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by xhevahir 1y ago
I don't think Liars Poker is a business book in the sense that this author means. These books are supposed to impart specific, practical insights that you can apply to your own work. Lewis in his books just wants to tell a story that w
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by xhevahir 1y ago
I really doubt live poker is as big as it was twenty-five years ago, when Phil Helmuth was a household name and Hollywood were casting Matt Damon in movies about the sport.
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> Informal relationships: mapped through authoritative journalistic sources, these include ideological affinities, mentoring relationships, and membership in patronage networks. So a key part of this is impressionistic stuff: labels like
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Seems like Protestants and people in majority-Protestant countries are struck by the bells-and-smells but I think the Catholic Church isn't especially distinctive in this regard. Catholics favor a pretty muted look to things compared w
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by xhevahir 1y ago
Interesting. I just finished A Way In the World yesterday and there's more than one instance in that novel of an older man giving the narrator's work some harsh criticism; "You have passed a stool" was one remark.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
The author believes that LLMs are toys and sets out to show that you can get some useless results if that's what you're looking for. Tiresome polemical exercise, but it does have the virtue of brevity.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
Did you notice the Terminator counts his kills in floating-point numbers? I'd hate to see the studio correct these things.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
The style of this blog post probably owes a lot more to the author's career as an author of kids' books rather than to his political tendencies.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
It's a reference to the Trojan War from a Hittite source instead of a Greek one. That in itself makes this a breakthrough. > And surely he would have been versed in poetry that existed at the time about the event. I wouldn't ex
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by xhevahir 2y ago
I get almost all of my books from charity thrift stores and Friends of the Library shelves. If you read widely you generally can find something interesting for a dollar or so. I almost never go to a bookstore looking for something specific,
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My first thought when I read this was, "This is very Japanese, and nothing like it would ever happen in America." Americans and Japanese are poles apart in the ways they relate to their communities, older generations, etc.
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This argument about progress falls apart as soon as you consider previous eras in sport that were found wanting. Was the bruising play of the 2004 NBA superior to previous kinds of basketball? Most people would disagree. Were the stickhandl
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The advent of nuclear weapons arguably negated Congress's power to withhold approval for war. Garry Wills writes about this in his book Bomb Power.
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Automated review of camera data differs from the classic panopticon, though, in that it's possible for the system to observe every person, every time.
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Catholics may be willing to believe that the Gospels were written by other authors than the traditional ones, but many, many Protestants are not, particularly in the US.
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Seaweed farms. The seaweed would fall to the ocean floor, where some hope it could sequester lots of carbon.
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by xhevahir 2y ago
It looks like it's this: https://github.com/Svensson-Lab/pro-hormone-predictor Annoying that journalists call everything "AI" these days.
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It wouldn't be useful if, as the parent comment is saying, it won't do a decent job of translating natural language.
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This guy, Chris Aruffo, has an interesting blog about his research in absolute pitch. I don't think it's been updated in quite a while though: http://www.aruffo.com/eartraining/
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It's good that smart people are involved if we take it at face value that they're trying increase "government efficiency," as opposed to, say, dismantling the welfare and regulatory state; if the latter are their aim,
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Am I missing something here? Because I fail to understand how something like this is susceptible of a priori proof or disproof. Seems pretty obviously an empirical matter.
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They say that "media literacy is poor" in Pakistan but it's not at all clear that education would solve the problem. We've seen in more "media-literate" countries a free-floating distrust of media of all kinds
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by xhevahir 2y ago
He and Adam Zagajewski are really great poets. I've wondered why Milosz and Szymborska were given Nobel Prizes instead of those two. Maybe because of their political stances? I don't know Polish though so I'm no authority.
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It doesn't have to be watching everybody. Just enough that the subjects believe their behavior to be under scrutiny, and police themselves accordingly. At least, that's the principle of the panopticon. I've been reading We Ha
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I will be surprised if she's still there six months from now. Trump will remove her if he becomes president; whereas if Harris wins, and the GOP take the Senate--a pretty likely scenario--I fear Harris won't hesitate to use Khan a
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by xhevahir 2y ago
Interesting. I didn't know that about the Synclavier. I still think the production in his later stuff will sound very quaint to anyone encountering it for the first time. He was a really dedicated user of those Technics machines. He an
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It's not modern instrumentation. It's a Technics arranger keyboard like the kind you might have heard in an airport smoking lounge. He started using them because they allowed him to build an arrangement without the help of other m
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I started with I'm Your Man and it's probably still my favorite but there are good reasons why his best known work is on the first few albums.
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If you think lavish spending on weddings and engagements is an "American phenomenon," you're badly mistaken. Read up on weddings in India, Armenia, Cambodia, Afghanistan...
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Well, it's not as if the surrogacy would continue indefinitely, putting a continuous strain on elephant reproduction. They would need surrogates only long enough to establish a breeding mammoth population, and there's even the pos

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