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by ksenzee 2y ago
Did you not read the entire article on how scads of intelligent people got this wrong? And the explanation of why they got it wrong? It’s like following a map that carefully routes you around a sinkhole, and then stepping right into the sin
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by ksenzee 2y ago
I can’t relate to this at all. In music, you practice until you get it, and then you stop. It’s important not to over-practice, in fact. In high school math classes, I was assigned an order of magnitude more practice problems than I actuall
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Open source licenses are irrevocable. You can quit providing the source, but you can't sue someone for using a copy they already took.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
the 18th most popular code, good choice
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by ksenzee 2y ago
All of the above, as well as the fact that the incidence of TB is already so low that the vaccine could cause more harm than it prevents.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
> These insights pose a challenge for policymakers and educators. Efforts to boost AI literacy might unintentionally dampen people’s enthusiasm for using AI by making it seem less magical. This creates a tricky balance between helping pe
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by ksenzee 2y ago
That’s one reason the BCG vaccine isn’t given in the US, but it’s also because the data on whether it’s effective in adults is really inconsistent. It seems to vary based on geography (maybe distance from the equator? they’re not sure). If
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by ksenzee 2y ago
It’s a valid question, but I don’t think the current vaccine-unfriendly climate in the US is the reason why the BCG vaccine wasn’t mentioned. BCG wasn’t routinely given in the US even in the last half of the 20th century when vaccines were
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Well, no, but people do. The whole point of this thread is "people are bad at estimating quantity." If it looks the same size as it used to be, but in reality it's half again as big, that's going to have an effect.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Cereal bowl sizes vary wildly, to make it even more confusing. Mine hold two cups (~450ml). Some hold way more than that. Some hold less. Buy a new set of bowls and you might be affecting your entire household’s eating habits.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
This depends on a lot of factors. There are some type II diabetics like this: they might need insulin after a meal with a high glycemic index, but not after a meal with a low glycemic index. There are some type II diabetics with more advanc
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by ksenzee 2y ago
All I’m saying is that if I were a scammer, I wouldn’t bother tricking someone into saying a specific thing. I’d just use gen AI. I’m definitely not arguing against “call the person back using a verifiable good number.” If everyone did that
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Does that really even matter anymore, now that we can generate anyone’s voice saying anything?
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by ksenzee 2y ago
No, you’re expressing a different, more lucid point of view (“the people who conceivably might take issue generally don’t”), which can be engaged with. For example, I would argue that it’s reasonable to take offense on behalf of people who
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by ksenzee 2y ago
You've just disproved your own assertion. Either that or you believe everyone who's any good has the right connections.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
No, my entire point is that most of what I do is not coding. Even if LLMs could output correct code, they still can't do software engineering. > the master control system needed for the Optimus/droid future all righty then.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
When I hear comments like this, I'm always curious what kind of work the commenter does. None of what I do is predictable enough that a project manager could even come up with a good enough prompt. I'm frequently evaluating open-s
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by ksenzee 2y ago
In this case the video is a bona fide Biblical scholar who does public outreach on TikTok. It's a good source.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Exactly. At least if the work is paid, the incentive to do it is clearer.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
It seems to me that paying them for their time would remove bias, rather than add it.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
> Reviewers work for free. If journals were operating on a shoestring budget, I might be able to understand why academics are expected to do peer review for free. As it is, it makes no sense whatsoever. Elsevier pulls down huge amounts o
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by ksenzee 2y ago
I agree with your logic but I think the facts lead to the opposite conclusion, because uBlock Origin is now both easy and painless to use with Firefox on Android. That's why every Android user should now have Firefox installed. And if
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by ksenzee 2y ago
That was a great phone. Still miss it.
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by ksenzee 2y ago
You must like it for political reasons, because from a technical standpoint the new Twitter is a catastrophe. It doesn’t even work properly. The other day I typed in the URL of an account I wanted to check, from a browser where I wasn’t log
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by ksenzee 2y ago
> But that could be minimized. For example, by not taking precious square meters of Earth surface from the living. I understand and even agree with the sentiment here, but to me “I don’t want to be buried” or “I don’t want a funeral” is
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by ksenzee 2y ago
> I don’t want my last act on Earth to be inconveniencing people. There’s no way around that. Death inconveniences the living. Your death will probably make a mess of some kind. Your dead body will have to be buried or cremated, or it wi
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Julia Evans had an interesting thread recently on “social rules” of the terminal: https://social.jvns.ca/@b0rk/113540676612640547
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by ksenzee 2y ago
They moved from AWS to on-prem sometime in the last year or two: https://newsletter.pragmaticengineer.com/p/bluesky And I don't care how many resources you have available to throw at it, plenty of sites would stil
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by ksenzee 2y ago
Not all that much work: https://chromewebstore.google.com/detail/sky-follower-bridge...
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by ksenzee 2y ago
The infrastructure has been rock-solid. I’ve never seen a service grow this fast without any noticeable outages. The architecture and execution are obviously informed by serious experience at Twitter, but it’s also clear that management is

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