marstall

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   by marstall 3y ago

   they had to make a copy of the original to get it into their system in the first place!
2. 182.▲
   by marstall 3y ago

   yes. I know a bit of neuroscience 101 and the abstract is greek to me. any1 got an ELI5? Sounds like a cool finding.
3. 183.▲
   by marstall 3y ago

   fear of massive job losses has been driving much of the conversation around chatgpt!
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   by marstall 3y ago

   very cool idea - essentially that your search engine would also be a software engine, creating the "right" experience for each search term. it would interact, I presume, with the design and product aspects of websites the way chat
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   by marstall 3y ago

   also it's an El Niño year.
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   by marstall 3y ago

   it may indeed be unprecedented - but this type of chart could do a better job of showing that. here's what I mean: we know that temperature has been increasing steadily for 140 years. So we expect each year can be higher than the previ
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   by marstall 3y ago

   I haven't heard that one before, but it makes sense. but of course it's never just one thing. and what "sexy" is to any given woman is highly variable. to a significant extent, human males do become sexier as they increa
8. 188.▲
   by marstall 3y ago

   I think his post is appropriate here, and on point. how about responding to his arguments about algorithm secrecy and the push to regulate competition?
9. 189.▲
   by marstall 3y ago

   cool, what are some of them?
10. 190.▲
    by marstall 3y ago

    what were some of them?
11. 191.▲
    by marstall 3y ago

    any epidemiological data for the area? seems like a great source of data on health impact.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    plus ca change ... humans have lived forever with highly suspect information (myths, legends, movements, religions, taboos) guiding their lives and creating death, division and destruction. Only the rich and educated have the knowledge and
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    I spent 6 years writing complex, deep react code. then I couldn't get a job

    11 points by marstall 3y ago|9 comments
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    by marstall 3y ago

    Michael Levin's ideas are truly mind-blowing!
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    by marstall 3y ago

    What I'm seeing looking for remote work at tech companies right now: - startups: MANY (most?) are committed to "remote-first" and talk about this prominently on their careers page - larger companies (~1000+ employees): do see
16. 196.▲
    by marstall 3y ago

    with coldsleep technology, or a species evolved or self-engineered for ultralongterm hibernation, speed might not matter.
17. 197.▲
    by marstall 3y ago

    (and that one dude was Owen?)
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    by marstall 3y ago

    curious to hear more about the kind of projects you're working on and the kind of problems it helps you with. > I’ll find a page, copy the entire thing into gpt4 and the file i’m using with the error message and i have to do nothing
19. 199.▲
    by marstall 3y ago

    Or they can keep the same level of employment and make their customers 14% happier
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    by marstall 3y ago

    14% - that's the first time i've seen a hard number like that. It's significant. Have there been any good studies on programmer productivity? 14% would be a just a blip in the constant flow of productivity-enhancing language,
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    by marstall 3y ago

    Some hard numbers from the FBI on historical crime #'s in SF: https://www.macrotrends.net/cities/us/ca/san-francisco/prope... TL;DR most categories show significant drop between 2000 and 2018, inclu
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    by marstall 3y ago

    I lived in SF in the late '90s and saw many of the same things people have been posting about here lately . Tweakers on every corner in the Tenderloin, intense/overwhelming-at-times homeless presence in the blocks near Mission and
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    by marstall 3y ago

    Any hard evidence companies can really get negative reviews taken down? This page on Glassdoor suggests otherwise. https://help.glassdoor.com/s/article/I-m-an-employer-What-ca... Excerpts from that link: > You
24. 204.▲
    by marstall 3y ago

    OP deploying a bit of wit with the comma and the word "repeatedly" at the end. I don't what you'd call it exactly - gallows humor?
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    by marstall 3y ago

    impressive but kind of an onslaught of words
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    by marstall 3y ago

    seems like he's thinking in the same space as Andreas Wagner, who writes about these ideas in his book, "arrival of the fittest". Wagner also talks about the "probability space" of organic molecules being too high f
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    by marstall 3y ago

    all news is biased. all discourse is biased. That's why you have multiple voices, multiple sources you need 2 consider always. There's no such thing as objective truth. source: English major.
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    by marstall 3y ago

    Thanks for the Wikipedia rabbit hole you sent me down. I'm emerging with a fact check: the strings in Bittersweet Symphony were in point of fact a heavily reworked sample of a hook contained in an obscure 1960's symphonic version
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    by marstall 3y ago

    for comparison: Boston's monthly LinkPass, providing unlimited travel on buses, subways, certain ferries and near-in commuter rail transit, is $90 (vs Germany's plan being $54). Would make sense for cities to accept each other&#x2
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    by marstall 3y ago

    you. definitely you.