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by tosser0001 6y ago
Some months back an article was posted here about the Library of Congress’s newspaper digitization technology: https://arxiv.org/abs/2005.01583 https://news-navigator.labs.loc.gov/ What they have done
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I'd be curious to know when the last actual read-world dog fight actually happened. Maybe there were one or two during the Gulf War? At any rate it seems to be going the way of the cavalry charge.
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I've wondered what the relationship between long term interest rates and the human lifespan is. Even if you lived only, say, a thousand years, just putting a little money into some reasonably safe investment would result in enormous we
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by tosser0001 6y ago
That short video of Paul Rand arriving to present the logo was part of a program that I saw years ago (maybe on PBS?) Does anyone know what that program was?
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by tosser0001 6y ago
Yes, I agree here. The beauty of FamilySearch is that they've done an amazing job archiving and cataloging the primary documents they have. Ancestry does have some good stuff too, but FamilySearch can feel more like an online researc
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by tosser0001 6y ago
As someone who is interested in genealogy it's a bit frustrating to have so many different services competing to hoover up various data sets and hold them in their private fiefdoms, each of which requires a fee. FamilySearch is the one
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I like this, but I swear there was a Flash version of something very similar that went viral about 15 years ago.
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I’m a lot closer to the end of my career than the beginning and am hoping to ride this WFH thing out as long as possible. But if I were younger I personally would be kind of bummed out for a couple of reasons: 1. It’s just a totally differe
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I wonder about future generations who will see their then-average temperatures as the new normal. There will be people complaining: “do you really want colder Winters?”
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by tosser0001 6y ago
It would be interesting to know how they've built out this ontology. I'm sure they seeded it with something that they acquired from some company that specializes in this sort of thing. I think that's how they got in trouble
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by tosser0001 6y ago
The key to making the feed more tolerable from an advertisement perspective is to methodically remove all the "interests" they've collected about you: https://www.facebook.com/ads/preferences/ Adver
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by tosser0001 6y ago
This is the thing that bugs me the most about the feed. They seem to be very good at categorizing things. After all, it's the foundation of their entire business model: placing people into a giant ontology of subjects and then selling
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by tosser0001 6y ago
The problem is CS is just a miserable field to be in unless you really, really enjoy the grind of it. To me it comes down to some CS-specific version of Mike Tyson's (perhaps apocryphal) quote "everyone has a plan until they get p
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by tosser0001 6y ago
Procrastination for me has nothing to do with fear of failing or making a mistake and is almost entirely about avoiding mental effort. It's akin to avoiding physical exercise.
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by tosser0001 6y ago
Would this benefit China or Chinese companies in any way that would be detrimental to U.S. interests?
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by tosser0001 6y ago
When I was between jobs I had about a 2 week period where I was technically without coverage, but the new company reimbursed me once I was on their plan. I went to fill a prescription for a very common generic drug that has been around for
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I remember watching this David Attenborough program where he was talking about the hunting techniques of some bushmen in Africa. They did a close-up shot of their feet while out on a hunt and they were wearing regular track shoes: https:&
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by tosser0001 6y ago
I was certain by this point in the crisis we'd be seeing video akin to WWII/"Rosie the Riveter" stuff of PPE flowing out of factories around the country. Is the U.S.A. simply not capable of this level of production any l
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Army Corps of Enginneers general on emergency hospital logistics in New York(twitter.com)
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I just don't see what good is going to come out of worrying about this right now while the world is on fire. Everybody needs to be thinking about how to help in the coming weeks, anything else is a waste of time and mental energy. Ther
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by tosser0001 7y ago
Interesting to see interferon on here. I remember it being hailed as some sort of wonder drug back in the 80s, but then sort of fell off the radar. https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=interferon
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by tosser0001 7y ago
In Massachusetts we were told the numbers would go up quickly because there were a lot of results backlogged at the CDC. I wish I knew where the official numbers were coming from. For a while we’d hear about “presumptive positive” cases, wh
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by tosser0001 7y ago
Actually Germany is another strange data point: according to Wikipedia’s sources they have 21,890 confirmed cases and “only” 77 deaths. This seems dramatically different than Italy’s experience. Italy had over 1400 deaths by that point in t
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I’ve been wondering the same thing about Massachusetts where I live. We have 416 confirmed cases, 58 requiring hospitalization - it’s unclear how many of those require the ICU. I know of several people who are suspected of having it but ha
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I think in some cases though there are systems that funnel people into places that seem designed to evoke engagement and often the engagement triggers outrage. I wish Jack Dorsey at Twitter would take a look at the absolute shit-show that i
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by tosser0001 7y ago
When I was a teenager in Massachusetts in 1982 I bought the album "Tragic Figures" by a band called Savage Republic on a lark, based solely on the hand-printed album cover. It turned out to be very strange post-punk industrial mu
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by tosser0001 7y ago
People are panic buying toilet paper for crying out loud. Unless you are planning on retiring in the next few years, you should be looking at this as the buying opportunity of a life time. This is at least the 4th panic sell off I've
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by tosser0001 7y ago
1. Fully AI-generated "influencer" profiles begin to out-compete actual human beings on social media platforms. 2. Cities will begin experimenting with geo-fencing automobiles so that speed and acceleration is restricted to define
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by tosser0001 7y ago
Influencers: I think we'll start to see fully AI-generated "influencer" profiles start to overtake actual human beings soon - assuming there aren't some already out there. It will become increasingly hard for actual peop
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by tosser0001 7y ago
I get the sense that tinnitus is so different for so many people there will never be a single solution. I think it can only be stopped at its source in the hearing centers of the brain itself, but good luck getting that accomplished. I can

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