joshuamcginnis

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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
I'm one week in on heavy grok usage. I didn't think I'd say this, but for personal use, I'm considering cancelling my OpenAI plan. The one thing I wish grok had was more separation of the UI from X itself. The interface
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
I think landing (and keeping) a job in tech is challenging, whether you're a recent graduate or a seasoned professional with decades of experience. While the reasons for rejection may change with age, the key factors for getting hired
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
That's not accurate. The Pentagon, for example, has not passed its annual financial audit since it was first required to undergo them in 2018.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
TIL about oklch() https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/CSS/color_value...
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
If it's not subject to itself, then it's claiming an exception to its own rule, which makes it self-defeating. A universal claim about truth can't exempt itself without contradiction.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Apologetics comes from the greek work "apologia" which means "speaking in defense".
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
From where are you deriving your sense of "pointlessness"? If there is no absolute standard (such as God), then all truths, including moral truths, are determined by individuals or societies, making them relative.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
> Nothing true can be said about God from a posture of defense. This is a self-defeating statement. The statement itself is a claim about God. If it is true, then it contradicts itself because it asserts a truth about God (namely, that n
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Let's say an experienced engineer is starting Euler for the first time. What's the best way to approach it given that many of the problems require some prerequisite algorithmic knowledge to solve? Is there a good method for approa
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
I asked it: > How can the Qur'an acknowledge the Torah (Tawrat), Psalms (Zabur), and the Gospel (Injil) as divine revelations from God (Allah) yet deny the deity of Jesus Christ. Don't these contradictions falsify the truth of
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
There are over 5,000 manuscripts of the New Testament that overlap with more than 90% consistency. This makes it one of the most well-preserved and reliably transmitted ancient texts in history.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
This is very cool sir. I'm also learning Koine Greek and I'm looking forward to trying this out.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
This reminds me an article I saw a while back about how thinking about ones tinnitus actually made it worse.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Every religion makes truth claims. Many of those truth claims contradict each other. It's incumbent upon us to do the research, put the claims to the test and come to the most reasonable conclusion as to what is true.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
I have a lot of respect for Messianic Jews; they're struggle is real. I wish more Jews knew just how Jewish the story of Jesus actually is. As far as Christians are concerned, Jesus is the fulfillment of the messianic prophecies in the
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Did I just train a spam bot to use my voice?
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
I highly recommend folks read Ecclesiastes, which opens with "Everything Is Meaningless". It's a philosophical book on what matters in life (and what doesn't). What do people gain from all their labors at which t
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Is there anything out there yet that will let me issue the command: > Refactor the api folder with any recommended readability improvements or improvements that would help DRY up code without adding additional complexity. Then I can just
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
HN literally posted a video on how broken the public funding system is (in Physics) days ago: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=41808127 This broken system doesn't just stop at Physics. If you watch the video, she d
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Those are great questions worthy of debate. But we shouldn't just give up on those hard questions and say that all research is worthy of public funding should we?
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
My agenda is that I think it's completely rationale to ask about the merits of publicly funded research and debate that topic. You may not like that question or my responses, but that is my assertion here.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
That's a lot of ambiguity for a scientific paper. Even if it's true (Cats are about 60-70% water), that's not the point of the title. I suspect its because it makes for a catchy headline.
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Why do you trust these people when for the most part, they are unelected bureaucrats serving their own self-interests?
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Fair enough and all great points. I think we're more aligned than not on the fundamentals here. Folks seem to be reacting negatively to my even propositioning these questions without even having made a judgment on the merit of the stud
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
It's entirely rational and reasonable for someone to at least ask and receive a decent response to the question, "Why should my tax dollars have been used to funded this research?" Academia should have great responses lined u
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Thanks for your kind response! Are you familiar with the Replication Crisis? What happens when most of the "hypothesis" being challenged can't be rightly replicated in the first place? And what happens when the primary means
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
So what exactly is your criteria for when a study should or should not be publicly funded?
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
What I'm trying to call out is that not all studies are equally valuable nor should they all be publicly funded. Would you at least agree me on that?
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
That's right. This study falls under the parent grant entitled: > Péter Pongrácz: The human as a limited resource - a new paradigm to understand social behavior in dogs (Eötvös Loránd University)
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by joshuamcginnis 2y ago
Comparing the advent of the internet with a study on the flexibility and agility of cats in tight spaces isn't exactly apples to apples.

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