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by nyeah 10mo ago
Ok, but the Honnecourt sketches are kind of strong. Not professional by today's standards, but decent. I'd be happy to have done them--but I'm not an artist. The tapestry can be appreciated, like Klimt's 2-D-ish stuff ca
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by nyeah 10mo ago
That's hard to call. Both Europe and Japan seemed fine in that time period. Octopi or no octopi.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
I liked the article but this is a very good point.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Sure, but medieval European art generally sucked. (Call this a hypothesis if that helps.) Compare the damn cave paintings of buffalo to most medieval European art. Some of the 10k-year-old stuff is much better observed. Europeans between ab
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Meh. Nyeah? "Trolling" is a reasonable hypothesis but not a reasonable conclusion.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Meh. Maybe. Or maybe "click bait" is a better guess than "trolling". Or even maybe he's right, despite writing something "terrible." 1. The professional qualifications of the people doing the actual work s
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by nyeah 10mo ago
I think he's just pointing out the fallacy, not necessarily asking for more examples.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Obviously getting people hooked on harmful lies was not originally populism. But now it sort of functions like populism. Now it hurts when the lies stop. I think we've all been the one who got fooled in some relationship. Maybe for you
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Everyone deserves clear advice not to use rhubarb as a cancer treatment, and not to use LLMs for mental health care. It's very easy to provide that advice. I think you're assuming my proposed solution is to take rhubarb away from
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Sure, uniformly zero as far as anyone knows.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Snake oil. Very old idea. Very popular when sick people have poor information.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Sure. It's also a trivial claim that people will take megadoses of rhubarb to cure cancer. The age-old problem is how to prevent that disaster and save those lives. That's not trivial. Creating an Oncological Rhubarb Authority c
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by nyeah 10mo ago
<puzzled frown>. There's at least one reason. It's in the comment you responded to.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
I worry that there's a selection bias: physicians who even bothered to respond to a survey on this topic.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Yeah, even the living can't collect much from a bankrupt corporation.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
I'm sure you don't mean it this way. But this comment happens to mirror the 2025 standard argument against democracy. We focus on some imperfection in democracy. The next step is we say "It's broken. Let's junk it.&
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by nyeah 10mo ago
For countries that have juries now, the definition is so obvious that maybe it's "under the radar". It goes like this: Take power away from the people on the jury. Give that power to a judge. It's more centralized. I gue
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by nyeah 10mo ago
By definition eliminating juries is a move toward an authoritarian state. EDIT: Sorry if this came across "absolutist". I'm saying transferring power upward from the jury to the judge is a step towards centralizing power. Tha
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by nyeah 10mo ago
I think there's some nuance missing here. "Hot" is a scale, not just a true/false check.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
It'll be fine.
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by nyeah 10mo ago
Yeah, I wonder how exactly he meant that. I doubt that Von Neumann believed in random plug-and-chug, which is what I'd probably mean if I said I had given up on understanding something. Possibly von N was being very careful and cautiou
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by nyeah 11mo ago
There's believing Arduino isn't useful for anything serious. And that might be true, I don't know. But then there's buying the company and making sure it isn't good for anything serious. It's that second part t
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by nyeah 11mo ago
Has Qualcomm changed that?
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by nyeah 11mo ago
The patent language would worry me a lot. It would be tough to have to admit, up front, "even if this widget becomes popular I can never build a business on it." But I'm not using Arduino, so idk.
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by nyeah 11mo ago
For some reason most companies never seem to realize that they will destroy their acquisitions. It's always kind of an afterthought. "Oh, right, we have to terrify the new customers and lay off the people who make the products wor
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by nyeah 11mo ago
Just picking on the Moby Dick thing. I want to like Moby Dick but chapters ~6 through ~85 seem to be extremely boring. The Dismemberment of the Whale was by far the most gripping part of the book so far. And it's not so gripping. Am I
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by nyeah 11mo ago
Sorry, the problem isn't "epistemic closure" by folks who are tired of bad behavior. The problem is the bad behavior.
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by nyeah 11mo ago
Lots of people and organizations make charitable donations. Often that's done in the name of some ideology. Always they claim they're doing good, not throwing the money away. None of this is new. What may be new is branding those
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by nyeah 11mo ago
He doesn't say the GRE is based on Latin etc. He says the GRE vocabulary is based on Latin etc. To me that sounds similar to what you're saying.
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by nyeah 11mo ago
But, as a few people have pointed out, that particular matrix product is undefined. It's broken. That's really not quite what a matrix-vector product looks like. The author says he has PhD. That's fine. I suffer from the same

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