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by zkmon 1y ago
>> You make them accountable so that they have the ability to produce an account of what, how, and why happened at a given time. The very first line in the Wikipeda article on Accountability states that "accountability is equat
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by zkmon 1y ago
Let's say we got someone to be accountable for something. And that something has failed horribly. Now what? Infact, the first problem would be to identify whether something is a success or failure. This is tough, as anything can be dre
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by zkmon 1y ago
Human settlements usually do not exceed a couple of miles in diameter, for a pedestrian life style. A person can only deal with distances around a mile or two for daily activity. Modern cities are designed for a species called cars. Humans
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by zkmon 1y ago
Wow. What did I just see? Wonderful and so satisfying. Interesting to see that some plants are tiny above ground compared to their existence below ground - plant-cartels :) I always suspected that rivers are like trees - they also might hav
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by zkmon 1y ago
I learnt programming, back in the 90's, all by myself, only to visualize platonic solids and other hybrid crystals in 3D. By using DOS graphics. I went on to generating fractals and bewildered by their beauty and resemblance to natural
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by zkmon 1y ago
The article sounds a cliche. The progression was always happening, nothing sudden. Just like the continuous movement of tectonic plates through the earth quakes. When tension between the plates reach a level, rupture happens. But it is not
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by zkmon 1y ago
I think most new technologies helped to increase the expectations about what you can do. But overall work did not get reduced. It didn't give me more free time to go fishing, or bird-watching. On the other hand, I got an irreversible d
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by zkmon 1y ago
>> but deep problems aren't being solved There is no problem to solve. These days, solutions come in a package which includes the problems they intend to solve. You open the package. Now you have a problem that jumped out of th
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by zkmon 1y ago
I have used spreadsheets for designing floor plans and building elevation etc. I used each cell to represent 3 inch by 3 inch area. In more detail views I used each cell for a square inch area. Spreadsheets (specifically Excel) are the most
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by zkmon 1y ago
Quite a comprehensive report. But things look too rosy when the phenomenon is at the peak of hype cycle. So I was curious to see what the Predictions tab has to say. It has disappointed me with the "current-state" news again, not
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by zkmon 1y ago
Some channels like these are like collectibles. They are far above over the stature of Youtube itself. Unfortunately we don't have any other place to have these collectibles at, except on a service owned by a private company, who runs
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by zkmon 1y ago
This is true for some European countries too. No tax filing is needed for salary only income. I don't remember when I filed my taxes last time.
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by zkmon 1y ago
What? I just googled, and found it is actually a real thing. Holy molly! Has Amazon become a federal system for distribution of money and goods? What next? coupons for burgers, Netflix credit?
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by zkmon 1y ago
I never understood why the Revenue can't provide a set of simple online forms for tax returns like India does. Heck, India provided Excel sheets with VBA script for many years, that produced an XML which can be submitted as tax filing.
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by zkmon 1y ago
No, it didn't. The way you get your wow moment has changed. You get impressed by your skills in prompting, agentic stuff and your ability to squeeze out the best work from AI, fix its bugs, get it to review and fix your bugs and make t
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by zkmon 1y ago
Nope. The grants were always sort of 5-year projects. They just keep on going. We were employees, doing the work we were asked to do, not doing something we were curious about. For example, do this experiment, get field measurements, correl
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by zkmon 1y ago
I'm sure you are a Scientist. I worked as a Scientist (not a data scientist etc), worked on pure science projects that ran under grants from government, spoke at international conferences presenting the findings etc. Believe me. Every
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by zkmon 1y ago
>> Scientists are driven by curiosity Ok, then why do they get affected by funding? The truth is, today there is not a scientist, artist, researcher or writer who is not driven by funding. The era for curiosity-driven science is was o
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by zkmon 1y ago
Well, the success of enshittification reflects a lot about general population. Just like how the meaningless TV content reflects people's taste. It's just evolution. Things boil down to what people really want or can tolerate.
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by zkmon 1y ago
Spatial transformations? Take a look at the complex matrices in Fourier transforms with nth roots of unity as its elements. The values are cyclic, and do not represent points in an n-D space of Euclidean coordinates.
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by zkmon 1y ago
There are a lot more ways to look at and understand these mysterious beasts called matrices. They seem to represent a more fundamental primordial truth. I'm not sure what it is. Determinant of a matrix indicate the area of or volume sp
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by zkmon 1y ago
Similar situation in South India too. Eating culture is shaped by foods available. Here in western world, I'm shocked by how little rice they serve at my office lunch and at restaurants (we call it as cat food). I usually eat 4-6 times
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by zkmon 1y ago
Maybe you are not grasping the convergence effect of the overall socio-political-economic trends that could actually label AI output as abhorrent plastic pollution or atleast not a high priority for public good.
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by zkmon 1y ago
Also, the eco-system plays the biggest controlling role in the bubble and its aftermath. Ecosystem of social, political and business developments. Dotcom aftermath still had the wind from all the ecosytem trends that brought the dotcom back
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by zkmon 1y ago
<Homer Simpson mode>Oh yeah? If prompting is such damn cool hard thing, why can't I ask my AI slave to do all this prompting mumbo jumbo for me?</Homer Simpson mode>
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by zkmon 1y ago
Applets (Java 1.1 - that's where I started), Servlets (Together with MS ASP, JSP/Servlets have fuelled the e-commerce websites) I think Java dominated the scene mostly because of its enterprise features (Java EE) and the supportin
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by zkmon 1y ago
https://ghdx.healthdata.org/record/united-states-marketscan-... It shows some medicare data as owned by a private company.
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Nice to see support for Open source. I have seen selling of healthcare data, including medicare and medicaid data to private companies which sliced and diced it and sold to academic and drug research institutions via data marts. ETL jobs wo
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Just to clarify to the downvoters: I meant "Secret" as in password, not as in "private data". It is a private data, but it shouldn't be used as a secret to pass some security check.
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I don't think this was ignored for no reason or simply forgotten. I don't see it bringing a great feature or value compared to input tag. You still need to code up the logic for setting its value, via a script, like any other cont

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