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by mlsu 3y ago
Like many people, I took a college course that talked all about Socrates and we read the Apologia and stuff. I had assumed that it was basically all fiction. That there was some guy who kept being annoying by asking questions, so much so th
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by mlsu 3y ago
So what? Today, ChatGPT helped me write a driver. The driver either compiles, or it doesn't; it compiled. The driver either reads a value from a register, or it doesn't; it read. The driver either causes the chip to physically mov
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by mlsu 3y ago
It used to be worth it, maybe in the early to mid 10s when the pros switched to digital and film stock was dirt cheap. But now a single roll of Portra is like $25 and even a mediocre rangefinder is $400. Nowadays, when I see someone shootin
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by mlsu 3y ago
The entire discussion about AI and copyright strikes me as a bit naive. Right now, we are in a situation where nobody quite knows what these AI models are useful for . We have some inkling that they might be extraordinarily useful for maki
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by mlsu 3y ago
The trick is to have a genuine respect, interest, and empathy for another person's approach, even if you disagree. If you just take a superficial facsimile of what is suggested, without the actual respect and empathy, it will sound lik
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by mlsu 3y ago
This has to be a marketing exercise by the CT machine maker, right? "We spotted casting issues with the new pot" "We can see the density difference in the plastic" "We found aluminum shavings" For the right aud
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by mlsu 3y ago
Gosh your post really hit a nerve. I went through the same struggle with my own Type 1. Feeling overwhelmed with responsibility, denying I am any different than anyone else, denying that I have to permanently manage a condition to be normal
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by mlsu 3y ago
The subcutaneous part is not really solvable, but even if it were, "real" insulin is much faster than even the fastest insulins (lispros) that we currently have. So there is a delay between delivery and action. There is also a del
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by mlsu 3y ago
I assure you: commercial players are working very hard on this. The difficult part is actually power management. There are clearly very sophisticated algorithms that can do no meal announce closed loop management of t1d (just google scholar
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by mlsu 3y ago
I wouldn't discount good UI. I don't use Cursor, but consider that GPT-3 sat around for months and nobody was really talking about "AI doom" and "the lightcone" until OpenAI put a good chat UI layer over it. I
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by mlsu 3y ago
Of course the cost goes up. Densification does not lead to lower prices, because it increases wealth . People in denser areas make more money, because businesses in denser areas are more productive, because density is efficient and causes
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by mlsu 3y ago
It's not that it won't be near "trendy". It's that it won't be near jobs. Look at median salary and workforce participation in places where houses cost $200k. Your affordability calculation will be re-calibrate
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by mlsu 3y ago
Zoom definitely has several AI models (as does teams, google chat, etc.) They do automatic captioning/transcription of meetings, so there is a model for that; they do automatic background blur/cutout, so there is a model for that;
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by mlsu 3y ago
Nope, I'm not even talking about subversion or CVS (although, I certainly prefer git to those, and it's a fun discussion). I am talking about patched-together workflows developed at regulatory agencies, law offices and the like; c
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by mlsu 3y ago
Yes, But I would say that is a minor issue; I appreciate that there actually is lots of documentation for the precise and unchanging behavior of `git branch`! Instead of: "Oh, email this to doc management. Depends on who you get. If yo
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by mlsu 3y ago
Git is one of those things that people (including myself) have frequently derided for being "unintuitive", "full of footguns", etc. But after looking at other source control options, I find it to be an absolute joy to us
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by mlsu 3y ago
When I was a couple years into my actual math education (about midway through vector calculus) I had a crazy moment when I was really struggling to understand some problem that required more manipulation than the 3 dimensional problems I&#x
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by mlsu 3y ago
If you know a bit of Python and you find it sometimes tough to grind through a textbook, take a look here: https://github.com/rlabbe/Kalman-and-Bayesian-Filters-in-Pyt... Interactive examples programmed in Jupyter note
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by mlsu 3y ago
I would argue that ratepayers would lose significantly more, in the form of iq decreases, cancer, early death from air pollution, and ongoing, worsening weather damage from climate change were this plant not constructed and the grid powered
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by mlsu 3y ago
Well, I'm not so sure. It seems to me that someone could perfectly well devise an experiment based off of this (another poster chastised me for saying paper, so) blog post. Equations are perfectly clear. I was able to follow his reason
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by mlsu 3y ago
Yes, definitely. If he tried to have it published, the lack of experimental results would definitely be a glaring error. But this is still scientific communication. It's really nice that it's legible! > Even though softmax1 is
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by mlsu 3y ago
I don't really understand the subject matter enough, so I apologize in advance for the meta-comment... The author mentions that he would maybe have written this as a scientific paper: > I tried writing a serious-looking research pap
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by mlsu 3y ago
Put the flag of North Korea into the notes of a venmo transaction. You will very quickly find out the extent to which the government knows what you are doing with your money.
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by mlsu 3y ago
It is actually amazing how much effort is seemingly expended on things like this. I think it's pretty simple: - there are a lot of people out there who love obsessing over typography - they want to obsess over typography - so they inve
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by mlsu 3y ago
In both the cases you mentioned -- college professors and cab drivers -- supply (of labor) massively expanded, and wages fell accordingly. Of course, the execs are greedy, and of course they win. The execs always win. You can look to Spotif
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by mlsu 3y ago
I think the problem with streaming is that there is just too much of it. There is only so much content -- ahem, TV -- that people can watch in a given day. Especially because content includes stuff like TikTok. How many minutes of TV were p
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by mlsu 3y ago
what you are describing is probably close to 75% of car buyers. why does anyone need a pickup whose bed can't fit a sheet of plywood? why does anyone need leather seats in their pickup truck? why does anyone need 4WD, when they go on g
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by mlsu 3y ago
Had the same car. Crashed it once, bought the exact same model cash the following week. Oh those were the days. Miatas too cheap to meter.
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by mlsu 3y ago
There is no way for a leak to happen without implosion. At 400 atmospheres a hairline crack is total destruction in less than a second.
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by mlsu 3y ago
I am eagerly awaiting a cheap clone of Dynamixel quality servos. Is it really just tuning? That seems like something that would pay off for an aliexpress copycat. A servo is pretty simple/cheap to build, right? I guess there are only a

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