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   by zusammen 2y ago

   I was a standup comedian in the 1980s and was occasionally asked why “my people” were so funny, and it’s odd because there are a lot of things that are funny about us, but not the real answer to this one. We had to be, for thousands of year
2. 32.▲
   by zusammen 2y ago

   As soon as I saw “shift left” I knew I wanted to double down.
3. 33.▲
   by zusammen 2y ago

   I wonder how much this has to do with a fluency plateau. Up to a certain point, a conditional fluency stores knowledge, in the sense that semantically correct sentences are more likely to be fluent… but we may have tapped out in that regard
4. 34.▲
   by zusammen 2y ago

   I think one’s getting a lot of upvotes from people who meant to click on the link.
5. 35.▲
   by zusammen 2y ago

   The Democratic Party keeps moving left on cultural issues and right on economic issues, when the world (not just the US) is starting to move in the opposite direction. These things aren’t actually either/or, but when you pontificate on
6. 36.▲
   by zusammen 2y ago

   I’m surprised not to see fused multiply-add here: FMA(x,y,z) ~ x += y*z You see it all over the place in numerical computing and deep learning.
7. 37.▲
   by zusammen 2y ago

   That’s still a massive sum by academic standards. Administrators can afford expenses of that size, but educators will balk.