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by mo_42 4y ago
I’m doing something similar: I print the website to PDF using the reader mode. I also copy the raw text into a markdown file. Both files end up in my Zettelkasten. I have a little search engine on top of that. For programming tasks, I often
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Science popularization inclines layppl. to underrate their dependence on experts(journals.sagepub.com)
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> Do people really think at sone point no one will want premium property and I’ll finally get it cheap? Of course that will never happen. Well, the economic landscape can change drastically. Compared to other assets real estate has quite
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by mo_42 4y ago
I have the M1 MBP. I use it as a daily driver for my personal computing (I have another company-owned laptop). Currently, I'm doing a little programming in rust and some photo work in Darktable. Of course many others things work too.
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by mo_42 4y ago
It sounded like the brain has a prior on what it perceives. So something like Bayesian information processing. This seems not to be the case. At least in this preprint: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/P
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My explanation for this is complexity. Let’s take a bridge as a comparison. It’s also technical but it’s understood very well and there not much variability. A bridge doesn’t serve too many purposes. Mainly to allow heavy objects to move ac
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So the banks had bonds in their balance sheets that went down in price because of the rising interest rates. If they are in need for money, they sell them quickly but don’t get 100%. So basically not all checking account money can be satisf
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by mo_42 4y ago
Isn’t this mimetic desire at work? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mimetic_theory
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Sounds more like technology-related reasons to buy stuff. Specifically, non-existing standards. Not sure if it’s part of the Diderot Effect.
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Hindu-Arabic numbers were a revolution to mathematics. Essentially, we can store numbers in log space of their quantity. The visualization ignores this invention. Why not show a simple table or bar chart? I could also suspect that the autho
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by mo_42 4y ago
It’s a convenient symbiosis: Doomsday economists get cited by newspapers, which serves him/her in publicly and the newspaper in clicks. Simple heuristic: if it’s easily digestible, it probably doesn’t serve true understanding. I think
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I like these kind of comments. They’re much more analytical than the ones predicting recessions and what not. Seems like in economics it’s also useful to analyze qualitatively. Of course you cannot run doomsday headlines with that.
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I like your point. I guess we can solve this with taxation. Maybe we want to tax frequent flights but not retirees. Depends on the goal people want to achieve. Every community has its own problems and ways to solve them.
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Obviously this behavior is an improvement for the individuals. I don’t see that it’s an improvement overall. Long distance commutes are in conflict to climate goals (especially flights). Also, these super commuters disturb the local economy
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As in any other scientific field: you put forward a theory and if there is enough evidence that does not fit the theory it’s debunked. In economics, "enough" is hard to assess though. Also, a theory may linger around for a while b
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I don’t have a strong opinion here. Here’s one bit of thinking: Currently, everyone is talking about LLM, which are really deep NN. The function that these models try to approximate is, at least partly, a somewhat continuous function. Maybe
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> 2. The government decides that, oops, it printed too much money in 2020/21 and is causing inflation, so it raises rates very quickly. Printing money doesn’t cause inflation necessarily. Your thinking is based on Monetarism, which
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As women started to work for income too, the amount of work greatly increased. Household work is still done primarily by women. So overall, we work much more. But I don’t think we work more because of the money (at least initially). We work
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I was getting some ideas from the text. Scandinavian countries have probably the world's best institutions. I'm talking here specifically about courts, laws, police. Also lack of corruption, excellent education, and a good labor m
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Seems like this could come from GPT? At least partly: - Text is rather verbose - No thoughts on the topic I haven’t seen already
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Or the AI will trigger people to provide necessary training data. If I would run OpenAI I would provide a free version of ChatGPT that is slightly tuned to extract useful knowledge out of the people who use it. There might be adverserial at
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If you go to the casino, you don’t know how much money you’re going to loose. But you can calculate an expectation value because the odds are known. In the financial system, you cannot quantify your risk. It depends on many more factors (in
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The first argument is the input file and the second one the output: ./script.sh original.pdf scanned.pdf
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I use the following tiny script to make PDFs look like they have been scanned. There are still entities that require you to physically sign a document and scan it. So far, everyone accepted PDFs like these: #!/bin/sh ROTATIO
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This list looks very much like the list of most downloaded apps. Apps that people download and install a lot will also be deleted a lot. I was expecting more surprising results like bloat or stock apps.
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It’s a nice little read but it completely disregards that people can choose many ways of living. You can become an artist immersed into working your entire life in a small chamber eating bread and drinking water. Or a successful entrepreneu
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Probably not, especially considering how many items have been sold. In contrast, I think ANC can be protective for your ears. The AirPods itself block loud noise a bit and the ANC helps me listening to low-volume music. For example, the Ber
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Most children do not consent to sloppy parenting methods either. Even the most well-intentioned methods have unintended side effects.
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Sidenote: WD-40 is not a lubricant. IMHO you should not buy this stuff at all. Rather buy specific lubricants/solvers for the use case.
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You're judging them based on what you think is a morally acceptable outcome. I was talking about inner motivations of people to explain their behavior.

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