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by state_less 2y ago
Old style Google search is dead, folks just haven’t closed the casket yet. My index queries are down ~90%. In the future, we’ll look back at LLMs as a major turning point in how people retrieve and consume information.
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by state_less 2y ago
> "Psychiatrists really focus on negative symptoms of depression. So, if you are not sad anymore, if your sleep or appetite is not impaired, they think you're better. But if you look at what patients define as important, they s
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by state_less 2y ago
The simulation framing tends to draw deterministic connotations. I think when people think of a simulation or perhaps physical interpretations, they imagine life as happening to them, rather than through them. I think it’s easy to perceiv
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by state_less 2y ago
Yes, for example, odd numbers are infinite, that doesn’t imply everything is odd.
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by state_less 2y ago
Sometime in your life you will have occasion to say, ‘What is this thing called time?’ - Nina Simone https://youtu.be/OXeh742_jak?si=Rwe4ev44rrjTL_Az
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by state_less 2y ago
> Her return message was “What hath God wrought.” I had a vaguely similar feeling going from a 56k dial up modem to a campus 10mbps connection.
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by state_less 3y ago
I’m not sure why people think interest rates will go down if we’re running 3%+ (50%+ above target) inflation and unemployment is below 5%. I don’t care what the projections are, the rates won’t drop until inflation is below 3% or unemploym
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by state_less 3y ago
This reminds me of nested dreams, where you wake up from a dream in your bed, only to slowly realize you’re still dreaming and wake again in the same bed.
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by state_less 3y ago
It’s not the cup that changes, it’s the story you tell yourself.
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by state_less 3y ago
You could simulate this using WebGL and some directional light sources. Then you don’t need to leave the house and it can be brought up on any screen. https://webglfundamentals.org/webgl/lessons/webgl-shadows.ht
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by state_less 3y ago
I’m in bed hearing rain drops on the roof, watching lightning flash across the sky and listening to the rumble of a planet whispering sweet nothings in the vast nowhere.
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by state_less 3y ago
No worries, HN can always defrost some more when needed.
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by state_less 3y ago
I’d expect treatment would not consist of bong rips, pitchforks and 9mm hand guns.
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by state_less 3y ago
When trying to control puts you into a state of anguish, you’ll know you have lost control, since you don’t set out to suffer like that. Ironically, you’ll want to surrender control, then you can move to a better state.
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by state_less 3y ago
It's not odd, this is how big capital extends itself into the future. Alphabet and Amazon are giant tech conglomerates that have been doing this for years. Alphabet bought Youtube, Android, DoubleClick, DeepMind, Maps, etc. Plenty o
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by state_less 3y ago
You’ll get the expected return but if inflation is 2-4% and if you’re holding bonds yielding 1% over 30 years, the real returns will be -1% to -3% per year. So you’ll have taken a real loss in purchasing power even if you’re paid in full.
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by state_less 3y ago
To be precise, high real rates generally means lower asset prices. We came in at 0.4% Month over month CPI. Overnight rates are 5.5%, so we still have a historically low real rate (5.5-4.8=0.7% CPI, 5.5-3.6=1.9% Core CPI). The Fed hasn&#x
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by state_less 3y ago
The real rate is 0.86% according to the Fed, which is historically cheap. In other words, if people get a mortgage loan at 6% and inflation is running at 4%, they’re not paying that much. If inflation drops, and the Fed lowers interest rat
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by state_less 3y ago
I’m curious how the medical community measures other interventions with a similar issue (e.g. talk therapy, physical therapy, surgery, etc…). How do they show efficacy when it’s obvious the person is knowingly receiving treatment >90% o
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by state_less 3y ago
The quietest place I've ever experienced is out on the ocean, after a calm, anchored on the great Bahamas bank. A stillness came over us as we shut the engine off and listened to the vast nothing.
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by state_less 3y ago
I took a moment from my day And wrapped it up in things you say And mailed it off to you Phish - Wading in the velvet sea Thanks for the blog posts over all these years.
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by state_less 3y ago
Thanks dylan604, it’s a wonderful image. I appreciate the people bringing us such clear images.
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by state_less 3y ago
Sure is beautiful when earth puts on her electric crown.
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by state_less 3y ago
In any event, they’re going to need a better launchpad design. They’ll want a launchpad they can turn around and reuse rapidly in the future.
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by state_less 3y ago
I grew up on one of those islands on a river. The flow of the river passing like a stream of time.
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by state_less 4y ago
Perhaps we could play some galactic billiards someday with a good gravitational model and plenty of computation. Send a flair out lasting over a hundred millions years, letting others know, “hey, we lived here.”
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by state_less 4y ago
You broke into one more system on your way out Glad you found your way to our heart
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by state_less 4y ago
Yes, it seems like a small matter. Perhaps before the next meeting he should be asked, “Does the female form make you uncomfortable Mr Governor?” https://youtu.be/bDDGZxb6YhM
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by state_less 4y ago
But isn’t the cash’s purchasing power getting inflated away, at say 6.4%, so the liquidity evaporates? We can all be given millions (super liquid) but that doesn’t make us millionaires in terms of purchasing power. At first it seems like e
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by state_less 4y ago
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