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by agonz253 7d ago
There’s no such thing as the greatest movie of all time.
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by agonz253 2mo ago
https://asteriskmag.com/issues/14/the-mystery-in-the-medicin...
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by agonz253 2y ago
Whether a song is uplifting or not is completely subjective. Intelligence has nothing to do with it… Sometimes even a perfect expression of despair in a song can be uplifting to the listener, for many reasons. Whenever I’ve been at my lowes
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by agonz253 2y ago
https://www.scribbr.com/fallacies/red-herring-fallacy/
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by agonz253 2y ago
Is it the embargo that prohibits fishermen in Cuba from fishing, farmers from harvesting, cubans from freely doing business? Is it also responsible for cubans getting beaten and imprisoned for thinking differently? Was it the embargo that d
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by agonz253 2y ago
I feel the same way but do agree there’s a general lack of respect for the field relative to other professions. Here’s another thread on the subject https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23676651
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by agonz253 2y ago
Since you mentioned Einstein, it reminded me of a comment by Max Born on the subject, from the Born-Einstein letters: “Einstein expressed over and over again the thought that one should not couple the quest for knowledge with a bread-and-bu
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by agonz253 3y ago
Indeed. I recommend also checking out the 2nd volume of Einstein's collected papers. There is one with the proceedings from a conference on the subject, and Einstein is basically alone in trying to convince his peers, including Planck,
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by agonz253 3y ago
Are there no distinguishing features between these vector databases? I'm not familiar with them so I was looking for any comment on that in the article, whether some make different tradeoffs than others, are easier to operate or implem
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by agonz253 3y ago
> most successful podcast ever made. What's that Schopenhauer quote, "he who writes for fools will always find a large audience". I suppose the same can apply to podcasts.
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by agonz253 3y ago
Individual machine failure is not likely, but we're hypothesizing the need for multiple shards for high performance. So now we have more machines and so the probability of failure increases. So we need to add replication, but then we n
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by agonz253 3y ago
It's not purely a matter of cost, right? Say you want or need a highly available, high performance distributed database with externally consistent semantics. Are you going to handle the sharding of your Postgres data yourself? What rep
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More evidence that humans were in North America over 20k years ago(arstechnica.com)
19 points by agonz253 3y ago|3 comments
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Sedentary Behavior and Incident Dementia Among Older Adults(jamanetwork.com)
25 points by agonz253 3y ago|2 comments
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by agonz253 3y ago
Which reminds me of a quote attributed to Newton: "I can calculate the movement of the stars, but not the madness of men."
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by agonz253 3y ago
Dup of https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37428817
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by agonz253 3y ago
This looks great. However, without a truly comprehensive test suite it’s guaranteed to have a great many subtle bugs :). I recommend trying to hook it up with the tests from MIT’s distributed systems course: https://pdos.csail.mi
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LK-99 lessons(nitter.net)
1 points by agonz253 3y ago|0 comments
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by agonz253 3y ago
This is Science: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LK-99#Replication_attempts
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A superconductor claim blew up online. Science has punctured it(washingtonpost.com)
29 points by agonz253 3y ago|28 comments
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Ask HN: Is GPT 4's quality lately worst than GPT 3.5?
51 points by agonz253 3y ago|40 comments
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Many happiness studies are flawed(nature.com)
2 points by agonz253 3y ago|0 comments
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by agonz253 3y ago
Feynman’s perspective on this: https://youtu.be/tWr39Q9vBgo
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by agonz253 3y ago
Putting the personality of the owner aside, they have been running an experiment for the last few months on how to operate a tech company, overworking your engineers and treating them like replaceable automata. Do you want them to succeed a
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by agonz253 4y ago
It was edited https://twitter.com/nntaleb/status/1609746341760217088?s=46&...
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by agonz253 4y ago
Take a look at his “A day in the life” video, or how he boasts about half marathon runs typically preceded by meditations on the horros of WW2 and followed by “deepwork on tensorflow”, all on the same “typical” day. Or how about the time he
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by agonz253 4y ago
It doesn’t matter. It is simply not possible to adhere to such a reading schedule while also doing anything else. The level of phoniness of this guy is outstanding.
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by agonz253 4y ago
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gT7DFCF1Fn8
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Twitter’s Mass Resignations Test Elon Musk’s Management Playbook(wsj.com)
6 points by agonz253 4y ago|0 comments
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Netflix Is Scrambling to Learn the Ad Business It Long Disdained(wsj.com)
10 points by agonz253 4y ago|2 comments

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