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by redandblack 3y ago
Used to be great for vector processing for numerical analysis, although not sure anymore
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by redandblack 3y ago
good point. for me, the difference is the sense of time A easy example is say I am looking for a job, and have sent out 200 applications, 4 phone calls, 2 interviews and still unemployed. Therapist will obviously help you out and prepare yo
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by redandblack 3y ago
Clearly I am not young, but over the last say 5 years I have been visiting a specific astrologer and has been very useful - primarily for decision making, managing stress. It is like therapy with dos/dont's and checks against any
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by redandblack 3y ago
Obligatory Pratchett reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strata_(novel)
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by redandblack 3y ago
How come medicare "system" become the defacto standard
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by redandblack 3y ago
Will LLMs eventually help with this - will be great if it can create structured data out of this to learn/classify
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by redandblack 3y ago
does fiberglass rebar work? I remember reading that it works well for horizontal layouts but was not sure about use in pillars.
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by redandblack 3y ago
we need those star trek replicators that can build up food (and medicine as food)
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by redandblack 3y ago
is this "code as data" - so it is really true then
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by redandblack 3y ago
All non-dividend paying stocks are zero-coupon perpetual bonds anyway. Nothing new about it
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by redandblack 3y ago
Isn't the answer lobbyists? A good example is FCC carrying water for them
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by redandblack 4y ago
well LLMs have proved themselves by stacking layers upon layers - maybe your architects have figured out the magic also (without interpretation/comprehension obviously). Good luck as we all live in interesting times
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by redandblack 4y ago
The only safety conversation I remember having with our kids was about how to behave when pulled over by cops - in US. I am sure we discussed how and where to go when they went to NYC, and that usually with friends some of whom are familiar
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by redandblack 4y ago
For me best thing to happen is the remote working - team mates are in UK and India, and I am in NY. Works well. I catch up with others monthly which works well
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by redandblack 4y ago
I am looking forward to the new AI overloards I already see most of my feeds are generated content? wasting clicks and resulting in filter updates. I really, really hope all of this madness becomes the equivalent of robo-calling (faster) an
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by redandblack 4y ago
Waiting for a major strategy consulting firm to advice corporate boards on the benefits of hybrid or remote working use cases, and adoption. Firm I work with have some teams at 4 days and others at 2 days a week. It is always team meetings
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by redandblack 4y ago
yeah. will be switching to this for all google apps, with firefox for general use
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by redandblack 4y ago
I prefer not to ascribe semantics to accounting credit/debit - only thing that matters is it is consistently applied and balances out. I think of this as being similar to primary key constraints - my rule is primary keys should not hav
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by redandblack 4y ago
Just like Boeing/Airbus were held responsible for 911 attacks by developing and building the planes
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by redandblack 4y ago
Long time NJ to Midtown commuter - 1 hr 50 mins each way for almost 18 years. Now, with hybrid and office barely 20 mins away - my stress level has dropped off so much
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by redandblack 5y ago
in what way is nazi-china different from fascist neo-cons/neo-liberals. it is all a projection of power - and the victims are uncounted and faceless
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by redandblack 5y ago
in that sense Biden's legacy is cleaning up the mess and not leaving it to the future president
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by redandblack 5y ago
The regulations on this has been in play for a while - I remember discussions in fall 2019 on this on asks by indian regulators to all multinational banks, payment processors, etc. The push to segregate local data within national boundarie
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by redandblack 5y ago
fwiw - I got different webgl report hash values between refreshes on firefox. I do have webgl fingerprint disabling addon in firefox. edit - addon faq says it injects fake values
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by redandblack 6y ago
Same thesis for us. Pushing to use replicated sources for a data mesh, and build around query and cache services. The thesis is analysts know what they want, and operating only on production ready reports takes too much away from business.
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by redandblack 7y ago
We had a translated and simplified version of this story for my Tamil class in elementary school - and distinctly remember this and a few others. So much so, that I googled a few years ago to realize that the original was from Tolstoy