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by truculent 2y ago
I don’t understand why so many people are convinced that these newfangled automobiles will replace horses. It sounds like unsubstantiated hype to me. There are a few reasons why I don’t believe cars will replace horses anytime soon: 1. Ridi
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by truculent 2y ago
> They weren’t cheap, either: About 25% of a tenant’s wages went toward monthly rent This obviously a lot to pay for such miserable housing, but it’s also significantly less than private renters currently pay in the UK[1]: > Excluding
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by truculent 2y ago
Given the number of older people who are scammed via their phones, this sounds like a reasonable solution to reducing one’s risk surface.
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by truculent 2y ago
I think something like structured generation might work in this context
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Soccer Has Become a Hotbed of Financial Engineering(bloomberg.com)
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by truculent 2y ago
One advantage (which is touched on in the logging section) is that having it provided by the language makes it clear what the default is, and sets expectations. Essentially, lifting it into the language is a way of coordinating the communit
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by truculent 2y ago
It’s not new: https://en.m.wiktionary.org/wiki/euphemism_treadmill
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by truculent 2y ago
The example only seems ridiculous because you've deliberately excluded relevant knowledge about the world from the model. Add a prior to the model and you'll have a much more reasonable function to maximise.
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by truculent 2y ago
What trade-offs are you typically evaluating with the prototype? Have you ever found that decision harder to make because of shortcuts etc taken during prototype?
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by truculent 2y ago
> explore how AI can assist in this workflow, and discuss how Qodo Merge, which just released support for Jira tickets, can help with maintaining code quality “And now it begins,” said Ser Arthur Dayne, the Sword of the Morning. He unsh
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by truculent 2y ago
The problem (in my opinion) is that Python gives you the tools (and perhaps even encourages you) to write code that would benefit from typing. It's perfectly feasible to write maintainable, well-designed code in a dynamic language. I&#
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by truculent 2y ago
Yes, that's a nice point - this adds censoring to our "data" on other writing systems. My intuition is that even if you accounted for exposure to an existing alphabet, the time-to-develop alphabet would still be much longer t
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by truculent 2y ago
Syllabaries have been invented multiple times independently and an alphabet only once, which to me would suggest the alphabetic step is the harder one to make. Why would you suggest the opposite? I'm a complete layperson in this area,
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by truculent 2y ago
> Not sure, but I think Hangul counts as a second invention of alphabetic writing. It is my understanding that Hangul is believed to have been influenced by other alphabetic writing (e.g. Phagspa) which themselves descended from the orig
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by truculent 2y ago
> First because is legal, and second because is unavoidable. That it is legal can obviously be changed, and it being "unavoidable" is a matter of culture. You could view stealing as "unavoidable" (ultimately, someone
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by truculent 2y ago
> there's probably a fluent transition between symbols and painting and writing and then alphabetic writing I'm with you until we get to alphabetic writing, which has (to our knowledge) only been invented once. To get from othe
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by truculent 2y ago
Nabokov would have been an incredible online poster. What an incredible list. Thank you for sharing!
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by truculent 2y ago
> First, VCs don't get paid when "dogshit startups" get acquired https://www.reuters.com/article/business/peloton-raises-12-b...
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by truculent 2y ago
> It seems possible that AI could be a partial coach to Junior Developers at each step. And who will pay them to do this while they learn? The issue is as much cultural and political as it is about employment and training.
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by truculent 2y ago
That’s like saying that encryption is a red herring. Yes, the information is there, but recovering it is a different matter. In this case, quantisation allows you to recover the information without knowing the “cypher” used to “forget” it -
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by truculent 2y ago
> Early-life sugar could drive later-life disease in various ways, Gracner says. Exposure in the womb might affect fetal development in a way that predisposes someone to metabolic diseases. Infants eating a sugary diet might also develop
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by truculent 2y ago
> But until I get another heuristic for "should I dig into this more?" Why do you need a heuristic? In what areas are you doing research where you don't have any other intuition or domain knowledge to draw on? And if you
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by truculent 2y ago
You're right. I will do that in future.
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by truculent 2y ago
> Socialism ... Canada ... UK I would hardly describe any of the governments of Canada or the UK in the past, what, 50(?) or so years as being socialist...
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by truculent 2y ago
I once realised that, for me, subvocalising thoughts was a way to keep something "in RAM", while some other thoughts went elsewhere, or developed something else. Perhaps slower speed helps in that respect?
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by truculent 2y ago
Yes, hence why it’s good advice.
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by truculent 2y ago
Yes, I checked the source, and I don’t think it meaningfully changed my reaction. Though you’d hope more people have access to washing machines now than in 2015.
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by truculent 2y ago
Sure, why give health insurance at all?
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by truculent 2y ago
I was skeptical the washing machine needed defending; I'm not convinced this article, or the offending tweet really need highlighting. That said, this is a genuinely quite surprising statistic to me: > The UN estimates that only two
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by truculent 2y ago
Good advice, but > - users of assistive technology would be unaware of changes in context, for example when moving to a new page > - it would fail to handle focus when moving between pages > - the user would be unable to navigate u

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