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by mcguire 3y ago
As well as extensively investigating the longevity of fountain pen inks. He used vintage Montblanc 149s, if it's important.
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by mcguire 3y ago
1. Asking prospective faculty if the colors (i.e. some of the phrases or expressions were highlighted in different colors) in their slides meant anything. I seem to remember him doing this to several new PhDs the dept. was thinking about hi
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by mcguire 3y ago
It's amazing how fast the "I want to get paid for my work" attitude disappears when discussing someone else getting paid for their work.
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by mcguire 3y ago
I've worked on HR software for a large organization in the US that relatively frequently gets sued on hiring decisions. One of the features that the customer desired was essentially an overriding, free-form, editor for the recorded inf
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by mcguire 3y ago
As I understand it, there's an ongoing PPE thing as well.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Any word on consequences for the software engineers involved?
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by mcguire 3y ago
Lawyers don't like losing cases.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Tesla's repair and spare parts model?
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by mcguire 3y ago
From the article: " While corporate growers of premium products like berries, which are shipped to the shelves of major chains like Whole Foods, Safeway and Trader Joe’s, can absorb the price of Pajaro’s water, there is no way farmers
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by mcguire 3y ago
One thing to point out: this particular case was the response to a crisis. " But in the 1980s, disaster struck. Growers over pumped the coastal groundwater, allowing saltwater from the Pacific Ocean to seep in below their fields, up th
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by mcguire 3y ago
I can't read the article, but the intro is interesting. " The authors’ most striking finding is a surge in short sales—bets that a security’s price will fall—of an exchange-traded fund (etf) listed on the New York Stock Exchange u
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by mcguire 3y ago
The largest single shareholder. Musk owns 12.9% of Tesla; the second largest is Vanguard, with 6.9%, followed by various other investment fund companies.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Tom and Ray, the Car Talk guys: "There are three kinds of problems with cars. First, things that don't really matter, like the radio. Second, things that will leave you stranded, like the engine. And third, things that will leave
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by mcguire 3y ago
" [L]inear development of societies from simple to complex " is indeed a strawman.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Farmer's Telecom Coop service map, Jackson County and nearby, AL. https://connect.farmerstel.com/front_end/zones Yes, it's fiber. Yes, to the home. Currently, 93Mbps down, 83 Mbps up (but I have the cheap ser
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by mcguire 3y ago
What speeds do you get? Edit: That's weird. San Gregorio is like 15-20 miles from Cupertino. Here in Jackson County, AL, Farmers Telecom Coop has gigabit or half-gigabit fiber to much of the county.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Might want to check your sources. The released prisoner with broken hands is Mohammed Nazzal; the one greeting his family is Mohammed Shatara. https://www.reuters.com/fact-check/video-misidentifies-pales... https:&#x2
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by mcguire 3y ago
FYI: Median personal income in the US in 2022 was about $40,000. https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/MEPAINUSA646N
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by mcguire 3y ago
I thought about those, but the 120v AC switches are gigantic beefy things compared to most automotive switches.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Back in Austin, there was a small chain of Mongolian grill restaurants that offered AYCE dumplings with your meal that a friend and I often went to. My friend really liked the dumplings and once had about six refill plates of them. The next
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by mcguire 3y ago
The rumor I heard was that the higher voltage resulted in lower switch lifetimes. Any truth to that?
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by mcguire 3y ago
Possibly unrelated, but I've had a good dozen holocaust deniers show up in my feed today. And the report options no longer include a specific option for that.
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by mcguire 3y ago
The Chinese Room gag asserts that, although the room behaves in every way like it is an intelligent Chinese speaker, we can see inside the room and determine that there is nothing there that intelligently understands Chinese. Searle seems t
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by mcguire 3y ago
The problem here is, how do you know that your machine thinks if it doesn't think like humans? Game AIs are functionally much better than humans but no one believes they can think, right? Oh, but if you are arguing for AI from a specia
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by mcguire 3y ago
I was right there with you until you mentioned Searle. :-) The Chinese room argument is bad in that it hides an assumption of mind/body dualism. If you believe that humans have "souls" and other things do not, then you have a
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by mcguire 3y ago
I believe those goalposts have always been way farther out than many people think. If you look at the discussion around Turing's original Imitation Game paper, you'll find people wanting the machine to be able to do things that mo
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by mcguire 3y ago
A thought experiment: what kind of functional MRI result would convince you that human consciousness is real and an important part of decision making? Note: if the result is someone reporting having made a decision before brain activity is
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by mcguire 3y ago
That is the joke.
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It's novel and amusing, much like 4chan is novel and amusing.
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by mcguire 3y ago
Huh. When I first saw it (in about 1996?), I flipped through it and decided they were trolling. I put it down and have never read more than the X section.

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