Balgair

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by Balgair 6d ago
Anecdata: I was talking with a biology prof over labor day and they had no idea what I was talking about (and they 'talk with' Claude every day on their dog walks, so they say). However, when I talked with their mother, she knew a
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by Balgair 6d ago
All grown-ups were once children... but only few of them remember it. - Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, "Le Petit Prince." While I love de Saint-Exupéry generally, even in his time (especially?), he knew that not all children got to be
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by Balgair 8d ago
Which means that if you are a researcher or a corporation working on anything really useful, that even if you have an agreement with OpenAI that your work is sandboxed away and the IP lawyers are made to be happy, even then your work and re
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by Balgair 10d ago
Oh, I ask for help with code, yes, but the actual data I'm working on doesn't ever leave the environment.
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by Balgair 10d ago
> it's comforting in it's discomfort What a strange phrase! But so true. The only thing I would have to say is that you must keep doing the little and noble things that will bring no renown. It's small, but we all add up a
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by Balgair 12d ago
Anecdata: I use opensource models at work because my work is too cheap to spring for a $20/mo account for me. Since HuggingFace models can be run on my laptop now (still very slow though), nothing is leaving the 'secure environmen
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by Balgair 25d ago
Great advice in this thread. My add: max out you 401k contributions if you haven't already. It's the single most important financial decision most of us will (hopefully) make.
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by Balgair 29d ago
I'm more like the guy bagging groceries here. In regards to AI, it feels like I have finally been given the tools. For me, the world now feels so open. I can make websites now, I can do the things I have always wanted to do with comput
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by Balgair 1mo ago
No one's mentioning it, but also the disease factor. I remember the first semester in the dorms was mostly the sound of coughing. Building up the immune system takes disease exposure and that takes time. Addnib all the immune system de
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by Balgair 1mo ago
My SO was a teacher before moving on and would see offers like this all the time. A few of the rural school districts here offer this incentive to move out there. Sometimes they include a car too. Note they tdo not do repairs though. The is
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Should You Send an Uber to Pick Her Up(esquire.com)
3 points by Balgair 1mo ago|1 comments
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by Balgair 2mo ago
> > We are not shown that war or killing are bad, only that good men sometimes feel bad about it – a very different point. Any serious depiction of violence, ancient or modern, must show the perspectives of the victims as well as the
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by Balgair 2mo ago
Based on this, if I were working at the White Pillars WB, I would find another job and not go into work anymore.
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by Balgair 2mo ago
Awesome stuff! Now, can this interface with Libby? The worldcat interface is, well, confusing. I can't figure out if it knows libraries near me exist.
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by Balgair 2mo ago
I can see doing this for job interviews, and even then only for certain types of jobs too. But yeah, if I learned that a potential match did this to me, well, I think that would change a lot in my evaluation of that person as a partner.
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by Balgair 2mo ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jgYYOUC10aM reminds me of this Key and Peele skit
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by Balgair 2mo ago
You know what? I'm glad that nurses and healthcare workers are finally not thinking of the patients first and are thinking of their pocketbooks too. No, really, I mean it. For decades, the healthcare complex has been exploiting these w
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Better Than Free(kevinkelly.substack.com)
1 points by Balgair 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 2mo ago
"Had the atomic bomb turned out to be something as cheap and easily manufactured as a bicycle or an alarm clock, it might well have plunged us back into barbarism, but it might, on the other hand, have meant the end of national soverei
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by Balgair 2mo ago
Related: the reverse Fermi Paradox. Essentially, we've been humans for about 200,000 years. But only in the last 5,000ish years have we done the whole civilization thing. Why? Climate has a lot to do with it, we know that, but about 19
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by Balgair 2mo ago
Honest question here: What does this mean for Anthropic's OPenAI's rumored IPOs?
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Kevin Kelly – Latent Space as a New Medium(kevinkelly.substack.com)
5 points by Balgair 2mo ago|0 comments
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by Balgair 2mo ago
> 2)Why we need to work? It's a status thing, right?
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by Balgair 2mo ago
I'll echo this too. I've liddles in the house and books are a no go right now. If they even let me the minutes to read, that would be great. But I know from repeated experience that books are too fragile for them to have around, l
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by Balgair 2mo ago
I think it's a trait with these types that makes them what they are to begin with. They don't just turn it on and off for the bad guys, they're like this all the time with everyone. Never meet your heroes is just great advice
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by Balgair 2mo ago
Wait the giant deadly ball of mercury that is highly radioactive for neutron studies? Or is this another mercury thing there?
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by Balgair 2mo ago
I hang out on fertility related sites and on twitter. It's an odd bunch. You have hardcore Jewish rabbis hanging with radical imams and dyed-in-the-wool Chinese communists and everyone in between. It's an issue, like climate chang
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by Balgair 3mo ago
The cost is really tough to pin down, yeah. The way one of their employees told me it to me as like a dishwasher. Of course the dishwasher should be more expensive. When you add up the hours in labor saved and multiply by the hourly median
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by Balgair 3mo ago
Oh gosh, I run out by Wednesday usually. But I'm not really coding with it, per se. Mostly just writing docs and tech manuals and AI generation. I'm in biotech.
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by Balgair 3mo ago
I have close friends that has quite serious genetic diseases in the family, ones they passed on to their children too. In that, they are in and out of the hospital all the time. And yes, the disease is degenerative. I know that they went ou

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