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by nverno 4y ago
I remember that, it was a funny Catch-22- stop buying masks, the doctors need them- but masks don't protect you from covid. In retrospect, though, I think the narrative that they weren't effective only lasted about as long as the
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It's safe to assume it's always wrong. Most of the code I've had it write so far has minor bugs. In some ways, it's like a child that has access to immense knowledge, it's happy to make mistakes as it tries to est
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My mistake, well I certainly don't remember learning anything about legal driving limits- I'd be shocked if those were laws and not some agencies guidelines.
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Commercial truck drivers are subject to different rules. They used to have a bunch of problems, like taking speed and driving for ridiculous stretches. Apparently, the rules in the states are 11 hrs/day max w/ 3 hrs of rest brea
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Yea, I think the original wording is fine, although I'd think of it more like the elephant genes are a river that got dammed, so the river started flowing around. Saying the river responded to the dam would be similar.
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It is pedantic, but I see how 'response' here lends agency to evolution, and could be interpreted as implying an intelligent process, as mentioned above.
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> it presents things which are known with near-certainty to be falsehoods as truths or potential truths I didn't get that from the show at all. There aren't many fundamental 'truth's in this realm, afaict, and I don&
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> because not only is it harmful in the immediate term How is it harmful? I'd never heard of most of the megalithic sites he visited. He just goes around to these sites and points out things he finds amazing, and presents some of
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I understand why he's defensive, but I found the excessive discussion of it in the series to be petty and negative- detracting from the exciting, mystical vibe of the rest of it.
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> Yes, the need to downregulate dangerously absurd voices is in tension with free speech. Yes, it is still a necessary practice. What is dangerous about his theories? Every culture I've heard of has their own origin myths, what is
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He starts off the series discussing his lack of scientific credentials, journalist background, etc., and presents the whole thing as his theory. How can that possible be construed as a 'deceptive cloak of veracity'? Let the man
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Malcolm Gladwell wrote about it recently, showing Princeton had reached that point. https://malcolmgladwell.bulletin.com/princeton-university-is...
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> 70% have aid of some sort And this is real reason tuition has sky-rocketed. It takes all of 5 minutes to fill out and qualify for a government loan. There is very little downward pressure on tuition, and the subsequent proliferation
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It seems like a potential way to derail criticism coming from Republicans, doesn't it? Or perhaps make them look shady- this guy is an adept social engineer, after all
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People love simple explanations. BLM obviously wasn't a causal factor, but general mayhem/disorder certainly facilitated things like shoplifting. There were a lot of people doing what sublime did back in '92 [1]. 1. https:
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by nverno 4y ago
Judging by some of the old patents he's filed [1], I'd guess he has at least a decent understanding of the tech involved. Probably less so, when it comes to the details of more modern distributed systems, but I also wouldn't
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The government has always been a customer. Companies in many industries can compete for government contracts. Going back the to industrialist days the gov was providing subsidies as well, eg. for railroads
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Andrej doesn't work at Tesla anymore, but it sounded like he would want to leave the option to return open, so presumably he wouldn't want to burn bridges. I think most people prefer not to criticize people they know well publicl
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by nverno 4y ago
If you want to get an idea, why not listen to some engineers that have worked with him? There are plenty of those around, for example, Andrej Karpathy talked a bit about working with Elon recently - https://youtu.be/cdiD-9M
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by nverno 4y ago
Why go after Amazon specifically, with a profit margin ~2%, instead of other companies like Apple, for example, with a profit margin of ~30%? It seems like the latter would have much more room to raise employee salaries.
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by nverno 4y ago
How prophetic is this Trump sign in the Sleep Now in the Fire music video from 1999[1]. I had tickets to the ill-fated Beasties/RATM tour, so bummed that never happened. They've had an impact though, their music is immortal. 1.
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by nverno 4y ago
He seems to be a guy that acts impulsively. But, being somewhat of an asshole once or twice over the years is hardly worthy of the passionate hatred some people have for him. It is more about greed/envy/etc. imho. The world is
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by nverno 4y ago
How would you ever prove the parameters of a model were generated by specific training data? Couldn't multiple sets of training data produce the same embeddings/parameters? I imagine there could be infinite possible sets of trai
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What is the 'argument of TANSTAAFL' here? It just means there are hidden costs to things that appear free. From that coal video, when the coal companies gave the miners the clothes and gear for 'free', but there were a
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People can track GDP without optimizing for it at the expense of the environment. Although, metrics do seem to hack the human brain in such a way that we can't help but try to optimize them, no matter how useless they are.
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Seems like things are moving that way. https://www.forbes.com/sites/michaeltnietzel/2022/10/30/lega...
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But you must understand taking pride in your work. I don't know if I'd have called it honorable, but there is certainly no honor in sneakily doing shitty work on purpose. I wouldn't write software if it didn't give me
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More like a tabloid headline, I should've said
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I used to hitchhike a lot, and nearly every stranger (a couple nutjobs here and there) I met in that manner was interesting. Travelling in general, you meet a lot of strangers in situations where they are feeling charitable or helpful, whi
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It was a good first sentence to hook readers, albeit kinda clickbaity.

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