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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
Sounds like what she did was help refine the mathematical model of the earth, known as the geoid . It is roughly spherical, but only roughly. The biggest source of earth's deviation from spherical is its rotation about the N-S axis,
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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
I think that even if they do end up being safer statistically, they will fail differently than humans, so that people learning of Waymo accidents will correctly say, "I NEVER would have done something that stupid!"
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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
From "Qantas never crashed" to No. 3.
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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
This being HN, I was expecting this to be about LLM-related hallucinations. I didn't read the whole thing, but it appears to be about actual human hallucinations.
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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
Pascal's Wager
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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
"Always give your real reason for not doing something." For example, a friend wants you to join a fiction book group, but you just don't like reading novels. Don't say, "I'm sorry, I don't have a car on
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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
I'm a retired engineer who does almost everything in vim, but this looks tempting even to me. Thank you!
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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
I always get those two mixed up too!
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by pmdulaney 9mo ago
Would it be an unwarranted extrapolation to infer that women lie more than men then?
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
Never mind -- I get it. (I was thinking maybe you were talking about mesh wire screens or something.)
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
Zero screens needed? I don't follow.
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
Is there still an opportunity to put "enshittification" in an early grave?
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
But as Faraday said, "Nothing is too wonderful to be true."
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
1693 > 1636
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
It's sort of a big Prisoner's Dilemma situation: What's best for me is for everyone else to be a spendthrift (for the sake of the economy) while I myself behave frugally and prudently.
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
In this longish essay/opinion piece, the non-woke but left-of-center author waffles back and forth on whether the wokish social media gatekeepers who were in the ascendancy until recently had a net positive impact on social discourse.
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
The "visible editing history" trait is why I like dc for arithmetic calculations -- AND because it's reverse Polish.
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
Is there an advantage to using PN as opposed to RPN? Those of us used to Forth, PostScript, dc, might find it difficult to switch paradigms.
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
It's getting harder and harder to even hazard a guess as to why a comment on HN gets downvoted. Is Paul Graham becoming persona non grata ? Is that it?
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
I've encountered Santana winds too.
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by pmdulaney 10mo ago
Prefer "surprising" to "unreasonable".
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
Maybe what GigaBrain was doing was applying AI to the search results and providing an AI summary.
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
A paper by Gilbert Strang.
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
vibe coding technical debt enshittification Tech has a real knack for stupid terminology.
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
It would be interesting to know what exactly Greggit is doing. I'm no expert, but I think the owner of a website can prevent the traditional site: search from finding much of interest.
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
GigaBrain used to provide this, until reddit no longer allowed it.
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
For the purposes of the study cited, do stevia and monk fruit count as artificial sweeteners?
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
Detect bipolar disorder and clinical depression with a $3 saliva test.
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
What exactly does it mean when the Texas Tribune says it is nonpartisan?
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by pmdulaney 11mo ago
Technically, the difference between a lake and a sea is that a sea has no outlet.

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