mathewsanders

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by mathewsanders 10mo ago
This makes me think of a tool from semiotics called the Greimas square where you can have opposing concepts e.g. A and B (ugly & beautiful, for & against, legal & illegal). At the surface level they can appear as binaries, but t
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by mathewsanders 1y ago
Something I think would be interesting for model APIs and consumer apps to exposed would be the probability of each individual token generated. I’m presuming that one class of junk/low quality output is when the model doesn’t have high
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by mathewsanders 1y ago
This press release says it will be available “starting today” through developer program https://www.apple.com/newsroom/2025/06/apple-supercharges-it...
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by mathewsanders 2y ago
I saw an ENT for the first time earlier this year and was shocked that each visit (less than 5 mins) got billed at around $1500 per visit.
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by mathewsanders 2y ago
I had a problem with my carrier as well with porting my number over. Attempting to interact with their customer service was a painful loop where nothing was resolved. After a week I submitted an FCC complaint online (it was very straightfor
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by mathewsanders 2y ago
I have to give a shoutout to New Zealand Marmite which is totally different to British Marmite (I think that NZ marmite has some sweetness as well). Somehow i grew up in a mixed household that had both because my mum preferred Vegemite and
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
I live in a smallish apartment building with 50 apartments and in the basement we have a little building community library where people put books/DVDs/Blu-ray disks that they’re done with. Last weekend I grabbed The Goodfellas and
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Maybe you’ve read this already (I still have it in my stack to read so can’t give any personal review) but ‘Determined’ by Robert Sapolsky sets the argument that we don’t have free will and that the justice system is flawed because of that.
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Nathan for You S3.E6 also explored this idea as a hotel amenity for sexually active parents.
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
It’s a really interesting product that I’m not going to buy! Declarative interfaces that allow you to describe what you want and use agents to go out to different services and chain them together is a cool idea: I don’t want to spend time u
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
> NASA management was concerned about losing the 400,000 workers involved in Apollo after landing on the Moon in 1969 400,000!
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
It’s probably more due to coastal subsidence than rising sea levels. My favorite is when glaciers retreat there is a rebound effect from pressure which can cause other local land to sink as a sort of equilibrium. I think in the Mediterranea
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
I’ve been biking around nyc boroughs for over a decade now and I still follow directions from mapping apps! I’ve found Apple Watch to be okay (they give instructions on directions via haptic feedback) and AirPods with spoken directions to b
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
I flip-flop between optimism and pessimism on this and I’m in a pessimistic cycle at the moment. I can also imagine the machinery of capitalism maybe working (I like the idea of declaring a ‘war on emissions’ popping a war revenue act for t
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
That's fantastic! I was recently doing some research and learnt that with ART people who are HIV+ can actually expect to live a little longer than people who are HIV-. I think it's because they have more regular check ups to make
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
I guess I don't fully understand U.S. healthcare system (I'm an immigrant from a country with universal healthcare, and this is the first time in my life that I've had a medication prescribed other than short-term antibiotics
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
> They can take pre-exposure prophylaxis (prep), a kind of drug that reduces their chance of contracting it by 99% or so. This comes as a daily pill, and is popular among gay men in rich countries. The article takes a global focus (which
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Those smaller controlled burns help prevent organic matter from building up that can lead to more devastating uncontrolled fires. The national parks service has been incorporating those methods into their fire management practices. And driv
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Gematria is featured a lot in scott alexander’s Unsong (serialized fiction that was published in via blog) http://unsongbook.com/ Very quick summary is that Kabbalah is real, and corporations set up content farms to brute f
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
+100 > Because we don't don't have any memory of what it was like to be in these states. I want to add an anecdote from about 5 years ago when I fainted: there is a tiny moment as I was regaining consciousness that I had an exp
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Biological neural nets have a benefit of being able to run massively parallel, I know basically nothing about silicon hardware, but I’m assuming that attempts to model hugely parallel systems like a brain on a serial architecture is going t
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
> the oppressed themselves don't understand it well enough to avoid oppressing others I can’t comment too much because i’ve had a copy sitting unread in my pile of books to read for over 6 months now, but if anyone is interested, I
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
The author claims to be rational, but they don’t volunteer any alternative hypotheses to demonic possession that they’ve considered, eg speaking ‘unknown’ languages could be exposure that they had as a child and had since forgot (still pret
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Our company is mandating a 3-day in office starting soon. I’m a bit of an exception because I’m in a city that only has a couple hundred employees, but when I do return to the office, it won’t be to collaborate with teammates: I will be joi
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
For Manhattan they’re giving cost of living for 1 adult as $53,342 which is way way off. They are allocating $2000/month for housing (avg 1 bed in Manhattan is around $4000) and $12.50 for food per day (I guess possible if you’re eatin
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
I had an order from Floyd (online furniture retailer) and on day of delivery the delivery company said the order was damaged and to contact Floyd for replacement. Amazing run around where every week I would email Floyd customer support, the
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
The idea that people’s minds can be so different is something I didn’t realize until a couple of years ago and has been a lightening bolt moment for me in better understanding myself and others! I believe I have aphantasia, and the idea of
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
I was so excited to try this because I have a book that I’ve not been able to locate (have tried my own searches, Reddit and online forums) but ChatGPT gave me a lot of hallucinations and listed out real books and incorrectly claimed that a
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Policy is what is said, and that’s often a huge gap between what actually happens. Tumblr had a huge content moderation issue where (based on my personal experience) I’m guessing there are incentives in place around flagging explicit conten
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by mathewsanders 3y ago
Tumblr is the only platform that I’m still active on- I’ve had an account since 2009-ish. It’s a really fun community to be active with and the only one that hasn’t attracted a majority of insufferable people. It’s great to see the Richard

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