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Should You Be Nice to Your Chatbot?(wsj.com)
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Models and observations agree on fewer and milder midlatitude cold extremes(science.org)
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by julienchastang 2y ago
> Since 1946, approximately 630 French ordnance disposal workers have died handling unexploded munitions. Incredible.
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Somewhat off topic, but CERN has a fantastic science museum attached to it that I had the privilege of visiting last summer. There is of course Tim Berners-Lee's NeXT workstation, but also so much more. It is also the only science muse
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Pediatricians created the peanut allergy epidemic(wsj.com)
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by julienchastang 2y ago
In the further reading category: "Encounters with the Archdruid" by John McPhee, about David Brower, former director of the Sierra Club, and his advocacy for preserving wilderness areas "untouched" by humans. "Fores
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Can 3-D Printing Revolutionize Real Estate?(wsj.com)
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by julienchastang 2y ago
What about https://keystore-explorer.org/ ? My experience with that tool has been good though I don't know if it covers all the corner cases discussed.
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Low-cost index funds don't protect you from ill timed trades. I remember reading during the 2008 financial crisis that many account holders basically bailed into much more conservatively allocated funds as they watched there net worth
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by julienchastang 2y ago
I don't have the references on my finger tips, but basically I recall 401ks to be a bad deal for most employees because of mismanagement by the account holder, high fees, ill timed trades, etc. A few 401k (or 403b) holders have done ve
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by julienchastang 2y ago
(2023) should be added to title.
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Fossil Fuel Subsidies Surged to Record $7T (2023)(imf.org)
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by julienchastang 2y ago
> there remain hundreds of thousands of unsolved homicides across the country Wow.
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by julienchastang 2y ago
The Colorado snow pack ends up in the Rio Grande, and Platte as well.
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by julienchastang 2y ago
As usual, when we see a thread on this topic on HN, the reactions tend to be bimodal: either "Yes, AI has transformed my workflow" (which is where I mostly fall), or "No, it's over-hyped." The latter often comes wit
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Surprisingly entertaining video. It was on a workstation similar to this one that I first used the Mosaic web browser circa 1993. Strangely, the first web site I visited featured a picture of Al Gore (not making this up) then US VP. I canno
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Relatedly, I recommend reading "The Measure of All Things" by Ken Alder about the origins of the metric system and the first scientific conference ever. It is a surprisingly gripping read. https://www.simonandschuster.c
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by julienchastang 2y ago
The word ‘geothermal’ is overloaded these days and can mean one of two things: 1. Extracting heat energy from magma within the earth via steam turbines. This is what is mentioned in the article. 2. Using the ground as a sort of infinite the
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Fatal Osprey Crash Near Japan Caused by Gearbox Failure(wsj.com)
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Strange. I have been to Austin a number of times for work and I find the city to be very walkable. I also enjoy the riverfront parks and pay a visit to SRV (may he rest in peace). I stay in downtown or at UT so I don't really know what
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Unfortunately, part of the title was edited out automatically by HN. The actual title by NOAA and the Space Weather Prediction Center is "SEVERE Geomagentic Storm ALERT". The caps are theirs not mine.
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Geomagnetic Storm Alert(swpc.noaa.gov)
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For a Vacation Without Crowds, Look to Your Nearest State Park(wsj.com)
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Very good comment. In order to effectively use LLMs (I use ChatGPT4 and 4o), you have to be skeptical of them and being a good AI skeptic takes practice. Here is another technique I've learned along the way: When you have it generate t
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by julienchastang 2y ago
I've watched this video in the past. If I recall correctly, he does not make a single typo or fat-fingering during the entire 27 minutes.
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Have a Boring Task to Do at Work? Don't Just Plow Through It(wsj.com)
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Somewhat related: check out the book "The Way of the World" (L'Usage du monde, in the original French) [0] by Nicolas Bouvier about a pair of friends that travel by car from Switzerland to India in the 1960s. As others have m
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Bernard Pivot, Host of Influential French TV Show on Books, Dies at 89(nytimes.com)
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Less Is More: The Case for 'Slow Productivity' at Work(wsj.com)
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by julienchastang 2y ago
Robert Frost's, often misinterpreted [0], “The Road Not Taken” also comes to mind here. "In many ways, the poem becomes about how—through retroactive narrative—the poet turns something as irrational as an “impulse” into a triumpha

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