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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> As long as I am improving, these models are able to improve at a faster rate. Of course, I cannot compete with the top researchers at these big labs. So whatever I do will be insignificant. Just because you aren't on the cutting e
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
It might be a lie in the objective sense, but it is certainly possible to imagine Holocaust-deniers whose belief that the Jews screwed up the country is just as genuine as the person who thinks that of Merkel. There is a long side discussio
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> At the very least from what I recall there are sections of songs and poems which made my eyes glaze over and just skip. I felt the same way the first time I read the books. But the more I re-read and understand about Tolkien's wor
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
> "Sprints" are a very bad name, giving the impression that the team is always running, which is a bad for morale and quality. In reality, they are just "cycles". Agree. Actually, my first experience with Agile used t
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
I agree, especially considering the version of the story Vonnegut previous told in Sirens of Titan [1]. In that story (written earlier), the people are shown willingly embracing handicaps out of love. Definitely makes an interesting contras
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
I got a laugh out of this [1] comment yesterday and was considering how it applied here. I don't necessarily think that the methodology is garbage, but I would question the ability of science to contribute useful information here >
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
Combining the current-ness and expansiveness of current research and journalism with the connectedness and cohesiveness of an encyclopedia is, without a question, a revolutionary product. But I think when people say that Wikipedia is "
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
I tried to switch for a Nokia dumb phone a while back and I got burned by buying one that didn't support the right bands (definitely no LTE). It got borderline unusable service and I had to give it up. Next phone I get will probably be
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
This was a good read. For me, more inspiration to pick up something by Simone Weil at some point. Another similar essay I liked, contemporary to both Wittgenstein and Weil is "Why Work?" by Dorothy Sayers [1]. [1] https:/&#x
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
Huh, didn't know about this. Another link for those interested: https://www.jpl.nasa.gov/news/tonga-eruption-blasted-unprece...
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
You're not alone in your fears, I've been thinking a lot about the same questions over the last few years especially. What gives me comfort is acknowledging the limits of technology in general. Even though technology has profound
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
I thought your title and tagline were kind of clickbait-y, but you really inspired me to try what you suggested. I haven't yet overcome the feeling that anything I write to my wife needs to be an elaborate carefully constructed love no
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
The fact that he killed himself colors every bit of his work to me. Whatever people may say about depression being a chemical phenomenon outside of our control, there will always be something perverse to me about learning why not to commit
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
As I understand it, even though the Foxconn deal was ill-conceived and wasted tax payer money via planning for the deal and funding foolish road projects, the deal does have milestones built in that resulted in not receiving the credit fo
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
Reminds me of a joke: A doctor, an architect and a programmer talk about their professions. "Mine is the oldest", says the doctor, "as everybody knows God created Eve from the rib of Adam, and that's definitely a medical
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
Counter-example, or exception that proves the rule?
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by rcktmrtn 4y ago
On a related note, am I right in understand that the "Google Experts" [1] do it for free? [1] https://developers.google.com/community/experts/
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by rcktmrtn 5y ago
Yeah, what I see here is a moralistic attacks on the "Facebook tracking network" from an organization that's 90% bankrolled by one of their largest competitors. No doubt they'll report some true and nasty stuff about Fac
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by rcktmrtn 7y ago
> The idea that fundamental differences in approaches to incarceration drove the conflict between the United States and the Soviet Union strikes an odd chord from our current vantage point. Today 2.3 million people are locked up in the U
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by rcktmrtn 10y ago
Depends. How do you feel about math? http://www.math.ubc.ca/~cass/graphics/manual/
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by rcktmrtn 11y ago
I really like that this includes frequency tables for tetragraphs. I had to laugh a little at the fact that "STOP" is the 5th most frequently used tetragraph though.
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by rcktmrtn 12y ago
Yes, but this article is not about the GNU parts. It is about how the Linux kernel begins execution. There is nothing wrong with describing this as the "Linux (kernel) booting process" . though there is a bit of syslinux/gru