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by randcraw 7mo ago
According to the article's graph of the fresh grad unemployment rate, the present climate is about as bad as in 2003 but less than a third as bad as it was in 2010. Unemployment during the pandemic spiked well above 2010, but only bri
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by randcraw 7mo ago
Krouse points to a great article by Simon Willison who proposes that the killer role for vibe coding (hopefully) will be to make code better and not just faster. By generating prototypes that are based on different design models each end
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by randcraw 7mo ago
I abhor small talk. It's physically painful. I've heard that's often true of some cultures, especially northern europeans. I think the trick to converse on a more engaging level is to introduce conversation that invites dee
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by randcraw 7mo ago
Unfortunately this article has not been archived. The only content available at archive.is right now is a stub.
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by randcraw 8mo ago
I don't think so. A decent C programmer could pretty much imagine how each line of C was translated into assembly, and with certainty, how every byte of data moved through the machine. That's been lost with the rise of higher-le
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by randcraw 8mo ago
The problem for software artisans is that unlike other handmade craftwork, nobody else ever sees your code. There's no way to differentiate your work from that which is factory-made or LLM-generated.
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Brain train game may help protect against dementia for up to 20 years(nbcnews.com)
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by randcraw 8mo ago
If fluid intelligence is based on the ability to recognize new patterns (unsupervised learning) and crystallized intelligence on recognizing known patterns (supervised learning), then more than physiology, age alone may differentiate the tw
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by randcraw 8mo ago
Intellectually, maybe. But emotionally, let's hope not. I was a major twerp in high school.
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by randcraw 8mo ago
More than socio-economic, the chief factor that advances US political candidates is, simply, fame. These days fame is achieved by somehow becoming an outlier: loud extremism, incessant self promotion, and spending truly insane amounts of m
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by randcraw 8mo ago
At the very least, every school, subject, and teacher should be obliged to conduct experiments during the school year -- A/B/C trials in which various forms of note taking are explored: handwritten, computer-typed, and neither. Th
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by randcraw 8mo ago
You can certainly make it harder to cheat. AIs will inevitably generate summaries that are very similarly written and formatted -- content, context, and sequence -- making it easy for a prof (and their AI) to detect the presence of AI us
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by randcraw 8mo ago
Some mainstream coverage of this, at last. https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2026/jan/27/i...
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by randcraw 9mo ago
That's a great answer that offers concrete insight into what design thinkers are trying to achieve. And it seems like they have a chance to succeed if they also employ iterative experimental methods to learn whether their mental model
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by randcraw 9mo ago
Another classic example is data scientists trying to model biological processes (or answer questions about processes while ignorant of which components regulate others). Systems biology has a long history of largely clueless attempts to pr
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by randcraw 9mo ago
How very... British of them.
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by randcraw 9mo ago
My perfect reading chair: the "Skye" model designed by Tord Bjorklund for Ikea in the 1970s. Its shape is essentially like an Adirondack chair connected to an ottoman, but padded and leather covered. Insanely comfy and perfect
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by randcraw 9mo ago
Yep. After 40+ years in the business I chose to retire rather than madly pump out code using a robot. Sucked all the joy right out of the craft. It's also a depressing wakeup call to realize that programming has evolved from a craft
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by randcraw 10mo ago
On an iPad I can't read the web page at all. The insert at the upper right overlies and obscures the main body of text. It'd also be a good starting point to be more concrete in your ambitions. What version of C is your preferre
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by randcraw 10mo ago
It's understandable that unusual patients are seen as confounding variables in any study, especially those with small numbers of patients. Though I haven't read beyond the abstract, it also makes sense that larger studies (phase
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by randcraw 10mo ago
The author neglects to observe that doubling tuition over 30 years equates to only a 2.35% inflation rate. That sounds pretty close to the US inflation rate during that time, so increases in tuition cost have been held in check pretty well
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by randcraw 10mo ago
As the article says, this change in opinion has been very big and very recent. Don't expect universities to sit still and do nothing. I see several possible reactions. One is to do what Georgia Tech and U Texas are doing -- to offer
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by randcraw 10mo ago
I think the curation of all media content using your own LLM that has been tuned using your own custom criteria _must_ become the future of media. We've long done this personally at the level of a TV news network, magazine, newspaper,
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by randcraw 11mo ago
It's not that hard to prove that you did the work and not an AI. Show your work. Explain to the teacher why you wrote what you did, why that particular approach to the narrative appealed to you and you chose that as the basis for you
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by randcraw 11mo ago
And which continent, country, province, city, or neighborhood are we talking about? The differences between EV and ICE sales is the same (or trending the same) across all of these regions? Certainly claiming that would be a lie.
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by randcraw 1y ago
Exactly. A simple phone that runs a browser I can trust that's also capable of running web-based apps is all I need. I already avoid running apps on my iphone whenever possible. The phone I really want is as uncomplicated and open as
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by randcraw 1y ago
I think this is a fair measure of any life -- are there enough positives to offset the negatives? And that includes the cost (and the benefit) of your suicide on others. No one but you should be able to make that call. All that remains t
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by randcraw 1y ago
The coauthors of Noise simply don't write as well as Kahneman did. The lack his focus and tight narrative thread.
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by randcraw 1y ago
Of course, bring the patient home to die is no different. And nobody would call that assisted suicide.
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by randcraw 1y ago
Yes, I think that's right. The average age of death due to old age has climbed for over a century, probably due to greatly improved public health and personal medicine. https://ourworldindata.org/life-expectancy Becau

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