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by zwischenzug 9mo ago
Whatever we all television now, television then was literally "vision at a distance", which Baird was the first to demonstrate (AFAIK). The TV I have now in my living room is closer to a computer than a television from when I grew
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by zwischenzug 9mo ago
Hard disagree with all of this. I feel like I am constantly lamenting the simplicity and usability of old scrollbars and cursing their will o the wisp modern implementations. Scrollbars used to be invisible to me. They only bubbled up to my
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by zwischenzug 1y ago
Released where?
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by zwischenzug 1y ago
Came here to say this. It's behind the 14b Phi-reasoning-plus (which is self-reported). I don't understand why "TIGER-LAb"-sourced scores are 'unknown' in terms of model size?
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Kung Fu Chess – Chess Without Turns(kfchess.com)
1 points by zwischenzug 1y ago|0 comments
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The greatest soccer player never to play soccer(en.wikipedia.org)
8 points by zwischenzug 1y ago|1 comments
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
I wrote this piece in 2023, which argues similarly that LLMs are a boon, not a threat to historians https://zwischenzugs.com/2023/12/27/what-i-learned-using-pri...
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
So do I!
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
Parent is close to what I argued here: https://zwischenzugs.com/2017/10/15/my-20-year-experience-of...
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
A Docker image in less than 1000 bytes: https://zwischenzugs.com/2018/05/22/a-docker-image-in-less-t...
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
Wealth != income
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
No.
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
Author here. Mongodb offers primitives around filtering, group bys and orders, but calls them 'pipelines'. I'm not an expert on that, but it's quite possible. It's just a series of set and list operations after all.
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Does Crossplane Replace Terraform?(blog.container-solutions.com)
1 points by zwischenzug 2y ago|0 comments
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
See also the frozen peas rant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V14PfDDwxlE And Michael Palin's hilarious 'bearded man' performances, loosely based on OW ads: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=38
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
I wrote a similar piece on an earlier artist who I thought was similarly prescient, Nam June Paik https://zwischenzugs.com/2020/01/04/the-astonishing-prescien...
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by zwischenzug 2y ago
Came here to say this. At the point I had to register for the OP, I was out.
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Is SQL becoming a niche skill?(twitter.com)
3 points by zwischenzug 2y ago|1 comments
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
RAD?
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
Hey, author here - please get in touch (contacts are available via blog) if you want to discuss further.
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
I did check my references 'by hand' within the six hours. If there are problems in the essay they will be secondary ones of emphasis or 'bad smells'.
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
My flippancy aside: lectures weren't directly related to the tutorial system at Oxford, so it was unclear the benefit of going to centralised lectures was over just studying the source material. It was pretty universal to do just that,
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
I worked briefly as a journalist at The Times in yhr late 90s and this pretty much what it was then. It's partly why I didn't pursue that career.
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
As the author, I can only agree :-)
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
How much did the analysis cost vs the laptop upgrade?
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
That newspaper was likely paid for by someone, and could only be read by one person at a time.
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
Haha, well, we should probably talk!
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
I started writing a book on jq, but realised it wasn't really enough for a full book, so put it out as a series of blog posts: https://zwischenzugs.com/2023/06/27/learn-jq-the-hard-way-pa... JQ really is
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
The only way to learn bash ;-) https://leanpub.com/learnbashthehardway
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by zwischenzug 3y ago
I went down this rabbit hole a while back: https://zwischenzugs.com/2023/04/27/is-it-imperative-to-be-d... TL;DR you're probably right, but it's more complicated than I thought.

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