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by steve_g 6y ago
I'd say the dick move is firing someone without any kind of coaching or explanation about what you'd like to see done differently. The coaching should have happened well in advance of the firing. A firing that comes as a complete
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by steve_g 6y ago
You might consider how you connected with the acquirer. Did they find you? Were you shopping your project to buyers? Are they the only game in town, considering what your project offers? It sounds like you're not excited by the deal.
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by steve_g 6y ago
I think it's cool that he writes "gruntled."
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by steve_g 6y ago
I got really excited about the Linode/mediawiki solution. We're looking at Jira/Confluence right now, and it seems pretty heavyweight. But then I remembered nothing takes 20 minutes. I'll bet it takes 20 minutes to set
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by steve_g 6y ago
In English, the term for caning would be "corporal" punishment. Capital punishment is the death penalty. Corporal means pertaining to the physical body.
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by steve_g 6y ago
Move, sit, pick, and carry in such a way as to protect your back. Lift with your legs, not your back. Face the load you're lifting.
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by steve_g 6y ago
> "the article also berates self-checkout systems, which everybody I know perceives as a net benefit to their daily lives." You don't know me, but I want to provide a counter anecdote. My wife and I are both people that s
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by steve_g 6y ago
I don't understand how the mode can be unrepresentative of the overall distribution. It seems like it's one of the finest representatives.
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by steve_g 6y ago
This article describes higher probability letter combinations as higher entropy and lower probability combinations as lower entropy. For example, "yuzz-a-ma-tuzz" is low entropy because z's generally appear with lower probab
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by steve_g 6y ago
https://www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1101/2020.11.06.20226803v...
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Smart watches can detect symptoms of Covid-19(medicalxpress.com)
3 points by steve_g 6y ago|1 comments
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by steve_g 6y ago
This is great. I read all three articles. It's amazing how difficult it is to encode rules for dealing with natural language, considering how easy it is for a person to resolve ambiguities, misspellings, and the like. Of course, we f
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by steve_g 6y ago
It's a problem if the only space on the political/social spectrum you consider "decent" is woke liberalism. The great benefit of civilization is that we can live peacefully with people that we disagree with. If you thi
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by steve_g 6y ago
To save a few clicks, here's the paper that describes the fix and gives some comparisons with the supposedly broken implementation. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2012.15332.pdf
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by steve_g 6y ago
It sounds like what ALittleLight does is working. Often times people who set boundaries have their boundaries respected. They may get more respect in general. There's no need to involve anyone else.
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by steve_g 6y ago
It's probably not the path to greatness. I'd say it's more a way to have a basic foundation for thinking. The thing about fallacies is that they can be persuasive. But if you recognize them for what they are, you can defend a
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by steve_g 6y ago
Feeling dumb: Does this thing learn a graph (i.e. build nodes and edges) from more unstructured data like text in order to make relationships explicit? Does it take a knowledge graph and use it as partial input to help learn some other func
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by steve_g 6y ago
It's not the core conceit. Black/white IQ differences were discussed in one chapter. The core conceit is that IQ is real, and it really matters for life outcomes.
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by steve_g 6y ago
That's astonishing that Amazon builds its own "switch gears" software, as the article calls it. I assume these are the Automatic Transfer Switches (ATS) that connect to battery power or generator power when there's a mai
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by steve_g 6y ago
"Away from campus community, BIPOC individuals are not as likely to have access to preventive services or quality health care." Perhaps this is generally true. I don't know. But I doubt it's true for kids going to Corn
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by steve_g 6y ago
Does anyone have a link to the paper she was fired over? I've spent some time searching with no luck. I'd like to know what was technically controversial.
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by steve_g 6y ago
Well, she didn't get ignored. Instead, she got fired. If that was her goal, then she succeeded. If it wasn't, maybe she should have taken a different approach.
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by steve_g 6y ago
'Song for a New Day' by Sarah Pinsker is a Nebula award winning book about live music vs. virtual reality in a post-pandemic/bioterrorism world. It was written just before Covid took off, so it's interesting to see how
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by steve_g 6y ago
I recently learned that the programming language for the Navision ERP system (now Microsoft 365 Business Central) is a Pascal variant called AL.
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Ticketmaster Plans to Check Your Vaccine Status for Concerts(billboard.com)
3 points by steve_g 6y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 6y ago
It seems like this article solely blames Trump for this state of affairs. There's no agency given to the people who break off relationships based on political disagreement. It's all Trump's fault for being the most polarizi
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by steve_g 6y ago
The Inner Ring - I think it's my favorite piece by Lewis. https://www.lewissociety.org/innerring/
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by steve_g 6y ago
I've always liked this novel for its depiction of people whose justification for tyranny is "improving society", regardless of how the members of society feel about being improved.
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Government Cameras Hidden on Private Property? Open Fields(agweb.com)
3 points by steve_g 6y ago|0 comments
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by steve_g 6y ago
As a practical detail, I'm wondering if it always makes sense to wrap your predictor in a simple if-then based predictor. If your learned model makes bad predictions in certain specific cases, you can "cheat" with Boolean lo

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