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by jrumbut 6y ago
I haven't read it and am no expert, but from the summary it seems like Huizinga believes that the increasingly elaborate customs of the aristocracy in the late Middle Ages was a coping mechanism to deal with the intense violence of the
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I can recommend Norman Cantor's Civilization of the Middle Ages for a really great review of the different views of what happened during and after the deterioration of the Western Roman Empire. They range from "a time of violenc
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by jrumbut 6y ago
They fall victim to the same thing every programmer in over their head rushing to finish does. It looks to them like if they can just add one more floor to the house of cards it will be over, why bother explaining the whole project to someo
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I wonder frequently about what would happen if we stopped searching for a network architecture that would learn intelligence from training data amd treated it more as an engineering problem, taking these very successful components (GPT-3, a
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by jrumbut 6y ago
There's clearly a bit of a chicken and egg problem here. I would say that the web revolution gained so much momentum because so many developers could easily get the best tools to learn and experiment with for free with zero barriers. I
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I love tests like that, so long as there are some easy enough problems so you don't risk not knowing where to start. It shows you what the next level is, reminds you that there's more depth to the subject than you can master in 12
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by jrumbut 6y ago
It can still be difficult to tease out how much of any win is due to a single player, I think maybe the key difference is that the games are played in public and only one team can win a game. So I, as a team owner, can watch Strasbourg pitc
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I've created or inherited a few small web services (small, self-contained pieces shared by multiple apps or broken off for load management reasons). I would say Go is pretty good for this, some very nice performance wins were had easil
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I've learned that there's an element of randomness and momentum, and sometimes you just get a raw deal. What still kills me is when some post gets downvoted and someone replies "you're getting downvoted but actually that
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by jrumbut 6y ago
Sibling posters have pointed out technical issues but I'd like to point out that while chasing after each successive exploit might let them stay on top of the Starcraft rankings, it changes the accomplishment from "we made a model
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by jrumbut 6y ago
We may be a lot like the much older generations that left behind only a handful of prized possessions. I have a wedding photograph printed on non-biodegradable material (not intentionally for preservation, it's decorative), and perhaps
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I would make the same criticism in general, but I found The Looking Glass War fascinating as an exploration of how the urge to recapture the excitement and vigor of youth plays out when your youth revolved around WW2.
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by jrumbut 6y ago
Vanilla R got a bad name but once you understand the fundamentals it's quite good, fewer footguns than used to be there, and I find it easier to reason about than tidyverse.
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by jrumbut 6y ago
Realizing a meeting is starting right now and then struggling to extract the Zoom link because the invite writer put it in some non-standard field or there's a surprise and it's some other meeting software happens often enough it&
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by jrumbut 6y ago
This was largely my experience as well. It was nice enough and I ended up with a job that I prefer greatly to what I was doing before. Perhaps I could have done the same or better and saved some dollars with independent study and more netwo
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I'm getting a kick out of this thread because, having hardly played chess since age 12, this game instantly reminded me of games in the middle school library. It seems like there's broad agreement on skill level.
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I'm a believer in audiobooks as a great way to experience the classics, you don't get derailed when there's a lengthy genealogy or dedication to a long dead patron. It's true to the original experience of the works too s
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by jrumbut 6y ago
It's amazing this isn't a standard feature. The database world seems to have focused on large, high volume, globally distributed databases. Presumably you would't version clickstream or IoT sensor data. Features like this tha
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by jrumbut 6y ago
Sorry for the late reply, should have been more specific. I mean a law enforcement investigation into tampered baby formula sales, targeting the actual sellers rather than only quantifying the problem.
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by jrumbut 6y ago
That's terrifying! You would think such an issue would be worthy of a major investigation, what would happen if a baby lived on that powder for weeks?
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by jrumbut 6y ago
And, to strain the metaphor further, most of the $5 burger makers are just repackaging the $4 burgers since the $4 burger makers are the ones who gather the ingredients.
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I think you're right, and I would go further and say that it becomes even more complicated because the higher order fields are often as old or older than the foundational ones. We created frameworks for understanding political science
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by jrumbut 6y ago
Well I'm extremely gratified that you even thought about it, I've been trying to express something like this in different forms with little success. And you're certainly right that we need to take into consideration how sure
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by jrumbut 6y ago
Even in the fields most affected, I'm not aware of any knowledge generation efforts outside of science that are going better. It might just be that the social sciences and medicine are really hard, and our best efforts fail often. Edit
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by jrumbut 6y ago
How it was recorded and that it was recorded correctly seem like separate issues (which I don't feel equipped to decide).
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by jrumbut 6y ago
I think degree of malleability would be the most interesting personality facet to measure. Anecdotally, I think it varies quite a bit between people and changes over time.
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by jrumbut 6y ago
This is such an extreme example of a culture of blame, testifying to Congress that an intern did it 3 years ago?
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by jrumbut 6y ago
Americans have to pay taxes with them, even if we get paid in gold coins or cryptocurrencies. If you don't pay you can go to prison. Therefore, owners of dollars can know there will be at least some minimal demand for dollars in the ne
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by jrumbut 6y ago
Getting further away from Christmas/New Year's probably explains a lot of it.
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by jrumbut 6y ago
The political intervention was done using the mechanism described in the rules (according to my reading of your link). They relied on conditions staying static when the rules say things can change a lot in an emergency.

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