmount 4y ago
A huge advantage of search is its deniability, "just returning what is out there" or "not our fault nobody has that." These AIs are pretty exciting, but they are stepping out of that protection.
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by jmount 4y ago
It has got to be stolen FTX money that is being put up. Who is that free with their own money?
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by jmount 4y ago
I have met quite a few Googlers that confidentially share "things are a lot more precarious than people outside know." My guess was always that this was some sort of internal motivational speech in Google, and not an actual observ
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by jmount 4y ago
Yet they don't.
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by jmount 4y ago
Galileo's Principle bites hard, great explanation here: https://99percentinvisible.org/episode/cautionary-tales/tran...
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by jmount 4y ago
And the money has to come from somewhere, unless they are paid in NFT/e-coin.
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by jmount 4y ago
It is even better than that. Smokers used to sit and smoke in "non-smoking" to be away from the stale smoke.
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by jmount 4y ago
I agree with the poster 100%. In so many UIs it is literally impossible to guess what drawing represents on and which represents off. Toggles, and even multi-toggles until there are at least 3 states are unreadable. It isn't even &quo
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by jmount 4y ago
Or even worse "A Display Processor": http://cva.stanford.edu/classes/cs99s/papers/myer-sutherland... . At some point the GPU becomes too important for graphics, and gets a specialized sub-processor
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by jmount 4y ago
SQLDF is a great project, thanks for bringing it up. We use it in our book ( https://win-vector.com/practical-data-science-with-r/ ). Inspired by it I have a feature to the data algebra that treats a captive database c
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Control Pandas, Polars, or SQL from One DSL(github.com)
34 points by jmount 4y ago|6 comments
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Touching the 3rd Rail of Data Science: “R or Python?”(w my own myopic benchmark)(win-vector.com)
1 points by jmount 4y ago|0 comments

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