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by wrp 4y ago
Well, that's sort of like "I only use tools from Harbor Freight. What am I missing?" :-)
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by wrp 4y ago
Gel pens in general are recommended over ballpoint, because the ink is water-based and resistant to solvents.
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by wrp 4y ago
Search site:www.fountainpennetwork.com for lefty/left-handed. Many discussions.
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by wrp 4y ago
"The Flynn Effect" is a very popular topic on HN, but the general understanding of it is way off. Ulric Neisser has a good analysis in "Rising scores on intelligence tests" in American Scientist 85(5):440-447 (1997). I&#
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by wrp 4y ago
Even at the time of Gulf War 1, the A-10 was performing less well than popularly imagined. See the article "The Gulf crisis: The media point of view,' by David Hackworth (1991). ( http://libgen.rs/scimag/10.108
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by wrp 4y ago
Collecting problem children in smaller, more controlled classes is the only effective strategy. In a class of say, 30 kids, it just takes one to disrupt a lesson. On the other hand, if every kid is cooperating, a single teacher can effectiv
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by wrp 4y ago
Quality machine translation for less common languages would be a service worth paying for. Any links to examples and evaluation of ChatGPT capabilities?
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by wrp 4y ago
I never thought of it before, but I don't think there is any food you can buy at Japanese station-platform kiosks that really smells. Very different case in Korea. On long-distance trains, there is always that guy with a bag of dried o
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by wrp 4y ago
Same. I have WinXP on VirtualBox for all my Windows work. I do have a Win7 image on hand, but I've only had to use it twice over the past several years.
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by wrp 4y ago
That article misrepresents what he said in the interview. He did not "later clarify" that Washington and London were supporting a peace deal. He insisted they were very cool to the whole idea. Also, in the interview, he said that
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by wrp 4y ago
> I don’t fully understand what you mean with ‘negotiated settlement’. He may be thinking of the agreement that Putin and Zelensky almost came to in the 2nd week of the war. The Israeli prime minister, Naftali Bennett, initiated contact
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by wrp 4y ago
When D&D took off in the in 1970s, they published novels set in the D&D world, which made them a lot of money. Their problem with the novels was that they refused to pay their top talent enough to keep them. Interesting article: Why
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by wrp 4y ago
I wonder about the timing of these social changes. My impression was that the tradition of high school students having jobs started to fade away in the 1990s.
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...declining quality of education. I'd like to add some nuance to this. While student performance seems to be clearly declining (at least at the college level, which I'm familiar with), I don't know how well we can disti
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by wrp 4y ago
According to his Wikipedia page, Marshall Hodgson (sp) introduced "Islamicate" to describe non-religious aspects of a predominantly Islamic culture. I'm here following Bernard Lewis in using the Hellenistic/Arabic distin
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by wrp 4y ago
> ..."Islamic"...I took it to refer to "the culture that was flourishing in the Arabic world in the 7th C". There is unfortunately no convenient single term to refer to the intellectual milieu of the Middle East in th
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by wrp 4y ago
> ...the input is consumed and per the internal "world model" a high level internal representation of the input is built... This is the aspect of ChatGPT I'm trying to understand. Can you point to any resources on this?
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by wrp 4y ago
Regarding Stage 2. Are you saying that ChatGPT's facility to recognize and process commands is derived entirely from training on supervised datasets and not hand-crafted logic? Can you point me to any reading on this?
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by wrp 4y ago
By now, everyone has heard the explanation that ChatGPT is a transformer encoder-decoder that responds to prompts by iteratively predicting the first word in the response, then the second word, and so on... What we need now is explanation
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by wrp 4y ago
In About Face: The Odyssey of an American Warrior (1989), David Hackworth mentions about being on patrol in the Korean war: None of us used repellent (Chinks could smell it as easily as after-shave, soap, tobacco, and toothpaste); we cou
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by wrp 4y ago
A very popular syndicated radio show is Through the Night with Peter van de Graaff . ( https://www.wfmt.com/schedule/ )
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by wrp 4y ago
There are some attempts to do the math on whether just the fuel could have done it in the comments to this video ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UVzLV-R_-kk ). Example: The thrust from a propeller blade is typically propor
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by wrp 4y ago
Tell me, Avram, surely somewhere there are good things happening? Can't you buy a paper that prints those things? --The Rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof
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by wrp 4y ago
I think the main point here is that while faulty intel is always a risk, the biggest problem is willful misinterpretation. For how things played out in Vietnam, Frank Snepp's book seems to be the most well known, perhaps because it cam
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by wrp 4y ago
This is the 1983 interview with Frank Snepp about manipulating the media.
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by wrp 4y ago
Modern intellectuals have such a (justified) disdain for astrology, it's hard for them to appreciate how respectable it once was. In Italy of the period, Astrology was a popular 4-year university degree. Afterwards, you bought the equi
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by wrp 4y ago
"Hard science fiction" doesn't seem to mean for this author what it has for me, "close adherence to known natural laws and plausible explanation." How you would characterize what "hard sci-fi" means to the
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by wrp 4y ago
This was a year or two before COVID. I think the reason why supermarkets stay open through the night is that they use the night hours for restocking shelves and figure they might as well be open for business. For the big stores like Winco,
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by wrp 4y ago
Regarding the theft issue at Walmarts in Oregon. A few years ago, the Walmarts in my area switched from 24-hour to 6-11. I asked a security guard at one and he said it was because of the tweakers who would throng through the store at night
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by wrp 4y ago
In Oregon, already in the 1990s community colleges were replacing retiring full-timers with part-timers as a cost-cutting measure. This is something administration will always do when they can get away with it. We need a formal policy on wh

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