a_conservative

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by a_conservative 14d ago
This is really fascinating. The actual mechanisms of the human mind are distinct from computer systems, yet there are some parallels. There are some hints that increased memory access times scale with the amount of information the brain ha
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by a_conservative 1mo ago
I have the same questions about human mathematicians! I can't tell if xkcd #435 is still true, or if math is just as mushy as everything else seems to be. When a math proof can only be understood by a handful of people, what does that
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by a_conservative 2mo ago
Aluminum is generally thought to be benign by most authorities. However, it is worth noting that humans were not exposed to aluminum in the environment until relatively recently, when we started extracting it from bauxite and melting it.
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by a_conservative 3mo ago
> Management thinks they are absolutely replaceable. Even more, when the concept of "AI agent" appeared on their radars, they were the first people who they thought they're gonna replace. This is the way of the world. I wa
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by a_conservative 3mo ago
I've thought about this comment a lot over the past 3 days. It was the top comment in this discussion for a while. People think about the world differently. Is there really no room for anyone to disagree with you without being a bigot
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by a_conservative 3mo ago
A few hundred jobs a day doesn't seem like it would even be close to what postgres could handle easily, does it? I'm thinking of the problem as using a small amount of text to represent the work that needs to be done and then usin
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by a_conservative 3mo ago
Good information, Broadcom is a playa, lots and lots of acquisitions! (a quick google search turns up a very eventful history for Broadcom) > From personal experience, executives and leadership who started off in the electronics and hard
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by a_conservative 3mo ago
I recently put 2+2 together. Broadcom has become wealthy by being Google's TPU hardware partner, including sharing their TSMC capacity with Google, and evidently now they are doing the same thing with OpenAI. What a brilliant way to t
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by a_conservative 3mo ago
An example of fraud in research that contributed to the consensus. > The 2006 paper suggested an amyloid beta (Aβ) protein called Aβ*56 could cause Alzheimer’s. https://www.science.org/content/article/researcher
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by a_conservative 4mo ago
Some of these videos are the result of FOIA requests. Please, make FOIA requests and post these videos where the police are acting so egregiously. We deserve to know the truth about this! Some less than positive-for-police videos I'v
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by a_conservative 4mo ago
>> and there is no absolute zero in the system. > There maybe is. I think we call that "blind." If you go looking into that, you'll see that the reality is far far more complex [0] "The number of people with no
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by a_conservative 4mo ago
> The data was taken without license/rights/approval. It's stolen. That's incorrect. A license violation isn't theft. Theft deprives others of their property, that's not what's going on here. Intelle
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by a_conservative 5mo ago
You could sanitize and disinfect with that alcohol! You could also make extracts of any plants nearby that were useful. Whiskey and vanilla beans are sufficient to make vanilla extract!
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by a_conservative 8mo ago
This sounds a lot like what SST does (which also uses Pulumi). Do you consider them a competitor? I would guess by focusing on Python that you can provide a tighter experience than SST. Is that your plan?
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by a_conservative 8mo ago
Note that you aren't providing evidence either :) Providing evidence is tricky, because most evidence hints rather than proves, so it's very subject to confirmation bias and is easily dismissed by those who disagree. There are lar
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by a_conservative 8mo ago
Not a doctor either. Japan seems to love creating fat soluble forms of thiamine. I've been experimenting with a form of thiamine called TTFD. TTFD is synthetic, there's a natural form called allithiamine, derived from garlic. T
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by a_conservative 9mo ago
This is just a guess, but I bet if your grandma's photo books had some sort of narration or her personal notes, you would have valued them more. I've sometimes passed on sentimental keepsakes, only to long for them later. What se
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by a_conservative 11mo ago
Don't worry about the money too much. You're trying to solve multiple equations at the same time. Focus on getting your foot in the door somewhere in a job you like. It would have been great if you could have picked up 150k&#x2
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by a_conservative 1y ago
my m4max macbook can run local inference on a medium-ish gemini model (32b IIRC). The power consumption spikes by about 120 watts over idle (with multiple electron apps, docker, etc). It runs about 70 tokens/sec and usually responds
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by a_conservative 2y ago
Thanks for the thoughtful response. I’m similar to you in this regard, but I’ve been thinking about the frailty of human knowledge lately. We get it wrong a lot. It will be interesting to see how the vax debate and perception plays out o
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by a_conservative 2y ago
I’m not saying this to try to start a fight or anything. You strike me as a kind person, so I’m going to give this a shot. I am a bit of a contrarian about lots of things. Some of the smartest people I’ve ever known were major contrarians
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by a_conservative 4y ago
jq has >20k stars on GitHub. I use it mostly for little cli utilities, so maybe it isn’t an exact refutation of your claim. [0] https://github.com/stedolan/jq
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Thank you for taking the time to write this detailed response. I've been very busy, I don't want to just skim it and fire of a response after you took the time to write all that out. You are a good writer. Give me some time to
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by a_conservative 5y ago
The unlimited data plan included with iPhones was revolutionary as well.
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by a_conservative 5y ago
I wonder if the difference in experience might be related to how close one is to diabetes. A lot of people are in various stages of pre-diabetes, I've had fasting blood sugar measurements around 110 mg/dl, which is considered pre
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by a_conservative 5y ago
I'm an American who grew up in the midwest.
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by a_conservative 5y ago
I could stand to be more educated, so please give me something to educate me instead of calling me disingenuous. I am willing to listen to arguments that explain how it is that the Democratic party has been able to shed it's incredibly
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by a_conservative 5y ago
I don't have a lot of time to think about this right now, but generally I do agree that the right is learning how to ridicule and using it more. I'm curious about your association of slavery with conservatism. It's doubly st
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by a_conservative 5y ago
Thank you for the post. I can hear the frustration in your writing. Or perhaps, it's my own frustration that I'm projecting on to you. More and more, I'm wondering about the proposition that the "left vs right" ba
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by a_conservative 5y ago
I simply meant that my experience is that those on the right don't deploy ridicule as much when dissent is expressed. I'm not speaking to the individual issues you listed at all, of course we disagree on some of those and likely

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