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by jvanderbot 1mo ago
You do if you want a durable record of your observations e.g., for the purposes of showing future generations you could align with spring solstice, or predict phases of moon, or eclipses. That's impressive and maybe even useful.
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by jvanderbot 1mo ago
If we limit ourselves to these, then that's a 0.5% known failure rate.
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by jvanderbot 1mo ago
At this rate, I would find it startling if ancient stonework didn't have something to do with the sun, moon, and stars. Everywhere you look some ancient society was predicting these things by tracking them.
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by jvanderbot 1mo ago
So what's the denominator? Every base has some kid of refrigerator, and there must be 100s-1000s of bases.
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by jvanderbot 1mo ago
I believe this is how the Hudson Bay was formed, in what must have been quite a sight.
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
No FDA authorization I guess
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
And now it's flagged. Someone got mad about the silicon valley tropes brought up, when this was actually quite a thoughtful article.
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
Everyone seems to be attacking this as a statement about the obviousness of technological limits. That is exactly what the article is not . The article seems (at least to me) to be about the uses of technology, and how deeply that intera
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
I agree. However the agent here with the power is the state and local and federal government. They're just going to do drones next if they can't do sensor masts. Everyone who authorized this funding needs to be voted out. If we re
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
For a time, I was into boxing. Nothing ever helped me with stage nerves or social encounters like realizing people had watched me get punched in the face and it was fine. I believe these are called threat acclimation experiences. They are p
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
I've been repairing my laptops for a long time. I loved my dell laptops for field work. Swappable batteries especially! Framework, for me, was just the natural extension of that, geared towards multi-use that included reconfigurabilit
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
I doubt POC would be the main issue. I do think immigration status would be front and center. They do overlap, but not entirely.
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
Keep in mind, I made no value judgement on ACA at all, just suggested that we learn about its opposition and, as you rightly point out, the difficulty of passing such legislation that can last over time. I agree that "To no avail&quo
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
I think republicans could get behind some measure of portable health plans between employers. What they could not get behind is universal, in the sense of "everyone living in USA" health care footed by the US Government. The objec
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
We've been down this road. ACA was predicated on studies like this, to no avail (it turns out that intense opposition chips away at it over time regardless of these studies). I'm of the opinion that, if your solution requires perp
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
My friend was absolutely obsessed with writing character backgrounds and world setting stories using ChatGPT for a while. It took almost a year for him to come up for air and realize all the stories were effectively the same, and the hooks&
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
I'm fond of this brain-expander, in spirit of TFA: "Did you know travelling salesperson is O(N) on a large class of graphs?" Another insight: I regularly find that clever O(logn) solutions are just obliterated by a few mostly
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
> we may end up with results that are correct, machine checkable, and not explainable in any way we find satisfying sounds like quantum mechanics
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
Also correct!
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
Right. A perfect surveillance state is still wrong by design. If you dont accept this, consider the perfect surveillance state under president N, used by president N+1 given the inevitable flipflop in party control.
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
Fair enough! I watched the video again and still dont understand what the problem is or what's being solved, but yes - there's the act! It connects the dots through - Amazon seems to be claiming their drivers are exempt from somet
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
One issue that I have with many of these videos - what precisely is "this"? What issue is being addressed and what changes are proposed? It's entirely issue-adjacent slogans of "Amazon cheats, we will hurt them". A
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
There will be an Open AI / Anthropic leak eventually. One can only hope.
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
An instant and obvious good these companies could do is to digitize these books ala google books.
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
Just the top one? Every top-level thread is like a multiple choice armchair takedown. Here's an interesting counterpoint. "Unthinkable" presented studies of navigation tasks in 2D/3D and testing/training. Hippocampu
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
Right, so we're speedrunning the studies here. Best to just stopover on TFA and see what they found. For example, airline pilots do not have a reduced level of alzheimers deaths, and that _certainly_ is not a place where you can coast
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
One problem with these kinds of organizations, is that there effectively is no "budget" other than what the various contracted work declares. A subcontractor like, say, Raytheon gets to charge a fixed % "burden"/ov
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
You forgot "as long as" ... as long as the buyers could never discern
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
I ran a few research tasks at JPL, small dollar studies. We'd often recruit part time work from engineers around the lab through informal networks, (instead of the official channels that segment by "specialization"). One year
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by jvanderbot 2mo ago
Life is vastly faster than random chance at producing more life. So living things go fill niches faster than random chance can use those niches to produce new life.

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