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by alexitorg 7mo ago
There are a heap of self published sci-fi and fantasy novels that fill the top selling lists on amazon in their respective niche. These are not included in the database that this analysis used. Space travel, multiple worlds and aliens are a
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by alexitorg 7mo ago
Here are a few ideas trends that are affecting this: -Publishing is getting less profitable so there are less books being published by the big companies. -Publishing companies are grow 70-80% woman and are choosing female preferred books -M
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by alexitorg 10mo ago
I'm looking forward to having LLMs used for character interactions. It will be like that thrilling point in half life where the soldiers start talking about freeman and for the first time you realize that characters are responding to y
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by alexitorg 11mo ago
Your link shows that South Africa ranks below the US. It is ranked 43rd in the world, vs the USA which is at 28 (in 2024 the latest year).
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by alexitorg 1y ago
Man, I suck at rhythm games. I've played about 50 times and the best I've gotten in 84%.
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by alexitorg 1y ago
If you restart after a certain number of turns you get a pawn replaced by an extra queen. I won with four queens.
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by alexitorg 1y ago
I wonder if the same thing is happening in genres like sci-fi. These trends sound familiar: Publishing books to appeal to critics, more prestige fiction published, less published white male authors, less published books on best seller lists
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by alexitorg 2y ago
Cool, I like the other three, I'll give battleship chronicles a go.
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by alexitorg 2y ago
The key point in the article is that the polling shows that respect for universities has fallen, and fallen quickly since 2016. It obviously isn't just about Israel, as it happened well before 2023. I put it down to a number of factors
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by alexitorg 2y ago
I've built pilots of these kind of models for my government department (Victoria, Austalia). The prototypes in R using Random Forest models. Pilot version in Python using gradient boosting. We could have used deep learning models, but
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by alexitorg 2y ago
"The CIO integrated data from seven different county departments, de-identified for privacy, including emergency room visits, behavioral health care and large public benefits programs from food stamps to income support and homeless ser
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by alexitorg 3y ago
It appears to be a very powerful influence tool. Ryan McBeth [1] made a video showing how easy it is to serve a message to small target demographics. This seems distinct to how, say, youtube works: serving adds to the targeted demographics
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by alexitorg 3y ago
I love Snow Crash. I was wearing my Black Sun night club (from snow crash) t-shirt to work today. That being said, it does feel like an early book. It is possibly over packed with ideas and possibly so edgy it feels like it is trying too ha
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by alexitorg 3y ago
I found this modelling really good. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x3lypVnJ0HM TLDR: Once you have a two to one ratio of straight men to straight women. Men get matched 1/2 as much, respond by lowering there standard
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by alexitorg 3y ago
I don't think there was much in the Geneva Conventions about targeting civilians until 1949 and the 4th Geneva convention. Maybe there was something about bombarding civilians from ships at sea.
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by alexitorg 3y ago
I like how they summarise the content history, I wonder if you could get the Large language model (LLM) like ChatGPT-4 to do the summarisation once the token window was full? I was thinking about how you could do something like this. Prime
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by alexitorg 3y ago
I wonder how much of it is secular. With populations weighted towards older workers demand for investment goods is high vs consumption goods where demand is low. As older workers are saving for retirement. As investment goods are not includ
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by alexitorg 4y ago
CharGPT seems to me as sentient as a book. You could have the most convincing conversation you have ever read, written down within the book. But the book doesn't care about the passing of time, and it can't effect the world excep
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by alexitorg 4y ago
From listening to the fall of civilization podcast, it seems that a lot of empires went down from too many heirs. From memory Mansa Musa lived very old and had more than 50 heirs as well. The Malian empire did not long last his death. http
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by alexitorg 4y ago
I was reflecting on this recently in the Chinese property bubble. I suspect firms that take customer deposits and use them to speculate of future growth grow much quicker in a boom environment than firms that handle the deposits responsibly
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by alexitorg 4y ago
I haven't seen him for a while. But I love the author's, Derek Lowe, work. His posts on Things I won't work with were some of the most entertaining science writing I have read. e.g. https://www.science.org/con
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by alexitorg 4y ago
Dan Carlin did an history podcast on punishment and the spectacle of punishment: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5oRv4NZzBKw He described a medieval central Europe scene where being broken on the wheel was punishment for so
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by alexitorg 4y ago
I remember a joke that is something like this. The local pastor is talking to young poor child Timmy asking about his life. P: So Timmy what do you have for breakfast? T: Potatoes. P: How about Lunch? T: Potatoes. The Pastor is getting conc
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by alexitorg 4y ago
I'm curious. What is best practice here. Set up HR tribunals? Fire anyone who has a complaint made against them? Arrange counseling for affected parties? Offer voluntary arbitration?
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by alexitorg 5y ago
Weird I find "Climate emergency" a poor use of words, but I think "Climate crisis" is fine. A crisis can take a long time to play out. Just look at the crisis of the 3rd century. < https://en.wikipedia.org&#
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by alexitorg 5y ago
This makes my head hurt! If the value of an asset is a reflection of it's total future income at net present value, then would 100% tax on the unimproved rent value of land mean unimproved land would be worth $0. The rent on a $0 item
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by alexitorg 5y ago
I enjoyed the Three body Problem. It reminded me of post war US science fiction novel. Simplistic aliens who are clearly our foes, heroic male leads, paper thin female characters and a bit of the confident can do swagger that comes with a b
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by alexitorg 5y ago
I am not sure that comparing only sovereign wealth funds per capita tells the whole story. For instance Australia has a lot more private wealth saved up than Norway. At a lower GINI coefficient as well! I am also not sure that the major res
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by alexitorg 5y ago
I don't know the answer here. But this analysis includes a "comprehensive measure of their income that includes income from unsold stock". Should unsold stock (or land value) gains be taxed? A couple of problems I can think o
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by alexitorg 5y ago
How has the French pacific strategy been wiped out? What was it?

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