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by odyssey7 2y ago
It requires such a depth of evolution as to make it absurd to imagine that the genus homo is the point at which altruism emerged. Animals care about each other.
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Maybe Amazon will elevate its kindle game now. I just want a large-enough ePaper display for PDFs that’s just as comfortable to hold, has light so I can read it in the dark, and is waterproof. The lack of serious smartphone-like capabilitie
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That sounds alright, but I'm having difficulty imagining a situation where a business wants to produce a quote with novel element types / parameterizations not yet seen before without a human hand in the loop.
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Apparently, the anomaly was also noted back in ancient Israel. The story of Adam and Eve is expressly presented as an explanation for why childbirth seems more like a punishment. From Genesis 3:16, “To the woman he said, ‘I will make your p
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> engineering/ai Most software engineers lack credentials to get hired to build ai, unless you view conventional software engineering as ai. The time to build out ai tracks in universities was back in the Obama administration. It’s
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Can the majority be trusted? 100% of the time? (50 + epsilon)% of blockchain participants can’t be wrong?
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If tech elites are making this call on behalf of generations-old communities, what jobs they’re allowed to have locally——sounds a little like a communist, planned economy, where some districts are assigned to have certain gainful opportunit
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I grew up in a rural area, where everyone has a southern accent, which sounds like nothing but music to me. My relatives tend to live next to expanses of farmland, as I myself previously lived for years. Although I’ve recently moved to the
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Perhaps it’s just my bubble, but I mainly see this happen with people who do knowledge work which could definitely be 100% completed online. Even if this is just a “tiny fraction” of workers, allowing them the liberty to easily pursue their
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Alas, in this case it appears that unchecked competition and automation have led to a divergent outcome, creating worse outcomes for everyone. Who will champion the necessary regulations? In terms of financial incentives, employers can pay
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The conspiracy theory angle I would go with is a little different. Low interests rates fueled a startup boom into the 2010s, capturing that emerging industry within the U.S. economy. AI looks promising, but the best is yet to come, so there
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Remote work could have solved this. The higher-ups had other thoughts. There’s a parallel to sending your kids off to war. Get them away from their sense of stability, to a place where it’s too expensive to live, for years at a time, to fig
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Nobody is an island… the hard part is interfacing with other systems, not hacking your own server.
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What we’re seeing is again the scientists trying to constrain a humanist system into a scientifically precise framework. It doesn’t really tend to work out. I’m reminded of the time that a bunch of astronomers decided to redefine what a pla
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I have to second the idea, having hacked together something similar myself, to help me complete a literature review——a literature review that I wasn’t planning to publish. Simply generating summaries or pulling key quotes, paper by paper, w
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One day, the world will rediscover functional programming. The absence of state mutation is a beautiful thing.
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“Reports of a link between tobacco and lung cancer emerged as early as 1912, but until the 1950s, the evidence was circumstantial since smoking was so pervasive in society.” Microplastics?
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We live in a democracy, so ideally both. The White House pdf suggests a scientific consensus of some form, stating: “Researchers are sounding alarm bells over the growing presence of microplastics in the human body, and are concerned that t
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A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers(en.wikipedia.org)
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“No tangible issues to health” … not too long ago members of the tobacco industry were claiming about the same thing. The White House, taking microplastics seriously: https://www.whitehouse.gov/wp-content/uploads/2
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Yes, to the rebuttal of: "do practitioners not distinguish between naturally-occurring polymers and synthetic plastics in this kind of microplastic/nanoplastic research" The quote you provided explains clearly, they measured
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Thankfully they break down the results per material, so you can care about the other materials and ignore the cellulose results if you like. So, yes, the different types of material are distinguished from one another. > The tea bags used
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Is it possible that after 3-4 years of performance optimizations, both algorithmic and in hardware efficiency, it will turn out that we didn’t really need all of the nuclear plants we’re currently in the process of setting up to satisfy the
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What’s more realistic in the near-term is that conventional gain-of-function research creates a terrible, conventional bacterium that’s more deadly than Ebola and resistant to all of the antibiotics that we mass produce. If there was an adv
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What’s more realistic in the near-term is that conventional gain-of-function research creates a terrible, conventional bacterium that’s more deadly than Ebola and resistant to all of the antibiotics that we mass produce. If there was an adv
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Travel can be necessary or discretionary. The per-mile safety is the relevant number when the travel is necessary, but if it’s discretionary, then I might choose to just stay home if the numbers (price, time commitment, missed events back h
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Coexisting with the system is not the same thing as never questioning the world around you.
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Interviews are posturing, not work. The tweet explains all of the work that the candidate is proud to have done, and the disappointment at being judged in a posturing pageant instead.
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Appear weak when you are strong.
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The way PhD programs work, pursuing a research career is an extreme lifestyle. Don't make it a game of extremes, and you'll get more of the "boring" work done.

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