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by michaelbarton 9mo ago
Does anyone have a motion jump plugin they use with neovim they can recommend? I used to use a plugin where you could just to a given character in a given buffer, but I can’t remember the name or if it even works with neovim.
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by michaelbarton 10mo ago
I really enjoyed your article. In regard to the parent comment: it’s also enough to say “I enjoy this and this is how I want to spend my time”. So what if it’s reinventing the wheel - the act of learning and crafting itself can be immensely
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by michaelbarton 11mo ago
I think this article is correct in spirit but a little disingenuous in parts. Would it not be more fair to blame Russia as the primary cause for the deaths in Ukraine due to the collapsing health care system rather than USAID subsequently i
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by michaelbarton 11mo ago
Speaking from experience I was recently in a tiny fountain pen shop in Sendai[0] where the owner doesn’t speak English and I don’t speak Japanese but we were able to talk for an hour or more about fountain pens and tomoe river paper alterna
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by michaelbarton 11mo ago
Aren’t LLMs being used by business successfully in many “unsexy” domains like translation, sentiment analysis, and image recognition? Though I do agree that many of the breathless claims that you can stop hiring or even layoff developers be
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by michaelbarton 11mo ago
I hope this win signals (to both parties) that voters are receptive and will get engaged when a clear message is presented about cost of living and quality of life issues. Some of which are taken for granted in most other western countries.
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
I had one of these for my e-bike in Oakland. The thieves used an angle grinder to cut through the bike stand instead The solution in the east bay seems to be “don’t use a valuable bike”
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
There is already a lot of research into this, and as with most things there no one size fits all answer. “ Along with being more educated and reporting poorer health status, the majority of alternative medicine users appear to be doing so n
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
This reminds me of an an approach in mcmc where you run mutiple chains at different temperatures and then share the results between them (replica exchange MCMC sampling) the goal being not to get stuck in one “solution”
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
FWIW i play video games at a standing treadmill desk and that seems to help my motivation to get walks in
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
not detracting from your point, I found this line somewhat describes the current situation in the US right now with the government shutdown “it became notorious for corruption, power struggles, and failing to deliver basic services”
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
I agree, in the same boat as you. There are a lot of tech jobs that are a net positive for society. I think you nailed it - once you have that salary giving up 400k, 600k, 800k TC is a really big decision.
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
Perhaps death stranding and its sequel might be the closest?
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
Somewhat related I have a little script that shows me three notes at random everyday. If they’re stale or no longer needed I delete the note. This helps keep it relatively fresh over time. I have a tag “#noreview” for notes that are evergre
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
Yeah exactly! Or even have two different technicians run the same protocol, on the same sample, in the same lab
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
I don’t disagree with your point. It’s not the US’s responsibility to supply malaria drugs. My point was that it is not for lack of an existing cure that people are dying of malaria or AIDS, in reference to the article. Personally speaking
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
yeap! that was exactly my point, it was I reference to sama’s point in the article about super intelligence creating new cures
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
Regarding a super intelligence creating new cures: a million plus people die from malaria and AIDS combined each year. We have effective treatments for both, yet the USAID was recently shut down. I enjoy technology but less and less so eac
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
Thanks for sharing this library. I will give it a try. For a while I had a feeling that I was perhaps a little crazy for seeming to be only person to really dislike the use of things like ‘array[:, :, None]’ and so forth.
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
Yes specifically mcfDNA which also has the advantage of only needing a blood draw
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
Exactly. Olympic athletes in one sport have a much higher chance of being an Olympian in another. It’s not that they inherently “sporty” that makes the difference but they’re willing to put in the 100s of hours of training and get up at 5am
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
FWIW there’s evidence around this: > Researchers have now found that people who pursue happiness often feel like they do not have enough time in the day, and this paradoxically makes them feel unhappy. https://www.sciencedaily
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by michaelbarton 1y ago
Not the OP but believe they could be referring to the fact it’s not supported in edit mode yet, only agent mode. So far for me that’s not been too much of a roadblock. Though I still find overall Gemini struggles with more obscure issues s
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by michaelbarton 2y ago
Graebers “bullshit jobs” books feels so relevant right now Not because he’d say that the nuclear safety officers are the bullshit jobs, but the ones who fired and then unable to rehire them are Really worth a read (or listen!)
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by michaelbarton 2y ago
Chesterton’s fence. But I think “ungodly hubris” might be appropriate in this context
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by michaelbarton 2y ago
I totally agree with you. Scientist originally from the UK who moved to the Bay Area. Salaries are much much better here I will say that for myself, money is a means to an end for living a “good” life. I am starting to wonder personally whe
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by michaelbarton 2y ago
Very sorry for your loss. I imagine that you were glad to have your cat for that one more year.
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by michaelbarton 2y ago
I always thought it would be interesting to try and make an AI. player for code names based on word embeddings since that would be a good use case of “semantically closely related words” also if you enjoy code names I recommend: decrypto, s
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by michaelbarton 2y ago
I thought this noteworthy because butter is made from milk as the sole ingredient
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Costco’s butter recall, explained(forbes.com)
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