pookha

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by pookha 3y ago
Most AI uses some variation of deep-learning (CNN-resnet for example). In my mind that's really just some variation of fancy counting.
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by pookha 3y ago
Not sure what you mean by the British Royalty not being taken seriously. The UK were throwing anti-royalist protestors into jail this past year... https://www.npr.org/2022/09/12/1122379162/uk-anti-royal-a
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by pookha 3y ago
Seems like it's a cute way of saying that it's a material and superficial way of life (like religious ceremony). Which might be true for some people. I've been a vegitarian since I was YOUTH CREW (lol) but I've kept doin
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by pookha 3y ago
in my mind centralized banking that can turn off your finances for societal reasons (Jinping style) and fiat-currency-backed-by-drone strike are problems that need some kind of solution. Bitcoin has persisted through multiple dips and seem
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by pookha 4y ago
I don't see any resemblance to the witch-scare. The most popular books back then were about finding witches: https://theontarion.com/2020/02/28/witchcraft-and-the-magic-... Which means it was mostly unpl
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by pookha 4y ago
How do you know who the troublemakers are? What happens when there's blowback or your socialist bureaucracies aren't playing nice? The CCP has to then start enforcing their will across a giant area...You can't expect a centra
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by pookha 4y ago
I'm not a Maoist so I can admit when I was wrong. Looks like it was a personal beef. But that in no way changes the point that SF is a toxic environment. Here's the SF fire commissioner being brained by a violent homeless man th
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by pookha 4y ago
Harrison was a pro at orchestrating complex melodies. I think he's a legend. But I don't think there's any question that he bite that 60's ronie mack single. personally I think it was Phil Spector that goaded him into M
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by pookha 4y ago
I like old George but My Sweet Lord was pretty much lifted from The Chiffons "He's so fine"... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rinz9Avvq6A&feature=youtu.be I want to say later on they trolled the shit out
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by pookha 4y ago
I remember reading a William Burroughs interview where he talked about getting over nasty addictions by just writing "I will not smoke a cigarette" on a piece of paper everyday. This stupid process worked incredibly well for me.
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by pookha 4y ago
I only see this taking over if it's force fed down the publics throat by authoritarian regimes (China style). The public at-large doesn't want an algorithm to completely remove the steering wheel...Needs to be a fluid mixture of h
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by pookha 4y ago
So far their hasn't been much desire to FORCE these addicts into treatment (your last caveat).Portland is a disaster. They had 238 OD deaths in 2019. They're already up to 400 in 2023 and had 742 in 2022...When the bodies pile up
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by pookha 4y ago
I agree with the blooger in theory but you are correct...In practice it's never going to be an option. My wife works for a large city on the east coast. They spend outrageous amounts on (pre-built) solutions. Made me want to start bui
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by pookha 4y ago
Part of the reason rents are high in SF is BECAUSE of rent control (regulating rents). You're just creating scarcity. Developers aren't going to want to take massive losses and haircuts (and neither would you) to build in rent-con
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by pookha 4y ago
Market dictates that housing costs are going to be high in SF (there isn't enough land available). tech has nothing to do with it...
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by pookha 4y ago
Here's what happened...A crazy guy started screaming at me randomly and made a move to stab me with a knife but got handled by other bar patrons. (it seemed like some knew him). That sort of shit happens in Europe like it happens anywh
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by pookha 4y ago
DC metro area has a 28 per 1K crime rate. The london area has a 95 per 1K crime rate... Amsterdam has a 33 per 1K crime rate. Frankfurt has a crime index of 44 (which is higher than anywhere else in Germany). Saying that Europe is super s
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by pookha 4y ago
You nailed it. That Irish pub across from the Frankfurt train station isn't a super-safe establishment.
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by pookha 4y ago
I like Europe but you're exaggerating...I got robbed in Amsterdam and could have been stabbed to death in Frankfurt. London felt dicey in certain spots too (turns out it has 95\1000 rate which is 20% higher than the average in the UK)
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by pookha 4y ago
Welcome to Northern Virginia. Everybody has a security clearance :)
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by pookha 4y ago
You're over thinking SF. SF is landlocked so there's always going to be steep housing costs...The real problem, as far as I can tell, is that homeless drug addicts are given free money by CAAP and have ample access to hard drugs.
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by pookha 4y ago
I live on a suburban pipe-stem that connects to a trail system which itself connects to multiple lakes and the neigborhood pool. In the backyard I've got a zip line\trampoline for the kids and my dog can go wild. There hasn't been
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by pookha 4y ago
What I find interesting with NPM is that it pushed the boundries of the Unix philosophy (build a tool to do one thing well) and it turns out that this philosphy can suffer from even small amounts of narcissism, machiavellianism, and psychop
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by pookha 4y ago
If you watch what you eat, avoid obesity and some of the practices that lead to heart disease, and if you can moderately exercise you can avoid expensive health procedures. I don't even think that's debatable...
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by pookha 4y ago
I was saying that because -- in my humble opinion -- the ongoing farce with North Korea is as much on the ROK as it is with the US...There's a significant segmentation of South Korean's that are just as unlikely to push for re-uni
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by pookha 4y ago
North Korea's not a threat to anything except rogue ROK fishermen. They can hardly get fuel into the country. The citizens have to result to eating tree bark. When one of their soldiers fled to the south he had ten different intestinal
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by pookha 4y ago
Getting a strong John Henry vibe with Programming (and law degrees). Things are going to get interesting...Tinkering with Calculus and ML models feels like the eventual future of logic tasks.
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by pookha 4y ago
Here's another source of the problem...Pumping trillions of active currency into the economy, over heating the CPI, and ignoring demand-side inflation (hey it's "transitory") for ideological reasons.
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by pookha 4y ago
Inflation is the killer here. The Fed had no choice but to raise interest rates.
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by pookha 4y ago
Mastodon is great...I like how all of the wild ass american taliban leftist people are leaving twitter to go join their own boxed in caliphate's. It's a better situation for the world in general. let these maniacs cancel themselve

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