zamfi

8 ms·

31.
by zamfi 2y ago
Yes, yes, and you got it. Largely it’s DNA that controls development of neurons/muscles/etc. that mediate nursing, walking, and so on. On selective pressures: human babies that aren’t born with the ability to nurse, or foals born
32.
by zamfi 2y ago
> a strawman is very different thing than contextualization Yes, that was my point?
33.
by zamfi 2y ago
You seem confused, I am not actually saying anything about whether Latour is bad or not, and I honestly don’t have an informed opinion there. Latour may well be bad, but an argument saying so that just attacks a straw man of his work is unl
34.
by zamfi 2y ago
> It might be interesting to hear out the criticisms against Latour's way of reasoning, instead of dismissing it. I’m not sure you read my post, it sounds like you just assumed its contents, which was not in fact about being free to
35.
by zamfi 2y ago
Huh. No one is forcing you to do this. You are 100% free to not give even the slightest mind to Bruno Latour—or any other philosopher’s—writing. The point is only that it’s easy to dismiss most philosophy because it’s easy to take a com
36.
by zamfi 2y ago
> …they'll provide the subsidies and incentives to cultivate it. Incentivize it by…taxing imported manufactured goods, for example, to make the domestic manufacturers more competitive?
37.
by zamfi 2y ago
Yes, and indeed, this is exactly the argument used by the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, in which public defenders / nonprofit lawyers / rural nonprofit doctors’ loans are written forgiven after 10 years of public servic
38.
by zamfi 2y ago
Well, the OP did say “the bulk of” — some people, like you, are surely carrying debt for non-lucrative degrees. But the pipeline of lawyers, doctors, MBAs, etc. is quite a bit larger than self-pay philosophy PhDs, and a large fraction of th
39.
by zamfi 2y ago
What is it actually doing with all that compute? Is it every animated thumbnail? Is it scaling thumbnail images? Re-flowing the page 120x/sec? Mining bitcoin? Anyone know?
40.
by zamfi 2y ago
I didn't use the phrase "feel good" but rent control can totally be justified on equity grounds: a policy that protects the vulnerable from (effectively) eviction by "market forces" (read: rising rents) over which t
41.
by zamfi 2y ago
I suspect some feel it's progressive in one particular sense, that it appears to allocate a scarce resource (housing -- but why's it scarce in the first place?) on the basis of something other than wealth : tenure (e.g., prop 13,
42.
by zamfi 2y ago
Maybe, but these are primarily antithetical when density doesn't increase. It's totally possible to have housing be "affordable" (i.e., condos, apartments in multi-unit complexes) and "a good investment" -- b
43.
by zamfi 2y ago
Zoning also creates this "positive" (in the technical, not social sense) feedback loop, where housing is so expensive that it drives up the cost of any kind of local production, including housing , because labor is (now) the prim
44.
by zamfi 2y ago
Not the big box, mini Mac Pro thing next to it. Might just be a scale model.
45.
by zamfi 2y ago
That "mini Mac Pro" thing (next to the Genelec speaker) could also be an external drive bay -- Macsales/OWS sold a silver one for years IIRC -- they now sell an SSD version of it that's not silver anymore: https:/&
46.
by zamfi 2y ago
The point here is that there is tons of money to be made in manufacturing those chips that Intel lost out on by ignoring mobile. That “Apple makes their own chips” does not alone mean Intel could not have profited from this — as indeed TS
47.
by zamfi 2y ago
In traceroute’s defense, it is trace route — for sure it doesn’t tell you anything about the devices that don’t operate at the IP level. Those devices either don’t affect the IP “route” abstraction (e.g., signal boosters) or do so in ways
48.
by zamfi 2y ago
Yeah, like almost every other central-city engineering office of that era, SF was initially a sales office that SF-resident ICs would sometimes work from on Fridays...and then more often, and then eventually teams wanted to move there, and
49.
by zamfi 2y ago
Acquisitions.
50.
by zamfi 2y ago
> We live in the southeast US now, the climate is helpful for farming. I lived in Seattle for a few years and that climate would have been much harder to work with. Because of (a lack of) winter sunlight? Or something else?
51.
by zamfi 2y ago
Some of these programs require household application, which may be to high a barrier for some students. That teacher's support might be vital to a hungry 8yo whose parents can't/won't/don't fill out the form?
52.
by zamfi 2y ago
I suspect people come from different baselines here, which for some means saying "yes" more often, and for others saying "no". But I think the parent's point is to "say yes" more broadly than just when the
53.
by zamfi 2y ago
When “low-income” starts at 100k, though, 40k might feel very close to nothing.
54.
by zamfi 2y ago
Not an expert, but taking these side by side...it seems reasonable to conclude that AMOC is (as that source states) one of several factors? Iceland, e.g., is warmer than Alaska, and that might change. Northern Europe in general is warmer th
55.
by zamfi 2y ago
Hmm, these aren't quite the same though, are they? I was under the impression that ultimately none of that voltage change ends up as anything other than heat. (Despite voltage being "electric potential", that's only real
56.
by zamfi 2y ago
Sure, but also Italians make ice cream somewhat differently than Americans (at least, different proportions of the ingredients are more widespread). "Gelato" can be both the Italian word for "ice cream" and be something
57.
by zamfi 2y ago
Agree with everything you say here. I don’t have a 9th grader (yet!) but I tutored for years. The interpersonal component of tutoring absolutely dominates over the content component. I think the “this time it’s different” argument is ground
58.
by zamfi 2y ago
The studies almost always compare 1:1 learning with learning in groups, comparing two different modes of interaction with another human, But it’s reasonable to ask whether an AI can (today?) be as effective as a human at delivering (or even
59.
by zamfi 2y ago
It’s true that these markets are the huge ones today. But there is another buyer that your post leaves out: parents. This is not the same as individuals/self-learners (the buyer is not the user, exactly) — but the buyer has strong ince
60.
by zamfi 2y ago
Sort of -- but basically no course is going to teach X and Y, if they're functionally equivalent ways to learn about Z, because almost no course is specifically about X or Y, it's about Z, and learning both X and Y isn't germ

More ›