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by techbio 6y ago
I love the typo "efficienciencies" in the context of TFA, and hope it stays in there as a reminder of the anti-deduplicatory nature of content disaggregation.
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by techbio 6y ago
I like this write up a lot, particularly the examples and the metrics, but I wonder, what would be the relative performance of sampling using some of the middle digits of the UUID?
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by techbio 6y ago
https://www.thebiglebow.ski/at-least-its-an-ethos
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by techbio 6y ago
I would be pleased to hear from a classicist on this point as Durant compiled his history well after Darwin.
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by techbio 6y ago
Did your friend search for Autocad, and are you linked by any social networks? I'm suggesting your experience may be related to other potential avenues of data convergence, much as it may have appeared on the surface exposed to your aw
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by techbio 6y ago
From the article: only 3% of the population of sub-Saharan Africa is over 65. Compare with the age profile of COVID-19 mortality: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/covid-data/investi...
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by techbio 6y ago
So collapse is...life goes on.
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by techbio 6y ago
This is essentially the sport of curling, sped up.
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by techbio 6y ago
Perhaps the plaques help by making room and resources for youth.
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by techbio 6y ago
Define "consciousness". Edit: The article makes an attempt, and posits that it is this https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attention_schema_theory
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by techbio 6y ago
I haven't clicked it, but my guess is that the first sentence oversimplifies in drawing its conclusion. Remove it and the comment is improved.
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by techbio 6y ago
This reminds me of the time I interviewed for a developer job at a young startup (college dropouts and just-grads), and the interviewer asked me, age 26, "what is like to be so old?" Given time, you'll see.
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by techbio 6y ago
The score to aim for appears to be 38%. https://techbio.org is reasonably close, with 44%
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by techbio 6y ago
I bookmark all tabs with CTRL-SHIFT-D then arrange the hierarchy manually in bookmark manager. Doesn't automatically do it all, but keeps me involved with my bookmark trees.
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by techbio 6y ago
That may be. I have no idea how many solar panels it takes to power the manufacture of a solar panel.
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by techbio 6y ago
The only surprise here is that there have been no significant changes to these proportions in decades. Correction: changes will come after sufficient people are surprised by the consequences .
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by techbio 6y ago
What a fantastic name for a command-line knowledge base! Extremely heartening for anyone who's gone through the briar-patch of browsing through a self-disorganizing hierarchy of sub-kilobyte text files. The animated screenshots on GitH
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by techbio 6y ago
Why is this article so filled with question-marks? The opinions and anecdotes attributed to various names from around the world do not seem to form a coherent thesis nor address the headline. I'm not even clear whether Betteridge'
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by techbio 6y ago
"Do-it-yourself" seems like a not quite appropriate title for an interface that calls a webservice with pre-built vision ML.
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by techbio 6y ago
I'm sure the poster you're replying to knows this and wishes it weren't so.
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by techbio 6y ago
Experts begin with and stick with a process that builds expertise: reconsidering assumptions, asking questions and examining the answers, keeping notes and reviewing them, explaining what they learn and teaching others, etc. Though I do not
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by techbio 6y ago
The Salesman should be capitalized, it isn't one person, it's the foundational driver of most of the information that people create and consume in digital and mass-communication.
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by techbio 6y ago
I don't see that as a particularly "civilized" part of our society. More like pitchforks and torches than good governance.
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by techbio 6y ago
A big part of the Chinese education strategy has been to send lots of students to US universities to get advanced degrees and take that knowledge back to build China.
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by techbio 6y ago
Referenced (only partially quoted, and wholly unheeded) in the article, Postel's Law, also known as the Robustness Principle, says "be liberal in what you accept, and conservative in what you send." https://en.m.wi
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by techbio 6y ago
Caveat Emptor - Buyer Beware Nothing new under the sun.
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by techbio 6y ago
There are still plenty of places with 1/10X programmers.
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by techbio 6y ago
Just yesterday I was thinking of the difference in the perceived sounds of many clock radios tuned to the same, or to different, radio stations. Last week I came across a comment on HN having the quote "History never repeats itself, bu
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by techbio 6y ago
Good insight, you might take it as your opportunity to curate a shorter or more detailed one, maybe as an https://github.com/topics/awesome-list
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by techbio 6y ago
I'm surely not the only one who stopped watching the news to read Camus' "The Plague". Can't recommend this choice highly enough.

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