sandgiant

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Exploding Animal(en.wikipedia.org)
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I so the same. Except I'm still spending too much time dicking off in front of the computer. I guess partly due to embarrassment about not working "full time". Your comment inspired me to get out and do something instead. Tha
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I'm not sure I understand the scale from exuberant consumerism to rodent play thing. I think your middle ground is still just a singular point at the consumerism extreme. One could argue that "old gross junk" is just another
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Sounds just like my 2yo homo sapiens.
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> The Free Drive system works by converting the rider’s pedaling power into electrical energy via a small generator housed between the pedals. It then delivers this energy to the rear wheel (or wheels) via cables strung inside or outside
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Thank you for bringing this up. This is an important distinction. I'm totally with you until the sentence that includes "find their true love". This sounds like there is a very particular kind of love (the true kind) and perh
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That's odd. I found almost every point on that list immediately actionable. - Use the work "but" less often (I can practice this today with my partner). - Start looking for a new job if you work for someone you can't see
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by sandgiant 4y ago
It's not a fallacy, it's a paradox. One that indicates that our theories of quantum fluctuations in an infinite universe are incomplete. This podcast episode has a good discussion on the subject: https://universetoday.f
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Oh man. Hotline. Fond memories. Thanks for sharing!
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I agree, but I don't think this is limited to science. I think a great deal of everything is in fact trash. This is why we need education and good faith discussion.
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And this is why we need error bars on all plots. Looking at these plots there is no way to know whether people guessed uniformly or whether the self assessment is clustered around the mean.
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by sandgiant 5y ago
This is so great! I feel like most ML ("AI") products are just linear regressions with fancy packaging, but this actually looks super cool! I want to set this up in my summer house ASAP. Thanks for sharing.
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by sandgiant 5y ago
I switched to DEVONthink Pro when Evernote switched to Electron and started removing features (e.g. related notes). I capture a lot of images of documents and need the OCR capabilities and search. They also have a fairly extensive AppleScr
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by sandgiant 5y ago
If you want to watch more car production line videos I highly recommend this channel: https://www.youtube.com/c/GommeBlogIT .
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This. The importance of learning calculus and model building (physics) is all about learning to reason, making predictions and quantify domain validity. It's not about calculating derivatives or proving continuity. I think people take
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by sandgiant 5y ago
Not sure if you're joking, but no, that doesn't make any sense. Asphyxia is a lack of oxygen, not an excess amount of CO2. Even slight increases in CO2 will make you feel extremely uncomfortable, long before you actually run out o
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The audiobook edition read by Simon Prebble is one of the best I've heard.
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by sandgiant 5y ago
This looks really great! I love restic but miss a simple UI to keep track of my backups. Will definitely keep an eye on this.
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by sandgiant 5y ago
Can you provide some details on this? I'm curious how noise and signal are defined and measured in this case.
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You can erase your account here: https://privacy.patreon.com/policies?modal=take-control
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Video available for Europeans here: https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/feb/14/why-did-...
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by sandgiant 5y ago
That's an interesting question. I've never found an activity I could spend that much time on, besides perhaps playing computer games when I was a kid, but even that I would get tired of sometimes. I don't think these people a
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by sandgiant 5y ago
This might be a language thing. In Denmark "elite" is the official label assigned to those who compete at the highest level in any given sport. So say a runners club may have an "elite" team or "elite" runners.
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by sandgiant 5y ago
This is not true at all. The constitutional powers of the monarchs in Scandinavian countries do not at all reflect reality. The monarchs have no power to influence politics or elections outside of public or international relations.
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Last time in Denmark was in 1920 [1]. It almost abolished the monarchy at the time. Since then no other monarch have dared interfere with politics. Today all political interactions are purely ceremonial. The monarchy is still part of the po
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This mirrors my (very limited) experiences with Nix. I've so far only dipped my toes in home manager, but being able to share shell config and cli tools declaratively between WSL, linux and MacOS with very little branching has been gre
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We might never know with complete certainty, but then what can we know? Exploring the limits of the theories we pose is the only way to gain knowledge. The physical world is after all fairly predictable. Even if we will never know anything
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Indeed we might never be able to measure the global normalization of the likelihood function of life, but that doesn't mean we can't investigate it's local properties. In fact, I think we can learn a lot from doing just that.
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There is a sort of philosophical upper bound on the total size of the Universe in an eternal-inflation scenario. This is the Boltzmann brain paradox. The argument goes that if there are infinitely many universes it is infinitely more likely
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I lost all interest in the school system when experiencing all the "Inappropriate Instruction(s) for Gifted Learners" from that article. Started playing computer games instead and smoked weed every day for several years. Universit

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