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811.
by rhelz 3y ago
I wish the author had told us how old he was, so I could know how seriously to take him.
812.
by rhelz 3y ago
Interesting that Amazon still thinks there is a place for symbolic, logic-based reasoning, in this era of LLMs.
813.
by rhelz 3y ago
Fun fact, part of the terms and conditions for buying an iPhone is you grant Apple--or anybody they care to designate, an "irrevocable" license to enter your house and repossess the phone until the phone has been 100% payed for. A
814.
by rhelz 3y ago
I mean, you are talking as if the rules governing the use of property are a natural kind. As if there is one and only one set of terms and conditions which apply to any sale of anything at anytime. The concept of "property" and t
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by rhelz 3y ago
Consider that the phone is useless w/o its operating system, etc, and you did not purchase that software; you only bought a license to use it, according to some terms and conditions.
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by rhelz 3y ago
very irresponsible. There is no way to prepare for such a war. It doesn't matter how wonderful our ship-building ports are--if we had a war with China, life would not be worth living anywhere in the world for tens of thousands of y
817.
by rhelz 3y ago
If he wants to actually do something like dethrone NVIDIA in the next 10 years, $7T sounds about right.
818.
by rhelz 3y ago
Be sure and check out the "old site" link for some real 90's vibe...
819.
by rhelz 3y ago
In point of fact, Wal-Mart is reporting that these new drugs are causing substantial decreases in food sold in the snack isles.
820.
by rhelz 3y ago
What would a good search look like? This isn't the first time I've lived through a "search is broken!" era. Search has stopped working for me at least 3 times before: 1. When the primitive methods we had for searchin
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by rhelz 3y ago
Wouldn't the best way to look at this to be that the phone is Apple's property, and therefore they have the right to do anything with it? Including not selling to you all the property rights, and reserving some for themselves? Fo
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by rhelz 3y ago
Perhaps it puts a lot of strain on an economy where 1% of the people get 50% of the wealth. Perhaps it is hard for current workers to send the lion's share of what they produce to the 1%, and still pay for the retirement of past worke
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by rhelz 3y ago
Hmmm....couldn't you argue it the other way as well? I mean, a hallucination isn't just an incomplete fact present in the input set--it is a claim which wasn't in the input set. That's not what we'd expect from a
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by rhelz 3y ago
Yet another unreproducible result from psychology... When somebody is down, feeling as bad or worse than they ever have in their lives, what do we do? We say they should go get help....from psychologists... Bad science has real ramificatio
825.
by rhelz 3y ago
chuckle I don't know if that is true or not, but what I do know is true is that he isn't the same person they thought they interviewed---because technical interviews these days bear no relationship to the kinds of qualities
826.
by rhelz 3y ago
Instead of cursive, why not teach shorthand? If I had learned shorthand instead of cursive, it would have helped me in every class I took after that. Being able to take notes at the speed which the lecturer is talking would have been an en
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by rhelz 3y ago
A large union can advocate for public policy which would benefit its members, and it would have the financial resources to form PACS, run advertisements, support candidates, etc. A large union can hire lobbyists who can form long-term frien
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by rhelz 3y ago
Yeah, same kind of vibe as I had around 1992. The old world of 16-bit computers had died, and the new world of the internet had yet to come. I had lots of friends despair. I myself was waiting it out while getting a MS degree.
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by rhelz 3y ago
Sooner or later, everybody will feel the same way. In my experience, getting over it was on the same order of magnitude as, say, getting over a divorce. Absolutely one of the worse experiences you can have which won't actually kill y
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by rhelz 3y ago
chuckle well, I certainly would have refuted his evidence and arguments if he had given any! Instead, he just rehearses a jumble of pessimistic conclusions from what he himself describes as coming from "diverse disciplinary direction
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by rhelz 3y ago
chuckle , well as easy as it is to fool yourself with a search engine, at least a search engine didn't just make stuff up--somebody had to actually create a web site advocating the position you wanted to fool yourself into believing.
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by rhelz 3y ago
I had to chuckle when the OP said "and 151 instructions." The VAX was the poster-child of CISC. Thats like, what, 20% of the instructions ARM has for SIMD alone? Recently, I had to learn C++17 through 20. At the same time I w
833.
by rhelz 3y ago
Another victim of the sort of epistemic closure which is peculiar to our times: Search engines are not optimized to give you the truth, they are optimized to give you what you are looking for. Which means that if you are looking for reason
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by rhelz 3y ago
It would be nice to be able to take a long-term view of your career like this, asking what you could do over the course of a few decades to really pay off big time. Alas, nobody has that kind of visibility into the future. And if you did,
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by rhelz 3y ago
The central problem with analyses like these is they treat everything as a zero-sum game. For men to win, women have to lose. To increase fertility, we have to decrease individual freedom. And--most disturbingly--we need to be globally mo
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by rhelz 3y ago
Reads like another Sokal Hoax to me.
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by rhelz 3y ago
The various standard kilograms held by the national bodies, and the prototype standard kilogram in paris, were measured very precisely over the past hundred years, and their weights did seem to diverge mysteriously.
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by rhelz 3y ago
In a way, we should be thrilled that the perception is that in-office work is better: less outsourcing. If i can work remove from Indiana, I can work remote from India. I'm very surprised that the takeaway from COVID wasn't just
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by rhelz 3y ago
It would be more helpful if you could spell that out a bit.
840.
by rhelz 3y ago
Perhaps I did misread it. Let me try again. Your proposed definition is not adequate, because if something were constructed to have free will, then it would be exhibiting free will because it was constructed that way :-) You first hav

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