turtletontine

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by turtletontine 5y ago
with Instagram, I think the thought process is closer to: we can get a lot more data from them if we coerce them into logging in
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by turtletontine 5y ago
... but if you can't collect data on them, you can't target ads to them or sell their data elsewhere, and therefore they're worth nothing to you. At the end of the day every company wants to make money, or will be bought out
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by turtletontine 5y ago
Update: I'm skimming here ( https://jaredforsyth.com/posts/whats-cool-about-unison/ ) and here ( https://joshondesign.com/2012/04/09/open-letter-language-des... ) and I see Unison
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I'm not totally sure what the important distinction is here. For many languages the important thing is already a post-parsing data structure, that's what any compilation output or byte code is. You obviously want to keep the raw s
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by turtletontine 5y ago
you're saying housing prices should increase because land is finite and therefore scarce. but there is so much land in the US and more empty houses than homeless; even in expensive neighborhoods a lot of housing scarcity is artificiall
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I'd say maybe places where the air temperature regularly gets to >110 F aren't meant for human habitation
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by turtletontine 5y ago
Really cool post! Can anyone explain why const makes the array executable? That was the most surprising but for me
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I agree that from a scientific standpoint, of course correlation isn't causation and more evidence is needed. But emphasizing this point feels uselessly contrarian. There's not a doubt in my mind that social media is a disaster fo
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I read a convincing article a while back about these incidents in Cuba, by a neurologist saying this is all totally consistent with stress triggered neurologic incidents, and the microwave/sonic weapon stuff was all extraordinary claim
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I'd say ransomware is much closer to "piracy" than terrorism, but totally agree that this incident shows there's not much distance between this and cyber terrorism. (Even if it's just criminals accidentally throwing
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I remember this article from a year ago. It's a beautiful piece of prose that really stuck with me, thanks for sharing this again. The first year of my PhD program is ending, and I feel like I've been adrift the whole time: floati
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by turtletontine 5y ago
Wishing OP the best, and maybe your workflow is good for you, but 1000+ tabs is insane to me. I don't understand what you could possibly need 1000 tabs for. I'm certainly guilty of keeping too many tabs open I'll never read,
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I'd also like to add that journals are becoming less and less relevant in some ways. Most of the journal clubs I have attended don't discuss the latest e.g. Nature, Science papers, they talk about the new stuff on arXiv that week.
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I'd love to help spread knowledge, but frankly I'm not knowledgeable enough about the risks of seeding to be comfortable with it.
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by turtletontine 5y ago
That's why I said not true in details, but true in effect
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by turtletontine 5y ago
It sounds like he's saying Linux desktop DEVELOPMENT sucks, not that using Linux desktop sucks. I've been running (mostly ubuntu based) Linux since 2014. The only major problems I've had have been driver issues, userspace app
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by turtletontine 5y ago
A central observation of modern monetary theory is that all (federal) govt spending is done that way but the fed: the fed just conjures 1 bajillion $ into Lockheed's account, and taxes to "pay for" govt spending happen later.
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by turtletontine 5y ago
Only half the code is rendering for me as well, Firefox iOS
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by turtletontine 5y ago
I don't see anything here beyond "neural networks generalize linear operators." (But of course they're more interesting for nonlinear applications) I think neutral nets are such a generalized thing that tons of stuff can
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by turtletontine 6y ago
Not to downplay this, but the authors "You can track any mobile phone !" claim seems comically overblown. Not everyone has What's App, some people who have it rarely use it, and only knowing when someone's online is a pr
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by turtletontine 6y ago
The latest and greatest survey at that range is probably GAIA, which has a very important data release coming soon I think. (Unless it came out and I missed it) I have no sense of how much of the Galaxy it maps, but I know it's crucial