progne

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by progne 3y ago
I was privileged to meet all of them and grow up with three of them. To be surrounded by that much love and character is a large level up on life. Your loss of that is tragic.
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by progne 3y ago
Everywhere you go in the whole damn galaxy, armed drones are there, waiting to enforce the rules. It mashes up the rule of law and rules of nature such that the rule of law cannot be escaped even at faster than light. It's a dystopian
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by progne 3y ago
Why this was done as a separate piece of hardware rather than a phone app? Was it the projector that attracted you to the project?
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by progne 3y ago
"ChatGPT42, generate a working copy of the old Hacker News site for me to read based on today's news and the probable reactions to it. Have it respond to my posts accordingly."
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by progne 3y ago
The surge in stoicism is reactionary, as the stoic Sticks and stones will break my bones but words will never harm me. ...is an anti-inflammatory response to the opposite sentiment embedded in the campaign to eradicate microaggressi
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by progne 3y ago
You hate that a paper written for specialists in Cell Metabolism assumes specialist knowledge?
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by progne 3y ago
aspiration != lie
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by progne 3y ago
I wondered how the Saudis' felt about having missiles fired over their country. It turns out they're probably relieved that the Houthi have a new target. "Yemen’s Houthi rebels have unleashed a barrage of drone and missile at
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by progne 3y ago
"A psychoactive dose of THC increases internal clock speed as indicated by time overestimation and underproduction. This effect is not dose-related, and is blunted in chronic cannabis smokers, who did not otherwise have altered baselin
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by progne 3y ago
I'm sorry, but this isn't so much an app as a very slow way to read the sentence, "For better wellness, get enough sleep, don't eat junk food, get physical activity every day, and not too much stress." The form you&
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by progne 3y ago
Now apply these to the Nash equilibrium in the bar scene of A Beautiful Mind. Imagine an AI that could perform such analysis in real time in a social context. Such a thing could give a great advantage to players of imperfect information gam
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by progne 3y ago
"First, the team designed a miniature virtual reality arena and displayed it on a screen surrounding a spherical treadmill, a bit like the trackball of a computer mouse." I want one for my dog. She could be chasing bunnies in a fi
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by progne 3y ago
Tolerating shoplifting is burning the furniture to keep warm, eating the seeds for the next crop. Stores close, jobs flee, food and medicine deserts grow. Whatever desperation drives people to shoplift, amplifies. I'm watching it happe
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by progne 3y ago
It's fantastic from the perspective of someone who was paying the same amount for 3MB/sec. It hasn't been perfectly reliable, but it has been more reliable than the old telco service it replaced. The tech, from the dish down
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by progne 3y ago
"Hence why I am in favor of both laws and social norms that prohibit economic discrimination on the basis of ideological beliefs" It is difficult to interpret this other than as "hence why I am for freedom of speech, but free
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by progne 3y ago
I think it's a simple power inversion. Conservatives banned liberal speech so liberals advocated free speech. Now liberals ban conservative speech so conservatives advocate free speech. Does it have to be more complicated than that? Su
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by progne 3y ago
It replaced not just my old slow DSL, but also my landline phone service. Every cent I was paying the small regional phone company now goes to Starlink, for usually about 20x the performance. The small regional telephone company did not sou
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by progne 3y ago
I'd think head recognition is hair plus face recognition. And we should check whether blonde or black hair, etc., is easier to detect.
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by progne 3y ago
Presumably it detects a head partly through recognizing a face. Apparently facial recognition works better for males than females, and lighter skins than darker. https://sitn.hms.harvard.edu/flash/2020/racial-discr
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by progne 3y ago
That is an unfortunately unique place.
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by progne 3y ago
I read a blog post that I can't find again that has me thinking about this differently, and with more worry. He said that the latest LLMs demonstrate that while we think of human intelligence as being embedded in the brain, in fact it
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by progne 3y ago
Does my soul look fat? Is it good or bad to have an obese or skinny soul? Do they float? Are they charged, can you trap one in a Faraday cage? Is that what the Ghostbusters were collecting?
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by progne 3y ago
Yes. Also I think we astronuts tend to avoid campgrounds (too many people with lights) and motels (we're up all night). A piece of remote public land is just more suited to the purpose.
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by progne 3y ago
There's a high stress to being politically involved, on whichever side. You can feel it just reading the content let alone producing it. However much good they may be doing I have no criticism of any activist's choice to prioritiz
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by progne 3y ago
How held back might science be in an alternate history with one change: a permanently cloudy sky. Ptolemy, Copernicus, Kepler, Galileo, Newton, Einstein, would all have had so much less purchase on the shape of the universe to build their t
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by progne 3y ago
I used to live in an RV & cabins park in a very dark area, actually inside of the radius of the Very Large Array radio telescope. As part of a barter arrangement I made a website for the park. On the site I pitched the park as a destina
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by progne 3y ago
To inherit a small fortune and just not lose it is admirable. Yet this person is mocking Bezos for turning a quite small fortune into one of the largest on the planet. As if it doesn't count if he didn't start from scratch. Privil
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by progne 3y ago
Do we need to start including a hash in social media posts as a check against such expergation? A private client could auto insert and check them. Since the social media service could change the hash too, this might be a legit use case for
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by progne 3y ago
> Youtube is exploiting it without doing anything about it. They're not 'informing the wider world about it'. I can only reconcile this statement with mine if you are focusing on YouTube's intent and I am focusing on
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by progne 3y ago
> ... wound up graduating from elementary school the way Ender Wiggin did You killed a bully and got shipped to another school in outer space?

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