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by spindle 4y ago
For people reading Russell: it's important to know in advance that he's funny! I've known an expert (specifically, on Plato) disparage Russell's history until I showed him which of his sentences were jokes, and then the
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by spindle 4y ago
I totally agree, and that's how, for example, the rich Oxford and Cambridge colleges are funded. I think it might be a big ask these days, though, especially with returns on investments relatively low. Sadly.
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by spindle 4y ago
Smalltalk's ideas about OOP are very different from more mainsteam languages. IMO they're much better, but YMMV
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by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.ph/3iF3g
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by spindle 4y ago
I love the film sims when I'm feeling arty, but most of them are so far away from realistic colours that I've ended up almost always using the plain one (Provia) unless I'm photographing someone who's monochrome. (A lot
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by spindle 4y ago
For my purposes (recording memories plus just a tad of artiness), my phone camera is at least as good as my Fujifilm X series big camera (and actually probably better), except for zooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooom. That is a very big
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by spindle 4y ago
> I would just ask why this whole ordeal upsets you (and others) so much? ... Again, I just don’t get why it makes folks so mad? ... > I doubt everyone cared this much about how Twitter was run before this There are two very separate
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by spindle 4y ago
That's true of (commercial) news outlets. It doesn't apply to "everything you read". There are many ways to check facts that don't rely on news outlets, at least for people who have time and resources.
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by spindle 4y ago
Yes! You're the first person I've heard say that and I'm sure you're right. Then there will be some market for better-trained LLMs, which it will still be possible to make using curated data sets, but that will be expen
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by spindle 4y ago
By far my favourite book on consciousness is "The View From Nowhere" by Thomas Nagel. It doesn't mention AI but you can make the connections yourself. David Chalmers has a recent book and a bunch of papers on AI and consciou
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by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.is/8eKZD
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by spindle 4y ago
I had a job in IT at the University of Cambridge. I moved to Sydney for personal reasons and worked in a government policy job for a few months, and then applied for an IT job at the University of Sydney that was similar to the one I'
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by spindle 4y ago
Interesting - thank you!
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by spindle 4y ago
If you like tapping, let me introduce you to Michael Manring: https://y.com.sb/watch?v=js93qxDlIzg
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by spindle 4y ago
To answer your question directly, Haskell is too hard for me :-( I'm a pretty crap programmer - I was a professional back when you didn't have to be GOOD at it, you just had to be able to do it! More interestingly, I wonder wheth
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by spindle 4y ago
I first came across lisp in the 80s, when I briefly worked in AI. Lisp taught me (this is the motivational bit for you) the power of a few well thought out orthogonal abstractions. Almost all other languages seem to me to be a mixture of l
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by spindle 4y ago
Great topic, but I'm disappointed by the Wikipedia article. It strikes me as a bit hagiographic. I could be wrong. Can anyone suggest anything more critical on this topic (in any sense of "critical")? By the way, I'm
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by spindle 4y ago
WOW (and I searched for more and found https://andythomas.com.au/pages/bird-sounds )
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by spindle 4y ago
https://archive.is/Yl7s8
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by spindle 4y ago
I have huge respect for those people and I hope you're right.
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by spindle 4y ago
> I think it's 5-10 years out from widespread adoption To quote Andy Warhol, "They always say that time changes things, but you actually have to change them yourself." I don't mean you personally! I mean that it&#x27
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by spindle 4y ago
I don't think it's inevitable, because governments notice what large financial companies do. It might be aaaaaalmost inevitable, depending on who's got the best lobbyists. Let's hope not.
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by spindle 4y ago
I suppose "Why?" is a rhetorical question. If you think they should get fined again, I agree with you.
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by spindle 4y ago
k2pdfopt is an alternative with a billion useful options: https://www.willus.com/k2pdfopt/
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by spindle 4y ago
Awesome. I do a similar thing with kmonad, which works on Linux, Windows and MacOS. https://github.com/kmonad/kmonad
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by spindle 4y ago
yes
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by spindle 4y ago
Carrying all that weight helps keep me fit.
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by spindle 4y ago
changelog: https://github.com/jgm/pandoc/blob/main/changelog.md
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by spindle 4y ago
Another great short movie by Steve Cutts is Man: https://y.com.sb/watch?v=WfGMYdalClU
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by spindle 4y ago
The clocks in my schools would take 80 minutes to complete each hour. No wait. Maybe it only seemed like that.

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