smitty1e

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by smitty1e 5mo ago
Generalizing, one can foresee a balkanized internet of niche communities fighting to discover/interact without getting hoovered up into the AI Borg.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
“It’s tough to make predictions, especially about the future.”--Yogi Berra
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
Leadership. We can spend megabytes of characters and fat piles of AI tokens, but the best leaders are those who remain humble enough for anyone to tell them safely that their prize surfboard is really a piece of drywall. And when such negat
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
Contra Sir Tim Berners-Lee, the signal-to-noise ratio on the internet has been terrible. One seriously wonders if GenX didn't manage to hit a sweet spot for technological availability ahead of everything just going to seed.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
The wiring point is more subtle than that. Consider the domestic power panel and wiring that is perfectly acceptable, but would 'splode outright if you moved it to an industrial setting and put it under an enterprise load. Context matt
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
I was just going to invoke Goodhart's Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart's_law
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
Really didn't fancy this work. You just have context-free character strings to work with here. And then I peeked at the leader board and *really* didn't care for the things ranked best at all.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
It applies applies especially to those disinterested in the demographic cratering on offer from the naysayers.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
When y'all get tired of this faffing about: pursue a suitable community of faith; date an actual person of the opposite gender until Destiny (and other wise eyes) indicate a match; marry, and let two be a large value of one; have or ad
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
There is wisdom behind the 10th Commandment. Starting with materialism and veering into coveting is the source of much evil.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
This is among the valid complaints that can be leveled at public most public figures. While I understand the need to be flexible, and Sun Tzu certainly preached deception as a weapon, ambiguity sucks in politics. Not a partisan point. The n
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
I was having fun recently with the word "surfeiting" from an early 17th century text. Did a meme with picture of Sean Penn from the end of "Fast Times at Ridgemont High" where he's flanked by attractive females, and
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
AI, like the Y2K "bug", has been extremely useful for driving tech refresh.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
One wonders to what extent, if any, Trump's social media persona is geared toward having his opponents continue to underestimate him. Crass? Yes. Tedious? Sure. Un-statesmanlike? Fine. Effective? Hmmm...
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
Who are some 3D printer vendors that are worthy of support?
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Will AI kill the research paper?(marginalrevolution.com)
6 points by smitty1e 5mo ago|4 comments
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
If I were to make my own programming language, it would look an awful lot like Python. Roughly 100%.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
> Cassettes are the worst way to listen to music ever invented. Sea Story: - Background: US Navy ships go alonside an oiler to refuel and hold a course/speed at restricted maneuvering for a while. Hours, even. After this nerve-wrack
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
"No scripting" is essentially setting the watcwatch back ~30 years to Mosaic. It would be great to differentiate between "static" and "dynamic" pages based upon scripting, IMO.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
I'm not an AI enthusiast, but a great recent use-case has been to puzzle out the pyqgis interface. In a seemingly endless class hierarchy of non-pythonic objects, using SuperGrok to figure out how to do QGIS automation has been a times
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
> How does a medium-sized SME were all the payrolls depends on Sara and her USB stick do if, literally, their servers do catch fire. The SpecOps guys have the following bit of wisdom on offer: "Two is one and one is none".
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
Contrarian take: the Promethian efforts will continue, and asymptotically approach the axis of The Real Thing, until we realize that that Prometheus is a variation on the theme of Sisyphus. Only in this telling, Sisyphus is rolling his unev
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
> Ozymandian pathos ...for the win.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
I did a lot of VBA, and the integration of the whole experience was unmatched. From TFA: > Microsoft has launched seven UI frameworks since VB6. Why? Pick a horse and ride it.
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
For example, the post-demise advent of Val Kilmer in "As Deep as the Grave" https://www.reuters.com/business/media-telecom/filmmakers-de... could prove a turning point. If the "societal we" don
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by smitty1e 5mo ago
I don't understand how you extracted political bias from this. A one-word summary of TFA would be: "wisdom".
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Fast Fourier Transforms: for fun and profit (1966)(dl-acm-org.mutex.gmu.edu)
2 points by smitty1e 6mo ago|0 comments
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
> Once upon a time, they were counterculture idealists bringing power to the people. Today they’re greedy monopolists who’d sooner destroy our democracy than be reined in by government in any way—and they have to be stopped. What changed
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
A widow receiving a military pension will not uncommonly "live in sin" before losing the monthly check. Which is a pointer to the "real", general issue: materialism. Ain't no joy in $tuff. Joy is of the Lord.
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by smitty1e 6mo ago
Pournelle is so missed.

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