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Henry G. Gilbert Historical Nursery and Seed Trade Catalog Collection(archive.org)
1 points by tmoertel 11mo ago|0 comments
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
Hey, those docs for Bluefin are a great introduction to the space. Very well written!
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
This cluster of launches might not be intentional. It could just be a bunch of independent teams all trying to get their launches out before the EOY deadline.
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
This model of complexity from the book is very useful: complexity(system) = sum(complexity(part) * time_spent_in(part) for part in system)
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
The point is that, regardless of whether the bailiff’s and auctioneer’s fees are eminently reasonable, it will always result in net-negative benefit to society (excepting the bailiff and auctioneer) whenever the bailiff confiscates propert
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The Economics of Transformative AI(nber.org)
2 points by tmoertel 11mo ago|0 comments
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
The OP wrote that: > [The bike] was sold at auction for £50. £35 bailiff fees for taking it there and £15 auctioneer fees, £0 off the debt. If this claim is true, then I think most people will still find this conduct outrageous: How is
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
The introduction of automatic code modernizers to keep legacy code up to date with modern Go idioms is interesting: > With gopls v0.18.0, we began exploring automatic code modernizers. As Go evolves, every release brings new capabilit
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
Some context: > [This is the closing keynote from posit::conf(2025)] about trustworthy data visualization. But it’s also about trust a bit more generally, and how we should think about it in a world where researchers are faking results,
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Trustworthy Data Visualization(kieranhealy.org)
1 points by tmoertel 11mo ago|1 comments
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
Note that Shake is a predecessor of Buck and hence Buck2.
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Railroad Engineering (1912)(archive.org)
2 points by tmoertel 11mo ago|0 comments
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
> Whether intentional or not, you cannot advertise a job to only certain people based on targeting by a protected characteristic. To clarify, my question was specifically about the case where you could prove that the ad system could not
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
In short: Syntax defines the textual forms that the language allows. Semantics define how each form is interpreted. Consider a simple calculator language that lets you add positive integers. The syntax might give grammar rules like: e
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
Not the OP, but: This is actually a thorny problem. Say you have an advertising system that knows nothing about a user’s gender. This system, by construction, cannot vary its ad selections based on gender. But the system does remember wheth
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
It's not the age and location that are concerning. It's that the seniors who are especially susceptible to being misled will identify themselves as such. Further, if you look at the comments from these seniors, their YT username
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
This isn't merely AI slop. This is AI slop that appears to have been designed to specifically target a vulnerable audience for the purpose of later running financial scams against them. It ought to be in a different category altogether
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
If anyone at YouTube Trust & Safety is reading this article, I've got a real problem for you to solve. There are channels that exist solely to pump out AI slop seemingly designed to trick gullible seniors into identifying themselve
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
I'm one of them! I dipped my toe in the water with a Steam Deck and had such a great experience that I recently purchased a Framework Desktop and installed Bazzite on it. It's been great. Everything I play just works and the perfo
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by tmoertel 11mo ago
I don't think it's that simple. For example: Show me the unit tests and CI/CD scripts you would write to prove your code is free from security holes. Yet, once you've identified a hole , you can write a script to test f
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A Personal History of the Tidyverse(hadley.github.io)
2 points by tmoertel 1y ago|0 comments
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by tmoertel 1y ago
Show me the TDD tests you would use to show that your AI-generated code isn't creating security vulnerabilities.
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by tmoertel 1y ago
> > When you always published and built Docker images for the public you are creating an expectation > That expectation does not entitle anybody to anything though. Note that implied contracts do exist, and sometimes expectations b
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by tmoertel 1y ago
Sorry for not being clear. The phenomenon I was curious about was that “even a single use of ibuprofen can very easily leave one with a gastrointestinal ulcer.” I have a friend with an ulcer but he doesn’t think ibuprofen use could be a fac
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by tmoertel 1y ago
Do you also remember the researcher Philip Zimmerman’s hack to get around the cryptography-is-munitions edict? The source code to PGP was published by MIT Press as a book that just happened to be in a format suitable for OCR. That framing m
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by tmoertel 1y ago
Say what you will about Perl, Perl docs are some of the most helpful. It's standard for docs to have a SYNOPSIS section up front that provides examples of common usage. This is followed by discussion, reference, and often more examples
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Interactive On-Device Segmentation in Snapseed(research.google)
2 points by tmoertel 1y ago|0 comments
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Stocks Can Be Quietly Stolen from Your IRA(nytimes.com)
15 points by tmoertel 1y ago|7 comments
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by tmoertel 1y ago
On 6502-based systems the available memory was often less than 64 KiB, the maximum addressable by the processor directly. Still, you could squeeze a lot into that small amount of you were clever. For example, Steve Wozniak wrote in BYTE mag
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Better health conversations: Research on a "wayfinding" AI agent based on Gemini(research.google)
19 points by tmoertel 1y ago|2 comments

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