jmugan

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by jmugan 4y ago
If you have too much abuse in the system trust breaks down and taxpayers won't support it anymore.
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by jmugan 4y ago
A lot of us are saying we need to increase the pay of nurses, but we also believe that medical care is too expensive. So, where is all that money going? There are a lot of flippant answers but they never seem to lead anywhere actionable.
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by jmugan 5y ago
I love type hints. They make the code so much more readable. I wish they could do more, but knowing what the programmer intended for a variable is huge. Now, when I see code without type hints I think, "Oh man, now I have to dig into e
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by jmugan 5y ago
I wish they'd just let me control what I see. Sure, throw an occasional ad in there to make money. It would be hard to blame them for the nastiness on Twitter if they didn't control it.
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by jmugan 5y ago
And helicopters, those are incredibly loud. I don't understand why we allow non-emergency trips in those things.
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by jmugan 5y ago
Why do we still have the beep, beep, beep when trucks back up? We have backup cameras now. Everyone within half a mile is continually alerted that there's a truck backing up or a piece of construction equipment moving.
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ThoughtLog: The Free Automatic Diary(deumbra.com)
6 points by jmugan 5y ago|1 comments
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ThoughtLog: The Free Automatic Diary(deumbra.com)
2 points by jmugan 5y ago|0 comments
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by jmugan 5y ago
We need to work on the hard problem of building causal models of the world, then we can build causal models of medicine on top, then we can do learning on medical records.
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by jmugan 5y ago
We had a child swim in our pool immediately after eating and she threw up. Probably where that one came from. Kind of like how it is bad luck to open an umbrella inside. It's not bad luck, but somebody might get poked in the eye.
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by jmugan 5y ago
That comment seems to blame a large group of people for something a small group did. The problem with lead is the same problem it always was and still is, a small group of people benefit and are able to make everyone else suffer. We clearly
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by jmugan 5y ago
I hope it doesn't make people even more likely to throw down butts, thinking "Ah, the crows will take care of it."
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by jmugan 5y ago
I thought it was a clever way of trying to say the opposite of what they were saying. I was all kinds of confused.
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by jmugan 5y ago
"Your dad and I are for the jobs the comet will provide."
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by jmugan 5y ago
Agreed. The more I read of that book the less I liked it, but that first chapter was amazing.
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by jmugan 5y ago
Yeah, you'll get in there, and it will be one of 20 forms you have to sign.
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by jmugan 5y ago
Yep, Austin just had the warmest December on record. About 12 degrees F above "normal." https://www.kvue.com/article/weather/december-2021-warmest-o... .
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by jmugan 5y ago
Oh, what you might mean is, "If I can't fly because I will disturb you on the ground, you are stealing the enjoyment of the skies from me." I can see that. I think it also relates to the number of people affected. If one pilo
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by jmugan 5y ago
It would also be theft if you were making huge unnecessary noise playing music or whatnot. It's all about the amount of noise and how far it travels.
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by jmugan 5y ago
I'm serious. Of course, we have to get around, so these things need to be balanced. Commercial airliners are less bad because they move more people, and some of those people are going to places to do productive work. But a private plan
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by jmugan 5y ago
I'm amazed that people can just fly over everyone and make incredible amounts of noise while those on the ground are trying to enjoy peace and quiet.
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by jmugan 5y ago
The grass is still green here in the Austin area, which doesn't seem right even for central Texas.
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by jmugan 5y ago
I took his graduate programming languages class. He was a great teacher.
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by jmugan 5y ago
Can you point to a good source on that? The stats books that I've seen seem to treat it as a collection of tools, and causality in computer science (AI) seems like a separate subfield with the do operator and all that.
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by jmugan 5y ago
Lisp code I write today may run 10 years from now, but would I be able to read it a month from now? Maybe I just never got familiar enough with it, but code I wrote for my AI class was meaningless to me 6 months later.
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by jmugan 5y ago
This theory says that encoding the new information is what slows time down. That could be it as well, or both. There might be experiments one could do to tell the two apart. https://www.npr.org/sections/krulwich/20
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by jmugan 5y ago
I think time speeds up as we grow older because we constantly and subconsciously make predictions. If we subjectively measure time by the flow of unexpected events, as we age, fewer of our predictions are wrong, so there are fewer such even
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by jmugan 5y ago
I can't imagine listening to podcasts and programming at the same time. Well, I can imagine it, but the amount of mistakes I would make would be huge.
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by jmugan 5y ago
"Generation X has to be up really early tomorrow morning."
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by jmugan 5y ago
That is a great book.

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