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I think this is a classic case of us overestimating the immediate impact and underestimating the long term impact. Right now, they are definitely useful time savers, but they need a lot of handholding. Eventually, someone will figure out ho
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Yeah, the idea that great literature is great because it has a bunch of secret messages encoded in it is as crazy as Gravity's Rainbow and kills a lot of people's interest in literary fiction. Funny enough GR does have a bunch of
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I've noticed that a lot of people expect books like this to be a puzzle, but they really aren't. When Pynchon writes about Slothrop naked in a barn getting attacked by a witch's owl you can just laugh at it, you can just be d
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> the intention of art is to communicate a message That might not be the intention. Given the chaos of life, and especially the chaos of WW2, isn't it a little ridiculous to tell stories about it that are neat and clean and have a c
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Bleeding Edge might be of particular interest to the crowd here because it blends perspectives from at least 60 years of engineering, from the slide rules and rolled up sleeves of Pynchon's younger days to open source and web 2.0. I mi
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Yes, the second third is the best third. Allow me to recommend the audiobook version. It helps keep you moving forward during portions that are disgusting, boring, or jibberish.
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No, but they might think it was pension fraud and be unwilling to report their neighbors (even posthumously). That seems unlikely, but we only have the one case of someone living that old vs many cases of unreported pension fraud so if we&#
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People weren't as concerned with record keeping back then, these things were just gonna grow mold and feed mice in a drawer somewhere unless someone was trying to annul a marriage (for consanguinity) or argue over an inheritance. Then
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SEEKING WORK | Massachusetts, USA | Remote (occasional on-site possible) Skills: Generalist full-stack developer with 10 years experience. I have an MS in Computer Science. Currently working on a PhD focusing on machine learning with IoT&#x
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Yeah, that's the part of your story I find most disturbing. People will disagree on all kinds of issues, but would take a major crime for me to call the police on my neighbor. Imagine living next to someone after you did that?
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Do you have depositors expecting >2%? If not I wouldn't worry too much.
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Could you get anywhere by taking the image over multiple passes? Even though the first image wouldn't be ready for a long time, if you have a lot of targets then you could increase efficiency to something like a tolerable level.
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That's funny, I remember going through incandescent bulbs pretty quickly. I always knew where the extra light bulbs were in the house and they were a not-uncommon grocery list item. It's been a long time since I thought of that. I
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Yeah this a key point. Buprenorphine availability is very inconsistent in practice throughout the US. I'm not just talking about rural Kansas here either, it can be a struggle in every state and many major metro areas. Especially if yo
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Yeah, I would strongly challenge the premise of the question. Is a temporary commune even a failure? Is a long lived one necessarily a success? Are there 50 year old hippie communes we haven't heard of?
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I stumbled on this article by accident some time ago, and I can't recommend it enough. I'd be interested to hear it appraised by someone whose knowledge of the subject didn't come (primarily) from Wikipedia.
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The diploma allows you to take the license exam, you still have to actually demonstrate the knowledge. Of course if they already figured out how to get a fake diploma, a fake test taker doesn't seem out of the question.
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> The overall scheme involved the distribution of more than 7,600 fake nursing diplomas issued by three South Florida-based nursing schools > "What is disturbing about this investigation is that there are over 7,600 people around
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Have you considered starting a family? All these ideas about love and romance might be better expressed outside a business context.
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Whether something is a security problem or not requires a threat model and a notion of what the appropriate functioning of the system is. For all we know, OpenAI intended to release these plug-ins this way, sort of like those bars that requ
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It was bound to happen to anyway, at least we can make it more efficient
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Drawing is similar (and a lifelong source of frustration for me). I can see the same experience playing out in different disciplines. I would say that in the kind of math you study after calculus it becomes more common to have that "I
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I don't have a great way to put it in words, but the intuition is that you are putting enormous mental energy into something that doesn't give anything back. Being able to solve heat equations doesn't make you warm. Other sub
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I strongly agree with your main point that sometimes valuable learning is painful. I've found a lot of mathematics is painful beyond "this is frustrating and difficult," but in a more profound way. I would say though, about a
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I don't know if toxic is the word for it. No human has infinite capacity for logic or empathy. Being conscientious takes effort almost by definition. All of us need reminders to put that effort in. That's why people talk about &qu
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People need performance and narrative. Spending one day a month so you can say to fellow executives "I actually went and touched the problem, we need to fix it" and so employees can say to each other "he actually came and tou
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This is the company that gave birth to Ruby on Rails. They appear to have a culture of being very opinionated about their tools and unafraid of doing things their own way. Probably not an example most companies that size ought to follow but
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We always overestimate the impact of a technology in the short term and underestimate it in the long term. When I was young, people told me that if I didn't study engineering or medicine I risked a life of poverty or suffering in dirty
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I think it's so important to keep universities connected to the tradition they arose out of in small ways like a gown. It's amazing, when you read the history, how much of today's discourse about the value of a university edu
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I don't maintain much anymore, but one of the key lessons I learned very early in my career is that having anything in public (a link blog, a github where you post a tutorial you've done, a class project online, a quick YouTube

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