yung_steezy

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by yung_steezy 4y ago
There was an article in the most recent Economist that dealt with some of the limitations of modern AI: https://www.economist.com/by-invitation/2022/06/09/artificia... Hofstader and Bender gave the follo
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
This account is also present on Mastodon for all the social media hipsters out there (like myself)
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I think Don Giovanni being thrown into hell is a narrative get-out-of-jail-free card being played. Most of the humour in the opera is derived from Giovanni's libido or shamelessness but giving him a comeuppance allows the audience to l
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I suppose the danger is believing that we are substantively different to people who came before us, or that our current moral beliefs are correct. Our moral judgements may seem correct now but there's a good chance future generations w
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I was at the opera last night seeing Don Giovanni and some of these excerpts from Peyps are fairly close to the behaviour of the titular villain. It's intriguing that recorded contemporary attitudes towards stories of sexual misbehavio
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
BSD devs tend to prioritise clean code over speed. I'm not certain of the implementation details here but their approach does make openbsd coreutils a more pleasant read than the GNU coreutils.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Yusuke Endoh is a god amongst men. His C program which creates an approximation of fluid dynamics from any text input is insane - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QMYfkOtYYlg
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I don't think the market will be stronger in a year. There is also an opportunity cost to studying over getting on the career ladder - more years of work experience entails a higher salary.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I literally bought a wedding gift for a family friend this morning on a site called prezola. Hopefully they are not related to this company. For our wedding my fiancée wrote a basic frontend on netlify and let people reserve gifts with a ch
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
Inflation is the most destablising thing in an economy. It would be wise to keep raising interest rates until inflation gets back to 2/3% even if that causes a recession.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I would guess comments are more insightful when the topic being discussed is less niche.
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by yung_steezy 4y ago
I would be concerned that psychedelics might add fuel to the fire in the case of body dysmorphia since one of their common effects is dissociation.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
I read the spectator and enjoy its news coverage. I was trying to get people to read the arts coverage in spite of their political opinions.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
I can see how the political slant on the news editorial can turn people off from the publication, however I have to say the arts coverage in the Spectator is always excellent.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
Bash is a godsend for quick debugging and I can see the temptation to start writing production code using bash. It basically boils down to a few things IMO: - large bash scripts are hard to read/maintain - complex modelling chains need
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
I switched from twitter to Mastodon recently. It isn't a perfect replacement since the network effect keeps user counts low but I've found it generally scratches the same itch.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
QE is central banks liquidising private assets to improve the balance sheets of large businesses. This gives them access to more capital and in theory allows them to invest more. It is controversial since the benefits of it are hard to meas
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
Academic Philosophy is definitely not like that. The amount of effort it takes to even keep on top of new papers being published (within whatever subfield you happen to specialise in) is extraordinary.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
I also think companies pay to have their totally-not-astroturfed subreddit featured on the frontpage such as /r/tinder
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
From what I have read so far the studies on clinical ketamine usage have focused on its (seemingly miraculous) properties as a short term antidepressant. Long term ketamine usage is not so well studied. Recreationally, using much larger dos
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
I write Python for a living but it is hard to get excited about. Even when I'm doing cool stuff with it I'm using pyspark API to call a Scala endpoint. The language itself lacks a personality from my POV. Jack of all trades but ma
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
My two favourite FOSS projects are having a baby together?
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
Completely agree with this. I think the notion that "drugs make you more creative" is a common misconception/fallacy. Creativity is hard to quanitfy. However drugs certainly make you more receptive to certain stimuli.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
The issue is transmissibility rather than severity. Say it was 50% less severe but 25% more infectious that would cause hospital infrastructure to fail because the absolute number of hospitalisations go up as more people are infected.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
I use sqlite every day at work as a web dev. I do a lot of work with file uploaders and being able to import CSV files as tables I can query is a killer feature.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
It is perfectly possible to be right for the wrong reasons. Unfortunately that can eventually catch up with you.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
The WTA have done an amazing job of raising the profile of this case and keeping the story in the media. I have to admit that despite watching a lot of tennis, prior to this incident I was not familiar with Peng Shai. Doubles tennis is a li
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
su is old fashioned but it works fine. I don't even have sudo installed on my PC.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
This is cool. Appreciate the trip down memory lane with the python2 syntax as well. I think the effect might be more incongruent in python3 code where pseudo expressions like print have been formalised into functions.
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by yung_steezy 5y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_lethal_dose

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