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by tech_ken 2y ago
From the report 80% is "twice the rate of failure for information technology projects that do not involve AI" ( https://www.rand.org/pubs/research_reports/RRA2680-1.html ) so seems that a 20% hit-rate isn&
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Absolutely love the logo, is there a term for this design style? edit: closest I could find was 'Corporate Gen-X Cyber' ( https://cari.institute/aesthetics/corporate-gen-x-cyber )
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by tech_ken 2y ago
People might say that a factory robot builds the car, or a 3D printers makes a toy. Like these things, GenAI tools are fabs, their function is to make stuff. Cranes function is to lift, so its inappropriate to say that it built the house.
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by tech_ken 2y ago
> it's that sub/ex-urbanites want to change the city to conform to their values. keep your car, i don't care, drive everywhere, but don't trash up the city just for your convenience. Agree with the sentiment but IMO s
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Tail events are costly, NNT cackles somewhere in the distance
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Plus Suncor, the brown cloud, auto emissions, etc. It’s not new, talk to anyone who studies public health around here. Childhood asthma in the inverted L is and has been elevated for years
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by tech_ken 2y ago
I mean I’m not an asthmatic but this random .org seems to contradict you? Or do I have what you’re saying backwards? https://www.lung.org/media/press-releases/state-of-the-air-c... https://www.lung.org&
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Never lived in NYC but if you consider our air quality a plus I'm concerned for your lungs. Not wrong about Denver people on a macro level, but if you can find your own group of weirdos it's a very fun city to live in (or at least
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Hope you have a good time at the wastewater treatment plant. It's not really relevant to anything but I'm pretty sure someone threw a renegade rave out near that Brighton location a few months back....
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Nothing lasts forever....even cold November rain. We'll always have the monkey piss review though
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Okay that makes sense to me; I've historically avoided music reviews bc I personally hate people giving me their opinions about stuff I like/dislike, but I can see how it would be frustrating if like the Jop and Pazz section just
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by tech_ken 2y ago
I kind of dropped out of The Discourse a few years back, mainly by quitting Twitter, and articles like this have really stopped making sense to me. I'm sure that there is Somebody doing all these things he's talking about, but I k
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Man I hate when people use the phrase “broken home” unironically. My parents divorced when I was young and I can assure the writer that both of my homes were always whole. Do you know what breaks a home? Two people who no longer want to liv
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by tech_ken 2y ago
That's specifically not a valid (or legal) reason to speed (in the US at least) because driving recklessly in an emergency is a great way to create two emergencies. Emergency vehicles exist because of this fact; they get sirens, visibl
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by tech_ken 2y ago
I dunno I take issue with (b), I think you're leaning too hard on "obviously". IMO it's reasonable to say that like 70MPH is the fastest a car is allowed to possibly go on public roads and cap it there. Possibly I lack i
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by tech_ken 2y ago
> If they then change it to prevent you from breaking the limit But your ability to break the limit is fully predicted on the capabilities of the car? It's not like it's some kind of natural right you have to go 80 in a 65, you
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by tech_ken 2y ago
That's a subtle change of framing; I'm talking about this idea of the thing as a 'pre-crime' tool. I agree that the implementation you describe (ex. a hard cap on speed based on ex. GPS speed limit data) is a 'bad i
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by tech_ken 2y ago
> This feels very Big Brother, where someone (or some system) is watching over you so you don't break any laws Is having a speed-limit in the first place 'pre-crime prevention'? Regulating technology that can have public h
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Google docs’ value is the network effects. Everyone has a Google account, so GDocs is like a universal collaboration tool. Does not seem like there’s a huge space for something like this, it’s going to be a huge pain every time I want to sh
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by tech_ken 2y ago
I think that once you've become, ex., the number 1 tennis player in a country it's tough to retrain, both literally and psychologically. Your whole life, and likely your self-worth, are highly enmeshed with the sport. Accepting th
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Is it? If there’s an effective duopoly on the entire market is that truly choice?
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Ahhhh that makes more sense
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Feyerabend has an interesting account of this in “Against Method”. One thing I also found very interesting in his telling is the role of the telescope in revolutionizing naval warfare. Galileo in part was motivated, and supported by, a sort
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by tech_ken 2y ago
> computers do not in fact use Taylor series for evaluating polynomials. I mean I get what you're saying, but the smartass in me observes that since any polynomial is it's own Taylor expansion...
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What's the argument that the early-fusion setup scales/maintains easier than late-fusion? Does this come at a tradeoff or is it just uniformly better?
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May be apocryphal, but I thought I remembered reading that Rome never implemented a real census. Curious about the relationship between statistical management of logistics and industrial development
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I think the point is less to provide a completely proper proof of Thales Theorem, and more to demonstrate the fundamental principle of what a proof is (an argument to back-up a seemingly intractable statement), and how one might construct o
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by tech_ken 2y ago
Speaking totally anecdotally but to me the popularity of this has more to do with (A) its omnipresence at bars and music venues as the default water/seltzer available for purchase, (B) the push to replace plastic water bottles with alu
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> People seem like they don't exist anymore except on the terms and expectations already laid out by other people Hasn't this always been true? think what's changed is the labels and identities being selected between, rath
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It saves me a lot of keystrokes as a coding copilot. Pretty good at detecting my usual patterns, and most of the time it can auto-complete a line with either something correct or something very close to correct (usually just a few small twe

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