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I really ought to dig up a reference for this, but there are strong echoes from the past here. Margaret Hamilton (who coined the term 'software engineering' and can be seen standing next to a tall pile of green bar printouts of th
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What if I don't want my card on file someplace new? What if I don't have my phone? What if my phone doesn't have a camera? What if I don't have a card?
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I, showing my lack of education, first learned of the conference from reading 'War and Remembrance', Herman Wouk. It's amazing how much legitimate history he crammed into it and its prequel, 'The Winds of War.'
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Here's Mariner Eccles, one-time Fed chair (the current Fed building is named after him), agreeing (IMO) with you: "It is utterly impossible, as this country has demonstrated again and again, for the rich to save as much as they ha
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From an older generation, we have: 'Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.–That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed' Governments are respon
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"1945: Arthur C. Clarke begins privately circulating copies of a paper that proposes using space satellites for global communications." [0] "The best way to predict the future is to invent it." - Alan Kay [0] https:&#x
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I read 'Where Wizards Stay Up Late', thoroughly enjoyed it, and would recommend. I can't speak to the others.
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Or the news that ChatGPT is attempting an LK-99 replication.
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The anthem, link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1KNWdhVJq9k
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I prefer 'crapification' (h/t 'Naked Capitalism') for its relative cleanliness and brevity.
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I cancelled my subscription. I listen to Spotify all the time and think it's great... but it keeps getting worse. For example, it used to suggest tracks to add to a playlist, now it has replaced that feature with an 'enhance'
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I'll third the recommendation for 'The Making of the Atomic Bomb,' one of the best books I've ever read. It is a long, challenging read, but it is thorough and rewarding in proportion. On the topic of Oppenheimer, I came
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60 Billion a year (if I've read you charts correctly) is a drop in the bucket of US annual medical spending (4 Trillion/year.) You could pick the next most expensive country's plan, triple US R&D expenditures, and still s
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by pjmorris 3y ago
> You think science is what the consensus says it is, even if you cannot personally verify it? Well, no, but I might be able to see how you got that. I'm all for falsifiable hypotheses, empirical data, repeatable experiments, and re
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If I've understood what's said about Thomas Kuhn's 'The Structure of Scientific Revolutions', even science is all about consensus. I'm fond of Max Planck's “a new scientific truth does not triumph by convi
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That depends on what you choose to do next!
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> It is now... but I kind of feel like it wasn't 40 years ago. The computing world was certainly smaller then. But I remember finding Volume 1 of 'The Art of Computer Programming' in my community college library in the Spr
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I read (probably on HN) where someone suggested that pre-LLM data will become the 'low background steel' (pre-Nuclear-age steel with lower levels of internal radiation) of machine learning. It seems like provenance/traceabili
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I'm aware of this; I think many ordinary people and lawmakers are perhaps less clear on it, and that making it easy to see would help people understand the situation.
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Could someone start the 'Decentralized Intelligence Agency(, LLC)', buying, collating, and analyzing open market data feeds, and allowing subscribers to see what's known about themselves and others?
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Great comparison! Both are absolute treasures.
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Gerald Weinberg formed a community of consultants that continues after his passing. They post and work in various places, but you might look up one or more of Johanna Rothman, Esther Derby, Don Gray, and George Dinwiddie. They've all h
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'Victoria Bitter?' If so, looking forward to it!
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> I've been more interested in scuba diving recently because of some of the awesome stories my friends have told me. By the Thursday of our honeymoon cruise, I was ready to go scuba diving (we were in Grand Cayman) and my wife was r
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I think that'd be true if chickens were the size of cows and it was easier to grow, say, tomatoes, than corn.
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In the US it varies by region. In most places you can buy beer and wine in grocery stores, while hard liquor is a different matter, generally sold only in package stores, sometimes state-run. But not always. I've seen stacks of Jack Da
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I, like many, made sourdough during the pandemic, and vastly prefer it to our native 'sugar cake.' I'll be on the lookout.
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> If you're ever in Australia, try Pepe Saya on fresh sourdough! As it happens, I will be in Australia for a bit next month. This is the kind of intelligence I find invaluable. One thing I like doing as a tourist is going to grocery
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I just went and looked up 'San Francisco empty residences'... it's somewhere between 40,000 and 60,000 depending on where you look. I then looked up 'San Francisco homeless population'... somewhere around 8,000. I a
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"Washing one's hands of the conflict between the powerful and the powerless means to side with the powerful, not to be neutral." - Paulo Freire

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