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by vharuck 3y ago
Reducing the risk per mile driven would reduce deaths, but so would reducing miles driven. More public transportation would achieve that.
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by vharuck 3y ago
At the time of my completing the quiz, 21% said riding a skateboard in the park violated the rule. But only 13% said carrying a skateboard violated the rule. I'm puzzled by that. Does a vehicle stop being a vehicle when it's not
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by vharuck 3y ago
I think the Jewish community took the best method for knowing if a product is kosher: set up their own agencies that permit identifying marks on packaging if standards are met. https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kosher_cer
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by vharuck 3y ago
As a person with a bachelor's in math who dislikes statistics, it's the one field I know where "gotcha" problems are more common in reality than in class. And they are nasty problems. It takes a lot of education until
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by vharuck 3y ago
This summarizes the actual hard parts of my job as a government statistician. But I'm hoping LLM-generated code (R in my case) can let me stay "in the flow" when exploring. I can spot-check generated code pretty quickly, but
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by vharuck 3y ago
I wonder if the Equal Protections Clause of the 14th Amendment could be used to knock down these "for everyone but us" caveats.
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by vharuck 3y ago
People who buy things expect quality, service, and interoperability. In my experience, FOSS projects often have the quality, but they lack service (they may ignore suggestions or unusual bugs). Interoperability is usually left as an exerci
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by vharuck 3y ago
Not to mention the implication he also wouldn't bother reading actual cases and rulings before citing them.
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by vharuck 3y ago
I agree that proportional representation would be better. It's painful living in a "purple" state when that means one party handily wins state-wide elections but the other has a right grip on state legislature. >In proper
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by vharuck 3y ago
There's a fix for that, but it requires editing the registry: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/forum/all/restor... I'm so much happier after doing it. Hard to believe Microsoft thou
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by vharuck 3y ago
When it comes to oil wells, Pennsylvania has a law for that: The Oil and Gas Act of 1984. A lot of wells are still just abandoned¹ by companies (in the usual ways companies shirk responsibility). ¹ https://stateimpact.npr.org&#x
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by vharuck 3y ago
>Facebook was absolutely hated on for doing research into understanding and minimizing those possible negative effects. IIRC, the outcry was because Facebook was performing a psychological experiment without subjects' consent. That
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by vharuck 3y ago
I have a script like this in my "Monthly Reports". I'm not a software dev or working on a single project, so it goes through the config's "recent.repo" list and prints each with the commits back to a month ago
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by vharuck 3y ago
Agreed. I also like seeing more sanitizer dispensers when I go in grocery stores or other places where I'm going to touch things many other people touch. Use it on the way in to not spread things to others, then on the way out to not
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by vharuck 3y ago
My point is anyone who can convince somebody with money to give some up will always have income. Even if there's a more charismatic AI out there, it doesn't matter. The game is "Can the charismatic person make me commit to p
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by vharuck 3y ago
The article didn't touch on it, but I think the only professional skill that will survive any technological revolution is charisma. The root of all commerce is convincing somebody to give you money. One can do it by providing comfort
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by vharuck 3y ago
An article about their role in the original referendum on fluoridation in Wichita: https://www.kansas.com/news/article1101667.html And a Fresh Air interview with a historian who recently wrote a book about the John Bir
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by vharuck 3y ago
No. GPT is a model of human writing. But, as the Box quote goes, "Essentially, all models are wrong, but some are useful.". It isn't writing the same way that we are, with the same thoughts or mental models. It's just
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by vharuck 3y ago
It might be possible to submit one through the website's GitHub: https://github.com/simonw/museums No idea how receive the author is to pull requests, though.
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by vharuck 3y ago
>Western policy risks building up a big Asian military alliance. I wonder if China's plan is to give Russia enough aid to keep the war going and build a sizeable debt, but not enough for Russia to actually win. In that plan, China
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by vharuck 3y ago
The way I see them: 50+ stars means people use the code. If there's also a decent number of issues opened and closed with comments from the repo maintainers, I'll be much more likely to try things out. Less than 50 means I'
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by vharuck 3y ago
>This is the entire premise of loss leaders I thought "loss leaders" were specific products sold below cost so customers would buy accessories or subscriptions that have nice profit margins. Like selling cheap printers but exp
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by vharuck 3y ago
>doesn't scale. Much of the math behind surveys is based on finite samples taken from infinite populations. It scales really, really well. You just have to make sure your samples aren't totally biased, which is a little more
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by vharuck 3y ago
>there's an obvious conflict of interest (the IRS has no reason to help find deductions and/or assist me in minimizing my tax bill) The IRS doesn't receive a cut of the taxes they collect, so I don't see the conflict.
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by vharuck 3y ago
It'd be hard to control for everything relevant. Diet would be indirectly affected by sunlight (sunny areas would naturally have different crops). Amount of exercise, too. Genetics play a large role in some cancers, but behaviors and
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by vharuck 3y ago
>Melanoma, the truly deadly skin cancer, is more prevalent in populations with less sun exposure. It's vastly more prevalent in white people versus other skin colors. Even at the same latitude. Even in the same country. The incid
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by vharuck 3y ago
As opwieurposiu said, embeddings are high-dimensional vectors. Often, they're created by classic math techniques (e.g. principal component analysis), or they are extracted from a model that proved useful for something else. For exampl
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by vharuck 3y ago
I tried the same input, except wrapping it in triple-quotes instead of commenting it. So that it would match the standard practice for module doc strings. Here's the result: """python function that returns a rand
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by vharuck 3y ago
>The US government is wholesale spying on the entirety of electronic communications and working with social media sites to make some voices less prominent. Private business should be able to tell the government to pound sand when banking
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by vharuck 3y ago
I think this is why I was most productive at anything in the morning. I would get up at 5 or 6, because I just can't sleep past six hours, and have a good two hours to myself before my wife was up or I needed to head to work. But now

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