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by matwood 1y ago
> As the popular quote goes, "When the Facts Change, I Change My Mind. What Do You Do, Sir?" > The facts and circumstances have changed considerably in recent years, and I have too! This should be everyone's default if
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by matwood 1y ago
Just want to second your suggestion about flat cables. They are great for situations as this. I’m in an old stone house and currently have flat cables snaked around until I can piggy back on the workers putting in conduit for other things.
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by matwood 1y ago
My friends and I have been having a blast coming up with hilarious situations to put ourselves in. Will it get old, maybe, but new features might keep it fresh.
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by matwood 1y ago
If that made you uncomfortable, you better avoid the beaches in Italy and the rest of Europe.
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by matwood 1y ago
It's not about confidence. OpenAI would be huge on the public markets, but since they can raise plenty of money in the private market there is no reason to deal with that hassle - yet.
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by matwood 1y ago
The problem is that Google is horrible at product. They have been so spot on at search it's covered up all the other issues around products. YT is great, but they bought that. The Pixel should the Android phone, but they do a poor jo
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by matwood 1y ago
According to Google, Coca Cola spent over $5B on advertising in 2024 and most of the world already knows who they are. I think $8B (or the $2B OpenAI spent) buys a lot less branding than you think.
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by matwood 1y ago
What if the platform decides that people will send more mail if they piss them off by copying your letter and sending it to everyone in their service area? Is that still just you lying? At what point does the platform become responsible for
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by matwood 1y ago
Yeah, the US in particular functions on liability. If changes are made that make companies liable for the externalities from their platforms, they will almost instantly find ways to address the issues.
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by matwood 1y ago
I bought an M1 Max with 64GB of ram on the gamble it would last awhile because future M series would be evolutionary not revolutionary again. It seems like it's paid off since there's never a time it feels slow. I may end up upgra
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by matwood 1y ago
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by matwood 1y ago
> Do you really think that would be enough to change anything? If anything could change something, it would be these files. The Epstein case/list along with deep state child trafficking conspiracies in general is a foundational pill
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by matwood 1y ago
I do feel like many of the Duo critiques are strawmen. Of course no single method will lead to new language fluency. Even full immersion requires practice and often classes. I use Duo, Pimsluer, live in Italy, and will start classes in a mo
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by matwood 1y ago
Unfortunately, social media or whatever has changed science communication . A scientist can do amazing science, have total evidence based reasoning and then be completely ignored because some quack tells a good story on Rogan.
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by matwood 1y ago
Yep. There was a paper a few years ago that looked at how Russian bots spread disinformation. Basically the bots hype the disinformation internally amongst themselves until it lands on a real persons feed. By that point it looks real becaus
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by matwood 1y ago
Yeah, some of these comments make it sound we had zero security issues pre-AI. I think the challenge is what you touched on, you have to tell the AI to handle it just like anything else you want as a requirement. I've use AI to 'v
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by matwood 1y ago
> How can you verify the recommendations are sound, valid, safe, complete, etc., without trying them out? Such an odd complaint about LLMs. Did people just blindly trust Google searches before hand? If it's something important, you
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by matwood 1y ago
> Internet explorer became the dominant browser for one reason only: it came by default. Default helped, but IE was the far superior browser for a long time. People chose to use it. I was also a FF user and it came out a few years later
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by matwood 1y ago
It’s unfortunate you didn’t have fun. We often do leagues at work and it’s great team building. People have won who just used the auto draft feature and a woman won one year who picked all her players based on uniform colors. You don’t have
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by matwood 1y ago
I guess we have to define 'replace' then. If we need fewer radiologists, does that count as replacing? IDK. It seems that with AI in particular, many operate with 0/1 thinking in that it can only be useless or take over the w
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by matwood 1y ago
> they did know but play dumb because Quatar is such a critical partner in the middle east They just gave Trump a jet so of course the administration will have to play dumb. People/countries will quit paying bribes if they don'
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by matwood 1y ago
Was it a fantasy league? I guess it’s gambling, but not what most people would consider sports betting. I know lots of people who play in a fantasy league with friends every season and do no other gambling. Drafting players and then fieldin
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by matwood 1y ago
Maybe, but I’ll just fly economy in that case. The BC prices haven’t really changed as far as I can see on my usual routes.
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by matwood 1y ago
Thank you!
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by matwood 1y ago
> IE only stagnated because they kind of wipedout the competition Yeah, people forget that IE was a great browser. It was easily the most performant, I think driven by the Outlook web (I believe the first web app to make use of XMLHttpRe
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by matwood 1y ago
My trick is that I always just buy the base economy ticket that can still be upgraded. Then I check for upgrades every couple days. What I found is that prices to move classes will vary wildly as they try to sell all the seats. It also ma
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by matwood 1y ago
Your final point is exactly it. PE is better, but the cost difference is generally too high above EP. At that point I tend to just go BC. To your other points, at the end of the day, it's an airplane. And since I'm usually flying
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by matwood 1y ago
EP is just economy with slightly more leg room. PE is closer to business than EP. The food is upgraded along with the service. The seats are more recliner like and you generally have more room. Additionally, the PE seats are often the qui
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by matwood 1y ago
I wonder people ever read what they link. > The core issue? Not the quality of the AI models, but the “learning gap” for both tools and organizations. While executives often blame regulation or model performance, MIT’s research points to
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by matwood 1y ago
Again, following traditional decorum where past POTUS's usually stay out of the way for the current. Of course, at this point we all know the traditions are dead, and I agree Obama should be leading wherever he can.

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