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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
A unique, insightful and useful perspective about stress. It's not very long and well worth reading, but here is the core argument: " Stress is the feeling one gets when there is so much to do that it can't be done without c
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Stress Is About Cheating(woodfromeden.substack.com)
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Waiting for Netscape(arnoldkling.substack.com)
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by worldvoyageur 2y ago
Abstract: " The value of a non-pecuniary (free) product is inherently difficult to assess. A pervasive example is open source software (OSS), a global public good that plays a vital role in the economy and is foundational for most tech
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The Value of Open Source Software [pdf](hbs.edu)
1 points by worldvoyageur 2y ago|1 comments
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What Can LLMs Never Do?(strangeloopcanon.com)
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Xz Supply Chain Attack(tedium.co)
1 points by worldvoyageur 3y ago|0 comments
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by worldvoyageur 3y ago
A typical American 1600 square foot single detached home costs $180K to build (~$122/square foot). Costs beyond that: - the land underneath the home, which can be expensive or cheap, depending on location. Land costs are consistently
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What Makes Housing So Expensive?(construction-physics.com)
5 points by worldvoyageur 3y ago|1 comments
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by worldvoyageur 3y ago
If you found this interesting and want to dive deeper, I recommend 'The Horse the Wheel and Language' by David Anthony. The book is an intellectual tour de force, yet easily approachable. Integrating linguistics, genetics, archa
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by worldvoyageur 3y ago
Fully agree. I grew up on a farm. The animals included cows, sheep, goats, chickens and donkeys. You quickly learned their distinct personalities. You could tell when they were stressed and when they were content. It sure felt a lot be
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by worldvoyageur 3y ago
About twenty five years ago on a visit to an out of the way place in northern China I was able to see a demonstration of Mongolian horse riding skill. The target audience was the local tourists. The performers looked like ill-dressed scraw
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by worldvoyageur 3y ago
Plus, expert horse riding requires lots of practice from a young age. The steppe warriors, such as the Mongols and the Comanche, managed this. Regular farmers would not. There was a medieval French saying to the effect of 'if they ar
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A Martian Dust Devil Spins By(apod.nasa.gov)
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In Our Cellular Clocks She's Found a Lifetime of Discoveries(quantamagazine.org)
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by worldvoyageur 3y ago
Two key properties of superconducting materials are that electrical resistance vanishes and the magnetic fields that are expelled pass around the material. If there was a viable low cost superconductor that worked at temperatures up to 50 d
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The Marginal Revolution Is Dead(arnoldkling.substack.com)
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How to Use AI to Do Stuff(oneusefulthing.org)
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Hands of Gods(woodfromeden.substack.com)
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by worldvoyageur 4y ago
The headline is misleading. Rather, the analysis used as the basis for the article substantiates that the thylacine survived in isolated, remote pockets before finally going extinct around the 1980s. " Dr. Brook’s analysis found there
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by worldvoyageur 4y ago
https://archive.is/Fd6xt
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The Lifelong Power of Close Relationships(wsj.com)
1 points by worldvoyageur 4y ago|1 comments
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by worldvoyageur 4y ago
Some key points: " With optimal prompting, ChatGPT can perform some tasks surprisingly well. But with sub-optimal prompting, the results can be useless. Also, some Excel users are prone to sinking time into it trying to get it to perfo
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People Who Should Learn to Use ChatGPT(arnoldkling.substack.com)
1 points by worldvoyageur 4y ago|1 comments
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by worldvoyageur 4y ago
" ...the great paradox of the twentieth century remains that despite the horrors and the violence and despite repeated setbacks, material life improved more in a hundred years than in the previous ten thousand. [...] The main primum mo
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Slouching Towards Utopia(eh.net)
2 points by worldvoyageur 4y ago|1 comments
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FTX vs. Amazon(arnoldkling.substack.com)
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Ways to Think About a Metaverse(ben-evans.com)
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by worldvoyageur 4y ago
" After one or two riffle shuffles, some cards will remain in their original sequence. Even after four or five shuffles – far more than most casinos typically use – the deck will retain some trace of order. But once you shuffle the dec
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by worldvoyageur 4y ago
When Chernobyl happened I was a physics undergrad in Kingston, Ontario, Canada and was spending the summer term on campus. We (the grad students really) went up to the roof of the physics building and started measuring for the radiation.

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