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by sameoldtune 2y ago
If you can’t see how a negotiation is like a dance then I feel sorry for your significant other and your children. Not all interactions are zero-sum.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
“Content” is an advertising term for whatever fills the space between all the ads
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Your honor, the algorithm made me do it!
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Apples and oranges. If in 1980 we kept our phones with us and expected a cable connection even while driving or in the middle of a field, we would think cell phones were a much less complicated solution.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Mathematicians like to develop new math right at the boundary of what is known. Physicists don’t have that luxury because they have to describe/model/build/etc things that correlate to what is actually going on in the world.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
What do you find problematic with that phrase?
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
This happens all the time. People take statistical data about a population and then try to apply it to individual members of that population. If 30% of men are less happy in a marriage, that doesn’t mean you’ll be 30% less happy or even tha
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I have a vape pen. A cartridge lasts me about 3 months because I smoke such a small amount. In theory this is a win for me because I can get inebriated for about $0.40/day. But if I puff for 6 seconds instead of 3 all of a sudden I’m i
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
This is good stuff, thanks for sharing
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Slight sidebar based on the content of the article. I don’t like the term “hallucination” for when a LLM produces nonsense. As if it otherwise has some grasp of reality and when it is wrong it is because it is hallucinating. Everything it p
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I was once the primary party responsible for an accounting bug that would have cost Amazon around 100 million dollars in unselable inventory. I stayed up for two nights writing the most heinous regexes to scrape logs(1) and fix the months-l
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Everyone is talking about the technical problems or feasibility of this, but that misses the point. This is like voting in a horse as your mayor. It is a way to show that you plan on not changing anything or listen to anyone’s real concerns
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Sounds to me like you are maybe the competitive one. It could be that you are friends with board-gaming sociopaths but in my life I have met only one person who I think would propose a board game just because they could win at it.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Clickbait title. “The anatomy of brain waste removal”
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
There’s an idea in psych that a high IQ correlates more than anything to an increased ability to navigate complex spaces. That’s what we do when we program, we create conceptual spaces and then imagine data flowing through them. And it is a
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Was just talking with a friend about this. The reason older people tend to play repetitive card games isn’t because they are captivating, it is just a thin excuse to spend a few relaxing hours together. After a few months of hesitation I’ve
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I read the headline to my partner and they said “AI is here to make the dentist scary again”
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I worked in the industry (albeit for only about 6 months…). I completely believe that people who don’t bring bags or choose seats are saving money. Hell, if you don’t care when you anrrive you can get the anirline to pay /you/ in
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
It’s kind of silly. Just a reporter reporting. You could say that every discovery in mathematics involves some “unorthodox” move, since the orthodoxy is all that is known so far.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
I don’t understand how your links relate to primality.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Thanks for this insightful response!
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
My indigenous partner likes to make a quip: when someone mentions “the apocalypse” he asks “which apocalypse?”
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
In the context of my comment you’re thinking very small. Yes, providing more options for users can make an application less secure. But that force to make it secure is the very force I’m describing which locks down people’s options, their a
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
The concepts in Seeing Like A State are very relevant to programmers and to anyone trying to “change the world” with technology. One of the main points is that for a state to manage many people it tends to use power (hard and soft) to homog
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
That is a counterfactual that is pretty hard to prove. The US is a very large machine and I find it hard to believe that two wars were enabled by the presidents weak will alone.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Opposite: 250k households in the US do not have running water.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
Or obtuse units. I just experienced it at an Amazon Fresh store yesterday where frozen chicken was shown in $/oz, patties in $/unit, and fresh chicken was in $/lb.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
It’s a trade off for sure. But if you know at the time of collection all the ways in which your data is going to be used in the future, you work at a more well-run organization than me!
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
This doesn’t have to be over engineered either! After all an enum is a perfectly valid AST.
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by sameoldtune 2y ago
On the contrary, why should you enjoy your job just because some rich person “gives it to you” (more realistically, “foists it upon the public”)? Sounds like a mental illness to only value yourself as the amount of economic impact you could

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