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by mjhay 4mo ago
I’m not saying it doesn’t have flaws, but the tidyverse is still the most coherent and functional ML/stat computing ecosystem I’ve ever used. R packages outside of the tidyverse can get pretty gnarly. Even the R stdlib is usually consi
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by mjhay 4mo ago
They kind of have to shoehorn “AI” in there have any hope of raising capital these days.
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by mjhay 4mo ago
The onus is you to show it makes children safer - you’re the one advocating these privacy-harming rules.
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by mjhay 4mo ago
There’s no way Anthropic can keep jacking up the prices like this for every marginally better model. I think even tokenmaxxing companies are going to soon balk at $50/million output tokens.
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by mjhay 4mo ago
Recipes were the province of the wealthy. The average person would have had a very repetitive, bland, and potentially malnourishing diet. They might have had some herbs or even foraged like you say, that still is very bland and boring compa
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by mjhay 4mo ago
Ironically enough, the thing that really did Roman Italy it was Justinian’s reconquest. The Gothic War was absolutely devastating. Yersinia pestis didn’t help either, of course.
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by mjhay 5mo ago
It’s not so well-paying anymore, especially given the onerous education requirements. The exception is for the few who get hired in biglaw firms
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by mjhay 5mo ago
An export ban wouldn’t really help much: US oil production is (now) predominantly light crude, while US refinery capacity is oriented towards heavy crude from the gulf or Venezuela. We produce more oil than we use, but we can’t refine it al
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by mjhay 5mo ago
How do you do that when the ruling class has a vested interest in preventing it?
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by mjhay 5mo ago
The kind of consumer thrift stores want to sell to. They don’t have to be real.
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by mjhay 5mo ago
Coulda fooled me. From what I’ve seen, it seemed like they were dragged to electric kicking and screaming after other options didn’t pan out - even with assistance from regulators. Germany has a severe problem with rational consideration of
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by mjhay 5mo ago
Thrift and vintage stores have been pivoting to the premium consumer as well.
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by mjhay 5mo ago
The impact hypothesis for Younger Dryas isn’t really tenable. Among other things, the climate effects of a large bolide impact would be global, whereas Antarctica actually warmed during YD. This “Polar See-saw” pattern is easily explained b
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by mjhay 6mo ago
There’s so much magic, for lack of a better word, in those illustrations. Miyazaki is really one of a kind.
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by mjhay 7mo ago
I think they’re just trying to do anything to survive, since they’re getting their lunch eaten by LLMs trained in stack overflow posts.
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by mjhay 8mo ago
I forgot that satire was dead.
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by mjhay 8mo ago
wow, egg on my face!
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by mjhay 8mo ago
I suggest you re-read the Constitution. The First Amendment protects people from any negative repercussions whatsoever resulting from their free exercise of certain kinds of speech.
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by mjhay 8mo ago
It’s also probably the best single method of inferring ice sheet mass balance over wide areas.
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by mjhay 8mo ago
Alcohol also reduces awareness of heart attacks. https://theonion.com/report-aspirin-taken-daily-with-bottle-...
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by mjhay 8mo ago
Yes.
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by mjhay 8mo ago
lol
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by mjhay 8mo ago
Curious, because the martyrs were Mexican high-school students.
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by mjhay 8mo ago
The executives pushing AI use everywhere aren’t basing it on actual performance (which is an orthogonal concept). It’s just the latest shiny bauble.
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by mjhay 8mo ago
Regarding Western military procurement, “We have such sights to show you!”
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by mjhay 9mo ago
Correct, it’s to make their non-profit executives rich.
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by mjhay 9mo ago
The idea of an opioid OD from breast milk immensely strains credulity in the first place. Such a claim should really have been put under much more of a microscope.
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by mjhay 9mo ago
It’s a typical experience. Polars is fast, and Pandas is very slow and memory-hungry. It would be one thing if Pandas had a good API, but it doesn’t.
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by mjhay 9mo ago
A conventional missile or even missiles is not going to destroy a huge gravity dam like that. They are incredibly tough structures and missile warheads aren’t big. We’re talking concrete hundreds of feet thick.
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by mjhay 9mo ago
Anyone can edit it and it also might get randomly corrupted. It’s crap, especially if some people are on Macs.

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