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by randcraw 3y ago
The gorilla question: what has changed in the past 33 years to cause this increase? I'd look first at confounding variables like 33 years of improved methods to detect cancer earlier: the rise of MRI, screening for chemical signatures
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by randcraw 3y ago
I got a bicycle at age 6 and a minibike at age 11 and have ridden bikes and cycles ever since, mostly on-road but I'd love to do more off. I only wish it was safer to share the road. Most drivers act like running down a cyclist is th
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by randcraw 3y ago
Yes. Black text on white background in an underlit room is like reading a lightbulb.
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by randcraw 3y ago
I own this and keep forgetting to read it -- a fascinating look into the reinvention of a nation's priorities from a warlord- and caste- driven monarchy to... whatever modern Japan is now.
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by randcraw 3y ago
That assumes the best measure of a career is income. Perhaps now we're looking at a transition away from the pursuit of money and toward work that's less abstract and dull and more tangible and personally meaningful. I know a lot
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by randcraw 3y ago
I'm reading Rhodes' "Energy". Now I know why Great Britain got so deforested: from heating all those drafty old castles.
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by randcraw 3y ago
With 90% of human generated media content being forgettable within weeks of publication, and AI not yet capable of matching even average human content (much less pro level), it’ll be some time before we have to worry about AI overwhelming
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by randcraw 3y ago
A primary trust indicator of any research result is the reputation of the journal publishing the paper. Better journals demand more, not just in terms of the impact/insight of the results, but also the rigor of the experimental method
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by randcraw 3y ago
Casual chess seems is entirely lookahead search, AFAIK. But competitive chess involves a lot more, from learning the classic strategies (openings, midgames, endings, combo play), to recognizing style and intent in the historical game play
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by randcraw 3y ago
But on modern cars, cigarette lighters are disabled when the ignition is turned off. So you can't use any device powered by the lighter to start the car.
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by randcraw 3y ago
My 35 years of experience after a comparable part-time MS in CS says otherwise. Professional masters are often compared to a BS curriculum, which is in no way a disability to hiring or advancement since most people in engineering don't
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by randcraw 3y ago
It's also a LOT more explainable and interpretable.
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by randcraw 3y ago
My preferred solution is to establish an open university in the US (or make it borderless), through which anyone can earn a degree remotely for as little cost as possible -- like $5000 per year or $20k per degree. Georgia Tech and others ha
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by randcraw 3y ago
In 1975, large state state universities (like Michigan State and U Virginia) cost about $1500 for tuition and another $1500 for room and board. Since you could earn about $1500 working each summer, your maximum shortfall was $1500 per year
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by randcraw 3y ago
Yep. This describes only how to game the famously byzantine hiring process at FAANGs, a tiny highly abnormal subset of the tech workspace out there — only those companies that began as explosive startups who gained giant market share mostl
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by randcraw 3y ago
Craftsmen are individual contributors. When you coordinate others, you're no longer an IC, you're a foreman, a boss. Coding with LLMs is about managing the contributions of other ICs. It's no different from coordinating lo
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by randcraw 3y ago
The early Yahoo was pretty great. I discovered a lot of cool creative sites there, none of whom tracked me or abused my email address.
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by randcraw 3y ago
Make that 25 years ago, before the FAANGs came out.
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by randcraw 3y ago
This article asserts that the gut-brain axis model theory is more than just a theory. But AFAIK, this has yet to be demonstrated medically, via FDA-approved therapies that treat the brain by changing the gut. Thus the idea is intriguing,
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by randcraw 3y ago
There was a memorable scene from "The West Wing" on the biases imposed by most map projections, in particular, how Mercator makes North America look huge: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLqC3FNNOaI
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by randcraw 3y ago
IME, a script is a custom utility and generally small (maybe <500 lines). It's a go-between for other programs, getting its input by running another program (like ps or netstat), or it reads the state of the O/S (like /pr
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by randcraw 3y ago
And if the data that LLMs have trained on is only simple social conversation, what level of intelligence will that begat? No nobel-laureate-level 'thinking' is going to arise from training text composed of obvious or trivial stat
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by randcraw 3y ago
Small languages that can be learned quickly that have a limited number of ways to perform an action (like iterative loops) make for a more straightforward learning experience than the giant languages that are popular today. I think explici
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by randcraw 3y ago
I've heard there's a terrific service out there that's a real sleeper. USENET, I think it's called.
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by randcraw 3y ago
The Reddit website frequently resets itself back to the feed page when I'm scrolling up/down through posts. That amount of clueless disruption during routine use is a deal breaker for me. Goodbye Reddit.
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by randcraw 3y ago
Agreed. If LLMs did predict only a single word ahead, they would repeat themselves, if not in the next sentence then at least in the next paragraph. LLMs certainly retain memory of what they’ve already said. They are most certainly NOT M
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by randcraw 3y ago
"21st Century C" by Klemens (2014) fills that niche: https://www.amazon.com/21st-Century-Tips-New-School/dp/14919...
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by randcraw 3y ago
"An international team of researchers looked at 49,555 out-of-hospital cardiac arrests that occurred in major U.S. and Canada cities. They analyzed a key subgroup of these arrests, those that occurred in public, were witnessed and were
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by randcraw 3y ago
No. Shingrix is the most recent shingles vaccine, AFAICT. It requires two injections for folks age 50+ or with weakened immune systems. Zostavax required one, but was withdrawn from the US market in 2020.
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by randcraw 3y ago
AKA the Valsalva maneuver: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valsalva_maneuver I've used it to gently raise the pressure of my inner ear. (My eustacheans often clog up due to allergies.) But make sure you know what

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